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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
Using the Deer, not Persons, As the Model
Someone
asked why one suggestion in particular is often offered here, namely, using the
deer as a model for natural living. He noted correctly that he could not “drop
out” and move into the woods and live like a deer, as much as he might like to.
He even noted that if he tried it for a while, he would probably not like that
lifestyle at all.
The reason that we were talking in the first place was because it had recently
become clear to him that what he had been doing so far with his life was not “working,”
that his lifestyle was presently marked by misery and suffering and
self-destructive acts rather than happiness or lightness, so he was asked:
“Since
your life so far has not been modeled on the deer - or anything else that lives
naturally - on whom has your life been modeled?”
He answered, naming several people. Then he was asked, “And how's that been
working for you?” After a pause of considerable length for consideration, his
reply was: “Got it.” A perceptive young man, he has seen for years how insane “the
world” is.
The
time had arrived for him to see that he had also caught “the world's” sickness
- the Ultimate Sickness, in fact - and that he needs to move the focus to
finding the false selves . . . to finding the false personality
identifications.
So the recommendation is to use the lifestyle of the deer as a test to contrast
(a) natural, ego-free, Nisarga style, AS IF living with (b) the lifestyle of
personas and their accompanying egotism. Further, the invitation is to avoid
taking the recommendation so literally if one is to find all that can be revealed
by the suggestion.
Those with some insight and analytical skills can look beyond the most basic
and literal conclusion that “This guy says I have to move to the woods and live
like a deer to be happy. That is insane.”
THE DEER
To the contrary, the wise know that one cannot be content if one is not free; the wise can see by observation that deer are quite content most of the time; the wise can see the connection between being content and being perfectly and totally free;
the wise can then find what the deer is free of that persons are not free of; then the wise can find what they are not free of that the deer are free of; and then the wise can see exactly what they must be rid of if they would be free and content.
Here,
both types of living have been experienced. I lived as non-realized persons
live. For decades now, I have lived as the deer live (but without the freezing
in the headlights on a busy highway at night part).
A deer is free of the desire to be seen and to “stand out.” It will typically
do what is required to blend in with its environment and “fade into the
background.”
A
deer does not like to make noise and does not want to be heard. It can move
along a thousand-yard path through the woods and tread so gently that a human
ten steps away would not hear it.
A deer has no “mind” so it engages in no abnormal thinking. A deer lives
naturally, not unnaturally and not supernaturally. A deer does not care about
appearance, is not cruel, is not envious, and does not feel entitled;
a deer is not unavailable to its mate and offspring because the deer have not been rendered hard and cold and cruel and detached as a result of that all-too-common type of cold-blooded conditioning and programming referenced in earlier;
a deer is not afraid of the quiet, is not impulsive, is not religious or spiritual; a deer is not self-contradictory or moody or unpredictable or unstable;
a
deer will not overeat, does not like chaos, and does not eat fermented berries
in an effort to become intoxicated and to try to “escape” or avoid whatever
challenges it must face.
PERSONS
By contrast, a person / persona that is working to establish and maintain a
false image wants to be seen. Persons typically do what is required to stand
out and to be noticed. Persons exhibit arrogance and egotism, and as they work
to create and maintain an image, they want to be heard.
Persons hate the silence and love the noise … especially the noise that they
generate, including speeches, informal talks, sermons, diatribes, loud music,
lectures, appearances, screaming, shouting, etc.
Persons, with their incessantly-active “minds,” are constantly engaged with and
disturbed by their abnormal thoughts. Persons live unnaturally or
supernaturally instead of naturally, and persons are often addicted to chaos.
They often use substances or certain destructive behaviors to try to escape, or
at least to forget temporarily, the misery or suffering or boredom or turmoil
that comes with all of the roles that they have assumed and are playing.
Persons trapped in their ego-based narcissism must surround themselves with
other persons in order to have an audience. They need to be seen, and they
require constant praise and applause and positive feedback. The deer experience
no narcissism.
Narcissism is labeled as a “personality disorder” by professionals, and rightly
so. Humans must be attached to one or more personas in order to exhibit the
traits of any personality disorder. Deer have no personality, so they have no
personality disorders that can disintegrate into full-blown mental problems or
even insanity.
As a result of their egotism and body-mind-personality identification, persons
care about appearance, can be charming one moment and cruel the next, and can
be close one moment and distant the next; the deer, by contrast, are like one
that has realized fully: steady as a rock, capable of feeling but incapable of
emoting.
Persons, unlike the deer, are envious, feel entitled, are afraid of the quiet,
are impulsive, often assume religious or spiritual personas, and are
self-contradictory or moody or unpredictable as a result of living a lie and
refusing to see that their personality / personalities bring defects and
liabilities that mark and mar their relative existence.
Thus, the invitation to look at the “standard,” the deer, to test the degree to
which natural living is happening in the relative existence. The deer never
fails as a model for applying the principles of Nisarga Yoga:
the deer lives naturally, does not accumulate, has no identity, engages in no
destructive or self-destructive behaviors, avoids conflict whenever possible,
follows a minimalist lifestyle, avoids excess in all ways, might have a mate
and offspring or might not, adheres strictly to the principle of non-attachment,
and stays aware and conscious of his surroundings rather than walking about as
if asleep.
To know if you are trapped in one or more ego-states, find the honest answer to
the question, “Are you living in the fashion of a deer, or are you living the
way that the sleepwalking, non-realized masses live out their relative
existence?”
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.
