QUOTATIONS AND POINTERS dealing with NON-DUALITY, ADVAITA, NISARGA YOGA and more

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QUOTATIONS AND POINTERS dealing with NON-DUALITY, ADVAITA, NISARGA YOGA and more

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REGARDING "RELATIONSHIPS"

The word "relationship" is placed inside quotation marks to indicate that it is a conceptualization and is not associated with “the Real.”

The realized understand that there is no such thing as an "A" joining with a "B." That is about "two-ness" while "advaita" means "not-two."

In Reality, which is non-dual in nature, how could "one thing" possibly relate to "another thing"?

The assumption of ego-states as identities - and the always-accompanying egotism which always manifests alongside the assumption of false identities - never shows up more often than when a human believes that she or he is in a "relationship."

Consider the history of the expectations that persons traditionally bring to their "relationships": besides wanting a clone of self, most expect "partners" to conduct themselves in a fashion that is considered "right" and "acceptable."

What persons think is "right" and "acceptable" is generally based in what their parents either taught or modeled. Because so few ever realize, including "parents," then what is taught or modeled is always based in ignorance or insanity or both.

Is there any greater degree of insanity than a person expecting a "partner" to conform to the expectations of the very persons who taught that person the majority of the lies and the nonsense that he or she believes?

This was shared with one visitor: "You come here to discuss your 'relationship problems' and 'being alone,' wanting to know if the solution is to simply pledge that you will never marry again and be done with it. 'Is that necessary?' you ask.

Of course not, but the only way to alleviate your current anxiety is to accept that marriage might happen . . . or might not. And if it does happen, the only way to avoid emotional intoxication and pain and to maintain peace is to witness whatever happens without playing phony roles or adopting false identities.

"You want to believe that you are 'in a relationship' with someone you know and that you really have an 'object of your affection.' What a deception.

(1) If 'you' are not, how could 'she' be?

(2) Once persons move beyond the image and find what another person is truly like, then they will know that they don't know 'him' or 'her' at all; then, they may well shout someday in anger, "I don't even know who you are!" Correct they will be.

(3) Once you move beyond your own image and find who / what you are, only then will you find what 'he' or 'she' really is or what all truly are.

As it is right now, you don't have a clue who she is, what she is, or who / what you are. And similarly, she doesn't know you at all. Until full realization, you will both be sleeping with strangers while each proclaiming your intimate knowledge of the 'other'."

REGARDING "THE NOTHINGNESS"

Ultimately, to try to support any “identity” alongside “the no-concept, no-identity, non-dual Reality” is itself contradictory.

At the “highest level” of understanding, any “identity” is seen to be conceptual, including the "good ones" and "the religious ones" and "the spiritual ones."

The so-called “True Self” is not the so-called “God,” though many who have morphed this set of philosophy-styled pointers into a religion will adopt and defend that Self-God, that false-self concept as well.

Understand, therefore, that everything which persons take 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.

“Bliss” is merely an undisturbed, unconcerned vibration.

The ultimate non-dual understanding is that there need not be any understanding. So relax.

When a “state” of zero concepts is reached, it is understood that there is no “identity” at all.

Nothing from nothing leaves ... nothing, not “SOMETHING.”

“Absolute,” “THAT,” “Brahman,” “God,” “energy,” “energy-matter,” “Consciousness,” “Awareness,” and “SOMETHING” are still man-made labels generated by persons.

Ultimately, to find out “who or what you are” is useless since there is no who to benefit, no user to use; on the other hand, finding out “who you are not” could eliminate unnatural and supernatural living and allow natural, AS IF living to happen throughout the remainder of the manifestation. That would also allow freedom to happen, and only if free can bliss happen.

Only when the addiction to the sound and the fury ends can the joy and bliss of the silence begin.

To look to the universe and to focus on the concept of “SOMETHING” prevents seeing “The Reality of the Emptiness,” “The Reality of the Void,” “The Reality of the Nothingness.”

Ego always wants more; freedom from the bondage of ego results in understanding "the Realized's" inclination toward less.

Ego is about going and doing and zooming in order to collect more; freedom from the love of more allows the non-doingness (the beingness only) to manifest.

Persons search for “the divine” and for an understanding of all that is “supernatural” when, in fact, there is nothing that is supernatural at all.

The result of their having been fooled is an endless stream of desires and fears among persons. Those create a constant sense of longing, and longing generates a constant sense of dis-ease.

The non-Realized never come to the understanding that it is only from a condition of emptiness (empty of concepts, of identities, of a “mind”) that a sense of fulfillment can happen during the manifestation.

The Realized can taste what the Italians call "il dolce di fare niente"—“the sweetness of doing nothing.”

The Fully Realized will shift even beyond that and will understand something even simpler than “the sweetness of doing nothing,” namely, "il dolce di Niente"—“the sweetness of Nothing,” period.

Trace your roots. Go beyond self and Self, beyond Consciousness, beyond Awareness, and even beyond the Absolute to the seminal Nothingness. Abide as such.

All identities are limiting. Limitations restrict freedom. Restrictions of freedom prevent the manifestation of happiness during the relative existence. Preoccupation with finding identities and assigning labels has the same effect.

If you would be free, align with the nothingness. Reach the space.

If you would be unconcerned, then all of your knowledge must go into liquidation. Has that happened? Have you reached the space?

“The 'Supreme Absolute' . . . is only a name for communication purposes.” (Maharaj)

“This is all a big hoax, a big fraud, created out of nothingness.” (Maharaj)

Ultimately, even “nothing” as a concept is abandoned.

Advaita (at the purest and most advanced level of the Teachings) endorses zero concepts.

All of the mutated versions of non-duality, especially those which have been morphed into a religion by men with hidden agendas, are bastardizations fabricated via the warped consciousness, accepted as truth by other specks of warped consciousness, and passed along now by such specks to other such specks.

There is a process whereby, from the nothingness, a particle can manifest. This entire universe began with the instantaneous manifestation of an atom within a vacuum.

It is from the nothingness that all manifestation happens spontaneously. After some groupings and ungroupings happen, the Nothingness will again prevail.

Prior to “this universe,” prior to awareness, prior to consciousness, and prior to manifestation, there was a “time” when only a vacuum was. Your “ultimate root” is even prior to time.

If you’re interested in understanding the Oneness, understand that everything in this universe began as one, single atom that manifested within the emptiness of a vacuum.

Purged of all identities, ideas, beliefs, and concepts, the consciousness can function as an empty vacuum.

Originally, the empty vacuum was undisturbed, unconcerned ... without burden, without activity, without any doing, without any doer.

The relative existence is miserable for those who are “full of it.” If you would be undisturbed, unconcerned, without burden, without activity, without any doingness, be the emptiness. Reach the space and abide as such.

Fear not . . . nothing is coming: no judgment . . . no endless punishment.

Desire not . . . nothing is coming: no reward . . . no endless joy.

There will be no endless celestial caroling; no heavenly brothels, no extraterrestrial orgies, and no women to be used as sex objects whose destiny is to be available eternally to fulfill the desires of males who have supposedly earned a prurient, lust-satisfying reward by killing those with differing religious beliefs while also killing themselves; no endless rewards of any kind. Just . . . nothing, so enjoy, NOW.

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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