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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
When Guides (or So-Called “Teachers”) Do Not Understand the Entire Path
As
was the case with Andy Gugar (who is the editor of “The Advanced Seekers'
Series” and “The Blissful Abidance Series”) the longing here that led to
decades of seeking and searching was triggered very early.
As was also the case with Andy, the road that was traveled here before “the non-dual
path” was crossed, by chance, was a long and grueling and onerous road. The “journey”
had been quite arduous.
Happening upon certain words and names such as “advaita” and “non-duality” and “Maharaj”
- and then entering into a thorough study of those - aroused some hope;
however, after so many years of searching in vain, the hope was of a most
cautious and guarded nature . . . so many instances of hope having been dashed
along the way before, time and again.
The restraint was warranted. Along with the words of Maharaj in I AM THAT, the
words and writings of more than fifty non-duality teachers were read, and while
each of them may have been able to guide other seekers somewhere,
A. not a one of them presented the teachings in a way that led to the “Aha!
Moment” here;
B. not a one provided the final, search-ending flash of the peripetia;
C. not a one ignited the gunpowder that finally blew away all of the blockages
that had been built up via programming, conditioning, acculturation,
domestication, brainwashing and indoctrination;
D. not a one offered the Ultimate Medicine in a manner that finally brought to
an end the misery of the Ultimate Sickness which had generated suffering for
decades;
and
E. not a one made clear the means by which
(1) Full realization of THAT
and
(2) the ability to abide naturally and normally and steadily and Lovingly and
simply and sanely and enjoyably throughout the remainder of the AM-ness
could both happen.
Yes, there were years in the deepest pits of despair; yes, there were years
where the head was in the clouds and a parade of
even-more-obnoxious-personas-than-before all came and went, including “Floyd
the Religious One” and “Floyd the Spiritual Giant” and “Floyd the Lofty Thinker”
and “Floyd the Supreme Self.”
Even as talk of “the Oneness” happened, the fact is that there was a greater
sense of separation while playing those roles than during any of the darkest
days of the past. And part of that happened even after finding and exploring
the many different “brands” of non-duality.
All of the talk of “the path” and “the journey” proved to be a disservice for
it implied that the there was “a path” that could be followed to its end and I
would “arrive” somewhere;
and all of that talk also suggested that, if I would but complete “the journey,”
I would arrive at a destination which was “there” - well away from “this world”
which had rendered a Type Four Personality (the type that accounts for only 1-2
of 1% of the earth's population) feeling quite the alien on this planet.
What was the missing element in the explanations and talks by all of those
teachers who talked of “the path” and “the journey”? What was missing was the
key fact that there is not one passage that is to be completed but that there
are actually three in total. Even if one wants to claim that there is but “one
journey,” then it must be made clear that the journey has three legs.
And Maharaj's earliest statements (which were his only statements that were
read originally) seemed to point to a two-leg “journey”:
“ . . . You should go back, reverse, to the source”
and
“Follow the same path by which you came.”
If one reads the book Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj and His Evolution, it becomes
clear that the early emphasis was not solely on the ultimate “goal” of abiding
naturally. The “totally unadulterated version of a purely Nisarga message” came
years later.
So in the process of seeking via non-duality, there was a fruitless search for “the
exact path,” an unsuccessful search for the exact way to follow that “path,” a
futile search for the means by which “the journey” could finally be completed
once and for all, and an unproductive search for the way to reach the final
destination of “the journey” and remain there.
It took a vision that came one afternoon while leaving the delta level of
consciousness and entering into a theta state of consciousness to finally “break
the code” being used by so many teachers and understand
** what the entire three-leg “journey” involves,
** how only one-leg of “the journey” will happen with the masses,
** how an entire three-part “journey” must happen if one would realize fully,
and
** what happens after “the journey” is completed so that the remainder of the
relative existence can happen in a not-insane, non-stupid, not-ignorant, non-fluctuating,
non-chaotic, not-unstable, but totally steady and logical AS IF manner instead.
That manner is marked by freedom and joy and peace as well as an ability to
merely witness whatever events that the relative existence might toss one's way
which might fall outside the categorization of “perfectly tranquil happenings.”
Thus, the discussion will continue with an explanation of what AS IF living
looks like post-realization and after the third and final leg of “the journey”
has been completed.
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.
