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NEEDLESS WORK and COUNTER-PRODUCTIVE ACCEPTANCE and THE CURSE OF HABITS
Natural Living in the Absence of Identification
The ultimate non-dual understanding is that there need not be any understanding, there being no "one" to understand at all; however, that pointer is not for the beginner. The entire "path" must be followed, that understanding above notwithstanding.
After
following the "path," the intent is to "return" and to live
out the remainder of the relative existence, and it is for the remainder of the
relative existence that seekers here are invited to live in a natural, Nisarga
method.
As noted earlier, AS IF living (based in the no-concept, non-dual, no-identity
Reality) is seldom modeled by any of the humans walking about among the masses;
thus, one cannot look to the non-realized masses to find examples of such
natural living.
Look
to nature instead; thus, to continue the earlier discussion, true AS IF living
is a mode of natural living, modeled in nature by animals such as the deer,
primarily docile and at peace . . . living a minimalist existence . . . accumulating
nothing . . . believing nothing . . . never fighting for any “belief” . . .
functioning quite splendidly without any “identity” even though sensing
presence . . . and either enjoying all aspects of the manifestation or tolerating
all aspects of the manifestation in a no-attachment-mode.
How closely does your relative existence reflect that mode of Nisarga, natural
living? Is it possible that you might also function quite splendidly, even
without any concepts or dualistic beliefs or any “identity”?
As noted earlier, many seekers over the years have challenged the plausibility
of the “try living more like the deer” pointer that is offered here. One said,
“I have a class of twenty-two second graders that I’m responsible for. That
includes teaching them what they have to know for the state test, disciplining
them, chaperoning them to lunch, getting the sick ones out of the room and to
the school nurse, dealing with their principals and counselors, making tests,
grading tests, planning lessons, and conferencing with parents. Tell me how I’m
supposed to live as peacefully as a deer in the woods.”
The reply: What is obvious in the comment first is a level of stress that is
typical among many teachers, yet a high level of stress is typical among most
persons around the globe. So how can you, or anyone in any stressful profession
or situation, live more in the style of a deer and avoid that stress?
First, by realizing fully and then completing the third leg of the
"journey." Should that happen, you will no longer identify yourself
as “The Teacher” (which is usually upgraded to “The Super Teacher,” an ego-state
which co-dependently requires “Super Students” for “The Super Teacher’s”
happiness and, indeed, very survival. More on that to follow.)
Stay in that mode and you will never be happy and stress-free because you will
never consistently have "Super Students" that are more concerned with
assuring your happiness than with their own interests and agendas.
However, if you were to realize who / what you are not (namely “The Teacher” or
"The Super Teacher"), then even as you are no longer “The
Teacher" . . .
1. teaching can still happen;
2. being paid after teaching happens can still continue;
3. all of the job tasks that you catalogued above can still happen;
4. and it can all take place even as an AS IF lifestyle - which includes a
style that can be as peaceful as that of a deer - can also happen.
How can that be?
When the role of “The Teacher” is accepted as an identity, then - as referenced
earlier - egomania immediately promotes or upgrades that persona to the imaginary
status of “The Super Teacher.” And what does “The Super Teacher” think that it
must have in order to exist?
(1) Super lessons that are being sought wholeheartedly by (2) “Super Students.”
And when students are not doing what “The Super Students” are expected to do,
then “The Super Teacher” feels as if he / she is dying and begins to fight for
his / her life by attacking “the not-super-students” who, for example, were not
paying attention.
[Such attacks come as often from “The Super Spouse” who is not getting the
respect desired, from “The Super Performer” who is not getting the attention
that is wanted, or from “The Super Employer” whose employees are not paying
adequate attention or “doing” what “Super Employees” are expected to do.]
When that ego-state of “The Teacher” dissolves (post-realization), a shift
results after the understanding becomes, “Teaching might happen today . . . or
not.”
(That
simply means that no ego-state is attached to outcome, no ego-state is bent on
controlling things that are beyond one's control, and that no ego-state is
ready and willing to fight in order to maintain a false image.)
When abiding in an AS IF fashion, no role and no do-er is fighting for its
imagined life any longer. A shift in perspective happens as mere witnessing
begins. Truth is differentiated from the false. Emotional intoxication ends.
When the illusion of do-er disappears, then the witness begins to merely
observe what happens . . . or not. Peace manifests alongside that awareness.
To forfeit the illusion of a do-er with power and control allows You to sit
back, to relax, and to take it easy while witnessing all of the insane conduct
of the billions of personas being assumed as actual identities around the globe
and being embroiled in their “going and doing and zooming." The witness
will not be caught up in "their" chaos and will not be pulled under
by the relative existence maelstroms that the egotism of personas always
generates.
And that is the way that you can live as peacefully as the deer and still meet
your basic food, clothing and shelter requirements. This is not a theory but is
a report of actual experience. Yet you can never be at peace and ease if
meeting the basic requirements is not the goal. If the goal is to have the
highest standard of food, the highest standard of clothing, and the highest
standard of housing, then you cannot live as the deer lives. The deer is
ego-less, so less is just fine.
Thus, to move to a fashion of living that is marked by even higher levels of
peace, many have followed this suggestion: they have down-sized or
de-accumulated after asking such questions as: "Do I have a house that is
larger than required?" and "Do I own my house or does my house own
me?"
and
"Could the next car purchase involve a smaller or less expensive vehicle
or not?" and "Have I ever figured the exact cost of ego, in dollars
or euros or rupees or pounds sterling, as relates to every purchase I have ever
made?"
and
"Have I made any effort to be free of the effects of
having been programmed to believe that 'more is better' and actually considered
the possibility that my relative existence might be improved with less?"
When a deer has a more peaceful lifestyle than you, and when you see that a
deer is a minimalist that could hardly have less, then the wise also see the
correlation.
The deer does not accumulate, does not race through its days or nights, does
not prefer noise to the quiet, does not adopt false identities, does not
overeat or do anything to excess out of boredom or nervousness; and does not
adopt an agenda of other animals in the forest and act like something that it
is not. For you, less "stuff" could mean less maintenance;
smaller "stuff" could mean less expense of upkeep; less cost could
mean sooner freedom from bills; less noise will guarantee more quiet and peace
if schedules are adjusted to include at least some quiet time each day; going
and doing and zooming could be less necessary if the illusions of
"self" were abandoned; and freedom of speech could become less touted
when freedom from speech becomes valued.
You can live as freely as the deer if you follow the steps that can result in
realization and in de-accumulation (which always follows realization). And,
again, that is not theory. Everything mentioned above is an account of actual
experience.
To be continued.
Please enter into the silence of contemplation.
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"There is no hell."
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