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NEEDLESS WORK and COUNTER-PRODUCTIVE ACCEPTANCE and THE CURSE OF HABITS
Assuring That the Nisarga Yoga Does Not Generate More Insanity Rather than Eliminating All Insanity
A while back, a friend was suffering from an infection that required antibiotics. As is always the case, a shift from feeling as if one is "at death's door" to feeling "quite normal" happened within 48 hours of beginning the antibiotic regimen.
Most
antibiotics must be used for a specific period of time, often between 6 and 10
days, but if one begins to feel better and therefore does not complete the entire
regimen, there is the likelihood that the infection can re-manifest, that all
of the miserable symptoms can return, and that suffering and even death can
eventually follow.
Similarly, there are seven steps on the "path" that seekers here are
invited to complete initially, and to complete only part of the regimen can
result in one being (A) at least as sick as one was before seeking treatment
for the Ultimate Sickness, and, sometimes, (B) even worse.
So
to continue with the earlier pointer that "a little un-learning can be a
dangerous thing," as far as the non-dual message is concerned, please
review these questions shared earlier that have been asked in the past when
some seekers only grasped a small part of what the non-dual understanding has
to offer and who seemingly grasped nothing of what Nisarga Yoga has to offer:
"Once realized, why even go on living? What would it matter if I kill
myself?"
Or, "If I shoot myself, I'd just be releasing a speck of conscious energy
and allowing the air to return to the pool of air and the elements to return to
the universal pool of elements?"
Or, as two young teens who were practicing "cutting" put it to me
years ago: "Life sucks. How cruel are you to try to talk us into being
exposed to any more of this crap?" Both are now, years later, quite happy
young women.
The questions above can be asked when one is exposed to the teachings only via
any of the basic teaching methods but without accompanying those teachings with
the clarifying Nisarga (natural) Yoga.
Of that yoga, Maharaj disciple Maurice Frydman said:
"The Nisarga Yoga, the ‘natural’ Yoga of Maharaj, is disconcertingly
simple: the mind, which is all-becoming, must recognise and penetrate its own
being, not as being this or that, here or there, then or now, but just as timeless
being.
"The Nisarga Yoga, when persevered in and brought to its fruition, results
in one becoming conscious and active in what one always was [active in]
unconsciously and passively. There is no difference in kind - only in manner -
the difference between a lump of gold and a glorious ornament shaped out of it.
Life goes on, but it is spontaneous and free . . . and happy."
For example, if prior to the seeker persevering in and bringing the Nisarga
Yoga understanding to its fruition, what if that seeker was not happily engaged
in the activities of "The Student"?
After
the Nisarga understanding has been grasped, then "studenting" can
continue, actively, but it will happen from a state of being totally awake,
totally conscious, and totally aware as well as being in touch with the
beingness;
but that will happen without any erroneous belief about "being this"
or "being that" (because such assuming of any persona as an identity
will generate fear and desire and the use of ego-defense mechanisms to try to sustain
a mirage and make it appear to be real.) From that no-identity, no-persona,
no-passivity-driven (but fully conscious and aware) platform, non-attached
Witnessing can happen so that "studenting" happily can also happen.
Or if prior to the seeker persevering in and bringing the Nisarga Yoga
understanding to its fruition, what if that seeker was not happily engaged in
the activities of "The Husband"? After the Nisarga understanding has
been grasped, then "husbanding" can continue, actively, but it will
happen from a state of being totally awake, totally conscious, and totally
aware as well as being in touch with the beingness;
but that will happen without any erroneous belief about "being this"
or "being that" (because such assuming of any persona as an identity
will generate fear and desire and the use of ego-defense mechanisms to try to
sustain a mirage and make it appear to be real.)
From
that no-identity, no-persona, no-passivity-driven (but fully conscious and
aware) platform, non-attached Witnessing can happen so that
"husbanding" happily can also happen.
The same applies in cases of "The Wife" vs. "wifing";
"The Employee" vs. "employmenting"; "The Lover"
vs. "Loving"; etc.
When the teachings are fully understood, and when the Nisarga Yoga is fully
understood, then the remainder of the relative existence is characterized by
being conscious rather than unconscious;
being
aware rather than being unaware; being active when called for rather than being
passive; being willing to allow life to go on rather than wanting to escape
life; and being spontaneous and free and happy rather than the opposite of each
of those;
furthermore, the difference in "relishing the solitude" vs.
"seeking to isolate" is understood; the difference in "being in
the quiet at times but taking actions required to sustain the consciousness at
times" vs. "always being passive and being inactive" is
understood;
"allowing
life to go on" vs. "thinking that life should not go on" is
understood; and the difference in "being spontaneous and free and
happy" vs. "being rigid and inflexible and imprisoned by the content
of the 'mind' and thus being unhappy" is understood.
