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I AM THAT vs. “This Is Who I Think I Am”
“We believe in so many things on hearsay. We believe in distant lands and people, in heavens and hells, in gods and goddesses, because we were told. Similarly, we were told about ourselves, our parents, name, position, duties and so on. We never cared to verify.”
---Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
(Continued)
In this relative existence, nothing is going on but a breeziness of play, but persons are caught up in a tornado of work, in a storm of seriousness, and in a tempest of drama.
So-called “life” in this sphere of consciousness is just a process of functioning, and while the “mind” of a person will dream up notions about separation or differentiation, none exists.
The process just keeps on happening. A belief or a concept, a religion or a philosophy, a state or a nation, a hero or a villain . . . all are just part of the process of the functioning of the ever-in-motion consciousness.
All of those are just dreamed up names and labels, and all such dreamed up labels generate a false sense of reality. Understand that dreamed up labels are merely corruptions that are accumulated and stored in what becomes “the mind.”
The “journey” aims to put you fully in touch with reality. To be out of touch with reality is to be insane. This “journey” is about getting in touch with reality in order to be free of the bondage of the illusions and falsehoods of a “mind” exposed to years of acculturation.
Neither religions nor other philosophies nor ideologies offer the means that can produce the necessary brain-flush save completion of the entire non-dual “journey” which invites the dissolution of all of the contamination that is “the mind.”
Ultimately, non-dual combined with the nisarga yoga offers a set of pointers which have the “goal” of becoming the non-teaching by way of un-teaching. Why?
Because in every case where persons are still functioning under the influence of “their mind” (which each person erroneously takes to be “his mind” or “her mind”) the “mind” will reach a “terror-level-red” condition and will generate fears, and/or desires, and/or ignorance, and/or confusion, and/or fluctuation and chaos.
Bliss follows freedom - it never precedes freedom; furthermore, freedom only follows freedom from the “mind” - it never precedes it. Eliminated belief in the content of the mind?
Then freedom can come and then instances of bliss can come, and then consistent periods of contentment can come. Still have a mind? Then you will have no freedom, no bliss, no contentment.
25. Believe nothing that you see or hear. Find the pre-programming understanding and focus on that.
If you would ever know truth, you must abandon belief in all that you have heard. Why? Because the truth can be known but it cannot be stated. Nor can it be written. (So much for “holy” words and “holy” books.)
Furthermore, if you would ever grasp truth, you must stop believing that anything you see is as it appears. You watch images flashing across a television screen and become so embroiled in the action and words that it seems to be real;
yet if you were to pause for consideration, you would know that no one is really inside the box and that what you are seemingly seeing is really nothing more than an image ... actually, a series of still images moving very quickly in front of light.
The same could happen in a movie theatre: the light is constant, and only the rolls of film which move in front of the light are actually moving. That which appears on the screen (or seems to appear on the screen) is not real at all - it is just an image or a series of images being projected.
In reality, nothing is happening on the screen at all. No one who appears to be there really is, and no one who seems to be speaking is really there and speaking at all.
It happens billions of times per day all across the globe: the non-realized think they are seeing real people and think they are hearing real people speak when in reality it is only a fictional “mind” and fictional characters passing into and out of one's view. Images are coming into view. Ignorance is speaking. That is all that is happening.
So, too, it is with you as your memories of former images that were taken to be real are cast onto the screen of your (always misperceiving) “mind,” and are taken to be real;
however, the way you perceived things in the past was not valid, so how could those former projections be real when called up and projected again?
They are not; therefore, the past was not at all as you thought it was and is not at all the way it is being re-projected now.
Neither is the present as it seems. How many times have you been certain that a person is as he/she appears, only to discover upon further investigation that you had been deceived (or self-deceived) and thus led to exclaim, “I don’t even know who you are!” or “You are not the person I married!” Indeed.
So neither the past nor the present is as it appears, so why should any of that be taken to be real? Then fears (or desires) will project themselves onto what your “mind” takes to be “a screen of the future” and the “mind” will convince you that those projections are going to be real someday, even if they are not now.
What enormous deception and self-deception, yes? Maharaj, as is the case with all realized guides, offered varying messages about the “mind,” depending on where along “the path” a seeker might be.
While he recommended to the “more advanced” to be rid of the “mind” completely, he told one that had completed far less of “the journey” to “heal your mind and it will cease to project distorted, ugly pictures.”
If you are seeing something you perceive as being ugly and if you are not seeing Love, harmony and peace at every instant, trace the root of your condition to the “mind” and understand that what you think you are seeing is not that at all.
And if you are being affected by the images which are flashing across the screen of your “mind,” then understand that you are not only being deceived but understand also that you are so far removed from the sanity of being fully in touch with Reality that you may as well be in a desert and claiming that a mirage is “making you feel bad” or “making you feel good.”
Were you to realize fully, you could no more be affected by the images that are passing before your eyes - and being projected onto the warped screen of your “mind” - than a screen is affected by images being cast onto it in a theatre.
Now, even if you understand that pointer, can you apply it to what might appear before your eyes in a theatre where actors are moving about the stage? While images can be taken to be images and therefore not real at all, can you then apply that to the persons you see moving on the stage of the relative existence?
Can you see that what is happening before your eyes - in the home, at work, in stores, in traffic - is similarly not as it appears? If you had been here days ago and watched an exchange as I spoke to a speck of blocked consciousness and heard in response the “mind”-speak being generated by several personas, would you have been able to apply the pointers above?
Would you have seen immediately that one pure speck of consciousness was speaking but that a blocked speck was replying, or would you have thought that what you were hearing and seeing involved a person appearing before your eyes and being heard via your ears?
Would you have been able to understand that either consciousness speaks or ignorance speaks and then apply that to every happening throughout your own relative existence?
Are you understanding how it is that any play being performed by role-players who are moving across the stage of “The Theatre of the Lie” is just a play that is no more real than the flickerings on a television screen or on the screen of a movie theatre?
Are you also seeing how it is that I remain in Love and in peace and in harmony because it is clear that neither the television screen nor the theatre screen nor this screen that I am can be affected by any flickering images that I completely understand are not real?
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.
