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IF ONLY THREE HOURS OF
MANIFESTATION REMAIN: The “Final” Talks of Floyd
Question Everything and Everyone
Those that have come here for satsang or for retreats or those that have read the writings here know that the invitation to be free of the effects of programming, conditioning, domestication, acculturation, indoctrination and brainwashing is often extended.
To
be free of belief in “dualities” and “separation” and “different from” and “better
than,” you must be free of the effects of programming, conditioning,
domestication, acculturation, indoctrination and brainwashing. The full
discussion of the effects of those four is book-length, but the key point about
those influences in this more abbreviated forum is this:
if you are not freed from the influences of programming, conditioning,
domestication, acculturation, indoctrination and brainwashing, you will be
driven unconsciously by the effects of what “they” told you and taught you; and
the results of believing what “they” told you and taught you will be misery and
suffering and pain.
Therefore, this is the question that seekers are regularly invited to ask
regarding “their” tales and teachings: “Is it possible that everything that you
have ever been told or taught or now believe is false?”
Furthermore, to be free of belief in “dualities” and “separation” and “different from” and “better than,” you must be free of the effects of programming, conditioning, domestication, acculturation, indoctrination and brainwashing.
If such freedom
does not come, then one will be burdened by a sense of separation, disunity,
disharmony, and “two-ness” (or, more accurately, a belief in some multiplicity
vs. the unicity).
The consequence of abiding with a sense of separation, disunity, disharmony,
and “two-ness” and multiplicity will be the manifestation of more misery and
suffering.
In
the past there has been a discussion of certain cultures that have what they
see as a “homogenous” population, and history shows what the effects are when
cultures adopt a “different from” and separatist belief (whether the cultures
are “homogenous” or not).
[For example, a nation such as the U.S. that is supposedly a “melting pot” can
still buy into the arrogant , separatist message of its manipulative leaders
who claim that “this is the greatest nation on earth”;
in the late 1930’s and 1940’s, a nation that became convinced that its people were “a Super Race” began a war against those whom they believed were members of an inferior race, and that war resulted in 55,000,000 people being killed;
they
were joined by another nation that also considered itself to be populated by a
citizenry that was “one, homogenous race” of people who were different from all
others.]
The history of humankind - when such dualistic and separatist beliefs generate
concepts about being “different from” and “better than” - has always been a
history of non-realized people engaged in fighting and conflict and war and
killing and genocide, and that is true internationally, nationally, locally,
and in “individual relationships.”
The non-duality understanding can be furthered if one were to understand the
implications behind two Eastern (Japanese) terms, specifically, “honne” and “tatemae.”
The former term on one level refers to “Real Truth” (Reality / Truth) vs. the
latter term which refers to “societal façades.”
In the West, and around most of the globe, there are not even any terms to use
to point to that increasingly-common duality, so an Eastern source can advance
the cause of understanding duality and its roots;
thus,
this discussion in not really about the Japanese but is about the planet-wide
propensity for accepting façades and rejecting Reality.
On another level, “honne” can refer to one’s “true feelings.” (Note the
difference in feelings and emotions: the realized feel, but they do not emote.
Emotional intoxication occurs only when an ego-state takes itself to be real
and then thinks that it is being hurt or threatened, as in the illustration
offered earlier when it was shown that “The Husband” ego-state can become
emotionally-intoxicated and reactionary if its existence seems to be threatened
by “The Wife’s” report that she is leaving.)
One’s true feelings and degree of authenticity will always be contrary to what
is expected by society, so the authenticity will be rejected so often that any
chance to be in touch with that Reality is almost always squashed in every
culture around the globe. (It is no wonder, therefore, that so few will ever realize.)
Since
“tatemae” is what is expected by society and what is typically required to “maintain
one’s position and circumstances,” then “tatemae” will never match “honne.”
The conflict between “honne” and one’s “social obligations” (which are taught
via programming, conditioning, domestication, and acculturation) has been one
of the main topics of Japanese drama throughout the ages.
Often, the protagonist must choose between carrying out his obligations to his family or to his lord (or, now, to his boss or employer) on one hand and pursuing a forbidden love affair on the other hand. In the end, death would be the only way out of the dilemma.
Is
that not the case whenever and wherever duality is the rule rather than
exception? Is that not the case when a belief in duality blocks the
understanding of Real Love which is based in the awareness that “Love is
knowing that I am everything”?
Next, the concepts of “honne” and “tatemae” are associated with the concept of “Nihonjinron”
(referring to “ideas and theories about the Japanese”). The point of view at
the core of “Nihonjinron” is that the culture believes itself to be - as
referenced earlier - “homogenous.”
As always, that belief will foster the subsequent belief that such a culture is
totally different from all other people in all other cultures.
Because
ego-states are always upgraded, then the notion of “better than” always follows
closely on the heels of the belief in “different from.” Again, any chance at
understanding the unicity is squashed as a result of such programming and
acculturation.
Some Japanese researchers and writers are now offering a differing view for the
first time, suggesting that such xenophobic, nationalistic visions are just an
illusion. What a call to realize, yes?
As the case with realized teachers throughout history, those researchers and writers are trying to deconstruct the illusion of “different from” and “better than.”
Again,
therefore, it can be seen that the Eastern example discussed above is not about
the Japanese at all but is about allowing that microcosm to illustrate the
widespread duality in the macrocosm.
Thus, to be free of belief in “dualities” and “separation” and “different from”
and “better than,” you must be free of the effects of programming, conditioning,
domestication, acculturation, indoctrination and brainwashing; and to be free
of the effects of programming, conditioning, domestication, and acculturation,
seekers must question everything that they have ever been told or taught
Here,
there is nothing to teach, nothing to learn, and no one to teach or to learn
anything. There is, however, much to be un-taught and un-learned. How much? All
of it, until there is not one single belief or idea or concept remaining.
Then only can the truth be known, the truth which can be understood completely
but that cannot be stated. As the indigenous peoples in the U.S. have long
affirmed - along with their ancestors in the East: “Truth is nothing more than
the space between exhalation and inhalation.
Here, there can be no vacuum. When all is questioned and completely rejected, then truth will rush in to fill what would otherwise be an empty space. Then, the fullness manifests as any previous sense of emptiness ends.
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.
