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OVERCOMING THE FEAR OF BEING TOTALLY INDEPENDENT
“...You are afraid of freedom!”
--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
If one has followed the postings
on this site and taken the pointers into consideration, then it should be clear
by now that the masses prefer dependence, having been programmed and
conditioned and acculturated and domesticated and indoctrinated and brainwashed to believe that
establishing and maintaining dependencies and co-dependencies are the
prerequisites for happiness.
“It is normal to do so,” they will claim, the consciousness having been so blocked that it is dependency and co-dependency - and not total
freedom . . . not total independence - which have been normalized and endorsed
on a culture-wide basis.
Recall that understanding personality identifications and the personality disorders which accompany them reveals that . . .
more than 50% of the humans on the planet are Personality Type Sixes;
reveals that . . .
Personality Type Sixes exhibit the Dependency Personality Disorder and the Co-Dependency Disorder, so 50% are “pre-wired” so that they accept unquestioningly the global message that one should be dependent, not independent . . . not totally free;
Reveals that only ½ of 1% of the humans on the planet are Personality Type Fours who are pre-wired to question, to challenge abusive authority, and to seek to be independent, that is, totally free.
Therefore, from “the get-go,” the odds are 50:1 that most persons will be uncomfortable when authority is challenged and will be afraid if invited to consider giving up their drive to form dependencies (and to give up their group dependencies and their dependencies on institutions to take care of them).
Thus Maharaj was spot on when he said to the masses, “ . . . You are afraid of freedom!”
To move to the next level of the
understanding, this irony must be seen:
in terms of the non-duality understanding, all are already free because that “all”
refers to nothing more than mere specks of conscious-energy which cannot even be
touched, much less imprisoned.
At one point on the “path,” the guide might say that “your freedom has been
stripped away by the mirages which your personas take to be real”; however, it
is seen by seekers that move farther along the “path” that a mirage cannot take
away anything and that nothing can be taken away from a person / persona that is not real
in the first place.
A non-real mirage cannot do anything to a not-real person, and a not-real
person cannot do anything to anyone or anything. The point is, you are already totally
free without even knowing it.
Yet that pointer cannot be understood by the persons who do not understand all that they are not. Each assumed or assigned persona has a primary desire and a primary fear, and persons at any given time might well have 80 personas - false identifications - at play.
Therefore, if one would be free
of the frustration of unmet desires time and again, and if one would be free of
imprisoning fear, then one much be free of the belief in any persona, in any
personality identification.
The energy-consciousness that can use the pronoun “I” to speak of itself cannot
be bound or imprisoned, though temporarily manifested in a body it might be.
And that presence in a body-cum-consciousness is far more finite than is
understood by the masses and is also often misunderstood by many claiming the realized
state.
So free is the conscious-energy that there is actually no continuity of the
manifested consciousness even in a body-cum-consciousness. If the consciousness
were a finite, individually-identifiable amount of energy that was not
constantly coming and going into and out of any given space or form, then no
human or living thing would ever need to eat again.
But the consciousness that was present two months ago in this plant food body-cum-consciousness
that is called “floyd” is not the same quantity of conscious-energy that is
present today. A constant re-supply of three things is required for what is called
“life” to continue:
A. elements must be re-supplied (the skin covering this space today being
totally different from the skin that was present 28 days ago, for example);
B. the oxygen must be re-supplied (which is the issue now being faced by this plant
food body since oxygen is not being re-supplied at normal levels as a result of
less-than-normal activity by the heart or lungs or both); and
C. the conscious-energy must be re-supplied (which is accomplished by eating
plants or by eating something that ate plants).
That is all which these manifestations called “you” or “floyd” are about:
elements, air, energy - the “composite unity.”
Only the illusion of “memory” leads persons to believe otherwise. The fact is
that the consciousness is so free that it cannot be bound within any space for
more than a brief period.
Conscious-energy is free-ranging.
To use the “I” accurately to
refer to the ever-in-motion consciousness means it can be stated factually that
“I AM” and it can be understood that “I” - a speck of energy - am totally free.
But the programmed and conditioned consciousness has no interest in being free,
that is, free of its delusions, free of its illusions, and free of its false
but assumed identities / roles / ego-states / stage characters / actors /
personalities / personas . . . call them
what you will.
