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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 when forming 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
Hindrances to Nisargan Living
There
has been a history of persons who want more than conscious contact with a god
or gods. There is, in fact, a long history of persons who have claimed that
they have transcended the dualistic, subject-object arrangement of conscious
contact with god and have actually become at one with God and are therefore
gods as well.”
Persons will never be able to live in the Nisarga fashion if they want to live
in a supernatural fashion. No persons can ever live in the Nisarga fashion if
they have a belief that there is some external, supernatural power that they
can align with, tap into, or - as some believe - become.
Persons
can never live in the Nisarga fashion if they are trapped in ego-states that
are supported by egotism. Persons can never live in the Nisarga fashion if they
are driven to have power or if they think dualistically that they can be at one
with some supernatural power. “At one” is non-duality; “with” is duality.
Is it understood that the very notion that “A” can be at one with “B” is
duality? Is it understood that persons cannot live in the Nisarga fashion if
they believe the notion that “I am not ‘at one with’ the power but believe
instead that I am actually that power (or supernatural being)”?
If there is even one ego-state that a person is clinging to, then egotism is
supporting the false beliefs that (A) the person is real; that (B) the persona
has legitimate, reality-based desires that need to be met; that (C) the person
can attain the power and control required to bring about all that it desires;
that
(D) it can tap into some external, outer power that exists to control all and
to bring about every desire a person has; and that (E) the persona is “at-one”
with God, thus being - for all practical purposes - God.
All fear and desire is rooted in one or more false ego-states. To want is to be
in delusion, requiring the belief that a false self with a desire is real;
furthermore, it does not matter if the want is what your culture says is a “bad” desire (e.g., wanting your neighbor’s wife), or if the want is what your culture says is a “good” desire (e.g., wanting to be at one with god, in conscious contact with god, being god . . . whatever).
As
always, look not to “the one you think has attained the level of spirituality
that you want” for your model. Look instead to the
no-religion-at-all-and-the-no-spirituality-at-all-deer for your model if you
would live in a Nisarga fashion.
The deer is not focused on seeking any esoteric thing or being at one with any mystical or mythic thing. It
is not seeking to connect with some external power to gain control. It has no
desire, not even a desire to eat grass. The eating of grass happens
spontaneously, without plan.
You will never live naturally if you “want what Maharaj had,” if you “want what floyd has,” if you “want what your guru has,” or if you “want what anyone whom you are idolizing has.”
You will never live naturally if you believe that there is
a god (or gods) in other worlds that are controlling what is happening in this
world.
You will never live naturally if you believe that you can be at one with
something else (since that is a dualistic belief) and you can never live
naturally if you assume any identity, including “I am that which is at one with
god / with the god force / with the god head / with the personal power of the
universe.”
The
ultimate realization that can free you to live in the Nisarga fashion without
fluctuation is this:
Every pagan religion (a.k.a., “all current religions”) as well as every cult,
sect, ideology, creed, dogma, doctrine, spiritual movement, and spiritual
philosophy has at its core the notion that humans can be “at one” with god.
From that comes desiring, and from desiring comes misery and fluctuation. When believing that one's desires are being met, happiness happens; when seeing that the desires are never met consistently, misery happens.
Yet
the masses are trapped in personality, so notions about god and god's power and
at-one-ment and godliness and being god set the stage for the manifestation of
the personality disorders that most professionals claim are the most difficult
to treat:
1. The Narcissistic Personality Disorder (tantamount to The God Complex
Personality Disorder), and
2. The Sociopath Personality Disorder.
Both disorders produce the belief that “I am the greatest, the ultimate. My
desires trump the desires of all others,” and both disorders result in persons
being unstable . . . constantly in a state of flux . . . never consistently
being treated in the fashion desired and never able to sustain control on a
continuing basis.
Thus, the narcissist is always in a state of fluctuation . . . happy when able to
manipulate others and when able to receive the levels of respect and attention
and adulation and positive feedback that ego desires but unhappy when persons
do not consistently provide those levels of respect and attention and adulation
and positive feedback that the narcissist desires.
And the sociopath is always in a state of fluctuation . . . happy when able to
control and intimidate others but unhappy when persons do not consistently
follow orders and meet the (totally unreasonable) demands and expectations as
set forth by one living in the ego-state of “The Boss” or “The Controller” or “The
One Who Should Have the Ultimate Say in All Matters.”
Those two personality disorders, which account for much of the sense of
separation on the planet as well as the arrogance and fighting and killing and
wars, are both rooted in an “I am god” mentality.
Among those trapped at the third of the seven steps in the movement from (a)
identification with the false “I” to (b) understanding the Absolute and all
beyond, it is a short step from believing that “I am godly” to “I am at one
with god” to “I am god.”
Once the “I am god” belief manifests, then persons believe that they are
entitled to all of the rights and privileges of a god, including being
worshiped by everyone and worshiped with “body, heart, mind, and soul.” And
that is the case in spite of any claim to “god-inspired humility.”
Historically, it has been organized religions, cults, sects, ideologies,
creeds, dogma, doctrines, spiritual movements, and spiritual philosophies that
have encouraged and supported the “I am god and you are god”-type grandiosity.
To take the short step from “I am at one with god” to “ergo, I am god” is to
assume another false identity. When realization happens via the Nisarga Yoga,
all identity assumption ends.
How disgusting it must sound to visitors to this site who are trapped in
grandiosity, who have adopted another false but supposedly divine identity, and
who read, “You are nothing, and knowing that is wisdom.” Yet the fact is this:
any seeker seeking “something” will never be stabilized in a contented state.
To the contrary, it is only the seeker that (a) stops seeking anything and that (b) finds the nothingness that can then stabilize in the natural, original state. All others will be in a constant state of fluctuation and instability.
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.
