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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
“You are so used to the support of concepts that when your concepts leave you, although it is your true state, you get frightened and try to cling to them again.”
--Sri Nisargadatta
Maharaj
Addressing “The Big Four”: The Sources of Instability and Being Unstable Mentally
(Continued)
Explaining why persons seem to grasp the understanding and then seemingly “lose” it, Maharaj explained, “You are so used to the support of concepts that when your concepts leave you, although it is your true state, you get frightened and try to cling to them again.”
Similarly, I replied to Louise in Cape Town, S.A. when the same happened with her: “The circumstance you describe is typical among the persons of the planet who “experience” moments of happiness or who enter into a peaceful position of neutrality, only to find that soon they are once again unhappy or taking “positions” that create disturbances.
“Positions” can only be taken by ego-states, by false identities, and will never allow peace to happen consistently. Why? Because before “positions” can be stated in words, they first manifest in the form of “thoughts,” and thoughts are generated by the fictional (and always distorted) “mind” wherein is stored the false belief in all of those assumed identities which take “positions.”
The prerequisite for peace is stability. The prerequisite for stability - for fixating in a state of happiness or contentment or neutrality rather than constantly shifting between states of happiness and unhappiness - is fixation in the no-concept, non-dual, zero concepts, no-identities reality.
In addition to those relative dynamics already discussed which interrupt peace and stability, there are other factors that should also be considered.
When a former ego-state was (a) assumed as an identity and (b) when the memory of that ego-state is recalled and (c) when it believes that it was interfered with or hurt or threatened or brought to an end by the actions of a former co-dependent that was helping to support the illusion of that identity, then peace and stability face another obstacle, namely, archetypal messaging.
Prior to fixation in a state of realization, “floyd” “experienced” that double challenge to peace and stability. “Husband’s” emoting generated the thought, “She abandoned me.” In the process, “Floyd the Homeowner” “died”; “Floyd the Family Man” “died”; “Floyd the Father” “died”; “Floyd the Lover” “died”; and if space permitted another dozen or more false identities could be catalogued.
The illusion, therefore, was not just that “I” was being killed but that “I” was being killed a dozen times over. What a hopeless and miserable mindset. To compound the perceived pain and “loss” and suffering, an archetypal message triggered another physical and mental and emotional response.
Archetypes are instinctive (genetically-transferred) roles which exist even prior to the assignment or acceptance of all of the other roles that persons take as a definition of “who they are.” As a result of millions of years of such coding, some of the instinctive roles are the same as culturally-assigned roles, such as “partner,” “father,” “mother,” etc.
Archetypes manifest as images which carry dualistic connotations, all rooted in the multi-million-year-totality of human experience. They are all based in what has - and has not - assisted in the survival of the species. Thus . . .
“up” is a “positive” archetype whereas “down” is a “negative” archetype; “dark” is a “negative” archetype while “light” is a “positive” archetype; and “together” is a “positive” archetype while “alone” is a concept stored at a genetic level that carries a “negative” connotation.
When a person said to “floyd,” “I am leaving you,” not only did those words trigger fear and / or anger among the dozens of assumed but false identities that imagined that they were being threatened. Those words also engaged a physical, mental, and emotional component that lies at the inherited core of every human.
Those components were as ancient as humankind, and they rose from a subconscious (subliminal) level into the (warped) conscious level and sent the message, “You are in immediate danger! Your very existence is being threatened!! This is truly an existential threat to you, really, no joke!!!”
Thus, the lies racing forth from the agendas of a host of false personality identifications called for a “fight” response and a “flight” response and, ironically, even a “freeze” response. And when identities believe that they are being threatened, the flight nor freeze responses are seldom the typical responses.
[See the content of the book CASTING LIGHT ON THE DARK SIDE OF RELATIONSHIPS for further discussion of this phenomenon and you’ll understand why 59% of all murders of females in the U.S., and 41% of the murders of all males, happen during a “breakup.” When the programming and archetypal perceptions combine to generate such levels of distortion that one believes she / he is being killed a dozen times over, you can understand why 50% of the time “flight” is not considered as an option and “fight to the death” becomes a typical reaction.]
Is it becoming clearer exactly what the non-realized are “up against” in an effort to stabilize in a state of peace and harmony? Is it becoming obvious why the non-realized are constantly shifting between states of happiness and unhappiness?
Is it becoming all the more obvious why those guides (those specks of “re-purified” or now-unblocked consciousness) which share the pointers that can end human suffering, propose that realization is at the heart of being free of the distortions and illusions that perpetuate such high levels of unhappiness (or even misery) planet-wide?
[Remember: Maharaj’s later pointer on that topic was this: “Realization is but the opposite of ignorance.”
Do you see now why realized teachers suggest that, when peace and stability disappear, that you should ask, “WHO” (what persona or personas) thinks she / he is being hurt or was hurt? “WHO” thinks he / she was wronged? “WHO” is ‘experiencing’ the pain and suffering and misery that is being triggered by a memory rooted in distortion?”
When the “WHO” is seen to be an image or a mirage (either of the archetypal type or the culturally-assigned type) then peace and stability can return as the focusing on “I am an abandoned husband” or “I am a wronged wife” fades from the (warped) consciousness and the “I AM . . . only” becomes the focus once again.
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.
