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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
Editor: Then tell the readers the difference in the manifest state, in our case as energy-consciousness manifested in human form, and the Unmanifest state which you call ‘That.’
K.: While manifested, I AM; I Am the conscious-energy / the energy-consciousness which happened to ‘find’ its way into a human form via plants eaten, plants turned into sperm cells, sperm cells that fertilized an egg, etc.
The same manifesting happens in non-human forms, but energy manifested is energy manifested, period. The energy-consciousness in an acorn “knows” how to make a forest, eventually. All manifest forms have energy-consciousness.
A bird is quite aware that ‘It is,’ so it knows the ‘I Am.’ And it knows that its existence, its ‘I-Amness’ or consciousness, can be ended by dangerous humans or by other creatures, so it flies away to try to protect its ‘am-ness’ when it feels threatened.
After the threat disappears, it returns to normal behavior. It holds no grudges or resentments since it is playing no role. It knows only the ‘I Am,’ so it truly is as free as a bird. My friend the heron is a Master of Living, and that all happens effortlessly for him since he has no ego-states to maintain, no ego to defend, no false roles to ‘protect.’
We can be Masters of Living when we model his example. [Maharaj said, “Living is life's only purpose.” So much for people who spend a lifetime, searching for their “purpose” rather than enjoying what can be enjoying now.
And so much for “On Purpose: Finding God’s Voice in Your Passion” and “The Purpose Driven Life” and “In Pursuit of Purpose” and “Your Purpose Is Calling” and “A Power of Your Own: How to Ignite Your Potential, Uncover Your Purpose, and Blaze Your Own Trail in Life and Business” and the 12,670,000,000 other things that pop up if you Google “purpose.”]
The heron does not know he is a heron. It is a label someone provided for him. He does not accept it, so he is not limited or frustrated or defensive or offensive. He just IS.
These are the bars of the prison of the thinking mind: ‘I am a spouse’; ‘I am a worker’; ‘I am a boss’; ‘I am a parent’; ‘I am a homeowner’; ‘I am a lover’; ‘I am a Christian, Muslim, Jew, etc.’; ‘I am a spiritual person’; ‘I am a good person’; ‘I am a bad person’; ‘I am a supporter’; ‘I am an alcoholic’; ‘I am a member,’ etc., ad infinitum.
This is the tool of the working mind that will cut away the bars of the thinking mind and free you: ‘I Am.’ No words follow that phrase. Just the two words only. Not ‘I am . . . a husband’ and not ‘I am . . . a wife,’ but only ‘I Am.’
You need do no exercises; you need attend no meetings; you need read no books; you need give no money to anyone or anything for this truth and to remain at peace.
Once you sit with these words, and understand them fully, and give up all body identifications and false roles and false ideas and false dogma, you are done.
You understand that you are not this body. You know that you are not this mind, for it is their mind, not yours, filled with their teachings and beliefs and nonsense which has been adopted by you but is not yours. Understand that; then, their ideas are abandoned and your work ends. Living fully begins.
Begin by getting rid of ideas and concepts that were ‘theirs,’ never yours to begin with. That beginning also becomes the end - the end of suffering, of worry, of fear, of co-dependency, of attachment.
That is what was meant when a certain piece of advice was offered in the religious or spiritual writings of many groups in the past (it did not appear only in the Christian Bible but had been written in many books prior): ‘Hate your father, mother, wife, children, brothers, sisters and, yes, even your own life.’
That means, hate the labels and role-playing of ‘father,’ ‘mother,’ etc. A man once admitted to Maharaj that he attached himself (his false self) to his family and wife and children.
Maharaj answered him by saying, in so many words, ‘Your ego-states are so entrenched through your concepts that when you briefly glimpse truth or the authentic, fear manifests and you return to those concepts and roles again to define who you are.’
Peace comes when we give up all roles and identities, realizing that we are not this body not their content of their minds which have been passed down like so many defective genes.
Only then can we give up all attachments. As long as we focus on what we think was a ‘loss,’ (an ‘ex,’ for example) then we cannot be open for a ‘gain.’ Believing we lost love when we lost only an illusion of love, we cannot receive True Love when it is offered.
And as long as we believe in loss and gain, sin and virtue, black and white, then the unstable minds of the non-realized masses will continue to flourish and dominate.
Once we see that all ‘loss’ is an image of our wrong perceptions, then even the loss of one’s own life becomes inconsequential. Does that mean you become suicidal? Hardly. It means you live life fully, unattached, unencumbered, anchorless, tied to no docks.
You are free - free of their ideas and their teachings which cause such anal conduct and restrictive living. At one time in an Oriental culture, the practice was to bind the feet of women so that they could not grow. The process left many crippled and in pain.
In W.A.S.P. societies, the mind is bound, so it cannot grow. And that binding leaves many crippled and in pain. I offer to remove the binding.
All can be set free, if they but see that their bindings are made of the concepts of an insane culture. I suggest that each ask: ‘Isn’t it time to live?’
Is it not time to live freely, freed of all of the restrictive, controlling, anal dictates of a very old set of Aryan values and beliefs that have a long, arduous history of failure in personal relations, in community relations, in national relations, and in international relations?
As Buddy Red Bow sings, 'Winds of life are blowing across the reservation, and I can hear the voice of a new generation.'
The change begins with each individual, becoming aware of the lack of growth and the crippling, painful effects of her or his false beliefs. One individual at a time can receive awareness of the false . . . and become free.
Only the ship with no restricting anchor sails freely. The ship attached to a dock goes nowhere. My heron friend has no strings attached. It goes where it pleases; it goes when it pleases; it goes how it pleases;
or it does not go at all, and that pleases it too. For now, in this manifestation, he is perfect peace, with form and shape; consciousness, with form and shape; energy, with form and shape. So am I. So are you. Ultimately, he is That - That Which He Was, Is, and Shall Be. No duality.
E.: Can you give the readers a hands-on analogy of this energy-consciousness as it applies to us?
K.: OK. Let’s consider the electrical energy which is ‘resting,’ ‘dormant,’ at a plug. You cannot see it. You cannot know it is there except to be told by someone who understands. Or you can be shocked and know that some power unseen is present.
I understand, so I can tell people what I now understand about manifested energy-consciousness, but I usually don’t because most will not care to understand. To be awakened can be shocking also, and who wants to wake up, really, much less be shocked in the process! Ha.
They killed Christ because he broke the advaitic rule: ‘Share this message privately, not in public.’
The 4000+ daily visitors that have been coming to this site throughout this series were not given a personal invitation from me to visit. They each found the site in their own way in their own time.
They are welcomed. Some will stay. Most will likely go on seeking something else, something more, seeking something, something, something.
The type who killed Yeshu’a after he started sharing non-dual pointers will either kill you or wish you dead or pray to their God to kill you for challenging them to question their programming, their ‘values,’ their ‘faith,’ their ‘beliefs.’
The Orthodoxy has always reacted violently, bloodily, towards those who challenge their beliefs. Say that something is a part of one’s ‘religion’ and it gets a free ride in this society.
If a major corporation perpetrated the same harms done to people by the religions in this world, the company headquarters would be shut down tomorrow morning, surrounded by pickets and protestors and rock throwers and legal teams to boot.
So it is.
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.
