Нго-Ма – Mysticism from A to Z. A clear introduction to the deepest and most complex spiritual issues (страница 4)

Therefore, we can say that science is closer to mysticism than myths, fairy tales, epics and other stories that we often take as mysticism and spirituality. In fact, this is a childish worldview. As a result, many scientists like Einstein and other scientific luminaries, for example, Niels Bohr, met and conversed with mystics: they wrote about their conversations with Jiddu Krishnamurti. In this way you can understand the desire of psychologist Carl Jung to meet with Ramana Maharshi and so on. All the leading scientific minds sooner or later realize the manifested conditionality of the discipline being studied and they wanted to come in touch with a truly genuine mystical model.

Next, we are going to consider a couple of such models. The first model is the simultaneity of the whole creation. It is a very common non-duality worldview, which says that creation happened simultaneously, at once and only its recognition is a linear process. That which is created at once and simultaneously is only perceived and described by us linearly. It means that there is a gap between the whole creation and its perception. Our perception is discrete, partial, limited, the description is linear, but creation itself is one-time, simultaneous, all-embracing and total. It is a very deep mystical view that means going beyond the linear time. I think I will soon write the chapter “The seven kinds of time”, where we will dwell into the concept of “time” and how we consider it in our Free Away teaching in more detail, but today our topic is the topic of worldviews.

Furthermore, there exists such a world view named – Maya-vada, which is considered to be a deep mystical view. According to it, the world seems to us as a kind of illusion that has arisen against the background of something stable, eternal, real, and hence there has appeared this world view of the illusory nature of the creation. If in the first mystical view, we have a view of a one-time simultaneous creation, and it is not questioned, then in the second mystical view everything, the whole world is just manifested and it is illusory, but this illusory is related to a certain reality.

And the final the most powerful view of mysticism is uncreatedness, which asserts that there was no creation at all. It is impossible to explain this, because this is the top of the views of the mystical school. In India it is called Ajata-vada, where vada means a viewpoint or worldview. Ramana Maharshi singled it out as the highest view of non-creation. In fact, it correlates with the knowledge of the Fruit of mystical teachings, and those who recognized the Fruit, those who are in a natural state, can claim that this worldview is correct, although, of course, it is only descriptions. So, we have gone through all the basic worldviews: supra-rational, rational and pre-rational.

Now I will focus on the problem that is faced by seekers. Do not be offended if it will be a very painful revelation for some of you. It lies in the fact that magical and mythical thinking are very ancient and powerful, the consciousness is very strongly captured by them. These childish worldviews do not let us go that easily, especially if we have not played enough with it in the corresponding period of our growing up. It holds us back and, therefore, the rational thinking imposed on us, seems to us dry, rational and lifeless with its causal relationship, with the study of physics and chemistry, how everything works, how everything really exists, how and what follows each other, what is possible, what is not. Only a few go to rational thinking consciously, so most often we feel trapped in these rational frameworks, in these physical laws, in these causal relationships, and we want something “tasty”, some kind of mystery, something unusual… And many seekers, let go of rational thinking and descend back to the pre-rational level and become esoteric. They imagine something here, some “siddhis”, some miracles, and they just dive into this childish worldview, and this is quite usual. Their consciousness is not ready yet to come to a rational outlook, to a rational picture of the world, and therefore many confuse the pre-rational viewpoint with the supra-rational viewpoint. Many seekers often believe that they have already passed to the supra-rational, but in fact they have sunk deeply into the pre-rational, and begun telling each other fairy tales, start chasing some “siddhis” and miracles, begin telling stories that they have not seen themselves, but they have supposedly been seen by their friends, and all this is very well supported by our “imaginarium.” These stories are precisely its fuel.

Everything that is pre-rational is supported by the mind that is responsible for imagination and fantasies, and since it is a creative mind, it can invent a lot of things that are not supported in our physical reality, in our direct experience. This way now I’m connecting the types of worldviews with the four types of thinking that I have described in the first chapter.

The fact that it happens is not a big problem, because sooner or later you have to realize that you have come back to the pre-rational level and you still need to return to the rational level first, but this time you should return already with opened eyes and not like in childhood, when all your favorite toys have just been taken away. By the way the virtual world is pre-rational in all means, it is a fictional world however even if practically does not rely on any physical reality, so it is also a return to the pre-rational level, to games, to childhood, to aliens and other fantasies. It doesn’t matter if aliens exist or not. I just want you to figure it out: it doesn’t matter at all in this case. It is important that they do not exist in your direct experience, in the Moment of Now. Well, they could exist, but what happens when you imagine? You think that someone comes from Sirius, or someone is from another constellation, from past lives, from other planets – they all could exist… But now you are engaged in the imagination, in the fantasy, you are cut off from the present, from current direct experience. So, when you lose this support, it is very difficult for you to return to sobriety. You start what we call “hard glitching, hallucinating”, and a lot of people sooner or later find themselves in some not very healthy mental states, and afterwards some people are helped in psychiatric clinics, in order to cope with them. When the power of these fantasies reaches a certain level and disrupts all defense mechanisms, you start to see in reality what you are imagining. This is called schizophrenia, since no one sees these images but you and this is the problem. Thus another person, other people who see the same objects with their own organs of perception, can be a tool for the testing of your sobriety.

Please do not be offended, but I must point it out to you, because this is the guarantee of your mental health, sobriety, the support at being in the Present Moment of Now. Why do you think monks sit and stare at the wall? Why do they cut off the mind? They are not sitting in fantasies, they are sitting and trying to concentrate on this Present Moment, on the moment of Now. Why are they counting breathing cycles? Why are they looking at their navel? Only because they should “anchor” in the Present Moment, in the moment of now and discard their fantasies, discard the “imaginarium”, discard everything where the mentality can drag them: to other planets, to some miracles. I’m not against all these childish dreams, but it’s only a return to childhood and you know that! Therefore, when you come across things that are unverifiable by experience, it is just fantasy.

What is going to happen next? It is possible that we have been boiling in these pre-rational things for several years or decades, because even when we have been reading very deep texts of mystics, we have been still adapting them to our worldview, that’s the whole point. We cannot comprehend Ramana Maharshi, because we “stick” him into our pre-rational thinking. Everyone constantly asked him about some “siddhis”, and he answered them thousands of times: “I am worried about the issue of suffering, if you are suffering right now, without any ‘siddhis’, could ‘siddhis’ turn out to be a source of additional suffering?” And in this issue he was absolutely right. The issue of healing from suffering, the issue of sobriety, the issue of clarity has nothing to do with these speculations, reflections and fantasies. Therefore, this discrediting of mysticism and spirituality has recently acquired a colossal, quite colossal scale precisely because of the diving of adepts into the pre-rational.

Still there are those who, having dismissed pre-rational, go out into the rational again and begin to find fault with all the mysticism. They begin to assert: “This all is all only fantasy, this is all fiction, I was there, it’s all terrible, just stay normal people.” And here I nearly agree with this position, but you should not pour out the child with water! The supra-rational exists, the mystical exists – this is a certain complete science, and it is open to you. As soon as you are getting sober, grown up – do not close this door for yourself, you will definitely go into a real mystical spiritual world, and this will not be the world of fairy tales. This will be the world of your direct mystical spiritual experiences.