FREEDOM FROM INSTABILITY AND SHIFTING

 

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FREEDOM FROM INSTABILITY AND SHIFTING Let’s review the words of Louise describing what the AM-ness is like when stable and fixed in the understanding: “There has been a temporary shift in the experience of consciousness expressing: very natural and easy experience - the mind quiet - with a kind of gentle ignoring of thoughts - through no effort on the part of a 'louise' - who on investigation appeared quite empty - just experiencing without resistance - watching 'louise' and experiencing what is happening without much involvement - and yet feeling vividly present in life happening at the same time. There is an absence of a memory stream from the past and no movement to plan a future." Those words describe a style of functioning which any sane and reasonable human would choose while traveling along the “path” to full realization, if choice were an option . . . which it is not: natural and easy, quiet, ignoring thoughts, no effort, quite empty, without resistance, watching without involvement, vividly present, absence of a memory stream from the past, and no movement to try to plan or control. Humankind’s problem is that programming and conditioning remove choice as an option because it drives persons to operate blindly in a thought-driven “auto pilot” mode. If one could merely choose between that mode and the mode described above, of course on would choose the mode described above. Yet even if humans reach that point, in not fully realized then they will shift. Maharaj: “You are so used to the support of concepts that when your concepts leave you, although it is your true state, you get frightened and try to cling to them again.” His caution: “People who depend on the intellect only always will be swinging like a pendulum.” As for the case with Maharaj: “I am stabilized. There is no going into samadhi, or coming down from samadhi. That is over.” So this consideration was offered to Louise: because you were able to live in that AS IF style for a time shows that (a) it can happen and that (b) it can also happen with other seekers and that (C) it can happen with you again. The exchange continued: Then, your query is seen to be a sane and reasonable one, and a fairly simple one, actually. The basic question for all who have seemingly “gotten it,” only to seemingly “lose it,” is this: “How can these ‘shifts’ stop and how can I fixate in a natural and peaceful fashion of AS IF living for the remainder of the manifestation?” Look to certain of your own words for the key to the answer:  “natural and easy experience”: The use of experience reveals vestiges of identification with the body-mind-personality triad. The consciousness is what is at this point. It can ONLY witness (or “watch” as you said). It cannot experience. I experience nothing. I do witness all. Next, consider “the mind quiet”: There is the second clue to explain the shifts from a state of happiness to a state of unhappiness. Understand that the “mind” has nothing to do with the consciousness. As has been noted in some of my books, “Consciousness is rooted in the Absolute. The brain is rooted in the elements. The ‘mind’ is rooted in wrong programming and faulty conditioning and lies and concepts and ideas and superstitions and falsehoods.” Consider the point offered in the title of one of those books for its message might provide a relevant pointer for this part of your “journey”: “THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS “PEACE OF MIND” (There is Only Peace if You’re Out of Your Mind.)” Next: “with a kind of gentle ignoring of thoughts”: If you truly come to an understanding of what the “mind” is, and if you truly see the detriment to peace that it is, you would abandon it like an abusive mate, yet conditioning and programming and the influence of “the mind” can prevent persons from abandoning that which is abusive. Your “thoughts” are a major abuser that you must abandon if the “shifts” between states of happiness and unhappiness are to end. Others thoughts can be abusive too if one in not independent. If dependent, one will have to cater to some garbage flowing out of some of the most warped and BS-filled minds imaginable. Next, “just experiencing without resistance - watching 'louise' and experiencing what is happening without much involvement”: Again, that word "experiencing." Do you now see what “the mind” is telling you? It is telling you that there is “someone” who is experiencing things. You are the consciousness which can witness. Peace happened when You “watched.” Peace ended when you began to “do” again, thinking dualistically that there is some “do-er” or “experiencer” of “negative” experiences who is wanting “positive” experiences only. See the duality there? There is no “you” to experience what “the mind” is telling you that you are experiencing. You are, but you are not experiencing. Understand that and the misery-generating wanting and desiring will end, along with the misery-generating fear that you won't ever have what you want. I want nothing, can own nothing, can gain nothing, and can lose nothing. A person can sign a contract and think he / she “has” or “owns” a house. A judge with the stroke of a gavel can make very clear what an illusion it is to think that you own that home! “Property taxes not paid? It’s now ours!” [BAM! Goes the gavel.]  But how could a quantity of energy, which is what the consciousness is, "have" or "own" or "lose" or "gain" anything? It cannot, and understanding that pointer can bring about an end to the happiness / unhappiness “shifts.”  In my Grandmother’s Cherokee language, along within the many other languages spoken by the indigenous peoples, there are no words in their vocabulary for “own,” “gain,” or “lose.” They understood. Next: “absence of a memory stream from the past”: Again, you’ve embedded the answer to your own question. The shift you describe is rooted in “memory,” in the notion that (1) in the past you had something you desired but do not have it now and so you feel as if something is missing or (2) in the past you had a shot at attaining something but failed or that (3) something in your past was so much better than what is now in your “present” (or what is not now in your present). All memories are distortions, triggering unreasonable desires or misconceived fears. Illusions from the past are upgraded by the impure consciousness, so persons now deemed to be “missing from your life” are idealized by “the mind” into something far greater than was the case; or, memories of past offenses are exaggerated and assigned far greater significance than is the case. All memories are much ado about the nothing that they are. Earlier, a pointer from one with some degree of realization was mentioned: “A dual-minded person is unstable in all ways.” If it is stability that you want, then dual-mindedness must go. That means your belief is duality must go and your belief in the validity of “your mind” must go. If you would stabilize, then you must abide as the Absolute. Meaning? Meaning that the blockages which prevent the consciousness from seeing Reality and Truth must be completely removed so that the consciousness can once again function in its pre-manifested, no concept, non-dual “condition.”  That can remove those “problematic” delusions such as thoughts, experiences, and memories and will fix you firmly in touch with the stable, non-shifting Reality and reality (meaning the "THAT" and the "AM-ness" with the former overlaid on the latter during the relative existence of all that are fully realized). 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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