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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?
Your Original Nature and Lightness
The completion of this series approaches with a discussion of your original nature and lightness. If the lightness is not manifest, then persons will experience anxiety, depression or other conditions that will trigger emotional intoxication and self-defeating motion / action.
Such sufferers at that point will be driven to shift beyond the no do-er witnessing and to revert to the do-er mode because they think that they must act, must do something - even something rash - to escape, to gain control, or to hand the reins of control over to someone else.
Having
been pulled away from abidance as their original nature by relative fears and
desires, feeling as if they are being drawn below the surface of the ocean by
one wave after another, seemingly certain that they are drowning and need
rescuing, it is at that point that persons allow themselves to be locked into
the types of attachment mentioned earlier.
If they speak of the condition to me, this speck of universal conscious
awareness will say: “You do not ever have to take a place to the rear of
anyone; you do not have to delude yourself into thinking you are taking a place
beside when you will actually be taking a place to the rear;
you
do not ever have to accept the role of being nothing more than the background
music to someone else’s song. You might play the game for a time, but you
cannot last, living the lie that you will be living at that point.”
The talk here is only of freedom from things relative so that the independence
of the Absolute can be felt and so that the prerequisites for peace - freedom
and independence - can manifest.
To
attach or not to attach - it’s all the “stuff” of the relative; choosing is
always confusing, so it will always pull one into the strum und drang of the relative existence by way of the unconscious
influence of personality / personalities.
Personalities, provided free rent inside the “mind,” travel about as if on one’s
shoulders and back - riding along like additional heavy burdens (as if the
challenges of the relative existence are not enough) and leaving them in a
position where they can forever whisper their lies into your ears.
Being bogged down in the relative and being weighed down by the agendas of those personas will insure that there will be no chance at all for a sense of lightness to remain consistently. From their positions on your shoulders and back, it is as if the whisperings of those personalities are forever encouraging you to turn left when the “path” is to the right;
encouraging
you to go right when independence and freedom and peace are to the left;
encouraging you to go the way of chaos that is camouflaged with all sorts of
attractive, enticing ribbons and bows.
It is those fear-mongering and desire-driven personas (not any relative
conditions which are always guaranteed to be temporary) that are the enemies of
lightness. They will forever bring to the forefront the notions of choice -
encouraging you to “decide whether to chose left or right;
chose
him or her; chose this course or that (even if all of the choices are senseless).
Just choose something . . . anything . . . any port in this storm. But above
all, do not just stand there and witness what is happening without taking
drastic, panic-inspired action. Ignore the captain that is blowing the still
and act.”
In the process, the always-self-destructive voices of the self / selves will
eliminate any chance to enjoy the ease and sanity of spontaneous living. The
antidote to feeling the stress of needing to choose, needing to make
attachments, needing to act, and needing, period?
1. Understanding this pointer offered to beginners by Maharaj: “All you need is
a quiet mind.”
2. Understanding this pointer offered to seekers that are farther along the “path”:
“There is no such thing as peace of mind; there is only peace if you are out of
your mind.” Leave the imaginary world of the mind and come home . . . come back
to your original nature, to the only “place” where stability exists.
3. Returning to the center of the “path” now in order to reach that calm state
where You are abiding as Your original nature.
4. Returning to a state of non-action, which can only happen when there is
freedom from the pull of personality-driven desires and freedom from the push
of personality-driven fears.
5. Immersing in the kind of spontaneity that can only happen when witnessing
prevails. The deer make no choices. They move about slowly, they take only as
much as is truly needed with no sense that “more” would provide them something
that is “missing,” and they merely witness humanity’s surrounding strum und drang.
They never “think” that they must attach to that insane, anxiety-provoking,
depression-producing train of events.
You are invited to consider the truth behind these sharings from a speck called
“Maharaj”:
Questioner: “I am restless. How can I gain peace?”
Maharaj: “For what do you need peace?”
Questioner: “To be happy.”
Maharaj: “Are you not happy now?”
Questioner: “No, I am not.”
Maharaj: “What makes you unhappy?”
Questioner: “I have what I don’t want, and want what I don’t have.”
Maharaj: “Why don’t you invert it: want what you have and care not for what you
don’t have?”
Questioner: “I want what is pleasant and don’t want what is painful.”
Maharaj: “How do you know what is pleasant and what is not?”
Questioner: “From past experience, of course.”
Maharaj: “Guided by memory you have been pursuing the pleasant and shunning the
unpleasant. Have you succeeded?
Questioner: “No, I have not. The pleasant does not last. Pain sets in again.”
Maharaj: “Which pain?”
Questioner: “The desire for pleasure, the fear of pain, both are states of
distress. Is there a state of unalloyed pleasure?”
Maharaj: “Every pleasure, physical or
mental, needs an instrument. Both the physical and mental instruments are
material, they get tired and worn out. The pleasure they yield is necessarily
limited in intensity and duration.
“Pain is the
background of all your pleasures. You want them because you suffer. On the
other hand, the very search for pleasure is the cause of pain. It is a vicious
circle.”
What about you? Have you succeeded? After years of taking action and
fluctuating between periods of happiness and unhappiness and creating chaos and
generating internal disharmony and external disharmony and making hundreds of
thousands of decisions to “Try this - okay, now try that - okay, give this a
shot” what is your present condition after all of that? Have you succeeded?
If you do not see that all of the not-you’s combined have never truly brought even one real success - one real result that permanently ended your fears and desires and brought stability - then is it not time to stop?
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.
