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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)
Consider also:
7. “Goodbye Sadness” must be preceded by “Hello Clarity.” If clarity (per realization) does not happen, periods of continued sadness shall emerge. Periods of relief might be interspersed, but a lack of clarity guarantees instability.
8. Instability is also guaranteed if one believes in dualistic concepts such as “gain vs. loss.” The related concept of “missed opportunities” can generate a sense of frustration, as if there is something other than the consciousness . . . as if there is “someone” who might have gained but did not or as if there is “someone” who gained but then lost.
9. Too, desires and fears will generate alternating periods of happiness and unhappiness because some desires might be fulfilled, some desires will never be fulfilled, and some that were fulfilled will not remain fulfilled forever. Meanwhile, the fear of never receiving all that is desired, or the fear of losing what has been “attained,” will also manifest.
10. Mood swings will also happen if a person takes the objective world to be real and engages in subject-object witnessing (which still involves duality) rather than pure witnessing. Subject-object witnessing can generate a thought such as “He / She (subject) hurt me (object) by saying the most vicious and vile words imaginable.” Pure Witnessing sees no “he” or “she” but can merely witness with non-attachment any blocked speck of consciousness in motion.
11. Freedom from lingering resentments comes when it is understood that, as a result of that warping, some person / persona thought and spoke and acted on “auto-pilot. “Auto” means “self,” so persons operating on “self-pilot” (taking self to be real), work to fabricate and maintain the image of self and attack any who seemingly threaten their (false) self-image. By contrast, the realized function in a spontaneous fashion which might sound similar to “auto-pilot,” but in the case of the realized there is no self that is taken to be real.
12. Thinking will generate instability. Thoughts are produced as “the mind” is in constant motion, generating current distortions or recalling past distortions. Current “memories” are a recalling of past distortions and, when recalled, become current distortions.
Current distortions are being generated as a result of
distorted programming and conditioning and will become “memories” at some point
in the “future.” All thoughts, marked by egotism since they are generated by
the belief in ego-states, spawn views that are the 180-degree opposite of
reality: “I’m going to tell the boss to take this job and shove it.” Opposite
view: “It would be reasonable to put the ego on hold and find another job
before quitting this one.
“I was ripped off in that relationship. I did not get what I deserved.” Opposite view: Did you deserve what you did get that you only thought was “good”? Did you deserve what you did get, which most would have considered “bad”? The very concept of “relationship” (see “relative” in the name?) is dualistic. To believe that “this” can be “related” to “that” preempts any possibility of understanding the unicity, and if the unicity is not understood, how could any notions about what “Love” is be understood?
“Hurricane Rita did great damage in our area - God is trying to tell us something” (to quote a resident of West Texas). Opposite view: Is it possible that hurricanes happen, that any meteorologist can explain why, that there is no god who sends messages via weather systems, that there is no god controlling weather patterns, and that there is no god at all?
“Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans because of the bad karma of the people there” (to quote the Dalai Lama). Opposite view: “Is it possible there is no good karma, no bad karma, no ‘Karma Record Keeper and Karma Balancer in the Sky,’ and no karma at all?”
“I’m unhappy because of him, her, what happened, what was taken, what I never got that I should have gotten, what I don’t have, what I do have, the lack of fairness in the world, the inequities that life has handed me, the way people have treated me, the things taken from me, ad infinitum.” Opposite view: “There is no ‘I’ to experience any of that. All of those beliefs are figments of the imagination, generated by ‘the mind.’
“Furthermore, ‘the mind’ is a just collection of the figments of the imaginings of other programmed persons who were told lies that they took to be truth and then passed on. I Am a speck of consciousness that is temporarily manifested. I cannot “have,” “gain,” “lose,” be treated unfairly, or experience. I can only witness with clarity ... or without.”
13. Similarly, ego-states generate egotism, egotism generates a sense of entitlement, and entitlement will generate a sense of anger or disappointment. Why? Because the ego can never be satisfied since it never believes that it is getting everything it deserves, as expressed in these types of statements or thoughts:
“I’m entitled to have what I want but don’t have.”
I’m entitled to be taken care of, but I’m not being taken care of.”
“I’m entitled to be treated like a prince or princess, but I’m not being treated that well.”
“How dare you not honor me!” or “How dare you not show me proper respect!”
14. Instability will manifest when persons (the non-realized) are driven to live unnaturally or supernaturally. Both of those styles of living involve body-mind-personality identification. Stability manifests when a natural AS IF style of living happens, devoid of identification and personal attributes.
The deer lives naturally because it does not have any body or mind or personality identification, and the result of living naturally and without any body-mind-personality identification is that the deer passes each day and night of its relative existence in a stable fashion. The same is true for the realized. To know what nisarga (natural) living is like, look to nature for models . . . not to your family or your culture or other cultures.
Sanity, reason and stability are evidenced during the relative manifestation only if abidance happens without concepts and without belief in any dualities. Only the no-concept, non-dual reality exists, and to believe that anything pertaining to the relative existence is based in truth is to be insane, is to function without reason and logic, and is to be unstable. And to be unstable is to constantly shift between states of happiness and unhappiness.
Peace, Unity, Love and Light.
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.
