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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 Five: “Love is Knowing that You Are Everything; Wisdom Is Knowing That You Are Nothing”)
The discussion will continue (1) in an effort to differentiate between the rarely understood Real Love and the far-more-prevalent, conceptualized false “love” and
(2)
in an effort to address the toll that the latter concept takes on persons
(guaranteeing - as noted earlier - that, if you settle for anything false, you
will lose yourself completely while expanding the belief in a host of false
selves).
Consider this pointer: “Real Love” brings nothing that is relative and takes
nothing that is relative (though the awareness of Oneness allows it to be
expressed in endless ways when Reality is overlaid on the relative).
Is it possible that the concept of (false) “love” among persons is actually
based in “because of’s”? (“I love her because of her good looks and because of
how sweet she is and because of how good she is to me” or
“I love him because
of the way he cares for me and because of the way he provides for my needs and
because of how he accepts me and because of the way he filled the void in my
life when he came to me.”)
Is it possible that any notions about what love is, if the notions involve “because
of’s,” really help to further define what love is not? If True Love happens to
be unconditional in nature, then is it possible that any claims about “love”
that involve conditions (or conditioning) really reveal what love is not?
If
True Love can only be understood if authenticity is understood, can anyone not
realized have even the slightest clue as to what True Love entails?
The typical groupthink that exists worldwide will block the understanding of
pointers that attempt to differentiate Real Love - which is rooted in an
unabridged sense of Oneness - from the “false love” that persons believe is real.
So why is “love” preferred?
As noted, Real Love brings nothing that is relative and takes nothing that is relative; false “love,” on the other hand, is used to address personality-based fears and desires and is, therefore, only about giving relative things and getting or taking relative things . . . about “something” as opposed to “nothing.”
Thus, Real Love is about truth-full-ness and self-less-ness; false “love” is totally selfish and self-ish, totally separated from Reality and authenticity.
Settling
for false “love” will, in fact, guarantee that you will become separated from truth
and authenticity and will guarantee that you will lose awareness of the real
and the Real completely.
That is why pointers offered during a discussion of “love” vs. Real Love have
been so vigorously resisted over the decades by persons defending whatever
version of “love” they think they have, resisted even more than the discussions
regarding their false dogma or other false beliefs.
They
want their fears and desires to be addressed, right now, and if false “love” is
what can most immediately address those fears and desires, so it is. Bring it
on, and keep it up.
Most shut down and tune out completely when confronted with the fact that they
have nothing close to Real Love, that they are playing a self-ish game, that they
are using and being used.
Accurately
differentiating between (a) Real Love and (b) the commonly-accepted version of “love”
(that is, “false love” or the “not-Real Love” which the masses speak of) can
only happen post-realization in the full-awareness understanding of Maharaj’s
pointer: “Love is knowing that I am Everything.”
When the Oneness is finally understood, then Real Love is marked by an
unwavering sense of the unicity, of Everything-ness; then, it is clear as well
that Real Love is Everything.
Nothing
else is believed to be after understanding that Real Love = Everything =
Oneness. Believing nothing else - that is, having no other beliefs at all -
then there is a manifestation of perfect insight and flawless perception which
leads to a steadfast, unshakable understanding of the fact that “Wisdom is
knowing that I am nothing.”
In the instant that it is understood that you are everything and that you are
nothing, then at that point you lose your self absolutely (that is, you lose
any belief in false selves) and you know truth and authenticity Absolutely.
In
that instant you are never more in touch with truth and authenticity as well as
in touch with that which is real, namely, the Oneness of All, realizing Love
Manifest and realizing the non-dualistic Truth of “the Not-Two-ness.”
Understand that and you understand that “ecstasy” - that perfect and total
bliss - is actually the loss of your self / selves, allowing you to witness
purely that which love truly is.
The
Absolute is at that moment overlaid upon the relative so that relative
happenings then offer the opportunity for Absolute Bliss to manifest or to be satisfied
with contentment. That can happen whether you are “with someone” or not. “How
can that be?” some ask. That point will be made clear.
In the previous post, it was shown that, post-full-realization, any physical
expression of love is simultaneously an Expression of Real Love.
Never
again, after full realization, can such an expression be anything other than a
simultaneous expression of love and an Expression of THAT . . . of Real and
Absolute Love, meaning Love that is a reflection of the Absolute. You will
settle for nothing less. You will choose nothing rather than settle for less.
The “characteristics” of the Absolute are then adumbrated throughout the
entirety of the relative existence and become the “characteristics” of the “not-two”
(Advaitin) unicity of Real Love / love.
What
are those “traits”? In the limitless expanse of energy called “The Absolute,”
that energy is uncontaminated, unconditional, unconditioned, unqualified,
unlimited, pure, unadulterated, and unambiguous.
If that energy which has the ability to be both conscious of and aware of if manifested
is not blocked by the effects of programming and conditioning and domestication
and acculturation and indoctrination and brainwashing, then it is
uncontaminated, unconditional, unconditioned, unqualified, unlimited, pure,
unadulterated, and unambiguous.
For the remainder of the post-realization understanding of the “not-two-ness”
of Everything-ness and Nothingness, then all Expressions of Love and / or
expressions of Love as love will also be uncontaminated, unconditional,
unconditioned, unqualified, unlimited, pure, unadulterated, and unambiguous.
Again
many say, “But I still don’t see how Absolute Bliss and the manifestation of
phenomenal absolute bliss can manifest if you are not with someone.” It’s
really quite simple:
When the Oneness, the Everything-ness, is understood, there might be a “Lover”
and a “lover” or there might not be a “Lover” and a “lover.” Either way,
though, Love IS.
The
Bliss of Loving and loving, therefore, never had anything to do with “two-ness”
at all, did it? Consider: Is it possible that Love does not require the
presence of another body but can happen even if “alone”? Is it possible that
Love does not involve assumption of more false identities?
Is it possible that Maslow’s talk of love and esteem and actualization might
have more accurately been said to deal with Self-Love, Self-Esteem and
Self-Actualization? Since realization ends all subject-object duality, might
True Love actually exist without an object?
Because there is really no such thing as a “relationship” - that concept based
in the duality of an “A” joined with a “B” - then it should be clear now that
the post-realization relative existence (marked not by knowing Love and / or
love but marked by Being Love and being love) requires “no one else” for Love
and love to be felt.
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.
