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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
Body Pain vs. Mind-Induced Misery and Suffering, PartTwo
Yesterday’s post ended with this:
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.
The reason they are happy or contented and free today is because they found
that their problem was rooted in the “mind” and not in the body; thereafter,
they addressed (with professional guidance) the real and treatable cause of
their misery and suffering.
Once their line of attack turned from the body to the “mind,” relief began to
manifest, but (as happened with those two) identification with the body can set
the stage for persons who are suffering mentally and / or emotionally to strike
out at the body rather than to seek treatment for the contaminated “mind.”
That phenomenon is explained this way in the book “FROM THE I TO THE ABSOLUTE”
in a passage which addresses the body-identification / attack-the-body
connection that is rooted in misperception and misunderstanding:
Body identification can be chaotic and even fatal. Here's how: I once had a dog
that, when it saw its reflection in a mirror, would go ballistic. He fought
with that false self, biting at the mirror and trying to destroy himself / his
own reflection.
In humans identified with their bodies, the deep-seated need to destroy the ego
and false roles and to be true to Self is a subconscious, driving force that
leads to self-destructive behavior or even suicidal assaults against the
physical body.
If I am my body and I am having overwhelming problems,
then the way to be rid of those is to be rid of the body, so the unconscious,
fallacious reasoning goes.
So, hopeless and endless body pain? Go for the body if you like.
Misery and suffering? It only makes sense to go for the “mind,” to address the
faulty content of the “mind” that prevents persons from seeing what really ails
them ... to find and treat the actual source of one's misery and suffering.
The love of the body or the love of the content of the “mind” or the love of
any false identities will eventually lead to hate . v. . hating the relative
existence, hating “others” whose beliefs do not align with one's own beliefs,
and hating anyone who seems to be threatening one's false identities and / or
interfering with the hidden agendas of those false personalities.
By contrast, freedom from love of the body and the “mind” and false
identifications allows for an objective look at the actual source of one's
misery and suffering.
Of that, Maharaj said, “ . . . first, your attitude to suffering must change.
Suffering is primarily a call for attention, which itself is a movement of
Love.”
One's love of the false self / selves will eventually turn to disgust if the
lack of authenticity registers, if living the lie grows old. Love of Self and
of All is an entirely different matter.
To understand the authentic is to understand the Oneness, and to know the
Oneness is to know Love, and to know Love is to automatically and spontaneously
find and root out the source of suffering - first in oneself and then in all
who seek as well. In only the most limited way can Love try to address pain,
yet Love would eliminate the causes of misery and suffering.
Love, True Love, hears the call of the miserable and those suffering and knows
that suffering is primarily a call for attention . . . but attention to the
cause(s) of misery and suffering.
Suffering is not a call to “die”; suffering is a call to heal, be the suffering
your own or that of “others.” Here, the teacher suffered, determined to find
the actual source or cause(s) of suffering, found the cause, eliminated the
cause, and then become willing to share the solution with any that seek the “Ultimate Resolution”?
Is your body in 24 / 7 pain? That's one thing. Are you miserable and suffering?
That is a totally different “issue.” In the case of the latter, focus on the “mind,”
knowing that the misery-producing-contaminants therein can be eliminated
painlessly and non-violently, with assistance.
One need not destroy the entire brain to address the suffering that is rooted
in the information-storage-and-retrieval part of the brain (a.k.a., “the mind”).
As the title of one book available here points out, “THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS
'PEACE OF MIND' (There's Only Peace If You Are Out of Your Mind).”
The examples shared earlier are but a few of the many
instances seen over the last 22 years of persons having been driven so insane
that they either (a) assault their own bodies or (b) destroy their own bodies
in order to bring a miserable manifestation to an end in their misdirected
effort to address what is really just a “mind problem” that has nothing to do
with the body at all.
Sudhakar S. Dikshit put it this way: “The teacher does not evaluate; his sole
concern is with ‘suffering and the ending of suffering’. He knows from his
personal and abiding experience that the roots of sorrow are in the mind and it
is the mind that must be freed from its distorting and destructive habits.”
“Of these, the identification of the self with its
projections is most fatal. By precept and example Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
shows a short-cut, a logical but empirically sound. It operates, when
understood.”
Consider each of the main points thoroughly:
a. these teachings are about the ending of suffering;
b. the roots of suffering are in the mind;
c. for a person to be free, the mind must be freed of its habit of
distorting;
d. for a person to be free, the mind must be freed of its destructive habits;
and
e. to identity with the false self / selves can be fatal.
To be continued.
Please enter into the silence of contemplation.
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when it come to fulfilling orders for
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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.
