Wednesday, December 08, 2021

NEEDLESS WORK and COUNTER-PRODUCTIVE ACCEPTANCE and THE CURSE OF HABITS

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NEEDLESS WORK and COUNTER-PRODUCTIVE ACCEPTANCE and THE CURSE OF HABITS

Why, Even After Everything Else,

"The Vision" Was Still Required

for

The Full Understanding and AS Living to Manifest

The point was offered that it took a vision that came one afternoon while in the theta state of consciousness to finally "break the code" being used by so many teachers. Maharaj: "Are you talking from your own experience or from books only? Your book knowledge is useful to begin with, but soon it must be given up for direct experience."

What is offered here is based in direct experience. No one need read and master the content of anything erroneously called "a holy text." In an age when travel has become so expensive that seekers cannot always sit with a teacher face-to-face, might certain books as mentioned by Maharaj help uncover that which is being sought? A few can.

But here, it was - in the end - that direct experience via a vision which allowed for the understanding that did not come from reading scores of books by those Maharaj dismissed as "the big name teachers." That direct experience understanding is what is being shared here.

As noted, the content of the vision allowed for an understanding of the fact that "the journey" has three parts or legs; and, an understanding of exactly how that "journey" must happen; and, an understanding of what happens after "the journey" is completed so that the remainder of the relative existence can happen in a not-insane, non-stupid, not-ignorant, non-fluctuating, non-chaotic, not-unstable fashion and in a totally AS IF manner.

What happens after the third leg of the "the journey" is completed is AS IF living, living AS IF anything in the relative matters but knowing via a new perspective that it is all really just much ado about nothing; however, that point must be clarified so that nihilism and numbness do not manifest. Dancing is much ado about nothing as well, but it can nevertheless be quite entertaining.

After the third leg of "the journey" is complete, the fully realized do not miss out on entertainment. They relish it. They share it. Lightness replaces heaviness, and fun replaces drabness, and the fully realized invite all to join them in dancing lightly and having fun.

The understanding of the functioning of the totality comes when seekers "go back" and revisit the Absolute by following the exact steps by which they came in, but in reverse order, of course.

Moreover, it is the subsequent understanding of the functioning of the totality that puts all in perspective, including THAT and "this" as well, "this" being the relative existence . . . this AM-ness . . . this beingness.

After that, then a natural mode of living replaces the former unnatural and supernatural modes of living. Consider the multi- million-year history of human-like or human beings on the planet: was it natural for those early humans to burn incense, or hum or chant, or knell and rise and knell, or bang on special bowls on special pillows with special sticks to . . .

"help them make it through the night" (as so many nowadays are not able to do at all in a natural manner - most among the masses instead being unable to sleep, unable to rest, unable to stop the noisy "mind," unable to be at peace at all)?

Or did they simply live? They lived, and they lived in a simple and natural manner: they slept, they awoke, they spent approximately 2.5 hours per day involved with "the necessities" of food hunting or food gathering (according to anthropologists);
 

also, they had sex and procreated, and they faced what had to be faced when relative events became challenging events. And through it all, they had no "holy texts" to guide them, and they needed none.

And because you are now sitting before a screen and reading this, you are evidence of the fact that millions of years of living naturally rather than unnaturally or supernaturally actually worked. They "made it." and they made it without any of the drama of unnatural living and without the needless effort and unnatural restrictions of trying to live supernaturally.

Yes, early on, Maharaj did reference certain points from certain texts, but in the end he only shared by way of what he called his "own experience." "I am telling you from experience," he said. The same is the case here, even though it is known, paradoxically, that there is no "experiencer" at all except to this degree:

Maharaj: "Behold, the real experiencer is not the mind.” Consider as well:

Maharaj: "Can you truly say you were not before you were born, and can you possibly say when dead ‘Now I am no more’? You cannot say from your own experience that you are not. You can only say ‘I am’."

That is a marker of the AS IF living that happens when the Nisarga Yoga is understood. You can only say (or know) "I am." The deer know that same "I am"; the birds know that same "I am"; the fish know that same "I am." And how simply and naturally do the deer and birds and fish live? Totally.

