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IF ONLY THREE HOURS OF MANIFESTATION REMAIN: The “Final” Talks of Floyd
You Really Can Just Be (Without Being Anything or Anybody), Part Two
Previously,
the following invitation was offered:
“ . . . become aware of a sense of beingness . . . of the I-Amness only”
and then
“ . . . belief in the “i” and the “I” will end,” along with all sense of
“I-ness” and “self-ness” and “Self-ness.”
Related to those pointers, reflect on this: of all of the considerations that
have been offered throughout the last two decades, there are those dealing with
one subject in particular that seekers have made light of or have even
dismissed completely by calling the pointers “way too philosophical” or “mere
hyperbole” or “pie-in-the-sky talk” or “notions that are far too theoretical”
or “wholly unrealistic” or “an abstraction” or “entirely impossible.”
What are the pointers so many have considered “impossible”? These:
1. “There is no do-er” and
2. “There is no one to do anything” and
3. “You really can just be (without being anything or anybody)” and
4. “For you to merely be does not prevent anything that has been happening from
continuing to happen, but whatever happens can happen even as you ...
(a) are merely being
and as you
(b) are clear that there is no “you” that is doing anything
and as you
(c) are aware that you are not someone who is doing something.”
Here, for example, teaching (or more exactly, “un-teaching”) can happen without
any belief in “teachers” and without any belief that “I am a teacher.” Too,
employment can happen without believing that you are “The Employee”;
“employering”
can happen without believing that you are “The Employer”; parenting can happen
without the assumption the false identity of “The Parent”; “wifing” can happen
without believing that you are “The Wife”; and “husbanding” can happen without
believing that you are “The Husband.”
Over the years, one pointer in that regard has been offered time and again to
the many who have come here in misery because (A) they had assumed a
co-dependent role but (B) the one who was sustaining that false image by
playing the co-dependent counterpart had decided to stop playing.
This consideration was offered to one person who was trapped in his
mind-generated misery and suffering around the “loss” of a false role and who
was convinced that, “if he could just make things right in his relationship,
then he would be happy and peaceful”:
Neither
happiness nor peace have anything to do with “being in love” or “being in a
good relationship.” Your misery has nothing to do with “having lost love” or
“being in a bad relationship.” Happiness and peace only come if you are living
naturally … abiding as your original nature.
The deer that live naturally are at peace internally, no matter what the
external conditions of their environment might be, including: hot or cold; with
a mate or not; having the perfect bedding or not; having sex or not; having the
perfect food source available or not.
Any
interruptions of your peace, and any manifestations of misery and suffering,
are about your programming, your conditioning, your acculturation, your
domestication, your concepts, your beliefs, your attitudes, your assumed
personas, and your ideas.
Programming and conditioning will generate a warped “mind” that misperceives
all. Acculturation will inspire blind belief in ancient myths and superstitions
that will, in turn, control your behavior and dictate what you expect (and
demand) from others;
acculturation
will also inspire you to allow outside influences to determine what you think
is “good” or “bad,” what you think is “acceptable” or “unacceptable,” and what
you (mistakenly) think is the source of “happiness” or “misery.”
And domestication will convince you that what is actually natural is unnatural
and that what is actually unnatural is natural. It is not natural, for example,
to become so emotionally-intoxicated in the name of “love” that one would strike
out at the (former) object of that supposed “love.”
It
is not natural to believe that one who becomes emotionally-intoxicated and
strikes out at you is evidencing “love.”
It is neither logical nor sane nor natural to mistake being “in heat” for REAL
LOVE. The deer that populate the area around this homestead do not mistake
“being in heat” with being “in ‘love’ “ or “in LOVE.” They are merely
witnessing what happens without any concepts being involved in the process;
thus,
LOVE is NOT that which results when your limbic brain system releases
pleasure-producing chemicals when you are attracted to someone, and LOVE is NOT
the purely physical response that automatically drives all species to
propagate.
Moreover, it is not natural to assume an ego-state as an identity. In that
regards, consider: ego is believing that there’s a vast multiplicity arranged
in a hierarchy and that you’re the pinnacle; humility is knowing that you’re
nothing, no-thing; LOVE is knowing that you are everything.
[That is, understanding that what you really are is what everything else is too, namely, energy-matter / THAT, which cannot be created and which cannot be destroyed.]
As for your assuming several “love”-related ego-states, consider: If you cling
to the false identity of “husband,” you shall never find authenticity, so peace
will never happen consistently. If you find the authenticity, then “husbanding”
or “not husbanding” can happen . . . and consistent peace will happen either way.
To dwell as your natural state is to function as the no-concept, non-dual
Reality. As that natural state, no attachment happens since there is no “one”
to attach to anything.
There is no belief in any concept, and there is no belief in anything that is dualistic. To believe that “A” can be attached to “B” is duality. That is quite different from knowing that you and your “partner” are not-two but are One.
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.
