IS YOUR RELATIVE EXISTENCE HAPPENING AS IF YOU ARE DANCING LIGHTLY OR AS IF YOU ARE DOING A STIFF, BOOT-STOMPING, GESTAPO-STYLE MARCH?

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IS YOUR RELATIVE EXISTENCE HAPPENING AS IF YOU ARE DANCING LIGHTLY OR AS IF YOU ARE DOING A STIFF, BOOT-STOMPING, GESTAPO-STYLE MARCH?

The Conclusion

"Oh it's time."

--(Warfield Richards) 

a.k.a., 

“Buddy” Red Bow

Is it time? Is it not time to stop taking actions which contribute to fluctuation and chaos and which generating internal disharmony and external disharmony and which have led to hundreds of thousands results which have always failed to produce what you desire and which in the end always failed to alleviate the fears which rob you of peace?

More often than not, Reality and clear perspectives are relegated to the darkness so early on that most have no clue at all that there is something other than the chaos generated by the false selves which mark and mar the relative existence.

If you have lost sight of THAT which is beyond “this” because of the smokescreen of your relative challenges, can you not look back and see where you left you? Can you not look back and see the consequences that began to accrue at that point?

Do you not miss the stability which was enjoyed prior to faulty programming, conditioning, etc. when you functioned spontaneously as a result of the wisdom which you accessed when functioning with a zero concept, no-beliefs mind?

Would you be willing to stop listening to the voices of the false selves long enough to try to hear the inner voice of truth and authenticity calling from the shore, beckoning you to come back home?

That has consistently been the offer here: come home. Follow the “path” in its exact order to complete the “journey” so that you can come home to your original nature and stay at home. Relax in the truly loving arms of Pure Awareness.

Let Pure Awareness wrap its arms around you and hold you. Feel the tension leave. Feel the anxiety subside. Feel the depression being lifted. Feel the security of those arms. Feel the relaxation. Feel the lightness return.

Feel that touch of lightness and Oneness and Love. Be still and understand that in those arms, you can witness the storms that roll in and roll out. Understand that the real cannot be caught in any of those storms.

Understand that the real shall forever provide the platform from which all storms can be witnessed. Maharaj spoke of the “storm of desires and fears.” If you will find WHO (which false personality identification) is enticing you into the storm of fears and desires, then you need not ever again be pulled into those relative storms.

Be awake enough to see storms as they approach; stand aside as they come and go; do not attach to ships that are already in their own storm; and allow the peace to come and bring with it the everlasting sense of lightness that you deserve.

If the light is received, then the lightness can follow.  If the lightness manifests, then dancing lightly throughout the manifestation can happen.

In terms of the Absolute, all of this - all of this dance, all of the discussions, all of the false identifications - all of it is admittedly meaningless. So why not dismiss it all with the point that “the results of believing that personas are real cannot occur in the Absolute”? End of story, right?

To one trapped in misery as a result of being fixated with the concept of death, the following was shared:

Maharaj pointed out that if one were to realize fully, then she / he would “have come to the end of personality and there is no more human being. There is only impersonal consciousness.”

Let the belief in the personal “die” and be done once and for all with all these counterfeit concepts about “birth” and “death.”

So the question to consider is, “WHO or WHAT is there to ‘die’?” The answer is “No one . . . no thing.” Maharaj made clear that there is nothing more than a play in consciousness that is going on and that “the play will come to an end.” It is not a “life” or a “human” that it “dying.”

It is a play that is ending. That is all. See that all of those fluctuations and changes and all of the unsteadiness and instability are happening as part of the “mind”-flow. Be rid of the “mind” to be rid of the chaos.

Stability can only happen as the Absolute. Abide as THAT now, without losing touch with the temporary reality of a relative existence, and be done with “life” and “death” both.

Then, dance the dance and merely witness whatever happens, understanding that problems can only come with “life” and that “death” is no problem at all.

To be free of the pain associated with roles and ego-states and false identities requires freedom first from belief in all roles and ego-states and false identities. Thus the dance between the seeker and a non-dual guide:

as pure awareness leads in the dance, the movement can liberate the consciousness of the seeker from the effects of the programming and conditioning that have prevented persons from enjoying the music and moving spontaneously with the natural rhythms that happen when abiding in the natural state.

As the dance continues, liberation from the effects of “the mind” can happen. By the end of the dance, there is freedom from “the mind” and even from consciousness itself since it, too, is relative. 

While the consciousness is an attribute, it is awareness which is beyond all that is relative . . . beyond the beingness . . . and beyond the non-beingness.

So what is to happen with the realized and these understandings? Something. Or nothing. It was noted at the beginning that the “end game” is not to sit around discussing non-duality all day.

Some of the realized might choose to guide; some might choose not to. Either way, the relative is enjoyed on a daily basis with no preoccupation with non-duality. 

Such preoccupation itself would indicate that the fullness of the understanding has not manifested. These understandings are not to be focused upon in the end.

