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Personal Identity

Many have tried for many aeons to simply let go of the Illusion, yet they can not let go of the Illusion if they do not let go of the conditioning. They have blocked the Illusion out, even for long durations, yet the Illusion was right where it always was because it is the conditioned notion. And while we are still robots there is still a Doer and what must be Done, though granted, that is also let go eventually. Crawl - walk - run - stop running and BE. It is easier to let go of various Sufferings, though there is still Suffering. It is the Cause of the Suffering that we have to let go of, and that is a Painful undertaking. "Drop the stick". Choice is another of the conditioned notions.

That is a Fact. But it has been very difficult for 99.99% of humanity, who live in the past and/or the future, to buy into that. They have their *own truths* they see as fact. There own conditioned notions, and that is why they *think* their truth is Truth, even though it is not. "Drop the stick".

The Grand Trickster says the struggle is too much work and letting go of dearly notions are too painful. So go with the flow. So too are we continuously constantly bombarded with conditioned notions on and on and on and on. The only item that seems to be of disagreement is the conditionings and their powerful hold on us, their Blinding effect, that can not simply be pushed to the side as though it was incidental or an Illusion.

Indeed when we step into an incarnation we are brand new. Then consciously we are corrupted by conditioned notions. This does not change the True Nature, it just covers it up so we do not see it and so we *think* we are other than we ARE. Which means that time, duration, controls and manipulates our perception and therefore every aspect of our existence. The sun does rise and set (so to speak), nuclear form does progressively degenerate. Duration, time, comes along with form. Rain comes along with Rainbows. Timelessness does not make clocks stop, but rather is an aspect of What-IS (which is quite timeless, though various aspects of the multiplicities of What-IS are not, relative to the given element of the multiplicity).

What I am Pointing to was that Awakening is a gradual (with instantaneous Insights along the Way) Unfolding, an Evolving Involution, of letting go of Veiling conditioned notions. Conditioned programmed ego is conditioned programmed personality. Conditioned programmed, so yes quite made up -- not our True Nature.

As I have said, Sleeping we can not fathom Awakening for we have not been there yet. Yet, Awakening we can fathom Sleeping because we have been there. Sleeping we do not even know that there is a conditioned ego-self for we are that ego-self (too close to the picture to notice). Awakening we Realize that when the conditionings are let go of that all of a sudden there is no longer an ego-self that NOW we Realize we *were*.

WHEN we let go of the conditionings there is no long conditioned ego or conditioned personality. WHEN we let go of conditionings we are then NOT, or no-entity. So THEN our seeming ego and seeming personality is nothing more than our True Nature manifesting in our thinking and behavior. Even Awakening we all have had different routes to the Path and so our thinking and behavior will be slightly different from others Awakening, though all those Awakening will think and behave very much similar. Sleeping there are many differences between individuals, Awakening there are few differences. Ever noticed that ?

Are we not followers of these so called Sacred Authorities ? Authenticated by our very own conditioned notions ? Beguiled by some sense of glimpsing our seeming True Nature ? Thinking that these self-appointed authorities can by word or even deed transmit their seeming Wisdom to us via some osmosis ? When they give a party and no one shows up, would there still be a party ? This too must pass.

Precisely why ManKind remains a mystery to himself, he can not psychoanalytically take himself apart to figure himself out because he has no clue as to what the parts are. A Gestalt for sure, but an organized Gestalt where some of the parts are handy and others are defiling and have to be let go of. But if we can not Recognize the defiling programs from the necessary operating programs, we are just a Gestalt Game played over and over again Seeking for the right combination of parts.

