Sunday, October 17, 2010

CHERRIOS vs. CHERRIOS DUST; HUMANITY vs. RACE, COLOR, NATIONALITY, SEX; and UNICITY vs. MULTIPLICITY, Part Seven

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Here, there is nothing that is believed, so there is no one here who wants you to believe anything, either. Here, the invitation is to be free of all that you have been programmed, conditioned, acculturated, and domesticated to believe so that you can be free, period.

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"To take appearance for reality is ... the cause of all calamities." - Maharaj

F.: Kitchen and bathroom drains become clogged and result in relative calamities; traffic becomes clogged and results in relative calamities; arteries become clogged and result in relative calamities.

But nothing generates more relative calamities than the brains of persons when their brains become clogged with the content accumulated in the "minds" of the masses. In the book THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS PEACE OF MIND, this pointer is offered:

Consciousness is rooted in the Absolute. The brain is rooted in the elements. The ‘mind’ is rooted in wrong programming and faulty conditioning and lies and concepts and ideas and superstitions and falsehoods. Personas are rooted in programmed minds and are sustained by the ego-based lies and by the learned ignorance being taught in most modern cultures.”

And therein, in that now-unnatural subdivision of the natural, elemental brain - an unnatural segment called "the mind" - lies the root of all relative calamities. Is there a problem? Then the source of the problem will be centered in "the mind." Consider these alternate circumstances:

Has a pre-mind child ever started an argument, struck a mate, or driven a car while asleep, causing bodily harm?

Have men or women suffering from Alzheimer's ever declared that another nation must "do this or that" or suffer the consequences by having bombs dropped on their country?

Have persons sitting in institutions in catatonic states ever divided a nation by making the claim that women who have become pregnant as a result of rape or incest should be made by law to have the child or otherwise face the wrath of the judicial system?

Have any that have Realized Fully (and are therefore belief-free, idea-free, and concept-free) ever suggested that there is only one true religion and that those who do not follow their dogma are to be judged, ostracized, maimed, and murdered?

None of those that are now mindless, whether that condition is a result of (A) being Fully Realized or (B) being physically or mental or emotionally disabled or (C) being so young that they have not yet been programmed, conditioned, acculturated and domesticated, none that are mindless would be able to ...

... confuse appearance for reality

... mistake false roles for actual identities

... believe as a result of their dogma that they should be able to control what persons (almost always females) can and cannot do with their own bodies

... believe that there is a God telling them to kill people with different beliefs

... believe that they heard a god telling them to "shock and awe" another nation with massive bombings in retaliation for an event that the other nation had nothing to do with

... believe that the general welfare of their nation is best served by spending the nations's money on (and then using) offensive weapons of war rather than spending the nations' money on health care for the population and on wise defensive - rather than offensive - strategies

... believe that they have the right to beat the women in their society with sticks if the women should allow an ankle to be seen in public

... believe that their dogma prohibits women from being seen in public without being covered from head to toe while simultaneously allowing its males to practice bestiality

... believe that "a god that loves you, unconditionally," will nevertheless cast you into eternal flames if you fail to follow the ten conditions that he set up.
It is such beliefs and ideas and concepts that clog the part of the brain with something called "the mind" and that lead persons to take form for substance, to take the abstract as the concrete, to take myths and superstitions as truth, and to take appearance for reality.

And when persons "take appearance for reality," then such a clogging of the brain will occur that the consciousness will not be able to see past the clogging and will not, therefore, be able to differentiate the true from the false; then, that "cause of all calamities" takes charge and drives all thoughts and all words and all deeds.

And when calamitous thoughts and calamitous words and calamity-generating actions dominate the persons of a planet as they now do, then what else other than a plethora of worldwide relative calamities could possibly manifest?

Please enter the silence of contemplation.

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