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QUOTATIONS AND POINTERS dealing with NON-DUALITY, ADVAITA, NISARGA YOGA and more
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Quotations and Pointers by Category and Subject
Matter
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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"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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