TODAY'S CONSIDERATIONS
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The quotations being offered now are excerpted from the book QUOTATIONS AND POINTERS dealing with NON-DUALITY, ADVAITA, NISARGA YOGA and more.
The quotations and pointers are being arranged by category and subject matter.
[Continued]
THE NON-DUALITY MESSAGE OFFERED IN FICTION
Floyd Henderson (from the novel entitled The Board of Directors of Wars)
"Look at every drama you’ve ever seen. The main character, who represents you and me and everyone, runs around like a chicken with his head cut off. He is confused and in the dark. Those who are in a position to sit back and witness the drama objectively can see that he's just an actor on a stage and that none of the drama is real.
"But for entertainment's sake, he and the witnesses can pretend it's real. Both, in fact, can get so absorbed in the role that they can take it to be the real for a time. But even amidst all the drama, a time comes, that moment in the play when even the actor finds out the truth.
"It is called the 'peripetia' in drama—that moment in the play or the movie when the lead actor finds out that everything he thought to be true is really false; when he sees that he was being misled at every turn; when those he thought he could trust the most and who thought they were telling him the truth were also wrong.
"It’s the moment of freedom that comes when one finds out that everything he ever thought or believed or held sacred or thought worth fighting for was a lie.
"The freedom comes when he gives up all of the concepts he bought into,
drops his head in relief and amazement,
shakes his head back and forth,
wonders for a moment how he had bought into all their crap,
smiles at how easily he was duped,
watches how all the rest of the play unfolds automatically until its end,
and
leaves the stage after saying to himself,
'Well sonofabitch. I'll be damned.'
And then he laughs. He laughs at it all. And then he's done with it,
once and for all."
THE NON-DUALITY MESSAGE OFFERED IN NON-FICTION
(Maharaj said, "Someday, science will advance to the point that it will affirm the accuracy of the non-dual teachings.")
Ralph Klein
A short-term goal is for persons “to understand that they are not the way they appear to be.”
[Eliminating personality and addressing the accompanying disorders] “involves a mourning . . . for the loss of the illusion . . . for the loss of an identity, the false self, which the person constructed and with which he or she has negotiated much of his or her life. The dismantling of the false self requires a relinquishing of the only way of being that the [person] has ever known . . . .”
Physicist Barbara McClintock
"Basically, everything is one."
Physicist Erwin Schrodinger
"Quantum physics thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe."
Physicist Fritjof Capra
“Quantum theory thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe. It shows that we cannot decompose the world into independently existing smallest units. As we penetrate into matter, nature does not show us any isolated "building blocks," but rather appears as a complicated web of relations between the various parts of the whole. These relations always include the observer in an essential way. The human observer constitute the final link in the chain of observational processes, and the properties of any atomic object can be understood only in terms of the object's interaction with the observer.”
Physicist Niels Bohr
"Isolated material particles are abstractions."
Physicist David Bohm
"The new form of insight can perhaps best be called Undivided Wholeness in Flowing Movement (or, 'holomovement')."
"In this movement, there is NO THING. Rather, things are abstracted out of the movement in our perception and thought, and any such abstraction fits the real movement only up to a point, and without limits. Some ‘things’ may last for a very long time and be fairly stable, while others are ephemeral as the shapes abstracted in perceptions of clouds."
"The best image of process is perhaps that of the flowing stream, whose substance is never the same. On this stream, one may see an ever-changing pattern of vortices, ripples, waves, splashes, etc, which evidently have no independent existence as such. Rather, they are abstracted from the flowing movement, arising and vanishing in the total process of the flow."
" . . . To emphasize undivided wholeness, we shall say that what ‘carries’ an implicate order is the holomovement, which is an unbroken and undivided totality. In certain cases, we can abstract particular aspects of the holomovement (e.g., light, electrons, sound, etc), but more generally, all forms of the holomovement merge and are inseparable. Thus, in its totality, the holomovement is not limited in any specifiable way at all. It is not required to conform to any particular order, or to be bounded by any particular measure. Thus, the holomovement is indefinable and immeasurable."
" . . . Mind and matter are abstractions from the universal flux."
"Instead of saying, ‘An observer looks at an object’, we can more appropriately say, ‘Observation is going on, in an undivided movement'."
The observation going on is "involving those abstractions customarily called 'the human being' and “the object he is looking at',” [i.e., subject-object witnessing vs. Pure Witnessing.]
