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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
Why, Even After Everything Else during THE SEARCH,
“The Vision”
Was Still Required to FIND
[Continued from yesterday]
In the glossary of terms in
the back of the book “FROM THE I TO THE ABSOLUTE,” the following is offered in
regards to AS IF Living:
AS IF Living: The style of living that the realized exhibit, seemingly living
like persons but without persons’ attachments, delusions, and emotional
intoxication; the manner in which the Realized “finish out” the manifestation,
meeting “responsibilities” and providing for the space while knowing full well
that “this world” is nothing more than an imagining in the distorted
perceptions of persons;
AS IF Living: a lifestyle that is unencumbered with detachment and emotional
intoxication and belief in the lies of the culture; a lifestyle free of game
playing and image perpetuation; a lifestyle unmarred by the emotions and
emotional intoxication experienced by persons;
a lifestyle during which the realized
can witness feelings rise and fall without any emotional intoxication, without
reacting, without over-reacting, and without setting off a chain of reactions
(as happens with persons);
AS IF Living: a lifestyle free of the misery that is generated by the desires /
fears of personas.
While functioning in an “AS IF fashion,” the consciousness can register
feelings but will not register emotions and emotional intoxication (such
intoxication being limited to the domain of ego-states).
Consider: Maharaj, though abiding in an AS IF fashion, might appear to have been
emotionally-intoxicated when he threw out of his loft those who showed up as an
ego-state and who were trapped in egotism and wanted to show off their
spiritual knowledge (a.k.a., learned ignorance).
He was not emotional. That
speck of consciousness knew that an arrogance-free, ego-free environment was
required for the other visitors to receive a message about being arrogant-free
and ego-free.
So, the pointers offered here are rooted in Nisarga Yoga—the teachings which
invite persons to be rid of their belief in the fallacious
body-mind-personality triad and to then live naturally, to take it easy, to
relax, to just BE and to forget the illusion of DOING or needing to DO or the
existence and experiences of a DO-ER.
(By the way: such pointers will appear to be very strange to those who are
trying to follow a knowledge path, a worship path, an action path, or a service
path. So it is. Those paths are available for discussion elsewhere.)
What AS IF Living Looks Like
Next, AS IF living is marked
by clarity, sanity, Wisdom and True Love; therefore, it is appropriate at this
juncture in the discussion to answer three other questions that have been
raised about the way non-personal, spontaneous, AS IF functioning happens after
completing the third leg of the three-leg “journey,” after realizing fully, and
after wisdom and true Love begin to direct all that happens. It has been asked:
1. “If Maharaj was true Love, could true Love ever possibly abandon or run off
a seeker? I love my child, and no matter what the child does, I could not
abandon it.”
First, do not mistake “love” and “Love.” True Love is that which manifests when
the Oneness is known and understood, unwaveringly. It is pure and unadulterated
and exists in only one form, so it is REAL.
As for “love,” it is not REAL,
not eternal, appearing in so many diverse forms that seldom will any two people
really be discussing the same thing when they talk of “love.”
That which is not real Love always involves an object; real Love has no object,
for to have an object is to have a subject, and to have a subject and object is
duality.
That which is not real Love can take a variety of forms: self-love; selfish,
self-serving love; prurient or eros love; philia (brotherly) or storge
(friendship) love; agape love;
pragma love (where a person - coldly - pursues a relationship for “practical” or financial reasons, for personal gain); banquet love; passionate love; compassionate love; ludus love (where the deal is about playing games and not wanting to really develop a relationship);
or manic, obsessive love that
can be intense and intimate and fast-paced but will also eventually expose the
possessive and jealous nature of the manic one.(And it is such possessiveness
and jealousy, combined with obsessive and compulsive personality traits, that
often lead to acts of domestic violence.)
Next, with so many versions of “love” out there, consider the confusion among
the masses when a man tells a woman, “I love you.”
