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Additional Pointers Regarding the “Mind” As An Obstacle
“I am offering you exactly what you need - awakening. You are not hungry and you need no bread. You need cessation, relinquishing, disentanglement. What you believe you need is not what you need. Your real need I know, not you. You need to return to the state in which I am - your natural state.”
--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
(Continued from yesterday)
Efforts to quiet the mind or to ignore thoughts cannot succeed with any consistency. Only when Full Realization strikes, only when the “Oh my gosh!” moment happens - only then does the “mind” dissolve. Why?
Because the “mind” is merely a conglomeration of distorted ideas and bogus concepts and false beliefs which - most unwisely - are proudly-held, which are given undeserved value and significance, and which are egotistically-defended.
Once enlightenment happens - paving the way for full realization - then ideas and concepts and beliefs are seen to be distorted, bogus and false; pride is seen to have been nothing more than false pride;
the false is no longer
assigned value and significance; and once liberation from personality happens
after the third of seven steps on the “path,” there are no ego-states; thus,
there is no egotism and, therefore, there is nothing to be egotistically
defended.
Prior to the consciousness having reached that state of enlightenment,
liberation, and realization, what to consider meanwhile? It is true that, if
you are instructed to “avoid thinking about an elephant,” the only thing that
you can think of is an elephant.
Similarly, peace and freedom will not manifest simply by inviting persons to “question all beliefs, see that all beliefs are false, see that a false sense of separation - along with the subsequent misery and suffering - are rooted in your beliefs, and then abandon all beliefs.”
There is a multi-step process which must be followed exactly in order to be free of an ever-churning,
peace-robbing “mind,” so, what is the answer to at least continuing to move
toward freedom from beliefs when persons think their beliefs are so dear?
The answer is not to try to be rid of disturbing, always-belief-based thoughts.
One answer is to ask when a thought is interrupting the peace, “WHO is thinking
that thought?”
(That is, what ego-state is feeling so threatened or hurt or interfered with that the false identity can inspire the “mind” in which that false self resides to begin an endless flurry of belief-based thought-activity?)
Only by relinquishing belief
in the false identities that inspire thoughts can the thoughts come to an end.
Only by abandoning the “this” and “that” in such beliefs as “I am this” (role)
or “I am that” (role) will the peace and quiet of only the “I Am” ever happen.
Thus, the pointers offered for consideration and re-consideration throughout
the book:
“This-ism,
that-ism, is-m, is-m, is-m.”
(John Lennon / Yoko Ono)
“ . . . Stop
imagining yourself / your self to be ‘this’ or ‘that.’ Just be.”
(Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj)
“Neti-Neti”
(Non-Duality Pointer to Identity-Less-Ness)
The “mind” is the instrument which
supports personality via belief-based thoughts, and those thoughts are the
instruments that will forever prevent “peace of mind”; in fact - as has been
noted - there is no such thing as “peace of mind.” There is only peace if freed
of the “mind.” There can only be peace if you are “out of your mind.”
Consciousness is rooted in the Absolute. The brain is rooted in the elements.
The “mind” is rooted in wrong programming and faulty conditioning and perverted
domestication and xenophobia-based acculturation along with all of the “-ism”-generated
lies and along with all of the concepts and ideas and superstitions and
falsehoods and beliefs that are supported and spread by your culture’s “-ism’s.”
If trapped in personality /
personalities / personas, then one is in a play, playing a role, and believing
that the role and the play are both real. Why would one believe such nonsense?
Because “the mind” is the playwright, the author of every scene.
When Maharaj said, “You are not in the world . . . the world is in you,” what did
he mean? He meant, “You are not in the world,” that is, there is no “you” that
is real (that is, “as perceived”) or in any world.
“The world is in you” means
that the world is in your “mind” - merely a misperception, a conceptualization
- and is nothing more than a figment of programming-and-conditioning-induced
imaginings.
Everything that is said here is to be used to get rid of another false belief
until all ideas and emotional intoxication and beliefs are gone and nothing
remains but the unstated understanding.
Only then can the constant churning and re-churning of the false beliefs of the corrupted “mind” finally cease. Freed of beliefs, functioning happens naturally and spontaneously as the inner resource, rather than the content of the “mind” - becomes the “guiding” light . . . the “guiding force.”
What is that inner resource,
that inner guru? It is the vestige of pure consciousness that remains, deeply
buried beneath the waste called “the mind,” and that manifests in full
awareness post-realization.
What will be the prevailing circumstances among the non-realized who have not
abandoned all of the “not-you’s” as identities and whose functioning is not
happening under the auspices of the inner resource?
The “mind” will continue to obscure the consciousness in all of those cases because the “mind” is so marred with its false beliefs and all of its so-called “knowledge” (that is, its accumulation of learned ignorance), that it will continue to leave such persons insane to one degree or another. Why?
What else other than “insane”
could describe the condition of one who does not recognize “himself” / “herself”?
What else other than “insane” could describe the condition of one who does not
even know who / what he or she is? What else other than “insane” could describe
the condition of one who unquestioningly believes falsehoods?
What else other than “insane” could describe the condition of one who accepts,
on blind faith alone, myth-and-superstition-based beliefs as “the truth”? What
else other than “insane” could describe the condition of one who is convinced
that he or she is fully awake though actually asleep, trapped in the dream of
the planet?
What else other than “insane”
could describe the condition of one who believes that - after those elements
which took the form of a plant food body but which eventually return to the
universal pool of elements - that some “form” of those elements will remain
forever and will “have” the same “mind” and “memories” and personality and
identities (roles) and family and spouse, also forever?
Because no personal body (or “subtle version” thereof) can remain forever, how
can a “mind” or any of the beliefs contained therein remain forever?
They cannot, and the wise will
see how ideal that belief-free, mind-free condition would be. Moreover, the
truly wise realize as well that, if being free of the beliefs that cause the “mind”
to churn away incessantly and that cause a constant disruption of the peace
throughout the relative existence would be ideal “later” (post-manifestation),
then the truly wise will also realize that it would also be ideal to be free of
those peace-robbing factors right now.
The Ultimate Medicine offered by way of non-duality pointers can treat those
suffering from the Ultimate Sickness that has left them out of touch with
reality / Reality.
The wise that are moving along the “path” to realization see at some point that, through no choice of their own, they have been out of touch with reality / Reality and they see that such a condition in itself is insane.
Again, to be in touch with
reality / Reality is sane, and in order to be sane, you must be out of your
mind.
For their suffering to end, persons must understand the functioning of the
totality; must see that all suffering is rooted in the assumption of ego-states
as false identities; must realize that they have no “mind” but instead are
being driven by the “minds” of others (which they now think is their own “mind”);
must be aware of the fact that a “mind” is nothing more than the storehouse of all the cultures’ lies and beliefs and ideas and concepts that must be cast aside in order to end misperceptions and misunderstandings and the subsequent misery and suffering;
and
must see not only the
limitations of doingness but the timelessness and limitless nature of beingness
. . . and non-beingness as well.
In this relative existence, nothing is going on but a breeziness of play, but
persons are caught up in a tornado of work, in a storm of seriousness, and in a
tempest of drama. So-called “life” in this sphere of consciousness is just a
process of functioning, and while the “mind” of a person will dream up notions
about separation or differentiation, none exists.
The unicity-based process just keeps on happening in cycles, but nothing is being cycled except elements and air and energy. Nothing is being “preserved” or “saved” so it can “live forever.” What remains forever is energy-matter, and the sane and wise understand both that and THAT.
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.
