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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
The point was offered that it took a vision which came one afternoon while in the theta state of consciousness to finally “break the code” being used by so many teachers. It was totally my own “experience.”
Maharaj asked: “Are you talking from your own experience or from books only? Your book knowledge is useful to begin with, but soon it must be given up for direct experience.”
and
“I
have no faith in anything which has ever been told, not even what has been told
by the Vedas. Only my own experience.”
What is offered here is based in direct experience. No one need read and master
the content of anything erroneously called “a holy text.” In an age when travel
has become so expensive that seekers cannot always sit with a teacher
face-to-face, might certain books as mentioned by Maharaj help uncover that which
is being sought? A few can.
But here, it was - in the end - that direct experience via a vision which
allowed for the understanding that did not come from reading scores of books by
those Maharaj dismissed as “the big name teachers.”
That direct experience understanding is what is being shared here. As noted, the content of the vision allowed for . . .
an understanding of the fact that “the journey” has three parts or legs; and, an understanding of exactly how that “journey” must happen and . . .
an
understanding of what happens after “the journey” is completed so that the
remainder of the relative existence can happen in a not-insane, non-stupid,
not-ignorant, non-fluctuating, non-chaotic, not-unstable fashion and in a
totally AS IF manner.
What happens after the third leg of the “the journey” is completed is AS IF
living, living AS IF anything in the relative matters but knowing via a new
perspective that it is all really just much ado about nothing;
however, that point must be clarified so that nihilism and numbness do not manifest. Dancing is much ado about nothing as well, but it can nevertheless be quite entertaining. After the third leg of “the journey” is complete, the fully realized do not miss out on entertainment.
They
relish it. They share it. Lightness replaces heaviness, and fun replaces
drabness, and the fully realized invite all to join them in dancing lightly and
having fun.
The understanding of the functioning of the totality comes when seekers “go
back” and revisit the Absolute by following the exact steps by which they came
in, but in reverse order, of course. And it is the subsequent understanding of
the functioning of the totality that puts all in perspective, including THAT
and “this” as well, “this” being the relative existence . . . this AM-ness . .
. this beingness.
After that, then a natural mode of living replaces the former unnatural and
supernatural modes of living. Consider the 14 million-year history of
human-like or human beings on the planet:
was
it natural for those early humans to burn incense, or hum or chant, or knell
and rise and knell, or bang on special bowls on special pillows with special
sticks to “help them make it through the night” (as so many nowadays are not
able to do at all in a natural manner - most among the masses instead being
unable to sleep, unable to rest, unable to stop the noisy “mind,” unable to be
at peace at all)?
Or did they simply live? They lived, and they lived in a simple and natural
manner: they slept, they awoke, they spent approximately 2.5 hours per day
involved with “the necessities” of food hunting or food gathering (according to
anthropologists);
also,
they had sex and procreated, and they faced what had to be faced when relative
events became challenging events. And through it all, they had no “holy texts”
to guide them, and they needed none.
And because you are now sitting before a screen and reading this, you are
evidence of the fact that millions of years of living naturally rather than
unnaturally or supernaturally actually worked. They “made it.” and they made it
without any of the drama of unnatural living and without the needless effort
and unnatural restrictions of trying to live supernaturally.
Yes, early on, Maharaj did reference certain points from certain texts, but in the end he only shared by way of what he called his “own experience”:
“I
am telling you from experience,” he said. The same is the case here, even
though it is known, paradoxically, that there is no “experiencer” at all except
to this degree:
Maharaj: “Behold, the real experiencer is not the mind, but myself, the Light
in which everything appears. [Authenticity] is the common factor at the root of
all experience, the awareness in which everything happens.” Consider as well:
Maharaj: “Can you truly say you were not before you were born, and can you
possibly say when dead ‘Now I am no more’? You cannot say from your own
experience that you are not. You can only say ‘I am’.”
That is a marker of the AS IF living that happens when the Nisarga Yoga is
understood. You can only say (or know) “I am.” The deer know that same “I am”;
the birds know that same “I am”; the fish know that same “I am.”
And how simply and naturally do the deer and birds and fish live? Totally. And how simply and naturally do the non-Realized masses live? Not simply or naturally at all.
Now,
one seeker asked this: “You and Maharaj share non-duality teachings. Cavemen
did not do that. How can you say you are living naturally?” The most basic and
relevant fact is this: no “one” is sharing or teaching.
Post-realization, pure wisdom and pure Love manifest. It is natural for Wisdom
to witness what is happening and to recognize words and thoughts and behaviors
that are evidence of nonsense and self-deception and ignorance and distortion.
That
happens even as those being driven by such thoughts and words and deeds are
sure that their thoughts are right and their beliefs are right and what they
are saying is sensible and not at all self-deceiving and not ignorant but wise
and free of any distortion at all.
It is Wisdom alone that provides the ability to differentiate the true from the
false, so that happens when the consciousness detects falsehoods. Then, True
Love takes over and the consciousness - not a teacher and not a guru and not a
person - speaks (and speaks from the platform of Pure Awareness).
It
is True Love, speaking in that fashion, which accounts for the sharing of these
teachings, and what is seen or heard is what inspires the various pointers
offered.
For example, some person might have been heard saying something that evidenced
such a level of narcissism and arrogance that it shocked the unblocked
consciousness into offering a pointer toward the humble truth;
or some person
might have spoken of “their lover” or “their spouse” with unbelievably glowing
words (words that showed such delusion, words that revealed so many outlandish
misperceptions, and words that exposed such a denial of the facts before one's
very eyes) that the unblocked consciousness here will speak and try to point to
the truth that is actually 180-degrees opposite of what is being stated;
or some person might have been making statements that amounted to such a
blatant distorting of the facts and such a desire to put a spin on reality that
the consciousness spontaneously and automatically attempts to redirect the
speaker toward the truth.
(In
almost all cases, though, the hidden fears and desires of their personalities
will block persons from hearing pointers to truth that run contrary to their
motives and agendas.)
But note: as that which is rooted in Wisdom and True Love is happening
spontaneously on one front, on another front this composite unity called “floyd”
- functioning in an AS IF manner - eats and sleeps and laughs and plays and
enjoys conversation on occasion and loves the silence on occasion and delights
in sex-that-expresses-the-shared-sense-of-Oneness on occasion;
it
is also via that composite unity that a few jokes or some humorous observations
are shared in order to lighten the day of other composite unities that might be
encountered.
And that is all totally natural. It is all a part of the AS IS mode of living
that follows the completion of all three legs of “the journey.” So, what is to
be understood at this point about AS IF living? More on that tomorrow.
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.
