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NEEDLESS WORK, COUNTER-PRODUCTIVE ACCEPTANCE and THE CURSE OF HABITS
“There are three means of abidance - natural, unnatural, or supernatural - and only one of those allows for the abidance to happen in a sane, logical, realized, awakened, and no-false-beliefs manner.”
--Floyd Henderson
Being More in Touch with the Relative Existence, Not Less
The understanding puts the realized more in touch with “relative realities,” not less; post-realization, relative happenings must still happen, but they can happen without being coated in a thick layer of ideological dreaminess or alternating dollops of positivity and negativity.
The understanding of the THAT-ness is 100% useless unless it is overlaid on the AM-ness and allowed to guide all relative happenings, so the understanding is 100% useless unless it is “applied” now.
With the coming of
the understanding also comes wisdom and sanity, but understanding and wisdom
and sanity can only come when all of what Maharaj called “learned ignorance”
and “stupidity, verging on insanity” first go.
That is another of the “borderlines” that can be discussed during the
teachings. A year ago, there was a U.S.-Russian spy swap involving 14 spies
that was handled at an airport by using two airplanes;
however, throughout the “Cold War” years, the exchanges often took place at bridges that crossed borderlines. For example, between 1962 and 1986, Berlin's Glienicke Bridge was used four times as the site for a Soviet-U.S. spy swap.
The bridge at the time was
located at an isolated point where US-occupied West Berlin met Soviet-occupied
Potsdam in East Germany.
Those “Iron Curtain” crossings, which were usually preceded by months of meetings between negotiators, were as orchestrated as any dance: usually taking place at night, the bridge would be floodlit and guarded by heavily-armed Soviet and U.S. soldiers with dogs, all standing at opposite ends of the bridge.
As the spy or spies on one end of the bridge began walking, the spies on the opposite end did the same. All of those spies knew that guns were aimed at their backs and that they would be shot if either side tried to trick the other.
The spies all met at the halfway point as they walked toward freedom,
and as one spy or group of spies crossed the midway point headed to liberation,
the other spy or spies did the same. The same scenario plays out during the
dance of realization:
as the “learned ignorance” and the “stupidity, verging on insanity” that Maharaj spoke of cross the borderline between the relative and the understanding of the Absolute, the departing ignorance and stupidity and insanity meet and pass the arriving understanding and wisdom and sanity as the latter move across the borderline and allow the seeker, finally, to be totally free.
It is one thing to know only the AM-ness and to be imprisoned as a result, and
it is one thing to be shackled to the AM-ness alone; it is another thing to
know THAT but to claim to have abandoned the AM-ness and all that it will bring
or toss your way. That is just another form of imprisonment.
The prison of the “mind” is a prison where each belief and concept and idea and desire and fear becomes one of the bars of that jail.
Such a limited,
no-understanding prison is the fertile ground where ignorance and insanity are
conceived and will give birth to what will eventually become the guards that
incarcerate, in the absence of full realization, you and all among the masses.
The realized guide is a negotiator as well, working for your freedom, arranging
the means by which you can be freed from prison and can cross the borderline to
logic and reason and clear-seeing and sanity, all of which come when the hidden
agendas of personality's desires and fears go.
The Advaita “swap” comes when ignorance is seen to be ignorance, when one finally wakes up enough to say, “My history shows that I am insane, in terms of so-called spiritual or religious concepts that have been accepted without question;
in terms of my beliefs about relationships and what makes them healthy or unhealthy; in terms of having a “broken picker” when it comes to choosing partners in business or in “personal relations”;
in terms of my going through the existence with my head in the clouds and being a 'deep philosopher' and being overly-serious and boring and not enjoying what the relative has to offer;
in terms of every decision made during the relative that reveals a
deep-seated, self-defeating, self-destructive tendency; in terms of being in a
prison but believing that I have been free; in terms of every aspect of my
relative existence, in fact.”
Using the experience of a “realized guide” that can assist imprisoned and endangered persons who have no clue that they are imprisoned and endangered
As far as the relative existence is concerned, few humans play a more significant role than the “Forewarners of a pending global threat to democracies; than the “Forewarners of the seriousness of a Global Pandemic when politicians are misleading their followers by minimizing that globally-dangerous-and-deadly virus;
and than the “Forewarners of a coming tsunami” as people on a beach are watching the waters recede and stepping out into a danger zone to pick up stranded fish.”
Many have seen such videos of people at a beach seeing the waters along the coast suddenly recede and persons then rushing forward to collect fish or shells.
Others
sometimes move to the newly-exposed wet sand in order to have a close-up view
of this strange phenomenon playing out before their very eyes.
