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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
AFTER COMPLETING ALL THREE LEGS OF THE THREE-LEG “JOURNEY”
Why All Three Legs Must Be Completed in Order to Abide Naturally
For the masses, the
manifestation-to-mahasamadhi process is distorted as a result of their having
completed only one leg of a three-leg “journey” (which they take to be a “birth-to-death-to-eternal-life”
journey)
For the masses, their
one-leg-only “journey” entails (a) manifestation, (b) undergoing the step-seven
process of disintegration that moves one from the awareness / Absolute state
and to (c) being left in that delusional condition which is the fartherest
removed from Reality, namely, body identification.
Completing that one leg of what is actually a three-leg “journey” is all that
will happen with most persons because they will never seek. On the “coming in”
leg, most will be introduced to religious or spiritual personas and will be
guided by their programmers to stay there.
Their “guide” will only guide
them as far as the third step, so 97% on the planet now claim an
affiliation with some organized religion. Millions more claim membership in
what they see as “their special spiritual-not-religious program.”
(That is stated with [1] the greatest degree of egotism and sense of
better-than-ment via the implied assertion that “we are so far beyond where
those religious people are” while at the same time claiming that they have been
freed of [2] their “former” great degree of egotism and their “former” sense of
better-than-ment.)
For the few who do seek Realization via non-duality, many undertake only a
two-leg “journey,” having first undergone the “coming in” leg and then
completing the “going back” leg and thereafter claiming that they abide “there”
or as THAT alone.
For the fully realized that
understand the Nisarga Yoga as well, a three-leg “journey” is completed, but
first, consider this: it has been said that neurotics build castles in the air,
that psychotics move into those castles, and that therapists and psychiatrists
collect the rent.
Many receive only enough of the non-duality teachings that they end up at some
point between building the castle and moving in, not totally psychotic but
definitively neurotic.
Driven by personality - and the hidden agendas of
personality as well as the varying degrees of mental disorders that accompany
personality assumption and personality disintegration - many will display
certain beliefs and traits and behavioral patterns that are near-psychotic.
Full realization, if reached via the Direct Path and the Nisarga Yoga, will
allow for the completion of all three legs of the three-leg “journey” and will
allow for the understanding that this “journey” - this process - is not about “being
uniquely and singularly THAT”;
they will understand that enlightenment actually lightens; they will understand, as a result of having completed all three legs of the three-leg “journey,” that full realization is not about a lightness of THAT;
and they will understand that the
post-realization lightness is actually the lightness of being, the lightness of
the I-AM-ness.
They alone will be the ones being bathed in the full light of the noonday sun,
and they alone will know the lightness and relish it. Because the summative
statement “I AM THAT; I AM” has nothing to do with two-ness, then the realized
can fixate as THAT and as this AM-ness, “simultaneously.”
That fixation can happen,
though, only when Reality is overlaid - so to speak - on the relative, only
when the “reality” is cloaked in Reality, so to speak.
It is the one-leg “journey” which results in the misery and suffering and chaos
that are typical among the non-realized masses of the planet.
Completion of the two-leg “journey”
will typically result in persons taking themselves to be deep philosophers or
some really boring “Supreme This” or “Supreme That” or some overly-serious
persons who claim to be beyond the personal, beyond the beingness, and even
beyond the beyond.
Having received only the dim light of the dawn, there is among those types a
drabness that marks and mars their existence as a result of being far too
serious, too grave, too solemn, too stern, too grim, too humorless, and far too
severe overall.
Having completed only two legs
of the three-leg “journey,” many adopt labels that trap them in ignorance while
thinking they are brilliant, believing that they have learned something
momentous that has rendered them important and significant and crucial. They
are not, yet they are not, dualistically, unimportant or insignificant or
slight, either.
The fully realized understand that they just are. It is totally clear that the
I AM just IS. That is a significant part of what the Nisarga Yoga is about.
In the process of completing all three legs, the seekers that finally realize fully will have “come in,” gone “back out,” and then “come back in” (but in a totally different fashion the second time “in”).
Humans that have completed all
three legs will once again be in touch with their original nature, so natural
living can happen.
A lightness of being can mark the beingness, so humans can continue throughout
the remainder of the relative existence to live in an AS IF manner that puts
them on the same track as all other forms / spaces that are abiding naturally:
the deer, the birds, the fish, etc.
Because the Nisarga Yoga
allows the original-but-lost sanity to be restored, then the abidance unfolds in
the same manner as that among all forms / spaces that abide sanely (i.e.,
naturally rather than unnaturally or supernaturally).
It should also be clear at this point why a fully realized guide is usually
required for the “journey”: some guides will guide their followers to the third
step and encourage them to fixate in their religious or spiritual persona /
false identity;
some will guide seekers to that wasteland (which is mistaken for some kind of lotusland) which is somewhere between the building of castes in the air and moving into those mental castles which are far removed from reality or Reality either one;
but only a few will guide
seekers that have completed one-leg of the journey through all of the
going-back steps on the second leg and then through all of the steps on the
coming-back-in-again leg.
An experienced escort is also required for the non-optional, guide-directed
self-inquiry which must be completed thoroughly and honestly before the
Self-Inquiry phase of the “journey” can be completed. Why?
Maharaj mentioned “learned
ignorance,” “stupidity,” and “insanity” among everything that must be removed
along the “path.” Yet what chance is there that ignorance can recognize
ignorance, that stupidity can see stupidity, or that insanity can spot insanity?
At best, the axioms that reference psychological projection (“if you spot it,
you've got it” and “if you can see it, you can be it”) might apply. Just as the
selfish are the most likely to see selfishness in others without seeing it in
themselves, and just as arrogant persons are most likely to detect arrogance in
others, so it is that
a. those who are not being objective have been the ones to most readily assert
that “Floyd, you cannot be objective”; or so it is that
b. those who are misperceiving everything have been the one to most readily
say, “Floyd, you just don't see what I'm doing here, and it most certainly is
not what you are suggesting”; or so it is that some have said
c. “I am the one who has found it all and you are the one who is misrepresenting
major parts of the understanding.”
So it has been said to be on occasion, but so it is not. All such claims are
generated by the egotism that comes along with their ego-states which are being
supported by the blinding arrogance that will set the stage for those who have
completed one-half of one leg of a “journey” to claim “I have arrived!”;
it is ignorance that will inspire those who have complete two legs of a
three-leg 'journey” to assert “It is I who have truly arrived!”; and it is only
the clarity and humility of knowing that one has not yet arrived that might
allow some seekers to accept the guidance required from one that has traveled
all three legs of the three-leg “journey” and thereby assist those seekers with
the completion of all three legs of the entire “journey.”
If they complete all three legs, then they can abide as their Original Nature
for the remainder of the manifestation and live out the relative existence is a
Nisarga - natural - fashion.
To be continued.
Please enter into the silence of contemplation.
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“Liberation (Attaining Freedom from Personality via Realization)”
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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.
