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DANCING LIGHTLY
“And
heavy is the tread of the living, but the dead returning lightly dance.”
(Edward Thomas)
A RELEVANT CONSIDERATION
For billions of religious monomaniacs around the globe, their dogma and agendas have become their single focus. For millions more, the same is the case with their philosophies or ideologies or programs.
For some interested in non-duality, that interest can also become an obsession, constantly dominating their every waking moment. Don't all types who are obsessive or compulsive about anything - including their dogma, their ideology, their philosophy, their program or anything else - eventually prove to be rather boring company?
Realization results in lightness, not heaviness. A sure sign of realization is evidenced by a lack of excessive seriousness and the presence of frequent laughter. Post-realization, any further involvement with the teachings is just for entertainment, is just part of the dance.
Sure, when persons visit here for retreats, non-duality is the primary topic. When visits are paid to seekers in other cities, other countries, or on other continents, of course they want to talk about non-duality. That is all fine and is as it should be at that point.
Yet none of that is a part of the daily routine or happenings here. Posts are posted on the non-duality website most mornings, and once that is done, non-duality is also done for the day (some non-duality writing projects or Skype or Zoom sessions or retreats or email responses notwithstanding). After that, there is just the enjoyment of the freedom that has come via the understanding.
Do
some among “the realized” call here to discuss some element of the teachings
that brought a new awareness? Yes. Do some read the latest books released here?
Yes. But it is all for entertainment
With realization, the seeker dissolved, so seeking is not going on. Only entertainment is going on. Some realized guide, some do not, but even with them, the whole deal is mere entertainment.
If someone visits or calls and they are talking and behaving as “realized non-dualists” do, what more needs to be said or shared or discussed? Nothing, really, yet totally for the fun of it, totally for entertainment alone, there can be a dance that is entered into or shared.
It is a dance that does not interrupt the lightness but that can be a fleeting part of the lightness when DANCING LIGHTLY happens. Again, Post-realization, any further involvement with the teachings is just for entertainment, is just part of the dance.
A RELEVANT EXCHANGE BETWEEN ANDY AND FLOYD
In the “Editor's Note” to the anthologies of non-duality books entitled The Advanced Seekers' Series and The Blissful Abidance Series, Andy Gugar wrote of his first visit to the home of Floyd Henderson for a non-duality retreat:
“I went to Floyd's that first time with a considerable fear of death (rooted, I would learn, in body and mind and personality identification). He suggested that if I was so afraid of death that the best thing I could do would be to 'go ahead and die now.' Of course that was an anger-invoking, shocking comment to hear, but before I left, I understood that I could not die because I was not born - that what he was saying is that my ego(s) and my egotism must 'die.' I understood after that retreat that I cannot truly live until this ego - this illusion - dies.
“To that point, I was entering Floyd's house one morning through the door he leaves open while he is preparing breakfast for participants. As I entered, I shouted, 'Knock knock . . . anybody home?'
“He yelled back, 'No.' I got it . . . I knew exactly what he meant, and that understanding has remained and I have since enjoyed the freedom every day of knowing I am no body . . . nobody.”
To suggest that “ . . . heavy is the tread of the living, but the dead returning lightly dance” is not to suggest that one can only enjoy “dancing lightly” if they die. It happens for those that return to that “place” from whence they came - in the reverse order - and for those that then “come back” to the relative with a new understanding.
That understanding includes an understanding of the functioning of the totality, an understanding of how a speck of conscious-energy manifested and eventually became blocked from seeing Truth and was left in a condition of ignorance and even insanity that prevents seeing Reality and blocks all opportunity to differentiate the true from the false.
But if you complete this “journey,” you’re going to see exactly, step-by-step, how you got from the Absolute state to the false belief that you’re a body. And you’re going to see how to get from believing that you are a body to realization of the Absolute.
And seeing that complete cycle, then you’re going to understand all the cycles (including how the “cycling in” happens and how the “cycling out” happens).
You will understand each step of the “way in,” all the way from the Absolute to body identification; then you will understand why the way to realizing (and abiding as) the Absolute happens only when each of those steps is taken again, in reverse order.
Maharaj: “ . . . You should go back, reverse, to the source”
and
“Follow the same path by which you came.”
In the statement that it is “the dead returning that lightly dance,” the “death” referred to is the death of ego . . . the end of the assumption of ego-states as identities and the end of the use of egotism to defend those false roles. “Returning” refers to “the journey” by which seekers return to their original nature and then overlay the understanding of that nature on 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."
teachings which become a part of the Papal Magisterium.
