From a site visitor: [Received 10 June 2007] Today you said history shows religion leads to separation and judging and even killing. That’s not true. For me, my religion leads to peace and power. I stay in conscious contact with Him with prayer all day, every day, and He empowers me and gives me guidance and peace so I can be happy for as long as by His grace I am allowed to live. I hope you can find your way to Him so that you can have peace in this life and joy forever. Signed, John (as in 3:16)--A Child and Agent of God
F.: One of the many dualities that results among those fixated in a religious and/or spiritual persona, and stuck at the third of seven steps to Full Realization as you are, is the dicotomy of praising humility while touting the power that can be attained via your dogma. But you have moved beyond duality and are trapped in a triple-phase existence of (1) living in your “head”—in your “mind”—and (2) in “the world” and (3) in “your spiritual world” as well. All three are imaginary and leave you completely out of touch with reality.
95% of what persons such as you do and think and believe is motivated by post-programming unconsciousness and by post-conditioning subconsciousness; thus, it is persons—not the Realized—who are the robotic ones on the planet. And your words, by the way, clearly place you among the non-Realized. Here’s how: you are identified with body. How is that known? You are religious, and body continuity (along with eternal reward for the body) is the ultimate goal of the religious. You have assumed a persona, “The Religious One,” and personality is always generated by—and sustained by—your “mind”; therefore, you are not beyond either body or mind or personality but are thoroughly trapped in identification with all three instead. You want to live forever while missing the fact that you were never born.
And that body identification inspires the "mind" to assign some lofty significance to “being born,” does it not? You want to discuss what happens post-manifestation without understanding that you were nothing more than a particle of energy in the days prior to two people engaging in what was nothing more than an act of physical pleasure. You do not understand that their pleasure-seeking resulted in your pain and in your current effort to escape the effects of the manifestation. You do not understand that you are now engaging in your religious going and religious doing and religious zooming with that hidden agenda. You believe that an insignificant act of physical friction has some spiritually-special significance, and you think you have moved beyond the bonds of the phenomenal and now live in some “spiritual realm.” Complete abstractions, all of it.
The only relative “difference” in you and the Realized is this: the black curtain that falls for you each night and puts your Drama of the Lie on hold, temporarily, has fallen permanently for the Realized. You have only a temporary respite from the abstract lies you believe; the Realized are totally free of belief in dualistic abstractions, period. Why do the Realized function with total freedom rather than preferring dependence, as you do?
Because the Realized know that whatever you depend on will eventually rob you of your freedom; that whatever you depend on the most will eventually restrict you the most; that whatever you think is priceless will prove to be most costly; and that whatever you think gives you power will actually leave you the most vulnerable. All of that will be the case, if the manifestation continues long enough for it to happen.
Being non-Realized, you are among the 95% being motivated by unconsciousness and by subconsciousness, but 100% of what the non-Realized think about is on the abstract level rather than on a concrete level, and your words also support that pointer. The predilection for the abstract is set up by the manifesting of conscious-energy itself. When the energy is in a free-range mode, moving about without restriction in the limitless expanse, it is free…period. When manifested within a confined, dense space (and then programmed and conditioned) that density traps persons in a propensity for the abstract.
More specifically, this is the case: (a) the more that the conscious-energy is exposed to programming and conditioning and enculturation and (b) the more that the energy is confined within a dense space, then (c) the more often thoughts will occur and (d) the more those thoughts will be preoccupied with abstract, dualistic subject matter such as “love” and “hate” and “right” and “wrong” and “moral” and “immoral” and the duality of “this world” and the “next world” and “power” vs. “powerlessness” and “humans beings” as opposed to one or more “Supreme Beings”; thus your belief in a “He” who gives you “power” and allows you to hear “His guidance.”
F.: One of the many dualities that results among those fixated in a religious and/or spiritual persona, and stuck at the third of seven steps to Full Realization as you are, is the dicotomy of praising humility while touting the power that can be attained via your dogma. But you have moved beyond duality and are trapped in a triple-phase existence of (1) living in your “head”—in your “mind”—and (2) in “the world” and (3) in “your spiritual world” as well. All three are imaginary and leave you completely out of touch with reality.
