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LIBERATION (Attaining Freedom from Personality via Realization)
“After the information given to you by the mother, that you are a boy or girl, all your further acquisitions [false identities] are by hearsay.”
--Sri Nisargadatta
Maharaj
[Completing the “Editor’s Interview” and yesterday’s post which ended with this]:
Imagine the effect on the billions of people who have been raised under the influence . . . under the influence of dogma which rewards them if they do not ever question what they are told:
“You will benefit from having faith in what we tell you, and it will be to your advantage if you never question what you are told here by us. And if you do not have such faith, you will burn and suffer forever. Now, that’ll be ten percent of all you have, please; hand it over and then go in peace.”
E.: I never really saw that before. It is rather amazing, isn’t it? To another area: does one have to practice regular meditation to ‘get this’ understanding that you speak of?
K.: Meditation is misunderstood and thus misused. Some think that meditation is about humming; some think that meditation is about getting quiet in order to get into conscious contact with some god or power or force;
some think that meditation is about getting guidance from some god with male appendages; some think that meditation is about seeking the quiet or some super state, like samadhi;
some think that meditation is about finding a half-hour peace-state to prepare for the day’s noise and strains. It’s none of that.
Meditation is properly used to take an assignment into contemplation, into focused consideration of truth-based pointers. Once the falseness of all conditioning and belief and dogma is revealed, and once the true vs. the false is differentiated, then meditation ends.
It was a tool to be used for a limited time. When the job is done, no tool is needed. That does not mean that the quietness cannot be effective for rest and healing. It is, but it need not be structured. The gotta-work-at-resting trap can end.
Now, when the tool first begins to work, then the reverse of what most formerly perceived as the right way to meditate will start to happen: the meditation period (of say 30 minutes or an hour or a week) is no longer the ‘quiet time’;
it will be the ‘noisy’ time in which the contemplation is completed or in which an exercise like arms-legs-organs is done or in which the reverse-count is done to find where you were three days before conception. How is that a reverse of the norm?
You end up spending 30 minutes in the ‘noise,’ in the contemplation, and then the remainder of the day becomes your silence. The mind stops racing; the thoughts of the thinking mind stop; the working mind takes over, and you simply flow through the day, or not.
Instead of 30 minutes of quiet and the remainder of the day spent in noise, the reverse becomes your norm as the meditation tool begins to work.
Eventually, you can remain in the silence, even in a crowd. Even in a crowd, you can be in the quiet, at perfect peace, and you can sense being in the Aloneness, the All-Oneness. Even with thousands around, even with thousands screaming.
Then, in that state, what is to meditate? What is to seek? You understand What you were and what you are and what you shall be. You understand that there is nothing that constitutes a ‘way’; there’s nothing more to understand;
that there’s nothing to do; that there’s nothing to concern yourself with; that there’s nothing to dread about what remains ‘after’ the manifestation ends; that there’s nothing to meditate upon.
Finally, you “get it”: there is no counsel to seek, no dues to pay, no organizations or groups to join. You do not belong to anything, thus you are free. Living should not be something one must ‘work at.’
The deer simply does what is required naturally to live, and when you live naturally, then perfect peace comes . . . but only after perfect freedom comes. ‘Perfect’ means ‘whole’ or ‘complete,’ so that perfect freedom is just complete freedom, freedom from ALL dependencies - including dependency on celestial entities or mystical teachings or mythical holdovers from ignorant, superstitious times in the past or magical thinking.
E.: So, do you agree with Maharaj that 'only one in a million will ever get this'?
K.: Because of the power of conditioning, programming, etc. and the power of the ego, and the power of the defenses which most people have built to protect their dogma, their sacred cows, and their beliefs, that is probably true.
Maharaj spoke of three types: wet charcoal, dry charcoal, and gunpowder. Wet charcoal will never burn and will stay the way it is until it decays; dry charcoal can burn eventually, but with much labor required. So it is with people.
But those who are ready, those who finally understand once and for all that their conditioning, dogma, programming, beliefs and closed minds really are not working for them, then they can be like gunpowder.
The words I speak can ignite them instantly, and can explode away their fictional beliefs and distorted thinking and can allow them to truly realize and What they truly are, and most importantly, what they are not.
E.: How much of this should the reader hang onto?
K.: The reader should hang onto none of it. That’s the entire point. What you consider in meditation, all of that is concept, too. My exercises, others’ teachings, their dogma, all are human-formulated-concepts.
