TODAY'S CONSIDERATIONS
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NEEDLESS WORK and COUNTER-PRODUCTIVE ACCEPTANCE and THE CURSE OF HABITS
The Three Legs of "The Journey," Part Two
After
completing the "journey" to "there" and then coming back in
(for the second time, but with a totally sane and sound and accurate
perspective), then AS IF, natural living happens.
From there, the AM-ness is not ignored, for that would be unnatural. While only
humans can verbalize the words "I AM," birds know the I AM, the deer know
the I AM, the fish know the I AM. Approach any and they will move away,
automatically and naturally longing to extend the AM-ness, the manifestation of
the consciousness.
That is natural. That is what Nisarga abidance looks like. To claim to abide as
THAT only is not natural; natural living puts one fully in touch with the
AM-ness but with an entirely different perspective, post-Realization.
Also, to claim to have been "there" and to have returned and “overlaid
Reality on the relative” is proved to be totally artificial if non-Nisarga,
non-natural living is happening.
If persons who think they have realized are humming, shaving their heads,
beating on a drum, burning a stick, displaying special crystals, ringing a
special bell, striking a special bowl on a special pillow with a special stick,
then they have not overlaid Reality on the relative at all.
Pre-language, pre-bells, pre-bowls, and pre-pillows, humans or human-like
creatures intuitively sensed THAT via the inner guru. Tapping into the inner
resource is natural; tapping objects to be more religious or spiritual is not.
Consider the pointers in the following summary that were offered recently after
a Skype session:
"The review covered the entire seven-step-"coming in" process
from the awareness manifesting as consciousness: the shift through the
witnessing stages; the bliss of the child with no ideas or concepts or beliefs;
"the child being assigned identities (which have subsequently been
upgraded and downgraded, giving joy at time and hurt at times, generating
instability of moods).
"Then it was seen how the seven steps taught here can take a seeker back
to the beginning (to the Absolute, to THAT) to see how the "coming
in" happened the first time and how body-mind-personality identification
came about. It was seen that the human tendency to attack the body when the
mind is the source of misery and suffering is useless.
"The steps 'back out' were taken, but it was then seen that one
cannot stay 'there' alone, so the steps back in (again) were taken - but
with CLARITY this time - so that the present manifestation can be free of all
that was collected when the seven "coming in" steps were taken the
first time.
"Now, we are done with THAT . . . with the philosophical, with the
metaphysical, with the excessive focusing on the noumenal, with ignoring the
phenomenal, with all attention focused on 'the path,' with a preoccupation with
the 'journey.' Now you are here, and NOW you should be ready to have a
different experience with the relative existence.
"While 'power' is just a concept too, there are those who would prefer
that you be powerless throughout the relative, the better to control your
thoughts and words and actions.
"The tools available to you - including witnessing and Pure Witnessing -
can help prevent your giving them that power. You can stop allowing 'others'
and' 'the world' and places and things and people to have the power or
influence to determine how you feel.
"Next, the difference in love and Real Love was discussed. It was seen
that the I AM matters as much as the I AM THAT in non-duality’s summative
statement, so the relative does matter;
"in fact, for NOW it is the only thing that matters, for when THAT (the
Absolute) is returned to, eventually, there will be no 'one' to know the
presence there.
"It was seen that as far as what matters NOW - namely, the relative
existence - that words are significant and that words are either words of Love
(based in an awareness of the Oneness) or they are words of fear, which can
trigger any of the subsets of fear: jealousy, anger, depression, etc.
"When that happens, words become vile and generate a sense of separation
rather than a sense of the Oneness and Love, and only a sense of Love will end
your depression or your roller-coaster shifts in moods.
"You were invited to get off the hectic roller coaster and to ride the
smooth ride on a train which moves along its steady, even tracks; you saw that
boredom is what can lead to a desire to get back on the roller-coaster and to
generate chaos in yourself and those around you.
"You are, from now on, going to be conscious of the words you use and are going
to begin shifting to (a) words of Love only or (b) you will otherwise stay in
the peace and silence if words of Love are not forthcoming at any given moment.
"It was seen that generational chains of acculturation can be broken in
one instant when a single seeker shifts to knowing the Oneness, to
understanding Love, to showing Love, and then not settling for just a show of
Love (which can include hugging) but including an overt, verbal expression of
Love as well.
"It was shown that the teacher that comes to the seeker comes in Love,
wanting nothing other than a chance to assist in bringing suffering to an end.
"You were invited to log the instances in the next week that mark a shift
to Love, to focusing on being free of the content of the "mind," and
to ignoring the body.
"It was seen that suffering is not a call for drastic action but is a call
for attention. It was seen that focusing attention on the source of the
suffering - be the re-focusing guided by a respected relative and / or a
teacher and / or a professional counselor - can help fixate the shift to a
state of happiness or contentedness.
"It was seen that identifying with 'THAT philosophical whatever' is
useless and that the understanding means nothing unless it is applied in the
relative. We saw that THAT means nothing except to the degree that it can
impact the relative in a safe and sane and sound 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."
and
"Heaven and hell are not geographic places
"There is no hell."
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