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FREEDOM FROM SHIFTING BETWEEN STATES OF HAPPINESS AND
UNHAPPINESS
“Be empty of all mental content, of all imagination and effort, and the very absence of obstacles will cause reality to rush in.”
--Sri
Nisargadatta Maharaj
“A dual-minded person is unstable in all ways.”
-Yeshu’a
The average roller coaster ride time at an amusement park is about two minutes. The average roller coaster ride time for humans can last for an entire “lifetime.”
On the amusement park ride, some are happy for that ride to end because they feel like they are going to throw up. Others are so thrilled with the ride that they run to get in line and ride the roller coaster again.
With adults in relationships - be they at home or on the road or in the workplace - some are happy for that relationship to end because they feel like they are going to throw up all day long. Because of the chaos and disorder and commotion and turmoil and madness and the unpredictability of their partner.
Others are thrilled with the chaos. Those who are bored with their existence can become addicted to chaos because it’s the only “excitement” they experience. The adrenaline rush is the only indicator to them that they are “alive.”
Those with the Borderline Personality Disorder assure that chaos will reign supreme with their constant mood swings: “I love you . . . no wait, I hate you.”
Some are aware that I was in a relationship with a borderline type who came to me one night and put her hands on my cheeks and pulled me to her and kissed me gently and intimately and said, “Everything with us is going to be alright.” Hummm. Neat.
The next morning I called her from work and said, “I just wanted to say how neat what you did last night and what you said last night was.” Her reply: Well, forget it. I’m leaving you today. You can keep our daughter. I’m taking the dog. Goodbye.”
That triggered the voices of scores of ego-states, all expressing their fears and desires. I felt as if my head might explode from the mental gymnastics that those false personal identities were engaged in between my ears.
I obviously had some processing to do in terms of clearing out the rotten mind garbage that had decayed into the concepts and beliefs compost in the “mind” parts of my brain.
Maharaj: “Be empty of all mental content, of all imagination and effort, and the very absence of obstacles will cause reality to rush in.”
Instead of “reality,” he could have as easily and accurately have said, “truth” or “clear perspective” or “impartial witnessing which can lead you back to a position of neutrality.”
When being jerked about by the hidden, fear-and-desire-based agendas of false identities, the belief that one can determine what is “good” and what is “bad” by listening to the voices of phony personas is sheer foolishness.
A relative existence marked by instability will leads to insane behaviors.
Yeshu’a: “A dual-minded person is unstable in all ways.”
Whether persons are so sick that chaos and disorder and commotion and turmoil and madness and unpredictability have been normalized or so avoidant that those are being tolerated, the effects on the psyche can be - relatively speaking - detrimental or even fatal.
As you read the following conversation between two men who were both completely absorbed in duality-based thinking, consider the following example.
I share it on occasion to illustrate how erroneous the perspective can be when one is labeling the roller coaster type events in a relative existence as being either “good” or “bad.”
In the Wild West in the nineteenth-century U.S., a man was concerned that he had not recently heard from a neighbor who was also a cattle rancher. He saddled up his horse and set out on a half-hour ride to check on his friend.
As he approached the main house, he saw that the gate on the horse corral was open and that the horses were gone. Then he saw that the fencing had a huge gap in it and that the cows were also missing. He spurred his horse to hurry toward the front door of the ranch house, and the door there was also open.
He walked inside unnoticed and saw his friend seated in a chair in the living area, obviously preoccupied. He shouted, “Ernest, what the heck is going on!?”
Ernest looked up and said, “Oh, hi, Josh.” After a pause, he shook his head and replied, “You wouldn’t believe me if I told you.”
Josh said, “Try me!”
Ernest began his tale: “Well, several months ago my son was checking the fencing on the back range and came across a rattlesnake and his horse reared up and threw him off and broke my son’s leg.”
The neighbor said, “Oh my gosh, that’s really bad.”
The rancher replied: “No, that was good because of what happened after that. One evening a couple of months ago, my son and I were having dinner in the house and the ranch hands were all having their meals in the bunkhouse.
“Suddenly, we heard yelling and screaming and shots fired, and just as we stood up, some bandits kicked in the back door and the front door simultaneously and leveled their guns at us and told us to sit down and then they tied me to my chair.
“Next
thing I know, there’s dozens of them outside and they’re stealing our cattle
and our horses and taking all of our ranch hands with them as work
slaves.”
“But your son’s broken leg was still a bad thing.”
“No, that turned out to be a good thing because they were going to take him too, but when they saw his leg in a cast, they knew he couldn’t work for them so they left him.”
“Well then, that a good thing alright.”
“No, that was a bad thing because of this: his leg healed and he formed a posse and they tracked the marauders across the border and found our cattle and horses.”
“Well that’s good.”
“No,
that’s bad, because they walked into a trap and were put to work by the thieves
who had taken over a prospector’s gold mine.”
“Dad
gum. That is bad.”
“No, that actually ended up being good because some guards drank too much one night and passed out and my son and the posse and the ranch hands were all able to escape and took a lot of the gold with them.”
“Well, that is good.”
“As it turned out, no, not really, because the ranch hands took off in one direction and my son headed to the nearest large town. But he's always had a gambling problem, so when he went into the saloon and got into a card game, he lost every bit of the gold he had.”
“Oh man! Now that’s bad.”
“No, it’s good because he happened to meet another rancher living nearby who felt sorry for him because of his loss, so he took my son in and while there my boy met the rancher’s gorgeous daughter and they ended up getting married almost immediately. After that, my son came back here and he and his new bride moved in and we started making plans to rebuild out herd.”
“Well now that’s good.”
“No, that turned out to be bad, because that woman was a gold-digger and she met a rich man traveling through town and ran away with him. My son took off after them and caught up with 'em a few towns over and he shot the guy and his bride. Now, my son’s in jail awaiting trial.”
“Okay,
I'm not going to try to guess. This time, let me ask. I’m sorta thinking that's
bad, but I’m gonna stop guessing and let you tell me if I’m right.”
Ernest
looked up slowly and turned his eyes to meet those of Josh and said, “Have you
been listening to a damn thing I’m being saying? How the hell could I possibly
know if anything is actually good or bad!?”
Josh walked out in silence, mounted his horse, and rode off toward home, a bit wiser when it comes to thinking anyone could possibly know what is good or what is bad in the long run.
He had gotten a little humility that day, realizing as he looked back over the happenings in his own existence that, actually, he’d never had a clue about what’s good or what’s bad.
He saw that most of what he had spent days or months or years anticipating and dreading ended up never happening, and he realized that all the things which had ended up being full-blown catastrophes - as far as his entire relative existence was concerned - he never saw any of those coming at all but instead had actually been totally blindsided in every case.
What about you? Want to change the world? Think you can? Or might your energy be better spent focusing on the issues rooted in “self” (in all of the false selves) and then clearing away the mental “stuff” which leads to misery and suffering and which - if discarded from the mind - can bring to an end most all pain and misery and suffering if one is finally freed from the endless machinations of the mind which trap one on a runaway roller coaster type ride?
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.
