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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
The Stages of “The Journey” Along “The Path”
These
stages explain the way that this entire process is supposed to unfold:
PHASE ONE: THE “COMING IN”
There is first the “coming in” from that field of energy, manifesting, just
being for a short period as a no-knowing child, then being assigned identities,
then given a mind that is filled with nonsense, and then ultimately being
reduced to body-mind-personality identification alone.
PHASE TWO: “THE REVERSE 'JOURNEY' GOING BACK OUT”
For the few that seek and find, there is “the going back,” in the exact reverse
order of the steps which brought one “in” initially and which eventually
resulted in body-mind-personality identification.
PHASE THREE: “THE 'COMING BACK IN' FOR THE SECOND TIME”
Having returned “there” and having understood the functioning of the totality
as a result of having seen the total cycle, one does not stay “there” (for that
could only happen mentally, indicating that even the second step of the “journey”
- the step which allows for transitioning beyond the influence of the
fiction-filled “mind” - has not happened).
It was explained this way in one discussion of “The Vision” (which brought here
the final clarity and that “Eureka! . . . Aha! moment” that opened the door to full
realization):
After having “returned to the Absolute” and having seen the perfect peace of
the Void - of the Nothingness - which was even prior to THAT, one can (in the
PHASE THREE: “THE 'COMING BACK IN' FOR THE SECOND TIME”) bring that perfect
peace back to the relative existence and overlay it on the remainder of the
manifestation.
Having been beyond knowing and having enjoyed the no-knowing, no-knower state,
then the unblocked consciousness can begin its second “journey” from THAT to “this,”
but nothing will be the same after having been “there” consciously and now
returning in awareness rather than in ignorance (as was the case during the
first “coming in” that resulted in identifying with the body and mind and
personality).
Now, the “second trip in” happens with clarity as clear, pure witnessing takes
place, allowing all to be understood; as the movement into the peaceful
child-that-knows-not stage happens; as you see the way religious or spiritual
roles were assigned to the child;
as you see the way a “mind” filled with nonsense came about; as you see exactly
the way that you ended up identifying with a plant food, elemental body the
first time “in.”
Now, having seen all of that, nothing is perceived as it was before: You know
that you are no persona, that you are neither good nor bad, that you are
neither black nor white nor any color, that you are neither evil nor noble.
You can look back over your shoulder, so to speak, and see All and understand
All. Then, you will live AS IF, as if any of this matters, as if any of “this”
is important, while knowing that it is not, even as you move through the
remainder of the relative existence in a sane, non-destructive, Loving fashion
(for True Love, too, will have been overlaid upon the relative as a result of
the Oneness having been understood).
You will then enjoy the remainder of the relative existence as a result of all
that you came to understand on the “journey,” but now, the “journey” to THAT is
over and it is time to relish the freedom that allows for the enjoyment of the
remainder of the manifestation.
What good is it, if you are hungry, to go to the grocery store and buy food but
then stay in the store forever, never returning home, never undertaking the
relative existence task of preparing the food, and never enjoying the meal?
The
one who stays in the store can claim, “I have arrived,” but that one will be
totally insane to stay in the store and not enjoy what the relative existence
can offer.
If the multi-step “journey back in - now for the second time - is not
undertaken, allowing an entirely new experience to happen in the relative, then
why go “there” in the first place?
Only HERE and NOW can the bliss be known. Only during the AM-ness can the bliss
happen. Only the relative existence can provide an opportunity for the fruits
of the “journey” to be enjoyed.
When the consciousness finally unmanifests as mahasamadhi is taken - and when
it “returns there” and is reunited with that universal pool of specialized
energy known as “awareness” or the Absolute - then at that point there will be
no “one” to know that or to know THAT or to experience the bliss or to
experience anything else.
The only purpose of the “journey” to understanding THAT is to “return” to the
AM-ness and to abide for the remainder of the relative existence in an AS IF
fashion.
Otherwise, one will be as trapped in her or his “Philosophical Character” or in
“The Knower Character” or in “The Different From Others Who Don't Understand
What I Understand Character.”
Playing
any of those roles, one will be as separated from “others” and as bound up in subject-object
witnessing as was the case prior to undertaking the “journey.”
The invitation: Come home. Enjoy the freedom and independence. Enjoy the
remainder of the relative by functioning spontaneously in an AS IF manner.
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.
