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OVERCOMING THE FEAR OF BEING TOTALLY INDEPENDENT
DEFINING FREEDOM - CONVENTIONAL SOURCES
(Continued)
So, the discussion continues. What are some of the other conventional definitions of freedom which are offered in a variety of dictionaries? Here are a few:
g. “freedom” is immunity or exemption from an obligation or duty
How many are driven by an obligation or duty that allows for no immunity or
exemption and, thus, no freedom? Consider the ego-states involved in that
scenario:
1. “The Patriot” that soon upgrades itself to “The Super Patriot”: such persons
will be driven by a sense of duty and obligation to die for the silliest causes
that their commanders can dream up, following death-assuring orders without
question in the exact manner that they were programmed and conditioned to do
before being allowed to enter the field of battle.
2. “The Son” or “The Daughter” that struggles to be upgraded to “The Super Son”
or “The Super Daughter”: How many trapped in that ego-state, seeking parental
approval and “love,” will automatically and blindly practice the parents'
religion? Will parrot their parents' beliefs? Will acquiesce to the parents'
demands regarding the proper kind of employment that is acceptable in the eyes
of the parents?
Will marry someone, as the parents desire, rather than just live together (and
will actually marry over and over again until they “get it right” in order to
receive an “attaboy” or an “attagirl” from mom and dad or in order to avoid
being scolded as happened early on when they were “The Bad Son” or “The Bad
Daughter” )?
How many of those types will never tap into that which they know - but do not
know that they know - and will instead adopt every one of their parents'
beliefs and customs and traditions and mores without question, trapping them
forever in the role of “The Clueless, Controlled Child”?
Persons
need not “hate” their earliest and most influential teachers - their parents
and culture - in order to see that their nonsense really was, and still is,
nonsense.
Prison can manifest in many forms other than gray concrete and steel bars. To
feel obligated to accept, with questioning, all of the beliefs and concepts and
values of one's parents and / or one's culture preempts any chance for total
freedom to manifest and assures that persons will be imprisoned for the
entirely of their relative existence.
Why? Because those among the non-realized masses will be so afraid of becoming
independent and walking the less-traveled path that they will also be afraid of
total freedom itself.
h.
“freedom” is the absence of interference by the use of coercion or aggression.
If you are attached to “The Lover” or “The Spouse” roles, then you will
consider the words, “I'm leaving you” or “I want a divorce” to be aggressive
words of coercion.
Attached
to either role, you can be intimidated or oppressed by such words, forced to
fight for “the life” of that role, often by acquiescing to never-ending demands
or by pleading like a child that is fearing abandonment. Trapped in the false
identification of an ego-state, there will be coercion and aggression, but
there will be no freedom.
i. “Freedom” is the state of being free or at liberty rather than in
confinement or under physical restraint; or, the right to enjoy.
Consider the outcomes of following the “path” in the manner laid out by a realized guide, outcomes that were shared by a seeker from New York who, after
years of trying to realize by using “his way,” has come back and agreed to take
this “journey” as instructed, guided along the “path” in the exact order required
for full realization - and, therefore, for total freedom - to manifest:
He said: “I just ordered the books and am finally reading them in the
prescribed order. I am looking forward to continuing to challenge any crap
still lying in my the mind. I have spent a sufficient amount of time reading
and then considering the pointers. It really does feel like a fresh new
experience with the material that I missed the first time going through in such
a rush and not really considering any of it before.
“This time, there is no one any longer to try to impress. All the things that
seemed to matter at one time really don't anymore. I was able to just walk
around this morning and enjoy a chocolate doughnut and a cup of coffee and just
be still without any worry or doubt in my head.”
j. “Freedom” is personal liberty, as opposed to bondage or slavery; or, the
absence of or release from ties, obligations, etc.
As far as a “non-dualist” is concerned, “personal liberty” can only refer to
liberation from the personality, total freedom from any belief in or any
attachment to anything dealing with the relative . . . with the personal. Those
ties end with realization.
If you are attached to the personal, to anything relative (including the body
and mind and personality “stuff”) then if you hear the words spoken to “floyd”
years ago - “cancerous colon polyps” - you will feel no sense of liberation.
You will be tied to the body and thus tied to the panic and fear that comes
with having to picture its finite nature.
If you are attached to the personal, to anything relative (including the body
and mind and personality “stuff”) and you heard the words spoken this week by a
team of doctors who said “angina pectoris” and “lung shadow” and “less than 75%
breathing function,” you will feel as if those speakers are being most
aggressive.
You
might feel as if they are attacking you, and you may rightly conclude that they
are trying to coerce you to follow their protocols without question.
Consider the misery and suffering that come with the bondage and the slavery
when tied to a desire for more years and months and days and hours and minutes,
or even just a few more seconds, of the relative existence.
