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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
Natural Living in the Absence of Identification
The ultimate non-dual understanding is that there need not be any understanding, there being no “one” to understand at all; however, that pointer is not for the beginner.
The
entire “path” must be followed, that understanding above notwithstanding. After
following the “path,” the intent is to “return” and to live out the remainder
of the relative existence, and it is for the remainder of the relative
existence that seekers here are invited to live in a natural, Nisarga method.
As noted earlier, AS IF living (based in the no-concept, non-dual, no-identity
Reality) is seldom modeled by any of the humans walking about among the masses;
thus, one cannot look to the non-realized masses to find examples of such
natural living.
Look
to nature instead; thus, to continue the earlier discussion, true AS IF living
is a mode of natural living, modeled in nature by animals such as the deer,
primarily docile and at peace . . . living a minimalist existence . . . accumulating
nothing . . . believing nothing . . . never fighting for any “belief” . . .
functioning quite splendidly without any “identity” even though sensing
presence . . . and either enjoying all aspects of the manifestation or
tolerating all aspects of the manifestation in a no-attachment-mode.
How closely does your relative existence reflect that mode of Nisarga, natural
living? Is it possible that you might also function quite splendidly, even
without any concepts or dualistic beliefs or any “identity”?
As noted earlier, many seekers over the years have challenged the plausibility
of the “try living more like the deer” pointer that is offered here. One said,
“I have a class of twenty-two second graders that I’m responsible for. That
includes teaching them what they have to know for the state test, disciplining
them, chaperoning them to lunch, getting the sick ones out of the room and to
the school nurse, dealing with their principals and counselors, making tests,
grading tests, planning lessons, and conferencing with parents. Tell me how I’m
supposed to live as peacefully as a deer in the woods.”
The reply: What is obvious in the comment first is a level of stress that is
typical among many teachers, yet a high level of stress is typical among most
persons around the globe. So how can you, or anyone in any stressful profession
or situation, live more in the style of a deer and avoid that stress?
First, by realizing fully and then completing the third leg of the “journey.”
Should that happen, you will no longer identify yourself as “The Teacher”
(which is usually upgraded to “The Super Teacher,” an ego-state which
co-dependently requires “Super Students” for “The Super Teacher’s” happiness
and, indeed, very survival. More on that to follow.)
Stay in that mode and you will never be happy and stress-free because you will
never consistently have “Super Students” that are more concerned with assuring
your happiness than with their own interests and agendas.
However, if you were to realize who / what you are not (namely “The Teacher” or “The Super Teacher”) and realize THAT
which you truly are, then even as you are no longer “The Teacher” . . .
1. Your employment can still happen;
2. being paid after completing your tasks can still continue;
3. all of the job tasks that you catalogued above can still happen;
4. and it can all take place even as an AS IF lifestyle - which includes a
style that can be as peaceful as that of a deer - can also happen.
How can that be?
When the role of “The Teacher” is accepted as an identity, then - as referenced
earlier - egomania immediately promotes or upgrades that persona to the
imaginary status of “The Super Teacher.” And what does “The Super Teacher”
think that it must have in order to exist?
(1) Super lessons that are being sought wholeheartedly by (2) “Super Students.”
And when students are not doing what “The Super Students” are expected to do,
then “The Super Teacher” feels as if he / she is dying and begins to fight for
his / her life by attacking “the not-super-students” who, for example, were not
paying attention.
[Such attacks come as often from “The Super Spouse” who is not getting the
respect desired, from “The Super Performer” who is not getting the attention
that is wanted, or from “The Super Employer” whose employees are not paying
adequate attention or “doing” what “Super Employees” are expected to do.]
When that ego-state of “The Teacher” dissolves (post-realization), a shift
results after the understanding becomes, “Teaching might happen today . . . or
not, but even more significantly, unteaching might happen.”
(That simply means that no ego-state is attached to outcome, no ego-state is bent on controlling things that are beyond one's control, and that no ego-state is ready and willing to fight in order to maintain a false image.)
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.
