The Anatomy of Human Memory Storage: The Elemental Brain vs. the Non-Elemental Mind or The Natural Brain vs. the Never-Natural Mind

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"Abandon the wrong ideas, for they are false and obstruct your vision . . . ." 

and  

"The death of the mind is the birth of wisdom"  

and

"To know that you are a prisoner of your mind - that you live in an imaginary world of your own creation - is the dawn of wisdom."

--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

 

"Realization is nothing more than a process which results in a person being freed from believing in all learned ignorance." 

--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

The Anatomy of Human Memory Storage: The Elemental Brain vs. the Non-Elemental Mind

or

The Natural Brain vs. the Never-Natural Mind

WHY MAHARAJ SHIFTED FROM USING A SEVEN-STEP PATH 

TO

USING A FOUR-STEP PATH

Originally, Maharaj used a seven-step path to realization. Same here. Though he never laid out, “Here is step one, here is step two, etc.,” his most perceptive followers that read the transcripts of his early talks were able to see what he was doing with each visitor whom he counseled. Then, the seven steps became clear.

It became clear that his method used most often involved allowing a visitor to the loft to talk enough to reveal which step she or he was on. If one had moved beyond body identification but was stuck at the second step and was not moving beyond mind identification, then Maharaj’s pointers were intended to allow the seeker to understand step two and then shift to step three.

If a seeker was stuck at step three and attached to a religious and / or spiritual role, then Maharaj attempted to allow the seeker to see the assumed “good” roles are as unfounded and illogical as the supposedly “bad” roles which had (maybe?) been abandoned and to then move to the fourth zero concepts / zero beliefs step (a.k.a., the Child Ignorance Stage or the Child No-Knowing State).

Because of that approach, Maharaj might tell one seeker on a Tuesday to do such-and-such but might on Wednesday tell a different seeker at a different step to do something that might seem to be the total opposite of the such-and-such he offered the day before.

That led the less wise to claim that Maharaj was “always contradicting himself” and “had no consistent message,” but the fact was that he was offering what is called here “level-appropriate pointers.”

Maharaj tried to make clear that the steps must be completed in an exact order, explaining that each should “Follow the same path by which you came” 

with this exception:

“ . . . You should go back, reverse, to the source.” In other words, there was a “coming in” path and there is a “going out or going back path.” It's actually the same path but followed by wise seekers in the opposite direction.

The “coming in path” included steps 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 with step 7 being the one which drives persons to end up in a body identification state which is as far removed from one’s original nature as can be,

with step 6 being the one which drives persons to end up in a mind identification state which is almost as far removed from one’s original nature as can be,

and

with step 5 being the one which drives persons to end up in a personality identification state which is well removed from one’s original nature as can be, etc., etc., etc.

The going back path, which is the one seekers of realization should be following now, simply goes in reverse:

Seekers must first be freed from body identification, so that is step number one on the reverse, going back path.

Then they must be freed from mind identification, so that is step number two on the reverse, going back path.  

Etc., etc., etc.

When the seven-step path was being used, then step 5 dealt with understanding the difference between Pure Witnessing vs. dualistic subject-object witnessing; step 6 dealt with understanding what the so-called “True Self” is and what it most assuredly is not;

and step 7 dealt with “Reality” and the “Non-Beingness” and the non-confined, limitless, and unrestrained Original State of the Absolute (i.e., The Totally Pure State of Specialized Energy) where awareness-energy is - but where it is not aware of itself or anything else;

and

from which the conscious-energy form of awareness-energy (that conscious-energy not originally being conscious of itself or anything else) can manifest into a confined, limited, and restrained space and become conscious of itself and instantly know “I AM.”

Now, if a body and mind and personality triad were to survive the relative intact and survive the taking of mahasamadhi intact (which cannot possibility happen) and if the dreamed up concept of “soul were proved to be true and a post-relative-manifestation “eternal life” were to come (which cannot possibly happen), then one might possibly want to study the pointers regarding steps 5 through 7 simply for the sake of “traveling through familiar territory post-manifestation.”

Yet that is all irrelevant and immaterial because no “you” will exist post-manifestation, that supposedly “you” being nothing more than a composite unity triad of elements and oxygen and temporarily-manifested, always cycling conscious-energy.

And what happens to those three temporary components of a temporary “you” at the time mahasamadhi is taken? The elements return to the universal pool of elements; the oxygen returns to the universal pool of air; and the consciousness / conscious-energy returns to the universal pool of conscious-energy (where it will once again be conscious of nothing and aware of nothing).

Thus, Maharaj came to see that with so few ever reaching a state of realization, the energy and time expended on trying to understanding the messages of steps 5, 6, and 7 was a waste of time. Why?

Because post-manifestation, there will be no you to know anything, to be aware of anything, to experience anything, or to see anything. There will be non-beingness . . . no one being. Period. 

Thus, in his later years of sharing non-dual pointers, he urged seekers to forget about all that is covered in step 5, 6, and 7 and to focus solely on completing steps 1 through 4.

So he said: "You need not find the answer to ‘Who am I?’ or to ‘What am I?’” Instead, he said, “It is enough to know who / what you are not.”

And where does that happen? It happens after you know that . . .

you are not the body

and after you know that . . .

you are not the mind and not the content of the mind nor anything to do with all of the other the BS also stored in the mind

and after you know that . . .

you are not any of the personalities / personal identifications which were assigned to you or which you later assumed on your on

and after you know that . . .

you are nothing that is personal; nothing that has any identification (much less any Special, Supreme or Infinite Identification); nothing that will be forever; and nothing that can be named or labeled.

