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SEEKING: WHY, WHAT AND HOW?
“Science will someday advance to the point where it will prove the validity of non-duality pointers.”
--Sir Nisargadatta Maharaj
“Throughout the ages, sages have warned seekers of the hazards of assuming personality identifications. Now, science-based methods can measure the exact degree to which each of the basic personality types is manifesting and can predict to the exact degree that various personality-driven words and behaviors will come into play.”
--Floyd Henderson
For many years, businesses hired me to use the results of the 140-item personality inventory to reveal pertinent facts about their staff and to reveal information about their clientele to better meet their (relative) needs and to reveal the traits job applicants which might make them either assets or liabilities to the companies’ operations.
Today, all around the globe, many people are using the results of the enneagram personality analysis to better understand the motivations of the people they are dealing with or living with.
Yesterday, the discussion was dealing with persons’ obsession – whether they involve politics, religion, spirituality, “love,” sex, drugs, alcohol, nicotine, work, escaping, image-building and image maintenance, shopping, hoarding, cleanliness . . . whatever.
The type and degree of humans’ obsessions and fanaticism can now be measured scientifically with the use of the enneagram inventory developed by the Enneagram Institute.
As far back as 1915, the philosopher George Gurdjieff was studying the subject. Oscar Ichazo would provide a synthesis of many ancient wisdom traditions; in the later 1960’s, the nine basic types were placed within the enneagram diagram.
Nowadays, The Riso-Hudson Enneagram Type Indicator (RHETI® version 2.5) is the world's most popular Enneagram-based test. It is a scientifically validated, forced-choice personality test with 144 paired statements.
A pair of professionals said, “We both felt the Enneagram as represented by The Enneagram Institute was a more efficacious measure of personality traits than any other, including the DiSC and Myers-Briggs.”
To continue with the discussion of what the inventory reveals about personality assumptions:
The Monomania Personality Disorder (resulting in one thing and one thing only being focused on, primarily or exclusively, even as all else that might be calling for attention in terms of the basic relative requirements is being ignored) reinforces the Type One’s often present Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder.
With so many personas on the planet current trapped in obsessiveness and fanaticism, understanding the role of personality in that entrapment and offers information about becoming free of the influence.
It has been noted that the obsession of the mind is central to the struggle to overcome the Addictive Personality Disorder. For example, the practicing addict ignores self-care and familial obligations; however, the “recovering addict” can ignore self-care and familial obligations as well, obsessed with and absorbed in self as they often are.
“Ignore self-care? Surely not. Not anymore.”
Consideration: To abandon the use of one thing that was being abused but to continue to engage in other harmful acts (relatively speaking) or to use other harmful substances is quite typical.
So that is HOW many seek: obsessively. And that is how obsessive seekers act: compulsively. Neither is the least bit healthy. Neither evidences even the slightest bit of freedom from personality. Neither leads to any degree of being able to truly relax or to truly take it easy.
And WHAT are humans seeking?
Of course on planet earth, most among the masses are seeking accumulations, things, stuff, and then – once they have a lot of things and a lot of stuff - they will then seek even more things and even more stuff. More. More. More.
Among the non-Realized masses, there is never enough, whether that involves things or stuff or seeking or knowledge (a.k.a., “learned ignorance”) or dogma or spirituality or “God” . . . whatever. Never enough. Obsessive. Obsessive. Obsessive. More. More. More.
Others are seeking what the nine basic personality types – Types One through Nine - are driving them to seek: to be perfect; to be loved; to be admired; to find authenticity (or to isolate, depending); to avoid; to be taken care of; to escape; to control; or to avoid conflict by being passive though generating conflict when there is a shift to the aggressive mode.
The typical person will assume that WHAT “other persons” are seeking is exactly what she or he is seeking (or what she or he sought if the belief is that one has now “found” and “knows” and “understands” and “has realized” all).