In the end, they are to lead to nisarga (natural) living. They are to lead to a condition whereby all can be relished, whether that “all” includes what some dualistic observers might call “bad things” or “good things.”

To one protégé who was witnessed recently to have realized, these words instead were offered:

“Now you are done here. No more visits or discussions or questions-and-answers are indicated. Via the unblocked consciousness that you are, the understandings could happen very easily. They may or they may not. So it is. Now, go. Want to come back for some light dancing later? No prob.”

It can be understood that AS IF living can now happen and that the dance can be danced . . . or not. And that’s that. As for you, you are invited to dance lightly throughout the remainder of the relative existence.

So, is it time to live? Is it time to hear the voice of a new generation? Is it time to give Love rather than hate? Is it time to give the children a message which will inspire them to sing a song of love? Is it time to dance lightly?

Warfield Richards “Buddy” Red Bow was a Lakota from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation who sang a song entitled “Winds of Life.”

While his message is not “purely non-dual,” it does resonate with those who now understand the invitation offered here to dance lightly throughout the remainder of the manifestation.

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 Red Bow's "Winds of Life"

Peace, Unity, Love, Light.

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Here, with those who are still driven to talk about "god," the "Son of god," the "Holy Spirit," "Buddha," "Krishna," etc., etc., etc., the invitation to them is to view those as verbs, not nouns.

THE EXPLANATION

If looked at as nouns, they point to illusions and are, therefore, a total waste of time to even discuss; if looked at as verbs which are resulting in certain sane but rare behaviors among humanity, then they are worthy of some attention during the relative existence.

Meaning? There are members of certain groups who say things such as "My concept of god in the past was of a weak god, an absentee god, A Santa Claus-type god, a mean, punishing, vindictive god, etc. Today, I am in close contact with a loving and caring god whom I worship and praise and glorify and give thanks to."

The reply to that usually goes like this: "If you are in contact with a god that wants to be worshipped and praised and glorified, then you're dealing with someone like yourself - a narcissist - and hanging out with narcissists will never bring an end to your narcissism (that narcissism evidenced by the fact that you think you are "godly").

Next, in the phrase 'loving and caring god,' any supposed god that truly had her or his act together would tell you that the totally irrelevant part of that phrase is 'god' and that the only part that is relevant is the "loving and caring" part.

"That is, a non-narcissistic their god / their goddess would say, "I care not an iota about being worshipped and praised and glorified by you or anyone else. How arrogant and insecure and needy would I have to be to want that? Forget the man-made, dreamed up noun 'god' and focus on the 'god as a verb' understanding and then go forth and let loving and caring be verbs - not adjectives - and let them generate the act of love and the act of caring and let those actions manifest through you." 

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"

--Yeshu'a (Jesus)

and 

"Heaven and earth shall fade away."

--Yeshu'a (Jesus)

and 

"Heaven and hell are not geographic places

but are states of mind, nothing more than

concepts dreamed up by men."

--Pope John Paul II 

"There is no hell."

--Pope Francis, the current pope

in an interview with journalist Eugenio Scalfari,

a writer used by the Pope to issue off the record

teachings which become a part of the Papal Magisterium.

[That said, would that the popes who have shown the courage to reject a core concept of their dogma - namely, "hell" - would find the additional courage required to question the very existence of their institution in light of the centuries-long cover-up of their history of raping children and in light of the mental and emotional and psychological scarring of billions of their members past and present.

And that need for courage also applies as questions need to be asked about why so many other sky cults are still being supported and allowed to continue to exist as well. When certain types of programming and conditioning have been shown to blind the masses, they should end. Will they? Not likely. Why?

Because what the masses think and say and do is most influenced by the international crime families which hold sway over the masses as criminals conduct their planet-wide operations. What are the major international crime families and which are the most influential and have the largest memberships?

The Mafia / La Cosa Nostra; the Catholic Church (with it 1.2 billion followers) whose Vatican Bank worked for decades with the Mafia while laundering mob earnings (for a 15% all-profit charge by the Bank); Protestant and Evangelical Churches (with over 1.2 billion followers) like the one I was raised in where the youth director molested and sexually assaulted young girls; big business which has long created environments in which people have been abused; powerful political bodies like the U.S. Congress, etc., etc., etc.)

With all of those crime families, neither the followers nor the leadership ever voluntarily step down or shut down their criminal activities. Be they gangs, organized crime families, religions, big business, politicians, etc., they all want control and they all want power and they all want money, and nothing internal will interfere with the driving forces at play.

The masses must demand that all those in charge must step down and their groups and institutions must shut down, and there's the real problem because the continuation of their crimes are enabled not as much by the people running such crime organizations as they are enabled by the masses of people who - wanting some perceived "payoff" - remain involved with them and give them money and support them and aid and abet the continued existence of those criminal enterprises and thus facilitate the ability of church criminals and political criminals and other types of criminals to continue to commit their crimes.] 

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