Advaita Vedanta: NEEDLESS WORK, COUNTER-PRODUCTIVE ACCEPTANCE and THE CURSE OF HABITS

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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.”

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Body Pain vs. Mind-Induced Misery and Suffering, Part One

While the realized have no attachment to the body or to the manifested consciousness, it would be both dualistic and unnatural to desire to terminate the manifestation and be rid of the body on one hand or to want to “live to be 200, or longer” on the other hand.

Here, there are no dualistic beliefs or thoughts, so neither “I want this body” nor “I do not want this body” can arise into the now-unblocked and sanity-friendly consciousness. Living naturally, food will be eaten spontaneously and digestion will happen automatically, and that pattern will continue until it stops automatically.

Here, as far as the elemental plant food body is concerned, there is a position of neutrality because fear and desire have been eliminated via realization; therefore, there is no desire that the body last forever and no delusion that it even could;

however, having been restored to sanity as a result of realization, there is no desire to harm the body or accelerate its return to the universal pool of elements.

What of “end of life options”? Would the realized say that no one has the right to decide what to do with one's own body? Never, but some guides among the realized will say that those options should be considered in light of the facts, specifically, the facts about pain vs. misery and suffering.

As mentioned on this site in the past, pain is of the body while misery and suffering are of the “mind” (including the ideas and beliefs and distortions and concepts and emotions and false identifications / personas stored therein).

Certainly, it is understandable that . . .

a. if someone is in physical pain 24 / 7 as a result of an incurable disease and that

b. if realization has led to transition beyond any and all attachment to the body and to the consciousness

then

c. such circumstances could inspire one to want to “pull the plug” when whatever is happening with the body has become a constant source of pain that will not end as long as the consciousness remains to register the pain.

A so-called “assault” on the body in such instances can be a logical and accurate means for addressing 24 / 7, uninterrupted pain which prevents any chance for enjoying relative pleasures (a.k.a., prevents “quality of life,” as the non-Realized call it).

[NOTE: Maharaj addressed “the constant pain issue” via non-attached witnessing. That option might work for some as well.]

The possibility of endless pain without relief is why the last will and testament here states clearly that life-supporting equipment is not to be used to support “floyd's” body if it is racked with constant, incessant pain or if the body is in what is assured to be an interminable vegetative state.

Any action to sustain a body in either of those conditions would be unnatural. The deer that are dying a natural death are never “rescued” by an intervention.

But if misery and suffering are happening - instead of pain - then destroying the body and terminating the manifestation of the consciousness makes no sense at all. Such action would be non-Nisargan, would be unnatural.

So an assault on the body, when the body is the source of relentless, physical pain can be logical and reasonable and natural if it is guaranteed that no happiness and joy or bliss shall ever register again for the remainder of the manifestation.

By contrast, an assault on the body, when the “mind” is the source of relentless misery and suffering, is totally illogical and unreasonable and unnatural, for it fails to address the addressable causes that - if addressed - could end the misery and suffering and would allow happiness and joy and bliss to register for the remainder of the manifestation.

It would be tantamount to someone cutting his arm so severely that stitches would be required to close the wound, to his going to an emergency room of a hospital to have the arm wound treated, and to the doctors there sewing stitches into his leg, bandaging his leg, and sending him on his way to “bleed to death.”

If the actual source of the problem had been addressed, there would have been no reason at all for “the death.” Later, the arm would have healed and an enjoyable existence could have continued.

Therefore, it is impossible to equate an assault on the body to end intolerable, physical pain with an assault on the body to end misery and suffering.

As with the misplaced, misdirected treatment of a leg in the scenario above, persons are misguided and misdirected when they seek relief in a similarly-flawed manner instead of finding and targeting the location of “the actual problem.”

In the first case with the diseased body, the problem is incurable. The pain will not cease. In the second case, when the “mind” is dis-eased and the cause of misery and suffering, then that circumstance is curable; therefore, attacking the body or prematurely ending the manifestation of the consciousness would not be natural and would make no sense at all.

It would be unnatural, and therefore, insane, illogical, unreasonable, and unwarranted, relatively speaking.

