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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
When I was offering satsang sessions in the 1990’s and fans of Maharaj showed up, they were often surprised / shocked / angered that I was suggesting that what Maharaj shared early on had not led me to the full understanding.
Many were angered when I admitted that “even after everything else,” The Vision was still required and that an understanding of “as if living” was also necessary for me to realize fully.
Maharaj’s sharings developed or evolved through three stages, and I had to leave behind his Stage One sharings of Hindu-based / non-dual pointers (used to attract locals to his loft) and his Stage Two sharings of spirituality-based / non-dual pointers (used to satisfy the Western visitors to the loft) and finally get to his Stage Three sharings of psychology-based / non-dual pointers in order to truly be free of what was imprisoning me.
And what exactly was still blocking my path and preventing me from transitioning from not being realized at all to having realized some of what I needed to realize to entering into a state of full and complete and final realization?
This: the remaining content of a mind corrupted by programming and conditioning and domestication and acculturation and brainwashing and indoctrination and the beliefs which had been passed on by adults who used those six contaminating processes to fill my mind with their beliefs (which I thought were my beliefs).
The point was offered that it took a vision which came one afternoon while in the theta state of consciousness to finally “break the code” being used by so many teachers.
Consideration
of one of Maharaj’s question exposed my problem: “Are you talking from your own
experience or from books only? Your book knowledge is useful to begin with, but
soon it must be given up for direct experience.”
What is offered here is based in direct experience. No one need read and master
the content of anything erroneously called “a holy text.” In an age when travel
has become so expensive that seekers cannot always sit with an Eastern guide
face-to-face, might certain books as mentioned by Maharaj help uncover that
which is being sought? A few can.
But here, it was - in the end - that direct experience via a vision which
allowed for the understanding that did not come from reading scores of books by
those Maharaj dismissed as “the big name teachers.” That direct experience
understanding is what is being shared here.
As noted, the content of the vision allowed for an understanding of the fact that “the journey” has three parts or legs; and, an understanding of exactly how that “journey” must happen;
and, an
understanding of 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 fashion and in a
totally AS IF manner.
What happens after the third leg of the “the journey” is completed is AS IF
living, living AS IF anything in the relative matters but knowing via a new
perspective that it is all really just much ado about nothing;
however, that point must be clarified so that nihilism and numbness do not manifest. Dancing is much ado about nothing as well, but it can nevertheless be quite entertaining. After the third leg of “the journey” is complete, the fully realized do not miss out on entertainment.
They relish it. They share it. Lightness
replaces heaviness, and fun replaces drabness, and the fully realized invite
all to join them in dancing lightly and having some fun or at least being . . .
content.
The understanding of the functioning of the totality comes when seekers “go
back” and revisit the Absolute by following the exact steps by which they came
in, but in reverse order, of course.
And it is the subsequent understanding of
the functioning of the totality that puts all in perspective, including THAT
and “this” as well, “this” being the relative existence . . . this AM-ness . .
. this beingness.
After that, then a natural mode of living replaces the former unnatural and
supernatural modes of living. Consider the multi-thousand-year history of
human-like or human beings on the planet:
was it natural for those early humans
to burn incense, or hum or chant, or knell and rise and knell, or bang on
special bowls on special pillows with special sticks to “help them make it
through the night” (as so many nowadays are not able to do at all in a natural
manner - most among the masses instead being unable to sleep, unable to rest,
unable to stop the noisy “mind,” unable to be at peace at all)?
Or did they simply . . . live, simply . . . abide? They lived, and they lived
in a simple and natural manner: they slept, they awoke, they spent
approximately 2.5 hours per day involved with “the necessities” of food hunting
or food gathering (according to anthropologists);
also, they had sex and
procreated, and they faced what had to be faced when relative events became
challenging events. And through it all, they had no “holy texts” to guide them,
and they needed none.
And because you are now sitting before a screen and reading this, you are
evidence of the fact that thousands of years of living naturally rather than
unnaturally or supernaturally actually worked.
They “made it,” and they made it without any of the drama of unnatural living and without the needless effort and unnatural restrictions of trying to live supernaturally.
Yes, early on, Maharaj did reference certain points from certain texts, but in the end he only shared by way of what he called his “own experience”:
“I
am telling you from experience,” he said. The same is the case here, even
though it is known, paradoxically, that there is no “experiencer” at all except
to this degree:
Maharaj: Behold, the real experiencer is not the mind, but . . . the Light in
which everything appears. [The pure witnessing via use of the pure, universal
consciousness] is the common factor at the root of all experience, the
awareness in which everything happens.
Consider
as well:
Maharaj: “Can you truly say you were not before you were born, and can you
possibly say when dead ‘Now I am no more’? You cannot say from your own
experience that you are not. You can only say ‘I am’.”
That is a marker of the AS IF living that happens when the Nisarga Yoga is
understood. You can only say (or know) “I am,” and even that condition is
temporary. The deer know that same “I am”; the birds know that same “I am”; the
fish know that same “I am.”
And how simply and naturally do the deer and birds and fish live? Totally. And how simply and naturally do the non-realized masses live? Not simply or naturally at all. Now, one seeker asked this:
“You and Maharaj share non-duality pointers. Cavemen did not do that. How can you say you are living naturally?” The most basic and relevant facts were these:
There is no “one” here that should try to share more or teach more and no one here that should be trying to share or teach anyone anything;
and,
the only valid approach to guiding anyone to full realization involves un-teaching and leading each seeker to a no-concept, no-belief state reached via total un-learning.
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.
