CONSCIOUSNESS vs. AWARENESS

 

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CONSCIOUSNESS vs. AWARENESS

Fools do not know that, post-manifestation, there is no beingness or even non-beingness. There is no false self that will be; nor is there any Self that will be, so there is not any Infinite Self or Supreme Self that will be either. Nothing with any identity or shape or defined space will be. No selfness or Selfness exists. Only That which is beyond both beingness and non-beingness shall remain. All that there will be is the unmanifested energy in the universal pool and the matter which cannot be destroyed. And those who do not understand that truth are fools (that is, they are persons who have been fooled by taking the dreamed up beliefs of other humans as gospel. As one famous social critic said, “There is no belief that has been dreamed up by men that is worth believing”).

--floyd

“I talk to you from the perspective of the universal consciousness.”

--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

To help clarify some of the content in yesterday’s post”

THE PURE, UNIVERSAL CONSCIOUSNESS

and

“I AM CONSCIOUSNESS”

and

“CONSCIOUSNESS IS ALL THERE IS.”

(continued)

THAT is marked by perfect peace since there is no one there to interfere with the ever-present neutrality, not unlike the delta-sleep state of brain movement during deep sleep. The non-beingness is that natural state with no body, no mind, no form, no space, no . . . anything. It is the Void, the Nothingness, when THAT, which is, does not even know that it is.

Call it “bliss” if you like, but the realized know that bliss can only be known during the beingness if the Void and the Nothingness are realized during the manifestation of consciousness.

If one is at perfect rest during a deep sleep, that might appear to be a blissful state, but the human in deep sleep does not know that it is and is not conscious of “bliss.”

In fact, a human sleeping might be the opposite of blissful. If experiencing a nightmare, that human might be most unhappy, might be in misery, might be grief-stricken, might be in sorrow.

Only when fully awake, aware and conscious can the bliss be known - if realized. Bliss is the stuff of being manifested and realized during the period of Amness.

The non-being state that follows has no awareness of awareness. Having transitioned into the non-beingness, the consciousness is, but it cannot know it is. Enjoy it NOW, for no other opportunity exists. That allows for peace to happen every day. So does a clear understanding of what bliss is and what bliss is not.

The only thing “blissful” about re-absorption into the Absolute is the bliss of the Void, of the nothingness, of the no-mind, no-body, no-personality, non-beingness and That which is even beyond the non-beingness. If one is “wanting bliss,” then it can be known now, but it cannot be experienced in the way that most want to experience it. Why?

First off, the mere “wanting” itself generates misery. Fear and desire are rooted in the hidden agendas of personalities. Post-realization, there is no experiencer. Actually, bliss is nothing more than a vibration that continues to vibrate without any disturbance.

Any other definition that generates some unattainable experience is an obstacle to peace happening every day. Those who seek the state which persons mistake for “bliss” are being set up for disappointment by their belief in a concept.

If peace during the relative comes in the void (in the nothingness of sleep) and if peace awaits (in the nothingness of that void when unmanfested consciousness returns to its former “at-rest state”) then how might persons find that void in the NOW and experience that bliss both . . .

(a) while awake rather than in deep sleep and (b) while the consciousness is manifested rather than unmanifested? The peace of the void cannot be known by persons driven to seek more rather than less.

“Con” = “together,” “with,” or “together with.” The very prefix reveals the duality. Consciousness cannot be the non-dual reality. The non-dual reality is beyond dualistic consciousness.

Awareness is thoughtless, unmanifested consciousness . . . is no-mind consciousness. This is far beyond any talk of samadhi or its five types.

Awareness does not provide a temporary respite from thoughts and desires and fears. Awareness is permanent freedom from the fictitious mind and the beliefs and desires and fears that originate therein.

“Being in touch with Reality” is actually about being in touch with nothing . . . freed from being in touch with anything that is not real, that is phenomenal, and that is mind-generated or culture-generated.

Awareness removes all identification with anything other than the void or nothingness, which means there is no identification at all. Abidance as the awareness can happen even during the manifestation of consciousness and is the unconditional “condition” referred to by the terms “fully realized, enlightened, liberated, actualized,” etc.

Essence is the attribute (or set of attributes) which make an object or substance what it fundamentally is. The essence of a being is simply that which it fundamentally is, and happiness during the manifestation comes when aligned with the essence. Thereafter, peace every day can happen.

Earlier the pointer was offered that “the ‘journey’ to true freedom does not end at some point of imagined “Self”-realization, and to transmit that fact is the only reason this discussion is warranted.”

The Full understanding of Awareness must happen for freedom - and therefore happiness - to manifest. It must be understood that awareness is but has no awareness of “self,” of “Self” . . . of anything.

Namkhai Norbu said this about awareness: “This is the open secret, which all can discover for themselves. We live our lives, as it were ‘inside out,’ projecting the existence of an ‘I’ as separate from an external world which we try to manipulate to gain satisfaction.  

But as long as one remains in the dualistic state, one’s experience has always underlying it a sense of loss, of fear, of anxiety, and dissatisfaction. When, on the other hand, one goes beyond the dualistic level, anything is possible.”

Including peace (or contentment) every day.

The Final Frontier” of the non-dual understanding is transitioned when the nature of Reality is understood and when valid, non-dual pointers are “applied” on a daily basis even in the absence of any “Applier.”

The nature of Reality cannot be understood until the attributes of consciousness and awareness are understood. Understanding the nature of consciousness allows for abidance in the I AM, but what of THAT Which Is beyond, and that which is beyond the beyond?

Only abidance as the Absolute allows the remainder of the manifestation of consciousness to happen in consistent peace. That is “Your Original Nature”; that allows for natural (“nirsarga”) living.

