TODAY'S CONSIDERATIONS
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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
[Continued from yesterday]
In scientific terms, generally speaking, all is energy / matter; therefore, either all is one / One, or everything is made up of trillions upon trillions of dualities and / or multiplicities; however . . .
. . . since all is one thing - namely, energy / matter - then duality is a false concept and an erroneous perspective and multiplicity is a false concept and an erroneous perspective.
Additionally, there is either a prime cause and creation (and therefore a prime causer and creator) or there is neither creation nor destruction.
Science has proved that there is neither creation nor destruction. All is energy / matter, and energy / matter can be neither created nor destroyed; therefore . . .
. . . there can neither be a prime cause nor creation - and thus there cannot be a prime causer nor creator nor and there cannot be creation of anything nor destruction of anything.
What appears to be an endless variety of “creations” and a limitless number of “destructions” is merely the false perspective that an altered form is “a creation” and the false perspective that an altered form that no longer remains is evidence of “a destruction.”
To believe that “they created a baby” is a lie. What happened was that plant cells were consumed and transformed into what became identified as human cells. Human cells are merely altered forms, altered plant food cells.
The
erroneous belief that humans create other humans is a lie. All that is happening
is that humans are cycling elements and the elements, temporarily, take on an
altered form. The same applies to deer, fish, birds, and all other "living" forms.
It differs not at all from the case when two hydrogen atoms temporarily combine with one oxygen atom which results in the temporary manifestation of a variety of altered forms which humans variously refer to as “lakes, rivers, water, ice, ponds, streams, branches,
oceans, rain, sleet, hail, snow, snowballs, aeroice, quantum water, icees, ice cubes, ice crystals, dry ice, amorphous ice, frost, puddles, floods, bayous, fog, dew, glaciers, icebergs, condensation, evaporation, ground water, well water," etc., etc., etc.
Humans can mislabel and misidentify H20 as all sorts of supposedly “different” things, but that does not change the fact that there are temporarily-existing forms which are all the same, one thing.
Humans can also mislabel others humans according to the color of their skin or according to humans’ places on dreamed up levels of economic, social, genetic, sexual, educational, workplace, military, police force, religious, and recovery group hierarchies, to name but a few examples, but that does not change the fact that - in actuality - all of those manifestations are the same . . . are merely, one / One.
Additionally, there does not exist a multiplicity of causes. As Maharaj noted, the cause of all is . . . all. Where is there any possibility of a creator (or a creator-sustainer-destroyer god or creator-sustainer-destroyer gods and goddesses) when that which is . . . has always been; when neither “That” nor anything else has ever been created; when “That” cannot be destroyed; and when all merely cycles (or not)?
Persons who are programmed to believe that their bodies-minds-personalities shall last in one form or another "for infinity after death" do not pause to consider that, if infinity is a possibility in one "direction" on their dreamed up timelines, then it must also be a possibility in the opposite "direction" on their timelines.
"Pregnant" is pregnant, and "infinite"
is infinite, period, and "timelines" are rooted in false perspectives while "cycles and cyclings" are universal.
Whatever has the ability to exist "forever after" also had to have the ability to exist "forever before." And what existed forever before was neither personal nor Personal but was merely . . . energy / matter.
Next, “the realized” can feel, but they feel without attachment and without a chain of reactions that result from emotional intoxication.
Feelings among the realized are merely witnessed as they rise and fall.
Emotions, on the other hand, are "experienced" only by persons, by the “not-realized,” by those believing in their false roles and assumed ego-states.
As a result of their persona-generated emotions, the “non-realized” are continually in a state of emotional intoxication and are constantly reacting and over-reacting to what they take to be "personal experiences" which are actually driven by the desires and / or fears of their assumed, false personalities.
Contrary to some charges, the non-dual understanding does not result in “the realized” always "living a robotic existence." It does result in the remainder of the manifestation happening in a fashion that is free of mental, emotional, religious, and spiritual intoxication, and the ignorant and insane effects of all four of those states of intoxication can be seen on display any day or night on any local, state, national or international news broadcast.
The egotism that always accompanies the assumption of false identities never shows up more often than when one believes that she or he is in a "relationship" (be that "relationship" with a person or supposedly with a god).
In a reality which is non-dual in nature, how can "one thing" possibly relate to "another thing"? ("Advaita" does mean, "one without a second" or "not two.")
Consider the history of the expectations that persons traditionally bring to "their relationships": besides egotistically wanting a clone of self ("we have so much in common!") they expect "partners" to conduct themselves in a fashion that they find "right" and "acceptable."
