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OVERCOMING THE FEAR OF TOTAL FREEDOM
“ . . .You are afraid of freedom!”
-Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
“Realization
is but the opposite of ignorance.”
--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
“Detach yourself from all that makes your mind restless. Renounce all that disturbs its peace. If you want peace, deserve it.”
--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
“You want peace and harmony in the world, but refuse to have them in yourself.”
--Sri
Nisargadatta Maharaj
DEFINING FREEDOM - CONVENTIONAL SOURCES (cont.)
Now, back to that notion of a guide being “different” and the comment by one
visitor who suggested that he was being offered something from this speck that
is “different” and that he “wants” to continue to receive it. That is an “idea,”
and all ideas miss the mark. Consider
that speck called “Maharaj”:
Maharaj was not “different.” The only thing that placed that speck of
consciousness among the few thousand on the planet that are fully realized at
any given time (and that therefore made Maharaj “look different”) was not the
fact that “he” was different.
It was not the fact that Maharaj “looked different” that inspired some to
listen when that speck spoke but the fact that the speck of energy called “Maharaj”
looked differently.
Meaning? Meaning that the unblocked, unobstructed speck of pure, universal consciousness
witnessed in a manner that was different from the way that all of the other
blocked, obscured specks of consciousness witnessed.
That clear seeing allowed total freedom to manifest, and it was that total
freedom - including being totally free of any attachment to the body - which
allowed the speck called “Maharaj” to take mahasamadhi with no moaning or
whimpering at all. Yet that does not imply that that totally free speck - or
any other speck that is “realized - is suicidal or pro-death.
The pointer was offered earlier that what Jean Dunn called Maharaj’s
awe-inspiring acceptance of mahasamadhi cannot happen if there is not total
freedom, that is, if total non-attachment to the personal has not happened . . . if there is no longer any “tie” . . . no
“tie that binds.”
Understand, though, that non-attachment to the plant food body does not imply
the presence of a “death-wish.” The non-realized assume that if there is not a
life-wish, then there must be a death-wish. Not true.
Realized, the speck is freed from all personality identification, and since it
is each persona that brings a specific desire and a specific fear, then the
no-persona condition is a condition that is free of any wish, including a
life-wish or a death-wish.
As among the naturally-abiding deer, all is merely witnessed without agenda and
without emotional intoxication. For those that have followed the pointers
offered here for awhile, you might recall a description of a fawn that was
stillborn outside the office window here.
The buck and doe both displayed what was obviously some “feelings,”
but there was no emotional intoxication and they eventually moved on without
attachment.
That is the way all manifestings and un-manifestings play out among the realized:
all is witnessed from a platform of neutrality, and the platform is always some
distance away from whatever relative happenings are playing out.
But in a culture where “full-speed-ahead” is thought to
be the only acceptable option, “neutral” is seldom considered as an option at
all.
In a culture where identification seldom moves beyond the “body level,” then
anyone not dedicated to the concepts of relative body continuity and eternal
body continuity is thought to be “insane.”
Interesting, is it not, that the ones who have called “floyd” “flawed” or “insane”
or “lost” or “beyond salvation” have usually been among the billions on the
planet who are attached to dogma-based beliefs that generate attachment to the
body and attachment to such insane beliefs as revealed in recent polls:
the critics over the years are among the billions who believe that angels
(i.e., half-bird / half-human, invisible creatures) are floating about all
around them and are protecting them; 20% of them now claim that they’ve heard
God speak to them;
Moreover, if they really believe they heard a voice or
voices, they have just self-diagnosed their Schizophrenic Personality Disorder
as well as the possible presence of psychosis, bipolar disorder, and / or a schizoaffective
disorder);
25% say they have witnessed miraculous healings (so I “need to pray and need to
ask people to pray for me”); 16% say they’ve received a miraculous healing so
they know it can work for me; and 8% percent say that they regularly speak and pray
in tongues.
[Many of those types are among those Pentecostal congregations
which encourage members to roll around of the floor of the church and speak in
unknown tongues during their religious ceremonies.]
And those are just some of the nonsensical beliefs held by persons who have no
clue at all about total freedom, including total freedom from attachment to the
plant food body-cum-consciousness and attachment to desire-and-fear-generating
beliefs.
Again, the point is this: the non-realized masses believe that if you don’t
have a life-wish, then you must have a death-wish. They do not understand what
nisarga living looks like. The deer neither wishes for life nor wishes for
death. It abides naturally, just witnessing whatever is happening.
Some remember that one past winter, a deer was seen lying in the edge of some
woods near this house, dying. After using the mobile phone to call the main
office in the subdivision for them to contact one of the game wardens that work
in the area and then awaiting his arrival, I knelt down and rubbed the deer along
its neck.
One of its huge eyes stared at me, but there was no
reaction other than a slight, jerking motion when its neck was first touched.
Yet that deer did not whimper, did not moan, did not make a sound. There might
have been some discomfort, what with a human so close, but there was most
assuredly no fear of death being revealed in that eye.
There was no “hope,” no “I sure hope I live.” Nor was there any “wish,” no “I
sure wish I could go ahead and die and end this pain.” When the warden
completed his inspection and determined there was no treatment that was going
to extend the manifestation of consciousness in the deer, he came back with a
syringe.
Seeing the needle, there was no “change of heart” with the deer saying, “Wait!
Is there a chance I can make it for another year? How about one more month? How
about at least a week? Well can you give me just ten more seconds? Is there a
chance for that much at least? Can you at least wait that long?”
No, it all ended quietly without agenda, all being witnessed from a platform of
neutrality, with no “this” preferred over “that” which is inevitable.
That is what total freedom looks like, and the deer abided in a state of total freedom throughout the manifestation, and the conscious-energy which had been circulating in that deer’s elemental, plant food body unmanifested with total freedom.
And the way it was for that deer, from “beginning” to “end,” is the same way it is for the “realized Nisargan.”
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.
