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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
“Realization is but the opposite of ignorance.”
--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Addressing “The Big Four”: The Sources of Instability and Being Unstable Mentally
(Continued)
Another visitor asked, “Why should anyone accuse religion
of spreading duality?”
[The reply]: That inquiry about duality and religion will be addressed since
duality is also at the heart of the shifts and instability witnessed among the
non-realized: happy vs. unhappy; OK vs. not OK; orderly vs. chaotic, etc.
(Note the way that all dualities foster a sense of
separation and arrogance. The first of any binary pair is given preferred
status by the non-realized: “us vs. them”; “Christian vs. Jew”; “American vs.
others.” Even if ego-generating nonsense such as public declarations like “We
are the greatest nation on earth” were not verbalized, believing that the
message implied by any dualistic pair is true will automatically foster a “better-than”
and “different-from” mindset.)
But to explicate the role that religions play (and have always played) in
dreaming up dualities and then supporting them is not “blaming religion” as you
have charged. It is explaining. Duality has become big business across the
globe nowadays, so trace its history from “then” to “now” to see the role that
religion has played:
The earliest persons living in darkness and in ignorance (joined by the
earliest self-appointed priest, medicine man, or shaman) were the manufacturers
of dualistic, supernatural explanations
for naturally-occurring happenings.
From the past to the present, non-realized persons
believe duality-based statements if delivered by a supposedly “holy person,”
statements such as “An angry God - vs. a happy God destroyed those people and
their homes” or “Their bad karma vs. the presence of good karma - caused
Hurricane Katrina to devastate New Orleans, Louisiana,” etc.)
Organized religion evolved and became the guardian of duality (teaching binary
concepts such as good-bad, right-wrong, heaven-hell, punishment-reward,
us-them, ad infinitum).
Today, the continuum of duality - and thus ignorance -
flows thusly:
Churches and temples and mosques and synagogues are now the distribution
centers of duality.
Those who are sleepwalking onthe planet, believing with “faith” whatever they
hear without any sane or sound inquiry, are the buyers of duality.
And now, governments and businesses and religions and many philosophies are the
users of duality, using dualistic proclamations in order to control and manipulate
the programmed masses to do whatever non-realized leaders want.
Next, note that here, the third step from identification with the false “I” to
abidance as the Absolute is the religious or spiritual step. There is no claim here
that religious or spiritual “works” or involvement must be avoided (though that
would shorten the “path”) but the step usually happens; however, it must also
be transitioned if full realization is to happen.
From another visitor: “But doesn’t ‘abidance as the Absolute’ prevent feeling?”
F.: That question has been addressed thoroughly in the writings over the years
as the difference in emotions and feelings has been defined and clarified. The
short version is as follows in regards to the “witnessing of feelings” vs. the “experiencing
of emotions”:
It is only the latter (emotions) - generated by the assumption of ego-states as
identities - which will lead to emotional intoxication and “actions” and “reactions”
and misperceptions of shifting between the perceived duality of “happy vs. sad.”
Feelings, by contrast, can happen; however, the realized merely witness them as
they rise and as they fall. The do not shift the realized from an uninterrupted
state of happiness into either a momentary or extended lapse into unhappiness.
That said, never has any realized teacher suggested that feelings must be
repressed if AS IF living is to happen. If tears flow, they flow. If laughter
happens, it happens.
If seemingly incredible pleasure happens, it happens.
Understanding I AM THAT does bring the I AM-ness to an immediate end. The
understanding can, however, bring stability.
What does not continue post-realization is the emotional intoxication which is
generated by deception-based memories.
It is realization which results in freedom from instability when the dualistic
roots of emotional reactions are seen, when the belief in illusions can be
discarded, and when events inspired by delusions and emotional intoxication are
transitioned with the abandonment of false identities that think they have been
interfered with or hurt or threatened or harmed.
Since ego-states are not real, they will always generate a sense of insecurity
in the “mind” that is assuming one or more roles as true identities. Persons
are driven to think thoughts, say words, and take actions that preserve their
images;
however, those images and false identities have no more
substance or life-expectancy than any mirage that has ever appeared temporarily
in a desert. Misery will accompany the belief in such illusions, and any sense
of peace will be destroyed if an ego-state is assumed or if a former ego-state
is recalled from “memory.”
Thus, the peace that happened for a period as described by Louise will always
be interrupted when the “mind” remembers some “past” ego-state that no longer
exists or some “current” ego-state that is not receiving what it thinks it
needs or desires at the moment.
The “husband” that has “lost his wife” might be miserable
during this “season,” but if that event had been preceded by the understanding
that “I am not ‘husband,’ but husbanding can happen . . . or not,” then the
current misery would not have manifested (and would not continue to manifest).
Full realization can result in an end to misery-producing co-dependencies and
can provide a means by which persons can be free of the instability generated
by self-deceiving memories and by belief in dualistic falsehoods.
Maharaj: “Realization is but the opposite of ignorance.”
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.
