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There Are Hundreds Of Sources Of Pain, But Only One Source Of Misery And Suffering, PartTwo
It was noted that “here, there is no advice about actions you might or might not take regarding pain, but there is most assuredly a means by which you can be free of misery and suffering.”
Understand first the distinction:
pain is rooted in the plant food body; misery and suffering are rooted in the “mind.”
Most often, humans add something that is an external to try to end their pain,
such as: over-the-counter medicines, including acetaminophens; non-steroidal,
anti-inflammatory drugs; prescription painkillers; and narcotics.
By contrast, misery and suffering
must be address by removing internals, specifically the content that has been
stored internally in one part of the elemental brain.
When there is an attempt to address misery and suffering by adding something
that is an external, then the result is alcohol addiction, drug addiction, etc.
That can never work.
So the question is, “What must be removed in order to remove misery and suffering?” That is, what is in “the mind” that leads to misery and suffering? The answer: all that has been added via programming, conditioning, acculturation, domestication, indoctrination, and brainwashing;
additionally, the internalizing
and normalizing of what is actually the highly perverted and bizarre thoughts
and words and deeds of one’s parent(s) or relatives or guardians;
add to that list the hundreds and thousands of beliefs and ideas and concepts
that were taught and added to “the mind” without the benefit of questioning and
investigation;
a host of false identifications;
the unconscious, hidden agendas of personality that remove all ability to
consciously choose, though persons will claim that they are most assuredly
choosing their words and actions; and the multiple personas, each of which has
a different agenda but which all generate fears and desires.
Thus, the pointer offered in the previous post:
The masses are in a mad rush every day, searching high and low and here and
there for a way to alleviate their fears and to satisfy their desires (which
usually involves a search for externals that can “make them joyous” or
facilitate their being “ecstatically-blissful”). Some assert more moderately, “I
just want to be happy” (or, if a parent, “I just want my child / children to be
happy”).
If one would be happy, then one must first be free. The following illustration
has been shared during some retreats and can serve to reinforce the pointer
that freedom must precede happiness:
There are people in certain programs who claim that they are “happy, joyous, and free” (though their behavior more often than not provides evidence to the contrary).
That is just one example of the
evidence which reveals the way that the masses talk in their sleep as a result
of denial, dissociation, and a failure to be aware of what they are feeling and
doing and saying and thinking . . . and why.
Yet a pointer can be taken from their statement. Happy. Joyous. Free. It should
be understood by all seekers that those three must appear in a different order
if one would realize fully and then be happy.
The order in which those must
occur for the seeker to truly “find” is this: joyous and then free must happen
first, in that order. Only after those two have happened in that order can
happiness manifest.
Consider: two wayfarers are wandering through a desert, near death from days in
the heat without water. As with the masses, they have seen one mirage after
another, convinced that an oasis is near, convinced that a mirage can make them
happy, only to find that their misery returns when the mirage is seen to be a
mirage.
But to see that a mirage is a mirage is not enough to provide relief from
misery and suffering. Seeing mirages alone cannot bring freedom or peace. So
their search continued.
Finally, they see a real oasis
and begin running toward it. At that point, are they finally happy, joyous and
free? No. In fact, at that point, they are only joyous. They are caught up in
the emotional intoxication of a “pink cloud” moment.
The same happens with miserable and suffering people who walk into a program or
a church or some similar place and become caught up in the emotionalism that is
typical in those venues.
They suddenly have great hope
that they have found exactly what they have been looking for and believe that
they will never need to search for anything again.
Soon, their hopes are smashed when the pink clouds fade away, when the
emotional intoxication subsides - as it always will - and when they see that
what was promised is not happening for them and when they see that it actually
is not happening for those making the promises, either.
So it is with the two in the desert: they were joyous momentarily, but the joy
of finding water does nothing to relieve their misery. They must drink of the
water.
When they actually drink the water (or in non-dual terms - taste the “nectar”
or swallow the “ultimate medicine”) only then will they be free . . . free of
their thirst.
Joyous. Then free. And only after those two manifest, in that order, can peace
and happiness manifest. Those who are not totally free can never be at peace.
(And the fact is, most persons are afraid of being totally independent and do
not really want that “total” version of freedom at all. So it is.)
Next, if you want to be happy, you must look back and find when and why you
were last perfectly and unequivocally happy, and when that happiness was
consistently manifesting.
Once that is identified, then you must go back there. But note that “there” and “then” are not literal “places” or an “actual time.” You will not be going back not to a place or a time when you were “the happiest in your life”;
instead, you will actually be
returning to the condition that existed when you were the happiest.
Furthermore, that condition was the condition of the mind-free brain as it
existed in its prior-to-the-development-of-a-mind-state, that mind-state now
being that which actually drives humans to feel miserable and to experience
suffering.
To be continued.
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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.
