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OVERCOMING THE FEAR OF BEING TOTALLY INDEPENDENT
“...You are afraid of freedom!”
--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The reason that many do not want to be free is because they are suffering from the mental illness called “The Goldilocks Syndrome”:
they are
willing to readily give up what they think is “too this” or “too that” but
unwilling to give up what they think is “just right” - just perfect at any
particular moment.
The insanity of that is this: the only constant in the relative existence is
change, so whatever the distorted seeing takes to be perfect now will change
shortly.
The Laws of Thermodynamics are not suspended either by ignoring them
or denying them. What has come together will come apart, be it “you with the
perfect mate,” “the perfect relationship,” the “perfect locale,” “the perfect
body” . . . whatever.
The soup that Goldilocks found to be too hot, if left alone patiently for a few
minutes, could have been “just right.” But that condition of just right-ness
would soon have given way to soup that was perceived to be too cold. Try to
function as a person and it will be revealed that any and all satisfaction is
just as fleeting.
To be totally free is to be free of trying to manipulate the environment or the
body - or other bodies - to one's own self-will and instead merely witnessing
whatever happens spontaneously.
The deer that finds the levels of noise that come from a nearby house on
occasion to be contrary to its nature does not approach the house and knock on
the door and ask the woman if she and her family have ever considered measuring
the family's “noise footprint on the environment.” The deer merely moves away
from that house when the noise is erupting.
Freedom is not the freedom to control others. Consider one of the former
dictionary definitions of freedom that was discussed and one new one as well:
DEFINING FREEDOM - CONVENTIONAL SOURCES (cont.)
“Freedom” is the state of being free or at liberty rather than in confinement; or, having the ability to move without restraint.
For the deer to be free and therefore at peace, it need not have the “power” to
make others “do this” or “stop that.” It requires only freedom from confinement
and the ability to move away.
“But Floyd,” some have said, “I feel imprisoned in a relationship at home” or “I
feel imprisoned in my relationship at work, and circumstances have robbed me of
the freedom to move.”
The reply: “First, there are more ways than one to move; secondly, there are
changes that can happen which do allow for movement when it is considered
impossible; and, thirdly, nothing is robbing you except your personal fears and
desires.”
Once de-accumulation happened here, then far less work and income was required.
Speaking with a seeker in Australia one night during the standing “Saturday-night-here-Sunday-morning-there-Skype-conference,”
it was seen that the illusory need for more and more money can end when
de-accumulation begins.
The expense of accumulation only begins with the initial cost of whatever (or
whomever) you are determined to buy. The maintenance costs of accumulations
eventually exceed by far the initial expense.
Far less money is required when freedom from accumulation and maintenance
happens, and then freedom of movement from employment that is enslaving can
happen.
Yet the move need not always be literal. Last night, he spoke of a remote
island on which he wants to buy a cabin to use for his retirement someday. It
was asked, “How many years until retirement?”
The reply: “Twenty.” The response: “You need not wait twenty
years to 'move' to the place of perfect peace. It is within seven steps of
where you think you are right now.”
Yet few will ever understand the seven steps in the “journey” from
identification with the false “I” to abidance as the Absolute. Few will come to
understand that freedom and peace are right here, right now or that the only
movement required is the movement / non-movement along a path / non-path
(except for the direct path offered here).
It was explained that some might know the physical address where they can go
for satsang / retreats with whatever “floyd” is assumed to be but that very few
understand where “the Realized Floyd” “abides.”
A non-place place / retreat is typically
cave-like (remote and quiet) but even there is not where the abidance of this
temporary speck of ever-coming and ever-going conscious-energy is happening.
The freedom that precedes peace can happen “now” and “here,” not “later” and “there.”
It comes when “The Goldilocks Syndrome” has been transitioned, where there is a
position of neutrality and no dualistic judgments are being drawn about things
being “too hard vs. too soft” or “too hot vs. too cold.”
It comes when the equally-as-delusional-notion that “something is just right and will always remain that way” is transcended.
[The 1918-1919 influenza pandemic resulted in 50 million deaths. The economies of countries around the globe took quite a toll and it would be years before any sense of "normalcy" returned. The Roaring Twenties were a false flag as those with money and jobs were visibly enjoying themselves while the masses were not.
In 1929 came "The Wall Street Crash," sparking a depression. 1930, "The Dust Bowls" began and buried cities in multiple states in 6 feet of dirt or more. The economy took another hit.