Bohn's view implies that "flow is, in some sense, prior to that of the 'things' that can be seen to form and dissolves in this flow."
[Consider this point: Bohn "notes how 'each (supposedly) relative autonomous and stable structure' is to be understood not as something independently and permanently existent but rather as a product that has been formed in the whole flowing movement and what will ultimately dissolve back into this movement."
Frequent visitors to this site are aware of the non-dual understand regarding the "composite unity" which is all that the relative "maharaj" was and all that the relative "floyd" is and all that the relative "you" is.
The physical, relative "maharaj" body and the relative "floyd" body and the relative "you" body is nothing more than a composite unity which the "non-realized" masses believed to be "a relative autonomous and stable structure" which will exist - in one form or another - forever (a.k.a., the "eternal life" which so many religions promise).
In fact - in scientific fact - each composite unity is to be "understood not as something independently and permanently existent" but rather as "a product that has been formed in the whole flowing movement and what will ultimately dissolve back into this movement."
What is "flowing" on this planet to form "a product" (for example, a "human body" / a composite unity) which has been "formed in the whole flowing movement"? What is flowing are elements, air, and conscious-energy.
Elements are coming together and then coming apart (per science's "Second Law of Thermodynamics"), whether they happens to temporarily form a human body, a bird, a fish, a bridge, a building . . . whatever.
Eventually, when mahasamadhi is taken, the elements will return to the universal pool of elements; the air will be released and re-enter the universal pool of air; and the conscious-energy will leave the space in which it was temporarily-manifested and will rejoin the pool of universal conscious-but-not-manifested energy (which at that point cannot "know" or be aware of anything).
Thus, Bohn explains that "flow is, in some sense, prior to that of the 'things' that can be seen to form and dissolves in this flow." What was "flowing prior the formation of a composite unity? The elements. The air. The conscious-energy. All were in movement, as all has always been and as all presently is and as all shall be forever . . . in movement.
So much for any "soul' or "body-like gauzy form" or some "half human / half bird winged being" existing eternally as an "autonomous and stable structure."
What is "left," post-manifestation? That which was prior to manifestation. And that (THAT) is what is real . . . not maharaj, not floyd, not you.]
Marvin Kaye
“The expert magician seeks to deceive the mind, rather than the eye.”
[And the expert politician seeks to deceive the mind, rather than the eye.
And the expert priest or preacher or rabbi or ayatollah or monk or teacher or policewoman or policeman or owner of a right-wing media company seeks to deceive the mind, rather than the eye.
And the expert advertiser seeks to deceive the mind, rather than the eye.
And the expert con seeks to deceive the mind, rather than the eye.
And the expert cult leader and cult follower seek to deceive the mind, rather than the eye.
And the expert home builder seeks to deceive the mind (along with the eye).
And the expert who wants someone to pay his or her bills and provide the finest housing and the finest furniture and decor and a luxury car and the finest food and drink and the finest clothing and the best medical care, and the best cosmetic surgery, etc., etc., etc. seeks to deceive the mind (along with the eye).]
S.H. Sharp
“To be a great magician, one must be able to present an illusion in such a way that people are not only puzzled, but deeply moved.”
"Griffin"
"It is only very recently in the millions of years of human history that the break from nature has become so complete. Each one of us is a wild animal suffering. Conditioning makes us dependent and weak, but we still yearn for the freedom of wildness and the deep satisfaction of living out our feral destinies as a part of the community of life.
"How to heal from our self-perpetuated domestication: relearn the life skills that allow us to shed our dependence on civilization and put new trust in the Land to provide for us;
"release our addictions to the many activities and substances that make civilized life bearable; relearn how to live with others; reawaken our atrophied senses and experience the full lushness of life; see the damage from the trauma of domestication; then live in balance.
"It takes years of socializing to subdue the power and beauty of a child’s primal instincts. This process is reversible. It is possible to become feral by overcoming the numbness of the civilized condition."
Paul Krassner
" . . . Life on earth was the result of inconceivable coincidence rather than conscious design."
" . . . My own conception was the result of inconceivable coincidence."
Ken Kesey
"My energy is what I do. My image is what other people think I do."
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THE EXPLANATION
Yeshu'a (Jesus) and Pope John Paul II and Pope Francis were spot on:
"No one shall ever see 'the kingdom of heaven.' It is within"
and
"Heaven and earth shall fade away."
and
"Heaven and hell are not geographic places
"There is no hell."