When one reaches that “zero concepts” state and that “no beliefs” state and that no-knowing state, then one has reach the fourth step where “It is enough to know who / what you are not.” Searching is done. Seeking is complete.

At that point, therefore, seeking should end and “the dancing lightly” begins and lasts for the remainder of the manifestation. Why?

If one misplaces one's car keys and is searching for them, what happens the very instant that the keys are found? Searching is done. Seeking is complete. If one has in hand the keys which were being sought but continues to search for the keys, would you not conclude, "That persons is obviously crazy or suffering from some kind of mental irregularity"?And spot on you would be.

Now, what is the primary obstacle to understanding that “It is enough to know who / what you are not”?

The BS which makes up what is called “the mind.” It is that BS which blocks the formerly pure, universal consciousness from being able to differentiate between true and false; to see clearly; to perceived accurately; to understand;

to be free of ignorance; to be free of insanity; to stop believing lies; to have the sense to move away from those suffering from an extreme case of assholism (or to be freed from an extreme case of assholism if you have contracted it);

to be free of the “dual-mindedness” which guaranteed that one “will be unstable in all ways”; to stop normalizing madness, lunacy, and chaos and to abandon the insane attachment to chaos which many have; and to stop abusing others (and / or to refuse to tolerate abuse from anyone else).

The early “mind” which was an asset to the perpetuation of the human species has become a major liability to the perpetuation of the species; to enjoying the relative existence; to being free of belief in learned ignorance (which, per Maharaj, is all that the condition of realization is); 

and to being freed of the insanity which is forced on persons from external sources (included parents, relatives, friends, ignorant teachers, big name teachers who are cons, religious leaders, political leaders, business leaders, ad infinitum).

To be continued.

Please enter into the silence of contemplation.

  

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Here, with those who are still driven to talk about "god," the "Son of god," the "Holy Spirit," "Buddha," "Krishna," etc., etc., etc., the invitation to them is to view those as verbs, not nouns.

THE EXPLANATION

If looked at as nouns, they point to illusions and are, therefore, a total waste of time to even discuss; if looked at as verbs which are resulting in certain sane but rare behaviors among humanity, then they are worthy of some attention during the relative existence.

Meaning? There are members of certain groups who say things such as "My concept of god in the past was of a weak god, an absentee god, A Santa Claus-type god, a mean, punishing, vindictive god, etc. Today, I am in close contact with a loving and caring god whom I worship and praise and glorify and give thanks to."

The reply to that usually goes like this: "If you are in contact with a god that wants to be worshipped and praised and glorified, then you're dealing with someone like yourself - a narcissist - and hanging out with narcissists will never bring an end to your narcissism (that narcissism evidenced by the fact that you think you are "godly").

Next, in the phrase 'loving and caring god,' any supposed god that truly had her or his act together would tell you that the totally irrelevant part of that phrase is 'god' and that the only part that is relevant is the "loving and caring" part.

"That is, a non-narcissistic their god / their goddess would say, "I care not an iota about being worshipped and praised and glorified by you or anyone else. How arrogant and insecure and needy would I have to be to want that? Forget the man-made, dreamed up noun 'god' and focus on the 'god as a verb' understanding and then go forth and let loving and caring be verbs - not adjectives - and let them generate the act of love and the act of caring and let those actions manifest through you." 

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"

--Yeshu'a (Jesus)

and 

"Heaven and earth shall fade away."

--Yeshu'a (Jesus)

and 

"Heaven and hell are not geographic places

but are states of mind, nothing more than

concepts dreamed up by men."

--Pope John Paul II 

"There is no hell."

--Pope Francis, the current pope

in an interview with journalist Eugenio Scalfari,

a writer used by the Pope to issue off the record

teachings which become a part of the Papal Magisterium.

[That said, would that the popes who have shown the courage to reject a core concept of their dogma - namely, "hell" - would find the additional courage required to question the very existence of their institution in light of the centuries-long cover-up of their history of raping children and in light of the mental and emotional and psychological scarring of billions of their members past and present.

And that need for courage also applies as questions need to be asked about why so many other sky cults are still being supported and allowed to continue to exist as well. When certain types of programming and conditioning have been shown to blind the masses, they should end. Will they? Not likely. Why?

Because what the masses think and say and do is most influenced by the international crime families which hold sway over the masses as criminals conduct their planet-wide operations. What are the major international crime families and which are the most influential and have the largest memberships?

The Mafia / La Cosa Nostra; the Catholic Church (with it 1.2 billion followers) whose Vatican Bank worked for decades with the Mafia while laundering mob earnings (for a 15% all-profit charge by the Bank); Protestant and Evangelical Churches (with over 1.2 billion followers) like the one I was raised in where the youth director molested and sexually assaulted young girls; big business which has long created environments in which people have been abused; powerful political bodies like the U.S. Congress, etc., etc., etc.)

With all of those crime families, neither the followers nor the leadership ever voluntarily step down or shut down their criminal activities. Be they gangs, organized crime families, religions, big business, politicians, etc., they all want control and they all want power and they all want money, and nothing internal will interfere with the driving forces at play.

The masses must demand that all those in charge must step down and their groups and institutions must shut down, and there's the real problem because the continuation of their crimes are enabled not as much by the people running such crime organizations as they are enabled by the masses of people who - wanting some perceived "payoff" - remain involved with them and give them money and support them and aid and abet the continued existence of those criminal enterprises and thus facilitate the ability of church criminals and political criminals and other types of criminals to continue to commit their crimes.] 

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