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DANCING LIGHTLY
“And
heavy is the tread of the living, but the dead returning lightly dance.”
(Edward Thomas)
“ANYONE UP TO DANCING LIGHTLY?”
The “non-realized” do not dance lightly. Persons who are restless and irritable and discontent and angry and claiming to be victims do not feel like dancing lightly. Yet this pointer was offered in the book What BLISS Is and What BLISS IS Not:
“There is no need to wait. There is no need to believe that the end of suffering must involve “future” opportunities. The only opportunity is here and now”
and
“Bliss and freedom and happiness and compatibility with nature in the nisarga fashion can only happen NOW.”
Also relevant to the present discussion are some of the pointer offered in the book THE MYTH OF DEATH:
“Now there is no post-manifestation dancing going on, but all of this now is the dance for those ‘returning’ . . . returning to their natural state and abiding as that / THAT. And indeed those who have ‘died the death’ of ego and egotism are the only ones currently ‘dancing lightly’.”
Understand, if you would dance lightly, that there is an ever-present, oh-so-sweet, melodic tune being played by the Presence as it strums gently on the strings of the heart.
It cannot be heard if the strings on which it is played have been rendered dissonant by programming”; if they have been made cacophonous by conditioning; if they have been reduced to something quite jarring by acculturation; and if they have been left inharmonious by domestication and indoctrination and brainwashing.
Only a peace-robbing, peace-ending harshness will register. The call is to clear away all that blocks the heart, allow yourself to hear the joyous tune of realization, and come to the dance.”
THE INVITATION TO ENTER “THE DANCE HALL”
There
should be nothing about a “no-mind” existence that is difficult to accept.
Anyone who has gone to see a movie or a play on the stage of a theater has
entered into that no-mind state for a least part of the time.
All is merely being witnessed with the witness remaining totally silent. The “mind”
goes into neutral, at least for part of the time there, so no thought at all is
arising as all of the events are being witnessed.
So what makes the movement along the “path” so challenging when the point is
reached where the “mind” must be left behind if the “journey” is to be
completed in full? In the book, The Path
to Freedom vs. The Path to Misery, this pointer is offered:
“For most, the search begins when seekers think that they need new concepts to
replace their old ones. And there’s the rub. Many versions of the non-dual pointers
will fill that bill, but here, the nisarga approach affirms that no ‘replacement
beliefs are necessary.’ The direct path method and the nisarga yoga make clear
that there is no replacement and that it is senseless to try to make sense of
the senseless.”
When the doctors that removed cancerous polyps from this elemental plant food
body, they were not asked, “So what are you going to put in their place?” It
would be insane to have the source of misery removed but to want something
substituted in place of that source of suffering.
Possibly an understanding of the way the “mind” has shifted from “friend” status
to “enemy” status can break the hold. The full explanation is available in the
book, THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS 'PEACE OF
MIND (There Is Only Peace if You're Out of Your Mind), but here is some
additional explanation for now:
Human and human-like forms have lived in swamps - and later walked the planet - for 14.5 million years. Minds
began to form only at the very end of that period, at least in evolutionary
terms.
[Christians
have mocked that fact here, claiming that “the correct number is a little over 6000 years.”
Whatever.]
Yet humans worked together, foraged together, hunted together, survived today,
reproduced together, fought together, and played together for millions of
years, all without language and, therefore, all without thought.
After the mind formed at the end of the evolutionary progression, if something
was stored in the mind and retrieved, it was for the sake of perpetuating the
species that was otherwise functioning under the auspices of the brain, the
intuition, the sixth sense, and the inner resource.
No one ever had to ask anyone else, “Would you please just shut up for a few
minutes?! Can you allow me to enjoy just a few minutes in the peace and quiet?!
Can you please stop talking for just that long?!”
No, the peace and quiet was the norm, not the exception. As with all other
forms abiding on the planet at that time, it would be insane to be noisy and
thereby attract animals that would love to feast on you. The silence and the
quiet were tools for preservation. (They still are, but are seldom used among
the masses.)
Quite a contrast to the egotistical way that so many persons function nowadays,
yes? Now humans move about with a demand to “Look at me!” and the attitude that
“You will listen to my loud music or my incessant talking, whether you want to
hear any of it or not.”
So here's the state now that is quite different from the state of humankind for
millions of years: now, all moves in a progression from thought to word to
deed. All actions begin with a thought, are expressed orally, and then result
in an action.
A trip out-of-state to conduct a seminar required traveling through the city of
Jasper, Texas. Events that shined a national spotlight on that town have been
discussed before when several white supremacists killed a black man.
The whites first had the thought “I am different from black people and I am
better than black people.” Then they began organizing meetings in Jasper where
whites stood before other whites and expressed orally their hatred for blacks.
Thoughts lead to words, and words led to the deed of three men kidnapping the
black man James Byrd, taking him to a remote, country road, placing a chain
around his neck and attaching it to the back of their truck, and pulling him
along the road until he was decapitated.
Thought . . . word . . . deed. That is the current modus operandi of humans.
They think; then they talk and talk and talk about what they are thinking and
believing, showing off their supposed knowledge, showing how wise they are,
pushing their beliefs on others; then, they act on those words. Their thoughts
drive their words and their words drive their behavior.
And because the thoughts among the masses are based in ignorance at best - and
insanity at the extreme - then their behaviors can be nothing other than
ignorant and insane as well. The mind that served the species well has now
turned on its hosts and is devouring them from within.
Where the untapped inner guru could be leading to constructive behavior
(relatively speaking) the tapped “mind” is doing the opposite. The brain says
from the stupor of a morning hangover, “I'll never do that again!” Wise counsel
from the brain indeed.
But by 5 P.M., the “mind” says, “Well, you could just have one drink. You know
you need it before you go home and face what's waiting there.” Overriding the
constructive messages from the brain, the “mind” is hell-bent on destroying the
self.
Now, communication and talking flood the airways, businesses, carpools, homes,
everywhere. Because thoughts are racing, then words are racing, and with words
racing, endless going and doing and zooming are the behavioral result.
The unconscious drive is to allow the speed of the body to catch up with the
speed of the “mind” so some sense of equilibrium might manifest, but it will
never happen;
thus,
going and doing and zooming combine with talk and talk and more talk to become
the rule, and it all happens on a “thinking-mind-to-thinking-mind” level. Only
if seeking begins, and only if a Realized teacher is found, can other types of
communication possibly happen.
If the seeker follows the “path” in a step-wide fashion, only then might “communicating”
happen in a consciousness to thinking mind manner; in a consciousness to
working mind fashion; in a consciousness to inner guru / inner resource mode;
in
a pure consciousness to unblocked consciousness style; in an inner guru / inner
resource to inner guru / inner resource mode; and eventually in an awareness to
awareness style, after which nothing needs to be said.
Then, in the absence of thoughts and words, the behavior that erupts
spontaneously is “The Dance” . . . merely “Dancing in Silence,” “Dancing in the
Quiet,” “Dancing in Peace.”
That is what the realized guide does, in the end. She / He invites you to the
dance, but you must leave all thoughts outside the dancehall, all words outside
the dancehall, and all personas and beliefs and ideas and concepts outside the
dancehall.
In the dancehall of realization, there is everything and there is nothing;
therefore, there is Love and there is Wisdom, and neither of those requires a
thought or word to manifest.
To be continued.
Please enter into the silence of contemplation.
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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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