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8.
“I will give you what the eye has not seen, and what the ear has not heard, and what the hand has not touched, and what has not arisen in the heart of man.”
The non-duality understandings are beyond the physical realm of seeing and hearing and touching and also beyond what people take to be the “heart” or the “soul.” Yeshu’a knew that nothing is as it appears.
An example often used is the steel beam. People believe they know exactly what a steel beam is, but it is actually nowhere near what it looks like to the human eye. Use an electron microscope and you will see that what is called “a beam” is mainly space with masses of subatomic energy particles swirling about.
Also, he makes the point that truth cannot be stated so it cannot be heard with the human ear; instead, it is the consciousness or awareness that speaks, and it is the consciousness or awareness that hears via the inner resource.
Thus, it is not the heart or soul that hears, and it is not a human that hears. It is that inner resource that can hear. When it hears a point that is accurately pointing to truth, then there is an inward resonance that is “hearing.” What is then “seen” (or understood) is the truth that can be known but that cannot be spoken.
9.
“If they say to you, ‘from where have you originated?’ say to them, ‘We have come from the light, where the light originated through itself’.”
The scientist Szent-Gyorgyi noted that “what drives life is . . . a little electric current, set up by the sunshine.”
All so-called “life” on planet earth “comes from the light” and shall return to the light.” All cycles. Yeshu’a was challenging the common belief in his day - still pervasive today - in a linear timeline: birth, life, death, punishment or reward.
He was pointing to the non-dual understanding that all cycles instead. Trillions upon trillions of humans have “come” and “gone” but nothing has been added to or subtracted from the elements of the earth that have been cycled for life-forms to happen.
The only “ingredient” added from without - from beyond what is already on the planet - is light / energy / sunshine. What “made” the Light? Nothing. Neither energy nor matter can be created and neither energy nor matter can be destroyed. What Yeshu’a was saying, therefore, is that there is no creator / Creator because “all that is” has always been.
The light originated through itself. (Scientists know that a single hydrogen atom manifested, split time and again until helium atoms manifested. After they all crashed together, an amazing release of energy and light happened. Thus, “the light originated through itself.”)
10.
“I AM light.”
Yeshu’a did not say, “I am the light.” He said, “I AM light.” [Note the punctuation that is used by non-dualists and that Yeshu’a used (as in quotes #1 and #2 earlier). View quote #11 alongside quote #10 to understand the non-dual pointer he was offering about “light.”
11.
“If they ask you, ‘what is the sign of your father in you?’ say to them, ‘it is a movement and a rest’.”
So forget this talk about “The Father,” he is saying. He made clear in quotes #10 and #11 that there was no creation, a fact now supported by scientific proof. Again, neither energy nor matter can be created or destroyed.
He also made clear in quote #4 that “heaven and earth shall fade away.” If the place where “The Father” supposedly resides is not forever, then there is not place where “The Father” could reside;
furthermore, quote #3 affirms his point: if heaven is within, then there is no place “out there” or anywhere else where “The Father” could be or will be.
As for “a movement,” that which non-dualists identify as a movement within is the movement of consciousness, ever in motion (as are all forms of energy).
As for rest, the non-dual pointer is that rest cannot come when identified with the body or the mind or false identities or the ever-in-motion consciousness; rest comes when abidance happens as the Awareness - the original state.
[The explanation of that point is book-length and is far longer than the framework of this book allows. The book “Consciousness / Awareness provides the full explanation.]
12.
”Whoever drinks from my mouth shall become as I AM and I myself will become he, and the hidden things shall be revealed to him.”
Review the explanation to quote #6 and understand that in this quote, Yeshu’a is again referring to the Oneness that all is but that the non-realized masses are not aware of, seeing all as “separate” and “apart from” and “different from.”
Also, the explanation for quote #8 makes clear that the “drinking from his mouth” is not literal but that it is the consciousness / awareness that speaks;
therefore, the non-dual pointer is that if you can hear what “the mouth of consciousness / awareness” has to say, all things presently hidden from You - unknown to you” or “not understood by you” - will be understood.
At that point, the understanding of the Oneness makes clear why Yeshu’a will become him / her and why he / she will become Yeshu’a.
13.
“It is impossible for a man to mount two horses and to stretch two bows; and it is impossible for a servant to serve two masters; otherwise, he will honor the one and offend the other.”
This pointer also strikes at the core of the non-dual understand ding: duality is impossible. There can be no such thing as duality. There is only non-duality, and any statement of duality is false and any beliefs in duality are false.
14.
“When you make the two one, and when you make the inner as the outer and the outer as the inner, and the above as the below, and when you make the male and the female into a single one, so that the male will not be male and the female not be female, then shall you enter the kingdom.”
Again, the kingdom is the state of freedom and peace. Also once more Yeshu’a points to the understanding of “non-duality” (literally meaning “not two”); thus, the non-dual understanding “makes the two one” . . . makes clear that what is thought to be two will - in the light of truth and understanding - be understood to be one.
There is no inner and outer, no above and below, no male or female, nothing that is different or separate from anything else in the non-dual understanding.
To be continued.
Please enter into the silence of contemplation.
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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.
