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IN TERMS OF “REALIZATION” AS A NON-DUAL PROCESS, THE MATH AIN’T MATHING (The Conclusion)
“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
Living is life’s only purpose.
--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
THE
CONCLUSION
THE NISARGA YOGA'S INVITATION
Allow the “WHO-ness” to dissolve and play around with the “THAT-ness” for a spell, but eventually see that even contemplating THAT is doingness.
To be -without being “this” or “that” or “This” or “THAT” or anything - is the closest you’ll come to Bliss. Dissolve and know that of which My Teacher spoke. Know “something beyond” that is “much more wonderful.” Dissolve.
Next, in regards to such dissolution, Maharaj also said: “Reality is the ultimate destroyer. All separation, every kind of estrangement and alienation is false. All is one—this is the ultimate solution of every conflict.”
He said at another point: “Non-identification, when natural and spontaneous, is liberation. You need not know what you are. Enough to know what you are not. What you are you will never know for every discovery reveals new dimensions to conquer. The unknown has no limits.” Non-identification.
One seeker attending satsang years ago when the term was employed in a talk said, “Non-identification? I’ve read every transcript of every talk your teacher offered - some many times - but that’s the first time the term has really registered.” Yes, non-identification.
Be satisfied and relax into the comfort of those words that invite you to an awareness of what you are not and then take it easy. How much have you discovered on “your “journey”? So much, yes?
Yet at this moment, is not this discovery now revealing “new dimensions” of understanding? Thus, is it not now time to simply relax? If you do so, then the beingness for the remainder of the manifestation can still have Reality overlaid upon it.
After that happens, a “Show of Love” can happen, and Bliss can happen, and Joy can happen, and fun can happen, and dancing lightly through the relative can happen. And it will all happen in a “much more wonderful” manner than ever imagined possible.
Further, Maharaj said, “Non-being . . . it gives birth to being. It is the immovable background of motion. Once you are there you are at home everywhere.” It is that “immovable background” that has brought stability to the relative existence of this speck called “floyd.”
Abiding as an immovable background, then up’s and down’s disappear; turmoil disappears; chaos disappears; perceptions about “good vs. bad” - along with all instability that is rooted in such movable dualities - disappear. Mutatio terminus. Stabilitas. Stabilitas bellus.
At that point, it becomes your call: generate beauty … or harmony . . . or both . . . or neither. That is what was being pointed to when My Cherokee Grandmother modeled “The Great Whatever.” Whatever. Whatever, indeed. Either way, fear not . . . dread not. Nothing is lost.
Now, for those who still think that realization must surely involve the loss of something and fear that it will leave them robotic or will rob them of some of their current degrees of pleasure, know that those beliefs could not be farther removed from reality.
To expand the “practicality” as well as the understanding of “the way that AS IF Living happens when Reality is overlaid upon the relative,” understand that Reality brings with it to each and every event the traits that are unique to Reality but which can allow a level of joy not previously known to manifest once identity ends and once the I AM THAT; I AM is understood to be advaita . . . “not-two” . . . One.
That means that when the relative becomes swathed in Reality, the consequence is that every happening which was previously strapped with cultural boundaries, with conditions and conditioning, with so many qualifications, with limitations, with a sense of incompleteness, with ambiguities, with adulterations, and with self-consciousness suddenly all happen in a manner that is the “embodiment” (so to speak) of the Absolute.
All relative happenings (once Reality has been overlaid upon them) happen Absolutely without boundaries, Absolutely without conditions, Absolutely without qualification, Absolutely without limitation, Absolutely without any sense of incompleteness, Absolutely without ambiguity, Absolutely without adulteration, and Absolutely without self-consciousness.
When happenings no longer happens in “a relative mode” but happens in “an Absolute fashion”; then, the unblocked, manifested consciousness might be heard to speak of “more colorful colors”; of “something sweeter than the sweetest sounds, namely, the sweet sound of silence”;
of “tastier tastes”; of “beholding beauty at levels never before imagined”; of “lightness”; of “‘True Love’ rather than ‘love’”; of “‘Showing Love’ rather than ‘making love’ or having sex”; of “feeling feelings rather than emoting”; of “being so attuned to all in nature - to all that is natural - that the ‘you-nature’ (that “not-two” paradigm) suddenly spawns delights of a previously-unimagined intensity.”
Such is possible when abidance is happening as the awareness while the pure (or unblocked) consciousness is totally and completely and “unobstructedly” conscious of.
Those intensified elements of color and sound and taste and beauty and lightness and Love and feelings, as well as an absolute sense of Oneness with all that is natural (Nisarga), result when “living AS IF” and when happenings happen from the platform of Reality rather than from the stage of illusion.
There are billions who claim that they are “alive,” but they are so far removed from what that concept implies that they must be counted instead among “the living dead.”
That cannot be said of any speck of unblocked, manifested consciousness that is functioning from the standpoint of total awake-ness, complete awareness, and full conscious of-ness, all manifesting in a totally unlimited manner.
After the “Final Understanding” manifests - after the last lie and the last ignorant belief is cast out - then all of the five-sense-awarenesses as well as all of the sixth-sense awarenesses that have been discussed will be realized and the relative and the Absolute shall finally and truly be understood as not-two. Such happens when the relative is absolutely subsumed in Reality.
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.
