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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
“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)
It is natural to be stable, and it is unnatural to be unstable. It is also unnatural to try to live supernaturally. It is also unnatural to believe that one should be ecstatic and even overjoyed and thrilled and euphoric and jubilant at all times.
Since the relative existence can never provide a constant, unwavering life marked by being ecstatic and even overjoyed and thrilled and euphoric and jubilant, then the setup is for misery to manifest when disappointment and resentment and frustration and anger are generated when entitled persons don’t get what they are convinced they deserve.
And note what comes first: not the disappointment and resentment and frustration and anger. No, those come after a belief regarding a sense of entitlement has first manifested; only then - in light of a false belief - will disappointment and resentment and frustration and anger be generated.
The same is happening in the U.S. and in other countries around the globe: there is a belief being held by more and more people who are exhibiting resentment and frustration and anger with a system of government called “democracy.”
But again, there must be an earlier, superseding belief before resentment and frustration and anger can manifest. In the case of those persons fuming about the democratic system, they are furious and outraged and infuriated as a result of beliefs that have been adopted prior to their “we must overthrow democracy” belief.
And what are the preceding beliefs? The beliefs set forth by self-identified neo-Nazis and white supremacists and Christians nationalists and the fact that democratic tenets run counter to their “we are different from the other” and “we are better than the other” and “if we can get rid of the other, then we can have more for ourselves.”
Whereas democracy endorses equality (a non-dual understanding) then those who don’t want everyone in their nation to be treated equally (a duality-based belief) is actually the ultimate superseding belief and the notions that (1) “I am entitled to more because I am better than them” and (2) “democracy should be abolished” become the penultimate beliefs.
When that does not happen, only then will persons be susceptible to allowing a dictator-wanna-be stir them up emotionally and lead them in a cult-like state of being emotionally-intoxicated by the rantings of their “Supreme Leader,” after which they become as furious and outraged and infuriated as the “Supreme Leader.”
So, the shiftings between states of contentment and discontentment are rooted foremost in belief systems stored in the fiction-and-nonsense-filled mind. Understand that and then one can understand why Maharaj recommended that . . .
seekers “must abandon all beliefs”
and
seekers should “reach a state of zero-concepts”
and
“As to my mind, I have no such thing. There is consciousness in which everything happens.”
To contrast the ease of natural living with the toil of unnatural living and the effort required to try to live supernaturally, consider the following:
The case with both the space that is called “a deer” and with the space that is called “floyd” is this: since both are living in the natural fashion, not once during any given day does either feel compelled ring a bell;
not once does either burn scented sticks; not once does either hold a special rock or mineral; not once does either sprinkle water; not once does either wear special clothing; not once does either sport a special hair style.
Neither of those specks of consciousness shave off all hair as an act of spirituality; nor do they enter a special building, read a holy book, genuflect, attend meetings, sing praises, meditate, hum, chant, light candles, cheer, pledge, sit on a special rug, buy special accoutrements, adhere to a “holy” diet, wear a funny hat or robe, worship, or display crystals in a special arrangement.
Those specks of consciousness do not repeat a mantra, model any particular stance, accumulate, sit under a pyramid, face a particular direction on the compass, or participate in any nonsensical acts that are contrary to the ways of natural living.
Only one of those two (specifically, “floyd”) tried some of the above practices and disciplines in a useless “search for Self” and peace and stability. As a result, movement along the path to full realization fixated at the third step where religious and / or spiritual roles were played; moreover, the movement did not continue until all religious and spiritual roles were transcended.
Natural living happens spontaneously and automatically, as was the case for millenniums prior to the last few millennia when controlling men dreamed up concepts and dogma and rituals and dualistic thinking.
For those fixated in religious or spiritual ego-states and who engage in any or all of the “religious” or “spiritual” practices delineated above, so it is. The third step is a step which must be taken by some, yet it must also be transitioned if full realization is to happen.
For those who eventually see that all of the activities
and doings above have nothing to do with sane, normal, AS IF living, then the
invitation to them is to relax and take it easy. When was that option lost?
When shall you determine to reclaim it?
When full realization happens, energy is not focused on; the I AM is not
focused on; the I AM THAT is not focused on; and no other concepts are focused
on. “Focusing” and “practicing disciplines” ends; then, natural and spontaneous
living merely happens.
Anything of “this world” that can be focused on is not real anyway. What passes before the consciousness can be witnessed, but nothing among the realized is sought out to focus on or to occupy the “mind.” The “mind” has ended. “But what of the True Self or the Pure Witness?” some ask at this point.
Pure witnessing just happens, and it happens from a position of neutrality because the belief in subjects and objects (which can oppose each other) no longer exists. Subject-object witnessing gives way to the Pure Witnessing of the unicity.
It should be realized that these states of waking, sensing presence, and sleeping are temporary states that came upon you but are not you.
The invitation is to understand that all suffering and misery among the non-realized is founded in the warped programming, conditioning, etc. which block the consciousness and that inspires the belief that the Is-ness involves “being this” or “being that” and “being different from” and “being better than” rather than merely being.
Relevant at this point in the discussion is the earliest mention in writing of a relevant consideration offered by Gerard de Malynes in 1622. The Dutch proverb said, “Leuen ende laeten leuven” or, in English, “Live and let live.”
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.
