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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
Preventing the Nisarga Yoga from Generating More Insanity Rather than Eliminating All Insanity
A while back, a friend was suffering from an infection that required antibiotics. As is always the case, a shift from feeling as if one is “at death's door” to feeling “quite normal” happened within 48 hours of beginning the antibiotic regimen.
Most
antibiotics must be used for a specific period of time, often between 6 and 10
days, but if one begins to feel better and therefore does not complete the
entire regimen, there is the likelihood that the infection can re-manifest,
that all of the miserable symptoms can return, and that suffering and even
death can eventually follow.
Similarly, there are four steps on the “path” that seekers here are invited to
complete initially, and to complete only part of the regimen can result in one
being (A) at least as sick as one was before seeking treatment for the Ultimate
Sickness, and, sometimes, (B) even worse.
So
to continue with the earlier pointer that “a little un-learning can be a
dangerous thing” as far as the non-duality understanding is concerned, please
review these questions shared earlier that have been asked in the past when
some seekers only grasped a small part of what non-duality has to offer and who
seemingly grasped nothing of what Nisarga Yoga has to offer:
“Once realized, why even go on living? What would it matter if I kill myself?”
Or, “If I shoot myself, I'd just be releasing a speck of conscious energy and
allowing the air to return to the pool of air and the elements to return to the
universal pool of elements?”
Or, as two young teens who were practicing “cutting” put it to Me years ago: “Life
sucks. How cruel are you to try to talk us into being exposed to any more of
this crap?” Both are now, years later, quite happy young women.
The questions above can be asked when one is exposed to the teachings only via
any of the basic teaching methods but without accompanying those teachings with
the clarifying Nisarga (natural) Yoga.
Of that yoga, Maharaj disciple Maurice Frydman said:
“The Nisarga Yoga, the ‘natural’ Yoga of Maharaj, is disconcertingly simple:
the mind, which is all-becoming, must recognise and penetrate its own being,
not as being this or that, here or there, then or now, but just as timeless
being.
The Nisarga Yoga, when persevered in and brought to its fruition, results in
one becoming conscious and active in what one always was [active in]
unconsciously and passively.
There
is no difference in kind - only in manner - the difference between a lump of
gold and a glorious ornament shaped out of it. Life goes on, but it is
spontaneous and free . . . and happy.”
For example, if prior to the seeker persevering in and bringing the Nisarga
Yoga understanding to its fruition, what if that seeker was not happily engaged
in the activities of “The Student”?
After the Nisarga understanding has been
grasped, then “studenting” can continue, actively, but it will happen from a
state of being totally awake, totally conscious, and totally aware as well as being
in touch with the beingness;
but that will happen without any erroneous belief about “being this” or “being
that” (because such assuming of any persona as an identity will generate fear
and desire and the use of ego-defense mechanisms to try to sustain a mirage and
make it appear to be real.)
From
that no-identity, no-persona, no-passivity-driven (but fully conscious and
aware) platform, non-attached witnessing can happen so that “studenting”
happily can also happen.
Or if prior to the seeker persevering in and bringing the Nisarga Yoga
understanding to its fruition, what if that seeker was not happily engaged in
the activities of “The Husband”?
After
the Nisarga understanding has been grasped, then “husbanding” can continue,
actively, but it will happen from a state of being totally awake, totally
conscious, and totally aware as well as being in touch with the beingness;
but that will happen without any erroneous belief about “being this” or “being
that” (because such assuming of any persona as an identity will generate fear
and desire and the use of ego-defense mechanisms to try to sustain a mirage and
make it appear to be real.)
From that no-identity, no-persona,
no-passivity-driven (but fully conscious and aware) platform, non-attached witnessing
can happen so that “husbanding” happily can also happen.
The same applies in cases of “The Wife” vs. “wifing”; “The Employee” vs. “employmenting”;
“The Lover” vs. “Loving”; etc.
When the understanding is fully understood, and when the Nisarga Yoga is fully
understood, then the remainder of the relative existence is characterized by
being conscious rather than unconscious;
being
aware rather than being unaware; being active when called for rather than being
passive; being willing to allow life to go on rather than wanting to escape
life; and being spontaneous and free and happy rather than the opposite of each
of those;
furthermore, the difference in “relishing the solitude” vs. “seeking to isolate”
is understood; the difference in “being in the quiet at times but taking
actions required to sustain the consciousness at times” vs. “always being
passive and being inactive” is understood;
“allowing
life to go on” vs. “thinking that life should not go on” is understood; and the
difference in “being spontaneous and free and happy” vs. “being rigid and
inflexible and imprisoned by the content of the 'mind' and thus being unhappy”
is understood.