Ah, such excitement, such
emotional intoxication, but what if the speaker is (maybe even unconsciously)
speaking of ludus love but the woman thinks she is hearing an expression of
whatever she takes “real love” to be?
With non-realized persons speaking about “love” when there are so many versions
out there, consider how prevalent the possibility of misunderstanding; then,
understand also why many will hear at some point: “I never loved you” or “You
have never loved me.”
It was asked once, “Isn't it
unbelievable that the divorce rate here is now in the fifty to sixty percent
range?” The reply: “Yes. I would have guessed it would be much higher.”
So when you equate your agape love for a child with the essence of Maharaj,
namely, True Love (as well as Wisdom), then you are comparing apples and oranges.
Neither Maharaj nor I have ever abandoned a seeker or run off a seeker (though
some will tell you otherwise after the work with them came to a halt here).
The work with any given seeker
will come to an end when (a) the seeker becomes interested in another teaching
method or yoga; when (b) a seeker driven by personality and egotism would
interrupt the opportunity for other seekers to receive pointers;
when (c) a seeker makes clear that the readiness is not present; when (d) a
seeker continuously takes comments personally rather than considering pointers
or suggestions objectively; when (e) the seeker continues to cling to the
notion that he / she understands more than the teacher;
or when (f) the seeker “fires”
the teacher (always as a result of being driven by the fears and desires of
personalities that preempt any chance for one to Realize and then have the
ability to choose rather than to be blindly driven by ego and ego-states).
For Maharaj to demand that a person leave the loft was not to abandon that
person - the person not being real at all; instead, true Love was on display as
the purity of the environment was being guarded and preserved for the other
seekers that were present.
2. “If the realized are true Love, how could Love call people 'stupid' and
'insane'? Doesn't sound too loving to me.”
Understand that no “one” is being called anything. When personality is being
discussed with seekers, and they become offended when they begin to see their “liabilities”
or “weaknesses” or “defects,” the point is made that no one is talking about
Them, about their True Selves. What is being discussed are all of the “not-thems,”
all of their false personas.
And it is the “not-thems” - their false personas - that generate insane
thoughts and words and stupid actions.
Understand also that neither wisdom nor true Love are personal; therefore,
neither can have an agenda, for agendas exist only in the domain of
personality; know that neither can fail to be objective; and understand that
neither can like or dislike.
Any seeker who has been offended, either there with Maharaj in Bombay / Mumbai
or here, has misperceived the pointers or suggestions being offered or the
actual “intention” behind the pointers or suggestions, for neither wisdom nor true
Love can be non-objective.
With wisdom and true Love behind every pointer offered, either
(A) clarity will be affirmed,
or
(B) distorted perceptions and false beliefs and erroneous concepts and
delusional conclusions will be challenged
(much to the chagrin of whatever personas, or would-be personas, are driving
one's thoughts and words and actions and attitudes).
3. “Wouldn't true Love cause all of the realized to share what they understand?”
No. Many remain silent, but even those that share remain in the silence much of
each day as well. Yet understand this point about AS IF living:
Post-realization, and post-completion of the third leg of the three-leg “journey,”
there is no one left to “teach” or “to share.” More accurately, un-teaching) or
sharing can happen, but they will happen without any notion of there being “A
Teacher” or “An Un-Teacher” or “A Sharer.”
The understanding is applied without any belief in “An Applier”; the experience
of full realization happens and, in the process, ends belief in “An
Experiencer.”
The same applies in every facet of the relative existence where reality is
overlaid on reality, where Awareness is overlaid on consciousness, and where
the Absolute understanding eliminates any further lack of clarity regarding
relative happenings.
Then, “wifing” can happen even in the absence of “A Wife”; “husbanding” can
happen even in the absence of “The Husband”; and Loving can happen even in the
absence of “The lover” or “The Lover.”
That, too, is what AS IF living looks like.
To be continued.
Please enter into the silence of contemplation.
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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.”
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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.
