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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
HOW
YOU CAN LIVE AS PEACEFULLY AS THE DEER
When abiding in an AS IF fashion, no role and no do-er is fighting for its imagined life any longer. A shift in perspective happens as mere witnessing begins. Truth is differentiated from the false. Emotional intoxication ends.
When the illusion of do-er disappears, then the witness begins to merely observe what happens . . . or not. Peace manifests alongside that awareness.
To forfeit the illusion of a do-er with power and control allows You to sit back, to relax, and to take it easy while witnessing all of the insane conduct of the billions of personas being assumed as actual identities around the globe and being embroiled in their “going and doing and zooming.”
The
witness will not be caught up in “their” chaos and will not be pulled under by
the relative existence maelstroms that the egotism of personas always
generates.
And that is the way that you can live as peacefully as the deer and still meet
your basic food, clothing and shelter requirements. This is not a theory but is
a report of actual experience.
Yet
you can never be at peace and ease if meeting the basic requirements is not the
goal. If the goal is to have the highest standard of food, the highest standard
of clothing, and the highest standard of housing, then you cannot live as the
deer lives. The deer is ego-less, so less is just fine.
Thus, to move to a fashion of living that is marked by even higher levels of
peace, many have followed this suggestion: they have down-sized or
de-accumulated after asking such questions as: “Do I have a house that is
larger than required?” and “Do I own my house or does my house own me?”
and
“Could the next car purchase involve a smaller or less expensive vehicle or
not?” and “Have I ever figured the exact cost of ego, in dollars or euros or
rupees or pounds sterling, as relates to every purchase I have ever made?”
and
“Have
I made any effort to be free of the effects of having been programmed to
believe that 'more is better' and actually considered the possibility that my
relative existence might be improved with less?”
When a deer has a more peaceful lifestyle than you, and when you see that a
deer is a minimalist that could hardly have less, then the wise also see the
correlation.
The deer does not accumulate, does not race through its days or nights, does
not prefer noise to the quiet, does not adopt false identities, does not
overeat or do anything to excess out of boredom or nervousness;
and
does not adopt an agenda of other animals in the forest and act like something
that it is not. For you, less “stuff” could mean less maintenance;
smaller “stuff” could mean less expense of upkeep; less cost could mean sooner
freedom from bills; less noise will guarantee more quiet and peace if schedules
are adjusted to include at least some quiet time each day;
going
and doing and zooming could be less necessary if the illusions of “self” gave
way to an awareness of what is authentic and what is not; and freedom of speech
could become less touted when freedom from speech becomes valued.
You can live as freely as the deer if you follow the steps that can result in realization
and in de-accumulation (which always follows realization). And, again, that is
not theory. Everything mentioned above is an account of actual experience.
AFTER HAVING REVERSED, GONE BACK TO THE ABSOLUTE, AND RETURNED
Again, it has been asked “Aren’t these teachings just a recommendation to practice denial . . . escapism . . . fantasy?”
That might be a conclusion that is drawn by those with a propensity for forming opinions about experiences they have never had - in other words, the non-realized masses.
Yet
it is the non-realized masses who are trapped in denial and escapism and
fantasy; furthermore, it is only by completing all of the steps that persons can
move beyond identification with the body and the ego - that is, “the false I” -
and can understand the true difference in illusion and Reality.
Only after “completing the circle” - that is, only after having “visited” the
Absolute and only after understanding the difference in Consciousness and
Awareness and only after seeing infinity and only after understanding the
functioning of the totality - only then can the “return” to the relative happen
in the direct path manner that circumvents the obstacles that had blocked the
seeing of Truth as a result of programming and conditioning.
It is by that means alone that the actual distinction can be understood between
(A) what might appear to be escapism on the part of the realized non-dualist
and (B) the actual instances of the denial and escapism and phoniness and
distortion that mark the relative existence of the non-realized.
The overlaying of Reality on the beingness allows the remainder of the manifestation of the consciousness to happen as the still Awareness rather than as the fluctuating consciousness.
The result is like a wave which can come along and sweep away all the false impressions imprinted on “the mind.” It is only the overlaying of Reality on the relative that can place the manifest consciousness in touch with Reality.
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.
