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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
From Quora: “In psychology, instability typically refers to emotional or behavioral fluctuations that often involve erratic mood swings, impulsivity, or inconsistent behavior. This instability might manifest in various ways.”
Zuva Seven: “Emotional instability is a catch-all term sometimes used to refer to unpredictable reactions and extreme emotions. While it is natural for everyone to experience a range of emotions, the term is usually used when discussing people who have more difficulty regulating their emotions.
“It is not an official diagnosis, but it is common to hear its use when discussing Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder (EUPD) or, as it’s more commonly known, Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD).”
Kristalyn Salters-Pedneault, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and associate professor of psychology at Eastern Connecticut State University:
“Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a serious psychological condition characterized by unstable moods and emotions, relationships, and behavior. During a BPD episode, a person may act impulsively, engage in risky behaviors, switch moods quickly, have higher levels of anger, appear numb, or experience paranoia.”
So instability or “being unstable in all ways” involves personality, personality identification, and personality disorders; hence, the significance of non-duality’s focus on personality identification should be clear.
Identitylessness is the result of realization. Maharaj tried to make clear that the words “I am” should never be followed by anything, be it a noun or an adjective. Follow “I am” with nothing.
Maharaj: “Self-identification with the body-mind is the poison that brings bondage”
and
“As long as we imagine ourselves to be separate personalities, one quite apart from another, we cannot grasp reality, which is essentially impersonal.”
The first three steps on the “path” to realization which Maharaj used - and the first three steps on the path to realization shared here – address the following:
Step One: Abandon the belief in body identification.
Step Two: Abandon the belief in mind identification.
Step Three: Abandon the belief in personal / personality identification.
If humans never believed in personal or personality identifications or ego-states (Latin, “I” states) or personas (roles or characters assigned to humans or assumed by humans as identities), then no personality disorder would exist.
However, the case is that humans are assigned or assumed scores and scores of false personalities, so what can now be said is this:
Rather than “if humans never believed in personal or personality identifications, then no personality disorder would exist”
it can be said that
“If a human were to realize (to abandon belief in all false identities and the lies handed down within families and taught by cultures and all other learned ignorance) then no personalities would be at play, no personalities would generate fears and unmet desires, and then no personality disorders would exist.”
Maharaj: The concept of “person should be carefully examined and its falseness seen; then its power over you will end.”
And when that power over you ends, so does the instability which personality disorders bring.
Human suffer from Dissociate Identity Disorder (DID), another personality disorder. Dissociative identity disorder (DID) is a mental health condition. Someone with DID has multiple, distinct personalities, and the various identities control a person's behavior at different times. (That is the case with every one of the billions of non-realized on the planet.)
If you are not a person, then what is that which is taken / mistaken to be “you”?
It is merely a composite unity.
In reality, there is no “who-ness,” no WHO-ness,” no “self,” no “Self,” no “you” and no “You.”
Rather than ask, “WHO am I?” one might ask “What Am I” and “What is this which is temporarily manifested and which 'I' have been trained to refer to as 'I'?”
WHAT that is is a triad, a composite unity made of three parts. All three parts are constantly coming into the composite unity and leaving the composite unity, so the “I” (or the “you” as some refer to me”) has no continuity at all.
What the composite unity is one second is not the same composite unity the next second. The skin of a human is replaced every 28 days. The stomach lining is replaced every few days. Various parts are always coming and going.
Why else?
Because the three parts of the composite unity are constantly in movement, constantly manifesting in the space formed by the unity and then constantly unmanifesting from that space.
The three parts are:
1. elements which form a temporary plant food body;
2. oxygen circulating into and out of the space formed by the elements;
and
3. conscious-energy which is also manifesting within the space and then unmanifesting.
One of the grandest delusions regarding “the consciousness” is the notion that there is this quantity of consciousness which has existed within “me” since day one. That is a hoax, a complete misunderstanding, rooted in the illusory concept of “memories.”
Consciousness is transferred in a way that scientist Szent-Gyorgyi explained thusly: “What drives life is thus a little electric current, set up by the sunshine.”
Recall the process, the sequence, if you will:
The sunshine interacts with plants, and plants transfer that sunshine-to-electric-current (a.k.a., energy, including conscious-energy) to-composite-unities when unities consume plants or consume something which ate plants.
As for the elements, the process whereby unities come into existence happens when two already-existing unities enter into an act of friction which propels millions of sperm cells out of one unity and into another unity.
If one sperm among the millions propelled into a second unity wins The Race to the Egg, then the egg might become fertilized as those sperm and egg elements come together.
From that, an expanding number of elements will continue to come together as a unit, as a unified composite of elements, and a third unity may emerge nine months later, in the case of “humans.”
The number of composite unities on the planet is near infinite. “Humans” are composite unities; “birds” are composite unities; “fish” are composite unities; etc., etc., etc.
Those unities are nothing more than elements which provide a space in which air can be circulated temporarily and in which conscious-energy can be circulated temporarily by consuming plants or things which ate plants.
Is it clear that the so-called “parents” of a composite unity did not “create” anything? Their bodies merely and spontaneously circulated elements and air and conscious-energy.
All three of those parts are “what's,” not “who's.”
Thus, neither elements nor conscious-energy have any “who-ness” or “WHO-ness” or “self” or “Self” or “you” or “You.”
All that comes and goes and which forms and temporarily sustains the form of a composite unity will eventually stop coming and stop going.
At that point, the composite unity will no longer exist as a unit, though the elements etc. will remain forever, though never together again.
That being the case, when all that came together to form a composite unity eventually all comes apart (See the “Second Law of Thermodynamics”) then nothing about that unit / composite unity and no part of that unity can survive intact.
No gauzy, floating, invisible, half-bird / half-human “something” will survive the total coming apart of the unit.
No gauzy, invisible “something” (a.k.a., “soul”) will survive the total coming apart of the unit because it was never among the three parts which were there to begin with.
No self or Self was ever a part of any composite unity, so how could either of those possibly be a part of what remains when a composite unity no longer remains?
All of those bogus concepts / false beliefs are rooted in the magical thinking and programming and conditioning which are the tools of religious or spiritual or business or government persons who dreamed up those concepts and beliefs in order to use them to control the masses NOW, not to protect the masses in some LATER existence and other-worldly place.
So, there is no post-manifestation SELF of SELFNESS in any form or variety or mode or manner.
So, when the non-realized look in a mirror, they recognize a composite unity but they have no inkling that the body identification they are engaged in is a total illusion. Indeed, they do not recognize themselves, but not in the way that one totally dissociated from reality cannot understand that the reflection being seen is of a “what,” not a “who.”
The thing about the masses suffering from DID is this: Just as “functioning alcoholics” can function for considerable periods of time - especially when they have enablers at home and work - eventually a toll will be taken.
Similarly, most persons with DID are “functioning” though they will spread confusion with their mood and thought instabilities (“I love you; no, wait, I hate you!”) People around them are usually walking on eggshells, so to speak.
People living with DID sufferers or working for DID sufferers are dealing with the type whom Yeshu’a referred to in his pointer from more than 2000 years ago:
“A dual-minded person is unstable in all ways.” And DID symptoms and effects do only get worse as time passes.
Again, realization is the way to freedom from personality disorders. And freedom from the effects of personality disorders brings about freedom from the mental health conditions which control thoughts and words and actions and which, in turn, generate chaos and misery and instability.
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.