Throw out ‘my’ concepts, throw out ‘their’ concepts. Eventually, be free of it all. Get free of the indoctrination. A sane mind is one free of ideas, free of the emotional reactions we discussed earlier, and free of all beliefs.
The non-dualistic message of Christ the Advaitic Guide set forth the understanding that dual-minded persons are mentally unstable, insane in all ways.
The sane being is not dual-minded. The sane know the I AM and know that I AM THAT. There is no duality, only non-duality, only oneness. And THAT cannot change. It just IS.
The thinking mind is chaotic, with dual and multiple thoughts racing through it constantly; the sane are quiet, free of chaos. And mental chaos is the only ‘hell’ there is. That’s why Pope John Paul II said that ‘heaven and hell are not geographic places but are mental states.’ You are in one or the other, NOW.’
Use these exercises I offer, and any other concepts, like any throw-away item: let the exercises and concepts serve the purpose of bringing about an understanding of the differentiation in the true and the false, and then toss it all away and live simply and naturally as if.
AS IF the manifest is the real but knowing ultimately that THAT is all that is real. Know that You Are Light, I Am Light. Know that all which is believed to be observable is ‘seen’ in the flickering images of the light that plays before our eyes. It is not the real, any more than the actors flicking across the screen of a TV or a theater screen are really there.
They are but images in the mind. So is all that is ‘seen.’ Be aware that the Unseen, the Unseeable, is the real. Be done with worrying about the false images of this manifestation we call our ‘lives’ or ‘others’ or ‘self.’
Then, you’ll enjoy the present moment, the Eternal Now, as long as you are manifest. And you’ll have no expectations to meet nor any future rewards to long for nor any future punishments to spend a lifetime trying to avoid.
Free of those, you are free of the control of those who dream up or pass along all those concepts that form the prison-called-the-mind that traps most people in fear, misery, depression, or all the addictive behaviors that follow those defects in an effort to try to escape them.
As long as persons try to maintain a religious / spiritual image or role, they will be at the mercy of those who would manipulate them with religion or with spirituality.
They’ll tell him that a religious person does this and a spiritual person does that, and to keep his religious or spiritual image, he’ll do what they say. Then, he’s theirs.
For some, both states can be steps along the way, but both are to be transcended. They are but bridges which allow us to cross the degrees of separation. If persons do not transcend those, they are vulnerable, and thus in fear, and frustrated, eventually controlled by others. There is no freedom, and thus no peace, living in ‘their’ world with ‘their’ mind doing the driving.
E.: Sounds wonderful, the state of freedom from all that. So, what’s next for Kirk?
K.: I go where the flow takes me. Right now, the flow is taking me back to Europe.
E.: Can you share any details?
K.: Well, all I know right now is that an anonymous client is paying my agency to send me into southern Italy to interview a man supposedly on his deathbed who has some information that will purportedly be of interest to many people, so I’m told.
My former tour company work in Europe, which left me familiar with places and people on the Continent, has paid off to get me this cushy assignment. Ha.
E.: So that’s the business part. Now what does the pleasure part entail?
K.: I will be driving from Milan down the coast road along the western shoreline. There’s a quaint little place north of Roma called ‘Trattoria Panini.’ The last time I was there, my friend and his wife who operate it had a young son whose school team had just won a regional soccer trophy.
The lad is probably in his thirties now, and I hope that we find them all healthy. During that last visit, the son ran over the hills that separate the coast road from the sea and came back with a seafood medley netted just minutes before.
They prepared a combination of fish and shrimp and other delicate sea foods which they then served in a butter-and-white-wine cream sauce over pasta. I’m been wanting that dish again for three decades, so I’ll see if that’s possible.
From there, we’ll spend a few days in Roma then drive through Napoli and take the Autostrada del Sole into Reggio Calabria. Our destination is a small town outside Reggio.
E.: Think there might be a story in the making here?
K.: Ha. We’ll see what happens.
E.: Thank you, Kirk, for being willing to share your life-altering experience with our readers.
K.: You’re welcome, as if. Ha.
“The rest is silence.”—W. Shakespeare
To be continued.
[“So what’s it all really about? It’s all about being free of the “magical thinking” and belief in the learned ignorance and what was taught. Then, the task being guided to unlearn it all.
Please enter into the silence of contemplation.
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"No one shall ever see 'the kingdom of heaven.' It is within"
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"Heaven and earth shall fade away."
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"Heaven and hell are not geographic places
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