The Pure, Universal Consciousness, Pure Awareness, and a "Proper Perspective"

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The Pure, Universal Consciousness, 

Pure Awareness, 

and a

"Proper Perspective"

“I talk to you from the perspective of the universal consciousness.” 

---Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

In an earlier post, a pointer from the Advaitin Shakespeare was shared in which he referred to the “insisture” - the “fixedness” - which is seemingly displayed in nature and which persons so long for. If change comes and is expected, such as with the seasonal changes he mentioned in that pointer, then persons can better cope with those expected changes.

For the most part, though, any changes throw persons for a loop to one degree or another, and it is the unexpected which generates the most chaos and misery and suffering.

Consider “The Husband” when approached by the one playing “The Wife” role (which is the co-dependent, counterpart to “The Husband” role which cannot “be” without the counterpart player being willing to keep on playing).

If he has a totally warped perspective about the actual state of their marriage and has put a positive spin on all of the past problems they’ve had and is practicing denial around any lasting effects of those issues and is minimizing their actual effects, then consider his shock the day she (predictably to most others) says to him: “I’m leaving” or “I want you to leave – it’s over.”

While Shakespeare said that truth can only be found in that which is natural, programmed and conditioned persons want to believe in things that are supernatural and / or want to attach to things most unnatural; therefore, some suggest that nature provides proof that there is a God because, they claim, “Nature is so orderly.” 

They say, “If I find a rock, well I might believe a scientist who tells me how that rock came to be naturally. But if I find a watch which runs with perfect order, just like this universe does, then I know that watch did not come into being naturally but had to have been made by some force or power that is beyond that . . . that is supernatural, if you will.”

The defect with that warped perspective? The universe is not orderly at all but is instead in a constant state of flux. The only "order" in the universe that exists is this constant: disorder. 

The universe, like the human body which is a microcosm of the universe, is in a constant state of flux; thus, on occasion, Shakespeare made clear that mutability and change and disorder are the “norm.”

In a sonnet he referenced humanity's “mortal rage," a term he coined to point to the rage which humans feel when confronted with the principles of mutability . . . with change . . . with the concept of “decay” . . . with "death" . . . with the awareness that, indeed, all that comes together will eventually come apart

As for the supposedly orderly universe, consider these images:

Here, a star – described as “being in it final stage” and “dying out” – is shown to be emitting gases into the surrounding space:

 

 Here is an image of a colossal explosion as hot clumps of gas are ejected into space at over 150,000 kilometers per hour: 

 

Here, a small section of the expanding remains of a massive star that exploded about 8,000 years ago is shown, with all of the subsequent “shrapnel” that is quite like that which is tossed out when a grenade explodes:

The only “order” in the universe, and the only “order” on planet earth, is the orderliness by which disorder manifests as the rule rather than the exception. 

The rub: the disorder happening millions of light years away from planet earth (or as nearby as in the sun around which the earth is cycling) will exert no immediate effects, but the disorder which the human mind generates will guarantee that constant disorder will be the order of the day on the planet right now.

Thus, the non-dualist Shakespeare said of the typical human’s “life” on earth: “It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” Of the transience of the manifestation and the false roles played during that period, he said: “All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances,” just as the assumption of false identities along with the Second Law of Thermodynamics guarantee. 

As with Maharaj, Shakespeare understood that all duality - and the chaos which it generates - is rooted in the mind, so he said, “There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.”

So, from the eBook A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE: Additional Perspectives Which Came During The Movement Along The Direct "Path" To Realization, here are some other perspectives which differ from those which the masses cling to and which further explain some of the other words used in the Advaitin Shakespeare’s quote which was shared yesterday:

Natural living recognizes that the laws of nature have “the right of insisture,” but, ironically, what is fixed and immutable about those laws is the mutability which they guarantee. The most that can be said is that either (a) life is lived naturally according to the “customs” of the universe or (b) persons violating the natural “order” will collapse and self-destruct.

Those opposed to that natural order will seek to abide supernaturally, trying to entice some heavenly power to suspend the laws of nature just for them and allow hurricanes to change their paths and strike other people in other areas; and allow them and their loved ones to survive disease; and allow them to recovery promptly from serious accidents; and allow them to keep on living and living and living.

Such is the desire of the warped consciousness: it wants permanent continuity, so humans long ago upgraded “this world” and dreamed up another world, a better world, to abide in forever after leaving behind this one. Then they began passing  down that senseless concept and still do so to this day. 

So now, persons who have been fooled by nonsense that was dreamed up by ignorant persons who lived thousands of years ago in some of the darkest ages speak of “Heaven,” “Valhalla,” “Nirvana,” “immortality,” “Paradise,” “The Promised Land” . . . 

. . . “the afterworld,” “Arcadia,” “the uninterrupted bliss state,” “Canaan,” “The Kingdom of God,” “Shangri-la,” “Utopia,” “Zion,” “Eternal Rest,” “The happy hunting ground,” “life everlasting,” “the next world,” “the life to come,” ad infinitum.

“The realized” move through the relative existence in a manner that is fixed by nature even though they appear to be moving as they please. Rather than trying to exert any force, they accept that happenings happen. Thus, Maharaj said, the post-realization existence happens "spontaneously."

Among "the realized," nature has “priority” over efforts to control or manipulate. “The realized” abide within the framework of the natural laws that have “insisture,” understanding that all will happen per the natural order of things; and understanding that all will happen for them in “proportion”;

and understanding that the natural order is disorder in that all which come together will come apart, including elemental plant food bodies, including “relationships,” including “the family,” including . . . everything that is a part of the relative.

Persons (the “non-realized”) seek to control and manipulate so they will not have to accept “proportion.” They work to accumulate and to have more and to appear to be greater than what is proportional. They imagine that they have an actual need for more than is proportional or necessary.

“The realized” move along lines that are “customary” rather than along paths that are unnatural or supernatural. To think supernaturally is to think magically, and magical thinking is delusional.

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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