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IF ONLY THREE HOURS OF MANIFESTATION REMAIN: The “Final” Talks of Floyd
The Relative Existence Will Never Be Stable, But That Which You Really Are Is Constant
THAT is constant which occurs continuously over a period of time and which does not change except in appearance.
For example, the elements which make up “wood” are unchanging elements, but wood can be manipulated to take on the appearance of a mallet, a bat, a table, a piano, a stage, a house, ad infinitum.
When Maharaj knew that the taking of mahasamadhi was approaching, his sharings became pithy, terse, concise and succinct.
Too,
if it became clear that here only three hours of manifestation remained for
sharing, then only the most central and most essential non-duality pointers
would be offered in a condensed version, compressed into what could be
delivered in that limited period.
So far, the following pointers have been offered for consideration:
1. Find the simplest version of these teachings. Do not complicate the process.
2. Filter your “ultimate objective” by sifting out all unnatural aims and all
supernatural ambitions, allowing only that which leads to the ability to abide
naturally and spontaneously and unaffectedly and effortlessly to pass through
the Nisargan sieve of realization which can strain out anything and everything
that is not normal and ordinary and instinctive and innate. Then see how simple
the relative existence can become via Realization and natural abidance.
3. End all efforts to replace former “bad” labels and roles with “new and
improved and upgraded and noble labels and roles.” Then, being label-free and
identity-free, the remainder of the abidance can happen naturally, simply,
sanely, and rationally. Meaning?
4. Do not reject one set of labels and roles and false identities for another
set of the same. (Yes, that is Advaita Vedantin heresy. So be it.) Labels are
the cancer on the relative existence.
If you have a cancer-ridden lung and the
doctor recommends a transplant using a lung that is also infected with cancer
cells, would you think that sane?
Why reject labels and roles to only replace them with other labels or roles?
Why go through all the hassle and debate and philosophical work of finding out
if you are . . .
an infinite self, An Infinite Self, the essence, the Absolute Reality,
Divinity, Atman, Consciousness, Awareness, a Supreme Self, The Most Superior
Self, The One Who Is at One with God, or - in some cases - even God . . .
if in the end you are to understand the Nothingness?
The point is offered here often that everything in the relative is much ado
about nothing. So is “the path” and “the journey” and “realization” as well if
they lead to anything other than a means by which the relative existence can
unfold in a sane and logical and natural manner after following the “path” to
its end, after completing the “journey,” after realizing.
(More Advaitin
heresy, right? But that is another of the “final” points that You are invited
to take away from all of the talks and writings.)
5. Next, understand that the relative existence will never be stable but that .
. .
a. not only can YOU be stable,
but
b. YOU already are that which can only be constant. Anything which can change is relative; that which is real is eternal. Why? Because at the simplest core, there is energy / matter, and neither of those can be created or destroyed.
Consider as an example one of the near-infinite number of dualistic aspects of
the relative existence - such as “healthiness” or “an absence of healthiness”
and see that the relative will always be marked by duality:
This speck, called “floyd” by some, was enjoying his health which allowed him
to operate a European tour company, to climb the hills of Tuscany, to hike to
the peaks of several Swiss Alps, and to walk the streets of all of the major
cities - and many of the smaller villages - of The Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, France,
Austria, the U.K., Monaco, and Italy.
Then certain symptoms appeared which indicated that an unhealthy condition had manifested. The doctor’s word: “cancer.”
Time was spent in treatment and
healing, at which point it was determined that the message which the inner
resource had been sending for years should finally be acknowledged.
As a result came retirement from “secure” employment in order to share these pointers / unteachings and to write about the non-duality understanding that
had come.
Within ten years, dozens of books had been written - and scores of
rejection slips had been received - with only three having been published in
that first decade of writing.
As always, the writings happened in the early morning hours, and the state of
health which had returned allowed many hours each day to be enjoyed on the
lake, allowed for motorcycle rides through forested areas, and allowed long
periods of time to be passed in the woods in many states throughout the U.S.
Then
came the day at the end of October in 2005 when a deer ran in front of the
motorcycle that was clipping along at 70 m.p.h. (or over 112 k.p.h.)
