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THE ULTIMATE SICKNESS and THE ULTIMATE MEDICINE
Four Stages
Stage III: The Forest Dweller Stage (continued)
Notice the way that entrance into the Forest Dweller Stage gives the search an inward rather than outward focus, shifting the seeker's focus away from the subject matter of dogma and myth.
There is also a shift away from the contemporary big name authors and lecturers, including their books which focus on relative desires and issues such as "ambition and meaning"; "changing your life by changing your thoughts";
"finding your ultimate calling" or "finding the incredible you" or "finding inspiration"; or "learning the secrets to success" or finding out "how to gain power through intentions" or "how to advance your spirit or find your purpose";
and including talks about "an infinite Self" or "gaining power now" or "finding the way to love" or "attaining an ageless body and timeless mind" or "fulfilling desires" or "learning spiritual laws" or "fulfilling dreams" or "knowing god" or "loving everything that is" (no matter how perverted or warped it might be);
or
"changing bad thinking patterns to good thinking patterns," all of which Maharaj classified as nonsense. See that all of that deals only with the relative exclusively and that, if truly immersed in the Forest Dweller Stage, then none of that will be paid even the slightest attention to any longer.
[If fully realized, the absurdity of the above topics and the fact that they are totally removed from any valid non-dual understandings will be clear, instantly, without any study required.]
Immersed thusly, there are none of the relative and unnatural and supernatural distractions that previously blocked the ability to see that which is natural. The often-life-long preoccupation with that which is unnatural and supernatural and phony gives way to focusing upon that which is natural and authentic.
Notice how the shift to the Forest Dweller Stage, as described earlier, allows a seeker to focus on the way that consciousness drives persons to seek eternal continuity of body and mind and personality; on the way that personality controls behavior unconsciously;
how the differentiation in actual vs. perceived threats can happen; how one can distinguish between the perversion of abnormal and supernatural living and come to understand natural abidance instead; and how the seeker can focus on that which is within rather than that which is without.
An earlier reference was made to two instances where "floyd" felt threatened by two different females. In one case, the posture of a cub-guarding bear was a truly threatening posture, relatively speaking. In the second case, the posture of a departing "wife" was a truly non-threatening posture that was perceived to be even more threatening than being charged by an angry bear.
Earlier: That bear’s standing up, growling and then charging could be considered a truly threatening posture in nature, relatively speaking. I felt threatened, and the sensation of feeling threatened by that female was a natural response.
In the second case, when “floyd’s wife” said, “I’m leaving you” and then got into a car and drove away, the not-yet-fully realized “floyd” also felt threatened by a female. So contrast the facts of the second case with the first:
in the first instance, a female was running toward me. She outweighed me by about 800 pounds; when standing, she was many feet taller; and where I could run ten miles an hour in a short burst, she could run 35-40 miles per hour and keep that pace over a longer distance.
Those among her species have been known to kill humans easily and readily. That is a case where a female was a real, natural threat as far as the relative existence is concerned, and the fear - and the reactions that the fear inspired - were quite natural.
In the second case, a female was walking away from me. She weighed about fifty pounds less; she was five inches shorter; and she could not run nearly as fast as I could. Yet in the second case, I felt even more threatened by the actions of that female than I did by the actions of the female in case #1.
When a shorter, lighter-weight female is walking away from a larger male, that is one of the most non-threatening postures in nature, yet how many millions of persons have felt threatened under those same circumstances and then reacted to a non-threat as if it were a real threat?
The fact that I felt threatened by what was a non-threatening posture in nature was a totally unnatural reaction. To have felt threatened in that case could be seen as an insane act with no possible explanation at all unless one understands the effects of programming and conditioning and acculturation etc., all of which lead to the assumption of false identities.
The Advaitin process is similar to “psychological processing” if the latter results in seeing the false as false. It was seen that, in Case #2, there was no threat to me. That which was perceiving (imagining) a supposed threat was the not-me, namely:
the ego-states of “The Husband” and “The Lover” and “The Father” and “The Family Man” and “The House Owner” and “The Finance Man” and “The Man With Retirement Accounts” and “The Owner of Rental Property” and “The Owner of Land” and “The Person With Savings Accounts.” It was all about self, self, self, ad infinitum.
Is it seen that the threat in the second case only seemed real because a person (in that case, "floyd") was trapped in the false identities of many ego-states which, when they felt as if they were being threatened, triggered all sorts of ego-defense mechanisms and mis-perceptions and unfounded fears?
Peace comes when any lie that was taken to be the truth is seen for what it is. Peace can come if the anger or misery experienced around a perceived “loss” comes to an end because it is seen that one never "had" in the first place what an ego-state is thinking it “lost.”
The processing of “the lie of a non-threat” - of an illusory mis-perception being generated by a false identity - can take weeks or months or years among the non-realized. Among the realized, abiding as the natural state and merely witnessing all, there is no "one" to be pulled into the sturm und drang of relativistic non-threats such as those that are perceived by the non-realized to be actual threats.
Consider: in the second case, lost in the “Dream of the Planet,” nearly twenty years had been spent on a stage, playing multiple phony, counterpart roles with a woman as we both took starring roles in “The Drama of the Lie.” For most, when the curtain in "The Theatre of the Lie" falls abruptly and the play is brought to an unwanted end, the need for processing is indicated.
The lie had been taken to be the truth; the truth had never before been seen. Only full realization (that is, full freedom from beliefs and learned ignorance which had been taught and learned) brought to an end the need to process anything as the “one” that was processing disappeared.
In the first case, little processing was required. After the danger faded and the bear moved away with her two cubs, the adrenals once again began functioning naturally; the brain determined that the threat had ended; blood pressure returned to a normal range, as did the heart rate.
That is the way the relative existence can unfold if realized: relative, natural threats can be witnessed; if a natural action is indicated, it can happen; and feelings can rise and fall and be witnessed without triggering emotional intoxication or unnatural reactions.
Non-threats (which only ego-states can “experience”) are never taken to be real. When exposed to a lie, differentiation between true and false happens automatically and instantly. Further, those supernatural threats mentioned earlier, which can generate untold delusions and fears, are never a factor.
There is no fear based in threats about “eternal damnation,” about “the never-ending pain and torture of fire to which a physical body will be subjected,” and there is no fear of “being punished and deprived now and forevermore.”
Among the realized, abiding as THAT which is body-less, mind-less, and persona-less, natural actions and reactions can happen around an event like the one described in Case #1 above, but what will not happen ever again—post-realization—are the unnatural actions and reactions and emotions which persons experience if dealing with a happening like that described in Case #2.
Until realized, understand that processing will be required. It might happen, yet it might never happen. Post-realization, you are not subject to the pain and misery of dealing with relativistic happening which are erroneously taken to be real, so no processing is required.
To be continued.
Please enter into the silence of contemplation.
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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."
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