The Final Frontier” of the understanding is transitioned when seekers understand the attributes of consciousness and awareness, can define the exact nature of Reality, can witness as full realization happens, can come to an understanding of the functioning of the totality, and can then fixate in a state of peace from NOW until the consciousness is no longer manifest.

If not firmly fixed as “The Nothing” (as the awareness that is not aware), then everything in the relative existence will be taken to be “something”:

a breakup, a traffic ticket, problems with school assignments, problems while seeking employment, problems with neighbors, problems with persons not accepting you in the fashion you expect, problems with persons behaving in a way that is not pleasing to you, problems with persons not properly “honoring you” in the manner your egoism desires, ad infinitum.

Even among those seekers who “find,” who feel that they have realized fully, fluctuations have been witnessed. In cultures that program persons to “get,” the value of absolute de-accumulation is usually given little more than lip service.

In cultures where desires are a motivating factor - in homes, in schools, in churches, in jobs, ad infinitum - how many have any chance at all to actually desire . . . nothing? It is the very desiring, along with concern that all which is desired might not be attained, that perpetuates imagined fears.

When “desiring” is given such value in cultures, how many will be content with “nothing” (which is what allows all desires and all fears to end)?

Enculturation programs persons to want something, not nothing. “Zero” is despised among persons, but only by reaching a state of “zero concepts” can peace happen every day.

Moreover, persons become so trapped in their desire for post-manifestation body-mind-personality continuity that they think they cannot be happy during the manifestation unless they also have continuity of all things:

a spouse or partner; a home; a whatever - they want the temporary things in the relative to have absolute continuity. How can anyone ever be happy, living in such a delusional condition? One cannot.

“Peace Every Day” can only happen in the abidance that is “beyond conscious of-ness.” The relative existence comparison offered by some is “the deep sleep metaphor” wherein peace happens beyond relative consciousness.

Again, compare the “beyond conscious of-ness” to the awareness of the body’s need which automatically, spontaneously keeps the heart and the lungs functioning even as there is no “one” present to consciously “do” that.

Also, understand the automatic, spontaneous functioning in order to understand how the relative existence happens with no illusion of a “do-er” being present and with abidance happening even beyond conscious of-ness. That happens when abidance as the Absolute happens.

It should be seen why it is frequently repeated that, ultimately, there is no “goal” of abiding as consciousness. For full freedom (and then happiness) to happen during the manifestation of consciousness, abidance must happen as the Absolute.

To be continued.

Please enter into the silence of contemplation.

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Here, with those who are still driven to talk about "god," the "Son of god," the "Holy Spirit," "Buddha," "Krishna," etc., etc., etc., the invitation to them is to view those as verbs, not nouns.

THE EXPLANATION

If looked at as nouns, they point to illusions and are, therefore, a total waste of time to even discuss; if looked at as verbs which are resulting in certain sane but rare behaviors among humanity, then they are worthy of some attention during the relative existence.

Meaning? There are members of certain groups who say things such as "My concept of god in the past was of a weak god, an absentee god, A Santa Claus-type god, a mean, punishing, vindictive god, etc. Today, I am in close contact with a loving and caring god whom I worship and praise and glorify and give thanks to."

The reply to that usually goes like this: "If you are in contact with a god that wants to be worshipped and praised and glorified, then you're dealing with someone like yourself - a narcissist - and hanging out with narcissists will never bring an end to your narcissism (that narcissism evidenced by the fact that you think you are "godly").

Next, in the phrase 'loving and caring god,' any supposed god that truly had her or his act together would tell you that the totally irrelevant part of that phrase is 'god' and that the only part that is relevant is the "loving and caring" part.

"That is, a non-narcissistic their god / their goddess would say, "I care not an iota about being worshipped and praised and glorified by you or anyone else. How arrogant and insecure and needy would I have to be to want that? Forget the man-made, dreamed up noun 'god' and focus on the 'god as a verb' understanding and then go forth and let loving and caring be verbs - not adjectives - and let them generate the act of love and the act of caring and let those actions manifest through you." 

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"

--Yeshu'a (Jesus)

and 

"Heaven and earth shall fade away."

--Yeshu'a (Jesus)

and 

"Heaven and hell are not geographic places

but are states of mind, nothing more than

concepts dreamed up by men."

--Pope John Paul II 

"There is no hell."

--Pope Francis, the current pope

in an interview with journalist Eugenio Scalfari,

a writer used by the Pope to issue off the record

teachings which become a part of the Papal Magisterium.

[That said, would that the popes who have shown the courage to reject a core concept of their dogma - namely, "hell" - would find the additional courage required to question the very existence of their institution in light of the centuries-long cover-up of their history of raping children and in light of the mental and emotional and psychological scarring of billions of their members past and present.

And that need for courage also applies as questions need to be asked about why so many other sky cults are still being supported and allowed to continue to exist as well. When certain types of programming and conditioning have been shown to blind the masses, they should end. Will they? Not likely. Why?

Because what the masses think and say and do is most influenced by the international crime families which hold sway over the masses as criminals conduct their planet-wide operations. What are the major international crime families and which are the most influential and have the largest memberships?

The Mafia / La Cosa Nostra; the Catholic Church (with it 1.2 billion followers) whose Vatican Bank worked for decades with the Mafia while laundering mob earnings (for a 15% all-profit charge by the Bank); Protestant and Evangelical Churches (with over 1.2 billion followers) like the one I was raised in where the youth director molested and sexually assaulted young girls; big business which has long created environments in which people have been abused; powerful political bodies like the U.S. Congress, etc., etc., etc.)

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