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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 ROPE THAT IS PERCEIVED TO BE A SNAKE VS. A SNAKE THAT IS PERCEIVED TO BE A ROPE
“For those seeking the lightness of being, the light must precede the lightness; the lightness can never come before the light.”
--floyd
The perspective which allows one to be content is not a rose-colored-glasses-FooFoo-Land-View of things.
It is simply a perspective which allows
one to view all realistically and to witness all from a position of neutrality which
does not trigger emotional intoxication
As noted, the realized feel but they do not emote.
Remember when Maharaj was asked “if he cared” and he replied, “More than you will ever know.” Does that sound like there were no feelings being felt?
Does that sound like Maharaj had shifted to
a state where he was void of feeling anything even though he was abiding as The
Void rather than as anything identified or identifiable?
To the contrary, the case is this: in the quiet witnessing, understanding can
come, and it is via that process that, again, the realized are able to perceive
what is called “the world” - as well as everything that happens throughout the
relative existence - by way of the luminosity of pure understanding; the non-realized
see only what is reflected, unrealistically, in a dim and flickering light.
In the luminosity of pure understanding, how could there ever be a
manifestation of judgment which always generates a sense of separation and
better-than-ment? There can be no judging of anyone if the driving forces
behind thoughts and words and deeds are understood completely.
In the light of Reality and Truth, all can be felt. An entire gamut of feelings
can happen. But they can happen without shifting into personality-driven
thoughts and words and deeds that blindly drive persons into acts that anyone
not emotionally-intoxicated could see are going to generate tremendous
suffering as a result of the consequences.
For those seeking the lightness of being, however, the light must precede the
lightness; the lightness can never come before the light.
FOR YOUR FURTHER CONSIDERATION:
Consider again: in the light of Reality and Truth, ALL can be felt. An entire
gamut of feelings can happen. But they can happen without shifting into
personality-driven thoughts and words and deeds that blindly drive persons into
acts that anyone not emotionally-intoxicated could see are going to generate
tremendous suffering as a result of the consequences. For those seeking the
lightness of being, however, that light must come before, never after.
The person who walks into a barn that is lit only by a dim and flickering light
can believe that he is seeing a snake coiled and ready to strike; that person
cannot possibly know the incredible lightness of being. How could one in such a
state possibly dance lightly?
If a light is turned on, and it is seen that what was mistakenly perceived to
be a threatening snake is instead a harmless rope, only then can there be a
sense of lightness in the subsequent relief of seeing what is real and what is
not. But the light had to come before the lightness could come.
Yet an objective witnessing of the masses - who move through the relative
existence under the auspices of a fiction-filled mind and under the influence
of various personalities which they are not even aware of - reveals that few
enjoy the incredible lightness with any consistency. The full light which
allows for clear seeing has not yet come - and probably will not come - to
most.
When trying times come and divert even formerly-clear-seeing travelers from the
path of lightness and onto a path of darkness, it will be the full light that
allows them to return once again from the darkness and find their way back to
the path of Truth and sanity and freedom and peace.
This relative existence can offer enough trials and tribulations that a
cumulative effect can begin to build as a result of a vestige of each of those
events having been left behind. When that is the case, there is not always one
single, simple solution;
usually, however, a solution can be
found if one can be still long enough to let the emotions subside and if one is
willing to seek counsel when the self-defeating mind and the self-defeating
personas are having their way.
When my daughter was young during a visit to England, a beautiful tract of
hedges had been sculpted into a living maze that provided a play area for children.
Vantage points on a hillside allowed parents to watch over the youngsters at
play; additionally, the park management had guides available in case some
became lost along their way.
All of them entered readily and happily into what seemed to have the potential
for guaranteeing great fun . . . with the potential to assure that something
wonderful and enjoyable lay before them.
At some point, though, in many cases the original expectation that something was going to be wonderful began to be seen as something quite to the contrary.
At some point, that which had been
perceived to be potentially wonderful was seen in a different light to actually
be quite horrible, generating such stress that some seemed literally to be
going crazy because of the state of desperation they had worked themselves
into.
How often in the relative existence can the same happen with adults? What
seemed to be the potential for great fun, for something wonderful and
enjoyable, can eventually be revealed in the full light to be nothing more than
a big mess that leaves persons in such dire straits that the resulting sense of
desperation blocks all former understandings and leaves them once again at the
mercy of their self-defeating minds and their always misguided and misguiding
personalities.
At that point, one can be so lost in the subsequent play of the attributes that
unfold under the influence of the mind and the personalities that nothing can
be understood;
persons lose all sense of the unicity
and all sense of feeling whole as opposed to feeling fractured; then, persons
will simply move along blindly toward the false solutions that they had
erroneously perceived earlier to be acceptable solutions.
Maharaj: “The homogenous understands the play of the attributes, the projection
of the mind, but the play, the projection of the mind, cannot understand the
homogeneous”
and
“You have some experiences and you try to benefit from them, but remember that
whatever is going to be of use to you ultimately is going to harm you. Wherever
there is use, there is also dis-use in this world of duality. Whatever you like
is going to create harm for you. Whatever you like most is, in the end, going
to be most harmful for you.”
In a state of desperation, driven unconsciously to act under the influence of
motivators that persons are unconscious of, they will often begin to put a spin
on why they are doing what they are doing - justifying and rationalizing it all
- deceiving themselves sometimes or trying to fool others at other times.
In the end, though, the supposedly “easier
way” that is often turned to will be revealed at some point to be the “most
difficult way of all.” They will enter a maze that appears to offer the
potential for something wonderful and delightful to come about.
Only the dim and flickering light can shine at that point, the bright light of
awareness having been blocked by the fears and desires of a variety of
personalities.
It is at that point that persons that have moved away from the light will approach a potentially-fatal snake, certain that what they are seeing in the dull light is surely nothing more than a harmless rope.
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.
