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DANCING LIGHTLY
“And
heavy is the tread of the living, but the dead returning lightly dance.”
(Edward Thomas)
“The
desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews.
Not to be born is the best for man.
The second best is a formal order.
The dance's pattern; dance while you can.
Dance, dance, for the figure is easy.
The tune is catching and will not stop.
Dance till the stars come down from the rafters.
Dance, dance, dance till you drop.”
W.H. Auden
THE NEXT LEVEL OF UNDERSTANDING:
THE ILLUSION OF DARKNESS
The following pointer was offered in the past but is also relevant here: Have you seen that there is no duality of light and dark?
When you look into the sky at
night and see the moon because the light is reflecting from its surface, have
you been fooled into thinking that the light is not also all around the moon
and simply not seen because it is not being reflected?
There is no darkness. There is only the non-reflected light. There is no heavy
life. There is only the Lite Life that is not seen because the light is not
being reflected as a result of the impure or blocked consciousness;
additionally,
that means that there is no one to seek enlightenment . . . no one to
experience “the rumblings and the shakings and the booming noise and an
atmosphere of chaos” that only seem to be real because misperception is the
rule among the non-realized.
There are only the personas that think they are experiencing the rumblings and
the shakings and the booming noise and an atmosphere of chaos when they believe
that they are real and when they believe that they are being hurt or interfered
with or threatened.
Yet all persons and many “seekers” are so confused that they mistake the dawn for the noon, the light for the dark, the dark for the light, and the heavy for the lite. Further, you are the light that you seek, and if you find “that you” / that Light, then Life Lite will manifest as well.
The
question is, has the garbage been set out? Has it all been hauled away? The
real garbage was never in a disposable bag; instead, it was placed between your
ears by those who stole your chance at simplicity. Take back what was stolen.
Then hold it firmly, for even as you abide as your original nature, this
AM-ness will go on, and in that AM-ness, how narrow the odds are that you will
bump up against anyone in the light.
Even
as they are certain they are being bathed in the full light of the noonday sun,
the masses are actually far removed from the light. In that condition, they will
reach out and try to pull you into that state with them.
They come bearing all sorts of relative existence enticements, and if your
fears and desires drive you to reach for their enticements, you may grasp their
enticements with one hand but they will grasp your other hand and enslave you,
stealing once more not only your chance at simplicity but actually stealing you
as well.
At some point, their promise of Life Lite will be seen to be Life Heavy; their promise of Life Light will be seen to be a life of delusion where Life Darkness will seem to have come upon you once again.
What drives those who have come so close to stabilizing in that original nature to once again reach for enticements and, in the process, turn their back on the light?
The self / selves have not been completely abandoned, once and for all.
The perceived needs and unmet desires of a personal self have returned to chase
after what it wants and to try to avoid what it does not want.
Maharaj: “The personal self by its very nature is constantly pursuing pleasure
and avoiding pain. The ending of this pattern is the ending of the self.
“The
ending of the self with its desires and fears enables you to return to your
real nature, the source of all happiness and peace. The perennial desire for
pleasure is the reflection of the timeless harmony within.
“It is an observable fact that one becomes self-conscious only when caught in
the conflict between pleasure and pain, which demands choice and decision. It
is this clash between desire and fear that causes anger, which is the great
destroyer of sanity in life.
“When
pain is accepted for what it is, a lesson and a warning, and deeply looked into
and heeded, the separation between pain and pleasure breaks down, both become
experience - painful when resisted, joyful when accepted.”
In the end, though, when the lesson is not accepted, then the supposedly “easier
way” that is often turned to will be revealed at some point to be the “most
difficult way of all.” Those pulled away from the light will enter a prison
which they mistakenly believe in the beginning is a palace.
Only the dim and flickering light can shine at that point, the bright light of
awareness having been dimmed by the fears and desires of their various
personalities.
It
is at that point that they will approach a snake, sure that what they are
seeing in the dim light is a rope. To set aside the personal is to set aside
the notion that you are not already free and independent; to set aside the
personal is to set aside the liberty-robbing belief that you need rescuing.
You
will again be able to see beyond the imagined duality of darkness and light and
an end will come to what seems to be the constant shifts from one to the other.
Having transcended belief in the slings and arrows and outrageous fortunes of a
personal, relative existence, and having transcended belief in any personal
limited space that is trapped in humanity’s concepts of time (which always
blocks the understanding of the cyclings),then:
You will fear not. You will no longer be constantly preoccupied with the peace-stealing sense of need for you will have understood your immortality and invulnerability. You will remember again that there is not a single part of the composite unity that can be harmed.
Then
the relative can continue, but you will abide in freedom from things feared, or
things perceived to be unmet needs, with no sense of personal existence at all.
You will have understood that whatever was personal that was taken to be real
was just space with a temporarily manifested speck of consciousness.
You will have understood that even the speck has no continuity within that
space, one quantity of such energy coming and going and another coming and
going until the manifestation ends entirely.
You
will relax in the awareness of the fact that what truly IS will return to the
limitless space; then, you will understand that you are a limitless space that
might as well relax in the peace of nothingness right now - understanding that
there is nothing to bother because there is nothing to be bothered:
Maharaj: “Immortality is beyond time and space; in that timeless, spaceless
existence there is no entry for the five elements, for light or darkness, for
the sun or the moon. Timeless, spaceless existence doesn’t know that it is.
That is reality.”
Imagine the freedom of existing and not knowing that you exist, that is -
paying no heed to this illusion-filled existence at all - thereby being freed
from being driven by things relative that you thought were real but were not.
When you are asleep you do not know you exist.
If the brain goes to the delta level, you are free because you are free of
belief in the duality of light and dark, a belief which triggers the shifts
between happiness and unhappiness.
Even
while being totally awake, aware, and conscious, such freedom as is found in
deep sleep can manifest. You will no longer mistake the light for the dark, and
You will most assuredly not mistake the dark for the light.
Maharaj: “The light is there, the darkness is there, but what is the
background? The space. The space is there which is neither the light nor the
dark, but the space is. You have to transcend light and darkness to abide in
space.
“Similarly,
one has to transcend the knowingness and no-knowingness - the aspects of bodily
consciousness. If you have reached that state you are watching consciousness
and no-consciousness, that is called natural samadhi.
“Naturally you are in that state, but this psychosomatic instrument of body and
consciousness is always available. The moment somebody comes, the instrument is
being operated - otherwise you revert to the Absolute.”
Revert to the Absolute or you will revert to the state where “they” will
imprison you again with their concepts and enticements. Revert to the Absolute,
or allow the thieves to come and steal again what they stole in the beginning
and have stolen many times since.
Then
you will understand that there was not any real darkness at all, only the
delusions of the “mind” and the fears and desires of the fictitious personas
abiding therein that inspired you to close your eyes and to refuse to see the
light that was already there.
You will understand that the light reflected from the surface of the moon is
just as present in the area surrounding the moon as the light striking and
being reflected from the surface. Similarly, you will understand that the days
that seemed the darkest were based in illusory fears and desires regarding
unreal needs.
You will understand (in terms of the Absolute) that there is light and that it was always there; and you will also come to understand (in terms of the relative) that there is also lightness there as well.
Thereafter, you will dance lightly for the remainder of the relative existence.
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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