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?

YOUR PREFERENCE?

Class I waters: Easy, smooth, light ripples?

or

Class VI waters: Extraordinarily difficult with constant obstacles?

False beliefs are the food which feeds the ego, the false self; the false self or selves are the food which feeds the emotions; and the emotions drive the motions, the always-destructive actions which personality identifications generate.

The invitation? Understand that the “journey” to THAT is not the end. As discussed with one seeker, you take your car to the shop for an oil change, to have fresh oil added into the engine block so that the contaminants of small metal shavings that can destroy the engine are removed and fresh oil is added to make everything function smoothly.

Once you have that oil, do you spend the rest of your life at the auto shop? Of course not. You went there only to receive the oil; after that, you went on your way, never having to concern yourself with the shop, never thinking about the oil, never believing that the only peace in life that can found is at the shop. No, you move on.

You focus on what is happening now. You do not focus on the shop or abide in the shop. You’re out and about, enjoying what you enjoy or processing what is to be processed in the relative existence. This is “Applied Advaita.”

Those who want to claim that they are so spiritual or so special that they are THAT only and have no association whatsoever with the AM-ness are fooling themselves or trying to fool others.

The summative statement of these teachings is “I AM THAT; I AM,” not “I AM THAT.” To complete the “journey” to THAT is to acquire the oil which can be used to lubricate the relative machinery . . . to acquire the oil which can be used to allow the remainder of the manifestation to pass in a smooth and easily-flowing fashion.

Maharaj: “My ‘world’ is just like yours. I see, I hear, I feel, I think, I speak and act in a ‘world’ I perceive, just like you. But with you it is all; with me it is nothing”

and

“With the realised human the experience, ‘I am the world, the world is mine’ is supremely valid - he thinks, feels and acts integrally and in unity with all that lives. He may not even know the theory and practice of realisation, and be born and bred free of religious and metaphysical notions. But there will not be the least flaw in his understanding and compassion.”

Nothing in either of those pointers suggests that Maharaj was not a part of a “world” (a present but finite place for a relative exist to unfold) . Yet he knew “the world” is merely an image held to be real and true by millions but actually nothing more than an illusion.

Living AS If anything “there” or “here” allows seeing and hearing and feeling etc. to happen. He completed the “journey” to THAT, acquired the oil required, overlaid the oil on the relative machinery, and then went along his way, enjoying the place where the machinery took him, enjoying the company of those along for the ride, but totally in touch with the trip now going on “here” in a smooth fashion as result of having acquired the stabilizing oil from “there.”

Yet some are driven by emotions to ride the roughest rivers with the most violent motion. Only a few will ever realize and be content in the calm, motionless waters. Some will have to fall over the waterfall more times than others;

but if they survive the falls, they might see that joy can only happen when they do not ride the rough waves of the river all to the way to the falls but move instead over to the still eddy and stay in the background of motion.

Maharaj: “What is wrong with seeking the pleasant and shirking the unpleasant? Between the banks of pain and pleasure the river of life flows. It is only when the mind refuses to flow with life, and gets stuck at the banks, that it becomes a problem.

“By flowing with life I mean acceptance - letting come what comes and go what goes. Desire not, fear not, observe the actual, as and when it happens, for you are not what happens, you are to whom it happens.

“Ultimately even the observer you are not. You are the ultimate potentiality of which the all-embracing consciousness is the manifestation and expression.”

So what class of water are in?

There was a time when the boredom of an unfulfilling relative existence drove “floyd” to seek the excitement and adrenaline-releasing chaos of the rapids. Consider how the classifications describe so accurately the various ways that persons traverse the relative existence:

Class A: Lake water; still; no perceptible movement.

Class I. Easy, smooth water; light ripples; clear passages; gentle curves.

Class II. Moderate; medium-quick water; rapids with regular waves; clear and open passages between rocks and ledges; maneuvering required.

Class III. Moderately difficult; numerous high and irregular waves; many rocks.

Class IV. Difficult; long and powerful rapids and standing waves; advanced preparations for possible rescue work important.

Class V. Extremely difficult; long and violent rapids that follow each other almost without interruption; river filled with obstructions; big drops and violent currents; rescue preparations mandatory.

Class VI. Extraordinarily difficult; constant threat of death because of extreme danger; every safety precaution must be taken.

Someone who has survived the Class V and VI rapids and is once again flowing smoothly with the river of life expressed beautifully what it is like when the return to the understanding pushes one out of the motion of the rapids and to the stillness of no motion . . . of no action-taking instead:

“I woke this morning with what feels like an elixir of calm, stable love flowing through the veins. How is it possible to live without this stability? I am enjoying this spaciousness.”

It is the foreground of emotion / motion which drives people to jump into the Class VI rapids that block the calmness and stability and, yes, even Love; it is the background of motion that allows one to relax in the stability of a Class I river where the existence is easy and smooth and light and clear and gentle.

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.

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