In light of the distinction between pain on the one hand and misery and suffering on the other, consider again this comment from two young teens who were practicing “cutting” several years ago: “Life sucks. How cruel are you to try to talk us into being exposed to any more of this crap?”

The teens had every reason, considering the levels of abuse that they had suffered from their truly sick father, to feel miserable and to feel as if the pressure within was so great that cutting could provide relief. Functioning at the level of body identification only, they attacked the body rather than the actual source of their misery.

More on that example tomorrow.

To be continued.

Please enter into the silence of contemplation.

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Here, with those who are still driven to talk about "god," the "Son of god," the "Holy Spirit," "Buddha," "Krishna," etc., etc., etc., the invitation to them is to view those as verbs, not nouns.

THE EXPLANATION

If looked at as nouns, they point to illusions and are, therefore, a total waste of time to even discuss; if looked at as verbs which are resulting in certain sane but rare behaviors among humanity, then they are worthy of some attention during the relative existence.

Meaning? There are members of certain groups who say things such as "My concept of god in the past was of a weak god, an absentee god, A Santa Claus-type god, a mean, punishing, vindictive god, etc. Today, I am in close contact with a loving and caring god whom I worship and praise and glorify and give thanks to."

The reply to that usually goes like this: "If you are in contact with a god that wants to be worshipped and praised and glorified, then you're dealing with someone like yourself - a narcissist - and hanging out with narcissists will never bring an end to your narcissism (that narcissism evidenced by the fact that you think you are "godly").

Next, in the phrase 'loving and caring god,' any supposed god that truly had her or his act together would tell you that the totally irrelevant part of that phrase is 'god' and that the only part that is relevant is the "loving and caring" part.

"That is, a non-narcissistic their god / their goddess would say, "I care not an iota about being worshipped and praised and glorified by you or anyone else. How arrogant and insecure and needy would I have to be to want that? Forget the man-made, dreamed up noun 'god' and focus on the 'god as a verb' understanding and then go forth and let loving and caring be verbs - not adjectives - and let them generate the act of love and the act of caring and let those actions manifest through you."

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"

--Yeshu'a (Jesus)

and

"Heaven and earth shall fade away."

--Yeshu'a (Jesus)

and

"Heaven and hell are not geographic places

but are states of mind, nothing more than

concepts dreamed up by men."

--Pope John Paul II

"There is no hell."

--Pope Francis, the current pope

in an interview with journalist Eugenio Scalfari,

a writer used by the Pope to issue off the record

teachings which become a part of the Papal Magisterium.

[That said, would that the popes who have shown the courage to reject a core concept of their dogma - namely, "hell" - would find the additional courage required to question the very existence of their institution in light of the centuries-long cover-up of their history of raping children and in light of the mental and emotional and psychological scarring of billions of their members past and present.

And that need for courage also applies as questions need to be asked about why so many other sky cults are still being supported and allowed to continue to exist as well. When certain types of programming and conditioning have been shown to blind the masses, they should end. Will they? Not likely. Why?

Because what the masses think and say and do is most influenced by the international crime families which hold sway over the masses as criminals conduct their planet-wide operations. What are the major international crime families and which are the most influential and have the largest memberships?

The Mafia / La Cosa Nostra; the Catholic Church (with it 1.2 billion followers) whose Vatican Bank worked for decades with the Mafia while laundering mob earnings (for a 15% all-profit charge by the Bank); Protestant and Evangelical Churches (with over 1.2 billion followers) like the one I was raised in where the youth director molested and sexually assaulted young girls; big business which has long created environments in which people have been abused; powerful political bodies like the U.S. Congress, etc., etc., etc.)

With all of those crime families, neither the followers nor the leadership ever voluntarily step down or shut down their criminal activities. Be they gangs, organized crime families, religions, big business, politicians, etc., they all want control and they all want power and they all want money, and nothing internal will interfere with the driving forces at play.

The masses must demand that all those in charge must step down and their groups and institutions must shut down, and there's the real problem because the continuation of their crimes are enabled not as much by the people running such crime organizations as they are enabled by the masses of people who - wanting some perceived "payoff" - remain involved with them and give them money and support them and aid and abet the continued existence of those criminal enterprises and thus facilitate the ability of church criminals and political criminals and other types of criminals to continue to commit their crimes.]

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