Thursday, April 14, 2016

MAHARAJ: “Lightment” vs. Enlightenment, Part “QQ”

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If one does not return to the pre-programmed, pre-conditioned “Child Ignorance State” / “Child No-Knowing Stage,” then one will behave as a “creature of habit." And “creatures of habit” are not habits – they are creatures, the creatures of one’s scariest nightmare . . . a nightmare in which persons walk about in a “Night of the Living Dead, zombie-like” mode, convinced that they are awake but talking and walking about while being totally asleep. If asleep, no one can make conscious choices. 

Such persons will do whatever they do based only on what was passed down to them by their usually-ignorant ancestors and will, therefore, think and talk and behave in a most ignorant fashion. 

Almost all humans accept as valid and true the labels which they are assigned; the beliefs which they were taught but which are nothing more than myth-and-superstition-based, hand-me-down bits of nonsense, so they will forever be at conflict with self and with others. 

The roots of such conflicts were addressed in the Prince Ea interview which was first discussed here in late 2014 and which was shared again recently because of its relevance to the topic under discussion.

But oh how some report to hate the way that Prince Ea “expresses himself.” 

And how some hate the way he looks. 

And how very much some hated the way he spoke the truth when he addressed the issues in Ferguson, MO, U.S.A.; and more significantly, the truth about the U.S.A., period; and even more significantly, the truth about what persons take to be “the world.” 

Such persons reveal, via their hatred of the truth, that they have missed the non-dual understanding completely and are totally absorbed in duality. So let’s take Ferguson out of the equation, and the U.S. out of the equation, and the so-called “world” out of the equation. 

Then maybe it can be understood that Prince Ea does not “express himself.” Maharaj said, “I talk to you from the perspective of the universal consciousness.” In that case, Maharaj was not speaking when pointers of truth were being hear. In those cases, it was the pure, unblocked consciousness which was speaking, not whoever or whatever persons assume Maharaj to have been or to be. The same can be seen to happen on occasion with Prince Ea. 

If that is understood, then the artificial blockages set in place by programming, conditioning, etc. can fall away and the non-duality pointers which come via that which is labeled “Prince Ea” might be heard objectively and analyzed wisely and understood completely. 

Then seekers and non-seekers alike might listen objectively to what he has to say about the body”; about personality identifications (or “labels”); about how differentiation and division are the prerequisites for conflict; about the Oneness; and about what Real Love truly is and about what Real Love can truly bring into manifestation. 

After that, then maybe the question asked by Maharaj (“When you travel in a car, are you the car?”) and the pointer offered here (“When you fly in an airplane, you are not the airplane”) might be reinforced when Prince Ea explains the way that faulty logic ends up making people mistake a car for what is inside the car.

Moreover, it might be that other of Maharaj’s pointers will be pulled back into consciousness when Prince Ea speaks of those same non-dual truths, as when Maharaj encouraged seekers to seek that which is “undifferentiated”; or when he said, “All divisions are illusory”; or when he said “Love is wise”; and when he said, “Once the true nature of Love is understood, there will be no conflict or confusion”; or when he said, “To seek unity is Love.” 

Thus, for those interested in Maharaj’s pointers about artificial labels and body and personality identification and differentiation and division and the roots of conflict and the Oneness and Love, the following might be of interest as well:

 To be continued. 

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