Note how many who are identified with the body and the mind and the personality
and who are tied to having their desires fulfilled and who are tied to the
avoidance of pain can become fixated on the notion of extending the
manifestation of the consciousness and become willing to undergo any processes
deemed necessary in order to have even a few more days or hours or, yes, even a
few more seconds.
In an act of the persona-driven arrogance and hatred that so often can only
come after years of logic-robbing religious programming and conditioning, a
group of dogma-infested fanatics used airplanes to attack the Twin Towers in
New York on 11 September 2001.
As smoke and flames and intense heat began to take their toll on the nearly
3000 bodies that would be no more by the end of that day, approximately two
hundred people broke out windows and jumped.
Most of their falls lasted ten seconds or so before the bodies struck the
ground or metal overhangs at 150 miles per hour. Ten seconds. Just ten seconds
more. And after ten seconds, no more pain. Just ten seconds more. The issue is
not “By choice?” or “No choice?” The jumpers probably acted spontaneously but
with coercion and aggression as mentioned above.
Jean Dunn was with Maharaj in the final days leading up to his taking
mahasamadhi. How did she describe the way he handled the awareness that the
Laws of Thermodynamics were at work and that the elements of the plant-food
body that had come together were about to begin coming apart?
“During the pain-filled days of the illness (cancer),” she said, “it was
abundantly clear that although the body was in terrible pain, he knew he was
not that body. We knew his body was suffering because he told us; yet we never
heard a moan or a whimper from his lips. It was awe-inspiring simply to watch
him.”
That “awe-inspiring” simplicity cannot be displayed if there is not total
freedom, that is, if total non-attachment to the personal has not happened . .
. if there is no longer any “tie.”
In most cases, the end of the manifestation will come far less dramatically
than for those 200 jumpers on 9/11. For most who are dealing with hospitals and
doctors or hospices or who have returned home knowing the end of the
manifestation is near, the question becomes, “Will the end be allowed to come
quietly and simply if there is a choice available, or will the fight for ten
more seconds be fought?”
If the fight is for ten seconds more in those cases, then the level of bondage
and enslavement to the body-mind-personality triad is obvious. So many are
presently dabbling with non-duality but are also covering all bases by clinging to
some vestiges of their formerly-held dogma. It often unfolds thusly:
“I know that neither energy nor matter can be created, so I know there is no
'creator.' Say what, Doc? I'm not going to make it? Excuse me for a moment:
'Dear God, you know that all along I had some doubts and some lapses in faith,
but I want to say right now that . . . blah - blah - blah.”
Or will you understand, right up until the end of the manifestation, what
Maharaj taught:
“Just as you are not the clothes that you wear, similarly you are not this
body. This is the most important step. You will slowly realize that you are
just like space, because space is the beginning and the end of everything.
“Suppose
you are sick: you want to know all about your sickness; the more serious the
sickness, the more you would like to know about it. Similarly, this 'I Amness'
is also like a sickness. Now you must begin to collect knowledge about that.”
If you allow the false beliefs about the consciousness to go, then WHO (what
ego-state) could be left to be concerned at all with this consciousness or what
happens with it?
Maharaj, speaking of conceptual consciousness and transcendent consciousness,
said: “This consciousness is dead to me; it is gone. I have transcended that.
So whatever it is, is that other consciousness, that one which is without
concepts.”
Realized fully, there is no duality, neither “I have always invited death to
come” nor “I will always try to prevent death from coming, no matter what I
have to do.” The deer has no such thoughts; the one freed of the influence of
the conceptualizing, fiction-filled mind has no thoughts about anything either,
one way or the other. What is, is.
The doctors' games might be played for a time or not, but if played, there will
be no attachment to outcome. All in the relative is finite. WHO wants to ignore
that reality? Only he or she who is tied to the personal, the one who is in
bondage, the one who is in slavery.
The end might come now, or might be delayed for another ten seconds, or might
be delayed for twenty years. Freed from the bondage and slavery of
body-mind-personality, conceptual time is no more an issue to the realized than
it is to a deer that has become ill, that is not feeling quite as well today as
yesterday.
That deer might “die” in ten months or ten weeks or ten seconds; whatever
period of time is involved, the time will pass without fear . . . without
regret . . . without concern. So it is among those that are freed from the
bondage of self, from the personal, from things relative. They, like the deer,
are the only “living” naturally.
Then, whatever time remains, it can be passed with “no one any longer trying to
impress” and with the assurance that “all the things that seemed to matter at
one time really don't anymore” and with the ability to simply “walk around and
enjoy a chocolate doughnut and coffee” and with the ability to “just be still
without any worry or doubt” in your head.
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."
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