IN/AS Truth, All Routes are indeed to Lead to One Path. Ideally this is so. Yet what route, in this conditioned programmed controlled manipulated survival we erroneously call life, is there such a Thread of Purity ? Have not the original Pearls been re-cast in plastic ? Has not Thine Thread been eliminated in the casting of the Present Fake Pearls ? For the Present seeming Pearls are but for *show* and no *go*, stage props and not actual. Though indeed some do echo such a Divine Pure Thread, even that echo is drowned out by self-perpetuation and self-proclamation and self-interest. When did the Grand Lie replace your Word ? When did the Creator of Lies usurp your position ? When will Arjuna be Heard ?

One of the conditioned notions that we must let go of is the value (judgement) that we put on *I* and it's relative subjectivity. When we can Truly Openly Honestly answer the question "Who am I ?" we will Realize the total valuelessness of the subjective *I* and *me*, and let it go for the conditioned notion that it is.

BEing is not knowing BEingness but rather BEing BEingness. There is no "final" as there is no first, not in this Manvantara. When one wants to be intelligent one must learn something new each day, yet when one wants to be Wise one must forget something learned each day. It is when we are Empty of *knowing* that we can be filled with BEing (figuratively speaking). Indeed, "'beingness' predates 'knowingness'" yet humanity is in a conditioned state of knowingness so this Present knowingness precedes a return to BEingness (Unknowingness).

Machines have nothing to do with our BEing, though indeed machines can be quite the distraction. Most likely we are not aware that machines have any effect/affect on us at all, but they do -- most profoundly. In our Sleeping modus operandi we ARE conditioned programmed controlled manipulated automatons -- machines.

Indeed, no matter where you go there you are. A more important question would be what the quotes offered do not Point out, in order to reach an Understanding/Realization/Actualization of their "common theme". Which is, as the Dhammapada Point out: "One by one, little by little, moment by moment, a wise man should remove his own impurities, as a smith removes his dross from silver." What are those impurities and what is that dross other than our social conditioned baggage. We BEing our True Nature, silver BEing silver, is but child's play once the impurities or dross is removed. But if the impurities or dross is not removed we are only pretending, we are only Talking the Talk. Removing the impurities, removing the dross, letting go of dearly beloved conditioned notions, is the most Painful and arduous undertaking one will ever endure. Many people in many disciplines have strictly observed strict practices most of their lives, yet few attain the state of BEing the quotes you offered Point to. So I would say that letting go of the conditioned notions is not child's play. Ramesh Balsekar once said, "The only proof of absolute Truth is not in knowing it, because it cannot be known, but in BEing it." Knowing it is easy, BEing it is totally another matter.

All organized religions whether of today or yesterday worship primarily the same things. Different particulars and different levels of sophistication, but when you have seen one you have seen them all. Do not misinterpret, religions in every age have had their rightful place in getting people together and setting forth a basic ethic for interactions. Humanity, as the child, must crawl before it walks and walk before it runs. So organized religions have played a worthwhile part in our social development, it is just that we can not cling to them for ever for some contrived Salvation. But that is off track. What did Lemurians worship ? The same things modern people worship, from the car they drive to the god they contrive. But all I was Pointing to in a previous post was that Lemurians were as capable of *perception* and therefore *conceptualization* and *intellectualization* as we are today, so obviously they too could have religions some 100,000 plus years ago. We should not slight our ancestors by saying that humanity was capable of contriving religions only a scant 6,000 years ago.

Awakening is quite Painless. In fact you will not even know it happens. What is Painful is letting go of those dearly beloved conditioned programmed notions that stand in the way of our Awakening. Do not be dissuaded, you are correct, it is the most Painful undertaking we will every have to endure. Emptying the mind of conditioned programs is the Painful part. We can Silence the mind from time to time, usually via meditation, and through practice can get a glimpse of what it is like not to have thoughts continually arise. But as long as we harbor any of those conditionings we can not sustain the Meditative State of Mind. To dwell IN/AS the ever Present anew Eternal Infinite Moment from ever Present anew Eternal Infinite Moment to ever Present anew Eternal Infinite Moment we have to go through the arduous and Painful task of letting go of ALL defiling conditioned notions. Since time immemerable, all who have embarked upon this Path of Awakening has had to go through Hell and back going nose to nose toe to toe with their conditioned programmed notions. Those who *think* it is a walk in the park has a rude Reckoning yet to Realize.