The crash resulted in a concussion; in seventeen bones being broken (including
both the fibula and tibia which were broken in half); in both shoulders being
dislocated; and in the hips being dislocated. It took nearly a year for
whatever healing was going to happen, but there would never be “full recovery.”
In
spite of that, the next five years of the relative existence passed with
considerable enjoyment, traveling again throughout Europe but this time for
pleasure only, accompanied by a friend from college with whom I had been
reunited.
Then in March of 2010, the health declined again. The diagnosis was that
neither the heart nor the lungs were functioning in a normal fashion.
As is the case with all things relative, there were “good” days and “bad” days until October of 2011 when the crash came.
The diagnosis: there was a near-complete
blockage of the LAD; there was internal hemorrhaging which dropped the red
blood cell count from 15 to 7;
angioplasty opened some arteries and the placement of a stent addressed the major
blockage; but then the use of blood thinners aggravated the internal
hemorrhaging, resulting in a hemoglobin count of 4.7 by the time that
readmission to the hospital was required;
and there was also, as a result of
anemia, the deterioration of a valve that has been generating a murmur since
the age of fifteen.
Now, the state of the stent and the blood either clotting or not clotting much
unfold as it will since thinners cannot be used. So it is.
The point is, if you review what happened in terms of that one aspect of the
relative existence alone - namely, the fluctuations that happened in terms of “healthiness”
and “an absence of healthiness” - it should be clear that nothing in the
relative will be stable.
All
is in flux. The only constant is change. Moreover, the similar relative events
will cycle as well. Doubt that? Consider the global chaos that began in 2008
when banks and financial institutions began crashing. Then consider what
Maharaj shared in this exchange nearly four decades ago:
Questioner: “I may not want to change. My life is good enough as it is.”
Maharaj: “You say so because you have not seen how painful is the life you
live. You are like a child sleeping with a lollypop in its mouth. You may feel
happy for a moment by being totally self-centered, but it is enough to have a
good look at human faces to perceive the universality of suffering.
Even
your own happiness is so vulnerable and short-lived, at the mercy of a
bank-crash, or a stomach ulcer. It is just a moment of respite, a mere gap
between two sorrows. Real happiness is not vulnerable, because it does not
depend on circumstances.”
But as far as you are concerned, all that can happen in terms of instability is
that you can be blocked (via programming, conditioning, domestication, and
acculturation) from knowing the fact that you are that which can only be stable
and that can never be unstable;
however,
in more cases than not among the non-realized masses, persons reach a point
where their relative existence seems as if it is taking place on a runaway
train, and often it seems that the result is one train wreck after another.
The remedy offered here? Reach the destination at the end of the “path” and be
done with it all. Reaching the end of the “path” is not about staying “there.”
The invitation is to leave the train and to abide naturally and calmly, enjoying whatever the relative might offer that you can enjoy. For those who have seemingly completed the “journey” and now believe that they are “there” is evidence of either distortion, delusion, or dissociation.
While
manifested, You are “here.” Enjoy here. Enjoy now. It is all there will be for
you and You.
Maharaj said: “Like a traveller nearing his destination and collecting his
luggage, he leaves the train without regret.”
The invitation is to leave the speeding, unstable train on which most are
presently riding. Then, the remainder of the manifestation can unfold as if you
are standing on a hill next to the railroad track.
You will merely watch the trains race by, and You observe that sometimes a train passes by safely and that sometimes it crashes and burns. Either way, you are no longer aboard.
As both the witness and as Pure Witnessing, you are stable as
all that is variable and shifting and unstable happens as if you are viewing it
all from a platform where Reality has been overlaid on the relative. Effort and
travel and “journeying” are no longer required.
Maharaj: “The jnani is already dead to name and shape. How can their loss
affect him? The man in the train travels from place to place, but the man off
the train goes nowhere, for he is not bound for a destination. He has nowhere
to go, nothing to do, nothing to become.”
Understand all of the above and then you will know that, though the relative
existence will never be stable, YOU are that which is constant. You will know
that (during the remainder of the post-realization existence), you can observe
the relative instability from an unaffected and totally stable position of
neutrality.
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.
