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IF ONLY THREE HOURS OF MANIFESTATION REMAIN: The “Final” Talks of Floyd
If You Would Come To Understand How To Abide Naturally, Find A Guide And Then A Model That Are Abiding Naturally
To
review and condense even further:
1. Find the simplest version of these teachings.
2. Abide naturally.
3. Seek no identity, including “good” ones.
4. Rest in the awareness of the nothingness.
5. All things relative and Absolute are much ado about nothing.
6. Settle not for instability.
7. Question.
8. Be free of the effects of your programming, conditioning, domestication and
acculturation.
9. March to the beat of your inner guru.
10. Transition both religious and spiritual concepts and identities.
11. Understand that there are hundreds of sources of pain, that there is only
one source of misery and suffering, and that you must return to the mind-less “Child
No-Knowing Stage” if you would be free and happy.
Next:
12. If you would come to understand how to abide naturally, find a guide and
then a model that are abiding naturally.
Here,
Maharaj was a guide for part of the “journey”; once (a) the understanding of
the functioning of the totality came during a vision and (b) that “big picture”
awareness helped to clarify the later teachings of Maharaj, then realization
happened. [A description of the vision is available at the top of this page.]
After realization, this followed: as a result of having a local deer population
for neighbors in an area that is shared with them, those deer have provided the
model by which the daily existence has unfolded.
The deer’s lifestyle provides an example of natural living (as opposed to
supernatural living or unnatural living): the deer functions spontaneously and
unthinkingly under the auspices of the “laws” of nature.
It
does nothing that is unnatural or self-destructive, and it has no supernatural
beliefs. It has no dogma, no practices, no rules, no beliefs, and no concepts.
That plant-food-body-cum-consciousness (thought to be “a deer” by humans only)
functions with a brain but no “mind.” The deer burns no scented sticks and
rings no noisy bells and sings no noisy songs and chants no noisy chants in
unison with other deer.
It
does not knell to praise and worship and it has no “special way to sit” during “special times,” such
differentiation being the province of the not fully-realized.
It experiences no emotional intoxication. Yes, it bonds with other deer, but it
experiences neither dependency nor co-dependency.
It knows that it IS, but it does not believe that it is “something” or even that it is “anything.” The sense of Am-ness manifests with the deer, but the sense of “I am this” or “I am that” does not.
(Note
that even though the speck of consciousness called “a deer” knows it is, it
does not “know” either the “I” or the “i.” Though the beingness is sensed, no
thought of a “personal I” occurs. )
The closest that a seeker beginning the “journey” can come to understanding the
nisarga / natural state is to understand that when the realized say “I,” there
is no doubt at all that the “I” that is speaking is a speck of manifested consciousness
and nothing more
Note
the other “lessons” that the deer can offer by way of contrasting natural
living vs. unnatural or supernatural living: Having never been programmed, the
deer will never wonder, “Who am I, really”? It will not ask, “Wonder what will
happen when I die”? It will not shout in frustration someday, “I don’t even
know who I am!”
It will not leave the doe by which a speck of consciousness called “a fawn”
manifested, proclaiming, “You just don’t look as appealing to me since you had
that fawn.” The doe will never announce,
“I’m
leaving you for another buck because you’re not good enough for me and your
beliefs don’t mirror mine and I can only be in a relationship with a deer that
is compatible with me” (meaning, a deer that is really an exact version of me).
Unencumbered by ego and egotism, no deer will find itself trapped someday in a
mindset that believes “I am really only capable of loving me or a mirror image
of me . . . only capable of loving some phony image that I take myself to be.”
And
if the doe were to leave, the buck would not hunt her down and kill her (which
is the scenario that accounts for 59% of all murdered human females killed
annually in the U.S. during a breakup with “him”).
The buck would never eat fermented berries to celebrate a happening or to mourn
a happening, would never run down a trail at a high speed while intoxicated
from such berries, would never veer off the deer trail, and would never crash
into a tree and kill itself. Only humans do that sort of thing.
The deer will never have to focus repeatedly on the “I AM . . . I AM . . . I AM” to
free itself of having been programmed to believe that it really is all of the
labels that can follow the words “I am.”
It does not believe that “I am this
doe’s husband” or “I am that fawn’s father” or “I am the owner of this piece of
land” or “I am the achiever who will accumulate more than I already have.”
Do “husbanding”-type happenings happen nevertheless? Yes. Can “fathering type”
happenings still happen with the deer? Yes. Yet there are no false
identifications that accompany those happenings.
Do feelings rise and fall? Yes. Do emotions and emotional intoxication happen (a phenomenon that can only occur if an ego-state is assumed and then believes it is being hurt or threatened or interfered with)?
Of
course not. That would all be unnatural, and the deer that has not been
conditioned or domesticated can only live naturally.
Since seekers have been programmed and conditioned and domesticated and
acculturated to define “self” by following the words “I am” with dozens and
scores of labels, at the earliest stage of nisarga yoga they are invited to
become aware of that same sense of beingness - of “Amness,” of the “Is-ness” -
but of the I-Amness or Is-ness only.
Eventually, along the “path” to realization, belief in the “i” and the “I” will
end. All sense of “I-ness” and “self-ness” and “Self-ness” will end.
That which is beyond beingness and non-beingness will be understood. Then, a sense of beingness only remains, but abidance as THAT happens as well, thus: I AM THAT; I AM.
Functioning for the remainder of the manifestation then happens with an incredible lightness of being. That is what dwelling in the natural, nisarga state looks like. A mindless deer can pull that off. Can you?
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.
