TODAY'S CONSIDERATIONS
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THE RATIONALE FOR REACHING A
"NO-BELIEFS,"
"ZERO CONCEPTS,"
"NO-MIND" STATE
AS RECOMMENDED BY MAHARAJ AND THEN ABIDING UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE ELEMENTAL BRAIN RATHER THAN THE DISTORTED, FICTION-FILLED MIND
--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
"Here,
there is nothing that is believed, so there is no 'one' here who wants
you to believe anything, either. Here, the invitation is to be free of
all that you have been programmed, conditioned, domesticated,
acculturated, brainwashed, and indoctrinated to believe so that you can
be free, period; therefore, the plan here is not to teach more
and facilitate the learning of more but is to facilitate the process of
un-learning all and being un-taught all of the learned ignorance which
the masses have accumulated and passed down from one generation to the
next. Only if that approach is adhered to
can realization happen."
--Floyd Henderson
Why "Only if that approach is adhered to can realization happen"? Because of this:
"Realization is nothing more than a process which results in a person being freed from believing in all learned ignorance."
--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
ELEMENTAL and NATURAL
VS.
NON-ELEMENTAL and UNNATURAL OR SUPERNATURAL
Let’s pause to discuss a misunderstanding which has been revealed via certain recent conversations which have shown that evidently too much here has been taken for granted around these oft-repeated pointers offered here:
“Consciousness is rooted in the Absolute. The brain is rooted in the elements. The "mind" is rooted in wrong programming and faulty conditioning and perverted domestication and insane acculturation and manipulative brainwashing and ignorant indoctrination as well as lies and concepts and ideas and superstitions and falsehoods.”
If those pointers are not understood, then an impediment will exist which can block seekers from reaching the "no beliefs," "zero concepts," "no-mind" state which Maharaj endorsed.
While those pointers should seemingly be straight-forward for those that have studied the non-dual message in a more than fleeting manner, it seems that even some who have been studying non-duality for years – and even decades – are not grasping those pointers fully.
Some of those pointers deal with non-human-nature / nisargan / natural issues, such as “consciousness” and “the Absolute” and "elements."
Any specks of consciousness currently manifested in the space formed by an elemental plant human body are negligible in quantity when compared to the conscious-energy manifested in non-human spaces such as acorns, rocks, flora, fauna, etc.
The Absolute, for example, has nothing to do with humans. It is an omnipresent field of specialized energy, nothing more than a field of specialized no-conscious-of-ness energy and no-aware-of-ness energy.
The no-aware-of-ness energy offers the potential for no-conscious-of-ness energy to be drawn from that Absolute field into a cycle whereby the energy can be transferred and can become manifested in a finite, temporary space which can thereby allow that temporarily-manifested energy to assume the form of conscious-energy / consciousness.
Other of those pointers deal with “human nature” issues, such as “the mind.”
That "not natural" and "unnatural" status applies to anything “added” post-manifestation to the elemental plant food body:
Breast implants are “added” and are thus unnatural; tumors are “added” and are thus unnatural and can result from a variety of causes, including environmental, man-made causes, which are unnatural; including stress which is unnatural and which can induce signals that cause cells to develop into tumors; and including a host of other factors, all unnatural, which can result in tumors being “added” inside the body.
What else is “added” to a formerly natural, elemental plant food human body and is thus unnatural (or supposedly supernatural)?
1 Memories, which are distortions since whatever is perceived by the non-realized masses is never what it appears to be or as it appears
as well as
2. ideas, perceptions, concepts, convictions, notions, opinions, theories, thoughts, views and viewpoints, teachings, etc. which can all be grouped into one category called “beliefs.”
Those are “added” via the aforementioned wrong programming and faulty conditioning and perverted domestication and insane acculturation and manipulative brainwashing and ignorant indoctrination and are thus unnatural (or “supernatural” if rooted in dogma, dreamed up spiritual beliefs, myths, superstitions, etc.)
The term “human nature” has been defined as “the general psychological characteristics, emotions, and behavioral traits of humankind,” none of which have nothing to do with non-human-nature / nisargan / natural issues.
While that which is elemental at the time of manifestation is generally natural (an exception being the duality-based archetypal images which can be passed along both genetically and later on via teaching), all other “additives” are unnatural.
The initially-empty mind parts of the brain (which are, granted, elemental) will early on begin storing faulty concepts, perceptions, etc. (a.k.a., “beliefs”) which are not elemental but which are instead the stuff that dreams and lies are made of, which are merely “added,” and which are, therefore, not nisargan / natural.
That which is natural does what it does spontaneously, automatically, under the naturally-functioning auspices of conscious-energy, as in the case of the heart which pumps oxygen-carrying blood; as in the cause of the lungs which circulate air; etc.
While the brain parts are elemental and doing what the parts are intended to do naturally, the mind has “added” on beliefs which inspire unnatural thoughts and unnatural words and unnatural actions which are not inspired by a drive to perpetuate the human species but which - instead - inspire destructive and self-destructive actions (relatively-speaking) which run counter to the natural drive of the manifested consciousness with its automatically-activated sense of AM-ness and IS-ness and beingness.
Maharaj recommended that seekers find their “original nature” and abide there as. By contrast, the “non-realized” masses function under the influence of their non-original, soon-perverted nature which results when things are “added on,” be those add-ons physical (as with tumors) or mental / emotional (as is the case when the thoughts and words and actions of the masses are driven by what Maharaj called the “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity” which is stored in the far-from-natural learned ignorance which is stored in the mind).
From the very beginning, a human might manifest and have brain damage, but ignorance and stupidity and insanity are "add-ons," all stored in the mind (the contents of which are always non-elemental and which are always unnatural and / or believed to be supernatural).
To be continued with the review of “the tools” tomorrow.
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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."