And how simply and naturally do the non-realized masses live? Not simply or naturally at all. Now, one seeker asked this: "You and Maharaj share non-duality teachings. Cavemen did not do that. How can you say you are living naturally?" The most basic and relevant fact is this: no "one" is sharing or teaching.

Post-realization, Pure Wisdom and Pure Love manifest. It is natural for Wisdom (which also facilitates Pure Witnessing) to witness what is happening and to recognize words and thoughts and behaviors that are evidence of nonsense and self-deception and ignorance and distortion.

That happens even as those being driven by such thoughts and words and deeds are sure that their thoughts are right and their beliefs are right and what they are saying is sensible and not at all self-deceiving and not ignorant but wise and free of any distortion at all.

It is Wisdom alone that provides the ability to differentiate the true from the false, so that happens when the consciousness detects falsehoods. Then, True Love takes over and the consciousness - not a teacher and not a guru and not a person - speaks ( and speaks from the platform of Pure Awareness).

It is True Love, speaking in that fashion, which accounts for the sharing of these teachings, and what is seen or heard is what inspires the various pointers offered.

For example, some person might have been heard saying something that evidenced such a level of narcissism and arrogance that it shocked the unblocked consciousness into offering a pointer toward the humble truth;

or some person might have spoken of "their lover" or "their spouse" with unbelievably glowing words (words that showed such delusion, words that revealed so many outlandish misperceptions, and words that exposed such a denial of the facts before one's very eyes) that the unblocked consciousness here will speak and try to point to the truth that is actually 180-degrees opposite of what is being stated;

or some person might have been making statements that amounted to such a blatant distorting of the facts and such a desire to put a spin on reality that the consciousness spontaneously and automatically attempts to redirect the speaker toward the truth. 

(In almost all cases, though, the hidden fears and desires of their personalities will block persons from hearing pointers to truth that run contrary to their motives and agendas.)

But note: as that which is rooted in Wisdom and True Love is happening spontaneously on one front, on another front this composite unity called "floyd" - functioning in an AS IF manner - eats and sleeps and laughs and plays and enjoys conversation on occasion and loves the silence on occasion and delights in sex-that-expresses-the-shared-sense-of-Oneness on occasion;

it is also via that composite unity that a few jokes or some humorous observations are shared in order to lighten the day of other composite unities that might be encountered.

And that is all totally natural. It is all a part of the AS IS mode of living that follows the completion of all three legs of "the journey." So, what is to be understood at this point about AS IF living? 

In the glossary of terms in the back of the book FROM THE I TO THE ABSOLUTE, the following is offered in regards to AS IF Living:

AS IF Living: The style of living that the realized exhibit, seemingly living like persons but without persons’ attachments, delusions, and emotional intoxication; the manner in which the realized “finish out” the manifestation, meeting “responsibilities” and providing for the space while knowing full well that “this world” is nothing more than an imagining in the distorted perceptions of persons. Consider:

AS IF Living: a lifestyle that is unencumbered with detachment and emotional intoxication and belief in the lies of the culture; a lifestyle free of game playing and image perpetuation; a lifestyle unmarred by the emotions and emotional intoxication experienced by persons;

AS IF Living: a lifestyle during which the realized can witness feelings rise and fall without any emotional intoxication, without reacting, without over-reacting, and without setting off a chain of reactions (as happens with persons);

AS IF Living: a lifestyle free of the misery that is generated by the desires / fears of personas.

While functioning in an “AS IF fashion,” the consciousness can register feelings but will not register emotions and emotional intoxication (such intoxication being limited to the domain of ego-states).

Consider: Maharaj, though abiding in an AS IF fashion, might appear to have been emotionally-intoxicated when he threw out of his loft those who showed up as an ego-state and who were trapped in egotism and wanted to show off their spiritual knowledge (a.k.a., learned ignorance).

He was not emotional. That speck of consciousness knew that an arrogance-free, ego-free environment was required for the other visitors to receive a message about being arrogant-free and ego-free.

So, the pointers offered here are rooted in Nisarga Yoga—the teachings which invite persons to be rid of their belief in the fallacious body-mind-personality triad and to then live naturally, to take it easy, to relax, to just BE and to forget the illusion of DOING or needing to DO or the existence and experiences of a DO-ER.

