What 'is' . . .

A friend had a problem with a game on facebook called 'World at War', which they wanted to get off their system and this they eventually managed to do. They then asked me a question, which was probably tongue in cheek, but, Oops, I took the baton and ran with it. Then a second individual joined in and . . . well here is the result ;-)

The Original Question:

"No more World at War I can now be normal....... I think.. If there is a normal!!! Are we normal?? What is normal!!!!????"

Doug '1yogi2many' McMillan

Normal is what you became . . natural is what you were before you became normal. Returning to the natural state requires you to delete the normal programming/conditioning. Once the normal programme/condition is deleted from your mind you'll know what it is to be natural again. Confused? You soon will be . . . . . ;-)

 

Second Questioner: *raises hand* I thought normal was just a setting on a washing machine....... ???

 

Doug '1yogi2many' McMillan

. . and so the washing machine of your mind is set to normal! It therefore rumbles along continuously, even when you think you've turned it off it is still rumbling along in the background . . . 

 

Questioner: But, I want an on/off switch for my mind. It rumbles on out-of-control.... LOL

 

Doug '1yogi2many' McMillan

Well there you go. And that is what 'normal' is.

Natural is 'being', which is a mind not rumbling out of control.

Normal is a mind rumbling out of control, it is therefore your master.

Natural is a mind that is centered in 'stillness'. The 'still' mind is at peace, it no longer rumbles out of control.

Every problem the individual person has is caused by a mind that is rumbling along. It is recycling its programme or conditioning; just like a washing machine churning around and around and . . .

Billions of personalities running billions of conflicting programmes, that are all rumbling along in the backgrounds of their minds, that is the cause of human conflict .... ;-)

 

Questioner: You might not think so, but I am slowly "getting" it. :)

 

Doug '1yogi2many' McMillan

What's there to get? You are already 'it' . . when you drop what you are not what remains? :-)

 

Questioner: Er, what IS?

 

Doug '1yogi2many' McMillan

Yes, what 'is', is ;-)

 

Questioner: haha! ;-) There's a certain amount of liberation in that thought. Do we still get to have a say in our 'is'-ness?

 

Doug '1yogi2many' McMillan

Who is it that wants to have a say?

What 'is' is!

How can one have a say? It simply 'is' . . . ...

. . perhaps having a 'say' is 'division'?

Questioner: Grr. But, 1yogi2many, I must say I am detecting a leaning toward "Zen" here... to have a 'say' is to control; therefore, causing 'division' is to have disrupted 'flow' of 'is.' ???

 

Doug '1yogi2many' McMillan

Ha, ha . . . there is only one greater Truth-Reality-Integrity of being, which may or may not be reflected to varying degrees within certain teachers or teachings. Once one realizes what 'is', is all there 'is', the teacher and the teaching are superfluous.

. . . that's just the way it 'is'! ;-)

 

Doug '1yogi2many' McMillan

By the way, there is nothing to learn about what 'is', but there is plenty to unlearn! Whatever 'this' sounds like, it isn't . . . .

. . . it is, however, what 'is'. 

 

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Well that was it.  Did you notice how the questioner, at the end, becomes frustrated by the thought that they might have to surrender their I-Ego to what 'is'? They failed to respond again; letting go is not easy ;-)

 

Any observations you may have are welcome. Please remember, this was just a small quick fire conversation, mostly tongue in cheek, but my words are always pointing in the general direction of a deeper reality-truth-integrity of beingness.