While the realized state is accessible to all who would but see it, it is a
state that is “reached” by only a few thousand on the planet at any given time
because of the attachment that persons have to their false notions about “individuality,”
about things “personal,” or about some “unique selfhood” (or “SELF-hood”) to
which they cling.
Not unlike the largest, most powerful ship on the planet which is still not
free as long as it remains attached to a dock, so too are persons not free as
long as there is the slightest attachment to the illusions of a personal,
individuated self.
As long as a belief in any personality remains, as long as there is even one
persona that is thought to be real, then freedom will be surrendered to the two
elements that accompany every persona, namely, fears (which are imagined) and
desires (which are never met with any consistency).
As noted, husbanding can happen even if the assumption of the role of “The
Husband” is cast aside; however, if that false identity remains, it will
generate desires and fears. So, too, is the case with “The Wife,” “The Good
Child,” “The Perfect One,” “The Helper / Savior,”
“The Boss,” “The Knower,” “The
Patriot,” or members of the MAGA group who are trapped in their identities of “The
Grievance Collectors” and “The Super Victims,” ad infinitum.
Each belief held and each persona adopted will serve as one of the bars of the
prison of your “mind.” As long as a “mind” is present, total freedom cannot
manifest; furthermore, for most, freedom is not at all what they think freedom
is, especially in light of what is revealed via the nisarga yoga.
Louise wrote: “The dawning of the natural state is not what you expect.”
How very accurate.
Freedom is not about being free to attain what one wants, for anything wanted
is only wanted by an illusory ego-state. It is wanting during the relative
existence, in fact, that ends any opportunity to understand real freedom during
that existence.
Similarly, it is trying to keep what one has accumulated (including not only
places and things but persons as well) that ends any opportunity to understand
real freedom during that existence.
It is the toll of trying to
maintain what one has accumulated (including not only places and things but
persons as well) that ends any opportunity to understand real freedom during
that existence.
Freedom is not about hanging onto this or that; it is about being willing to
give it all up, including all accumulations and any and all identifications.
Maharaj said to the seekers who came to his loft that they wanted him to give them something but that, in fact, he would give them nothing but would, instead, take away everything.
Isn’t that what the penultimate aim here is about, namely, un-teaching everything so that seekers can un-learn all they have been taught and now believe?
Some at any given time may be
trapped in the most horrific circumstances on the planet, exposed to such
relative miseries as famine and abject poverty and war and rape and murder and (in
the U.S.) being shot dead in elementary schools and grocery stores and movie
theaters and nightclubs and in their homes during the breakup of a relationship
and in other places where the members of the public gather.
The realized feel that pain and suffering; the realized, as Love, would that it
would end; but the realized understand that as long as there are persons, there
shall be conflict and ignorance and stupidity and insanity and relative harm and relative
imprisonment.
Yet as high as the numbers are of those suffering physically, the most
widespread suffering comes to the billions who are trapped in their mirages. If
you want to know what that illusory prison looks like, watch a street mime in
Paris that is seemingly trapped inside an invisible box, raising his palms and
pushing on one side after another in an effort to escape and be free.
You, (presently during the AM-ness) the pure witnessing, see that there is no prison, that there is total
freedom. You understand full well that the mime could walk away from his
perceived entrapment whenever he chooses (except for the fact that adopting a
persona ends any opportunity to choose).
You know that the glass box is not real, that it is mere fantasy, that it is
just a part of the play-acting, that it is a figment of the imagination. Yet
look how real it seems to the one trapped in the illusion. Notice how clueless
and perplexed she or he is (and how clueless and perplexed all persons are)
when lost in the dream . . . when trapped in an imaginary prison.
Yet the non-realized live life in the fashion of that mime and believe that the
glass box is real, though it is only an invention of the mind.
Yet how very much such inventions can bring mental misery and emotional suffering!
So it is when those separated from reality seemingly live in their imaginary prisons of false beliefs, of false identities, of false-personality-based fears, and of false-personality-based desires.
To be continued as the conclusion nears.
Please enter into the silence of contemplation.
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THE EXPLANATION
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"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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