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Grasping a Clearer Understanding of Non-Dual Terms
To continue with popular but totally false phrases and statements which are presented as non-dual pointers”:
“NOTHING IS REAL”
Google “nothing is real” and you’ll be given 1.97 billion hits. Not all of the hits deal with non-duality, but a majority of them do, either directly or indirectly.
There are blogs titled with that phrase. There are book titled with that phrase. There are articles which claim to explain that false statement and which try to make truth of it.
And it’s all nonsense.
To say that “nothing seen during the relative existence is as it appears to be,” then there is some accuracy to that pointer.
Consider an example often used here: you look at a steel beam and you think you know what it is. You do not. The use of an electron microscope would allow you to see what is real beyond appearances.
For those who claim that “nothing is real,” the invitation is to step back fifteen steps from a brick wall, bend over, aim the top of your head at the wall, begin running as fast as you can, and crash head first into the wall.
After you come to, let me know if you still believe the wall is not real and that, in fact, nothing is real. I suspect you might attain a different perspective.
The actual understanding is that a brick is real but that it is not what it appears to be to the masses, a fact that can seen by looking at it through an electron microscope and seeing the invisible-to-the-naked-eye-swirling-mass of subatomic particles which are really what the brick is.
Any “Reality vs. reality” distinction (any THAT vs. AM-ness distinction) is only a matter of perceiving or misperceiving, of understanding or not understanding.
Thus, there is that which is “Real.” What is not “Real” or “real” is what persons look at and take to be something other than what it is.
For example, to look at a composite unity and say, “That is my spouse,” “That is my guru,” “That is my sponsor,” “That is a loser,” etc. is to misperceive and not understand what one is actually seeing.
The mass of energy at the “core” of the brick can neither be created nor destroyed. That which cannot be created or destroyed is the part that is absolutely, permanently Real as opposed to the outer appearance of any temporary-manifested brick which is misperceived via the naked eye perspective of humans.
The brick can represent reality (the present AM-ness) but the energy-matter is Reality (the THAT-ness). The brick is temporary; the energy-matter is permanent.
The brick can also represent those who are looking at an image but thinking they are seeing reality though they have no clue at all about the true state of “their marriages,” the true state of “their children,” the true state of “their own emotional instability,” the true existence of “their own misery,” and no clue at all about “reality” as well as “Reality.”
The warped perspectives at play around the relative existence simply mirror the warped perspectives at play around that which is beyond the relative existence and which is also misperceived, inspiring such identity assumptions as “I AM THAT only” and “I am a Supreme Self” or “I am at one with God” or “I am God.”
To focus only on something deemed to be “Special” and to focus alone on that which is “beyond-the-relative existence” both result in being dissociated from the relative existence;
moreover, being dissociated from the relative existence is more evidence of mental illness - of the Ultimate Sickness - even as one proclaims his or her “Ultimate Self-ness.”
So much for “nothing is real” or “Nothing Is Real.”
Again, what is not real and what is not “Real” are ALL of the dreamed up concepts about “self” (that is, false selves) and “The Self” and what “the self” is and What “the Self” Is while having no clue about either.
Once more, it is energy-matter which is the Real and human perceptions which are the not Real.
To be continued.
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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."
teachings which become a part of the Papal Magisterium.
