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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 Six: Loving Without Any Object of Your Love)
There
is an end - post-full-realization - to the belief in Subject-Object pairings,
after which there is the beginning of knowing and feeling the Oneness
throughout each waking hour of each and every day.
Thus, there is a woman in the U.K. that enjoys the bliss of sitting outdoors
and watching her bees as they do what bees do, feeling At One with them.
There is the child nearby that lies in the grass during the springtime and
watches the clouds floating across the sky above him. It was from that position
of rest that he saw a formation come together to shape “a profile of my
grandmother’s face during her last days, when she was so calm.”
Though
they are not “together” any longer, he feels the Love and the love
nevertheless, and he sees the beauty not of a “world-class fashion model” but
the beauty of a face that showed not only the wear and tear of decades of a
relative existence but also the beauty of a face that reflected a readiness to
accept the end of the manifestation with perfect serenity and dignity.
And there is the example here where, at some point, each morning walk will be
suspended and in that silent gap between moving from point one to point two and
back to point one, an intermission is taken in order to watch the deer grazing
nearby. There is something blissful about witnessing such natural abidance and
feeling the Oneness.
Post-realization, a sense of Oneness allows for such bliss-filled moments when
the Awareness facilitates an awareness of the beautiful Oneness of All . . . allows
awareness of the freedom of the Nothingness . . . and allows awareness of the
sense of Love and love that comes with understanding the Oneness.
[Note: “The Oneness of All” does not mean I am “at one” - or should be “at one” or “merged with” or “united with” - all humans, including racists, white supremacists, fascists, or those (to use Maharaj’s words) who are driven by ignorance, stupidity and insanity.
“The Oneness of All” refers to the fact that all (at its simplest level) is energy-matter and that all living things are three-part composite unities of elements and air and conscious-energy which are temporarily manifested in one particular space (be that space a human body or a bird’s body or a fish’s body, etc. That’s all the phrase “The Oneness of All” refers to.]
That awareness - which the realized do not merely know but actually Are - will allow the relative expression of Real Love to be wholly and boundlessly bathed in Absoluteness to such a degree that there will manifest a realization of (and an “experiencing” of):
a harmonious happiness . . . an unsurpassable bliss . . . a transcendent joy that can only happen in a “not-two,” Advaitin manner . . . or merely a steady sense of contentment. Meaning?
Meaning that the bliss registers on both THAT level
and on “this” level, so its force and passion and intensity are unequaled . . .
incomparable . . . unparalleled. Such is the way it is when Real Love manifests
and is allowed to flourish daily on a second-by-second basis.
Why would anyone settle for less? Why would anyone settle for false “love”
rather than continuing the “path” to realization first and thereby providing an
opportunity to find - that is, to know and then to BE - Real Love?
Why
would anyone settle for “not-Love” if they know that Real Love is an option (if
only they are willing to realize and to be Love, which can happen with or
without a “partner”)? Because this message is offered only rarely and is seldom
ever heard.
How many might admit - if they were totally aware and totally honest - that the
internal toll of years of clinging to “false love” has far outweighed any of
the supposed “benefits of being with someone” instead of “being alone”?
How
many are avoiding the peace of being alone but free in the solitude as opposed
to the many who are being driven to remain inside their mental and emotional
prisons with company?
Is it possible that you could find the courage to refuse to settle for less? Is
it possible that you could be authentic enough to forgo even the greatest
pleasures or “benefits” imaginable if you know or suspect those potential
gratifications are based in something that is less than True Love?
Moreover,
if you took that step, would you be showing respect to that which is authentic?
And, as significantly, would you not also be showing True Love and respect to
the authenticity of the one that would discard use for self-ish motives?
The fully realized will never take any action that would inspire anyone to
behave in a way that places at risk their contact with truth and authenticity;
additionally,
is it possible that those that accept having no “love” at all (that is, the
ones that refuse to settle for “false love”) might be more content with that
circumstance? Is it possible that you could be perfectly content without having
to “have someone”?
After the spouse of Maharaj took mahasamadhi, there were continual efforts by
would-be matchmakers to encourage him to remarry. Maharaj’s response was that
he was married, saying: “The day she died, I married freedom.”
Freed
of all personality, he did not fear; he did not desire; he did not “need.”
Taking a position of neutrality can apply to every facet of one’s relative
existence and will assure freedom. Freedom, in turn, will assure the
manifestation of peace.
Stability and satisfaction come in not playing the games, in not playing in the
plays, in not playing at all, and in the refusal to settle for anything
artificial that robs persons of their sense of peace and sense of fulfillment.
Little takes a greater relative toll than accepting “not-Love” as a compromise.
Via the realizations that came by way of those past experiences, it can be
shared that, though it might take years before the toll is accessed, it will be
accessed.
Offered herein is a Direct Path to authenticity and the ability to enjoy fully
all of the various forms of “the essence” which can
(a) initiate and sustain the manifestation;
(b) enhance the relative existence when authenticity is remembered; and
(c) manifest fully when authenticity is overlaid on every aspect of the
relative existence.
As long as the uninterrupted flow of the essence of plant food happens, then
there is the possibility for authenticity to serve as the gateway to the
essence of awareness; to the essence of sensing the Oneness and being the
Oneness; to the essence of knowing Love;
to
the essence of delighting in the physical expression of Love and the Oneness “with
someone” or delighting in the feeling of Love and the Oneness even “without
someone,” resting in the solitude of the all-one-ness as opposed to a false
sense of “aloneness.”
Next, there is the possibility for authenticity to serve as the gateway to the
essence of sensing the Oneness and being the Oneness; to the essence of the
understanding of all that is revealed via Wisdom; and to the essence of the
very beingness itself.
Without authenticity, there can be no stability, no freedom, no independence,
no Self-Knowledge, no Love, no Self-Love, and, therefore, no consistent happiness
and joy and bliss. There can only be a series of counterfeit identities that
result in counterfeit beliefs about one’s self and one’s motives.
Authenticity provides the only means by which the relative existence can be
dealt with in a manner that provides consistent contact with both Reality and
reality and which can, therefore, assure on-going sanity and stability.
Being
authentic means that one will be in touch with the internal awareness of Reality
and reality rather than being swept along and swept about and swept away by external
forces and / or internal fears and deceptions and delusions.
To give away any degree of the essence of Oneness; of True Love; of Wisdom; of
the phenomenal expression of True Love and Oneness; of the essence of full
realization; of the essence of freedom from being driven by the agendas of
personality / personalities;
and of the essence of the very beingness itself is to give away authenticity and truth which - if absent - will also guarantee the absence of freedom and peace and clarity as well.
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.
