IDENTIFICATION: Something, or No thing? Part Six

[EXCERPTS from the soon-to-be-released book FROM THE ABSOLUTE TO THE NOTHINGNESS. The pointers in this book are only for the most advanced seekers. The reading of this book should follow a reading and an understanding of the pointers in FROM THE I TO THE ABSOLUTE and CONSCIOUSNESS/AWARENESS]

FROM A SITE VISITOR: No identity at all? Everybody is SOMETHING, and whatever that SOMETHING is, is our identity.

F.: All identities are limiting. Limitations restrict freedom. Restrictions of freedom prevent the manifestation of happiness during the relative existence. Preoccupation with finding identities and assigning labels has the same effect.

Nothing other than space is limitless. Should you identify with anything other than the limitless nothingness, then you will never enjoy the happiness that can only happen NOW, during the manifestation. If happiness is to happen, you must reach the space.

Bodies are limited; minds are limited; planets are limited; galaxies are limited; the boundaries of the universe, though expanding, are nevertheless limited; the self and the Self are limited. Even the Absolute is infinitesimal when compared with the limitless space. You may have reached the Absolute, but have you reached the space?

Planets are finite and their form will end; all stars and suns are finite and their forms will end; galaxies are finite and their forms will end. Only space is limitless. Only nothingness is pervasive. Emptiness abounds, and during the relative manifestation, you will never feel “more full” than when you are truly empty: empty of identities…empty of preoccupation with self…empty of preoccupation with Self.

Yet that can be understood only after years of being imprisoned as a result of having been programmed to accumulate; after years of accumulating; after seeking “something” beyond the emptiness of collecting “stuff”; after years of serving self; after years of seeking Self; after de-accumulation; and after enjoying the freedom of less-ness. Only then can one understand the irony of this paradoxical teaching: the bliss which manifests after being aware of the fullness can only happen after understanding the reality of the emptiness.

Consider the moon and the surrounding space. Is the moon suspended in darkness and emptiness? Not at all. There is as much light surrounding the moon as is reflected from its surface. The surrounding light is not seen because it is not being reflected off a surface. That which appears to be the emptiness is really the fullness.

So it is during the manifestation: the non-Realized miss out on understanding the reality of the fullness, focusing as they do on their nagging sensation of misconceived emptiness. The sense of "emptiness" that they think they are experiencing results when their false selves believe that they have not gained something they have always wanted or when their false identities think that they have lost something that they wanted to have forever. Meanwhile, both gain and lost are illusion; therefore, their misery is illusion-based as well.

In contrast, the Realized enjoy a sense of fullness though there is no longer any body or mind or personality that is reflecting anything. Being emptied of the false, the fullness of being unencumbered and free results in a sense of freedom (as exhibited by the man mentioned in the post yesterday who was going to be free over the weekend because he had nothing lined up).

If you would be free, line up with the nothingness as well. Reach the space.

Next, "If there is no post-manifestation self or Self," some ask...(continued in the book)

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Please enter the silence of contemplation. (To be continued)
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FALSE IDENTITIES: MYTHS, LIES, AND FACTS, Part Two, The Conclusion

F.: [Continued from yesterday] In Tuesday's post, it was seen that Tom Cunningham has compiled his own list of some of the roles that must also be discarded if one is to be at peace. (All of the roles listed are rooted in Sigmund Freud's “His Majesty the Baby” belief systems, as discussed in the posting from three days ago.)

Cunningham discusses the myths that accompany each of the false identities on his list and then offers by way of contrast the actual facts that apply. For those attempting to identity all ego-state assumed and all roles being played—in order to discard them—the following are offered for consideration. Are you playing any of the games associated with these false identities that are rooted in immaturity and in Freud’s “His/Her Majesty the Baby”?

The Entertainer
Myth: If I can entertain you with my music, my wit, or any other talent, you will worship and adore me.
Fact: We experience acceptance only if others rave about our talents and seek our company in order to be entertained. The game is up when others tire of always having to be a fan or realize we have no warm, human qualities to contribute to a relationship.

The Perfectionist
Myth: I am not worthwhile unless I succeed at being the best at what I do.
Fact: No one is always the best or most successful, but we try to gain self-worth by doing certain things well. The end of the game comes either when we realize the futility of such high expectations or when others tire of our competitiveness.

The Sweet One
Myth: If I am nice and sweet to everyone, they will like me.
Fact: Our fear of rejection causes us to constantly seek approval from everyone. The end of the game is when we realize we can’t make everyone happy or when others tire of our wishy-washy attitudes.

The Rebel
Myth: I must get my way or else. Rules are for other people. If you tell me not to do something, you are waving a red flag in my face and challenging me to do it.
Fact: We rebels usually get the consequences or punishment we deserve or ask for. The end of the game is when we weary of paying the price the outlaw must pay and abandon this behavior.

The Martyr
Myth: I deserve to suffer. I don’t count. Nobody understands. Poor me. I see your pity as an expression of love.
Fact: We confuse love with pity and believe sacrificing ourselves will protect us from abandonment. The end of the game is when we get tired of suffering and realize we deserve better.

The Dropout
Myth: If you won’t play the game my way, then I won’t play the game at all.
Fact: Paralyzed by fear of failure and rejection, we attempt nothing and feel the world owes us. We are so discouraged and pessimistic, we give up before we even start. The end of the game comes when others get tired of providing a free ride.

The philosopher Immanuel Kant (associated with what was called "the European period of Enlightenment") saw the phenomenal as an island of knowledge that persons become locked onto, but the island is surrounded on all sides by the noumenal.

The metaphor is accurate in that persons are (1) locked into their belief systems and then (2) locked into the thoughts, words, and deeds that accompany those belief systems yet are (3) within reach of the noumenal…the understanding of which could unlock them from their entrapment on that island of personas.

The phenomenal island of knowledge (a.k.a. learned ignorance, corrupted consciousness) that results in the locked, closed "minds" of persons who take the phenomenal world to be real can only be escaped by entering into the surrounding realm of the noumenon and then abiding as the Absolute in that no-knowledge and no-concepts realm.

Only by understanding That which is noumenal can Truth be found. Anything dealing with the phenomenal is untruth. All roles and beliefs and ideas and concepts are phenomenal and are, therefore, all lies. Any lie that is taken to be truth forms another of the bars of the prison of the locked “mind.” There is no freedom unless there is freedom from ideas and beliefs. Total freedom can manifest the second that you reach a state of zero concepts. Please enter the silence of contemplation. (Tomorrow: "How to Make Babies Since Most Adults Surveyed Don't Really Know")
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