Additionally, when the Nisarga Yoga is understood, the abidance is marked by
natural living, not unnatural living and not supernatural living.
Approach a
bird sitting on a limb in a tree. At some point, when the bird senses that you
are going to continue to move even closer, it will fly away. Has the bird been
taught such concepts as “people are dangerous” or “all humans are killers,” or “their
kind are to be avoided”?
No. What is natural about the manifested consciousness is its unwavering drive
to survive ... to continue. So strong is that desire that persons over the last
several thousand years have given away large percentages of their hard-earned
money to preachers, teachers, priests, rabbis, imams, ayatollahs and others who
claim that they can show their gullible followers the way to have “life eternal”
and “eternal continuity of body and mind and personality.”
Persons have become so warped as a result of that process of programming and
conditioning that they are willing to transition beyond the natural tendency of
the consciousness to extend its manifestation and will instead voluntarily end
the manifestation in an effort to kill members of other religions in order to,
supposedly, assure their own eternal continuity . . . with perks (a.k.a., “reward”
vs. “punishment”).
That self-destructive behavior marks a shift from what is natural to what is
most unnatural and to what is based in the supernatural . . . in religious or
spiritual thinking that ends any chance at finishing out the entire
manifestation in a totally natural manner.
With
an understanding of some of the teachings, but no understanding of the Nisarga
Yoga, then persons can - and, most often, will - shift to unnatural and
supernatural thinking which drive unnatural and supernatural words which, in
turn, drive unnatural and supernaturally-based actions.
Why? Because the now bogus and warped content of the “mind” has resulted in an
end to the original type of mind and in the abandonment of its original
function of (a) inspiring the automatic, natural drive for the manifestation to
be extended while (b) also assisting in the perpetuation of the species.
Now,
instead, the “mind” drives self-destructive thoughts and words and deeds. Add
to that aberration a little un-learning and suddenly persons are coming up with
supposedly-cerebral but actually nonsensical and unnatural questions such as:
“Once realized, why even go on living? What would it matter if I kill myself?”
Or, “If I shoot myself, I'd just be releasing a speck of conscious energy and
allowing the air to return to the pool of air and the elements to return to the
universal pool of elements?”
Or, as two young teens who were practicing “cutting” put it to Me years ago: “Life
sucks. How cruel are you to try to talk us into being exposed to any more of
this crap?”
Here, there is no invitation for people to continue to be exposed to “crap”;
the invitation here is to see that it matters not if one has been offered the
non-duality teachings via the Direct Path Method, the Traditional Method, the
Neo-Advaita Method, the Neo-Vedanta Method, the Pseudo Method, or any of the
other spin-offs and variations.
Those methods provide only part of the regimen to treat the Ultimate Sickness,
and, nowadays, the consciousness has been so thoroughly blocked that the
teachings alone cannot provide the entire cure for the Illness of Humanity.
No
matter which of those vessels night be used to administer the Ultimate
Medicine, they cannot provide the Ultimate Filtration - the Final and Ultimate
Purification - which is required to undo the ill effects of programming and
conditioning and domestication and acculturation and indoctrination and brainwashing unnatural thinking and
supernatural thinking.
Moreover, the invitation here is to realize fully and abide naturally - rather
than unnaturally or supernaturally - and then to enjoy a crap-free existence.
Oh yes, the relative existence - like the temporarily manifested consciousness
which makes it possible - will be ever-in-motion, dualistically tossing one's
way some events that are considered “good” sometimes and other events that are
considered “bad” sometimes.
But to realize and to abide naturally is to allow
impartial, authentic, pure witnessing to happen rather than to allow emotional
intoxication to drive one's behavior in unnatural and insane and destructive
ways.
Here, the invitation is to see that programming, conditioning, acculturation, domestication, brainwashing, and indoctrination have robbed humans of the ability to know the non-dual,
no-identity, no-concept presence; to see they have robbed humans of the ability
to live naturally;
to see they have robbed persons of the ability to use a mind for self-preservation and replaced that with a fiction-filled “mind” that is bent on self-destruction and destruction of “others”; to see they have robbed humans of an ability to be free of the concepts of “individualization” and “the personal”;
to
see they have robbed persons of the ability to sense the Oneness and to know
Love; to see they have robbed persons of the ability to live spontaneously and
freely and happily;
and to see that they now drive persons to behave in unnatural and supernatural
ways that do a considerable disservice to the masses in general, relative
speaking, driving them in many cases to unnaturally desire to bring a miserable
manifestation to an end
(rather than allowing them to find the means by which the manifestation can continue for a longer period while affording opportunities for being free and, therefore, happy or at least content).
To be continued.
Please enter in to 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."
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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”
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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.
