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THE CURSE OF HUMANKINDS’ RELATIVE EXISTENCE: IDENTIFICATIONS
“Wisdom is knowing I am nothing. Love is knowing I am everything.”
--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Visitors to this site understand that as Maharaj’s versions of the Ultimate Medicine developed, he was moved through three stages wherein the focus of his talks shifted radically.
So, too, was there a shift in the way he viewed “the journey” and “the path.”
The “journey” in the end was a journey away from the symptoms of the Ultimate Sickness and the “ignorance and stupidity and insanity” which come with the Sickness that is his spread via ignorant and stupid and insane programming, conditioning, domestication, acculturation, brainwashing, and indoctrination.
[He did not say that “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity” manifest in the form of humans; he made clear that “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity” manifest in the form of ideas, concepts, notions, perceptions, misperceptions, unclear perspectives, thoughts, impressions, theories, and hypotheses - all of which boil down to one thing: “beliefs.”
And the most common of the chaos-generating beliefs are the false identifications which people are assigned or which they assume and are willing to fight to preserve. The most common of those are addressed in the first three steps on “the path”: body identification, mind identification, and personality identification.]
The steps on the original “path” conceived but never enumerated by Maharaj numbered seven; in the end, he recommended the use of a four-step path. The first three steps of the seven-step path and the first three steps of the four-step path both addressed the relative problems generated by false identities, by false identifications.
Thus, originally, the suggestion was that 57% of the problems of humankind are generated by identities; later, the suggestion was that 100% of the problems of humankind are generated by the identities stored in the mind, and the fourth step offered the solution . . . offered the way to be free of the effects of the garbage planted in the mind.
Much attention is given to one Maharaj quote in particular, a quote which is misunderstood by most:”Wisdom is knowing I am nothing. Love is knowing I am everything.”
The I am nothing part is highly misunderstood, and so is the “Love” part.
To clarify:
One of the Delphic maxims offered by the Ancient Greeks was the aphorism, “Know thyself,” expressed nowadays as, “Know who you are” or “Know yourself” or “ Know thyself” or “Find the real self” or “Fine your True Self.”
None of that is even remotely possible because - in reality - there is no “who-ness,” no WHO-ness,” no “self,” no “Self,” no “you” and no “You.”
Rather than ask, “WHO am I?” one might ask “What Am I” and “What is this which is temporarily-manifested and which some supposedly 'I' has been trained to refer to as 'I'?”
[It is “something,” though temporary, not eternal, as is THAT.]
WHAT that present temporary “something,” is is a triad, a composite unity made of three parts. All three parts are constantly coming into the composite unity and leaving the composite unity, so the “I” (or the “you” as some refer to “me”) has no continuity at all.
What the unity is one second is not the same unity the next second. The skin is replaced every 28 days. The stomach lining is replaced every few days. Various parts are always coming and going.
Why else?
Because the three parts of the composite unity are constantly in movement, constantly manifesting in the space formed by the unity and then constantly unmanifesting from that space.
The three parts are:
1. elements which form a temporary plant food body;
2. oxygen circulating into and out of the space formed by the elements;
and
3. conscious-energy which is also manifesting within the space and then unmanifesting.
One of the grandest delusions regarding “the consciousness” is the notion that there is this quantity of consciousness which has existed within “me” since day one. That is a hoax, a complete misunderstanding, rooted in the illusory concept of “memories.”
Consciousness is transferred in a way that scientist Szent-Gyorgyi explained thusly: “What drives life is thus a little electric current, set up by the sunshine.”
Here's the process, the sequence, if you will:
The sunshine interacts with plants, and plants transfer that
sunshine-to-electric-current
(a.k.a., energy, including conscious-energy)
to-composite-unities when unities consume plants or consume something which ate plants.
As for the elements, the process whereby unities come into existence happens when two already-existing unities enter into an act of friction which propels millions of sperm cells out of one unity and into another unity.
If one sperm among the millions propelled into a second unity wins The Race to the Egg, then the egg might become fertilized as those sperm and egg elements come together (and are “not two” any longer).
From that, an expanding number of elements will continue to come together as a unit, as a unified composite of elements, and a third unity may emerge nine months later, in the case of “humans.”
The number of composite unities on the planet is near infinite. “Humans” are composite unities; “birds” are composite unities; “fish” are composite unities; etc., etc., etc.