And what one thinks is "right" and "acceptable" is generally based in what one's parents taught them is "right" and "acceptable." Is there any greater degree of insanity than expecting a "partner" to conform to the expectations of the very persons who were the source of the majority of the lies and the nonsense that persons believe?
[The Personality Type Four called "Willie Nelson" was recently asked to comment of the debate in the U.S. regarding athletes kneeling during the playing of the national anthem to draw attention to the murder of unarmed blacks by the police in this nation.
He basically said that some folks don't think like you do and that's OK. Live and let live.
He wrote, "I've been asked if I believe that people should be allowed to knell during the national anthem. Regarding peaceful protests and just about anything else, I believe everyone should do whatever the f--- they want to do."
"You don't have to watch sports if you don't like the players' personal beliefs. You don't have to attend a gay wedding if you don't want to and you don't have to buy my music. And I ain't gonna change the way I think so you will buy more of my music. We all make our own decisions, and I'm trying to make mine with love."]
To continue: The only way to alleviate "relationship anxiety" is to accept that marriage might happen . . . or might not. And if it does happen, the only way to avoid emotional intoxication and to avoid misery and to maintain peace is to witness whatever happens without playing phony roles or adopting false identities and allowing those – rather than the universal consciousness – to determine subconsciously every thought that is thought, every word that is spoken, and every action that is taken.
Persons believe that they are in a relationship with someone they know and that they really have an "object of their affection." What a deception. (1) If "you" are not even what you think you are, how could "he" or “she” be what you think she or he is? (2)
Once “you” move beyond the image and begin to discover what that person is really like, then you will know that you don't know him or her at all, and then you may well shout at her or him someday in anger, saying, "I'm leaving! I don't even know who you are!" Correct you will be.
Persons sleep next to strangers for decades with each claiming to have an intimate knowledge of the "other." That, like all thoughts / beliefs, are nonsense.
Persons with warped perspectives can be led to ignore their more immediate relative threats and to focus on what is being pontificated about on the national news;
thus, they fear the "terrorists" whom they are told are coming to get them, so in the U.S. people ignore the fact that 3,400,000,000 persons are stalked every year; ignore the fact that 2,040,000,000 of their stalkers are people they are close to and have known for some time; and ignore the fact that - if they are harmed - it is far more likely to be by people they know rather than by some unknown "terrorist" or "boogieman."
They ignore the fact that they are far more likely to experience relative harms as a result of alliances between corrupt business people who are enabled by corrupt politicians who block regulating corrupt businesses.
The greater relative threats always come from within, not from without, and that mirrors exactly the source of the greatest relative threat of all. Referring to what? To what happens when the mind drives persons to engage is self-defeating behaviors, relative speaking.
"Thoughts" are the real threat to health and happiness and well-being during the manifestation. If it is thoughts that you wish to be free of, then address in meditation or in the quiet the falsity of the particular ego-state that is generating the thoughts, not the thousands of thoughts that the single false ego-state is generating.
Originally, only one purpose of meditation was intended: not to dose off or to reach a delta or theta state but to be fully awake in order to consider a pointer offered until that point is completely understood. Consideration and understanding, not “motionless consciousness,” was the intent.
Therefore, meditation originally was intended to wake people up, not put them to sleep.
Exercises conducted in the quiet along the “journey” are tools, yes, but when a homeowner’s house is built, he puts away his tools and then simply enjoys "the new place he’s in."
Once “realized,” it is understood that there is no need to continue to use tools if a job is completed, so WHO is it who believes that (a) he or she has completed the construction of a new house but simultaneously thinks that (b) she or he must continue the building process?
That would be, among other assumed identities, "The Person Who Needs Maintenance" (and who has not realized that there is nothing to maintain) or “The Super Seeker” or “The Super Knower.”
Understand that everything which is taken / mistaken to be “spiritual” and “Noumenal” is really nothing more than an accumulation of relative and phenomenal concepts.
According to the earliest teachings shared among the Indigenous Peoples, that which is “true” is only the space between exhalation and inhalation. Close enough.
“True Self” is not "A Special Self" or “God,” though many who have morphed the non-dual teachings into a religion or spiritual process will adopt and defend that Self-God, false-self concept as well.
Ultimately, to try to support any “identity” alongside “the no-concept, non-dual Reality” is itself contradictory.
At the “highest level” of understanding, any “identity” is seen to be conceptual.
“Bliss” is merely an undisturbed, unconcerned vibration.
To be continued.
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"No one shall ever see 'the kingdom of heaven.' It is within"
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"Heaven and earth shall fade away."
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"Heaven and hell are not geographic places
"There is no hell."
