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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
THE CONCLUSION
Maharaj said, “If you trust me, believe when I tell you that you
are the pure awareness that illuminates consciousness and its infinite content.
Realize this and live accordingly. If you do not believe me, then go within,
inquiring ‘What am I’? Or, focus your mind on ‘I am’, which is pure and simple
being.”
Now, that chance for “simple being” is taken away early on in the case of each
manifestation, robbing persons of knowing who they are (or, accurately, what they are) and blocking the consciousness from being
illuminated by the pure awareness.
That which was once simple has become quite burdensome as a result of your being burdened with personality . . . with
the assumption of bogus personas as real identities.
Non-realized persons think
that they are so many things, and every one of those things thought to be real
is a source of egotism and offense and discontent and complications that lead
to a very complex and frustrating existence.
Beingness is very simple; being “something” is most complex. Here, the relative
existence is simple as a result of the wisdom of knowing I Am nothing and is
Loving as a result of knowing the
Oneness . . . the At-one-ment.
Here, the existence is simple because it is a singular existence, not marred by
the false belief in multiplicities because it is not marred by the presence of
a “mind.”
“But I have this ‘mind,’ Floyd. How can I possibly be rid of it?” Also, simply.
The “mind” is merely the storehouse of all of the lies and concepts and beliefs
and learned ignorance that you have been taught. If you discard belief in that
nonsense, then the “mind” is automatically emptied and becomes, therefore,
non-existent.
Having seen the lies as lies, it became a simple process to forget it all.
Persons believe that is impossible or at least tremendously difficult. It was far easier for me to
forget it all than it is for you to remember it all.
Moving spontaneously through the existence has become a far more simple,
effortless happening for this mindless
me than for the non-realized trying to negotiate the relative existence
while living under the influence of the fallacious content of a “mind.”
For those persons who are not mindless, then their “mind”-driven existence is
highly complex indeed. Your yoga here is the nisarga yoga, inviting you to abide as the
awareness (and beyond) and thereafter to function naturally.
Be free of the unnatural and
supernatural elements that are filling your / “their” mind and robbing you of
peace and freedom and joy.
This message is simple; the existence that follows the understanding of this
simple message is a simple existence. Among those seekers that complete the
final steps, they abandon belief in all nonsense and they begin to live
naturally, just like every other living thing on the planet except humans.
They find what they were robbed of, and when they know that simplicity was
stolen from them and they follow the “path” to its end and find that
simplicity, then their lives become simple for the remainder of the
manifestation.
Complexities fade away. Anxiety disappears. Reality is overlaid upon the relative existence and the realized
(abiding as the awareness and beyond) live in a sane manner.
Such specks move spontaneously
by brain-centered logic and reason rather than via “mind”-centered arrogance
and ego-states and egotism and magical thinking and unnatural and supernatural
efforts to live in a way that makes them “special” or “better-than.”
May you see that you have been robbed and retrieve that which can be yours once more.
Offered now are all thirty pointers for moving through the relative existence in Love, in peace, in harmony, and in touch only with that which is natural:
1. Witness.
2. Be done with the notions of experiences and an experiencer.
3. Abide as the “awakened / alert sleep” state.
4. Be unflinchingly true to Truth.
5. Abide as the original, natural, pre-universe state, identified only with the
nothingness until even that identity falls away.
[PLEASE NOTE: There is no one to benefit from Realization. There is but the
opportunity to live naturally during the remainder of the relative existence.
It is the nisarga yoga that is the key element of all of the teachings here
with no intent other than to afford an opportunity to live naturally rather
than unnaturally and supernaturally . . . a.k.a., trapped in magical thinking.]
6. Seek the Void, the Ultimate De-Accumulation, The Nothingness.
7. Abandon all egotistical beliefs about supremacy.
8. Be concerned with the war that most impacts your relative existence.
[PLEASE NOTE: Again, a seeker during the recent satsang admitted to the
lingering effects of early programming: attachment to body (including fear of
illness and death), exacerbated by the fear of the potential for eternal
punishment. I say to all in that mental-emotional trap, the sooner “you” die,
the better, relatively speaking.]
The sooner you see that “you” were not born, the sooner that “you” can die.
The sooner you see that whatever was not born cannot die, the better,
relatively speaking.]
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 mom-dual guide,
namely, to be free of all concepts and ideas and beliefs.
10. Associate with “company” that does not reinforce beliefs about “separation”
and duality (otherwise known as what Maharaj called “good company” and “noble
friendship” and “holy company”). If that is not available, then keep only your
own company instead.
11. Never compromise your integrity and your dedication to the understanding.
To falter in impeccability - that is, to compromise in regards to zero tolerance
of anything short of zero concepts - will leave you in as much chaos as those who
have never heard these teachings and are trapped in duality 24-7.
12. Understand that a refusal by an Advaitin to associate with certain persons
or groups does not suggest that the Advaitin does not still understand the
Oneness.
13. Be childlike without being childish.
14. Unlearn all learned ignorance to return to the Child (Free Of) Ignorance state.
15. Admit that the mind” - initially the seat of all ignorance - will also
eventually become the guardian of all ignorance as well.
16. Admit that no one (including seekers and non-seekers as well) can know what
she/he does not know, and admit that what you think you know is nothing more
nor less than learned ignorance.
17. Understand that there is no such thing as a “non-dual belief.”
18. Efforts to quiet the “mind” or to ignore thoughts cannot succeed with any
consistency.
19. The “mind” is the instrument that supports your personality with thoughts,
and those thoughts are the instruments that will forever prevent “peace of “mind”;
in fact, there is no such thing as “peace of “mind.” There is only peace if
freed of the ““mind.”
20. Consciousness is rooted in the Absolute. The brain is rooted in the
elements. The ‘“mind”’ is rooted in wrong programming and faulty conditioning
and lies and concepts and ideas and superstitions and falsehoods.
21. You are in a play, playing a role, and believing that the role and the play
are both real. Why would you believe such nonsense? Because “your “mind” is the
playwright, the author of every scene.
22. Everything that is said here is to be used to get rid of another false
belief until all ideas and emotional intoxication and beliefs are gone and
nothing remains but the unstated understanding. Only then can the constant
churning and re-churning of the false beliefs of the corrupted “mind” finally
cease.
23. What is that inner resource, that inner guru? It is the vestige of pure
consciousness that remains, deeply buried beneath the waste called “your mind.”
24. In order to know (the great) Reality, you must be sane. In order to be
sane, you must be out of your “mind.”
25. Believe nothing that you see or hear. Find out what you already know (which
is hidden behind a miasma of learned ignorance).
26. Persons are not at all what they appear to be.
27. No more is anyone given a simple life; furthermore, your complex life and
problems are not of your own making.
28. For millions of years, humankind had a simple life before complex problems
became the status quo. You can go back - if you go all of the way back in the
strictest, non-duality sense - to a simple life.
29. The most “controversial pointers” (that is, those which trigger a reaction
from persons among the non-realized who are trapped in ego-states and egotism)
are those that deal with their religious and / or spiritual beliefs.
30. The religious and spiritual stages, however, are only the third of seven
steps on “the path” to full realization.
Peace, Unity, Love and Light.
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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.
