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As for Maharaj, you will find here some of his early pointers for beginners but some of his later pointers that are for seekers farther along the "path." During his last years, he said of I AM THAT: "That book and whatever was expounded at that time was only relevant for that period. I am speaking differently today" and am "emphasizing different aspects." What he offered later differed considerably from his earlier talks, making clear that the pointers in I AM THAT will take you to the midpoint of "the race" but that his final talks point the way to "the finish line."
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From "GIVE PEACE A CHANCE"
(John Lennon / Yoko Ono)
"This-ism, that-ism, is-m, is-m, is-m."
(John Lennon / Yoko Ono)
"This-ism, that-ism, is-m, is-m, is-m."
FROM A SITE VISITOR (Received 18 January 2012): Today's post, the part when John and Yoko wrote about is-ms, really triggered something. Do any of your books discuss is-ms? If so, which ones?
F.: Greetings. Actually, the blockages that are set in place by belief in (and attachment to) "-ism's" have been discussed - though not necessarily using the label of "-ism" - by all Realized teachers since these teachings were first offered.
(That has not, however, stopped some nowadays from distorting the teachings by adding all sorts of "-ism's" to non-duality pointers and promoting more ideas and concepts and beliefs rather than guiding seekers to a "state" of freedom that comes when all ideas and concepts and beliefs are purged from the fiction-filled "mind.")
Moreover, before going any further into a discussion of the subject, understand that here, there are no teachings. There are instances where the consciousness speaks in order for "un-teaching" (and thus "un-learning") to happen.
Persons who have been programmed with learned ignorance do not need "more programming," "re-programming," "the program," "this program" or "that program." Their Ultimate Sickness requires the Ultimate Medicine that de-programs and that leads to de-accumulation (including de-accumulation of all ideas and concepts and beliefs as well as attachment to all sorts of "-ism's").
When cancerous cells are found in a body, the intent of the treatment plan for that illness is for the body to eventually be completely rid of all of the cancerous cells, not to add more cancerous cells or to add a different set of new cancerous cells to replace an old set of cancerous cells. So it is with ideas and concepts and beliefs and attachment to "-ism's" that make up the content of the "mind."
Ninety-seven percent of the persons on the planet report that they are affiliated with one religion or another, and millions more are claiming that they "are not religious but are spiritual." In all of those cases, those persons have assumed the role of "believers." They are taught ideas and concepts and beliefs that they are required to accept by fact-free, inquiry-free faith if they are to avoid the ominous threat of eternal punishment and to be rewarded not only "now" but also "forevermore."
Some others have assumed the role of "non-believers," meaning those who have looked at the ideas and concepts and beliefs
(a) being taught by so-called "faith-based institutions" or "spiritual groups" and
(b) being disseminated by "believers."
The "non-believers" have rejected those beliefs after objective questioning and impartial examination.
By contrast, the Fully Realized - abiding as the no-concept, no-belief, no-identity, non-dual Reality - cannot be said to be either "believers" or "non-believers." For the sake of discussion only, they can be pointed to with the label "no-belief-ers" (though, of course, they accept no labels of any kind at all).
Sages throughout the ages - as well as any truly Realized teachers that are offering pointers nowadays - have invited seekers to realize first and foremost that they have no mind of their own at all.
The "mind" is an accumulation of all of the ideas and concepts and beliefs and "-ism's" that have been dreamed up, accumulated, and then passed on from one generation to the next ... in some cases for centuries and in some cases for thousands of years.
A child that exits a plant-food body in which plant food elements formed its body - and is said to have been "born" - has a brain; however, the child does not initially have anything stored in that part of the brain which will later store and retrieve information and which will be called "a mind."
(As noted here, the brain is rooted in the elements; the "mind" is rooted in the faulty programming and conditioning and domestication and acculturation to which the child will be subjected.)
Eventually, that "mind" will be filled with ideas and concepts and beliefs that are not the child's ideas and concepts and beliefs but are the ideas and concepts and beliefs of the child's programmers, conditioners, domesticators and acculturators.
Thus, any talk about "my mind" or "your mind" is flawed, for every "mind" today is actually "their mind" to the degree that "they" have passed along the content of "their minds" to fill a new generation of "minds" with ideas and concepts and beliefs and "-ism's" that can be traced back to ancient myths and superstitions and non-facts and nonsense.
Follow the chain of the transmission of learned ignorance back to "their minds" and see that those were also not really "their minds" but were the "minds" of those who came before them.
The earliest teachers were those who dreamed up all sorts of ignorance-based "-ism's" and ideas and concepts and beliefs and passed those along to their followers, who passed those along to their offspring and to their followers, who passed those along to their offspring and to their followers, over and over and over, from "then" to "now."
Today, there are thousands of "-ism's" that are
(1) the breeding ground of future misery and suffering; that are
(2) the petri dishes where the bacteria flourish that will eventually cause the "The Ultimate Sickness"; and that are
(3) the nesting grounds for the continuation and proliferation and dissemination of the "-ism's" that nurture duality; distortion; illusion; delusion; learned ignorance; varying degrees of psychic unhealthiness as a result of personality disorders; a variety of neuroses; an assortment of psychoses and full-blown insanity; and the resulting inability to be in touch with reality or Reality either one.