The banks began to foreclose on properties and millions were left homeless. Many literally starved to death. The collapse of world trade came along with problems with acquiring materials needed for production, production problems, supply chain problems, and the collapse of the money supply.
A result was anger at politicians and the emergence of a new breed of whiny, angry fascists leaders who attracted - with the use of lies and propaganda and the instilling of fear - millions of followers who were so angry that they were literally ready to kill.
Millions lost their jobs. In 1932, "the Food Riots" and "The Widespread Bank Collapse" came. The crime rates soared and many "famous" / notorious criminals were seen as heroes: Bonnie and Clyde, Capone, Dillinger, Machine Gun Kelly, etc.
Then came war, which ironically reinvigorated the economies of many nations. In the U.S., that was followed by a "Happy Days" mentality and it seemed that a sense of normalcy had finally arrived.
Yet again, that equally-as-delusional-notion that “something
is just right and will always remain that way” came again until January 2020 when COVID-19 struck.
Now, a new pandemic is resulting in millions of deaths. The economies of countries around the globe have quite a toll and it will be years before any sense of "normalcy" returns.
Those
with money and jobs were visibly enjoying themselves while the masses
were not. New members of the Millionaires and Billionaires Club were coming into being monthly as billions more are suffering economically.
A false flag recovery is leading to increase in COVID cases and economies are taking another hit.
The
banks have gobbled up holdings while millions have been left homeless.
Many around the globe have literally starved to death. The collapse of world trade has resulted in problems with acquiring materials needed for production,
production problems, supply chain problems, and the collapse of the
money supply.
The result - starting years ago in the U.S. by angry nationalists and supremacists who believe that minorities are being given money which the nationalists and supremacists deserve - hate the 50% of the politicians who are not supporting the agendas of those nationalists and supremacists.
What has emerged is a new breed of whiny,
angry fascists leaders who attracted - with the use of lies and
propaganda and the instilling of fear - millions of followers who were
so angry that they were literally ready to kill.
The crime rates have soared partly as a result of those leaders and their followers and a reaction from those who have been attacked and abused by the biased political and financial systems that have been in place around the globe.
In the U.S., the sense of normalcy has seemingly arrived for many but is far removed for the majority. Once again, those food shortages discussed above have returned. High prices have returned.
And, as those around during the Great Depression saw, many now are seeing the spectre of another "world war."]
Only the Absolute is a "non-moving target." All else will be in constant flux,
and the “joy” of things perceived to be “just right” will give way to the
misery of those same things soon perceived to be “all wrong.” Here's the way Louise
Sterling of Cape Town, S.A. once put it after returning to “the cave” after a holiday:
Today, walking in the garden to find fresh herbs, there is simply gratitude for
this preference-free view. You expressed this so clearly recently when you
said, 'Do you not see that hope generates hopelessness and that the relative
existence would unfold more pleasantly is you allowed what happens to happen
spontaneously without complicating things with your wishes and desires and
hopes and, yes, fears as well?'
“A recent visit to Bazley was full of contrasts: the idyllic, silent beauty of the natural setting, but sharing a house with three children, two adults and DSTV. Within the home, there was a higher level of background noise, personal ego demands, and busyness than I am used to in the cave. Would it be possible to grasp the understanding within the busyness and noise? Unlikely.
“With the withdrawal from all that is extraneous, the movement away from the phantasmagoria of the relative, there is simply resting in silence. In this silence, the winds of preference or non-preference are subtle, and more easily discerned and observed. This is the forest dweller stage I guess.
“Here this stage involved working, parenting and caring for the body’s needs, yet almost all other activities dropped away. In this environment of simplicity and silence, preference for or against could drop away, and the vast spaciousness of neutrality enjoyed.
“Once neutrality is tasted, it is not easily forgotten. This view becomes permanent. Then it is possible to be in the ego-led noise of society without being pulled into preference or non-preference. Although, the movement will always be away from the noise to the gentle, silent, peacefulness modelled by the petite buck that come to graze and drink at the bottom of the Bazley garden each morning and evening.”
The reply: And that is what the relative existence looks like when the Absolute is laid over it; and that is what the unassailable peace looks like when the movement to freedom happens; and that is what it looks like to be neither pro-life nor pro-death but “preference-free,” not unlike the naturally-abiding, spontaneously-living deer.
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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