The doing-less technique

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Duveyoung3

Thank you for allowing God to flow his truth through you to me.

For me it has been an intuitive cognitive process of self awareness...... I

am Grateful to all God's saints who appear in my path.

Namaste !............ Jerrio ............................

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The discussion here about techniques " triggered me " into typing up

the below. Hopefully it resonates, but writing it up was a nice

technique for me—in that my personality gets that little bit more

saturated with Advaita concepts, and I count this as a profit of some

small consequence.

 

The concept of a technique, as Ramana Maharishi and Nisargadatta

Maharaj have relentlessly pointed out, is a prime dynamic of

experiencing space/time. You feel (with intense conviction) that

there's some " where " to go, and it just might be better than " here, "

and it'll take some " time " to cross the " space " to " there. " Once the

ego " turns on " the personality, losing its innocence, is thereafter

whipped into a frenzied addiction to " going, doing, processing,

etc. "

 

Underneath it all is the fear of " being separate " which ironically

the ego then uses as a bogus claim to fame. This fear is only " not

present " when it is " balanced " when amness without an object

prevails, when no " experiences are happening in the mind. " When the

mind has no content, paradoxically, there remains the one single,

primal experience, of being. This is an experience " in name only, "

because the seer-seeing-seen triad, though inactive during amness

(samadhi,) still is in duality because of an egoic individuality's

potential to manifest is still there in the form of " seeds of

desire. "

 

The mind, upon emerging from the state of pure being, comes up with

descriptions AFTER the experience…such as, silence, eternal,

timeless, bliss, etc. But these descriptions were not present DURING

the experience of amness.

 

Amness is an all-time reality, so it cannot be sought just as glasses

on your forehead are not lost when you seek them. Experiencing pure

being is, however, the " ultimate " therapy. " Ultimate " herein means

that which the in-time, in-space, ego defines to be perfection.

And " therapy " in that " unenlightened aspects of personality " are made

more tenuous, less substantial, and to have less impact by NOT

ADDICTIVELY manifesting them for at least the duration of the

experience of pure being. Pure being is a status of the mind that is

described as " not manifesting qualities to give the mind's thinker

function something to play with, " and pure being can therapeutically

burn up any seeds of future " incarnations, " future desires. Pure

being is the source of all qualities; therefore, any desire is

fulfilled by it; and a fulfilled desire is a burnt seed.

 

However, the ego's potential to manifest is not burned up by pure

being, because " pure being " is identical to the quiescent ego and

fire does not burn fire. The primal ego, the first act of separation

from the Absolute, can only be burnt up by something transcendental

to it, the Absolute. All other thought experiences of the mind come

only AFTER the ego's existence and are said to " come out of the

ego. " But when the ego is resting in perfect clarity without any

objectivity to obscure its status as the core manifestation that

symbolizes the Absolute, then the ego, in its purest status, is God,

and though God can " un-do " any " sinful psychological patterns, " He

cannot " take Himself and toss Himself into the Absolute. " No, as

Brahma discovered, only COMPLETE ANNILATION OF IDENTITY will allow

for the final wisps of relativity to become seamlessly pristine. No

escape door is found to lead out of the lotus stalk. Only by denying

the existence of the would-be-escapee does the eternal self get seen

as the ONLY self of all.

 

When the ego is in the state of amness it becomes a symbol of one's

ultimate status: the Absolute; it symbolizes a witness with No-Thing

in view (here the word " witness " symbolizes the Absolute.) Even

having a single thought or feeling of pure being mars this symbol and

any such experience is immediate proof that the ego has abandoned

pure being and has entered a " field " of the manifestation of

desires. In this duality, the impurity of " being-things " now becomes

the primal sin in that one is " being-something instead of being-

everything. " Even though these thoughts/feelings are " noise " in the

nervous system, such thoughts/feelings are acceptable as symbols of

the silence of being—just as black ink can be used to draw a portrait

of an angel, so also can symbols be made of blood-burbles,

acetylcholinesterase releasing, serotonin inhibition, etc. when these

chemical interactions create the thought processes. Only the ego

reposing in being (the ego is then the Cosmic Ego of God) is a fit

symbol of the Absolute; when in repose it is THE perfect symbol of

the Absolute, and any other thought or feeling experiences must be

considered secondarily symbolic.

 

Yet, pure being, amness, Universal Consciousness, soul of God, etc.

reference (symbolize) merely the idea, the concept, that silence is

the ultimate source of all creativity.

