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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
What AS IF Living Looks Like
Next,
AS IF living is marked by clarity, sanity, Wisdom and True Love; therefore, it
is appropriate at this juncture in the discussion to answer three other
questions that have been raised about the way non-personal, spontaneous, AS IF
functioning happens after completing the third leg of the three-leg “journey,”
after realizing fully, and after wisdom and true love begin to direct all that
happens. It has been asked:
1. “If Maharaj was True Love, could True Love ever possibly abandon or run off
a seeker? I love my child, and no matter what the child does, I could not
abandon it.”
First, do not mistake “love” and “Love.” True Love is that which manifests when
the Oneness is known and understood, unwaveringly.
It
is pure and unadulterated and exists in only one form, so it is REAL. As for “love,”
it is not REAL, not eternal, appearing in so many diverse forms that seldom
will any two people really be discussing the same thing when they talk of “love.”
That which is not Real Love always involves an object; Real Love has no object,
for to have an object is to have a subject, and to have a subject and object is
duality.
That which is not Real Love can take a variety of forms: self-love; selfish,
self-serving love; prurient or eros love; philia (brotherly) or storge
(friendship) love; agape love; pragma love (where a person - coldly - pursues a
relationship for “practical” or financial reasons, for personal gain); banquet
love; passionate love; compassionate love;
ludus love (where the deal is about playing games and not wanting to really develop a relationship); or manic, obsessive love that can be intense and intimate and fast-paced but will also eventually expose the possessive and jealous nature of the manic one.
(And it is such possessiveness and jealousy, combined with
obsessive and compulsive personality traits, that often lead to acts of
domestic violence.)
Next, with so many versions of “love” out there, consider the confusion among
the masses when a man tells a woman, “I love you.” Ah, such excitement, such
emotional intoxication, but what if the speaker is (maybe even unconsciously)
speaking of ludus love but the woman thinks she is hearing an expression of
whatever she takes “real love” to be?
With non-realized persons speaking about “love” when there are so many versions
out there, consider how prevalent the possibility of misunderstanding; then,
understand also why many will hear at some point:
“I
never loved you” or “You have never loved me.” It was asked once, “Isn't it
unbelievable that the divorce rate here is now in the fifty to sixty percent
range?” The reply: “Yes. I would have guessed it would be much higher.”
So when you equate your agape love for a child with the essence of Maharaj,
namely, True Love (as well as Wisdom), then you are comparing apples and
oranges. Neither Maharaj nor I have ever abandoned a seeker or run off a seeker
(though some will tell you otherwise after the work with them came to a halt
here).
The
work with any given seeker will come to an end when (a) the seeker becomes
interested in another teaching method or yoga; when (b) a seeker driven by
personality and egotism would interrupt the opportunity for other seekers to
receive pointers;
when (c) a seeker makes clear that the readiness is not present; when (d) a
seeker continuously takes comments personally rather than considering pointers
or suggestions objectively;
when
(e) the seeker continues to cling to the notion that he / she understands more
than the teacher; or when (f) the seeker “fires” the teacher (always as a
result of being driven by the fears and desires of personalities that preempt
any chance for one to realize and then have the ability to choose rather than
to be blindly driven by ego and ego-states).
For Maharaj to demand that a person leave the loft was not to abandon that
person - the person not being real at all; instead, True Love was on display as
the purity of the environment was being guarded and preserved for the other
seekers that were present.
2. “If the realized are True Love, how could Love call people 'stupid' and
'insane'? Doesn't sound too loving to me.”
Understand that no “one” is being called anything. When personality is being
discussed with seekers, and they become offended when they begin to see their “liabilities”
or “weaknesses” or “defects,” the point is made that no one is talking about “them.”
What is being discussed are all of the “not-thems,” all of their false
personas.
And it is the “not-thems” - their false personas - that generate insane
thoughts and words and stupid actions.
Understand also that neither Wisdom nor True Love are personal; therefore,
neither can have an agenda, for agendas exist only in the domain of
personality; know that neither can fail to be objective; and understand that
neither can like or dislike.
Any seeker who has been offended, either there with Maharaj in Bombay / Mumbai
or here, has misperceived the pointers or suggestions being offered or the
actual “intention” behind the pointers or suggestions, for neither Wisdom nor True
Love can be non-objective.
With Wisdom and True Love behind every pointer offered, either
(A) clarity will be affirmed,
or
(B) distorted perceptions and false beliefs and erroneous concepts and
delusional conclusions will be challenged
(much to the chagrin of whatever personas, or would-be personas, are driving
one's thoughts and words and actions and attitudes).
3. “Wouldn't True Love cause all of the Realized to share what they understand?”
No. Many remain silent, but even those that share remain in the silence much of
each day as well. Yet understand this point about AS IF living:
Post-realization, and post-completion of the third leg of the three-leg “journey,”
there is no one left to “teach” or share. Of course un-teaching or sharing can happen,
but they will happen without any notion of there being “A Teacher” or “An
Un-Teacher” or “A Sharer.”
The understanding is applied without any belief in “An Applier”; the experience
of full realization happens and, in the process, ends belief in “An
Experiencer.”
The same applies in every facet of the relative existence where Reality is
overlaid on reality, where Awareness is overlaid on consciousness, and where
the Absolute understanding eliminates any further lack of clarity regarding
relative happenings.
Then, “wifing” can happen even in the absence of “A Wife”; “husbanding” can
happen even in the absence of “The Husband”; and Loving can happen even in the
absence of “The Lover.”
That, too, is what AS IF living looks like.
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.