How many "-ism's" can you name that you have been attached to at one time or another? Can you see that those "-ism's" planted within the "mind" certain beliefs and ideas and concepts that have since proved to be totally false?
If not, would you at least be willing to look at the "-ism's" that have influenced your thoughts and words and deeds and reevaluate their effects on your relative existence? If so, then the invitation is to make a list of the "-ism's" that you were subjected to or that you adopted and then assess objectively the effects.
TOMORROW: Looking at the plethora of "-ism's" and their Ultimate-Sickness-inducing effects.
(That has not, however, stopped some nowadays from distorting the teachings by adding all sorts of "-ism's" to non-duality pointers and promoting more ideas and concepts and beliefs rather than guiding seekers to a "state" of freedom that comes when all ideas and concepts and beliefs are purged from the fiction-filled "mind.")
Moreover, before going any further into a discussion of the subject, understand that here, there are no teachings. There are instances where the consciousness speaks in order for "un-teaching" (and thus "un-learning") to happen.
Persons who have been programmed with learned ignorance do not need "more programming," "re-programming," "the program," "this program" or "that program." Their Ultimate Sickness requires the Ultimate Medicine that de-programs and that leads to de-accumulation (including de-accumulation of all ideas and concepts and beliefs as well as attachment to all sorts of "-ism's").
When cancerous cells are found in a body, the intent of the treatment plan for that illness is for the body to eventually be completely rid of all of the cancerous cells, not to add more cancerous cells or to add a different set of new cancerous cells to replace an old set of cancerous cells. So it is with ideas and concepts and beliefs and attachment to "-ism's" that make up the content of the "mind."
Ninety-seven percent of the persons on the planet report that they are affiliated with one religion or another, and millions more are claiming that they "are not religious but are spiritual." In all of those cases, those persons have assumed the role of "believers." They are taught ideas and concepts and beliefs that they are required to accept by fact-free, inquiry-free faith if they are to avoid the ominous threat of eternal punishment and to be rewarded not only "now" but also "forevermore."
Some others have assumed the role of "non-believers," meaning those who have looked at the ideas and concepts and beliefs
(a) being taught by so-called "faith-based institutions" or "spiritual groups" and
(b) being disseminated by "believers."
The "non-believers" have rejected those beliefs after objective questioning and impartial examination.
By contrast, the Fully Realized - abiding as the no-concept, no-belief, no-identity, non-dual Reality - cannot be said to be either "believers" or "non-believers." For the sake of discussion only, they can be pointed to with the label "no-belief-ers" (though, of course, they accept no labels of any kind at all).
Sages throughout the ages - as well as any truly Realized teachers that are offering pointers nowadays - have invited seekers to realize first and foremost that they have no mind of their own at all.
The "mind" is an accumulation of all of the ideas and concepts and beliefs and "-ism's" that have been dreamed up, accumulated, and then passed on from one generation to the next ... in some cases for centuries and in some cases for thousands of years.
A child that exits a plant-food body in which plant food elements formed its body - and is said to have been "born" - has a brain; however, the child does not initially have anything stored in that part of the brain which will later store and retrieve information and which will be called "a mind."
(As noted here, the brain is rooted in the elements; the "mind" is rooted in the faulty programming and conditioning and domestication and acculturation to which the child will be subjected.)
Eventually, that "mind" will be filled with ideas and concepts and beliefs that are not the child's ideas and concepts and beliefs but are the ideas and concepts and beliefs of the child's programmers, conditioners, domesticators and acculturators.
Thus, any talk about "my mind" or "your mind" is flawed, for every "mind" today is actually "their mind" to the degree that "they" have passed along the content of "their minds" to fill a new generation of "minds" with ideas and concepts and beliefs and "-ism's" that can be traced back to ancient myths and superstitions and non-facts and nonsense.
Follow the chain of the transmission of learned ignorance back to "their minds" and see that those were also not really "their minds" but were the "minds" of those who came before them.
The earliest teachers were those who dreamed up all sorts of ignorance-based "-ism's" and ideas and concepts and beliefs and passed those along to their followers, who passed those along to their offspring and to their followers, who passed those along to their offspring and to their followers, over and over and over, from "then" to "now."
Today, there are thousands of "-ism's" that are
(1) the breeding ground of future misery and suffering; that are
(2) the petri dishes where the bacteria flourish that will eventually cause the "The Ultimate Sickness"; and that are
(3) the nesting grounds for the continuation and proliferation and dissemination of the "-ism's" that nurture duality; distortion; illusion; delusion; learned ignorance; varying degrees of psychic unhealthiness as a result of personality disorders; a variety of neuroses; an assortment of psychoses and full-blown insanity; and the resulting inability to be in touch with reality or Reality either one.
How many "-ism's" can you name that you have been attached to at one time or another? Can you see that those "-ism's" planted within the "mind" certain beliefs and ideas and concepts that have since proved to be totally false?
If not, would you at least be willing to look at the "-ism's" that have influenced your thoughts and words and deeds and reevaluate their effects on your relative existence? If so, then the invitation is to make a list of the "-ism's" that you were subjected to or that you adopted and then assess objectively the effects.
TOMORROW: Looking at the plethora of "-ism's" and their Ultimate-Sickness-inducing effects.
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