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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
“Enemies” of Lightness
“Real happiness is not vulnerable because it does not depend on circumstances.”
--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
A global economic meltdown is not the enemy of lightness; “others” are not the enemy of lightness; fate is not the enemy of lightness; relative responsibilities involving work and child-rearing and treating physical illnesses are not the enemies of lightness; nothing external is the enemy of lightness
Maharaj: “You do and undo at every step. You want peace, love, and happiness but work hard to create pain, hatred and war
and
“Even your own happiness is so vulnerable and short-lived, at the mercy of a
bank-crash or a stomach ulcer.”
Only you - more accurately, the not-you’s - are the enemies of lightness. Like a bank heist that requires no breaking and entering, it’s all an inside job, this loss of a sense of lightness. The complicating factor is this:
the blindness of those not taking advantage of the light is that while they are working hard to satisfy the desires of one or more personas or working hard to avoid the fears of one or more personas, even as they create pain and misery, they actually believe that they are taking actions that will soon lead to happiness.
How could such a totally backwards view happen? Simple: it is all
happening from the standpoint of the “mind”:
John Milton: “The mind . . . in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of
heaven.”
And it will. It is the seat of all duality, and living under its influence will
guarantee instability. When in such dire straits, what will be guaranteed when
living under the influence of the “mind” rather than abiding as the original
nature? What specifically is the result?
There
will be a miasma-inducing myopia of such a degree that any actual account of
what is really happening (an account that the inner resource is trying to
offer) will not be detectable. So WHO, ultimately, is the one who thinks he /
she is shifting between states of happiness and unhappiness?
Only one who is still trapped at the earliest steps on the “path” to full
realization. Only one who believes she / he was born and is now a personalized
and individualized being rather than the impersonal and non-individuated
beingness.
Yet
you were not born because you were not even conceived by those called “parents”;
instead, you were conceived by artificial hallucination. In that condition, the
not-you’s will be in charge of every aspect of your relative existence.
Those fictional but seemingly real not-you’s arise in the emotion-driven,
ever-moving consciousness as the result of living under the influence of the
hallucinating “mind” rather than abiding as the original nature.
The blindness of that totally-unnatural and abnormal miasma-inducing myopia will become your abnormal “norm.”
At
that point when the internal account cannot be heard, an outsider’s account is
indicated. That “outsider’s” account is required to serve as the tool that
might be able to dig you out of the sand - or the quicksand - that is trying to
take you under, relatively speaking.
Amazingly, though, while anything that is built on sand or quicksand is
destined to readily sink and disappear, the case with imaginary personalities
that are built on such unstable ground is that they can “survive” until the
time that the consciousness unmanifests and re-enters the universal pool of
energy.
The
ability of false identities to continue to be believed in and to be taken as
the real is astounding to any that can objectively observe them at play in the “minds”
of those who acquiesce to entrapment by such personas that will always
eventually generate instability and misery and suffering and pain.
So I bring an outsider’s account of your condition. I come not to the false
self / selves which have been assigned and assumed. I come to wake you and to
set you free from your hallucinations.
Your mental mirages want you to walk in your sleep, and they want your walking in your sleep to take you to the edge of the cliff or to the shifting sands or even to one of the many pits of quicksand that dot the landscape of the relative existence.
Your
hallucinations want to use the fears and desires of your personalities to
render you unable to see so that you can be cast into such sands or over the
edge of the cliff. The false selves will always eventually guide you to
self-destruction.
Authenticity always lingering in the shadows; tapped into, that can drive the
self / selves to self-destruct so that Reality and reality can be seen;
however, there is an easier way than fighting time and again that
instability-producing battle.
See
now that it can be said more accurately that - rather than the light having to
precede the lightness - what must happen in order for a consistent sense of
lightness to manifest is a willingness to open one’s eyes and see by way of the
light (which is already there) all of the lies that the “mind” and
personalities generate and then use to rob persons of the bliss which can only
manifest in truth.
Only in truth will the instability and destructive motions / actions that are
inspired by the mind-and-personality-rooted-intoxication of extreme emotions
and extreme feelings put to an end the fear and desire that arise from the core
of every personality / persona.
“Is nothing to be feared?” some ask. “Is nothing to be wanted?” some ask, as
did a visitor to the loft:
Questioner: “ . . . What is worth wanting?”
Maharaj: “The highest happiness, the greatest freedom. Desirelessness is the
highest bliss.”
The Direct Path offered here is a direct path to that bliss. A “mind” will try
to pull the sojourner off track;
personality
will try to entice seekers to take a detour, inspiring the adoption of “better-than”
roles; and those who offer enticements like candy to a child will try to
convince some that they - the enticers - are the source of happiness. What a
setup for misery:
Maharaj: “Don’t you see that it is your very search for happiness that makes
you feel miserable? Try the other way: indifferent to pain and pleasure,
neither asking nor refusing, give all your attention to the level on which ‘I
am’ is timelessly present.
“Soon
you will realise that peace and happiness are in your very nature and it is
only seeking them through some particular channels that disturbs. Avoid the disturbance,
that is all. To seek . . . there is no need; you would not seek what you
already have”
and
“Nothing can make you happier than you are. All search for happiness is misery
and leads to more misery”
and
“Trust my words and remember them. I want your happiness, not mine.”
I want your happiness, not mine. A visitor here recently saw an
arrogance-filled piece of e-mail which was being answered, only because there
was still a slight chance of waking the miserable writer from his sleep.
The
visitor had been as involved in such arrogance at one time as well, so the
question was asked, “Why do you do this? Why do you even mess with us? Be
honest - aren’t you really tired of dealing with us?”
The reply: “Are you speaking of dealing with the real / the real, or with the
not-you’s? If it is the not-you’s, what registers in far beyond being tired. At
times it reaches a point of sadness; at other times, it grows to a point of
disgust.
“But tired of dealing with you - with the authentic you that the speck here is
trying to speak too? Not likely. Not as long as the consciousness remains
manifest.
“I stand on the shore of stability, right at the edge where the seas of insanity and ignorance and fear and desire are tossing the you’s about and trying with all their force to sink those you’s once and for all.
And
I speak from the shore to guide you home to me - to Reality / reality - but I
will not shout. Nor will I try to literally force you from a storm that you
delusionally believe is a calm sea.
“There will have to be a lull in the storm that you are caught in if you are to
hear me and change course and take the path to me. So . . . tired of you? No.
“Tired of the fictional you’s and the not-you’s? You bet, but sadly, they are a part of the deal until the shiftings go and the stability comes. But once you have felt that stability, I must then ask,
‘Why would you ever abandon that
stability? See that it is the not-you’s alone which will let go the stability,
but see that the authenticity will not. Stay with the Real and let the not-you’s
go, for it is on the cancer of instability that they feed and thrive’.”
Again, Maharaj: “Even your own happiness is so vulnerable and short-lived, at
the mercy of a bank-crash or a stomach ulcer. It is just a moment of respite, a
mere gap between two sorrows. Real happiness is not vulnerable, because it does
not depend on circumstances.”
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.
