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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)
Notice the following:
1. Certain “shifts” throughout the month are natural to the degree that they deal with (a) the physical, (b) the intellectual and (c) the emotional aspects of the relative space.
(a) Yet you are not the physical body. As pain happened when cancerous cells were growing in “floyd the plant food body,” it was possible to witness those waves of pain as they rose and fell. During those months, I was not the body but the witnessing consciousness. Was treatment for the body’s cancer refused as a result of not identifying with the body? No, but the doctors practicing traditional, mainstream medicine were fired and an alternative approach happened, which resulted in the elimination of the cancerous cells once and for all.
(b) Too, the intellect, if functioning under the auspices
“the mind,” will hinder the happening of full realization.
(c) Furthermore, all emotional intoxication is only believed to be a real experience by the blocked consciousness which allows the “mind” to take as real one or more false identities (or roles, characters, images, ego-states) which have been terminated (or which have supposedly been hurt or interfered with) as a result of the actions of a former co-dependent that was helping to sustain a false image / false identity.
2. Organic and chemical aspects (along with not following the food plan that is proper for your particular body type) can trigger mood swings and depression and anxiety and many personality disorders, yet you are not your personality.
3. Another factor that can result in instability is the belief in linear time. That can result in focusing on “past” roles that can no longer be played as a result of the absence of the other co-dependent player who had once made the playing of that role possible. It will cause a perceived but fictitious sense of differentiation in the times of days, months, seasons and years. Dualistically, some seasons will be considered “the most wonderful time of the year” and others will be considered “bad seasons or days or months or years.”
4. Instability and mood swings can result when it is not understood that whatever gives you pleasure in the relative existence will eventually give you pain and that whatever gives you the greatest pleasure will eventually give you the greatest pain (be that booze, a role being played, a partner in the co-dependency games that persons play, drugs, nicotine . . . whatever). Nothing in the relative will be permanent, and the illusion that something in the relative can be permanent will cause suffering and misery when it ends.
5. You will be miserable and will suffer instability or alternating periods of happiness and unhappiness if you do not see the typical pattern of dualistic “relationships” (wherein “this” is believed to be relating to “that”).
In fact, the pattern of role-playing in “relationships” is always shifting and in flux, moving from “OK” to “not OK” as the roles being played will shift (in the majority of instances now) from “stranger” to “acquaintance” to “friend” to “best friend” to “lover” to “spouse” to “one’s beloved” to, eventually, “an irritating and disappointing spouse,” and then back to “stranger” (as in, “I don’t even know who you are anymore”) and then to “enemy,” to “ex-spouse,” and to “mortal enemy.”
6. Unhappiness will happen (a) as long as “others” are seen as persons (rather than as contaminated specks of consciousness) and (b) as long as one’s own assumed personas take themselves to be real . . . or to have been real in “the past.” Consider one case when a woman claimed that “Mike” had “treated her worst than anyone in her life.” Her take: “I just can’t get past the horrible things that Mike said and did when we were married, the things he stole from me, the things he destroyed that were so precious.”
In that regard, the answers to the following questions can move one along the “path” to realization and therefore to freedom and happiness:
“WHO” is this “Mike” you mention? Peace comes when you realize that there is no such thing as “Mike.” (Relatively speaking, might he be considered by many persons to be one of the grander jerks of all times? Possibly, but peace will never be found as long as that relative assessment prevails and as long as the absolute reality is not seen.)
What is taken to be “Mike” is nothing more than a composite of images: the one he had of himself; the one he showed you; and the one you formed of him (without basis).
Yet the problem lies not in the phony images which he developed and which he worked to sustain. The problem can be revealed by finding the answer to these questions: Which of your personas believes that it was your real identity? Which believes that it was destroyed? Which now believes that it makes sense to be angry with a plant food body called “Mike” about the fact that one of your false ego-states . . . one of your false identities . . . came to an end?
Which of your personas believes that it is real (or was real) and that it makes sense to be angry with a fictional “mind” that resulted when a speck of consciousness that is called “Mike” was programmed and conditioned by warped specks of consciousness called “his family” and warped specks of consciousness that are called “his society” and “his culture”?
Which of your personas believes it is real (or was real)
and is now angry with another fictional persona? And which of your personas
feels as if it were threatened or hurt or interfered with or terminated by that
which you call “Mike.”
How insane. It’s as if two mirages in a desert are capable
of being in a never-ending battle with each other. That’s impossible, yet billions of humans engage in that same kind of behavior on a daily basis.
In every case, nothing is happening except that the consciousness that you are and that is engaged in object witnessing is deluded . . . is perceiving inaccurately. You - the consciousness - is not “bothered.” What is “bothered” is a fiction-filled “mind” and several fictional personas that thought they were real, that still think they were real, and that think they were not treated in the manner expected or deserved.
Were the consciousness to be re-purified or unblocked, it would perceive the facts behind the questions above and it would stabilize in the peace and joy and freedom . . . freedom from being jerked around by false beliefs and false perceptions and phony images of what “was” or what “could have been” or “what should have been.”
Maharaj was so spot on: the majority of the problems of humankind are rooted in the Ultimate Sickness and three of its key symptoms, namely, learned ignorance, stupidity, and insanity.
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.
