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SEEKING: WHY, WHAT AND HOW?
To review for those that still seek:
Seek to abide as all life-forms on the planet abide except for humans: naturally, not unnaturally and not supernaturally.
Seek not to find all that you supposedly are; it is enough to find who / what you are not. (Maharaj)
Seek to understand how you were programmed, conditioned, domesticated, acculturated, indoctrinated, and brainwashed resulting in you and all humans at some point ending up with no ability to use logic and reason but instead accepting anything from any authority figure as truth without questioning and based on blind faith alone.
Relatedly, seek to comprehend how phony personality identities subconsciously determine and control your every thoughts, words, and deeds, thereby eliminating the ability to make conscious choices.
Again, there are presently some 8,700,000 different species on planet earth, but the number of “living things” within each of those species and in their subspecies would measure not in the millions or billions or trillions or quadrillions or octillions or decilliuons but in the duodecillions and more.
Only the members of one of those trillions upon trillions upon trillions of living things have been programmed and acculturated in a way that they now need to be told “how to live” or “how to address their problems” or “how to overcome.”
Only the members of one species has been convinced that there is not only “this life to be traversed” but that there are “multiple lives to be negotiated” or that there is “a life eternal which must be the ultimate focus of one’s earthly life which is “primarily a preparation for ‘the next life’ or for ‘an escape from the next life and all future cycles’.”
The members of only one species has been pumped chock full of nonsense and ignorance and insanity, so only one species is “seeking” or “preparing” or “trying to live the right way” or “trying to live in a good way.” The members of only one species have made a second job out of mere living.
Thus, the case on planet earth is this: 100% of all of the trillions upon trillions upon trillions of living things are concept-free, idea-free, religion-free, spirituality-free, belief-free, and free of being driven to go and do and zoom, except for humans.
100% of all of the trillions upon trillions upon trillions of living things do not give a second’s attention to anything concerned with “religion” or “spirituality” or “philosophy” or an “ideology,” except for humans, and those trillions of living things that do not give a moment’s attention to anything concerned with “religion” or “spirituality” or “philosophy” or an “ideology” are doing just fine, thank you very much.
100% of all of the trillions upon trillions upon trillions of living things house the conscious-energy, but they are all mindless, except for humans; so because 100% of all of the trillions upon trillions upon trillions of living things on the planet - except for humans - are not absorbed in or paralyzed by or stymied by or made lethal by a set of dreamed up and totally false concepts and beliefs about religion or spirituality or philosophy or ideology, those trillions upon trillions upon trillions of living things (all except humans) are abiding naturally, not unnaturally and not “supernaturally.”
On the morning walks taken here each morning, the deer (which are often offered here as an example of how to abide naturally, and most of the time, peacefully) were observed yesterday to be altering their behavior as they always do during this season when bucks lose all caution.
(For those in some countries, see “The Jerry Springer Show” for evidence of how insane males can become when being controlled by their drive to engage in that phenomenon known as “the rut.”)
The altered behavior? One day in the past, with the scent of a receptive female is in the air, seven bucks gathered in a clearing that is a few steps from the front door of the house here:
Whereas the deer will usually stay back some distance from me during my walks, during this season they are bold and capable of being aggressive.
As seen above, they will come right up to me to check me out and to make clear that I understand I might be a bit too close to their territory and, in this case, to the doe that was lying down a few yards away and emitting an intoxicating scent.
Like so many males dealing with other males, they miss the truth here that “I don't want her . . . you can have her, mate.” (And yes, I always have an exit strategy laid out in advance, the one yesterday involving a parked truck next to where I was standing and which I could have jumped into quickly enough if that had been called for).
So what was going on with the deer that usually behave as if they are realized but were behaving yesterday as if they were among the mass of non-realized humans?
Why were these animals which often provide a near-year round example of what the relative existence is like for the realized suddenly behaving as do humans who are locked year round in their hierarchies of separation and in their aggressive, hierarchical attitudes?
As the case with the realized, the deer throughout their other ten to eleven non-breeding months usually move about slowly, calmly, deliberately, serenely, tranquilly, peacefully, and evenly. During “the rut,” they behave exactly like non-realized humans who live every day in a go-do-zoom, rut-season-like mode. . . in a fast, never-calm, seldom-tranquil, seldom-peaceful fashion.
The deer, therefore, can still be used to provide a year-round example: most of the year they model a realized-like manner which would behoove humans were they to abide in the same manner; for six weeks or so, the deer model “how not to abide.”
The rest of the year, they behave calmly and sanely. Because they do not lack coping skills – as do most humans – they typically experience no excessive anxiety or constant fear or restlessness or irritability;
therefore, there are no other deer that sell them fermented berries that will get them drunk and inspire them to run recklessly down a path in the forest and miss a turn and run into a tree and kill themselves.
Except during the rut, they do not lash out at other deer but abide peacefully as content members of one large herd. Unlike humans, but instead like the trillions upon trillions upon trillions of non-human living things, they are not driven to use drugs or religion or spirituality or work or accumulation or any of the thousands of things that humans become addicted to because of an inability to cope; as result of anxiety;
as a result of instability . . . mental and emotional and otherwise; as a result of being deceived by lies; as a result of being fooled; as a result of normalizing chaos, ad infinitum.
Humanity’s key issues which Maharaj identified as “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity” are absent among the trillions upon trillions upon trillions of non-human living things.
None except humans are set up to have to try to deal with issues which all other mindless (and, therefore, concept-less and belief-less) non-human living things never even consider.
All living things except humans are free of all nonsense, and it is freedom from that nonsense which any wise human will seek. That is “the WHAT” which humans that are wise enough will seek.
The relevant fact: freedom from the mind and from concepts and from beliefs does not come by “expanding the mind” via the addition of even more baseless concepts and beliefs.
There are scores of this “type yoga or that,” there are five basic non-duality teaching methods, and there are hundreds of bastardized forms of those five methods.
If the method by which you are seeking involves dogma, then you are learning rather than unlearning, accumulating rather than de-accumulating, and being taught rather than being un-taught.
If the method by which you are seeking involves spirituality, then you are likely involved in the going and doing and zooming that involves meetings and spiritual exercise, etc., so you are learning more rather than unlearning all, accumulating more rather than de-accumulating all, and being taught more rather than being un-taught all.
If the method by which you are seeking involves detachment from the relative, dissociation from the AM-ness, and escaping once and for all everything involved with the IS-ness, then understand the psychological ramifications:
the Dissociative Disorder is a mental illness; the Avoidant and Schizoid-Avoidant Disorders are mental sicknesses; and being out of touch with reality while thinking you are fully in touch with Reality is a mental illness that involves the highest levels of distortion and delusion.
Trillions upon trillions upon trillions of non-human living things need no religion, need no spirituality, need no more knowledge, need no guidance from afar, need no power or Power, and need no psychologist or counselor or non-dual teacher.
Only humans think they need religion and / or spirituality and more knowledge and guidance from afar and power or Power. If trillions upon trillions upon trillions of non-human living things can make it fine without any of that, why can’t you?
Only because you are not aware of the “you” / “you’s” that have been adopted and only because “you” are not aware of the multiple personalities which are driving you via their hidden subconscious agendas and which are determining your every thought and word and action.
The human sense of “needing” . . . need not be (except to the degree of “needing” the pointers required to shift away from the “you’s” and from all beliefs and from all hidden agendas and from mental problems which are not at all a result of “too little religion” or of “a spiritual malady”).
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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