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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 “Advantages” of the Nisarga Yoga
Earlier, the point was offered that few set out on a literal journey without knowing an exact destination; yet that is exactly what happens far too often when persons enter into a “religious” or “spiritual” or “ideological” or “philosophical journey.
Some travel a religious “path” because their parents did so. They did not even choose to do so, but they now blindly walk someone else's “path” that they were set on. Their destination?
Among some religions, eternal
life, rewards now, eternal reward, and the avoidance of eternal punishment. Add
in the promised benefit of “power now” with most of those.
Among others, the details of a movement through a series of lives to reach an
ultimate, eternal reward is taught. Even others present their own ideas about
what is to be gained by following their dogma and adhering to their principles.
Among most: benefits, gain, more, power.
Shared with some who join spiritual programs are twelve basic promises in a
list read daily. More than one-hundred-and-twenty other benefits are promised
throughout their literature. Benefits, gain, more, power.
Scores and scores of promises
are promised to those whose penchant for excess and for more of everything got
them into their programs to begin with. Now, they are offered far more promises
than are offered by any other religions or philosophies.
Among non-dual seekers, the various methods of teaching offer a variety of “benefits”
or “gains,” including the acquisition of even more knowledge; the invitation to
dream and succeed and acquire more beliefs; the promise of power;
the encouragement to think more; the invitation to “create your own reality”;
and, generally, to gain, to know, to seek forever (or to not seek at all) and
to believe naively that the ill effects of programming and conditioning and
acculturation and domestication can be undone by merely saying it is so.
The Direct Path is a process of de-accumulating, not gaining more or getting
more; yet it alone does not provide all that is required if the Ultimate
Sickness is to be addressed.
Also earlier, this was offered and is relevant here:
Any of the four or more methods of teaching Advaita or Vedanta or Advaita
Vedanta can remove some of the larger contaminants that block the
consciousness, but a “fine-filtering sieve” is still required to provide the
total treatment for the Ultimate Sickness.
Here, that additional implement that is employed to offer total purification
and absolute cleansing and full filtration and ultimate distillation and
unreserved decontamination and full-blown sanitation and complete refinement is
. . . the Nisarga Yoga.
The point was offered earlier
that here, an additional implement [in additional to the non-dual teachings] is
employed to offer total purification and absolute cleansing and full filtration
and ultimate distillation and unreserved decontamination and full-blown
sanitation and complete refinement.
That tool is the Nisarga Yoga.
This is not to disparage any other teaching methods or other types of yoga but
is to affirm what has been observed over the decades when so many teachings
inspire seekers to adopt the goal of gaining something - especially something
supernatural and other-worldly and supreme - rather than finding the way to abide
naturally and peacefully and sanely during the relative existence, NOW.
First, there is no “later,” so all religions and spiritual programs and
philosophies that dangle a carrot about something that will assuredly be
available to their followers “later” is claptrap, hogwash, rubbish, and
nonsense.
Also nonsensical is the adoption of any role, be it one labeled by a culture as
a “good one” or thought to be a role that shows one is “better” or a role that
supposedly shows one is “better than” (which is the very food on which false
egos and egotism feed).
Next, of all the teaching methods and all the types of yoga available, there is
no other that unwaveringly discourages “following forever,” that discourages “devotion
forever,” that discourages “regular meeting attendance” . . . .
that discourages “making
lifetime contributions to,” that discourages “adhering to principles,” that
discourages “studying supposedly 'holy' writings,” that discourages “paying
homage to,” that discourages “aspiring to,” that discourages “being dependent
on,” that discourages “believing promises promised,” or that discourages “gaining
and / or accumulating.”
As first noted here in 2005 and repeated regularly since:
The Direct Path, specifically when offering the Nisarga approach as a system of
yoga, requires no leader, no holy book (so no book studies), no candles, no
bells, no special land, no special buildings,
no gold-plated accessories, no dogma, no rules, no regulations, no songs or creeds
to memorize, no smoke, no collection of money, no special water, no special
crystals, no special robes, no chanting in unison, no boards, no directors, no
officers, no far-away god or gods micro-managing events in this world,
no prayers and petitions, no anything. Meetings with an Advaita teacher take a
matter of days, not a lifetime. (Maharaj allowed most visitors to stay for less
than two weeks, providing pointers and then sending them away to go into the
silence and to contemplate those points.) Yet less, rather than more, has
little appeal after the acculturation process results in persons who desire
more.
Here - by contrast - while involved in a twenty-five-month “forest dweller”
stage, deer were seen most mornings as they grazed peacefully. When disturbed
by a noise, they merely moved to the next clearing, looked about cautiously,
and then returned to their peaceful mode of functioning.
Not once did they have to perform some ritual in order to return to the
peaceful state or in order to dwell in that (their natural) state. It has been
noted previously that the Nisarga Yoga offers pointers that point toward the
Absolute Reality but that are actually adumbrations of the Original
Understanding.
That Original Understanding preceded “minds,” so it obviously preceded “thoughts.”
It also preceded words and bells and holy smoke. It was understood even prior
to belief in any religious concepts and before the use of spiritual
accoutrements. The Original Understanding was prior to roles and, thus, prior
to assumption of roles as identities.
The Original Understanding was the intuitive, no-thought, pre-”mind,”
no-awareness-that-anything-is-understood-means by which functioning happened
spontaneously and by which all plant-food-bodies-cum-consciousness dwelled in
the natural, mindless state.
The Direct Path and the Nisarga Yoga system offer pointers that are intended to
guide seekers back to an understanding of their original nature, after which
they can abide naturally with their feet planted on the planet and not in some
castle in the air or some special, holy place in the sky.
Those seeking the latter have hundreds of thousands of sky cults from which to
choose if they would follow those leaders who will claim that they can direct
their devotees into the firmaments beyond.
Few it is, by contrast, that will invite seekers to find the means by which
natural abidance can replace the burdensome unnatural fashion and / or
supernatural manner of abidance that the masses generally accept and see as
being perfectly sensible rather than totally nonsensical.
Nothing in nature, save humans, lives unnaturally. Nothing in nature, save
humans, tries to live supernaturally. The Nisarga Yoga provides the means by
which seekers can realize fully, can understand their original nature, and can
thereafter abide naturally for the remainder of the manifestation.
To be continued.
Please enter into the silence of contemplation.
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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.
If you prefer PAPERBACK copies
(collected in two anthologies).
Links for ordering are below with
BARNES and NOBLE presently providing better service
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.”
Order a PAPERBACK copy of The Blissful Abidance Series
from Amazon by clicking here.
SEND A GIFT BOOK TO SOMEONE
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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.
