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BEING MADE CRAZY, CRAZY, STAYING CRAZY or AWARE OF CRAZINESS AND SEEKING SANITY
“Insanity is universal. Sanity is rare. Yet there is hope because the moment we perceive our insanity, we are on the way to sanity.”
--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
“This is the function of the Guru - to make us see the madness of our daily living.”
--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
“Be empty of all mental content, of all imagination and effort, and the very absence of obstacles will cause reality [and Reality] to rush in.”
--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
A. ORIGINALLY SANE
B. GOING CRAZY
C. GOING . . . GOING . . .
D. GONE
E. GOING SANE
GOING SANE
To review of some of Maharaj’s more relevant quotes:
“After the information given to you by the
mother, that you are a boy or girl, all your further acquisitions are by
hearsay.”
“My true state, which is whole, undifferentiated, is beyond birth and death. I
am never bound by my body and mind. I am limitless.”
“The world is nothing but the picture of your
own ‘I’ consciousness.”
“When the birth is disproved, the great noble meaning of spirituality and the
meaning of this world - everything - is disproved.”
“Whatever spiritual things you aspire to know are all happening in this objective world, in the illusion. All this is happening in the objective world. All is dishonesty. There is no truth in this fraud.”
“Whatever you have tried to understand during
your spiritual search will prove false”
and
“From birth what has made the body grows? It is no power in the world. It is
the power of beingness, the atom, the consciousness . . . call it what you
will.”
“I have no faith in anything which has ever been told, not even what has been
told by the Vedas. Only my own experience.”
PERSONALITY TYPES AND THEIR IMPACT
While
the Type One children in the class who wanted to be perceived as being good
little boys and girls would shake their heads at “floyd’s” rebelliousness; and
while the Types Two’s that wanted to be loved pandered to the adults and
questioned nothing; and while the Type Sixes who are loyal to authority figures
rejoiced in seeing my father’s belt flailing away, the one or two other Type
Fours joined in the mini-mutiny, accompanying me as I sailed along on “The Good
Ship Folly-Lot.”
Soon, the requests to go to Grandmother’s house and stay there for long periods
of time were seen as a wonderful option. And though there was no running water
and no indoor plumbing, and while wood had to be chopped for heating water
outside in a black kettle or for placement in the wood-burning stove to prepare
meals, the time spent there rather than in the city and in church was also seen
by “floyd” as a wonderful option.
As was the case with Thoreau, “I went to the woods” (specifically, to that
Cherokee-Medicine Woman-Grandmother’s house in the piney woods of East Texas) “because
I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and
see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die,
discover that I had not lived.”
Later, as an adult, during the “forest dweller stage,” I first returned to the the piece opf land where Gransdmother’s cabin stood. I walked through the woods where she and I had walked to gather the herbs she used in her medicinal teas.
Then
I traveled through the Western states,
staying in the woods for a twenty-five month period prior to full realization
(though that type of literal retreat is not required).
Between being driven insane by adults and eventually reaching the point of realization,
the onset of personality disorders and insanity was delayed, but it arrived
nevertheless.
The
guesstimate is that the hold of those defects lasted in varying degrees for
more than two decades, escalating in intensity year after year, until the point
was reached where life with “no self” had a far greater appeal than life “with
self” (or selves - the false roles being played and the false identities and
images that required such energy to try to sustain).
I has gone completely crazy . . . completely mad . . . driven into that state
by The Ultimate Sickness which infects more than 99% of all persons on this
planet. I had caught what “they” have, and had caught a near-deadly strain of
it.
In
most such cases, suicide can be one option for those who reach “the point where
life with ‘no self’ has an all-pervasive appeal.” Unlike some, the searching
that happened off and on for decades led, in 1986, to certain awakenings. From
that year at the age of thirty-nine or so until 1989, a series of
enlightenments began to come.
The fruitless searches that led from one Western religion to certain ideologies
to certain spiritual programs to certain Eastern religions and to certain
Eastern philosophies led to a crossing of paths with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj.
Yet
the study of his words never moved beyond my reading I AM THAT - time and again . . . not knowing that he had later said
“That book and whatever was expounded at that time was only relevant for that
period. I am speaking differently today and am emphasizing different aspects.”
It was not known at that time that what he offered later differed considerably
from his earlier talks, making clear that the “spirituality-based” pointers in I AM THAT can take you only to the
midpoint of “the race” but that his “beyond spirituality-based pointers” in his
final talks point the way to “the finish line.”
Thus, no full realization came, even with such dedicated effort involved in the
study of what he offered in that book. Then, in late 1989, a vision came that
outlined the steps which could move me to clarity and authenticity;
that
could move me beyond identification with the false “I” to an understanding of
the Absolute; to an understanding of the functioning of the totality; and to an
understanding of the Void and the Nothingness over all of the false “somethingness”
of the relative existence.
It became clear that everything I have ever been taught or told or believed was
false. It was clear that, back during those early years, the questioning of
what they were teachings was valid. It was clear that Truth could be known but
not stated.
It was clear that the non-realized masses were mentally and emotionally sick and that the hunch early on that the masses were trapped in learned ignorance was also spot on.
It
was clear that I had caught “their” illness, that I had finally found The
Ultimate Medicine, and that I had finally been cured of the Dream / Nightmare
of the Planet.
I walked off the stage of “The Theater of the Lie,” never to return there
again, never to assume again any of the roles that had been played on that
stage in that theater. I had gone completely sane.
“WHEN ‘GOING SANE’ BEGINS”
Again,
when does “Going Sane” begin? When one is totally ready to discard belief in
lies; when one is ready to take each comment made and is willing to pause long
enough to turn it around 180-degrees so that the statement points more toward
the true than the false;
when one is willing to ask: “Is it possible that everything I have ever been
taught or told or now believe is false?”; when one is willing to seek the
Truth; when one is willing to discard all beliefs; and when one is willing to
search until he / she finds a guide that has traveled the same “path” from
going crazy to going sane and can point the way to those who would travel it
now.
Otherwise, there will be no relief from personality disorders and insanity, and
there will be no avoiding the chaos that follows attaching to, and dealing
with, others who are suffering from their personality disorders and varying
degrees of insanity. Can you relate?
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.
