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SEEKING: WHY, WHAT AND HOW?
Seek to Comprehend How Phony Personality Identities Subconsciously Determine Thoughts, Words, and Deeds
and
Thereby Eliminate the Ability to Make Conscious Choices
From yesterday:
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.
Then, if action is called for, it is taken. There is no longer any desire, and that includes no desire to isolate or avoid. Escapism and avoidance are not what realization is about, and neither is a by-product or marker of realization.
For realization to happen, then all belief in false identities must end.
Obsessive thinking and obsessive talking and obsessive behaviors also end, and so do actions that are compulsive in their nature. The realized, spontaneously and wisely and sanely, take whatever actions are required for the remainder of the post-realization manifestation.
To review a pointer offered earlier:
The example in this neighborhood which offers the closest illustration of full realization and Nisarga living is provided by the deer. They have no personal identification and no mind.
WHY do deer seek? Because they are in contact with their “inner resource” and thus know intuitively and instinctively exactly what they need for as long as the manifestation continues. And, they want nothing more than the minimum requirements.
As deer seek the basics - water and plant food and shelter - HOW do they seek that which is truly needed throughout the Am-ness? They seek calmly, slowly, quietly, unobtrusively, selflessly, "limitedly" rather than endlessly, and, therefore, moderately, reasonably, sensibility, sanely, non-continuously, and only to a moderate degree. Once they find their basic needs, they stop seeking.
WHAT does a deer seek? A tree with heavy growth to provide some shelter during a storm; trees on a hot day that offer the cool, blue shade; the silence; the peace; the quiet; plant food; a mate to mate with and hang out with during the day and night; and that’s about it.
What are you seeking? More than that? A lot more than that? Nothing as nearly simple as that? Really? Hummm.
Previously, there was a listing of some of the many things that seekers have been witnessed to be seeking as thousands upon thousands have been observed while working with them since 1989.
As illustrated, most who seek haven’t a clue about WHAT they are seeking or
about what they would be seeking if they were able to tap into enough wisdom to
understand what is “missing” and what they could “find” were they not misguided
and misdirected.
And what did Maharaj say in regards to WHAT is missing and about what instead
is at play among the masses who are almost universally suffering from the
Ultimate Sickness? What is at play all around the globe? “Ignorance, stupidity,
and insanity,” he said.
So what is missing, what is not at play? “Wisdom instead of ignorance; understanding and comprehension and insight and discernment and proper perspectives rather than stupidity; reason and logic and sound judgment and sanity and access to the intuitive, common sense that has been blocked by faulty and distorted programming, conditioning, acculturation, domestication, indoctrination, and brainwashing.”
So why are persons not searching for WHAT Maharaj made clear – in his later talks at least – that they would search for if they could tap into some degree of wisdom?
Because of what they were told early on that they needed, because of what was erroneously identified as the Ultimate Medicine, and because their egotism-supported ego-states will not allow them to admit that their relative existence has been driven since childhood by anything and everything except wisdom and understanding and comprehension and insight and discernment and proper perspectives and reason and logic and sound judgment and sanity.
Charlatans and cons sell religion and spirituality at a high price and make millions; others that are, or were, well-meaning (including “maharaj” and “floyd”) misdirected and misguided seekers by endorsing religion for a time and spirituality for a time; that continued until it was seen clearly that those were providing no lasting relief for those suffering from the Ultimate Sickness.
Once it was seen that the Sickness is not rooted in too little religion or in a spiritual malady, the focus of the treatment turned to addressing the psychological / mental symptoms of the Sickness. When that approach proved to be more effective, its use was continued.
Yet when it is asked, “Why are you here? What are you seeking?” few ever answer, “I am seeking the means by which I can remove the blockages that were set in place by faulty and distorted programming, conditioning, acculturation, domestication, indoctrination, and brainwashing.”
