IN TERMS OF “REALIZATION” AS A NON-DUAL PROCESS, THE MATH AIN’T MATHING

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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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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.

THE EXPLANATION

If looked at as nouns, they point to illusions and are, therefore, a total waste of time to even discuss; if looked at as verbs which are resulting in certain sane but rare behaviors among humanity, then they are worthy of some attention during the relative existence.

Meaning? There are members of certain groups who say things such as "My concept of god in the past was of a weak god, an absentee god, A Santa Claus-type god, a mean, punishing, vindictive god, etc. Today, I am in close contact with a loving and caring god whom I worship and praise and glorify and give thanks to."

The reply to that usually goes like this: "If you are in contact with a god that wants to be worshipped and praised and glorified, then you're dealing with someone like yourself - a narcissist - and hanging out with narcissists will never bring an end to your narcissism (that narcissism evidenced by the fact that you think you are "godly").

Next, in the phrase 'loving and caring god,' any supposed god that truly had her or his act together would tell you that the totally irrelevant part of that phrase is 'god' and that the only part that is relevant is the "loving and caring" part.

"That is, a non-narcissistic their god / their goddess would say, "I care not an iota about being worshipped and praised and glorified by you or anyone else. How arrogant and insecure and needy would I have to be to want that? Forget the man-made, dreamed up noun 'god' and focus on the 'god as a verb' understanding and then go forth and let loving and caring be verbs - not adjectives - and let them generate the act of love and the act of caring and let those actions manifest through you." 

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"

--Yeshu'a (Jesus)

and 

"Heaven and earth shall fade away."

--Yeshu'a (Jesus)

and 

"Heaven and hell are not geographic places

but are states of mind, nothing more than

concepts dreamed up by men."

--Pope John Paul II 

"There is no hell."

--Pope Francis, the current pope

in an interview with journalist Eugenio Scalfari,

a writer used by the Pope to issue off the record

teachings which become a part of the Papal Magisterium.

[That said, would that the popes who have shown the courage to reject a core concept of their dogma - namely, "hell" - would find the additional courage required to question the very existence of their institution in light of the centuries-long cover-up of their history of raping children and in light of the mental and emotional and psychological scarring of billions of their members past and present.

And that need for courage also applies as questions need to be asked about why so many other sky cults are still being supported and allowed to continue to exist as well. When certain types of programming and conditioning have been shown to blind the masses, they should end. Will they? Not likely. Why?

Because what the masses think and say and do is most influenced by the international crime families which hold sway over the masses as criminals conduct their planet-wide operations. What are the major international crime families and which are the most influential and have the largest memberships?

The Mafia / La Cosa Nostra; the Catholic Church (with it 1.2 billion followers) whose Vatican Bank worked for decades with the Mafia while laundering mob earnings (for a 15% all-profit charge by the Bank); Protestant and Evangelical Churches (with over 1.2 billion followers) like the one I was raised in where the youth director molested and sexually assaulted young girls; big business which has long created environments in which people have been abused; powerful political bodies like the U.S. Congress, etc., etc., etc.)

With all of those crime families, neither the followers nor the leadership ever voluntarily step down or shut down their criminal activities. Be they gangs, organized crime families, religions, big business, politicians, etc., they all want control and they all want power and they all want money, and nothing internal will interfere with the driving forces at play.

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