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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 LIGHTNESS OF WITNESSING WHEN NOT ACTING OR REACTING
One morning when I was still living on Lake Conroe, one wave of rainstorms passed and another was on its way. What to do? Do you see the insanity of even asking that question?
Do you see the
insanity of persons facing a supposedly “desperate” rainstorm and concluding
that they must “do” something desperate, must go into
desperation-and-emotion-or-feeling-driven motion, must take desperate action,
must try to take charge, and must work or manipulate to take control?
Here, the darkness and the sounds and the chill of winter rainstorms are witnessed
just as the light and quiet and warmth of sunny days are witnessed.
Year round, storms will come; year round, storms will go. The sunlight will only appear to come; the
sunlight will only appear to go. Yet the light is what is always there, just as
you are always there.
If blocked off from the light by storms, you will not see the source of the light; if blocked off from The Light, you will not see the Real. You might (A) mistake a coiled rope for a snake; or, you might (B) have been fooled into mistaking a snake for a rope.
["B" keeps the divorce courts filled to the brim.]
From the state of self-ness and self-ish-ness, you may see the false and
mistake it for the Real: the false person; the false solution; the false light;
the false rescue rope that is mis-perceived and which is actually a snake.
To remember that which is authentic is to allow pure witnessing only to happen,
and by standing still at the window of Reality and viewing all that just
appears to be happening outside the window - with no
desperation-or-delusion-or-emotion-driven actions being inspired - the storms
will be seen to do what they do.
From that stance, there can be no insane notion that I must jump into the middle of the rainstorm in order to do myself some good, that is, in order to do my “self” - some “false self” - some “good.”
The bliss need not be interrupted by the relative storms if the message behind the words of Maharaj are clear when he said that as with the sun comes light, so with the sense of the Real and the authentic comes bliss.
Conversely, he could have
said, “With the absence of light and entrapment in the darkness, so with a
sense of self (or ‘self-ness’ or ‘self-ish-ness’) comes misery and suffering
and even pain.”
The fact is that the masses are indeed trapped in the darkness of self, of
personality. Look at the basic, primary types which manifest before scores of
other personas are imposed by, or assumed within, the planet’s cultures; then,
try what the realized poets John Lennon and Yoko Ono suggested and imagine:
Imagine if the hidden agendas and drives and fears and desires of “The
Perfectionist” false self were abandoned and only the sense of the real remained.
Imagine if the hidden agendas and drives and fears and desires of “The Rescuer
/ The ‘Love’ Seeker” false self were abandoned and only the sense of the real
remained.
Imagine if the hidden agendas and drives and fears and desires of “The Image
Maker / Performer” false self were abandoned and only the sense of the real
remained.
Imagine if the hidden agendas and drives and fears and desires of “The
Individualist” false self were abandoned and only the sense of the real
remained.
Imagine if the hidden agendas and drives and fears and desires of “The
Knowledge Seeker” false self were abandoned and only the sense of the real
remained.
Imagine if the hidden agendas and drives and fears and desires of “The Fearful
/ Dependent” false self were abandoned and only the sense of the real remained.
Imagine if the hidden agendas and drives and fears and desires of “The
Enthusiast” false self were abandoned and only the sense of the real remained.
Imagine if the hidden agendas and drives and fears and desires of “The
Controller” false self were abandoned and only the sense of the real remained?
Imagine if the hidden agendas and drives and fears and desires of “The Avoider”
false self were abandoned and only the sense of the real remained?
In the darkness, whichever of those types are motivating thoughts and words and
deeds will join with the other forces of darkness - the other ego-states
assumed as true identities - and will drive away even the slightest chance for seeing
the real to continue:
Maharaj: “There is no darkness in the midst of light.” When we are absorbed in other things, in the not-self, we forget the
not real, the false “Supreme Self,” the false “Infinite Self,” etc.
In the ignorance of darkness, a desire for attachment or attachments will
manifest. Independence will no longer be given any value and dependence will be
assumed to be the solution for any problem. Then, ignorance and harm and misery
will eventually prevail:
Maharaj: “Why forget the “Self” through excess of attachment?” He would
eventually say that wisdom lies “not in focusing upon what you think you are
but in seeing all that you are not.”
See that never being separated from the real means never slipping into any personality
and allowing fears and desires to drive you. Once a fear is triggered as a
result of having assumed a persona - such as, “The Homeowner Who Is About to
Lose Her / His Home” or “The One Who Deserves So Much More Than Has Been Given”
- then the false Self is forgotten.
With realization, there is always enough; with the not-selves, there is never enough, triggering want and fear and desire and, yes, even depression and anger over not having more.
When that happens, all that
has been understood is forgotten; all sense is forfeited; sanity is cast aside
and then risky, reckless behavior and attachment can follow.
It is the “not-selves” which Maharaj mentioned that will take you out of contact
with reality / Reality (with the AM-ness and the THAT-ness) which will cast you
into darkness;
which will take away the
lightness and replace it with the heaviness instead; and which will eventually
take you to ruin and injury and “harm of self and harm of others” (relatively
speaking):
Maharaj: “You do not tidy up a dark room. You open the windows first. Letting
in the light makes everything easy.”
The challenge while the consciousness is manifested is two-fold: (1) Developing
the ability to deal with - or move away from - the non-realized who are in
darkness and (2) dealing with the darkness which is hindering you, relatively
speaking.
Emotional intoxication, always rooted in the agenda of one or more
personalities, will call you into motion. Racing about, you will mis-perceive
the most destructive actions as being the most constructive actions. When a
siren calls, then an inner captain (an inner resource) should be heard as it “Blows
the Still”:
Maharaj: “When you stand motionless, only watching, you discover yourself as
the light behind the watcher.”
Then, you will be placed back in touch with reality / Reality - the pure
awareness via consciousness - which provides the light and The Light:
Maharaj: “At the root of my being is pure awareness, a speck of intense light.”
It is that intense light which must first shine if lightness is ever to come,
and it is that light which must continue to shine if the continuation of
lightness is to manifest.
Only under those conditions can dancing lightly happen.
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.
