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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
“For the supposedly realized to deny the AM-ness is just as delusional as it is for the non-realized to identify solely with the Am-ness.”
--floyd
For
those familiar with the nine basis personality types discussed here, the Type
Three will put a spin on her or his suffering and will distort it and will
ignore addressing it by minimizing it and by reporting that “It's all good” or
by minimizing the causes of suffering and advising persons instead to “Love
What Is”;
Type Fours will try to escape their suffering, by whatever means, including
mental flights of fancy, giving credibility to fantasies, or merely “dropping
out” mentally and emotionally; Type Fives are experts at avoidance;
and Type Nines are the kings and queens of avoidance; are the kings and queens
of being “The Accommodating One,” which includes accommodating suffering; and
are especially prone to seeking someone else to address what they take to be
the cause[s] of their suffering, thus avoiding having to address the roots of
their suffering directly and on their own.
Maharaj said: “ . . . it is in the nature of Truth or Love, cosmic
consciousness, whatever you want to call it, to express itself, to affirm
itself, to overcome difficulties. Once you've understood that the world is Love
in action, consciousness or Love in action, you will look at it quite
differently.
“But
first your attitude to suffering must change. Suffering is primarily a call for
attention, which itself is a movement of Love. More than happiness, Love wants
growth, the widening and deepening of awareness and consciousness and being.
Whatever prevents that becomes a cause of pain [suffering actually], and Love
does not shirk from pain [from suffering, actually].”
One visitor to the loft offered this perspective in clarifying the “your-body-is-not-the-problem,
your-mind-is-the-problem” point:
A Visitor: “ . . . there is nothing wrong with my body nor with my real being.
Both are not of my making and need not be improved upon. What has gone wrong is
the ‘inner body’, call it mind, consciousness, antahkarana, whatever the name.”
The Realized Nisargan guide (that also experienced suffering prior to full
realization, and often a great deal of suffering, in fact) offers to introduce
the sufferer to the natural state, to the Nisarga state, in order to abide in a
suffering-free manner.
NOTE: The teachings alone can produce a philosophical giant; a detached rather than non-attached individual; a person who becomes even more fatalistic or nihilistic than prior to exposure to the teachings;
and
a person in touch with THAT but totally out of touch with “this.” It has been
seen that the Nisarga Yoga, used in combination with the teachings, can avert
those out-of-touch conditions.
To that end of assisting sufferers to being free of their misery by introducing
them to what is natural, a follower explained what Maharaj offered: “Maharaj
most lucidly describes this natural, spontaneous state, but as the man born
blind cannot visualize light and colors, so is the unenlightened mind unable to
give meaning to such descriptions.
Expressions like dispassionate happiness, affectionate detachment, timelessness and causelessness of things and being - they all sound strange and cause no response. Intuitively we feel they have deep meaning, and they even create in us a strange longing for the ineffable, a forerunner of things to come, but that is all.
As
Maharaj puts it, 'Words are pointers; they show the direction but they will not
come along with us. Truth is the fruit of earnest action, words merely point
the way'.”
The “mind” is the seat of all non-truth, of all non-truths, of all distortions,
of all destructiveness; it is the root of suffering; it is the storehouse and
protector of the false self / selves, which can be fatal.
Suffering? You need not, if you are willing to follow instructions and are
willing to accept the invitation to address the true source of your misery and
suffering.
The Three Legs of “The Journey,” Part One
Are you beginning to understand why, here, the Direct Path Advaita pointers are not taught alone but are offered in conjunction with the Nisarga Yoga?
So
many seemingly arrive at the Absolute and claim identification with THAT, not
at all free of identity, not overlaying Reality on the relative, and not living
naturally in an AS IF fashion after having completed the “journey.”
Fixating “there,” they actually assume a new identity, such as “The Philosophical
Giant,” “The One Who Understands What Most Do Not,” or “The One Who Is
Different” (which indicates there is really no understanding at all).
Some are more susceptible to all of that than others, specifically, the
Personality Type Fours that are the most likely to eventually seek the “Authentic
Self” and who make up only about 1/2 of 1% of the entire population of the
planet.
Add to those the Type Ones and Twos that can shift to Four and the Fives who
have a “4-wing.” What does that have to do with the problem above? Those types
- the 4's and any that shift to the 4 - are already more prone to be “philosophical”
and “withdrawn” and “cerebral” and “feeling separate” and seeing themselves as “deep
thinkers” and “different from” and “never understood.”
If they do complete the seven step “journey” and arrive “there,” they are more
likely to claim that they are now abiding only “there” or “only as THAT.”
Reaching those conclusions, they render the entire “journey” useless. To go
back - to reverse the way that one “came in” and then claim to stay “there” -
then their having traveled the “path” is rendered worthless
For the supposedly realized to deny the AM-ness is just as delusional as it is for the non-realized to identify solely with the Am-ness.
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.