As with all beliefs, that belief is false, but persons who think that they know what others are seeking (or needing to seek) will assume that others are interested in finding what they have already supposedly found. Again, assumptions are beliefs, and all beliefs are false.
It has been noted that few on the planet will ever seek. Ninety-seven percent reported - until recent times - an affiliation with one organized religion or another. They who are sure they know everything - and who have been threatened in order to prevent their questioning what they were taught - will seek to understand nothing else, so there will be among those types no seeking of any additional or different understanding.
If they are engaged in any form of seeking, it involves seeking rewards now and avoiding punishment now and involves seeking eternal reward and avoiding eternal punishment.
Then there are the millions who boast about being “spiritual, not religious.” Some of them might be seeking relief from one thing or another; some of them might be seeking a better image;
some of them might be involved in trying to get back the person who left them because they were “bad” and now they are bent on showing how “good” they have become.
Some are seeking a better image to show to a judge in order to receive a lighter sentence for past actions or behaviors.
Some are seeking an end to what they believe to be a long chain of (actually-non-existent) birth-life-death-rebirth cycles which they think they have been experiencing for hundreds of years.
(“Non-existent?!” Yes. As Maharaj noted, one who was never born even once can most assuredly never be born again.)
Some are seeking one of the thousands of versions of “heaven” or “unification” or “paradise” or “rapture,” all of which are merely concepts which have been dreamed up over the millennia.
Some are seeking “Brahman” . . . that is, “some steady and constant Reality beyond this world” (which many of them admit “cannot be exactly defined”); or, they are seeking “the bliss of the Highest Reality” or “God.”
[NOTE: In Sanskrit, “Brahman (nominative, bráhmā) comes from the root “brh-” which means "to expand, enlarge, or swell.” Since there is no “one” to “expand, enlarge, or swell,” then what really expands and enlarges and swells is an ego-state’s “self”-image and the egotism that is used to support and to defend and to try to sustain one’s lofty but false identities.
Nothing expands and enlarges and swells up like the assumed or assigned ego-state of “The Super Religious One” or “The Spiritual Giant.” Those ego-states and their resultant egotism become so large that they could be assigned their own zip code.]
Others claim to be seeking “The Self” or “The True Self” or “The Real Self” which is believed to be something that can eventually be attained or experienced beyond this realm when, in fact, “The Self” or “The True Self” or “The Real Self” refer to something that is of this realm alone. “What?!”
Yes. Those three terms actually point to the “Pure Witnessing” (notice, not “The Pure Witness”), and Pure Witnessing and / or “Subject-Object Witnessing” can only happen in this realm. In whatever “other realm” one might speak of - which they might refer to as “THAT” or “the non-manifest state,” etc. - there is no “one” that can witness anything. No witnessing of any type happens either prior to manifestation or post-manifestation.
Consciousness can only manifest temporarily, and it manifests temporarily in a temporary “composite unity” (i.e., an elemental-plant-food-body-cum-consciousness which is circulating air). Witnessing can only happen when all three components of the composite unity are manifest and functioning.
Finally, some lazy types and entitled types seek to escape from work and meeting their own basic requirements, constantly seeking others to care for them (and to care for them in a style in which their ego-states and egotism tell them they deserve.) That is all most unnatural.
No deer lies in the shade and expects other deer to bring it some plants to eat. That would be most unnatural. No deer prays that some “god” or “goddess” or “God” will drop food from heaven and let it land right before its mouth so it does not have to move at all in order to eat.
That would require a belief in things supernatural, and that also would be unnatural. If the realized happened to realize along with a side dish of Nisarga Yoga pointers thrown in, then abidance will happen in an all-natural manner.
Either way, the truly realized seek nothing beyond the basic requirements of the current but temporary manifestation. Once “Reality” is overlaid on the relative, on “reality,” then the key traits of the Ultimate Sickness which Maharaj identified as “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity” might well come to an end.
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."
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"Heaven and hell are not geographic places
"There is no hell."
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