 

Here's the technique the Brahma used to " get enlightened. "

 

From amness sprung Brahma fully formed upon a lotus blossom. He

immediately recognized that He was not the ultimate. He began His

search for meaning by descending the lotus stalk—to find its source

which was the Absolute symbolized as a sleeping Narayana (Vishnu)

from whose navel the lotus' stalk emerged. After many of His years

(human years being millions of times shorter than Brahma's years,) He

QUIT SEEKING. Yep, He quit. Why? He recognized that even He, the

Creator, could not invent a clever enough doingness that could

traverse the gap between manifestation (Himself as a seeker) and the

Absolute. He discovered that " Doingness " (which means any form of

thinkingness, feelingness, anythingness that could be devised,) could

NOT take that which He-as-a-seeker surmised was His " self, " (His ego

assuming doership) and deliver " it " " into " " the " " Absolute. "

 

Clearly, here we see God failing. Here we see God showing that no

technique can be devised to turn the relative into the Absolute. No

act of the pen of Charles Shultz could ever grant life to Charlie

Brown. " And no system of axioms can yield all truths " —Kurt Godel.

God couldn't get to His own source. God's mind, founded upon a

perfect, divine, nervous system, couldn't grasp sentience itself.

 

And if that wasn't bad enough, Brahma knew His destiny was to create,

and He couldn't create! Yes kiddies, failed, read your scriptures;

after failing to " find His Self " with a seeking technique, He failed

again. Brahma tried to create the universe, and NOTHING HAPPENED.

Here was God failing to create. Finally, the thought came to

Him: " Ta Pa. " Do an austerity. Do tapas. And what would God

consider to be a big tapas? It was giving up the idea that He was

God—a separate being, a second source of sentience, a doer, a

thinker, a spirit, a soul, an anything. He surrendered His identity

(by meditating for 100 of his years,) and voila, He was " whooshed "

into the presence of Krishna in His Heaven, called,

Vaikuntha. " There " Krishna praised Brahma for his great austerity

and gave to Brahma the power of illusion, Maya, by which He could at

last create the universe with His almost infinite palette of

qualities, values, concepts with which He paints the vast story of

time.

 

The metaphor is quite direct:

 

1. Do something (a technique) and you fail;

2. Do nothing, and you succeed ( " doing nothing " can look like

directing one's mind onto the ego—this is a form of direct inquiry

which, like a thorn being used to remove a thorn, is an " intending "

to achieve disidentification with manifestation that, though

illusory, is scripturally promised to be synchronistically associated

with Grace (the self) which is the actual doer of all doings.)

3. Avoid involving your SELF with no-thingness, and

4. THEN God's Grace (Krishna's attention on you) is seen, as it

always has been, to be pouring into your life when you realize that

ALL THIS is instant by instant created spontaneously out of the

Absolute with not the slightest hint of separation, not the least

besmirching of unity. A status of perfection is discovered to always

have been " there " supporting even the most insignificant aspects of

creation. Every thought, feeling, sensation, desire, memory, drive,

dream, is God's creativity flowing, exploring, displaying. ALL

QUALITIES, all, all, all are manifested by illusion and

seen/grasped/presented as a Great Drama that will eventually portray

EVERY QUALITY's fullest presence in the drama.

5. And, like all great writers, God will not be satisfied with

telling a story that has only peace, happiness, goodness, light, love

and all the other " life supporting " qualities. He's telling the

grittiest tale of all time and is using every color.

 

So, looking for your ego is always a failure, but this looking

eventually " proves " to " your small self " that sentience--that which

is aware--is not findable, not perceivable by the senses, not

conceptually encompassed by the intellect, and never fully hugged by

a relative heart. At some point, the ego " gets it " that nothing is

needed from it. All doing is done by the gunas, and the ego's role

is just to be a symbol of infinite creativity. This " getting it " is

the act of Grace from within and from without. Nothing has been

earned, nothing has been achieved, nothing as been arrived at.

Finding your glasses on your forehead is not a real " finding. " All

that's been done is to recognize that no seeking is required because

nothing is lost.

 

When you see that ALL THIS is one piece, one concept that proceeds

from the core dynamic of amness, then your individuality " dies " in

that everything it has ever imagined desiring has been fulfilled, and

there's just no need for duality any more. The individuality

suddenly transforms into a " point of view " among endless other

viewpoints….none being any more valid than the others….and certainly

not something to identify with.

 

So, look at the ego, ask, " Who am I?, " attend to silence, seek a diet

that results in a quieter nervous system, saturate yourself with all

the concepts of Advaita, hang out with like minded, and do everything

else you can to discover that format of " the work " that best suits

your personality/lifestyle. The state of least excitation is where

it's not at, but it's the proper place to look first for that which

is not missing—your self is always on your forehead; the Absolute is

eternal and present in all states of consciousness.