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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?
FIXATING IN THE HEAVY DARKNESS OR IN THE LIGHTNESS
“Dance is lightness in motion, but The Light must precede the lightness.”
--floyd
The realized perceive what is called “the world” - as well as all happenings that happen during the relative existence - by way of the luminosity of pure understanding; the non-realized see only what is reflected in a dim and flickering light.
Because the non-realized must, regretfully, suffer the slings and arrows of the ever-changing, unstable existence which they take to be the real, they can become attached to the relief and exhilaration of seeing “The Long-Awaited Knight Riding In On A White Horse.”
They believe their “Knight du Jour” is arriving in his / her shining armor, perched high on that white horse and promising to put to an end the loneliness of being single or promising to bring to an end the vicissitudes of single parenting.
What they see if the visor is eventually opened is “The Dark Knight of Unimaginable Suffering” underneath, thus forcing “The Rescued One” to experience the misery brought on as a result of finding out that another deception has been played out in their warped consciousness;
or they can become attached to the happiness of paying off a car note, only to
see the mortgage note increase on the house and then attach to that
disappointment; or they can become attached to the happiness of seeing a
partner’s medical condition cured, only to learn that their child has an
incurable disease and attaching to that misery;
or they can attach to the joy of a couple working for decades and finally
retiring but then shortly afterwards discovering that greedy and extremely
wealthy people have stolen 50% of the assets in their retirement fund, forcing
both to begin seeking employment again.
Tossed into that mix are the yearly or monthly (and, eventually, daily)
fluctuations of relationships, shifting from “perfect” at one point to just “okay”
at another to finally being perceived as “a total disaster.”
Maharaj: “The mind that projects the world colours it its own way. When you
meet a man, he is a stranger. When you marry him, he becomes your own self.
When you quarrel, he becomes your enemy. It is your mind’s attitude that
determines what he is to you.”
Of course his point was that the
scenario above has nothing to do with Real Love. He said:
Maharaj: “Love is not selective; desire is selective. In Love, there are no
strangers.”
It is those fluctuations of the “mind” which shift one’s view of another from “perfect”
to “just okay” to “disastrous,” the type of fluctuations that were adumbrated
in the sequence that Maharaj used to describe the typical movement in
relationships. That movement generates a shift in perceptions from . . .
. . . stranger to
acquaintance to friend to lover to fiancé / fiancée to spouse to wonderful
spouse to not so wonderful spouse to horrible spouse to enemy to mortal enemy.
And all of that is nothing more than a movement in unstable consciousness, all
involving misperceptions and labeling and ego-states being assigned and
assumed.
The options offered by the various permutations of non-dual messaging
to address all of that, and to replace the heaviness of fluctuations with the
incredible lightness of being, include:
1. Stopping the “journey” at the third “religious or spiritual” step. Many try
that approach;
2. “Moving” to the Absolute only, claiming to be THAT alone, rejecting the
AM-ness totally. Yet THAT is still an identity, often assumed alongside the “Supreme
Self.” If the AM-ness is not totally rejected, then there can be the
simultaneous assumption of the “Supreme Self” and “The Spiritual Giant,” some
taking that to be the I AM THAT and the Superior I AM. Close, but no cigar;
or,
3. Overlaying the Reality on the relative. Maharaj said that even with him,
there is always a lingering speck of the original, primary personality type (in
his case, the Type Four that is involved with the search for the authentic and
the real).
When that happens, there is no total
detachment from the AM-ness, but there is no ever-present attachment to the
AM-ness, either. There is that position of neutrality which allows feelings to
rise, to be felt, to be witnessed, and to fall away without suffering the
insanity of emotional intoxication.
The deer in my prior neighborhood that abide naturally are free of the
machinations of the mind that plague humanity;
however, the deer are not free of the feelings that relative events can bring. To clarify, recall an event shared in other writings when the normalcy and naturalness of feeling short-term “situational depression” was discussed.
Some depression might be situational and
in such cases is natural. For example, during the years spent in the forest,
various animals were seen to be “grieving” as they inspected the fallen remains
of a companion. Here’s an example:
One spring, a buck and doe were observed while grazing in one of their regular
feeding spots. Later in the fall, they were seen on several occasions while
mating; then, at the beginning of the following summer, it was seen that a fawn
had joined in their grazing sessions.
In late August or early September, gunshots rang out near a creek. After
following one of the trails that led toward the water, the following was
witnessed: the fawn had been shot and had run some distance from the creek
before falling.
The doe and the buck both seemed to be smelling it and nudging
it, trying to encourage it to rise and run, but they eventually realized it was
not going to happen. They stood still and witnessed.
Both spent some time there involved in what was clearly an instance of
situational depression. Their demeanor left no doubt that feelings were
arising. Suddenly, two boys - hunting out of season - began making a great deal
of noise as they approached.
It was seen that the feeling of grief
being experienced by the deer was being replaced by a feeling of fear. They
were torn, moving away from the fallen animal for a moment, then returning for
a few moments in a final effort to check on the fawn.
On another occasion, there was a recounting of an event that happened just feet
away, right outside the window of my home office. A fawn was still-born. The doe
tried nudging the body to inspire the fawn to stand. The buck walked over and
touched the body with its nose. That went on for many minutes.
Then, the doe and the buck began walking away, only to be driven to return and
try again and again to test their offspring for signs of life. It was a long,
heart-wrenching process, watching those two deer that were obviously so sad
over this turn of events. There was the fluctuation between the earlier joy and
pleasure of copulation and this sadness over the demise of their offspring.
So it is among some of the realized that, in spite of being realized, are
nevertheless attuned to the ever-changing aspects of the relative but able to
move beyond permanent attachment to things not permanent.
That allows the realized to avoid emoting but to forever be able to feel. Often the feelings are more powerful than at other times, but never is there an uncontrollable and uncontrolled urge to become emotionally-intoxicated and generate harm.
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.
