IS YOUR RELATIVE EXISTENCE HAPPENING AS IF YOU ARE DANCING LIGHTLY OR AS IF YOU ARE DOING A STIFF, BOOT-STOMPING, GESTAPO-STYLE MARCH?

 

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IS YOUR RELATIVE EXISTENCE HAPPENING AS IF YOU ARE DANCING LIGHTLY OR AS IF YOU ARE DOING A STIFF, BOOT-STOMPING, GESTAPO-STYLE MARCH?

The masses are like a strand of spaghetti: before proper preparation . . . stiff, unbendable, easily breakable; after proper preparation . . . relaxed, flexible, supple. What is the proper preparation in order for a relative existence to be marked by bliss or happiness or simply by contentment? Full realization.

From the book

What BLISS Is and What BLISS IS Not:

“There is no need to wait. There is no need to believe that the end of suffering must involve 'future' opportunities. The only opportunity is here and now”

and

“Bliss and freedom and happiness and compatibility with nature in the nisarga fashion can only happen NOW.”

From the book

THE MYTH OF DEATH:

“Now there is no post-manifestation dancing going on, but all of this now is the dance for those ‘returning’ . . . returning to their natural state and abiding as that / THAT. And indeed those who have ‘died the death’ of ego and egotism are the only ones currently ‘dancing lightly’.”

Understand, if you would dance lightly, that there is an ever-present, oh-so-sweet, melodic tune being played by the Presence as it strums gently on the strings of the heart.

It cannot be heard if the strings on which it is played have been rendered dissonant by programming; if they have been made cacophonous by conditioning; if they have been reduced to something quite jarring by acculturation;

if they have been left inharmonious by domestication; if their perspective has been twisted by indoctrination; or if their thoughts have been distorted by brainwashing.

Only a peace-robbing, peace-ending harshness will register. The call is to clear away all that blocks the heart, hear the joyous tune of realization, and come to the dance.

Meanwhile, understand that for many among the realized, bliss is simply contentment. Contentment is marked by a steadily-manifested position of neutrality. I do not have to hate those who have used me and stolen from me; I do not have to love those who have used me and stolen from me.

I do not believe in “the other” so I do not have to hate anyone who appears to be different in terms of skin color; who is of a higher or lower economic status; who loves someone of the same sex; or who is driven by the symptoms of the Ultimate Sickness, three of which Maharaj identified as “(learned) ignorance, stupidity, and insanity.”

Bliss / contentment marks the relative existence here as the effects of “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity” are witnessed on a daily basis.

Perceived crises (be they local or national or international) come; and perceived crises go. With a caller going through the angst of an overloaded and presently chaotic existence and seeking “the way out” or at least “the way through,” I shared the modified version of an old adage used here on occasion: “This too shall pass, but not nearly soon enough for you.”

The word “wilderness” has its roots in the Old English term “wildeornes.” It derives from the combination of “wilde,” meaning wild or untamed, and “ornes,” referring to a dwelling or place. In its early usage, “wilderness” denoted a wild or uncultivated land.

Earlier, the word also carried the connotation of “a place to be passed through; not a place to linger.” Often, what was found on the other side of a wilderness were things which helped navigate the relative existence, but one still had to pass through the wilderness to get there. Same nowadays.

In the wilderness, there is no time to dance and there is no inclination to dance. That comes after reaching the other side where those things which helped navigate the relative existence could be found. Once there, dancing lightly could happen.

An actual wilderness could generate physical pain, but the degree of that pain cannot compare to the mental suffering which can also arise if stuck in a wilderness. 

Eventually, if fully realized, there are no mental movements churning away between the ears; a mosquito might buzz about one’s ear and require that it be swatted away, but the power of any irritants can be avoided if one abides sanely.

You alone much define what is acceptable during the relative existence and what is not, but that cannot happen if one is not totally freed from having one’s thoughts and words and actions being driven by ignorance and stupidity and insanity and desires and fears.

When that is the case, one is like a piece of rotting driftwood near a shoreline, being pushed forward then pulled backwards by the unsteady waves. Back and forth; back and forth; hence, the non-dualist Yeshu’a (mistakenly called “Jesus”) purportedly said, “A dual-minded person is unstable in all ways.”

Like a piece of rotting driftwood, being pushed and pulled by outside forces rather than being stable on the outside by first being stable on the inside.

When one who cares about me calls to check in or check up, if the call is to be extended then there is an unspoken agreement that we will dance lightly through les sujets du jour.

 THE INVITATION TO ENTER “THE DANCE HALL”

There should be nothing about a “no-mind” existence that is difficult to accept. Anyone who has gone to see a movie or a play on the stage of a theater has entered into that no-mind state for a least part of the time.

All is merely being witnessed with the witnessing pure and universal consciousness remaining totally silent. The “mind” goes into neutral, at least for part of the time there, so no thought at all is arising as all of the events are being witnessed.

So what makes the movement along the “path” so challenging when the point is reached where the “mind” must be left behind if the “journey” is to be completed in full? In the book, The Path to Freedom vs. The Path to Misery, this pointer is offered:

“For most, the search begins when seekers think that they need new concepts to replace their old ones. And there’s the rub. Many versions of non-dual messaging will fill that bill, but here, the nisarga approach affirms that no ‘replacement beliefs are necessary.’

The direct path method and the nisarga yoga make clear that there is no replacement and that it is senseless to try to make sense of the senseless.”

When the doctors removed cancerous polyps, they did not ask, “Now, what would you like us to put in their place?” It would be insane to have the source of misery removed but to want something substituted in place of that source of suffering.

To be realized fully, all beliefs much be cast aside, and no beliefs are to be accepted as replacements.

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.

The masses must demand that all those in charge must step down and their groups and institutions must shut down, and there's the real problem because the continuation of their crimes are enabled not as much by the people running such crime organizations as they are enabled by the masses of people who - wanting some perceived "payoff" - remain involved with them and give them money and support them and aid and abet the continued existence of those criminal enterprises and thus facilitate the ability of church criminals and political criminals and other types of criminals to continue to commit their crimes.] 

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