(By the way: such pointers will appear to be very strange to those who are trying to follow a knowledge path, a worship path, an action path, or a service path. So it is. Those paths are available for discussion in hundreds of thousands of other venues and institutions.)

To be continued.

Please enter into the silence of contemplation.

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Here, with those who are still driven to talk about "god," the "Son of god," the "Holy Spirit," "Buddha," "Krishna," etc., etc., etc., the invitation to them is to view those as verbs, not nouns.

THE EXPLANATION


If looked at as nouns, they point to illusions and are, therefore, a total waste of time to even discuss; if looked at as verbs which are resulting in certain sane but rare behaviors among humanity, then they are worthy of some attention during the relative existence.

Meaning? There are members of certain groups who say things such as "My concept of god in the past was of a weak god, an absentee god, A Santa Claus-type god, a mean, punishing, vindictive god, etc. Today, I am in close contact with a loving and caring god whom I worship and praise and glorify and give thanks to."

The reply to that usually goes like this: "If you are in contact with a god that wants to be worshipped and praised and glorified, then you're dealing with someone like yourself - a narcissist - and hanging out with narcissists will never bring an end to your narcissism (that narcissism evidenced by the fact that you think you are "godly").

Next, in the phrase 'loving and caring god,' any supposed god that truly had her or his act together would tell you that the totally irrelevant part of that phrase is 'god' and that the only part that is relevant is the "loving and caring" part.

"That is, a non-narcissistic their god / their goddess would say, "I care not an iota about being worshipped and praised and glorified by you or anyone else. How arrogant and insecure and needy would I have to be to want that? Forget the man-made, dreamed up noun 'god' and focus on the 'god as a verb' understanding and then go forth and let loving and caring be verbs - not adjectives - and let them generate the act of love and the act of caring and let those actions manifest through you." 

Yeshu'a (Jesus) and Pope John Paul II and Pope Francis were spot on:


"No one shall ever see 'the kingdom of heaven.' It is within"

--Yeshu'a (Jesus)

and 


"Heaven and earth shall fade away."

--Yeshu'a (Jesus)

and 


"Heaven and hell are not geographic places

but are states of mind, nothing more than

concepts dreamed up by men."

--Pope John Paul II 

"There is no hell."

--Pope Francis, the current pope

in an interview with journalist Eugenio Scalfari,

a writer used by the Pope to issue off the record

teachings which become a part of the Papal Magisterium.

[That said, would that the popes who have shown the courage to reject a core concept of their dogma - namely, "hell" - would find the additional courage required to question the very existence of their institution in light of the centuries-long cover-up of their history of raping children and in light of the mental and emotional and psychological scarring of billions of their members past and present.

And that need for courage also applies as questions need to be asked about why so many other sky cults are still being supported and allowed to continue to exist as well. When certain types of programming and conditioning have been shown to blind the masses, they should end. Will they? Not likely. Why?

Because what the masses think and say and do is most influenced by the international crime families which hold sway over the masses as criminals conduct their planet-wide operations. What are the major international crime families and which are the most influential and have the largest memberships?

The Mafia / La Cosa Nostra; the Catholic Church (with it 1.2 billion followers) whose Vatican Bank worked for decades with the Mafia while laundering mob earnings (for a 15% all-profit charge by the Bank); Protestant and Evangelical Churches (with over 1.2 billion followers) like the one I was raised in where the youth director molested and sexually assaulted young girls; big business which has long created environments in which people have been abused; powerful political bodies like the U.S. Congress, etc., etc., etc.)

With all of those crime families, neither the followers nor the leadership ever voluntarily step down or shut down their criminal activities. Be they gangs, organized crime families, religions, big business, politicians, etc., they all want control and they all want power and they all want money, and nothing internal will interfere with the driving forces at play.

The masses must demand that all those in charge must step down and their groups and institutions must shut down, and there's the real problem because the continuation of their crimes are enabled not as much by the people running such crime organizations as they are enabled by the masses of people who - wanting some perceived "payoff" - remain involved with them and give them money and support them and aid and abet the continued existence of those criminal enterprises and thus facilitate the ability of church criminals and political criminals and other types of criminals to continue to commit their crimes.] 

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