Few answer, “I am seeking the
ability to tap into the wisdom that has not been tapped into so that I might
reach a state of understanding and comprehension, so that I can access valid
insights and enjoy clear discernment and proper perspectives and so that I can
activate the reason and logic and sound judgment and sanity that have been
dormant for decades.”
Instead, most are more interested in “THAT” and the Noumenal; many are looking
for a way to escape all responsibility and the drudgery of their current
relative existence and move into a castle in the air.
Most want to become supreme by merging with The Supreme. Most want to give lip service to the unicity and the Oneness while really reinforcing their sense of different-from-ment and better-than-ment which is now being supported by their assumption of phony but supposedly “good” (or even “great”) new identities.
But what did Maharaj say, in the end? You need to learn more dogma? No. You need to be more spiritual? No. He said that it is enough to know what you are not. That is, you do not need to find even more false identities of the type that are assumed to be lofty, holy, saintly, pious, sacred, devout, divine, or mystical. In fact, the playing of roles with those traits will only further hinder the effort to be in touch with reality / Reality.
So seekers sometimes visit the non-dual blog site or show up at this house without having the slightest clue about what the effective treatment for the Ultimate Sickness is (and which they should be seeking) and without the slightest clue about their actual motives and their actual motivators. Why?
Because their actual motivators are their many ego-states / personalities and because ego-states / personalities function in a wiser - or more cunning - fashion than the persons who believe in them. They are shrewd and subtle and they always work on a subconscious, unconscious level.
Like a cancerous tumor that can grow and thrive within a body for years before pushing against a nerve and generating pain which triggers an investigation that leads to a discovery of the presence of that which is making one sick, so too do personalities work in a similar way, except . . . they grow within the mind.
Beyond that, as with a cancerous tumor, they can thrive for years (and for an entire lifetime in most cases) without being detected, and they can push aside all logic and sense. Sometimes the misery and suffering and pain generated by the Ultimate Sickness can trigger an investigation that leads to a discovery of the presence of that which is making one sick. Namely?
Namely, a conglomeration of false
identities which all have their own illusory fears and selfish desires and that
all promote “self”-destructive actions because the inner resource or inner guru
- while usually suppressed - can occasionally exert itself to some degree and
give persons a clue that it is the false self / selves that are at the core of
the chaos of misery and suffering associated with the Ultimate Sickness.
Thus, “self”-destructive behaviors are actually a sound reaction to the
awareness that it is the false “self” / “selves” that are making one sick . . .
if the result is the “destruction” of the belief in the “self” / “selves.”
Yet what treatment plan is too-often followed by so many of the seekers who finally understand that they are suffering from the Ultimate Sickness? The totally-ineffective treatment plans offered by the Big Name Teachers that Maharaj warned seekers to stay away from, the Big Name Teachers who tell seekers that the proper treatment for what ails them is . . .
** not to address the problem of the mind, and not to reach a state of zero concepts, and not to be free of the incessantly churning thoughts in their minds but to “change your thoughts in order to change your life”
or
to “find your ultimate calling and focus on that”
or
** to “realize how incredible you really are!”
or
** to learn my ten secrets for success”
or
** to “advance your spirit”
or
** to “find your life’s purpose”
or
** to “find your ‘Infinite self’”
or
“to use what I can teach you to get power now”
or
“to develop an ageless body and a timeless mind”
or
** “to let me show you how to spontaneously fulfill your desires”
or
** to “follow my seven laws of success”
or
** to “know God”
or
** to make no effort to address the real issues, such as personality disorders
and neuroses and psychoses; instead, just “love what is!” so, for example, “if
a Nazi throws your baby into a flaming pit, that act is God. God is what-is,
and until we can accept our baby being destroyed, we cannot come to terms with
God, with reality.”
Those are all suggestions from Big Name Teachers, offered as ways to address
the Ultimate Sickness or whatever else might be causing you to suffer and to be
miserable.
In other words, the advice is, just think magically, think supernaturally, focus on being a success, focus on all of your ego-based, body and mind and personality desires and go out there and get everything you want.
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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