IF ONLY THREE HOURS OF MANIFESTATION REMAIN: The “Final” Talks of Floyd

 

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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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Here, with those who are still driven to talk about "god," the "Son of god," the "Holy Spirit," "Buddha," "Krishna," etc., etc., etc., the invitation to them is to view those as verbs, not nouns.

THE EXPLANATION

If looked at as nouns, they point to illusions and are, therefore, a total waste of time to even discuss; if looked at as verbs which are resulting in certain sane but rare behaviors among humanity, then they are worthy of some attention during the relative existence.

Meaning? There are members of certain groups who say things such as "My concept of god in the past was of a weak god, an absentee god, A Santa Claus-type god, a mean, punishing, vindictive god, etc. Today, I am in close contact with a loving and caring god whom I worship and praise and glorify and give thanks to."

The reply to that usually goes like this: "If you are in contact with a god that wants to be worshipped and praised and glorified, then you're dealing with someone like yourself - a narcissist - and hanging out with narcissists will never bring an end to your narcissism (that narcissism evidenced by the fact that you think you are "godly").

Next, in the phrase 'loving and caring god,' any supposed god that truly had her or his act together would tell you that the totally irrelevant part of that phrase is 'god' and that the only part that is relevant is the "loving and caring" part.

"That is, a non-narcissistic their god / their goddess would say, "I care not an iota about being worshipped and praised and glorified by you or anyone else. How arrogant and insecure and needy would I have to be to want that? Forget the man-made, dreamed up noun 'god' and focus on the 'god as a verb' understanding and then go forth and let loving and caring be verbs - not adjectives - and let them generate the act of love and the act of caring and let those actions manifest through you." 

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"

--Yeshu'a (Jesus)

and 

"Heaven and earth shall fade away."

--Yeshu'a (Jesus)

and 

"Heaven and hell are not geographic places

but are states of mind, nothing more than

concepts dreamed up by men."

--Pope John Paul II 

"There is no hell."

--Pope Francis, the current pope

in an interview with journalist Eugenio Scalfari,

a writer used by the Pope to issue off the record

teachings which become a part of the Papal Magisterium.

[That said, would that the popes who have shown the courage to reject a core concept of their dogma - namely, "hell" - would find the additional courage required to question the very existence of their institution in light of the centuries-long cover-up of their history of raping children and in light of the mental and emotional and psychological scarring of billions of their members past and present.

And that need for courage also applies as questions need to be asked about why so many other sky cults are still being supported and allowed to continue to exist as well. When certain types of programming and conditioning have been shown to blind the masses, they should end. Will they? Not likely. Why?

Because what the masses think and say and do is most influenced by the international crime families which hold sway over the masses as criminals conduct their planet-wide operations. What are the major international crime families and which are the most influential and have the largest memberships?

The Mafia / La Cosa Nostra; the Catholic Church (with it 1.2 billion followers) whose Vatican Bank worked for decades with the Mafia while laundering mob earnings (for a 15% all-profit charge by the Bank); Protestant and Evangelical Churches (with over 1.2 billion followers) like the one I was raised in where the youth director molested and sexually assaulted young girls; big business which has long created environments in which people have been abused; powerful political bodies like the U.S. Congress, etc., etc., etc.)

With all of those crime families, neither the followers nor the leadership ever voluntarily step down or shut down their criminal activities. Be they gangs, organized crime families, religions, big business, politicians, etc., they all want control and they all want power and they all want money, and nothing internal will interfere with the driving forces at play.

The masses must demand that all those in charge must step down and their groups and institutions must shut down, and there's the real problem because the continuation of their crimes are enabled not as much by the people running such crime organizations as they are enabled by the masses of people who - wanting some perceived "payoff" - remain involved with them and give them money and support them and aid and abet the continued existence of those criminal enterprises and thus facilitate the ability of church criminals and political criminals and other types of criminals to continue to commit their crimes.] 

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