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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
“You do not need to allow yourself to be taught more; you do not need to work more and more in order to learn more; you do not need to add to the body of nonsense and BS with which you have been conditioned and programmed; you need to subtract, not add. You need to un-learn; you need to be un-taught. If you’re into adding more and more and more, then your math ain’t mathing.”
--floyd
“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
Persons have become so warped as a result of that process of programming and
conditioning that they are willing to transition beyond the natural tendency of
the consciousness to extend its manifestation and will instead voluntarily end
the manifestation in an effort to kill members of other religions in order to,
supposedly, assure their own eternal continuity . . . with perks (a.k.a., “reward”
vs. “punishment”).
That self-destructive behavior marks a shift from what is natural to what is
most unnatural and to what is based in the supernatural . . . in religious or
spiritual thinking that ends any chance at finishing out the entire
manifestation in a totally natural manner.
With
an understanding of some of the teachings, but no understanding of the Nisarga
Yoga, then persons can - and, most often, will - shift to unnatural and
supernatural thinking which drive unnatural and supernatural words which, in
turn, drive unnatural and supernaturally-based actions.
Why? Because the now bogus and warped content of the “mind” has resulted in an
end to the original type of mind and in the abandonment of its original
function of (a) inspiring the automatic, natural drive for the manifestation to
be extended while (b) also assisting in the perpetuation of the species.
Now,
instead, the “mind” drives self-destructive thoughts and words and deeds. Add
to that aberration a little un-learning and suddenly persons are coming up with
supposedly-cerebral but actually nonsensical and unnatural questions such as:
“Once realized, why even go on living? What would it matter if I kill myself?”
Or, “If I shoot myself, I'd just be releasing a speck of conscious energy and
allowing the air to return to the pool of air and the elements to return to the
universal pool of elements?”
Or, as two young teens who were practicing “cutting” put it to Me years ago: “Life
sucks. How cruel are you to try to talk us into being exposed to any more of
this crap?”
Here, there is no invitation for people to continue to be exposed to “crap”;
the invitation here is to see that it matters not if one has been offered the
non-duality teachings via the Direct Path Method, the Traditional Method, the
Neo-Advaita Method, the Neo-Vedanta Method, the Pseudo Method, or any of the
other spin-offs and variations.
Those methods provide only part of the regimen to treat the Ultimate Sickness,
and, nowadays, the consciousness has been so thoroughly blocked that the
teachings alone cannot provide the entire cure for the Illness of Humanity.
No
matter which of those vessels night be used to administer the Ultimate
Medicine, they cannot provide the Ultimate Filtration - the Final and Ultimate
Purification - that is required to undo the ill effects of programming and
conditioning and domestication and acculturation and unnatural thinking and
supernatural thinking.
Moreover, the invitation here is to Realize Fully and abide naturally - rather
than unnaturally or supernaturally - and then to enjoy a crap-free existence.
Oh yes, the relative existence - like the temporarily manifested consciousness which makes it possible - will be ever-in-motion, dualistically tossing one's way some events that are considered “good” sometimes and other events that are considered “bad” sometimes.
But
to realize and to abide naturally is to allow impartial, pure witnessing to
happen rather than to allow emotional intoxication to drive one's behavior in
unnatural and insane and destructive ways.
Here, the invitation is to see that programming, conditioning, acculturation
and domestication have robbed humans of the ability to know the non-dual,
no-identity, no-concept presence; to see they have robbed humans of the ability
to live naturally;
to see they have robbed persons of the ability to use a mind for self-preservation and replaced that with a fiction-filled “mind” that is bent on self-destruction and destruction of “others”; to see they have robbed humans of an ability to be free of the concepts of “individualization” and “the personal”;
to
see they have robbed persons of the ability to sense the Oneness and to know
Love; to see they have robbed persons of the ability to live spontaneously and
freely and happily;
and to see that they now drive persons to behave in unnatural and supernatural
ways that do a considerable disservice to the masses in general, relative
speaking, driving them in many cases to unnaturally desire to bring a miserable
manifestation to an end rather than allowing them to find the means by which
the manifestation can continue for a longer period while affording opportunities
for being free and, therefore, happy.
Body Pain vs. Mind-Induced Misery and Suffering, Part One
While
the realized have no attachment to the body or to the manifested consciousness,
it would be both dualistic and unnatural to desire to terminate the
manifestation and be rid of the body on one hand or to want to “live to be 200,
or longer” on the other hand.
Here, there are no dualistic beliefs or thoughts, so neither “I want this body”
nor “I do not want this body” can arise into the now-unblocked and
sanity-friendly consciousness. Living naturally, food will be eaten
spontaneously and digestion will happen automatically, and that pattern will
continue until it stops automatically.
Here, as far as the elemental plant food body is concerned, there is a position
of neutrality because fear and desire have been eliminated via realization;
therefore, there is no desire that the body last forever and no delusion that
it even could;
however,
having been restored to sanity as a result of realization, there is no desire
to harm the body or accelerate its return to the universal pool of elements.
What of “end of life options”? Would the realized say that no one has the right
to decide what to do with one's own body?
Never, but some teachers among the realized will say that those options should be considered in light of the facts, specifically, the facts regarding endless pain (of the body) and endless misery and suffering (of the mind).
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.
