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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
Yesterday’s post ended with a list of inane topics that Big Name Teachers have falsely claimed are non-dual topics or pointers. Then this was shared:
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.
And that is the advice that the masses are paying millions of dollars a year for, as if any of that can have even the slightest impact on the Ultimate Sickness which is a psychological, mental illness, not a religious or spiritual illness.
That is, to persons who are suffering because they are out of contact with both reality and Reality, the treatment being recommend on a massive scale is . . . get even farther out of touch with reality and Reality.
Part of the methodology here involves an effort to turn the seeker’s focus away from the irrelevant and toward the relevant - and away from distortions and toward clarity - by offering examples of those who have been misguided and misdirected.
Those examples are offered in order to try to allow seekers to relate, the plan being that a reaction / realization like these might manifest:
“Hummm, you know what, my thinking is just as messed up as that of the guy in the example”
or
“You know, my behavior is just like hers, and suddenly, I see that I’ve always been able to judge how insane ‘others’ are but I have never before really seen how insane my behavior has been all my life until seeing myself - my self . . . or selves – in that illustration”
or
“Gee, I really have been driven by ignorance and insanity all of my life, and that happened through no fault or choice of my own, but I now see that the chaos and craziness were not a result of a failure to be religious enough (because few have been more religious than I) and I now see that the chaos and craziness were not a result of a failure to be spiritual enough (because few have been as absorbed in spirituality and spiritual practices as I);
instead, I now see that the chaos and craziness have been a result of what has been written on what began as a blank tablet at the point of manifestation but which did not stay blank.
The most nonsensical and ignorant and stupid and insane things were written on that tablet and stored away in ‘my mind’ and thereafter led to the insanity of believing that false identities are real and then allowing the insanity of false identities to determine every thought I thought, every word I spoke, and every action I ever took. Now I see that I always wanted to be free, but I only now see exactly what I need to be free of.”
The methodology is, instead, about taking your own “self” inventory,
about finding the hidden agendas of the multiple personalities that have been
driving you, and then being free of the influence of all of those.
To believe that one is all of the false personas that he or she has been assigned or has assumed is to be out of touch with both Reality and reality (meaning, the permanent THAT and the temporary AM-ness);
moreover, to be out of touch with reality and Reality is insane; thus, to be free of distortions and delusions and being fooled, it really is enough to find out what you are not.
Krishna spoke of those who cannot differentiate between the real and the not-real - and those who cannot differentiate between the beingness and the non-beingness - as “fools.” Here, the point is not made that there are fools and non-fools but that foolishness drives persons’ thoughts and words and actions but does not drive the Realized in any way at all.
Maharaj once joking told a visitor that, in his case, the only reason that the manifestation happened was because he was a fool (as if the man could have accepted or rejected the event).
When the man’s ego began arguing that he was not a fool, Maharaj dropped the tongue-in-cheek pointer and clarified his point that the seeds of consciousness are the source of foolishness:
“Because the seed is foolish it has come like this. The seed is the original foolish state, yet what big titles are given to that seed.”
Big titles indeed are generated by the consciousness when it has not yet tapped into an awareness of awareness, including such big titles as:
“My Infinite Self” and “My Supreme Self” and “The Supreme Self” and “That which is beyond this world which should be given your complete attention” and “Nirvana” and “The Highest Reality” and “Realizing that Brahman is Your True Self”
and “The Great Cosmic Spirit” and “The Guiding Universe” and “The Supreme Lord” and “Heaven” and “Valhalla” and “The Thirty-Three Devas” and “The Higher Power” and “The All-Powerful One” and “The All-Knowing One”
and “The All-Powerful Creator” and “The All-Powerful Sustainer,” and
“The All-Knowing Destroyer and Punisher Who Is Watching You” (so you better
watch out) and “The Self,” “The True Self,” and “The Real Self.”
What did Maharaj say of the latter? He said: "I got involved in
spirituality, in the business of spirituality, [but] finally I lost that love
of the Self also. I have no more love for the Self."
Yes, the big titles are tools which the consciousness can use after programming
and conditioning and domestication and brainwashing and indoctrination and
acculturation in order to be distracted from things involving the relative
existence.
The tools might initially inspire day-dreaming and imaginings and mental musings and then move to mental flights of fancy which can then disintegrate into mental flights from reality, into extreme personality disorders, into neuroses and eventually even into psychoses and complete detachment from reality.
Some might dream of castles in the air, but only those trapped in the most extreme condition of a neurosis or a psychosis actually think they have moved into them.
[After offering an unreserved and unrestrained dose of Truth to a man - in an effort to allow him to see that he was not at all in the “after realizing” state that he was assuming - he admitted that he had indeed “gone back to some of his concepts and his old personas,” but he blamed the regression on the fact that he had read some writing that were emphasizing and glorifying the THAT-ness over the I AM-ness.
Of course, if realized, no one could have the ability to “un-Realize You.” He continued, this time a bit more honestly: “I went right back to 'Foo-Foo Land' and ‘not caring about’ and ‘just floating along.’ And yes, it’s very sick’.”
Then he concluded that, in his case, “the ‘spiritual identity’ and the ‘Realized identity’ is worst than all the others.” He ended: “Your email this morning hit hard and instantly showed all my BS.”]
Many who have assumed the false identity of “The Super Religious One” or “the Spiritual Giant” can claim that they are so in touch with “Reality” or THAT” after Realization or Enlightenment that they are now totally disengaged from and dissociated from the relative, ignoring the fact that the summative statement of the non-dual teachings is “I AM THAT; I AM.”
Note that the “I AM” has “equal billing.” Note that “advaita” means “not two” so there is no separation of THAT and the AM. Note too that the only “benefit” of Realization is to be able to escape the bondage of distortions and delusions and foolishness and lies,
to be freed from ignorance, to be restored to sanity as a result, and to then overlay Reality on the relative and abide soundly and rationally and sanely and Lovingly for the remainder of the manifestation.
Realization is not about “escaping the bonds of this life” and it is not about “mentally moving to Foo-Foo Land.” It is about being totally awake, being totally aware, being totally in touch with both reality and Reality, with both the I AM and the THAT, and being freed from ever again being driven by the seeds of foolishness. It is about abiding naturally for the remainder of the manifestation rather than unnaturally or “supernaturally.”
Maharaj: “There is no question of going beyond. I was never born, will never die. Whatever is – is all the time. 'Going beyond' is only an idea meant to remove all other ideas you have accumulated”
and
Maharaj: “The seed is transient, and the whole world is full of the seeds.”
[That is, the imagined “world” is in you, in your mind” and not as it appears to be at all.]
He continued: All the elements, all the objective world, is in that seed. You are not the seed - you are the observer of the seed.”
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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