Thursday, January 05, 2006

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F.: Unless you have Realized fully, then they have fooled you for your entire life and you are still being fooled now as well. The key is knowing the truth so that you’ll never be fooled again. Fools are never truly happy, and the most intelligent persons roaming about can be fools as a result of believing in all their knowledge (all of their “learned ignorance.") Some of the most intelligent beings on earth have visited this site and submitted questions and comments, yet their questions and comments reveal not only their extensive knowledge and their above-average intelligence but also the fact that they are fools by virtue of having been fooled and never having seen that they’ve been fooled. Again, fools can never be truly happy, peaceful and blissful. Only those who discard all belief in all falsehoods can be at peace. That is their ticket out of the “Drama of the Lie.”

The discarding of falsehoods only follows doubt; it never precedes doubt. The “journey” away from the lies and to the Realization usually only happens after persons become very, very tired. They must be tired of hearing about the supposed answers that are in a holy book when in fact the holy books leave more questions to be asked than they offer actual answers. ( For example, the statement “We have all the answers and we know the only true solution” is often followed by, “We cannot know. He works in mysterious ways.”) To be ready for the entire “journey” away from being fooled to knowing the truth, persons must also be tired of the dangling carrots that involve gaining more personal power and having a Super Power at their beck and call. They must be tired of the egoism that drives every action taken by any person on the planet. They must be tired of trying to tie all of the many happenings on the planet to some Overall Personal Plan that also includes a grand personal plan for each of them because they are so special.
They must also be tired of the work and the spiritual exercises and rigid disciplines; of the swings of being close to and away from; of being in contact with, then out of contact with; of understanding and then not understanding; and of being exhausted by all the effort required by their ideologies and programs instead of enjoying the peace that comes from a clear philosophy that allows all the effort and work and striving and seeking to end. They must be tired of the constant rattlings of a “mind” contaminated with the lies and ideas and concepts and beliefs that rob persons of peace.

They also must have a longing for something beyond the desires-fears of the planet. They must long for a respite from the paralyzing memories and from the painful residue of traumatic experiences that personas experience. They must long for their so-called "memories" to fade away into the original virgin blankness of the Child Ignorance stage and before. They must long, after years of trying to fill an imaginary void, for the peace of a Real Void that they occasionally get another glimpse of, a faint reminder of the Reality they were in touch with at some point. They must be willing to give up their ego-based defense of those who have influenced them all of their lives and see that those persons and their culture are the force that drives persons insane...that drives persons away from being in touch with reality. They must give up their egotistical notions of striving to develop images of being super brillant, super special, super religious, super spiritual, or any other super roles they are trying to accumulate and imagine the peace that can come via de-accumulation and via freedom from all roles and the egomania that they inspire. Please enter the silence of contemplation. [To be continued]
Tomorrow: The final posting on “Why Advaita?”
Saturday: The response to a question from a person “seeking meaning and the purpose of life”

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