Additionally, when the Nisarga Yoga is understood, the abidance is marked by
natural living, not unnatural living and not supernatural living. Approach a
bird sitting on a limb in a tree.
At
some point, when the bird senses that you are going to continue to move even
closer, it will fly away. Has the bird been taught such concepts as
"people are dangerous" or "all humans are killers," or
"their kind are to be avoided"?
No. What is natural about the manifested consciousness is its unwavering drive
to survive . . . to continue. So strong is that desire that persons over the last
several thousand years have given away large percentages of their hard-earned
money to preachers, teachers, priests, rabbis, imams, ayatollahs and others who
claim that they can show their gullible followers the way to have "life
eternal" and "eternal continuity of body and mind and personality."
Persons have become so warped as a result of that process of programming and
conditioning that they are willing to transition beyond the natural tendency of
the consciousness to extend its manifestation and will instead voluntarily end
the manifestation in an effort to kill members of other religions in order to,
supposedly, assure their own eternal continuity . . . with perks (a.k.a.,
"reward" vs. "punishment").
That self-destructive behavior marks a shift from what is natural to what is
most unnatural and to what is based in the supernatural . . . in religious or
spiritual thinking that ends any chance at finishing out the entire
manifestation in a totally natural manner.
With
an understanding of some of the teachings, but no understanding of the Nisarga
Yoga, then persons can - and, most often, will - shift to unnatural and
supernatural thinking which drive unnatural and supernatural words which, in
turn, drive unnatural and supernaturally-based actions.
Why? Because the now bogus and warped content of the "mind" has
resulted in an end to the original type of mind and in the abandonment of its
original function of (a) inspiring the automatic, natural drive for the
manifestation to be extended while (b) also assisting in the perpetuation of
the species.
Now,
instead, the "mind" drives self-destructive thoughts and words and
deeds. Add to that aberration a little un-learning and suddenly persons are
coming up with supposedly-cerebral but actually nonsensical and unnatural
questions such as:
"Once realized, why even go on living? What would it matter if I kill
myself?"
Or, "If I shoot myself, I'd just be releasing a speck of conscious energy
and allowing the air to return to the pool of air and the elements to return to
the universal pool of elements?"
Or, as those two teen sisters who were engaging in "cutting" put it to me
years ago: "Life sucks. How cruel are you to try to talk us into being
exposed to any more of this crap?"
Here, there is no invitation for people to continue to be exposed to
"crap"; the invitation here is to see that it matters not if one has
been offered the non-duality teachings via the Direct Path Method, the
Traditional Method, the Neo-Advaita Method, the Neo-Vedanta Method, the Pseudo
Method, or any of the other spin-offs and variations.
Those methods provide only part of the regimen to treat the Ultimate Sickness,
and, nowadays, the consciousness has been so thoroughly blocked that the
teachings alone cannot provide the entire cure for the Illness of Humanity.
No
matter which of those vessels night be used to administer the Ultimate
Medicine, they cannot provide the Ultimate Filtration - the Final and Ultimate
Purification - that is required to undo the ill effects of programming and
conditioning and domestication and acculturation and unnatural thinking and
supernatural thinking.
Moreover, the invitation here is to realize fully and abide naturally - rather
than unnaturally or supernaturally - and then to enjoy a crap-free existence.
Oh yes, the relative existence - like the temporarily manifested consciousness
which makes it possible - will be ever-in-motion, dualistically tossing one's
way some events that are considered "good" sometimes and other events
that are considered "bad" sometimes.
But
to realize and to abide naturally is to allow impartial, Pure Witnessing to
happen rather than to allow emotional intoxication to drive one's behavior in
unnatural and insane and destructive ways.
Here, the invitation is to see that programming, conditioning, acculturation
and domestication have robbed humans of the ability to know the non-dual,
no-identity, no-concept presence;
to see they have robbed humans of the ability to live naturally; to see they have robbed persons of the ability to use a mind for self-preservation and replaced that with a fiction-filled "mind" that is bent on self-destruction and destruction of "others";
to
see they have robbed humans of an ability to be free of the concepts of
"individualization" and "the personal"; to see they have
robbed persons of the ability to sense the Oneness and to know Love; to see
they have robbed persons of the ability to live spontaneously and freely and
happily;
and to see that they now drive persons to behave in unnatural and supernatural
ways that do a considerable disservice to the masses in general, relative
speaking, driving them in many cases to unnaturally desire to bring a miserable
manifestation to an end rather than allowing them to find the means by which
the manifestation can continue for a longer period while affording opportunities
for being free and, therefore, happy or – at least - content.
To be continued.
Please enter into the silence of contemplation.
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