Standing there in their ignorance, witnessing without having a clue about what
they are really seeing, a “Forewarner” might run along the beach shouting,
“Get
out of here! Run to higher ground. The waters will soon be coming back as a
destructive force that will assure eventual suffering! You are putting yourself
in a position to undergo great pain and misery!”
Why is a Forewarner / Guide required when it comes to attaining the non-dual
understanding? How can you know what you do not know, especially when that
which you believe with such assurance is seen through a distorting lens that
appears to normalize the abnormal?
How
can you know if your culture is among those that make people into cold and
distant and unavailable persons if you have never interacted with anyone from a
culture where children are raised to be adults that are warm and close and
available?
Canadian physician William Osler wrote, “The physician who treats himself has a
fool for a patient.” That is why almost all persons require a guide to break
through the protective shield that has been set in place - a plastic,
artificial shield that is distorting the view of those persons and preventing
them from seeing reality and truth and rendering them “fools” instead.
The Guide / Forewarner will say to those who will listen, “You are putting
yourself in a position to suffer great pain and misery! You do not have a clue
that you are being deceived by what looks to be safe and interesting and
rewarding.”
“You are going to pay a very high price in the end for the few fish and shells you're receiving now!”
The Guide might offer for consideration the following: “Your history shows that you are insane. that you are attached to so-called spiritual or religious concepts that have been accepted without question and you are believing lies that will block you from seeing truth”;
or
“You missed along the way the means by which you should know early on if a relationship that you are contemplating is going to have any chance of being healthy or if it is most assuredly going to be quite unhealthy, but your fears and desires are inspiring you to ignore the facts laid out before your very eyes”;
or
“Can you not see that your history shows that you are using a “broken picker”
to select partners in business or in “personal relations?”;
or
“Can you not see that going through the existence with your head in the clouds
and being a ‘deep philosopher’ and being overly-serious and not enjoying what
the relative has to offer has rendered you an out-of-touch, boring person who
is robbing yourself and those around you of enjoyment?”;
or
“Can you not see how unstable and unpredictable you are and how maddening that
is for you and all those trying to deal with you?”;
or
“Have you not seen, in terms of almost every decision that you have made during
the relative existence, that your history reveals a deep-seated,
self-defeating, self-destructive tendency?”;
or
“Can you not see that you are imprisoned by your false beliefs, twisted views,
faulty concepts, and senseless ideas while believing that you are actually wise
and brilliant and free?”
But the typical reaction to the guide's invitation to undertake a fearless,
teacher-guided inventory and a truly thorough self-examination is not unlike
that of a petulant, rebellious teen: “What do you know? You’re the one who is
stupid!”
To come to a supposed understanding of THAT and allow the supposed
understanding to result in dissociation or in an imagined separation from the
relative existence is no understanding at all. That result is as useless as
being in touch with the AM-ness only.
The Direct Path Method and the Nisarga Yoga are about being in full contact
with the I AM as much as with the I AM THAT. When the name of an understanding literally
means “not two,” then how can anyone claiming to understand the teachings
attach to THAT only and ignore the AM-ness, seeing them as two and then
supposedly choosing only one?
Again, the understanding of the THAT-ness is 100% useless unless it is overlaid
on the AM-ness and onto all relative happenings, so the understanding is 100%
useless unless it is “applied” now (even in the absence of a belief in any “applier”).
All of that is another part of what the understanding and the Nisarga Yoga are
about.
To be continued.
Please enter into the silence of contemplation.
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For NON-DUALITY AUDIENCES
The Advanced Seekers' Series (344 pages) is an anthology of four books that share Advaita-based, non-duality pointers that can guide seekers to abide as their original nature. Included in the anthology are
"From the I to the Absolute (A Seven-Step Journey to Reality");
"Consciousness / Awareness: The Nature of Reality Beyond SELF-Realization (Peace Every Day When Abiding As the Absolute)";
"From the Absolute to the Nothingness";
and
"The Final Understanding."
from BARNES AND NOBLE by clicking here
or (sometimes less efficiently nowadays in terms of paperback delivery)
This anthology (438 pages) contains the six books that make up what has been called The Blissful Abidance Series for those seeking to live blissfully and happily for the remainder of the manifestation, including:
“What BLISS is and what BLISS is not”
“There’s No Such Thing As Peace of Mind (There’s Only Peace If You’re ‘Out of Your Mind’)”
“Liberation (Attaining Freedom from Personality via Realization)”
“Freedom from Shifting Between States of Happiness and Unhappiness”
“Why You Must Be Empty If You Would Be Full”
and
“When REALITY Is Overlaid on the RELATIVE.”
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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.
