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IF ONLY THREE HOURS OF MANIFESTATION REMAIN: The “Final” Talks of Floyd
IT IS ALL VERY SIMPLE (cont.)
The Friday post ended with this:
the
personality trance strips them of all ability to transition beyond their
family-and-culture-induced-insanity.
Family-and-culture-induced-insanity? Yes. Emphatically, yes. During the last forty-two years of working with parents, countless numbers have been heard to complain about their teenage children who they claim are doing things that seem “silly or destructive or insane.”
And
teens can exhibit one or more of those. But why? Because it takes approximately
13-15 years of dealing with parents who are driven by their personality trances
and by their learned ignorance and by their insanity for their children to also
be forced into a trance;
to also be left unawake and unaware and unconscious, just like their parents;
to also be trapped in learned ignorance, just like their parents; and to also
be strapped with the burden of personality defects and insanity, just like
their parents.
The source of that which parents complain about in terms of their teen children
would also be very simple to see - if parents could but see themselves; that
is, if they could see their own false, unawake, unaware, unconscious, ignorant,
insane selves.
Once
the simple understanding of the composite unity is understood, then there is
neither a body nor a mind nor assumed personalities that can complicate the
relative existence.
It is all so simple after it is understood that the elements cannot be upset,
understood that the air cannot be upset, and understood that energy cannot be
upset. No part of that which you temporarily are can be upset.
The only thing that can be upset is the imaginary not-you or the imaginary not-you’s. Only the not-you’s can complicate what would be an otherwise simple relative existence;
only the not-you’s can “always want, expect, and demand”; only the not-you’s can feel “empty, always in search of confirmation and reassurance”;
only
the not-you’s can be “afraid of and avoid enquiry”; only the not-you’s can “identify
with any support, however weak and momentary”; and only the not-you’s can
always “ask for more.”
It all really is so very simple to understand, once it has been explained in
simple, everyday terms, yes?
Next,
if the end of the search for labeling comes with the understanding that you are
nothing, what is to seek? The only thing to seek is that understanding.
(Do not take that as a Neo-Advaita pointer. There is more involved than “You
are what you seek. You’re done, so go away”; however, in some respects, it is
not much more involved than that, in the end.)
Then, being label-free and identity free, the remainder of the abidance can
happen naturally, simply, sanely, and rationally (which is the way that every
living thing on this planet abides, except for programmed and conditioned and
domesticated and acculturated humans).
That means, the remainder of the manifestation can happen without the burden of
having to “do” in order to sustain false identities.
That also means, the
remainder of the manifestation can happen without the burden of the egotism and
conceit that accompany the assumption of “noble” identities that actually
foster arrogance (such as, “The Supreme Self,” “The Most Superior Self,” “The
One at One with God,” or - in some cases - just “God”).
With nothing more to do, the illusion of the “do-er” can end and what then
begins is the mere beingness - marked not by anything unnatural and not by
anything thought to be supernatural but only by that which is nisargan /
natural.
See? Simple, yes?
If the Masses Could At Least Understand What They Are Not
Earlier,
this consideration was offered:
If the end of the search for labeling comes with the understanding that you are
nothing, what is to seek? The only thing to seek is that understanding.
Then,
being label-free and identity free, the remainder of the abidance can happen
naturally, simply, sanely, and rationally . . . without the burden of the
egotism and conceit that accompany the assumption of “noble” identities.
With nothing more to do, the illusion of the “do-er” can end and what then
begins is the mere beingness - marked not by anything unnatural and not by
anything thought to be supernatural but only by that which is nisargan /
natural.
Most will never seek the answer to the question “Who am I, really?” Among the few who do seek, few will ever find the answer . . . for a host of reasons. Primary among those reasons is the fact that they are asking the wrong question to begin with: There is no “WHO” and there is no “WHO-ness.”
The
legitimate question to ask is, “WHAT am I, really?” The answer, mentioned
earlier, is a “composite unity of elements, air, and -conscious-energy.”
Of course that has to do with the relative. What of those seekers that might
complete the seven steps to that allows the identification to shift from the
false “I” to the Absolute?
I have been here for the coming together of all universes, and so have You. If you choose to identify with the Absolute in this particular universe - that field of energy / Awareness from which all specks of consciousness manifest - with what can you identify prior to the field manifesting? You were even prior to that.
And
what was prior to that? The Void, then some other universe, then some other
Void, then some other universe, ad infinitum.
Because all is energy, matter, energy / matter, and since neither of those can
be created nor destroyed, they have always been, even prior to the formation of
this universe. Where were you prior? What were you prior? Merely matter/ energy
that has been cycling eternally.
So
you were; then you were not; then you were; then you were not, ad infinitum, as
one temporary speck of Am-ness manifested (or not) during an interim that
temporarily intervened upon the THAT-ness.
Because Reality is a no concept, no-identity, non-dual Reality, then what is
with all of this identity-seeking? [That will be a far-too-radical pointer for
most seekers, wanting as they do to define and re-define their self-ness and /
or Self-ness. So it is.]
To
find that which one is, one must find that which “one” has always been. And to
find that which “one” has always been, you must first find all that you are not
because it is all that you are not that blocks the seeing of that which you are
and that which was even prior to that.
Next, because all of those not-you’s are the present source of all misery and
suffering, there is only one logical conclusion that can be drawn: if you would
be free of misery and suffering, then you must know those not-you’s and end once
and for all their influence over your thoughts and words and deeds.
To be influenced and driven and controlled by the not-you’s would be no different from being influenced and driven and controlled by a mirage in the road ahead while driving through the desert.
Consider this illustration:
As mentioned here on occasion, 59% of all women murdered annually in the U.S.
are killed by one claiming at some point to have “loved” them: “The Lover” or “The
Boyfriend” or “The Husband” or “The Common Law Husband,” etc. When are those
women killed 59% of the time?
When
they try to leave their “Lover” or “Boyfriend” or “Husband” or “Common Law
Husband,” etc. (By the way, the women are “catching up” nowadays: 41% of all
males killed in the U.S. are killed by a woman during a breakup.) Why do such
murders happen?
Because in the example above, the male involved really believes that the
not-him is Him, and all not-him’s (and not-you’s) require a codependent
counterpart, a person willing to play the other part in any dualistic pairing. “The
Husband” can only “exist” (in his “mind”) if that role has one willing to play “The
Wife.”
If
“The Wife” determines that she is no longer willing to play the role that
reinforces the illusion of “Husband-ness” in the “mind” of the male involved
with her, then all “Husband” role-playing will end. He can no longer be a “Husband”;
he can only be an “Ex-Husband,” in his “mind.”
Identified with that role, the one playing “The Husband” will believe that he
is actually being attacked and will believe that he is about to be destroyed.
In the warped game of role-assumption, insanity can reach such a level of
severity that one mirage can come to believe that it can be assailed and annihilated
by another mirage.
Talk about the insanity of duality and the insanity of
believing in dualistic concepts and ideas and identities.
So consider: if the one playing “The Husband” in that example were to come to
understand that He is not a “Husband,” then he would not feel threatened and
would not feel driven to lash out in defense of a culturally-assigned and
culturally-encouraged mirage.
If
none of the people in relationships in the U.S. ever realized fully but were at
least to understand what they are not, then 59% of all women killed annually
would not be killed, and 41% of all men killed annually would not be killed. And
none of those people would have to understand anything about realization for
that to happen.
Consider the impact on the relative existence if only persons were at least to
understand what they are not, even if they never find the answer to “Who - or
what - am I, really?”
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."
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