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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
To review: this what Direct Path realization and Nisarga Yoga are about:
1. peace
2. freedom from belief in false identifications which would interrupt that
peace
3. natural living
4. sane living
5. stable living
6. reasonable living
7. logical living
and
8. enjoyable living.
In the end, THAT is not about THAT at all. It is all about “this,” right NOW, because later, THAT which is will not even be known to be.
What If This “Journey” Is Not Really So Much About THAT at All?
Two
earlier points will now be offered for review and emphasis:
First, the pointer was offered at the beginning of this series that a little
un-learning is as dangerous as Pope's observation regarding “a little learning.”
After thirty-five years of being involved with “this thing of ours,” and
after visiting with people around the globe; and
after hearing from other people around the globe (some offering gratitude but
more offering re-direction to what they take to be “floyd”),
this scenario which was addressed by Maharaj has been witnessed far too often:
Maharaj said, “There are so many who take the dawn for the noon, a momentary
experience for full realisation, and destroy even the little they gain by
excess of pride.”
It has not mattered if one sought (and claims to have found) via the Direct
Path Method, the Traditional Method, the Neo-Vedanta Method, or the Neo-Advaita
Method (or one of the hundreds of spinoffs of those), the case has been too
often that
1. many seekers have fallen into a quagmire while believing that they are
standing on the most solid of all ground; and
2. many seekers have become
pain-in-the-rear spiritual giants, and many have chosen to try to dwarf “floyd”
with their advice about “this wrong view” or “that wrong take on a subject” or
advising that “your site should tout sexual abstinence” or “you need to promote
tantric sex,” or “you should tell people to eat only vegetables, never meat,”
etc.
(Little do they know that morally and piously dwarfing “floyd” can be
accomplished effortlessly for “he” is a spiritual pygmy at best when compared
to those types); and
3.
many seekers have thus become, as described earlier, boring individuals who are
attached to their new and improved personas and who are no fun at all to be
around because they are wrapped up in their philosophy or religion, living with
their heads in the clouds and strutting about in a lofty, superior, detached,
aloof manner.
[Any first-hand experience here to share? You bet. Been there, done that, been
that along the way.]
Which brings the discussion to the next pointer offered earlier:
In the end, THAT is not about THAT at all. It is all about “this,” right NOW,
because later, THAT Which Is will not even be known to be.
That pointer will only make complete sense if viewed through the Nisarga Yoga
understanding. To expand upon that pointer, try this analogy:
Consider that you are in a wilderness (which the relative existence is) and
that you have only a quart jar of water to assure survival;
unfortunately,
someone traveling with you during the early leg of your journey contaminated
your jar of water before you left them to go it on your own. (Take those to be
your programmers, conditioners, domesticators, acculturators, brainwashers, and indoctrinators.)
Now, consider that your jar of water (take that to be the parts of your brain
other than “the mind”) has some very hard clumps of salty soil lying on the
bottom of the glass;
imagine
that they are leeching brown contaminates that are floating about in the jar
and turning the entire contents into a coffee-colored, brackish mess. (Take the
contaminants to be the ideas, concepts, attitudes, etc. - a.k.a., “beliefs” -
which are stored in “the mind.”)
Imagine next that you have a long-handled spoon that you have used to remove
the clumps from the bottom of the jar but notice that you must still deal with
the remainder of the pollutants if you are to survive.
Recall the four or more methods of “teaching” Advaita or Vedanta or Advaita
Vedanta which were mentioned earlier and take them to be a long-handled spoon.
Any of them might occasionally remove some of the larger clumps of
contaminants, but a “fine-filtering sieve” is still required if the water is to
be available to ensure survival.
Here, that additional implement that is required for total purification and
absolute cleansing and full filtration and ultimate distillation and unreserved
decontamination and full-blown sanitation and complete refinement is . . . the
Nisarga Yoga.
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.
