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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
“First of all you identify something as being good or bad for yourself. Then, in an effort to acquire good or to get rid of the bad, you have invented a God. Then you worship such a God and . . . you pray to that God for something good to happen to you.”
--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
“Go
forth, unburdened with ideas and beliefs.”
--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
. . . “Go home, take charge of your father’s business, look after your parents in their old age. Marry the girl who is waiting for you; be loyal, be simple, be humble. Hide your virtue, live silently.”
--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
“ . . . Question wisely. You will find you know nothing for sure - you trust on hearsay.”
--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
“A little learning can be a dangerous thing.”
--Alexander Pope
“Anything short of total un-learning is a far-more-dangerous thing.”
--floyd
“Realization can only come via unlearning all, never via learning more.”
--floyd
If the position of neutrality manifests and becomes fixed as one's new modus operandi, then what might have been a sandpaper approach with persons in the past can become a very soft and tranquil and relaxed movement when dealing with any type of person.
Any
prior disposition toward conflict gives way to witnessing rather than
engagement. With the exception of those addicted to control and chaos, or those
who are unstable or suffering from severe mental and emotional disorders, the
potential of moving through the relative existence in a calm and easy and
stable and steady manner will be appealing.
So the invitation is:
a. to overlay Reality on the relative;
b. to use the understanding of THAT to enhance the enjoyment of the “this,” the
Am-ness; and
c. to keep your head in the clouds for the time that you are moving along the “path”
if you like but to eventually remove your head from the clouds and plant your
feet firmly on the ground.
Since realization here, some might say that “floyd's” relative existence has
been marked by certain delights and marred by certain most unpleasant
happenings.
The actual fact is that the relative existence here has simply been a series of random events and happenings that are of the type that always have, and always will, mark the relative existence.
During
the last thirty-four years here since realization, there have been thousands of
happenings. As with certain meals where some taste better than others, so it is
with the happenings here:
there was the house that was taken away, precipitating a relocation into a
small condo; then years later there was a movement into the house now occupied;
there was an expectation that Real Love was going to be known and shared for
the entirety of the relative existence, but that was not the case; yet an
unwavering sense of Oneness and Real Love remain;
there
have been a child's accomplishments and a child's setbacks and now more “accomplishments”
by the child as a young adult;
there have been moments of quiet at the lakeside or respites passed after
anchoring a boat in a quite cove, and there have been periods of activity and
work interspersed with periods of play.
At times, neither work nor play happened, times when nothing happened other
than the witnessing of the solitude and the silence; there have been many who
have come here to seek and a few that have actually found that which they had
been seeking for most of their lives.
But in the end, nirvana has been visited regularly as far as this speck is
concerned:
there have been numerous occasions of vacation nirvana and more occasions of
stay-at-home nirvana; of fine dining nirvana and eating-something-bland
nirvana;
of
beautiful scenery nirvana and not-so-beautiful scenery nirvana; of
delightfully-temperate days nirvana; of cold days nirvana; of hot days nirvana;
of
the-ability-to-decline-offers-of-pleasure nirvana and
the-ability-to-accept-pleasure nirvana . . .
. . . especially when pleasure is offered not only with love but also with a
sense of Oneness and an understanding of Real Love so that the pain part of the
pleasure-pain combo so typical among the non-realized does not manifest;
there have been instances of facing-economic-setbacks nirvana; of economic
victories nirvana; of facing medical issues nirvana; of feeling-wonderful-on-certain-days
nirvana and not-feeling-so-wonderful-on-other-days nirvana.
And it was all either “delighted in” or “endured” just as it was - without
judgment or opinion or angst or a triggering of emotional intoxication or
reaction; it has all been seen for the way it is, all merely witnessed from a
platform of neutrality.
Where the “extremes” cited above might appear to be dualities, overlaying
nirvana on it all negates any chance for dualities to manifest. With no “one”
to have thoughts or to make words or to do actions, wherefore any dualities?
THAT is what Direct Path realization and Nisarga Yoga are about, and none of
that has anything to do with “putting a spin” on what is “bad” and mentally
warping that into the opposite by constantly declaring “It's all good!” - the BS
statement which many use to deny what is really happening or to deny the way
that they actually feel about what is happening.
No, the nirvana flavoring manifested because, here, there was no “one” to
experience anything or to desire anything that would be to the contrary of
whatever has happened; whatever has happened, post-realization, has always
simply been witnessed.
As one guide suggested, you might as well seek an eagle’s nest on the floor of
the ocean as seek to wish into existence something other than whatever
has happened the way it happened.
But no “one”? Exactly. No “one.” Here, instead, there has only been that
specialized energy that manifests for a time as Pure Witnessing; fixated there,
all that the relative has tossed this way for more than two decades has been
witnessed, felt, registered, sometimes processed, and sometimes not.
Yes, feelings have most assuredly been felt, but emotions have not been emoted.
Hurts have registered but they have not resulted in any reactionary thoughts or
words or deeds. Joys have registered as well. 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.
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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.
