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CONSCIOUSNESS and AWARENESS
The Final Frontier of the Non-Dual Understanding
Essence is the attribute (or set of attributes) that make an object or substance what it fundamentally is. The essence of a being is simply that which it fundamentally is, and happiness during the manifestation comes when aligned with the essence.
Thereafter, every day, either peace will happen or the ability to remain calm and composed and to maintain mental and emotional sobriety when peace is challenged will manifest.
Earlier the pointer was offered that “the ‘journey’ to true freedom does not end at the point of Self-Realization, and to transmit that fact is the only reason this discussion is warranted.”
The full understanding of awareness must happen for freedom - and therefore happiness - to manifest. It must be understood that prior to the manifestation of conscious-energy and then realization that awareness is but has no awareness of self, of “Self” or of anything.
Namkhai Norbu said this about awareness: “This is the open secret, which all can discover for themselves. We live our lives, as it were ‘inside out,’ projecting the existence of an ‘I’ as separate from an external world which we try to manipulate to gain satisfaction.
“But as long as one remains in the dualistic state, one's experience has always underlying it a sense of loss, of fear, of anxiety, and dissatisfaction. When, on the other hand, one goes beyond the dualistic level, anything is possible.”
Including peace every day (or the ability to remain calm and composed and to maintain mental and emotional sobriety when peace-challenging events happen).
The Final Frontier" of the non-dual understanding is transitioned when the true Nature of Reality is understood and when the non-dual understandings are "applied" on a daily basis during the relative existence even in the absence of any belief in an "Applier."
That true Nature of Reality cannot be understood until the attributes of consciousness and awareness are understood. Understanding the actual nature of consciousness / conscious-energy allows for abidance in the I AM, but what of “That / THAT Which Is” beyond, and that which is beyond the beyond?
Only abidance as the original nature “in” the Absolute prior to manifestation allows the remainder of the manifestation of consciousness to happen in perfect peace (or with an absence of instability and insanity while processing any and all peace-challenging events).
That is “Your Original Nature, and abiding in the fashion of that original nature NOW allows for natural ("nirsarga") living as opposed to living an existence in which all thoughts and words and actions are driven by “ignorance and stupidity and insanity.”
“The Final Frontier" of the non-dual understanding is entered into when seekers understand the attributes of consciousness and awareness, can define the exact Nature of Reality, can witness accurately as full realization happens, can come to an understanding of the functioning of the totality, and can then fixate in a state of ease and contentment from NOW until the consciousness is not longer manifested.
If not firmly fixed in the understanding of Nothing and the Nothingness (as was the case when the pre-manifested awareness that is not aware), then everything in the relative existence will be taken to be “something”:
A “relationship” breakup, a traffic ticket, problems with school assignments, problems while seeking employment, problems with neighbors, problems with persons not accepting you in the fashion you expect, problems with persons behaving in a way that is not pleasing to you, problems with persons not properly “honoring you” in the manner your egoism desires, ad infinitum.
Even among those seekers who think they have “found,” who feel that they have realized fully, fluctuations have been witnessed. In cultures which program persons to “get,” the value of absolute de-accumulation is usually given little more than lip service.
In cultures where desires are a motivating factor - in homes, in schools, in churches, in jobs, ad infinitum - how many have any chance at all to actually desire . . . nothing? It is the very desiring, along with concern that all which is desired might not be attained, that perpetuates imagined fears.
When “desiring” is given such value in cultures, how many will be content with “nothing” (which is what allows all desires and all fears to end)?
Acculturation results in a vast population of persons who want something, not nothing. “Zero” is despised among persons, but only by reaching a state of “zero concepts” can peace manifest.
Moreover, persons become so trapped in their desire for post-manifestation body-mind-personality continuity that they think they cannot be happy during the manifestation unless they also have continuity of all things:
their spouse or partner; their home; their whatever - they want the temporary things in the relative to have absolute continuity. How can anyone ever be happy, living in such a delusional condition? One cannot.
“Peace Every Day” (or the ability to remain calm and composed and to maintain mental and emotional sobriety when peace is challenged) can only happen in by abiding in a manner which is “beyond conscious-of-ness.”
The relative existence comparison offered by non-dualists is "the deep sleep metaphor" wherein peace happens - automatically and spontaneously - beyond relative consciousness.
