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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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THE EXPLANATION
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"
and
"Heaven and earth shall fade away."
and
"Heaven and hell are not geographic places
"There is no hell."
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