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The discussion at this point in the series is now focusing on "The Most Influential Obstacles Of All" which have come via dreamed up myths and superstitions and via "religious" and / or "spiritual" sources, including religious and / or spiritual thoughts, ideas, concepts, notions, views, theories, inklings, perceptions, a.k.a., "beliefs."
Recall the man who approached me after a talk and said, "I was abused as a child by a priest. I've done years of work to try to get beyond that, but where I am today is, I still cringe when people start talking religion to me. So my question is, have you found a way to guide people to realization and freedom without their having to buy into the dogma you talk about?"
Moreover, look at the fact that the popular venues where seekers seek (or the popular venues where people go who are convinced that they have never had to seek because their parents hooked them up with those venues and taught them that their particular venue was the only one where truth was taught) and see that they have a 5000+-year history of failing to set persons free of their distorted and delusional and freedom-blocking and independence-blocking belief systems. Then it should be clear why Maharaj eventually advised seekers to avoid those venues.
Thus, this:
REALIZING WITHOUT DOGMA, WITHOUT CONTINUOUS SPIRITUAL PRACTICES, AND WITHOUT A PREOCCUPATION WITH “THE NATURE OF REALITY AND THINGS NOUMENAL”
[Continued from yesterday]
Had Maharaj not been the sole maverick, rebel, mutineer, revolutionary, and radical dissenter in a 5000-year lineage of Far Eastern teachers who offered so many different ways and forms and processes to be used to address an illness (a Sickness) which was rooted
in humankind’s most significant problem
but which
had been completely misdiagnosed as a too-little-dogma problem and / or misdiagnosed as a sick-spirit-related problem,
then
the few who are seeking, and seeking via Eastern teachings, and who have been exposed to the teachings offered during the last stage of Maharaj's evolution and during the days when his experimenting with various forms of the Ultimate Medicine had been completed,
then
those seekers would have likely had no alternative method or approach available to use to address the true roots of the Ultimate Sickness, namely, the mental problems which now plague the masses all around the globe.
[Want to seek via religion (or not seek at all because religion has convinced you that it and you already have all the answers)? Fine. Want to seek via spirituality (or not seek at all because spirituality has convinced you that it has moved you to a higher plane than religious people are on and has convinced you that you now have found all the answers)? Fine. But consider potential scenarios "A," "B," and "C":
(A) Imagine what the results might be if the 97% of the people on the planet who are involved with one organized religion or another could persuade the other 3% of the people on the planet to join them and become religious; or,
(B) imagine if the millions who proudly boast that they “are not religious but are spiritual” could entice the billions of religious people to abandon their dogma and take up spiritual exercises and principles; or,
(C) imagine if everyone on the planet suddenly understood the concept of “the Supreme Self” and started thinking and talking and behaving like a “Supreme Self.”
Then imagine – in contrast to those three scenarios - scenario "D":
(D) Imagine what the results might be all around the globe if persons were effectively treated for “learned ignorance” and “insanity,” just as Maharaj eventually recommended.
Which of those four scenarios might any truly honest and objective and sensible and astute and wise observer conclude is most likely to have any significant effect on changing the way that persons behave on a global basis?
Being religious? Being spiritual? Identifying with a Supreme Self and acting like a Supreme Self with everyone encountered? Or being freed of ignorance and being returned to one’s original condition of being sane? Of those four, isn’t the accurate choice a "no-brainer"?]
That said, Maharaj was not invested at all in what method or approach any seeker tried, nor did he try to persuade those not seeking to begin seeking. Same here.
Now some persons want to debate what method Maharaj used, not realizing that he tried many methods and abandoned many methods. And some actually want to explain to me what approach is being used here though they haven’t the slightest degree of understanding regarding what approach is presently being offered vs. what methods were tried in the past and abandoned.
With Maharaj, his attitude was . . . argue away if you like, but the argument is going to be one-sided because the debate will happen without my participation. (And isn't that always the reality of what is involved? Persons who want to enter into such arguments are always actually just arguing with themselves, with one or more of their false selves).
Somewhere along the way a man who offered non-dual pointers was heard to say something that related to this topic, something about how he no longer assumes any role, including the role of the one who is desiring to wake up as many people as possible. Many persons hate the alarm clock which wakes them each morning, so imagine how they feel about a human doing the same.
Here, the same view is held: argue on, but the argument will have to happen without any participation on this front. An old redneck comment heard mainly in the deep South in the U.S. is, “I ain’t got no dog in that fight, so I don’t care about that fight at all.”
Maharaj had no dog in that fight. I have no dog in that fight. Fight on, but the focus here will remain on those who have at last – once and for all – tired of the fight and are now earnestly seeking a method or approach that might finally lead to peace (and to peace NOW, not “later”).
What disrupts the peace more than anything? Ignorance and insanity.
So what can restore peace more effectively than anything?
Religion?
Spirituality?
Assuming the identity of "The Supreme Self"?
Or . . .
bringing to an end one's ignorance and insanity?
Hummm. Which would you conclude?
To be continued.
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