As long as you "wonder"..... no, it can not happen. When you stop wondering and "Just Do It", just start letting go of the conditioned notions that stand in the way of you BEing IN/AS the Present Moment continuously, then you will know for a Fact. Do not believe one way or the other, find out for yourself by trying it. Obviously your exposure to global schools of thought and global religions are limited, for there are more religions and schools of thought based on NonDualism than Dualism, just not that popular yet in the West. And though Christianity does not teach NonDuality, Jesus did. To answer your question more directly, YES, BEing IN/AS the Present Moment is very much sustainable permanently indefinitely. But do not believe that, Do It. All you have to do is start letting go of the defiling conditioned ideas and images and meanings and notions of all sorts that Veil Awakening to that Fact. As long as you wonder, you will never know because it has to be Directly Experienced to be Realized.

Actually likenesses of what we know of today as religions abounded in the Lemurian and Atlantian eras, so are really more that a 100,000 years old. That there are religions at all should tell us that Dualism abounds, the order of the day, sign of our times. Dualistically, everything is in relation to everything else -- Two, one in relation to the other. NonDualistically, all seeming relationships are simply various colors refracting through the prism of phenomenality AS One Light Source. All is actually One, though we are conditioned to *believe* that there are separate entities in relation to other entities. God just being another entity in this conditioned modus operandi.

"Metaphysical Path"..... catchy. Indeed, many so called spiritual paths are just re-enactments of Quixote's adventures, for the seeming quest turns out to be the questing so very little if anything is actually accomplished. A lot of doing but nothing gets done. And of course there are the many practices of many groups to attain some goal, when mostly the practice turns out to be the goal. Awakening, Enlightenment, Self-Remembering, Self-Realization, what have you, is actually quite simple. All we really have to do to be "on the Path" (so to speak) is to start letting go of the very conditioned notions that hide "the Path". We use such words as "The Path" and "The Way" and "Awakening" or "Enlightenment" or "True Nature" or any number of such words, but they are only words to Point to *Wake-Up*. Wake up form the delusions of our conditioned way of thinking and behaving. The bottom line of all True Teachings is to let the excess social baggage (conditioned ideas and images and meanings and notions of all sorts) go. THEN we can See What-IS (whatever IS) AS it IS and not how we are conditioned to perceive it.

Now, we can call this letting go a "process" if we wish, or even call it a *Path*. But actually all it is, is dropping all the acquired programs we have been hoarding over the years. Let it all go and BE who/what we actually ARE -- a Pure BEing, quite Conscious and quite Aware of All that IS for then we ARE What-IS. As the Niki ad so profoundly states, "Just Do It !".

Awakening can not be pursued or worked at with any effort at all, that it just happens quite naturally. In a real sense, quite passively. Yet, preconditioned notions arise, so we must observe and question every thought, and ask yourself 'why is this thought ?' and 'where is this thought from ?' and 'what purpose is this thought ?' And at the root of all those thoughts and all those programs you will See that the Grand Trickster is hard a work fashioning them. Many who offer us words of Wisdom, did/do not have such words as *conditioning* at their disposal to use. This is a Fact that so many Students overlook, that these Wise Sages tell us What-IS and we bath in it, yet they also tell us What-ISNOT but we fail to Recognize it because THAT is where we are. They tell us how to Realize What-IS but they are not speaking in terms that we readily understand. They did not have the words to say *you are conditioned programmed controlled manipulated automatons* so they used the words at their disposal to say the same thing. But we Realize it not.

Could that be the reason that after all these years of studying Wise words, and even devoting ourself to their concepts, that we still war and conflict with others and hate and crime rates ever rise ? The Wise words and Sages and Scriptures have been with us for a very long time, yet is the Suffering any less now than it ever was ? Do we now have more Peace ? Do we now have more Love and Compassion and Empathy ? Or do we now just have more Parrots ?

