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SEEKING: WHY, WHAT AND HOW?
As for HOW the seeking unfolds? It unfolds in a way that a child would go about the process.
That has to be the case because personality (which forms during childhood and locks all persons into a "child mode"), results in persons of all ages acting like a child.
So HOW else will the seeking have to unfold?
In a way that a six-year-old in, say, a forty-year-old body would seek.
In a way that is driven by childish fears and childish desires.
In a way that is selfish.
In a way in which an adult male acts more like a little boy than an adult or in a way in which an adult female acts more like a little girl than an adult.
Only the non-dual method combined with the Nisarga Yoga suggests that you do not need to learn more, that you do not need to accumulate more religious or spiritual concepts, that you do not need to acquire more knowledge (a.k.a., learned ignorance) and that, if freed of all that you have been taught and / or learned, you can give up your childish ways and function as a sane and reasonable and mature adult would, and that can happen throughout the remainder of the manifestation.
It was a wise Cherokee chief who made clear that I was conducting “my search” in a way that a child would. The meeting with the chief is recounted in the non-duality-based novel, “The Twice-Stolen Necklace Murders” with “floyd’s” fictional name in the novel being “Kirk.” After sharing how much seeking he had done without finding all that he had sought, Kirk was offered some advice:
Now some might say, “Ah, I see what’s missing. Here’s your problem. You’ve never been to the mountaintop and talked to The Wise Man you’ll meet there.” But Kirk would say, “Oh, but I have, O Sayer of the False.”
Yes, Kirk had even been to the mountaintop, or darn close to it, when he traveled from his home to the airport in Houston and into Albuquerque; from there, he rented a car, drove from that city into Santa Fe, New Mexico, and climbed - via his rented auto - up the side of the white-capped Sangre de Cristo Mountains, all for the promise of getting the chance to spend one hour with a full-blooded Cherokee Man of Wisdom, a Real, modern-day Soothsayer.
Once there, The Wise Man asked of Kirk, “Tell me what you have done so far on your search.” In his anal way at that time, Kirk took forty minutes to provide for the chief a detailed cataloguing of all of his spiritual work to date, as delightful a dose of divine workaholism as ever heard.
Then the chief inquired, “OK. Now tell me all that you have not yet done on your search that you are planning to do.” That took Kirk another twenty minutes, enumerating the elements in his game plan for gaining greater godliness and even more spirituality in the future.
At the end of his one-hour session, which had come at the conclusion of a very long journey, Kirk finally fell quiet and looked at the chief. The chief gazed directly at Kirk, but not into Kirk’s eyes. The stare from the chief pierced to a depth much deeper than the eyes, not unlike an arrow shot with such force that it not only reached its target but breached its way through the objective as well.
The look altered into one of those soul-penetrating stares, coming at Kirk from the now-narrowed eyes of a Wise Man, like a hawk’s glare fixed on a soon-to-be slain mouse. Several times, Kirk had to look down to sever this discomforting link, but each time he glanced up, the chief stared him down again.
Finally, the Cherokee rose, using the two canes now required for moving about on his ancient legs. Tottering over Kirk, he fixed his eyes again on this seeker, and Kirk became convinced that the Words of Wisdom he had come so far to hear would emerge within seconds. The words, Kirk trusted, would provide the penultimate key.
That penultimate key would then be used in the ultimate act required for the opening of his mind to a new and definitive level of freedom and independence. He waited with bated breath; his pulse quickened; his mind seemed already to be opening more than ever before. Finally, just about to come his way - he felt assured - would be the Secret Knowledge that unravels all mysteries, the key that would allow the full and final understanding to manifest.
Instead, the chief proclaimed in a way-too-matter-of-fact manner,
“Well, then. You’re going to be a very busy boy.”
And with that, the old man hobbled away, in a way that told Kirk without the least doubt at all that he would hear nothing more, ever, from the chief. Kirk’s breath was not now bated; his pulse quickened even more; his mind snapped shut like a spring-loaded trap.
Kirk flashed back over all required to arrive in Santa Fe and to sit in the presence of the chief, all the time, all the money, all the effort, only to hear . . . that?
Kirk’s pseudo-spirituality dissolved, replaced with fury. He thought suddenly that those two canes might better be used to serve up a brutal pummeling across the back and neck and head of this clearly Not-Wise-Man.
Only later would the tremendous value of the chief’s ten words become clear. And later, that wisdom, along with the connection Kirk had with his Cherokee grandmother, would inspire Kirk to once again seek insight from a different Cherokee chief.
Another reaction came as well with the thought:
however, there is often also evidence of a serious case of assholism which often manifests alongside the Ultimate Sickness as well. That assholism was obvious to the chief, and that assholism was obvious to the chief’s wife. In fact, no one except “floyd” was unaware of the presence of his assholism, or should it be said, “multiple 'floyds' were unaware"?)
So what were the words of wisdom that the chief offered, words which were not taken to be wise at all but were taken instead to be highly insulting to a variety of ego-states:
“Well, then. You’re going to be a very busy boy.”
The reaction? “Where the hell did he come up with ‘boy’?! Boy! How dare him. I’m a grown man, to which any wise and objective witness would have asked: “Oh? Really?”
See? Childish.
The fact: if one is trapped in body and in mind / personality identification, then everything a person does, no matter the person's chronological age, will be done as if a child is in charge of all thoughts and words and actions.
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."
teachings which become a part of the Papal Magisterium.
