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
Understand that most will never seek the truth because most do not want to know the truth even as they are erroneously certain that they already know the truth. As noted here on occasion, the truth will set you free, but it's going to piss you off first.
A visitor mentioned last week that George Carlin said, "Everyone appreciates your honesty, until you are honest with them. Then, you're an asshole."
Depending
on the specific programming, conditioning, etc. which two persons are subjected
to, then whatever they both see will be seen in distorted fashions which might differ
considerably:
vs.
The duality facing humanity is rooted in the fact that most persons listen only to that which flows from the warped perspectives of persons who have been subjected to warped programming and conditioning and domestication and acculturation and indoctrination and brainwashing.
The summative statement of humankind's learning / teaching cycles (borrowed from the vocabulary of computer technology) is "garbage in, garbage out,"
guaranteeing that what is passed down in every family and in every group, and guaranteeing that what is passed down from generation-to-generation,
will constantly be one big, compiled load of BS and nonsense and ignorance and insanity which will have been . . .
accumulated
and then
stored in a BS and nonsense and ignorance and insanity-loaded mind
and then
passed down to the next generation which will then also have a BS and nonsense and ignorance and insanity-loaded mind.
It is also a fact that most persons will never hear the universal (non-dual) consciousness speak but will only hear words rooted in the blocked (dualistic) consciousness.
Twenty-one years ago, this was shared:
Maharaj shared pointers in regards to the use of certain words and language, touting exactness in word choice even as he endorsed silence over talk.
[As the silence becomes the typical marker among "the realized," there are fewer and fewer words used at all, but the words which are used will never support any “notions of two-ness” and will always support the “not-two” understanding instead.]
For instance, when "the realized" use the word “I,” that word has nothing at all to do with the first person, singular, nominative case, personal pronoun.
Furthermore, no "fully realized advaitin" would make any claim about being either “fully realized” or being “an advaitin.” That is all “early-on-the-path” talk, and some latitude is required in order for any communication to take place between seeker and teacher during the early stages.
[Later, it is even realized that there are neither seekers nor teachers.]
Exceptions can especially be the case when dealing with those in the West who have very little exposure to even the most basic terminology required for the transmission of the understanding, including words and phrases such as “false self,” “True Self,” “the Absolute as opposed to the relative,” “de-accumulation,” etc.
All of those words and terms are alien to those programmed in cultures of accumulation. To even speak to them of "a false self" or of "de-accumulation" is typically greeted with all the enthusiasm surrounding a case of influenza.
Yet even among Far Easterners, many misunderstand the most basic teachings. Maharaj said to one seeker, “We are not speaking the same language. Yours is a make-believe talk . . . .” He informed one seeker, “You speak as a person, limited in time and space, reduced to the contents of a body and a mind.”
Because thoughts (the content of the mind) control words and because words—in turn—control deeds, then the words used during the relative existence exert tremendous influence over behavior among "non-realized persons."
The pattern which leads to behaviors among humans always follows the sequence of thought to word to deed.
For example, on a recent road trip recently, I passed through the town of Jasper, Texas (which I would recommend to all: if you find that you are in Jasper Texas, pass the hell through. Stop for nothing).
As regular visitors to this site are aware, it was there that certain white racist men in the late 1990's were members of a white supremacist group, all of whom had the thought that they were better than non-whites. They often verbalized their belief, speaking words of hatred and arrogance.
Eventually, their deed followed: three of those men would kidnap a black man, Richard Byrd, Jr., and would take him to an isolated area nearby.
There, they beat him, chained him to a pickup truck, and dragged him behind the vehicle for two miles. In the process of killing him in that manner, they tore off his head and his right arm.
THEIR THOUGHT: Whites are better than blacks.
THEIR WORDS: “We are better than black people. They are inferior to us.”
THEIR DEED: The murder of a black man by a trio of dumbass white supremacists.
[Note the word always hidden in plain sight within the term "white supremacist."]
So, all deeds are directly preceded by words, and all words are preceded by thoughts. Is it no wonder that Maharaj cautioned against the careless use of language? Yet do not conclude that 50% of all actions result from thoughts and 50% from words.
Nonsensical talk could not happen were it not for the nonsense stored in “the mind,” nonsense which is constantly cycled and recycled among "the non-realized" as thought after thought after thought. That is why one of the books available through this site is entitled THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS “PEACE OF MIND” (There is Only Peace If You’re Out of Your Mind).
Additionally, there is no need to cut off the tongue and lips and discard them in order to put an end to the nonsense being verbalized millions of times per day across the planet.
The requirement is to cut out the nonsensical thinking by discarding the contents of “the mind.” When nonsense is eliminated at the source (called “the mind”) then it cannot manifest via the mouth.
If there is no constant running of the mind, then there can be no constant running of the mouth. Is it becoming clear why "the realized" pass so much time in the silence? Why questions broached to them throughout the day are replied to with an economy of words?
[During the three to four months per year when I stayed in my Cherokee grandmother's tiny no-running water, no-indoor plumbing, no-electricity-or-gas stove cabin in the pine and cedar woods of East Texas, there were days when I heard nothing more than a few words from her and she heard nothing more than a few words from me, and they were always functional words, not BS talk for the sake of talking words:
"Floyd, go to the garden please and pick some baby cream peas and some tomatoes. You can bring in some wood for the stove and some bacon from the smokehouse and I'll make some cornbread while you shell the peas"
or,
"Floyd, will you get the straw basket please. A woman is coming over to get some of the tea I make to treat migraine headaches so we need to go into the woods and gather some herbs."]
Other than such cases as those, silence prevailed.
Thus, Maharaj said of "Your Original Nature" that . . .
“Awareness is total, changeless, calm and silent.”
Thus, he referenced . . .
“the deep silence of reality.”
Thus, he said:
“. . . in being, there is silent peace”
Thus, he said:
“I am fully conscious, but since no desire or fear enters the mind, there is perfect silence.”
And thus he advised:
“Abandon all conceptualisation and stay silent and attentive.”
Now this discussion will have to continue tomorrow as I go for a walk in the heat which has already set in while watching the deer graze along the way, assured that the walk will not be perceived as being "miserable" any more than the deer perceive their grazing in the cold and the rain as being miserable.
To be continued.
Please enter into the silence of contemplation.
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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."
