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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
What the Direct Path and the Nisarga Yoga Are About
To be free of attachment to the AM-ness is not to be free of the basic responsibilities of the AM-ness: providing food, clothing, shelter, etc. The invitation here with Nisarga Yoga is not to live aloofly, loftily, philosophically, apathetically, unconcernedly, or distantly.
The invitation is to live
naturally instead. Non-attachment does not require detachment. [You may use the
search feature to find other discussions on this site that distinguish between
those two.]
The deer, not humans, are the model: deer do not become frustrated, then eat
fermented berries to “escape” their frustrations by becoming “high” and killing
brain cells, then race down a path through the woods, then miss a curve, and
then run headlong into a tree and kill themselves;
spontaneously, both mundane and not-mundane events happen: they find shelter at night or in the heat of the day; they forage for food; they care for their offspring; they enjoy sex;
they procreate; however, what they do not do is become so tired of their mundane tasks that they commit suicide and miss out on the fun of relating to a mate;
of playing with their offspring;
of having sex; of finding an especially tasty plant to eat in order to break
the monotony of a grass-only diet.
What the Direct Path and Nisarga Yoga are about, ultimately, is
shifting to a position of neutrality around all things and then abiding
naturally, as do all other life-forms except humans.
That does not mean you will
not care about anything, for not-caring is one extreme while excessive caring
is the other extreme. That would still involve dualities. The deal is to avoid
developing or sustaining any attachment to any dualistic, extreme beliefs:
“I am not going to clean and straighten my room. It all means nothing.” That is
a pro-dirty stance, not a position of neutrality; or, “I am not going to enter
into the corporate world and work for those non-realized people” does not
evidence a position of neutrality;
it evidences an anti-work,
anti-non-realized people stance. A position of neutrality combined with a
Nisarga style of living preempts any and all self-defeating, self-destructive behaviors.
If the position of neutrality manifests and becomes fixed as one's new modus
operandi, then what might have been a sandpaper approach with persons in the
past can become a very soft and tranquil and relaxed movement when dealing with
any type of person.
Any prior disposition toward
conflict gives way to witnessing rather than engagement. With the exception of
those addicted to control and chaos, or those who are unstable or suffering
from severe mental and emotional disorders, the potential of moving through the
relative existence in a calm and easy and stable and steady manner will be
appealing.
So the invitation is:
a. to overlay Reality on the relative;
b. to use the understanding of THAT to enhance the enjoyment of the “this,” the
Am-ness; and
c. to keep your head in the clouds for the time that you are moving along the “path”
if you like but to eventually remove your head from the clouds and plant your
feet firmly on the ground.
Since realization here, some might say that “floyd's” relative existence has
been marked by certain delights and marred by certain most unpleasant
happenings.
The actual fact is that the relative existence here has simply been a series of random events and happenings that are of the type that always have, and always will, mark the relative existence.
During the last thirty-three
years here since realization, there have been thousands of happenings. As with
certain meals where some taste better than others, so it is with the happenings
here:
there was the house that was taken away, precipitating a relocation into a
small condo; then years later there was a movement into the house now occupied;
there was an expectation that Real Love was going to be known and shared for
the entirety of the relative existence, but that was not the case;
yet an unwavering sense of
Oneness and Real Love remain; there have been a child's accomplishments and a
child's setbacks and now more accomplishments by the child as a young adult;
there have been moments of quiet at the lakeside or respites passed after
anchoring a boat in a quite cove, and there have been periods of activity and
work interspersed with periods of play.
At times, neither work nor play happened, times when nothing happened other
than the witnessing of the solitude and the silence; there have been many who
have come here to seek and a few that have actually found that which they had
been seeking for most of their lives.
But in the end, it has all been nirvana as far as this speck is concerned:
there have been numerous occasions of vacation nirvana and more occasions of
stay-at-home nirvana; of fine dining nirvana and eating-something-bland
nirvana; of beautiful scenery nirvana and not-so-beautiful scenery nirvana; of
delightfully-temperate days nirvana; of cold days nirvana; of hot days nirvana;
of
finally-having-the-opportunity-to-meet-certain-Advaitins-who-have-been-known-for-years
nirvana and feeling at One with those not met nirvana; of
the-ability-to-decline-offers-of-pleasure nirvana and
the-ability-to-accept-pleasure nirvana ...
. . . especially when pleasure is offered not only with love but also with a
sense of Oneness and an understanding of Real Love so that the pain part of the
pleasure-pain combo so typical among the non-realized does not manifest;
there have been instances of facing-economic-setbacks nirvana; of economic
victories nirvana; of facing medical issues nirvana; of
feeling-wonderful-on-certain-days nirvana and
not-feeling-so-wonderful-on-other-days nirvana.
And it was all either “delighted in” or “endured” just as it was - without
judgment or opinion or angst or a triggering of emotional intoxication or
reaction; it has all been seen for the way it is, all merely witnessed from a
platform of neutrality.
Where the “extremes” cited above might appear to be dualities, overlaying
nirvana on it all negates any chance for dualities to manifest. With no “one”
to have thoughts or to make words or to do actions, wherefore any dualities?
THAT is what the Direct Path and Nisarga Yoga are about, and none of
that has anything to do with “putting a spin” on what is “bad” and mentally
warping that into the opposite with the “It's-all-good!”-BS statement that some
use to deny what is really happening or to deny the way that they actually
feel.
No, the nirvana flavoring manifested because, here, there was no “one” to
experience anything or to desire anything that would be to the contrary of
whatever has happened; whatever has happened, post-realization, has always
simply been witnessed.
Seek bird nests on the bottom of the sea before seeking to wish into existence
something other than whatever has happened the way it happened.
But no “one”? Exactly. No “one.” Here, instead, there has only been that
specialized energy that manifests for a time as pure witnessing; fixated there,
all that the relative has tossed this way for more than two decades has been
witnessed, felt, registered, sometimes processed, and sometimes not.
Yes, feelings have most assuredly been felt, but emotions have not been emoted.
Hurts have registered but they have not resulted in any reactionary thoughts or
words or deeds. Joys have registered as well. So it is.
THAT is what Direct Path realization and Nisarga Yoga are about:
1. peace
2. freedom from identities that would interrupt that peace
3. natural living
4. sane living
5. stable living
6. reasonable living
7. logical living
and
8. enjoyable living.
In the end, THAT is not about THAT at all. It is all about “this,” right NOW,
because later, THAT Which Is will not even be known to be.
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."
teachings which become a part of the Papal Magisterium.
If you prefer PAPERBACK copies
(collected in two anthologies).
Links for ordering are below with
BARNES and NOBLE presently providing better service
than AMAZON
when it come to fulfilling orders for
paperback and hardcover books
as opposed to delivering digital books.
[NOTE: Wherever you live, you can search for the books below by title with booksellers in your country. With 40,000+ retailers distributing my paperback books, you may order from U.S. stores or you may find someone nearer to you.]
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.”
Order a PAPERBACK copy of The Blissful Abidance Series
from Amazon by clicking here.
SEND A GIFT BOOK TO SOMEONE
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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.
