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I AM THAT vs. “This Is Who I Think I Am”
(Continued)
“When the non-realized consider or view a cadaver, a “dead” body, “the remains,” a corpse, only then does their perspective shift from being aware of a ‘who’ to - finally, though, unconsciously - perceiving a ‘that.’ For a brief instant, they experienced an accurate perspective, but that does not last.”
--Floyd Henderson
The non-dual path to peace has been laid out, a path which has been illuminated by realized guides not only for the centuries since the codification of these understandings in writing but also for thousands of years before in an oral fashion.
Now, with technological advances expanding the availability of the non-dual understanding, the options are clear: grope in the darkness or follow the lighted path. So why is this path nevertheless forsaken by most?
The present, planet-wide, primitive darkness is a result of ages of primitive beliefs. How is all of that Ultimate Sickness spread? To use Maharaj’s terms, it is spread via hand-me-down ignorance and hand-me-down stupidity and hand-me-down insanity, all three of which now reign.
Also the understanding is missed because the path here, which is illuminated by the Direct Path Method combined with the Nisarga (Natural) Yoga, is a path to nowhere, to nothing, to no one, to no One, to no Infinite Self-ness, to no beliefs about Soham or Brahmasmi, to no beingness, to no non-beingness, and to something even beyond the “non-ness.”
When the non-realized consider or view a cadaver, a “dead” body, “the remains,” a corpse, only then does their perspective shift from being aware of a ‘who’ to - finally, though, unconsciously - perceiving a ‘that.’ For a brief instant, they experienced an accurate perspective, but that does not last.
Persons yet attached to some
lingering WHO-ness will balk at even the mention of the No-WHO-ness.
Misery and suffering are generated by either desires or fears or both, and only
the egotism that accompanies the assumption of an ego-state desires to be “something”
and fears the prospect of identifying with nothing. For the willing, though,
the cataloguing of certain “strategies” will continue:
9. If you yet take yourself (or “YourSelf”) to be something or
someone, consider that you are ignoring one of the earliest invitations by the
non-dual guide, namely, to be free of all concepts and ideas and beliefs.
Even the contemplation of the chance that maybe “you are not something”
and that “you are not someone” can feel crushing, momentarily.
Yet beyond that imaginary
sense that “your entire ‘world’ is collapsing in upon you”
awaits the blissful peace of The Ultimate De-Accumulation . . . of total
de-accumulation. No “journey” could possibly be lighter than one
completed without any baggage at all.
You will find that what you took to be “your entire world” was
just so much fiction, but fiction that has been able, nevertheless, to make
your relative existence seem miserable at times. See that what you take to be “your
entire world” is totally artificial. How could a so-called “world”
that is inhabited by nearly eight billion artificial persons not be artificial as
well?
Artificiality can only generate misery because there is within a longing for
sincerity and authenticity and wholeness and Oneness. Being phony, false,
bogus, and artificial leaves a sense within of incompletion, and it is only the
sense of completion, fulfillment, stability and Love that can displace misery
and then fill what would otherwise seem to be a huge hole inside.
Misery, however, is that condition which follows another state, namely, a state
of confusion. The very belief that there is “your entire world”
(or any world at all that can be real when it is all a figment of the
imaginings of corrupt “minds”) is the source of your confusion
and of any subsequent relative misfortunes that follow.
Yet consider: if it is you - the many not-yous - that have set up a series of
roadblocks that prevent movement along the “path,” then it is you
that can participate with the illuminator of the path to remove the roadblocks,
proceed along the path, and thereby put to an end both confusion and misery.
There is no debate that it was not you who erroneously programmed and
conditioned yourself, but if you have not realized all that is being pointed to
in this series, and if you are not willing to question all of your beliefs,
then it is you that continues to cling to misery-generating non-truths and / or
half-truths.
Persons want to focus on “others” as they complain about the
sources of war and about being hurt by politicians and co-workers and mates and
traffic and “all of the fools in the world.”
Yet how
many have you hurt during your relative existence? How much discomfort have you
- the personal you’s - generated which have also negatively impacted
“others,” relatively speaking?
If you would have people stop all the harm, it must be asked: “Have you
stopped all the harm to ‘others’ and to yourself?” If you
want peace in the world, it must be asked: “Is it possible that you are
not willing to let go of everything required to have peace within?”
All war is simply an outward token of the inner hatred that exists in persons .
. . in the non-realized. Consider the pointers offered by Maharaj in this
exchange:
Questioner: Why do you say that existence and conflict are inseparable? Can
there be no existence without strife? I need not fight others to be myself.
Maharaj: “You fight
others all the time for your survival as a separate body-mind, a particular
name and form. To live you must destroy. From the moment you were conceived you
started a war with your environment - a merciless war of mutual extermination,
until death sets you free.”
If you would end war on the planet, then begin where you can best begin: inside
. . . with yourself, with your false selves. It is they who are “fighting
others.” It is they who are “fighting for their survival as a
separate body-mind.”
It is they who would “destroy”
any who challenge the existence of what is nothing more than a set of false
personas. Vanquish those inner foes before attempting to turn the focus onto “others.”
The cause of misery and suffering lies not with “others,” and
while the cause of all is all - and while the chain of causes is infinite - you
are the most immediate cause that you can address.
Finally, understand that if you want peace of mind, you have set an unattainable goal. As Maharaj noted, “There is no such thing as peace of mind.”
And as noted here, “There is
only peace if you are out of your mind” (i.e., out from under the influence of the fiction-filled and BS-filled mind and operating under the auspices of the brain).
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.
