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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
The Three Legs of “The Journey,” Part Three
(continued)
“While
'power' is just a concept too, there are those who would prefer that you be
powerless throughout the relative, the better for them to be able to control
your thoughts and words and actions.
“The tools available to you - including witnessing and Pure Witnessing - can
help prevent your giving them that power. You can stop allowing 'others' and'
'the world' and places and things and people to have the power or influence to
determine how you feel.
“Next, the difference in love and Real Love was discussed. It was seen that the
I AM matters as much as the I AM THAT in Advaita's summative statement, so the
relative does matter;
“in fact, for NOW it is the only thing that matters, for when THAT (the
Absolute) is returned to, eventually, there will be no 'one' to know the
presence there.
“It was seen that as far as what matters NOW - namely, the relative existence -
that words are significant and that words are either words of Love (based in an
awareness of the Oneness) or they are words of fear, which can trigger any of
the subsets of fear: jealousy, anger, depression, etc.
“When that happens, words become vile and generate a sense of separation rather
than a sense of the Oneness and Love, and only a sense of Love will end your
depression or your roller-coaster shifts in moods.
“You were invited to get off the hectic roller coaster and to ride the smooth
ride on a train which moves along its steady, even tracks; you saw that boredom
is what can lead to a desire to get back on the roller-coaster and to generate
chaos in yourself and those around you.
“You are, from now on, going to be conscious of the words you use and are going
to begin shifting to (a) words of Love only or (b) you will otherwise stay in
the peace and silence if words of Love are not forthcoming at any given moment.
“It was seen that generational chains of acculturation can be broken in one
instant when a single seeker shifts to knowing the Oneness, to understanding
Love, to showing Love, and then not settling for just a show of Love (which can
include hugging) but including an overt, verbal expression of Love as well.
“It was shown that the non-dual guide that comes to the seeker comes in Love,
wanting nothing other than a chance to assist in bringing suffering to an end.
“You were invited to log the instances in the next week that mark a shift to
Love, to focusing on being free of the content of the “mind,” and to ignoring
the body.
“It was seen that suffering is not a call for drastic action but is a call for
attention. It was seen that focusing attention on the source of the suffering -
be the re-focusing guided by a respected relative and / or a guide and / or a
professional counselor - can help fixate the shift to a state of happiness or
contentedness.
“It was seen that identifying with 'THAT philosophical whatever' is useless and
that the understanding means nothing unless it is applied in the relative. We
saw that THAT means nothing except to the degree that it can impact the
relative in a safe and sane and sound manner.”
As the consideration is offered here that it the AM-ness that is to be impacted via the “journey,” consider the way that Malte in Germany answered this question as he is taking the online Advaita classes:
Assignment: Discuss this quote in terms of the non-dual understanding:
“Regarding one character in a Michael Connelly novel: “He was long past believing in God - the horrors he had seen documented had little by little sapped his stores of faith . . . .
“And in those seemingly final days, as his own heart withered and tapped out its final cadences, he did not grasp desperately for his lost faith as a shield or a means of easing the fear of the unknown. Instead, he was accepting of the end, of his own nothingness. He was ready. It was easy to do.”
Malte wrote: “The character of the novel obviously has identified himself with the supernatural “Religious Personality” for some time of his life. There was a time when he believed all the lies about a God who´s managing everything for “the Good of All”. But then he saw the facts about what harm religion has done to humankind and realized that what he believed in was all BS. So now, as the time of death is near, it´s easy for him to let go because he knows that he doesn´t have to be afraid, for it has been religion which made him see a snake where there´s only a rope. He knows nothing will be left of him when he dies. This is Peace.
“If non-duality is understood, then one can become aware of the fact that one doesn´t have to wait until one dies to live in the state of nothingness and peace. One can as well die now (the death of the self) to abide for the rest of the manifestation without any concepts and to live naturally / spontaneously.”
See? It's about finding the manner that allows for the abidance to happen fearlessly and sanely and logically and peacefully and naturally and spontaneously . . . NOW.
The Thought-Word-Deed Roots of Duality and Insanity
Earlier,
this was noted:
“It was seen that as far as what matters NOW - namely, the relative existence -
that words are significant and that words are either words of Love (based in an
awareness of the Oneness) or they are words of fear, which can trigger any of
the subsets of fear: jealousy, anger, depression, etc.
“When that happens, words become vile and generate a sense of separation rather
than a sense of the Oneness and Love, and only a sense of Love will end your
depression or your roller-coaster shifts in moods.
“It was seen that generational chains of acculturation can be broken in one
instant when one seeker shifts to knowing the Oneness, to understanding Love,
to showing Love, and then not settling for just a show of Love (which can
include hugging) but including as well an overt, verbal expression of Love as
well.”
Decades
of this relative existence have provided an opportunity to witness, both in a
Subject-Object fashion and in a Pure Witnessing fashion; so yes, there have
been people observed who said that they will use any words they like and anyone
not liking whatever they have to say “can go to hell.”
Further witnessing eventually revealed that those persons who made that claim
were full-blown sociopaths. Others along the “journey” have taken that stance
temporarily as they identified with THAT solely,
(which
is just another false identification which will drive persons - even earnest
seekers - to draw erroneous conclusions about what the teachings imply and what
the teachings do not imply.”
One conclusion drawn by those types is that “nothing relative matters so I can
talk to people any way I like. Who cares?” Maharaj cautioned against such as
attitude that leads to the careless use of words.
To
the contrary, the full understanding brings with it an understanding of the
Oneness and Real Love. Never has full realization resulted in one becoming a
sociopath; never has it resulted in not caring about those suffering; and never
has it inspired anyone to add to anyone's suffering by hurling vile words of
hate or contempt or anger at them.
Thus, a discussion of words is as suitable a subject as any to make clear the
fact that realization does not negate the relative . . . it clarifies it, it
brightens it, it colors it beautifully. And that is natural.
The
significance of words, relatively speaking, is that they are the second of two
factors that contribute to all actions. First, there is a thought; then, the
thought is expressed with words; only then does an action take place.
Thought-to-word-to-deed is the continuum that leads to every action that
persons take.
This explanation was offered in the past:
Because thoughts (the content of the mind) control words and because words—in
turn—control deeds, then the words used during the relative existence exert
tremendous influence over behavior among non-realized persons.
For
example, certain racist men living in Jasper, Texas in the late 1990's were
members of a white supremacist group, all of whom had the thought that they
were better than non-whites. They often verbalized their belief, speaking words
of hatred and arrogance.
Eventually, their deed followed: three of those men kidnapped a black man,
James Byrd, Jr., and would take him to an isolated area nearby. There, they
beat him, chained him to a pickup truck, and dragged him behind the vehicle for
two miles. In the process of killing him in that manner, they tore off his
head, his neck and his right arm.
THEIR THOUGHT: Whites are better than blacks.
THEIR WORDS: “We are better than black people. They are inferior to us.”
THEIR DEED: The murder of a black man.
All deeds are directly preceded by words, and all words are preceded by
thoughts. Is it any wonder that Maharaj cautioned against the careless use of
language?
In the U.S. and around the globe, the careless use of language has become the favorite pastime of those driven by what Maharaj called three of the most common symptoms of the Ultimate Sickness, namely “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity.”
To be continued.
Please enter into the silence of contemplation.
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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");
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"From the Absolute to the Nothingness";
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"No one shall ever see 'the kingdom of heaven.' It is within"
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"Heaven and earth shall fade away."
and
"Heaven and hell are not geographic places
"There is no hell."
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