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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 “Usefulness” of the Nisarga Yoga to Non-Dual Seekers
Earlier,
the point was offered that few set out on a literal journey without knowing an
exact destination; yet that is exactly what happens far too often when persons
enter into a “religious” or “spiritual” or “ideological” or “philosophical
journey.”
Some travel a religious “path” because their parents did so. They did not even
choose to do so, but they now blindly walk someone else's “path” that they were
set on. Their destination?
Among some religions, eternal life, rewards now,
eternal reward, and the avoidance of eternal punishment. Add in the promised
benefit of “power now” with most of those.
Among others, the details of a movement through a series of lives to reach an
ultimate, eternal reward is taught. Even others present their own ideas about
what is to be gained by following their dogma and adhering to their principles.
Among most: benefits, gain, more, power.
Shared with some who join spiritual programs are twelve basic promises in a
list read daily. More than one-hundred-and-twenty other “benefits” are promised
throughout their literature. Benefits, gain, more, power.
Scores
and scores of promises are promised to those whose penchant for excess and for
more of everything got them into their programs to begin with. Now, they are
offered far more promises than are offered by any other religions or
philosophies.
Among non-dual seekers, the various methods of teaching offer a variety of “benefits”
or “gains,” including the acquisition of even more knowledge; the invitation to
dream and succeed and acquire more beliefs; the promise of power;
the encouragement to think more; the invitation to “create your own reality”;
and, generally, to gain, to know, to seek forever (or to not seek at all) and
to believe naively that the ill effects of programming and conditioning and
acculturation and domestication and indoctrination and brainwashing can be
undone by merely saying it is so.
The Direct Path Method is a process of de-accumulating, not gaining more or
getting more; yet it alone does not provide all that is required if the
Ultimate Sickness is to be addressed.
Also earlier, this was offered and is relevant here:
Any of the four or more methods of teaching Advaita or Vedanta or Advaita
Vedanta can remove some of the larger contaminants that block the
consciousness, but a “fine-filtering sieve” is still required to provide the
total treatment for the Ultimate Sickness.
Here, that additional implement that is employed to offer total purification
and absolute cleansing and full filtration and ultimate distillation and
unreserved decontamination and full-blown sanitation and complete refinement is . . . the Nisarga Yoga.
The
point was offered earlier that here, an additional implement [in additional to the
Advaita teachings] is employed to offer total purification and absolute
cleansing and full filtration and ultimate distillation and unreserved
decontamination and full-blown sanitation and complete refinement.
That tool is the Nisarga Yoga.
This is not to disparage any other teaching methods or other types of yoga but
is to affirm what has been observed over the decades when so many teachings
inspire seekers to adopt the goal of gaining something - especially something
supernatural and other-worldly and supreme - rather than finding the way to
abide naturally and peacefully and sanely during the relative existence, NOW.
First, there is no “later,” so all religions and spiritual programs and
philosophies that dangle a carrot about something that will assuredly be
available to their followers “later” is claptrap, hogwash, rubbish, and
nonsense.
Also nonsensical is the adoption of any role, be it one labeled by a culture as
a “good one” or thought to be a role that shows one is “better” or a role that
supposedly shows one is “better than” (which is the very food on which false
egos and egotism feed).
Next, of all the teaching methods and all the types of yoga available, there is
no other that unwaveringly discourages “following forever,” that discourages “devotion
forever,” that discourages “regular meeting attendance,” that discourages “making
lifetime contributions to,” that discourages “adhering to principles” . . .
that
discourages “studying supposedly 'holy' writings,” that discourages “paying
homage to,” that discourages “aspiring to,” that discourages “being dependent
on,” that discourages “believing promises promised,” or that discourages “gaining
and / or accumulating.”
As first noted here in 2005 and repeated regularly since:
The Direct Path Method, specifically when offering the Nisarga approach as a
system of yoga, requires no leader, no holy book (so no book studies), no
candles, no bells, no special land, no special buildings,
no gold-plated accessories, no dogma, no rules, no regulations, no songs or
creeds to memorize, no smoke, no collection of money, no special water, no
special crystals, no special robes, no chanting in unison, no boards, no
directors, no officers, no far-away god or gods micro-managing events in this
world,
no prayers and petitions, no anything. Meetings with a non-dual guide take a
matter of days, not a lifetime. (Maharaj allowed most visitors to stay for less
than two weeks, providing pointers and then sending them away to go into the
silence and to contemplate those points.) Yet less, rather than more, has
little appeal after the acculturation process results in persons who desire
more.
During the twenty-five-month “forest dweller” stage, by contrast, deer were
seen most mornings as they grazed peacefully. When disturbed by a noise, they
merely moved to the next clearing, looked about cautiously, and then returned
to their peaceful mode of abidance.
Not once did they have to perform some ritual in order to return to the
peaceful state or in order to dwell in that (their natural) state. It has been
noted previously that the Nisarga Yoga offers pointers that point toward the
Absolute Reality but that are actually adumbrations of the Original
Understanding.
That Original Understanding preceded “minds,” so it obviously preceded “thoughts.”
It also preceded words and bells and holy smoke. It was understood even prior
to belief in any religious concepts and before the use of spiritual
accoutrements.
The
Original Understanding was prior to roles and, thus, prior to assumption of
roles as identities.
The Original Understanding was the intuitive, no-thought, pre-”mind,”
no-awareness-that-anything-is-understood-means by which functioning happened
spontaneously and by which all plant-food-bodies-cum-consciousness dwelled in
the natural, mindless state.
The Direct Path Method and the Nisarga Yoga system offer pointers which are
intended to guide seekers back to an understanding of their original nature,
after which they can abide naturally with their feet planted on the planet and
not in some castle in the air or some special, holy place in the sky.
Those seeking the latter have hundreds of thousands of sky cults from which to
choose if they would follow those leaders who will claim that they can direct
their devotees into the firmaments beyond.
Few it is, by contrast, that will invite seekers to find the means by which
natural abidance can replace the burdensome unnatural fashion and / or
supernatural manner of abidance that the masses generally accept and see as
being perfectly sensible rather than totally nonsensical.
Nothing in nature, save humans, lives unnaturally. Nothing in nature, save
humans, tries to live supernaturally.
The Nisarga Yoga provides the means by which seekers can realize fully, can understand their original nature, and can thereafter abide naturally for the remainder of the manifestation.
To be continued.
Please enter into the silence of contemplation.
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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.
