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QUOTATIONS AND POINTERS dealing with NON-DUALITY, ADVAITA, NISARGA YOGA and more
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REGARDING "THE MIND"
Efforts to quiet
the mind or to ignore thoughts cannot succeed with any consistency. Only when
full realization strikes, only when the "Oh my gosh!" moment happens
- only then does the mind dissolve.
What to consider meanwhile? It is true that, if you are instructed to
"avoid thinking about an elephant," the only thing that you can think
of is an elephant. So, what is the answer?
The answer is not to try to be rid of a disturbing thought. The answer is to ask when a thought is interrupting the peace, “WHO is thinking that thought?”
(That is, what
ego-state is feeling so threatened or hurt or interfered with that the false
identity can inspire the "mind" in which that false self resides to
begin an endless flurry of thought-activity?)
Only by relinquishing belief in the false identities that inspire thoughts can
the thoughts come to an end. Only by abandoning the "this" and
"that" in such beliefs as "I am this" (role) or "I am
that" (role) will the peace and quiet of only the "I Am" ever
happen.
The "mind" is the instrument that supports your personality with
thoughts, and those thoughts are the instruments that will forever prevent
"peace of mind"; in fact, there is no such thing as "peace of
mind." There is only peace if freed of the "mind." There can
only be peace if you are out of your "mind."
Consciousness is rooted in the Absolute. The brain is rooted in the elements.
The "mind" is rooted in wrong programming and faulty conditioning and
perverted domestication and xenophobia-based acculturation as well as lies and
concepts and ideas and superstitions and falsehoods.
You are in a play, playing a role, and believing that the role and the play are
both real. Why would you believe such nonsense? Because "your mind"
is the playwright, the author of every scene.
When Maharaj said, "You are not in the world . . . the world is in
you," what did he mean? He meant, "You are not in the world,"
that is, there is no "you" that is real or in any world. "The
world is in you" means that the world is in your "mind" and is
nothing more than a figment of your programming-and-conditioning-induced
imaginings.
Everything that is said here is to be used to get rid of another false belief
until all ideas and emotional intoxication and beliefs are gone and nothing
remains but the unstated understanding. Only then can the constant churning and
re-churning of the false beliefs of the corrupted "mind" finally
cease.
What is that inner resource, that inner guru? It is the vestige of pure
consciousness that remains, deeply buried beneath the waste called “your mind.”
“Your mind” obscures the consciousness because that "mind" is so
marred with its belief in lies and superstitions and all of its so-called
"knowledge" (that is, its accumulation of learned ignorance), that it
leaves you insane . . . so insane that you don’t know Your Self and so insane
that you believe the lies and dreams of the planet.
If your body has disappeared, how can any person remain? And if no person
remains, how can a mind remain?
In order to know (the great) Reality, you must be sane. In order to understand the "current reality"
of what is happening during the relative existence - as opposed to the dreamed up non-realities, fantasies, fiction, illusions, concepts, falsehoods, imaginings, theories, (a.k.a., non-nonsensical beliefs) - you must be sane. In order
to be sane, you must be out of your mind.
For their suffering to end, persons must understand the functioning of the
totality; must see that all suffering is rooted in the assumption of ego-states
as false identities; must realize that they have no “mind” but instead are
being driven by the “minds” of others (which they now think is their own
"mind");
must be aware of
the fact that a “mind” is nothing more than the storehouse of all the lies and
beliefs and ideas and concepts that must be cast aside in order to end human
suffering; and must see not only the limitations of doingness but the
timelessness and limitless nature of beingness . . . and non-beingness as well.
In this relative existence, nothing is going on but a breeziness of play, but
persons are caught up in a tornado of work, in a storm of seriousness, and in a
tempest of drama.
So-called “life” in this sphere of consciousness is just a process of
functioning, and while the “mind” of a person will dream up notions about
separation or differentiation, none exists. The process just keeps on
happening.
A belief or a concept, a religion or a philosophy, a state or a nation, a hero
or a villain . . . all are just part of the process of functioning. All those
are just dreamed up names, and all such dreamed up labels (dreamed up by that
accumulation of corruptions called "the mind") generate a false sense
of reality.
The "journey" aims to put you fully in touch with reality. To be out
of touch with reality is to be insane.
This "journey" is about getting in touch with reality in order to be
free of the bondage of the illusions and falsehoods of a "mind"
exposed to years of enculturation.
Among religions and philosophies, there is no other means that can produce the
necessary brain-flush save completion of the entire Advaitin “journey” which
invites the dissolution of all of the contamination that is “the mind.”
Ultimately, Advaita Vedanta is one of the five so-called “Non-Dual Teaching Methods”
which has the "goal" of becoming the non-teaching by way of
un-teaching.
You should see by now that there is no such thing as “your mind.” You were born
with a brain and like all life-forms on the planet, it’s all you needed for the
body / elements to function. To your detriment, your culture decided otherwise.
"They" decided you needed their “knowledge,” which is really nothing
other than their learned ignorance (including "their" ideas and
beliefs that were rooted in superstitious and mythical explanations for what
they could not explain factually or scientifically).
In pumping those
lies into you, they created a “mind”—a repository of ideas and beliefs and
non-truths. It contains what was put into their "minds" - which they
never questioned even once - and then passed along faithfully and dutifully
and, unfortunately, to you. Nothing in it came from you or from You.
"They" dreamed it all up, "they" forced you to accept their
concepts as a child, you have internalized their beliefs into a “mind,” and you
now allow their fiction to define your beliefs, your values and your “mind.”
In fact, most of the (dualistic) beliefs in your "mind" are the
beliefs of the earliest self-appointed “religious or tribal or spiritual
leaders” who dreamed up those beliefs, adopted them, and then passed them on.
And all those values were based in duality, in terms of what those persons
decided was “right or wrong” and “good or bad.”
Which terms they used to label other persons was determined by their agenda to
control the masses and to gain benefit from that control.
Use the brain. Use the intuitive sixth-sense. Sense the fourth dimension beyond
the three dimensions of a body’s height, width and depth. But abandon any
notion that a mind is real or that you have a mind that is yours. It is
"theirs," has always been "theirs," and shall always be
"theirs" if you do not abandon it and then realize;
otherwise, those
persons can still reach forward—from millennia ago or from days ago—and control
you via the compilation of that mass of learned ignorance and contamination
called “your mind.”
Religions want to "cleanse" your mind. Spiritual movements want to
"purify" your mind or "heal" your mind. Many professionals
want to “straighten out the thinking” of your mind. Many groups want to move
you from “wrong thinking" to “right thinking.”
Some want to
guide you to your “right mind.” Some want to teach you to "halt the
constant movement" of your mind. None of those have a clue that they are
missing the point completely: nothing needs to be done to your "mind"
and nothing needs to happen to benefit your "mind." The mind is
illusion.
One may as well go to a desert and try to benefit and improve or cleanse or
purify or straighten out a mirage.
How can anyone cleanse a mirage, purify a mirage, heal a mirage, straighten out
a mirage, make a mirage that is wrong into a mirage that is right, or stop
mirages? It is impossible. The mind will dissolve if you see every lie that is
stored in it.
Then the brain, the sixth-sense and the intuition will move you through this
relative existence, and you will live the remainder of it in a natural fashion
rather than in an unnatural fashion or in a supernatural fashion that is
dominated by magical thinking that results from a wrongly-programmed mind.
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
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