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NEEDLESS WORK and COUNTER-PRODUCTIVE ACCEPTANCE and THE CURSE OF HABITS
Being More in Touch with the Relative Existence, Not Less
The understanding puts the realized more in touch with "relative realities," not less; post-realization, relative happenings must still happen, but they can happen without being coated in a thick layer of ideological dreaminess or alternating dollops of positivity and negativity.
The understanding of the THAT-ness is 100% useless unless it is
overlaid on the AM-ness and allowed to guide all relative happenings, so the
understanding is 100% useless unless it is "applied" now. With the
coming of the understanding also comes wisdom and sanity, but understanding and
wisdom and sanity can only come when all of what Maharaj called "learned
ignorance" and "stupidity, verging on insanity" first go.
That is another of the "borderlines" that can be discussed during the
teachings. A year ago, there was a U.S.-Russian spy swap involving 14 spies
that was handled at an airport by using two airplanes; however, throughout the
"Cold War" years, the exchanges often took place at bridges that
crossed borderlines.
For example, between 1962 and 1986, Berlin's Glienicke
Bridge was used four times as the site for a Soviet-U.S. spy swap. The bridge
at the time was located at an isolated point where US-occupied West Berlin met
Soviet-occupied Potsdam in East Germany.
Those "Iron Curtain" crossings, which were usually preceded by months
of meetings between negotiators, were as orchestrated as any dance: usually
taking place at night, the bridge would be floodlit and guarded by
heavily-armed Soviet and U.S. soldiers with dogs, all standing at opposite ends
of the bridge.
As the spy or spies on one end of the bridge began walking, the
spies on the opposite end did the same. All of those spies knew that guns were
aimed at their backs and that they would be shot if either side tried to trick
the other. The spies all met at the halfway point as they walked toward
freedom, and as one spy or group of spies crossed the midway point headed to
liberation, the other spy or spies did the same. The same scenario plays out
during the dance of realization:
as the "learned ignorance" and the "stupidity, verging on
insanity" that Maharaj spoke of cross the borderline between the relative
and the understanding of the Absolute, the departing ignorance and stupidity
and insanity meet and pass the arriving understanding and wisdom and sanity as
the latter move across the borderline and allow the seeker, finally, to be
totally free.
It is one thing to know only the AM-ness and to be imprisoned as a result, and
it is one thing to be shackled to the AM-ness alone; it is another thing to
know THAT but to claim to have abandoned the AM-ness and all that it will bring
or toss your way. That is just another form of imprisonment.
The prison of the "mind" is a prison where each belief and concept
and idea and desire and fear becomes one of the bars of that jail. Such a
limited, no-understanding prison is the fertile ground where ignorance and
insanity are conceived and will give birth to what will eventually become the
guards that incarcerate, in the absence of Full Realization, you and all among
the masses.
The realized teacher is a negotiator as well, working for your freedom,
arranging the means by which you can be freed from prison and can cross the
borderline to logic and reason and clear-seeing and sanity, all of which come
when the hidden agendas of personality's desires and fears go.
The Advaita "swap" comes when ignorance is seen to be ignorance, when
one finally wakes up enough to say,
"My history shows that I am insane, in terms of so-called spiritual or religious concepts that have been accepted without question; in terms of my beliefs about relationships and what makes them healthy or unhealthy; in terms of having a "broken picker" when it comes to choosing partners in business or in "personal relations";
in terms of my going through the existence with my head in the clouds and being a 'deep philosopher' and being overly-serious and boring and not enjoying what the relative has to offer;
in terms of every decision made during the relative
that reveals a deep-seated, self-defeating, self-destructive tendency; in terms
of being in a prison but believing that I have been free; and in terms of every
aspect of my relative existence, in fact."
The "Truly Realized That Share the True Non-Dual Understanding to Imprisoned and Endangered Persons"
What the truly realized have to offer - as far as the relative existence is concerned - is no less significant than the "Forewarner of the Coming Tsunami."
