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NEEDLESS WORK and COUNTER-PRODUCTIVE ACCEPTANCE and THE CURSE OF HABITS
The Three Legs of "The Journey," Part One
Are
you beginning to understand why, here, the Direct Path Method is not offered
alone but is presented in conjunction with the Nisarga Yoga? So many seemingly
arrive at the Absolute and claim identification with THAT, not at all free of
identity, not overlaying Reality on the relative, and not living naturally in
an AS IF fashion after having completed the "journey."
Fixating "there," they actually assume a new identity, such as
"The Philosophical Giant," "The One Who Understands What Most Do
Not," or "The One Who Is Different" (which indicates there is
really no understanding at all).
Some are more susceptible to all of that than others, specifically, the
Personality Type Fours that are the most likely to eventually seek the
"Authentic Self" and who make up only about 1/2 of 1% of the entire
population of the planet.
Add to those the Type Ones and Twos that can shift to Four and the Fives who
have a "4-wing." What does that have to do with the problem above?
Those types - the 4's and any that shift to the 4 - are already more prone to
be "philosophical" and "withdrawn" and "cerebral"
and "feeling separate" and seeing themselves as "deep
thinkers" and "different from" and "never understood."
If they do complete the seven step "journey" and arrive
"there," they are more likely to claim that they are now abiding only
"there" or "only as THAT."
Reaching those conclusions, they render the entire "journey" useless.
To go back - to reverse the way that one "came in" and then claim to
stay "there" - then their having traveled the "path" is
rendered worthless. For the supposedly Realized to deny the AM-ness is just as
delusional as it is for the non-Realized to identify solely with the Am-ness.
Note these stages that explain the way this entire process is supposed to
unfold:
PHASE ONE: THE "COMING IN"
There is first the "coming in" from that field of energy,
manifesting, just being for a short period as a no-knowing child, then being
assigned identities, then given a mind that is filled with nonsense, and then
ultimately being reduced to body-mind-personality identification alone.
PHASE TWO: "THE REVERSE 'JOURNEY' GOING BACK OUT"
For the few that seek and find, there is "the going back," in the
exact reverse order of the steps which brought one "in" initially and
which eventually resulted in body-mind-personality identification.
PHASE THREE: "THE 'COMING BACK IN' FOR THE SECOND TIME"
Having returned "there" and having understood the functioning of the
totality as a result of having seen the total cycle, one does not stay
"there" (for that could only happen mentally, indicating that even
the second step of the "journey" - the step which allows for
transitioning beyond the influence of the fiction-filled "mind" - has
not happened).
It was explained this way in one discussion of "The Vision" (which
brought here the final clarity and that "Eureka! . . . Aha! moment"
that opened the door to full realization):
After having returned to the Absolute, and then seen the perfect peace of the
Void - of the Nothingness - which was even prior to THAT, one can (in the PHASE
THREE: "THE 'COMING BACK IN' FOR THE SECOND TIME") bring that perfect
peace back to the relative existence and overlay it on the remainder of the
manifestation.
Having been beyond knowing and having enjoyed the no-knowing, no-knower state,
then the unblocked consciousness can begin its second "journey" from
THAT to "this," but nothing will be the same after having been
"there" consciously and now returning in awareness rather than in
ignorance (as was the case during the first "coming in" that resulted
in identifying with the body and mind and personality).
Now, the "second trip in" happens with clarity as clear, pure
witnessing takes place, allowing all to be understood; as the movement into the
peaceful child-that-knows-not stage happens; as you see the way religious or
spiritual roles were assigned to the child;
as you see the way a "mind" filled with nonsense came about; as you
see exactly the way that you ended up identifying with a plant food, elemental
body the first time "in."
Now, having seen all of that, nothing is perceived as it was before: You know
that you are no persona, that you are neither good nor bad, that you are
neither black nor white nor any color, that you are neither evil nor noble.
You can look back over your shoulder, so to speak, and see All and understand
All. Then, you will live AS IF, as if any of this matters, as if any of
"this" is important, while knowing that it is not, even as you move
through the remainder of the relative existence in a sane, non-destructive,
Loving fashion (for True Love, too, will have been overlaid upon the relative
as a result of the Oneness having been understood).
You will then enjoy the remainder of the relative existence as a result of all
that You came to understand on the "journey," but now, the
"journey" to THAT is over and it is time to relish the freedom that
allows for the enjoyment of the remainder of the manifestation.
What good is it, if you are hungry, to go to the grocery store and buy food but
then stay in the store forever, never returning home, never undertaking the
relative existence task of preparing the food, and never enjoying the meal? The
one who stays in the store can claim, "I have arrived," but that one
will be totally insane to stay in the store and not enjoy what the relative
existence can offer.
If the seven-step "journey back in - now for the second time - is not
undertaken, allowing an entirely new experience to happen in the relative, then
why go "there" in the first place?
Only HERE and NOW can the bliss be known. Only during the AM-ness can the bliss
happen. Only the relative existence can provide an opportunity for the fruits
of the "journey" to be enjoyed.
When the consciousness finally unmanifests as mahasamadhi is taken - and when
it "returns there" and is reunited with that universal pool of
specialized energy known as "awareness" or the Absolute - then at
that point there will be no "one" to know that or to know THAT or to
experience the bliss or to experience anything else.
The only purpose of the "journey" to understanding THAT is to
"return" to the AM-ness and to abide for the remainder of the
relative existence in an AS IF fashion.
Otherwise, one will be as trapped in her or his "Philosophical
Character" or in "The Knower Character" or in "The
Different From Others Who Don't Understand What I Understand Character."
Playing any of those roles, one will be as separated from "others"
and as bound up in Subject-Object Witnessing as was the case prior to
undertaking the "journey."
The invitation: Come home. Enjoy the freedom and independence. Enjoy the
remainder of the relative by functioning spontaneously in an AS IF manner.
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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