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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
AFTER COMPLETING ALL THREE LEGS OF THE THREE-LEG “JOURNEY”: Why All Three Legs Must Be Completed in order to Abide Naturally
For the masses, the manifestation-to-mahasamadhi process is distorted as a result of their having completed only one leg of a three-leg “journey” (which they take to be a “birth-to-death-to-eternal-life” journey).
For
the masses, their one-leg-only “journey” entails (a) manifestation, (b)
undergoing the multi-step process of disintegration that moves one from the
awareness / Absolute state and to (c) being left in that delusional condition
which is the fartherest removed from Reality, namely, body identification.
Completing that one leg of what is actually a three-leg “journey” is all that
will happen with most persons because they will never seek. On the “coming in”
leg, most will be introduced to religious or spiritual personas and will be
guided by their programmers to stay there.
Their
“guide” will only guide them as far as the third of seven steps, so 97% on the
planet now claim an affiliation with some organized religion. Millions more
claim membership in what they see as “their special spiritual-not-religious
program.”
(That is stated with [1] the greatest degree of egotism and sense of
better-than-ment via the implied assertion that “we are so far beyond where
those religious people are” while at the same time claiming that they have been
freed of [2] their “former” great degree of egotism and their “former” sense of
better-than-ment.)
For the few who do seek realization via non-duality, many undertake only a
two-leg “journey,” having first undergone the “coming in” leg and then
completing the “going back” leg and thereafter claiming that they abide “there”
or as THAT alone.
For
the fully realized that understand the Nisarga Yoga as well, a three-leg “journey”
is completed, but first, consider this: it has been said that neurotics build
castles in the air, that psychotics move into those castles, and that
therapists and psychiatrists collect the rent.
Many receive only enough of the non-duality teachings that they end up at some
point between building the castle and moving in, not totally psychotic but
definitively neurotic.
Driven by personality - and the hidden agendas of
personality as well as the varying degrees of mental disorders that accompany
personality assumption and personality disintegration - many will display
certain beliefs and traits and behavioral patterns that are near-psychotic.
Full realization, if reached via the Direct Path Method and the Nisarga Yoga,
will allow for the completion of all three legs of the three-leg “journey” and
will allow for the understanding that this “journey” - this process - is not
about “being uniquely and singularly THAT”;
they
will understand that enlightenment actually lightens; they will understand, as
a result of having completed all three legs of the three-leg “journey,” that full
realization is not about a lightness of THAT; and they will understand that the
post-realization lightness is actually the lightness of being, the lightness of
the I-AM-ness.
They alone will be the ones being bathed in the full light of the noonday sun,
and they alone will know the lightness and relish it. Because the summative
statement “I AM THAT; I AM” has nothing to do with two-ness, then the Realized
can fixate as THAT and as this AM-ness, “simultaneously.”
That fixation can happen, though, only when Reality is overlaid - so to speak - on the relative, only when the “reality” is cloaked in Reality, so to speak.
It is the one-leg “journey” which results in the misery and suffering and chaos that are typical among the non-realized masses of the planet.
Completion
of the two-leg “journey” will typically result in persons taking themselves to
be deep philosophers or some really boring “Supreme This” or “Supreme That” or
some overly-serious persons who claim to be beyond the personal, beyond the
beingness, and even beyond the beyond.
Having received only the dim light of the dawn, there is among those types a
drabness that marks and mars their existence as a result of being far too
serious, too grave, too solemn, too stern, too grim, too humorless, and far too
severe overall.
Having
completed only two legs of the three-leg “journey,” many adopt labels that trap
them in ignorance while thinking they are brilliant, believing that they have
learned something momentous that has rendered them important and significant
and crucial. They are not, yet they are not, dualistically, unimportant or
insignificant or slight, either.
The fully realized understand that they just are. It is totally clear that the
I AM just IS. That is a significant part of what the Nisarga Yoga is about. In
the process of completing all three legs, the seekers that finally realize
fully will have “come in,” gone “back out,” and then “come back in” (but in a
totally different fashion the second time “in”).
Humans
that have completed all three legs will once again be in touch with their
original nature, so natural living can happen.
A lightness of being can mark the beingness, so humans can continue throughout
the remainder of the relative existence to live in an AS IF manner that puts
them on the same track as all other forms / spaces that are abiding naturally:
the deer, the birds, the fish, etc.
Because
the Nisarga Yoga allows the original-but-lost sanity to be restored, then the
abidance unfolds in the same manner as that among all forms / spaces that abide
sanely (i.e., naturally rather than unnaturally or supernaturally).
It should also be clear at this point why a fully realized guide is usually
required for the “journey”: some guides will guide their followers to the third
step and encourage them to fixate in their religious or spiritual persona /
false identity;
some will guide seekers to that wasteland (which is mistaken for some kind of lotusland) which is somewhere between the building of castes in the air and moving into those mental castles which are far removed from reality or Reality either one;
but
only a few will guide seekers that have completed one-leg of the journey
through all of the going-back steps on the second leg and then through all of
the steps on the coming-back-in-again leg.
An experienced escort is also required for the non-optional, guide-directed
self-inquiry which must be completed thoroughly and honestly. Why?
Maharaj
mentioned “learned ignorance,” “stupidity,” and “insanity” among everything
that must be removed along the “path.” Yet what chance is there that ignorance
can recognize ignorance, that stupidity can see stupidity, or that insanity can
spot insanity?
At best, the axioms that reference psychological projection (“if you spot it,
you've got it” and “if you can see it, you can be it”) might apply. Just as the
selfish are the most likely to see selfishness in others without seeing it in
themselves, and just as arrogant persons are most likely to detect arrogance in
others, so it is that
a. those who are not being objective have been the ones to most readily assert
that “Floyd, you cannot be objective”; or so it is that
b. those who are misperceiving everything have been the one to most readily
say, “Floyd, you just don't see what I'm doing here, and it most certainly is
not what you are suggesting”; or so it is that some have said
c. “I am the one who has found it all and you are the one who is
misrepresenting major parts of the understanding.”
So it has been said to be on occasion, but so it is not. All such claims are
generated by the egotism that comes along with their ego-states which are being
supported by the blinding arrogance that will set the stage for those who have
completed one-half of one leg of a “journey” to claim “I have arrived!”;
it is ignorance that will inspire those who have complete two legs of a
three-leg 'journey” to assert “It is I who have truly arrived!”;
and
it is only the clarity and humility of knowing that one has not yet arrived
that might allow some seekers to accept the guidance required from one that has
traveled all three legs of the three-leg “journey” and thereby assist those
seekers with the completion of all three legs of the entire “journey.”
If they complete all three legs, then they can abide as their Original Nature
for the remainder of the manifestation and live out the relative existence is a
Nisarga - natural - fashion.
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.