You may have
likely seen film of some of the instances where people are standing on the beach
watching the waters suddenly begin to recede. Many
rush forward to collect fish or shells. Some move to the newly-exposed wet sand
in order to have a close-up view of this strange phenomenon playing out before
their very eyes.
Standing there in their ignorance, witnessing without having a clue about what
they are really seeing, a "Forewarner" might run along the beach
shouting, "Get out of here! Run to higher ground. The waters will soon be
coming back with a destructive force that will assure eventual suffering! You
are putting yourself in a position to undergo great pain and misery!"
Why is a Forewarner or realized message carrier required? How can persons know
what they do not know, especially when that which they believe with such
assurance is seen through a distorting lens which more often than not
normalizes the abnormal?
How can persons know if their culture is among those which make people into cold and distant and unavailable persons if they have never interacted with anyone from a culture where children are raised to be adults that are warm and close and available?
Canadian physician William Osler wrote, "The physician who treats himself
has a fool for a patient." That is why almost all persons require a guide to
break through the protective shield that has been set in place - a plastic,
artificial shield that is distorting the view of those persons and preventing
them from seeing Reality and reality and truth and rendering them
"fools" instead.
The Non-Dual Guide / Forewarner will say to those who will listen, "You
are putting yourself in a position to suffer great pain and misery! You do not
have a clue that you are being deceived by what looks to be safe and
interesting and rewarding. You are going to pay a very high price in the end
for the few fish and shells you're receiving now!"
The Guide might also offer for consideration the following:
"Your history shows that you are insane, that you are attached to so-called spiritual or religious concepts which have been accepted without question and you are believing lies that will block you from seeing Truth";
or
"You missed along the way the means by which you should know early on if a
relationship that you are contemplating is going to have any chance of being
healthy or if it is most assuredly going to be quite unhealthy, but your fears
and desires are inspiring you to ignore the facts laid out before your very
eyes";
and
“Beware the lizard brain” (actually termed “the limbic cortex”) because it is only in charge of subconscious responses dealing with “fight, flight, feeling, fear, freezing up, and fornication,” and to be driven only by concerns with those six factors makes for a very dull and self-centered existence.
Or
the wise guide might ask:
"Can you not see that your history shows that you are using a "broken
picker" to select partners in business or in "personal
relations?";
or
"Can you not see that going through the existence with your head in the
clouds and being a 'deep philosopher' and being overly-serious and not enjoying
what the relative has to offer has rendered you an out-of-touch, boring person
who is robbing yourself and those around you of enjoyment?";
or
"Can you not see how unstable and unpredictable you are and how maddening
that is for you and all those trying to deal with you?";
or
"Have you not seen, in terms of almost every supposed ‘decision’ that you
have made during the relative existence, that your history reveals a
deep-seated, self-defeating, self-destructive tendency?";
or
"Can you not see that you are imprisoned by your false beliefs, twisted
views, faulty concepts, and senseless ideas while believing that you are
actually wise and brilliant and free to make choice choices when, in fact, you
are being driven?"
Yet the typical reaction to any challenging of one’s belief system by hearing an invitation to undertake a fearless, guide-led
inventory and to complete a truly thorough (false) self-examination is not
unlike that of a petulant, rebellious teen: "What do you know? You're the
one who is stupid!"
To come to a supposed understanding of THAT but to then allow the supposed
understanding to result in dissociation or in an imagined separation from the
relative existence is no understanding at all. That result of being “in touch
with the THAT-ness only” is as useless as being in touch with the AM-ness only.
The Direct Path Method and the Nisarga Yoga are about being in full contact
with the I AM as much as with the I AM THAT. When the name of an understanding
literally means "not two," then how can anyone claiming to understand
the teachings attach to THAT only and ignore the AM-ness, seeing them as two
and then supposedly choosing only one?
Again, the understanding of the THAT-ness is 100% useless unless it is overlaid
on the AM-ness and onto all relative happenings. The “supposed understanding”
is 100% useless unless it is "applied" now (even in the absence of a
belief in any "applier").
All of that is another part of what the Direct Path Method and the Nisarga Yoga understanding are about.
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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