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IF ONLY THREE HOURS OF MANIFESTATION REMAIN: The “Final” Talks of Floyd
Above All: Be Love, But Then Live
In An “As If” Fashion So That You Can Enjoy Love As A Relative Expression Of ABSOLUTE,
REAL LOVE As Well
(Part One: Real Love vs. Not-Real Love)
To
summarize the key pointers that would be offered if the final talks were
limited to what could be shared during the final three hours of the
manifestation:
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 is 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.
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” is you would be free and happy.
12. If you would abide naturally, find either a guide or a model that is
abiding naturally.
13. You Really Can Just Be (Without Being Anything or Anybody).
14. Be still and understand that you are and understand that you are That so
that you can be still and understand that you are so that you can be still and
understand so that you can then just be still so that you can just . . . be.
And then finally:
15. Above all: be Love, but then live in an “as if” fashion so that you can
enjoy love as a relative expression of ABSOLUTE, REAL LOVE as well.
Nothing is more misunderstood among the non-realized masses than the
differentiation between (A) True Love and (B) the false beliefs about “love” -
that is, about that which is not-Real-Love - which the masses mistake for True
Love.
The number one priority for persons in the age range spanning from the mid to
late teens and then throughout adulthood is the totally dualistic concept of “relationships,”
almost all of which operate for the most part on nothing deeper than a
Subject-Object, false self-serving level.
In the process, persons become objectified as they are assigned or adopt “relationship”
roles, typically cycling through the playing of a series of false “relationship”
roles time and again, endlessly moving along the gamut discussed by Maharaj,
shifting their adopted identities from. . .
stranger to acquaintance to friend
to sex partner or lover to fiancé / fiancée to spouse to super spouse to enemy
to mortal enemy to ex-spouse, after which another cycle will usually begin with
a new partner plugged into that continuum of players and will lead to the next
round of role-playing and game-playing.
What has been seen during decades of dealing closely with thousands of persons
who are seeking one thing or another is that there is tremendous resistance to
seeing that their beliefs are false and tremendous resistance to abandoning
their concepts and ideas;
yet
what has also been seen is that nothing compares with the resistance among
persons to (1) admitting how deceptive and self-deceptive are their beliefs
regarding the true state and nature of their “relationships” and resistance to
(2) admitting that their beliefs about “love” are their number one source of
deception.
Real Love is the Love referenced by Maharaj when he said: “Wisdom is knowing I
am nothing, Love is knowing I am everything, and between the two my life moves.”
What persons call “love” - while mistakenly believing they are talking about
Real Love - can be for a time the most magnificent experience of all;
yet it
can also be the most horrendous experience of all. With such duality, how can
that possibly be taken for The Real? As for feeling vs. emotion, if love
happens as a feeling, take the ride and watch the feelings rise and fall; if
love happens as an emotion - that is, if it is being “experienced” by a person
in an ego-state - prepare for war.
Persons desiring to know what Real Love is might benefit more (relatively
speaking, of course) if they were able to understand what love is not, so that
will be discussed in detail.
For now, consider this pointer again: ego and egotism involve the belief that there is a vast multiplicity arranged in a hierarchy and that you’re the pinnacle; humility is knowing that you’re nothing, no-thing;
and
Real Love is knowing that you are everything (that is, that everything is the
same “stuff”: matter / energy which has been forever, which is, and which shall
forever be in the absence of all “who-ness”).
(That said, understand that ego, humility, love, and even Real Love are also
merely concepts, thorns that can be used to remove thorns and terms that can be
used to point to truths that allow the remainder of the manifestation to unfold
in a Loving and loving and peaceful and harmonious way.)
Understand that completing “the journey” - which involves taking all seven of
the steps along the direct “path” to full realization - is useless unless it
brings about a shift in the way that the relative existence unfolds.
Here,
the phrase “As If Living” refers to the fact that, post-realization, things
relative seem to matter while knowing clearly at the same time that they do
not; thus, employment can happen, “relationships” can happen, happenings can be
engaged in, etc. Yet none of it is given any credibility.
Seekers that have come here for the last twenty-two years have been advised: “If
you are seeking realization with any intent of adopting new and improved and ‘good’
and elevated or noble identities, with any desire to be ‘a better person,’ with
any agenda about ‘saving a relationship,’ with a goal of ‘finding that you are
something special and different,’ or with any other supposedly lofty and / or
supposedly ‘spiritual’ reason, then you have not finished the search for your
teacher because none of that is given any credence here.”
Here, the invitation will be to complete all three legs of the total “journey”:
Leg One was the “coming in” part of the “journey” when the conscious-energy
manifested and then became blocked from knowing truth and reality as a result
of faulty programming, conditioning, acculturation, and domestication.
Leg Two is the “going back” leg of the three-part “journey” which happens in the
exact reverse order of the way that the “coming in” occurred.
That results in a
shift from identification with the false “I” to an understanding of the
Absolute (and, in some cases, an understanding also of the Nothingness which is
even beyond the Absolute).
Leg Three involves “coming back again,” but with the consciousness being
manifested in a totally different, totally unblocked manner so that Reality
will be overlaid on the relative.
When Reality is overlaid on the relative, then there is both Real Love and the
relative expression of Real Love which is what love is when expressed during the
post-realization relative. It is the post-realization understanding of the
Oneness which allows for an awareness of what Real Love is;
then,
it is an awareness of what Real Love is that allows “love-as-a-relative-expression-of-Real-Love”
to happen with a sense of Oneness that takes love-expression / Love-Expression
to heights that the non-realized cannot even begin to imagine.
Furthermore, just as much as the summative statement of non-duality (“ I AM
THAT; I AM”) might appear to be contradictory or involved with “two-ness” -
though it is neither - so too is “Love / love” not contradictory and not
involved with “two” at all, if full realization has happened.
The
fact about Love / love cannot be grasped, however, unless that full realization
has happened and unless the third leg of the three-leg “journey” has been
completed.
The question then becomes, “Can you, from the position of ‘As If Living’ that
follows full realization, feel and share and be Unconditional Love?”
The answer that has been offered here for over two decades is: “Not only can you,
but you shall; in fact, no choice will be involved. It will just happen . . . spontaneously
and unequivocally, and then any relative expression of love / Real Love can be
enjoyed in a way that the non-realized will never understand.”
Thus,
the pointer offered earlier is emphasized: the teachings / unteachings here are
not for those who want to realize in order to see themselves as something “supreme,”
something “special,” something “unique,” and something totally dissociated from
the relative existence.
Here, the invitation is to realize, to overlay Reality on the relative, and
then to enjoy the relative existence (which is the only vehicle available for
true bliss to be known and enjoyed).
Here, it is understood that those who have said “you should encourage abstinence” have mentally discarded the “I AM” part of the summative statement and now delusionally take themselves to be “THAT only.”
(The
debunking of their endorsement of the unnatural will also be treated later.)
[By the way, those types are invited to lower their heads, take a ten-step
running start, and crash full on into a brick wall and then see if they still
believe that “nothing is real,” including bricks. What the realized understand
is that all is energy / matter, that energy / matter is real, but that in this
existence nothing is ever as it appears.]
Not only have such persons missed out on grasping the true understanding completely,
but they are now missing out on the only opportunity - namely, the opportunity
that is available NOW - to know and enjoy the bliss.
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.
