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NEEDLESS WORK and COUNTER-PRODUCTIVE ACCEPTANCE and THE CURSE OF HABITS
Body Pain vs. Mind-Induced Misery and Suffering, Part Two
The
examples shared earlier are but a few of the many instances seen over the last 32 years of persons having been driven so insane that they either (a) assault
their own bodies or (b) destroy their own bodies in order to bring a miserable
manifestation to an end in their misdirected effort to address what is really
just a "mind problem" that has nothing to do with the body at all.
Sudhakar S. Dikshit put it this way: "The teacher does not evaluate; his
sole concern is with ‘suffering and the ending of suffering’. He knows from his
personal and abiding experience that the roots of sorrow are in the mind and it
is the mind that must be freed from its distorting and destructive habits. Of
these, the identification of the self with its projections is most fatal. By
precept and example Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj shows a short-cut, a-logical but
empirically sound. It operates, when understood."
Consider each of the main points thoroughly:
a. these teachings are about the ending of suffering;
b. the roots of suffering are in the mind;
c. for a person to be free, the mind
must be freed of its habit of distorting;
d. for a person to be free, the mind must be freed of its destructive habits;
and
e. to identity with the false self / selves can be fatal.
As noted earlier, Maharaj said that one's "attitude to suffering must
change," (an "attitude" being a "belief.") The non-realized
masses suffer, and their attitude / belief is that suffering must be escaped,
avoided, evaded, circumvented, dodged, sidestepped, eluded, or averted; if
those do not "work," then the belief can become this: that the body
housing the consciousness that is able to register suffering must be
eliminated.
None of those approaches actually address the non-body, mind-only problem of
suffering; furthermore, certain personality types are especially reluctant to
undergo an honest, objective, guided, and thorough self-examination in order to
find and address the real cause(s) of their suffering.
(For those familiar with the nine basis personality types discussed here, the
Type Three will put a spin on her or his suffering and will distort it and will
ignore addressing it by minimizing it and by reporting that "It's all
good" or by minimizing the causes of suffering and advising persons
instead to "Love What Is";
Type Fours will try to escape their suffering, by whatever means, including
mental flights of fancy, giving credibility to fantasies, or merely
"dropping out" mentally and emotionally; Type Fives are experts at
avoidance;
and Type Nines are the kings and queens of avoidance; are the kings and queens
of being "The Accommodating One," which includes accommodating
suffering; and are especially prone to seeking someone else to address what
they take to be the cause[s] of their suffering, thus avoiding having to
address the roots of their suffering directly and on their own.)
Maharaj said: " . . . It is in the nature of Truth or Love, cosmic
consciousness, whatever you want to call it, to express itself, to affirm
itself, to overcome difficulties. Once you've understood that the world is Love
in action, consciousness or Love in action, you will look at it quite differently.
But first your attitude to suffering must change. Suffering is primarily a call
for attention, which itself is a movement of Love. More than happiness, Love
wants growth, the widening and deepening of awareness and consciousness and
being. Whatever prevents that becomes a cause of pain [suffering actually], and
Love does not shirk from pain [from suffering, actually]."
One visitor to the loft offered this perspective in clarifying the
"your-body-is-not-the-problem, your-mind-is-the-problem" point:
A Visitor: " . . . There is nothing wrong with my body nor with my real
being. Both are not of my making and need not be improved upon. What has gone
wrong is the ‘inner body’, call it mind, consciousness, antahkarana, whatever
the name."
The realized one that is also sharing the Nisargan Yoga understanding (that
also experienced suffering prior to full realization, and often a great deal of
suffering, in fact) offers to introduce the sufferer to the natural state, to
the Nisarga state, in order to abide in a suffering-free manner.
NOTE: The teachings alone can produce a philosophical giant; a detached rather
than non-attached individual; a person who becomes even more fatalistic or
nihilistic than prior to exposure to the teachings; and a person in touch with
THAT but totally out of touch with "this." It has been seen that the
Nisarga Yoga, used in combination with the teachings, can avert those
out-of-touch conditions.
To that end of assisting sufferers to being free of their misery by introducing
them to what is natural, a follower explained what Maharaj offered:
"Maharaj most lucidly describes this natural, spontaneous state, but as
the man born blind cannot visualize light and colors, so is the unenlightened
mind unable to give meaning to such descriptions.
Expressions
like dispassionate happiness, affectionate detachment, timelessness and
causelessness of things and being—they all sound strange and cause no response.
Intuitively we feel they have involve a deeper understanding, and they even
create in us a strange longing for the ineffable, a forerunner of things to
come, but that is all. As Maharaj puts it, 'Words are pointers; they show the
direction but they will not come along with us. Truth is the fruit of earnest
action, words merely point the way'."
The "mind" is the seat of all non-truth, of all non-truths, of all
distortions, of all destructiveness; it is the root of suffering; it is the
storehouse and protector of the false self / selves, which can be fatal.
Suffering? You need not, if you are willing to follow instructions and are
willing to accept the invitation to address the true source of your misery and
suffering.
To be continued.
Please enter into the silence of contemplation.
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