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FREEDOM FROM SHIFTING BETWEEN STATES OF HAPPINESS AND
UNHAPPINESS
“A dual-minded person is unstable in all ways.”
-Yeshu’a
“Self-identification with the body-mind is the poison that brings bondage. “
--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
“The dissolution of personality is followed always by a sense of great relief, as if a heavy burden has fallen off.”
--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
ADDRESSING “THE BIG FOUR”:
The Uniqueness of a True Non-Dual Message
Billions of self-identified “Jews” and “Christians” or “Christ Followers” regularly attend worship services for decades but never hear anyone address the key issues which generate instability and insanity and chaos in the lives of their members.
That is in spite of the fact that non-dual pointers are scattered throughout their so called “holy writings.”
After years of searching in a host of venues for an answer to the problems generated by personality disorders, by mind problems, by emotional intoxication; and by false but globally-held duality-based beliefs, I never once heard any of those problems discussed (much less suggestions for addressing them).
When I raised with religious leaders my questions about non-dual type messages in their “holy text,” I was told to move on and not get hung up on so many of the words of the “radicalized Jesus” and focus on the messages being discussed regularly in the church.
True non-dual messages about the real problems with programmed and conditioned and indoctrinated and brainwashed humans were not offered in any venues.
Even when I began to recall comments offered by my realized Cherokee grandmother - comments which led me to expand my seeking to pointers from the indigenous peoples and non-dual guides - I was still not hearing anyone focus of the “Big Four” of body and mind identifications; on personality identification and personality disorders; on emotional intoxication; or on duality-based beliefs.
It
was only after crossing paths with “The Maverick Maharaj” and after understanding
his final, stripped down, direct guidance
regarding the Big Four and coming to my own take on those four did I finally have a unique message
which was never offered by anyone or in any of the venues where I had sought
during decades of global travels.
Whew!
What a long and arduous path that was.
Then I wondered: “Might I assist other seekers to avoid that long and arduous path, to get the true understanding required, and then to abide in an “as if living” manner, able to dance lightly through the remainder of their manifestations?
The answer: “It’s worth a try, but expect nothing.”
Why? Because humans love the lies which seem to validate the lies they already believe. The maxim can be amended thusly:
“The truth will set you free, but it is going to piss you off first.”
Then, “Well, full speed ahead, the protestations be damned.”
For example:
During the “holiday seasons,” the tendency is to upgrade the illusion that “We were a family” to “we were a really happy family that showed love by sharing all our traditions” (at least before the divorce that revealed how erroneous the early perceptions were).
Current perceptions are flawed as “the mind” typically “rewrites history” . . . meaning, “idealizes,” “normalizes,” or “upgrades” illusions and distortions.
To those who talk about their “seasonal sadness,” the suggestion is this: to call one day or season “holy” (or to label a parcel of land as being “holy land”) will result not only in “individual” misery but also a surge in suicide rates during the “holiday season” when people recall (in a distorted fashion) certain events or persons.
Such differentiation will also get you some widespread misery, bombings, killings, and wars over who is to control all the “holy” things and over who knows the “right beliefs” to have about all things they take to be “holy.”
In fact, the upgraded “memories,” if thoroughly investigated, would reveal how distorted the current view is of the “past events” and the persons involved.
One man thought it was so sweet, the way he and wife and family traveled to a tree farm every year, cut a tree together, rode the hayride back to the entrance, loaded the tree into the truck, took it home to be decorated, and shared all of those “bonding experiences” with his kind and loving spouse. Been there; done that.
Only later did she reveal to him that her holiday wish every year had been that he would die. Yet he still “misses the holidays and the family events that meant so much.”
Even after having been told that his perception of those events was a complete fraud, a total illusion, his “memories” beg to differ and his illusions supersede clarity to the point that he has contemplated suicide during most of the holiday seasons since the divorce.
Thus come the constant shiftings and fluctuations in moods and conditions among the non-realized: happy as long as the dream is not proved to be a dream but miserable when it is.
For clarity, though, this pointer must be offered as well: would the realized suggest that you should not feel? Of course not. Yet a teacher / guru might suggest that you take the steps that can eliminate emotional intoxication.
Again, regarding the difference in feelings as opposed to emotions are clarified. The short version is this: the former can be witnessed as they rise and fall while the latter, always associated with an ego-state, will generate emotional intoxication.
Once more, feeling during the manifestation is not pre-emptied by “realization.” What can happen until the belief in “The Experiencer” disappears completely is that feelings can be witnessed without attachment.
Then, the source of any “negative feeling” can be understood, the WHO that is supposedly feeling can be identified, the illusion of the WHO can be seen, and then that process which allows for peace to happen consistently can manifest.
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.