Indeed, Consciousness can not be separated from Consciousness any more than Consciousness can direct Consciousness. All IS As it IS and can only be separated from itself in our imaginative conditioned mind. Consciousness is simply Consciousness. It is the dual nature of conditioned thinking that allows us such latitude as to separate whatever. Only in this conditioned dualism is there an observer and that which is observed. Indeed, intellectualizing and conceptualizing what the whole mansion would be from within the confines of just one of the rooms is an exercise in futility. Legends in our own mind. It does fortify our conditioned thinking though. Ah but when the Two again becomes One, we ARE the mansion, so we do not have to be separate from ourself to Realize/Recognize/Understand the mansion.

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I would clarify that Happiness and Suffering will remain Happiness and Suffering, it is our perspective that changes. That is, we See Happiness and Suffering in a far Clearer light. For actually our perspective does not really change either, but rather gets uncluttered by so many conditioned notions, and so our perspective is less distorted. We start to See Happiness and Suffering AS they ARE rather than the conditioned ideas that we projected onto them. So as our Awakening Unfolds so does our Understanding of Happiness and Suffering.

Not to the non-enjoyer and non-sufferer, but there still would be Happiness and Suffering. What-IS does not go away just because we *think* it so. We can not nihilate the fact that we enjoyed and suffered just by transcending it. So it is the Cause of this Happiness and Suffering that we must address. The Cause being that we cling to the happiness and suffering, enjoyer and sufferer, even though we no longer enjoy or suffer. So the non-enjoyer and the non-sufferer are but masks to hide our clinging. When we stop the clinging to either Happiness or Suffering is when neither are present for us. That is, letting go of the very conditioned notions that establish the Happiness and Suffering by letting go of the precious identity we refer to as our*self*.

One is not the other any more than one is dependent on the other. Dwell not on the resultant Happiness and Suffering, but rather on the root Cause of both -- which is our conditioned notions of them. When neither Happiness or Suffering are of concern then we can get past them. As long as we cling to either or both of them, identify ourselves with them, we will be them. That is not to suppress or deny, but rather to See them for the emotive reactions to situations that they are. For when we let go of both Happiness and Suffering, the resulting Peace I would liken to a new born right after consuming it's satisfactory fill of milk just before drifting off to slumber-land. No Happiness, no Suffering, just Ah.......

Though much habitual behavior is not a block to our Awakening. Much habitual behavior is simply survival or convenience. It is the habitual behavior that keeps us Closed minded and not Open to our own Inner Natural inclination of Awakening that is the problem. Changing physical and mental and psychological states in waking up in the morning can leave one groggy, and we have particular things to take care of which can be done quite meditatively and IN/AS the Moment. So it is not so much the activity that keeps us in the past or the future, but rather our state of BEing while we are doing this activity.

Myth, which Sleeping relies on for it's subsistence. We can not tell who the Player are unless we know the Program, and we can not Play the Game unless we know the Rules. Though indeed Illusions or Myths are actually statements or Pointers of Wisdom/Insights when Truly Understood, they have indeed been a marvelous resource for establishing conceptualizations and intellectualizations -- and even religions.

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Understanding is the space between the words not you So it would seem Understanding is not in the face value, Labels it seems are byproducts of Duality though in use But using them to denote personal possession is obtuse. -- Yogajyotii

Truth and Reality stand on their own need not authority When there is only a conceptual identity there's only we, There is really no goal to reach as Awakening is a verb Thus most ongoing so too is being Mindful of toxic herb. -- Yogajyotii

Letting go conditioned notions and persistently Mindful For conditioned notions ever endeavor to thwart or null, There is no merit in the finger so is of little use to wonder Whether the finger is worthy of Attention will put us under. -- Yogajyotii

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