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2. Here, with those who are still driven to talk about "god," the "Son of god," the "Holy Spirit," "Buddha," "Krishna," etc., etc., etc., the invitation to them is to view those as verbs, not nouns. See the green text after today's post for the full meaning and implications of that.
3. A newer video ("Number Ten: Awakening Together Satsang, March 2018") has now been added in the far right column of this page, offering the opportunity to view a recent 2018 satsang session with Floyd being interviewed by Regina and Jacqueline of "The Awakening Together Group." (See the details in the blue text after this post.)
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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
Ruby Bridges: “Racism is a grown-up disease. Let’s stop using our kids to spread it.”
Floyd: “The same applies to all that grown-ups add in to make up the minds of
kids, including hate, racism, xenophobia, white supremacy, Christian
nationalism, beliefs about ‘different from’ and therefore ‘better-than,’ and
(per Maharaj) ‘ignorance, stupidity, and insanity’.”
“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 Uniqueness of the Nisarga Yoga
There
is talk here of a “path” and the “Direct Path Method” and a “journey.” “Path”
and “journey” are placed in quotation marks to indicate that there is no actual
path to be traveled and that there is no literal journey to be made.
Yet the irony is that
1. there are steps which must be taken and
2. there is a “movement” away from or a “shifting” away from
though the movement is not away from where one is.
The movement is away from believing that one is what one is not; a movement
toward the understanding of what one IS;
a
movement away from all identification including any kind of “self” now as well
as any kind of a “Self” later on and a sustaining of that no-identity no
Identity understanding for the remainder of the manifestation.
But why? Why even set out on such an undertaking?
If this “journey” is to move seekers
1. away from the personal (from personality, from personas) and
2. to a no-self state and
3. eventually even to a no-Self state where it is seen that what has been taken
to be some “True Self” is really nothing more than a specialized form of energy
which is capable of Pure Witnessing during a temporary manifestation if all
blockages have been discarded
then
4. how is it that so many other “objectives” have been added by so many
teachers to what is supposed to be a very simple, de-accumulating process,
namely, the taking of the simple steps in an exact order which can move one
away from . . .
the
blockages set in place by programming and conditioning and acculturation and
domestication and brainwashing and indoctrinating and allow for the seeing of
all that is false and allow for the seeing of the truth which can be known but
which cannot be stated?
Yet are those not also irrelevant objectives as well? Is the “goal” of the “journey”
to know more, or to un-learn all (that “all” being the accumulation of all
learned ignorance and all else that is thought to be known)?
Who
sets out on a trip without identifying a clear destination? In terms of literal
trips, almost no one. In terms of “religious” or “spiritual” or “philosophical”
or “ideological” journeys, many.
How many can look ahead and see the end of the Advaitin path? What they see
depends on which of the many methods of teaching that they have accidentally
stumbled across. (Why “stumbled across”?
Because
the fully realized do not proselytize. They do not knock on doors and hand out
flyers inviting persons to take this “journey.” Finding a fully realized guide
happens as rarely as finding a bird's nest on the bottom of the sea, as one
writer put it.)
So what are other so-called “teachers” and so-called “Big Name Teachers” (per Maharaj)
offering that is so far removed from the Original Understanding and from Your
Original Nature and from what only Nisarga Yoga offers?
One
so-called “swami” has said that “the goal” of the Traditional Method of
teaching Advaita Vedanta is “first and foremost the acquisition of knowledge
about Vedanta.” Acquisition? Knowledge? So much for de-accumulation. So much
for un-learning.
As for Neo-Advaita, the claim is that “there is no journey at all.” The message
is, “There is nothing to learn or un-learn, no work involved, no effort
required. Just rest in what you already are.”
Yet
Maharaj made clear that one cannot know what one already is until one discards
all of the false beliefs about what one mistakenly thinks one already is, for
all such misperceptions block one from knowing what one already is.
As for Neo-Vedanta, the term refers primarily to the method used by Vivekananda
and his followers who have tried to make the teachings more suitable to Western
tastes (where concepts and ego-states have dominated persons for millennia).
Some
examples of the concepts they teach include: “dream on an idea and be full of
it and you’ll succeed; believe in yourself; make yourself strong; find god and
gain power; use thoughts to create a new reality; engage in the noble goal of
seeking knowledge; you are responsible for what you are; acquire power; and
seek love.”
Dream rather than awaken? The duality of “success” vs. . . . “failure”? Believe?
God? Power? Use thoughts? Create your own reality? Seek more knowledge, more
power, more love?
That
is, live unnaturally and supernaturally (meaning, in a spiritual, magical,
other-worldly manner) that removes you from being in touch with reality even
while claiming to be in touch with Reality? Ignore the “I AM THAT; I AM” and
speak only of “I AM THAT”?
Such concepts are in direct opposition to the teachings presented via the
Direct Path, Nisarga Yoga approach. So the “goal” of the “journey” of those
non-Direct Path, non-Nisarga Yoga approaches is to gain, to know, to seek
forever, or to believe that the effects of programming and conditioning and
acculturation and domestication and brainwashing and indoctrination can be undone by merely saying it is so?
Do seekers who stumble across one teacher or another even know what the “goal”
of that teacher's method is and how any given goal might different from the
goals of other teachers using different methods?
If
not, then those seekers are among the types referenced earlier, setting out on
a trip without identifying any clear destination at all.
Only the Direct Path Method used in conjunction with the Nisarga Yoga makes
clear a final destination that involves abiding as Your original nature (which
in turn allows for abiding naturally rather than unnaturally or supernaturally
and which therefore allows for being totally free of all that has been “added”
and which is totally contrary to Your original nature).
What marks the non-original nature of the non-realized? That nature is one that
is false, bogus, counterfeit, inauthentic, an imitation and a sham forged in
the fiery hell of programming and conditioning and acculturation and
domestication and brainwashing and indoctrination.
In the process of removing all of those “add-on” effects, the
Nisarga Yoga will not claim that there are no steps to be taken. Here, it is
made clear that there are steps which must be taken.
The Nisarga Yoga will not claim that you need more knowledge. The Nisarga Yoga
will not claim that you need to employ soaring and elevated and noble sayings
that inspire dreaming and believing and acquiring and “creating your own
reality” (as if that is possible).
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."
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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.