Those unities are nothing more than elements which provide a space in which air can be circulated temporarily and in which conscious-energy can be circulated temporarily by consuming plants or things which ate plants.
Is it clear that the so-called “parents” of a composite unity did not “create” anything? Their bodies merely and spontaneously circulated elements and air and conscious-energy.
All three of those parts are “what's,” not “who's.” The eight most abundant elements on the earth's include: oxygen, magnesium, silicon, iron, calcium, aluminum, sodium, and potassium.
Would anyone ever ask, “Who exactly is oxygen?”
Would oxygen ever say, “I don't even know who I am anymore!”
Would oxygen ever ask, “WHO am I?”
Would oxygen ever ask, “Who is this that others refer to as 'you' when they talk with me or to me?”
Would oxygen ever say, “You must know thyself” or say “Know who you are” or say “Know yourself” or say “Find who you really are” or say “Fine your True Self”?
None of that is possible, not only because of oxygen's inability to talk but also because oxygen has no “who-ness,” no WHO-ness,” no “self,” no “Self,” no “you” and no “You.”
Similarly, neither elements nor conscious-energy have any “who-ness” or “WHO-ness” or “self” or “Self” or “you” or “You.”
All which comes and goes and which forms and temporarily sustains the form of a composite unity will eventually stop coming and stop going.
At that point, the composite unity will no longer exist as a unit, though the elements etc. will remain forever, though never together again.
That being the case, when all that came together to form a composite unity eventually all comes apart (See the “Second Law of Thermodynamics”) then nothing about that unit / composite unity and no part of that unity can survive intact.
No gauzy, floating, invisible, half-bird / half-human “something” will survive the total coming apart of the unit.
No gauzy, invisible “something” (a.k.a., “soul”) will survive the total coming apart of the unit because it was never among the three parts which were there to begin with.
No self or Self was ever a part of any composite unity, so how could either of those possibly be a part of what remains when a composite unity no longer remains?
All of those bogus concepts / false beliefs are rooted in the magical thinking and programming and conditioning which are the tools of religious or spiritual or business or government persons who dreamed up those concepts and beliefs in order to use them to control the masses NOW, not to protect the masses in some LATER existence and other-worldly place.
So, there is no post-manifestation SELF of SELFNESS in any form or variety or mode or manner.
The later Yeshu'a (misidentified nowadays as “Jesus”) and fact-sharing scientists and many among the few rational, realized types all agree. Consider this comparison:
Just as there is no ICE-CUBENESS in any form or variety or mode or manner after a quantity of H20 - which had been shaped and frozen into a cube shape - is left on a hot sidewalk in summer and melts.
What remains after the cube dissolves? H20 remains, but that particular cube-shaped entity or unit is gone forever. The hydrogen and the oxygen which combined and formed that specific cube will never form that cube again.
the cube will not exist in some altered form in another state or place.
It will not assume some cube-like form in another world.
It will not be reunited with the cubes which it had spent time with at an earlier point in an ice tray.
That cube-shaped unity unmanifested and is thus gone forever, but the elements which formed the cube will remain forever because neither energy nor matter can be created nor destroyed.
The same is the case with “humans” which are a minority on the planet in terms of all of the forms which are also among the composite unities which have come and gone or which are present now but which will also go.
What could possibly be left? An angel, a demon, a soul, a spirit, an individual “this” or an individual “that”?
Or merely elements which have returned to the universal pool of elements; oxygen which has returned to the universal pool of oxygen; and conscious-energy which has returned to the universal pool of conscious-energy?
If the latter is the case, then why not relax and enjoy that which can only be enjoyed NOW because there will be no self or Self or anything else to enjoy or not enjoy anything later.
Thus, “I am nothing” means I am nothing that has any identification or identities; I no longer have any beliefs, including any beliefs about any body or mind or personality identifications being real and valid.
As for the “Love” part, Love is a concept too, a term which points to the understanding set forth by realized non-dualists and the Trancendentalists when discussing “the unity beyond the multiplicity” (meaning the “perceived but not real multiplicity”)
The term - “a thorn used to remove a thorn” is used to convey the non-dual pointer that all is one.
Maharaj explained: “The consciousness in you and the consciousness in me, apparently two, really one, seek unity and that is love.”
“Yeshu’a” said, “A dual-minded person is unstable in all ways.” Love is simply a facilitator which allows a sense of the Oneness or unity to manifest and which thereby allows order and stability, rather than instability and chaos, to manifest.
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.