(Again, compare (a) the “beyond conscious-of-ness” to (b) the awareness of the body’s needs which are addressed automatically and spontaneously and thus keeps the heart and the lungs functioning even as there is no “one” required to be present and then consciously “do” that.
Also, understand the automatic, spontaneous functioning in order to understand how the relative existence happens with no illusion of a “do-er” being present and with abidance happening even beyond conscious-of-ness. That happens when abidance “as the Absolute” - as the original nature - happens.
It should be seen why it is frequently repeated that, ultimately, there is no “goal” of abiding as consciousness. For full freedom (and then happiness and stability) to happen during the manifestation of consciousness, abidance must happen as the Absolute.
Furthermore, peace cannot happen if body-mind-personality identification is not transcended because persons will continue to fear death and will desire continuity. Do you see now why the concept of “death” is given no credibility by “the fully realized,” much less any constant, nagging “concern”?
It is understood by the fully realized that what persons call “death” is merely the unmanifesting of conscious-energy, is merely the releasing of compact groupings of energy which are merely “ungrouping” and being “freed up” to move about in a wider, less-limited (actually infinite) space, exactly as prior to manifestation.
That "ungrouping" and "releasing" of energy from a confined space (called "death" by persons) is a totally meaningless happening except to the blocked consciousness which believes in the distorted, dualistic concepts of “good” vs. “bad” and “right” vs. “wrong” and the subsequent “punishment” vs. “reward” of a body-mind-personality triad with supposed eternal continuity.
In fact, only the energy is infinite and eternal; the body and "mind" and personality are illusory phenomena which are finite and temporary.
So, that which persons refer to as “the moment of death” is really just the unmanifestation process whereby those larger groupings of energy particles in a confined space are freed from that space and enter into an expansive, unlimited energy field or space (called “The Absolute” in order to emphasize the pure and unadulterated state of the energy while in that space).
By “relocating” from a confined space called “the human body,” for example, those elementary particles of conscious-energy can group together in that vast and expansive ocean of energy;
however, they will group into smaller gatherings and into fewer configurations since they are not being compacted into a small space. The prerequisites for “human consciousness” are not met in that case. That is an ending of “prerequisites,” not an ending of “life.”
If plant food is being consumed (or if one is consuming something which ate plant food) then conscious-energy will constantly manifest and unmanifest - come and go – into and out of bodies / composite unities.
During the process whereby conscious-energy stops circulating through a composite unity and finally unmanifests once and for all, particles of energy are merely “spreading out” or "being freed from confinement in a compact space.”
After being freed from the confines of a relatively small space with a nervous system - such as a plant or a plant food body (which persons dualistically call "a human" or "an animal" or "a bird") - the energy moves into the limitless expanse of The Absolute and the particles “move apart.” In that freed-up space, the essence of Reality (awareness) IS.
Consciousness returns to its original not-conscious-of-ness state and awareness returns to its original not-aware-of-ness state.
Now, are you also seeing that though the cycles are naturally happenings, the manifesting of consciousness is actually, on one level, a very unnatural event? Why?
That which is normally and naturally free to move about in an unrestrained environment and in an unrestricted manner is temporarily not free to function in that manner.
Manifested consciousness / conscious-energy, as the physicist will understand, is actually “restricted” and “restrained” when compared to the “normal” state of particles of energy which move about in a limitless, absolute field or space.
Compare (a) the unrestricted movement of light waves moving instantly from the sun to the moon and reflecting off that surface with (b) the restricted movement of conscious-energy striking one synapse after another within the limited space of a human brain.
Here is all that happens when a human “dies” or when a bug is struck by the windshield of a car: a temporary “association of” or “involvement among” certain elements and energy and air comes to an end.
Though that particular association ends, the elements do not end, the air does not end, and the energy does not end. What did come to “an end” with the smashed bug (or a supposedly “dead human”) was an ever-changing, always-temporarily-manifested combination of elements, air, and energy which were in a constant state of flux but perceived by persons to have had “continuity.”
The fact is that no “same bug” will ever be again, and no “same human” shall ever be again, and no gauzy, ghost-like or angel-like form of a “same human” shall ever be again but the same elements and air and energy originally involved along the way during the various stages of each composite unity and temporarily drawn into a cyclical series of comings and goings will be forever.
To be continued.
Please enter into the silence of contemplation.
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