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DANCING LIGHTLY
“And
heavy is the tread of the living, but the dead returning lightly dance.”
(Edward Thomas)
THE LIGHTNESS CAN NEVER COME BEFORE THE LIGHT
Yesterday’s post ended with this:
Maharaj noted the all-too-frequent movement of going from stranger to acquaintance to friend to lover to fiancé / fiancée to spouse to wonderful spouse to not so wonderful spouse to horrible spouse to enemy to mortal enemy.
And all of that is nothing more than a movement in consciousness, all involving
misperceptions and labeling and ego-states being assigned and assumed. The versions offered by various “teachers” of non-duality to address all of that, and to
replace the heaviness of fluctuations with the incredible lightness of being,
include:
1. Stopping the “journey” when it is believed that some “True Self” has been
found. Many try that approach;
2. “Moving” to the Absolute only, claiming to be THAT alone, rejecting the
AM-ness totally. Yet THAT is still an identity, often assumed alongside the “Supreme
Self.”
If
the AM-ness is not totally rejected, then there can be the simultaneous
assumption of the “Supreme Self” and “The Spiritual Giant,” some taking that to
be the I AM THAT and the Superior I AM. Close, but no cigar;
or, by contrast,
3. a few guides suggest overlaying the Reality on the relative. Maharaj said that even with him,
there is always a lingering speck of the original, primary personality type (in
his case, the Type Four that is involved with the search for the authenticity).
When
that happens, there is no total detachment from the AM-ness, but there is no
ever-present attachment to the AM-ness, either. There is that position of
neutrality which allows feelings to rise, to be felt, and to fall away without
suffering the insanity of emotional intoxication.
The deer in this neighborhood that abide naturally are free of the machinations
of the mind that plague humanity; however, the deer are not free of the
feelings that relative events can bring.
To clarify, recall an event shared in other writings when the normalcy and naturalness of feeling short-term “situational depression” was discussed. Some depression might be situational and in such cases is natural.
For
example, during the years spent in the forest, various animals were seen to be “grieving”
as they inspected the fallen remains of a companion. Here’s an example:
One spring, a buck and doe were observed while grazing in one of their regular
feeding spots. Later in the fall, they were seen on several occasions while
mating; then, at the beginning of the following summer, it was seen that a fawn
had joined in their grazing sessions.
In late August or early September, gunshots rang out near a creek. After
following one of the trails that led toward the water, the following was
witnessed:
the
fawn had been shot and had run some distance from the creek before falling. The
doe and the buck both seemed to be smelling it and nudging it, trying to
encourage it to rise and run, but they eventually realized it was not going to
happen. They stood still and witnessed.
Both spent some time there involved in what was clearly an instance of
situational depression. Their demeanor left no doubt that feelings were
arising. Suddenly, two boys - hunting out of season - began making a great deal
of noise as they approached.
It
was seen that the feeling of grief being experienced by the deer was being
replaced by a feeling of fear. They were torn, moving away from the fallen
animal for a moment, then returning for a few moments in a final effort to
check on the fawn.
On another occasion, there was a recounting of an event that happened just feet
away, right outside the window of this office. A fawn was still-born. The doe
tried nudging the body to inspire the fawn to stand. The buck walked over and
touched the body with its nose. That went on for many minutes.
Then, the doe and the buck began walking away, only to be driven to return and
try again and again to test their offspring for signs of life.
It
was a long, heart-wrenching process, watching those two deer that were
obviously so sad over this turn of events. There was the fluctuation between
the earlier joy and pleasure of copulation and this sadness over the demise of
their offspring.
So it is among some of the realized that, in spite of being realized, are nevertheless
attuned to the ever-changing aspects of the relative but able to move beyond
permanent attachment to things not permanent.
That
allows the realized to avoid emoting but to forever be able to feel. Often the
feelings are more powerful than at other times, but never is there an
uncontrollable and uncontrolled urge to become emotionally-intoxicated and
generate harm.
Remember when Maharaj was asked “if he cared” that he replied, “More than you
will ever know.” Does that sound like there were no feelings being felt? Does
that sound like Maharaj had shifted to a state where he was void of feeling
anything even though he was abiding as The Void rather than as anything
identified or identifiable?
To the contrary, the case is this: in the quiet witnessing, understanding can
come, and it is via that process that, again, the realized are able to perceive
what is called “the world” - as well as everything that happens throughout the
relative existence - by way of the luminosity of pure understanding; the non-realized
see only what is reflected in a dim and flickering light.
In the luminosity of pure understanding, how could there ever be a
manifestation of judgment which always generates a sense of separation and
better-than-ment? There can be no judging of anyone if the driving forces
behind thoughts and words and deeds are understood completely.
In the light of Reality and reality and truth, all can be felt. An entire gamut
of feelings can happen. But they can happen without shifting into
personality-driven thoughts and words and deeds that blindly drive persons into
acts that anyone not emotionally-intoxicated could see are going to generate
tremendous suffering as a result of the consequences.
For those seeking the lightness of being, however, the light must precede the
lightness; the lightness can never come before the light.
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.
