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IN TERMS OF “REALIZATION” AS A NON-DUAL PROCESS, THE MATH AIN’T MATHING
“The math ain’t mathing.”
Taraji P. Henson
“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
“Go forth, unburdened with ideas and
beliefs.”
--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
“ . . . Question wisely. Instead of searching for the proof of truth, which you do not know, go through the proofs you have of what you believe to know. You will find you know nothing for sure - you trust on hearsay. To know the truth, you must pass through your own experience.”
--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
What have you been told to do or what have you been”moved” to do in terms of seeking? Have you gone along with those who believe that they must add more visits to spiritual sites?
That they must add more sweat lodge visits to their seeking routines? That they must add more and more books to their already-extensive “self-help” libraries and read them and study them diligently?
Here, during the long and winding and arduous “path” which was followed prior to coming across the non-dual teachings, there had been exposure to evangelical preachers; Sunday school teachers; public school teachers; college professors; graduate school professors; priests; a Sikh; a Buddhist; a New Age guru; a Taoist; sponsors; a life coach; etc.
All of that was to no avail. My
seeking continued without even the slightest hint of “finding.”
In the fictional non-duality-based novel entitled “THE TWICE-STOLEN NECKLACE MURDERS,” the laborious and grueling “journey”
of the lead character Kirk (“floyd”) was described this way:
“In his energy-consuming search for salvation, he’d been dipped, dunked,
sprayed, spayed, sprinkled, and neutered; in the quest for truth, he’d been
blessed, cursed, cussed, lectured, scolded, and praised; in his pursuit of
Life’s Meaning, he’d been communion’d, Om’d, grape-juiced, wined, ahsram’d,
accepted, rejected, Mu’d, and yoga’d;
in his chase for service-work-opportunities, he’d been pulverized, martinized, and frappéd; and in the endeavor to attain Life Eternal, he’d been baptized, Buddha’d, New Aged, powwow’d, Far Eastern Indianized, incense’d, sage’d, Tao’d, Peru’d, Tibet’d, washed in the blood, dunked in the waters, and purportedly purified.
Then in the end, each of
the religious or spiritual leaders had always charged him 10% of his total
income for the whole sorry treatment, plus a building-fund-tax and a
foreign-missions-surcharge to boot—all in spite of the complete ineffectiveness
of their claims to ‘redeem and save’.”
The near-endless compilation of persons who were met along the way all had
several traits in common:
(1) they all had many beliefs;
(2) they all had assumed false identities which were associated with one
religion or another; or associated with one spiritual movement or another; or
associated with one philosophical movement or another; or associated with one
ideology or another; or associated one “program” or another, etc;
(3) their beliefs were all rooted in a perspective focused on “another world”
(the other world or worlds which they thought would be “eternal”
for every person, one “world” being a “world of rewards,” the other being a “world
of punishment”);
(4) so they all believed in “this world” and then additionally other worlds which
were actually nothing more than an upgraded version of “this world” (“heaven with pearly gates and
streets of gold,” “Nirvana,” “the Pure Land,” “heaven with seventy-two virgins
and a host of whores and wives as well,” etc.) or a downgraded version of “this
world” (“Hell,” “Hades,” “another life on this planet but as a lower species,”
an “underworld,” etc.).
The other trait they all
had in common was this:
(5) they all wanted me to believe
exactly what they believed.
Here, to the contrary, this has been posted on occasion on this site:
“Here, there is nothing that is believed, so there is no one here who wants
you to believe anything, either. Here, the invitation is to be free of all that
you have been programmed, conditioned, acculturated, domesticated, brainwashed,
and indoctrinated to believe so that you can be free, period.”
This has also been shared:
“There is no one here who wants you to learn more. What is offered here is
an invitation to un-learn all. There is no one here who would teach you
anything. What is offered here is an invitation to be un-taught.”
See? The only “mathing” concerned with here is subtraction, not
addition.
And that is a stance
which
was never heard before coming across the non-dual understanding. Moreover, some
claiming to be non-dual teachers - including those Maharaj warned seekers to
avoid, namely, “the Big Name Teachers” - have also been about adding.
The notion of subtracting had never been heard in any other “venue” before Maharaj recommended the use of that approach.
Here, there are no fears and no desires, but if there were anyone here who
could wish for anything for you - should you be ready for a change and should
you be completely amenable - it would be . . .
that you would be at peace;
that you would be free, meaning that you could relax and take it easy by being
freed from the misery and suffering of abiding unnaturally (and, therefore, impulsively and impetuously and
rashly and blindly and unwisely and insanely);
that you would be freed from all of the work and effort and nonstop toiling
that happens when trying to live supernaturally
/ religiously / spiritually (as described above regarding Kirk’s (“floyd’s”)
ineffective and exhausting journey);
and that you could abide naturally
and spontaneously and instinctively instead.
Again, through, that would only apply if you are earnestly and totally in
agreement that abiding naturally and spontaneously and instinctively (instead
of the way you have been living) would allow for a far more enjoyable relative
existence than the one currently being experienced.
Yet no peace and freedom and clarity can come as long as one is trapped in a “Reality
vs. reality” perspective as
opposed to a “Reality (the ever-lasting THAT) and reality (the temporary AM-ness) thereby
giving the AM-ness its proper due and
thereby allowing peace and freedom and happiness and enjoyment to manifest at
the only time they can: NOW.
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.
