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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
By way of further explanation, let’s continue with this from the last “Editor’s Interview” posting:
Bottom line: one does not lose the role of being a ‘complete bastard’ or a ‘total bitch’ until they lose the role of being ‘an absolute saint.’ “Relevant?
Editor:” Absolutely.
Next:
E.: Thanks for clarifying. Now, will you explain how you came to know that you are not the body and not the breath but are the energy-consciousness only?
K.: I did what Maharaj suggested. I meditated on where I was three days before conception, before the body began forming, before the oxygen began circulating. I determined where I was, via contemplation, during the days before being manifested in a mother’s womb.
I traced my ‘roots’ back to where I really came from in order to understand What I Really Am.
[Note: Maharaj would eventually explain that trying to understand What I Really Am is irrelevant and that 'it is enough to know who / what you are not.']
To continue: Anyone with a brain functioning without damage can determine where 'he/ she was' during the days before being manifested in a mother’s womb.
If you are 35 years old, let’s say, then count backwards. That is how I reached the pre-conception state and the awareness of What I Am.
Literally say out loud, ‘I am 35; I will now go back. I am now 34; I am now 33.’ Continue to count until you reach ‘I am one year old’; then say, ‘I am 11 months old, I am 10 months old,’ etc.
Then, ‘I am 30 days old, I am 29 days old,’ etc. Then ‘I am 23 hours old, I am 22 hours old,’ etc. Then, ‘I am 59 seconds old; I am 58 seconds old,’ etc. What happened with my countdown was, I got to ‘I am one second before conception, I am conceived.’
I anticipated originally that the count would stop there, but it continued. ‘I Am one second prior to conception; I am two seconds prior to conception. Where Am I? I Am minutes, hours, days before conception. Where Am I?’ The answer came.
Any sperm present in a man was not there much more than ‘x’ number of hours earlier, sperm having a fairly short ‘shelf life’ inside a human male body. Plant food (or plant food consumed via animal food) was consumed and ‘converted’ into living human cells, among them, sperm cells.
The ‘I Am exercise’ took me to a plant. Continuing the count took me to where I was before being absorbed into the plant. So it went like this:
From ‘child born’ back to ‘child in a womb’ back to ‘egg fertilized by sperm’ back to ‘sperm delivered’ back to ‘sperm not yet delivered’ back to ‘sperm created as plant food energy remanifested into human cells’ back to ‘plants being eaten’ back to ‘the plant’ back to ‘the creative energy entering the plant’ back to ‘the field’ - the field of energy-consciousness or conscious-energy. I AM THAT.
Then the realization came: Yeshu’a did not say, ‘I Am the Light.’ He repeated what some non-dual guide shared with him him: ‘I Am Light.’
[As Szent-Gyorgyi said: 'What drives life is . . . a little electric current, set up by the sunshine.']
Once we know we are That which can take the form and shape of light / energy, then we can live out this manifestation of energy-consciousness in human form as if, as if the human existence/body is the real.
But we do not attach to the dogma or the drama or the lies or the conditioning and the resulting beliefs and false thinking. Freedom is freedom from all indoctrination, be it the indoctrination we got from parents . . . ,
from preachers, from priests, from medicine men, from politicians, from TV, from teachers, from holy books, from wise writers, from me, from you, from any of the sources of man-made concepts being passed down.
A pure mind affords an experiencing of peace in the manifest; a pure mind is one freed of all the lies, all the concepts, taught by humans to humans.
And understand that the greatest trick of all that one human can use to program another human is for the first human to tell the second human that he is not speaking for himself but is speaking for god.
Wow! Now you’ve got some weight behind those concepts, huh? ‘Hey, pal. This in not me talking. This is god talking through me.”
What arrogance. Let someone acquire the label ‘expert’ in this culture, then watch the power he gains to manipulate the minds of others. My dad told me to give no credence to ‘experts,’ telling me that ‘an expert is just a former spurt.’ Ha.
All concepts and beliefs are fictional, all made up. The Child-like mind must be attained for a state of peacefulness to exist in the manifest. The Child-like mind is the mind as it was before programming, free of ideas, of words, of word-thoughts, of all garbage in general.
The realization makes clear that there is no separation, only at-one-ment, and that to say ‘I AM; I AM THAT’ implies no duality but only oneness. In the human form, I Am; but ultimately, I Am That. Those are not two things. And knowing that is true for Rob as well as for me, I was finally able to let go.
Rob is not a son I lost; Rob did not lose his life; Rob is That, Rob is energy, Rob is forever, either as the manifest or the Unmanifest. So it is. Now, remember the discussion with Chief, using the lost arms-legs-organs exercise that shows we are not our body?
E.: Of course, and that experiment showed me that I am not what I’ve thought I was, that I am something, but I am still not sure what.
K.: Ha. OK. The ‘arms-legs-organs exercise’ reveals that you are not the body. The body sustains the mind, so if the body goes, the mind goes. That which goes cannot be the permanent, cannot be the Real You. Yet you know even without those parts that You Are still You. Right?
E.: Yes.
K.: Then what that is which you sense remains - even after arms, legs, organs are gone- is a PRESENCE. You sense your presence, as do the birds, the fish, whatever.
E.: OK.
K.: But that sense of presence, that consciousness (of beingness, of presence) will only be sensed as long as the body-mind is sustained.
E.: Right.
K.: Since there is no duality, no subject-object duality, what is it that knows that consciousness, that presence?
E.: That’s where I got lost. I don’t know.
K.: That which knows that conscious presence, since there is no duality, has to also be . . . CONSCIOUSNESS! It is that unprogrammed, unconditioned prior Consciousness/the Absolute that knows itself in the manifest form.
Just as all “you” see in others is really the projection of “you,” so all that you perceive is the projection of you - or the reflection of you. A conscious speck of authenticity cannot perceive anything but authenticity.
I can no longer perceive any ego-state / label / title as actually defining anything; I cannot take this composite unity called “floyd” to be myself, for the false was dissolved.
(Of course the selves seen when you look at your self are false, are mirages, are images - the “not real.” When we come to know the Great Reality, we distinguish the true from the false through understanding and through understanding the real . . . the authentic.)
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.
