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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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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.
