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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 and more; you do not need to add to the body of nonsense and BS which ‘they’ passed on to you via conditioning and programming. You need less of everything, not more of anything. What you need to do is subtract, not add. You need to un-learn; you need to be un-taught.”
--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, relatively speaking.”
--floyd
As mentioned on this site in the past, pain is of the body while misery and
suffering are of the “mind” (including the ideas and thoughts and impressions
and images and opinions and views and distortions and concepts and emotions and
false identifications / personas - a.k.a., “beliefs” - stored therein).
Certainly, it is understandable that
a. if someone is in physical pain 24 / 7 as a result of an incurable disease
and that
b. if realization has led to transitioning
beyond any and all attachment to the body and to the consciousness
then
c. such circumstances could inspire one to want to “pull the plug” when
whatever is happening with the body has become a constant source of pain that
will not end as long as the consciousness remains to register the pain.
A so-called “assault” on the body in such instances can be a logical and
accurate means for addressing 24 / 7, uninterrupted pain which prevents any
chance for enjoying relative pleasures (a.k.a., prevents “quality of life,” as
the non-realized call it).
[NOTE: Maharaj addressed “the constant pain issue” via non-attached witnessing.
That option might work for some as well.]
The possibility of endless pain without relief is why the last will and testament here states clearly that life-supporting equipment is not to be used to support “floyd's” body if it is racked with constant, incessant pain or if the body is in what is assured to be an interminable vegetative state.
Any
action to sustain a body in either of those conditions would be unnatural. The
deer that are dying a natural death are never “rescued” by an intervention.
But if misery and suffering are happening - instead of pain - then destroying
the body and terminating the manifestation of the consciousness makes no sense
at all. Such action would be non-Nisargan, would be unnatural.
So an assault on the body, when the body is the source of relentless, physical
pain can be logical and reasonable and natural if it is guaranteed that no
happiness and joy or bliss shall ever register again for the remainder of the
manifestation.
By contrast, an assault on the body, when the “mind” is the source of
relentless misery and suffering, is totally illogical and unreasonable and
unnatural, for it fails to address the addressable causes that - if addressed -
could end the misery and suffering and would allow happiness and joy and bliss
to register for the remainder of the manifestation.
It would be tantamount to someone cutting his arm so severely that stitches
would be required to close the wound, to his going to an emergency room of a
hospital to have the arm wound treated, and to the doctors there sewing
stitches into his leg, bandaging his leg, and sending him on his way to “bleed
to death.”
If the actual source of the problem had been addressed, there would have been
no reason at all for “the death.” Later, the arm would have healed and an
enjoyable existence could have continued.
Therefore, it is impossible to equate an assault on the body to end intolerable, physical pain with an assault on the body to end misery and suffering.
As
with the misplaced, misdirected treatment of a leg in the scenario above,
persons are misguided and misdirected when they seek relief in a
similarly-flawed manner instead of finding and targeting the location of “the
actual problem.”
In the first case with the diseased body, the problem is incurable. The pain will not cease. In the second case, when the “mind” is dis-eased and the cause of misery and suffering, then that circumstance is curable;
therefore,
attacking the body or prematurely ending the manifestation of the consciousness
would not be natural and would make no sense at all.
It would be unnatural, and therefore, insane, illogical, unreasonable, and
unwarranted, relatively speaking.
In light of the distinction between pain on the one hand and misery and
suffering on the other, consider again this comment from two young teens who
were practicing “cutting” several years ago: “Life sucks. How cruel are you to
try to talk us into being exposed to any more of this crap?”
The teens had every reason, considering the levels of abuse that they had
suffered from their truly sick father, to feel miserable and to feel as if the
pressure within was so great that cutting could provide relief. Functioning at
the level of body identification only, they attacked the body rather than the
actual source of their misery.
The reason they are happy and free today is because they found that their
problem was rooted in the “mind” and not in the body; thereafter, they
addressed (with professional guidance) the real and treatable cause of their
misery and suffering.
Once their line of attack turned from the body to the “mind,” relief began to
manifest, but (as happened with those two) identification with the body can set
the stage for persons who are suffering mentally and / or emotionally to strike
out at the body rather than to seek treatment for the contaminated “mind.”
That phenomenon is explained this way in the book FROM THE I TO THE ABSOLUTE in a passage which addresses the
body-identification / attack-the-body connection that is rooted in
misperception and misunderstanding:
Body identification can be chaotic and even fatal. Here's how: I once had a dog
that, when it saw its reflection in a mirror, would go ballistic. He fought
with that false self, biting at the mirror and trying to destroy himself / his
own reflection.
In humans identified with their bodies, the deep-seated need to destroy the ego and false roles and to be authentic is a subconscious, driving force which leads to self-destructive behavior or even suicidal assaults against the physical body.
If I
am my body and I am having overwhelming problems, then the way to be rid of
those is to be rid of the body, so the unconscious, fallacious reasoning goes.
So, experiencing hopeless and endless body pain? Go for the body if you like.
Experiencing misery and suffering? It only makes sense to go for the “mind,” to address the faulty content of the “mind” that prevents persons from seeing what really ails them . . . to find and treat the actual source of one's misery and suffering.
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.
