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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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Peace, Unity, Love, Light.
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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.