95% of what persons such as you do and think and believe is motivated by post-programming unconsciousness and by post-conditioning subconsciousness; thus, it is persons—not the Realized—who are the robotic ones on the planet. And your words, by the way, clearly place you among the non-Realized. Here’s how: you are identified with body. How is that known? You are religious, and body continuity (along with eternal reward for the body) is the ultimate goal of the religious. You have assumed a persona, “The Religious One,” and personality is always generated by—and sustained by—your “mind”; therefore, you are not beyond either body or mind or personality but are thoroughly trapped in identification with all three instead. You want to live forever while missing the fact that you were never born.
And that body identification inspires the "mind" to assign some lofty significance to “being born,” does it not? You want to discuss what happens post-manifestation without understanding that you were nothing more than a particle of energy in the days prior to two people engaging in what was nothing more than an act of physical pleasure. You do not understand that their pleasure-seeking resulted in your pain and in your current effort to escape the effects of the manifestation. You do not understand that you are now engaging in your religious going and religious doing and religious zooming with that hidden agenda. You believe that an insignificant act of physical friction has some spiritually-special significance, and you think you have moved beyond the bonds of the phenomenal and now live in some “spiritual realm.” Complete abstractions, all of it.
The only relative “difference” in you and the Realized is this: the black curtain that falls for you each night and puts your Drama of the Lie on hold, temporarily, has fallen permanently for the Realized. You have only a temporary respite from the abstract lies you believe; the Realized are totally free of belief in dualistic abstractions, period. Why do the Realized function with total freedom rather than preferring dependence, as you do?
Because the Realized know that whatever you depend on will eventually rob you of your freedom; that whatever you depend on the most will eventually restrict you the most; that whatever you think is priceless will prove to be most costly; and that whatever you think gives you power will actually leave you the most vulnerable. All of that will be the case, if the manifestation continues long enough for it to happen.
Being non-Realized, you are among the 95% being motivated by unconsciousness and by subconsciousness, but 100% of what the non-Realized think about is on the abstract level rather than on a concrete level, and your words also support that pointer. The predilection for the abstract is set up by the manifesting of conscious-energy itself. When the energy is in a free-range mode, moving about without restriction in the limitless expanse, it is free…period. When manifested within a confined, dense space (and then programmed and conditioned) that density traps persons in a propensity for the abstract.
More specifically, this is the case: (a) the more that the conscious-energy is exposed to programming and conditioning and enculturation and (b) the more that the energy is confined within a dense space, then (c) the more often thoughts will occur and (d) the more those thoughts will be preoccupied with abstract, dualistic subject matter such as “love” and “hate” and “right” and “wrong” and “moral” and “immoral” and the duality of “this world” and the “next world” and “power” vs. “powerlessness” and “humans beings” as opposed to one or more “Supreme Beings”; thus your belief in a “He” who gives you “power” and allows you to hear “His guidance.”
Further, all relative existence problems in personal "relationships" are rooted in a debate over those abstractions in the preceding list, in a struggle for dominance in the battle of ideas and control and power, and in a demand that one's partner hold the exact same view around each of those abstractions. What absolute nonsense, yes? Yet 50% of all murders happen when couples do not share the same opinions and beliefs about those abstractions. As Dennis wrote, "Opinions and beliefs may be more dangerous than ignorance...." Your own "prophet" (who was an Advaitin, by the way) told you that "a dual-minded person is unstable in all ways." Such is the case.
So much for your belief in abstractions, including “power” and "grace" and a body-mind-personality triad that believes it will experience "eternal life" and "joy forever." Within the limitation of a “mind” attuned to the abstract, you believe that a mirage-god can give mirage-power to a mirage-you and that you can use that power in a mirage-world in your effort to try to control the mirage-self and to try to influence or control all of the other abstract mirages as well. Advaita invites all to question their programming and conditioning and enculturation. Few ever will. So it is.
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