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THE SEEDS OF DUALITY WHICH PRODUCE DUALITY'S PROGENY:
Offspring Number Twenty-
The Belief That Things Can Stay the Way They Are and That Change Can Be Stopped
Jeshu'a (Jesus) shared the non-dual pointer that "dual-minded persons are unstable in all ways." By way of that point, he renounced both dual-mindedness and instability.
Maharaj also endorsed a "well-ordered" life, an orderly relative existence. Because life, the relative existence, is marked by nothing if not constant change, finding a way to bring order to that which by definition is disorderly calls for an understanding which is beyond that heard in any of the venues which are the most popular among the masses: religious buildings or "holy" sites or "spiritual places" or political rallies, etc.
Of that always-disorderly, always contradictory, relative existence, Maharaj said: "The world is full of contradictions; hence, your search for harmony and peace. These you cannot find in the world, for the world is the child of chaos. To find order you must search within. The world comes into being only when you are born in a body. No body — no world."
Again, as noted yesterday, this point of his remains relevant: "The entire purpose of a clean and well-ordered life is to liberate man from the thralldom of chaos and the burden of sorrow."
Yet with humankind's addictions to control and power always being combined with a desire among the most advantaged to avoid change and maintain the status quo, that combination leads non-realized persons (that is, per Maharaj, persons driven by learned ignorance) to believe that they can gain power and then hold power for a lifetime.
That belief is central to the thought-life of every dictator / authoritarian / ruler / tyrant / despot who has ever lived.
Hitler proclaimed that the society and the power structure which the Nazis had built was going to last 1000 years. How'd that work out? He saw Nazi Germany as lasting from 1933 A.D. to 2933 A.D. It's actual dates?
1933 to 1945. His specific claim missed by 988 years.
[Yet the results can be seen to have been mixed because the remnants of that society never ended. Neo-Nazis and fascists groups are active in Germany - though not as openly as they now operate in the U.S. - as well as in France, Italy, Austria, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Romania, the Ukraine, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, the Netherlands, Poland, Russia, the Scandinavian countries, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Kingdom, India, Pakistan, Israel, Mongolia, Taiwan, Iran, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, and South Africa to name many of their home bases but not all.
As with Hitler, demagogues / dictators / authoritarians / rulers / tyrants / despots come and go. Sometimes they die; sometimes their citizenry rise up and kill them; sometimes other nations rise up and end their reign. Then chaotic self-rule follows, sometimes with subsequent periods of stability, only to see that end as well. The pendulum is forever swinging.]
Always on planet earth and in this universe, chaos reigns. Some godly, religious, or spiritual people claim that "God made a universe that runs with perfect order." Again, the truth was missed. This universe is the epitome of chaos.
Galaxies with gas and dust and entire stars can be observed as their parts fall into massive black holes. Or, in other cases, two galaxies can merge into a new and larger galaxy. Our own Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy are heading for such a merger (but don't wait up at night to watch for that).
Meanwhile, Maharaj said that "The enlightened are not misled. They knows the changeless."
It is only via that understanding that a "well-ordered" life - freed of constant "chaos and the burden of sorrow" - can be known and enjoyed.
To be continued.
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Here, with those who are still driven to talk about "God," the "Son of God," the "Holy Spirit," "Buddha," "Krishna," etc., etc., etc., the invitation to them is to view those as verbs, not nouns.
THE EXPLANATION
If looked at as nouns, they point to illusions and are, therefore, a total waste of time to even discuss; if looked at as verbs which are resulting in certain sane but rare behaviors among humanity, then they are worthy of some attention during the relative existence.
Meaning? There are members of certain groups who say things such as "My concept of God in the past was of a weak God, an absentee God, A Santa Claus-type God, a mean, punishing, vindictive God, etc. Today, I am in close contact with a loving and caring God whom I worship and praise and glorify and give thanks to."
The reply to that usually goes like this: "If you are in contact with a God that wants to be worshipped and praised and glorified, then you're dealing with someone like yourself - a narcissist - and hanging out with narcissists will never bring an end to your narcissism (that narcissism evidenced by the fact that you think you are "godly").
Next, in the phrase 'loving and caring God,' any supposed God that truly had her or his act together would tell you that the totally irrelevant part of that phrase is 'God' and that the only part that is relevant is the "loving and caring" part.
"That is, a non-narcissistic god / goddess would say, "I care not an iota about being worshipped and praised and glorified by you or anyone else. How arrogant and insecure and needy would I have to be to want that? Forget the man-made, dreamed up noun 'God' and focus on the 'God as a verb' understanding and then go forth and let loving and caring be verbs - not adjectives - and let them generate the act of love and the act of caring and let those actions manifest through you."
Yeshu'a (Jesus) and Pope John Paul II and Pope Francis were spot on:
"No one shall ever see 'the kingdom of heaven.' It is within"
--Yeshu'a (Jesus)
and
"Heaven and earth shall fade away."
--Yeshu'a (Jesus)
and
"Heaven and hell are not geographic places
but are states of mind,
nothing more than concepts dreamed up by men."
--Pope John Paul II
"There is no hell."
--Pope Francis, the current pope
in an interview with journalist Eugenio Scalfari,
a writer used by the Pope to issue off the record
teachings
which become a part of the Papal Magisterium.
[That said, would that the popes who have shown the courage to reject a core concept of their dogma - namely, "hell" - would find the additional courage required to question the very existence of their institution in light of the centuries-long cover-up of their history of raping children and in light of the mental and emotional and psychological scarring of billions of their members past and present.
And that need for courage also applies as questions need to be asked about why so many other sky cults are still being supported and allowed to continue to exist as well. When certain types of programming and conditioning have been shown to blind the masses, they should end. Will they? Not likely. Why?
Because what the masses think and say and do is most influenced by the international crime families which hold sway over the masses as criminals conduct their planet-wide operations. What are the major international crime families and which are the most influential and have the largest memberships?
The Mafia / La Cosa Nostra; the Catholic Church (with it 1.2 billion followers); Protestant and Evangelical Churches (with over 1.2 billion followers) like the one I was raised in where the youth director molested and sexually assaulted young girls; big business which has long created environments in which people have been abused; powerful political bodies like the U.S. Congress, etc., etc., etc.)
With all of those crime families, neither the followers nor the leadership ever voluntarily step down or shut down their criminal activities. Be they gangs, organized crime families, religions, big business, politicians, etc., they all want control and they all want power and they all want money, and nothing internal will interfere with the driving forces at play.
The masses must demand that all those in charge must step down and their groups and institutions must shut down, and there's the real problem because the continuation of their crimes are enabled not as much by the people running such crime organizations as they are enabled by the masses of people who - wanting some perceived "payoff" - remain involved with them and give them money and support them and aid and abet the continued existence of those criminal enterprises and thus facilitate the ability of church criminals and political criminals and other types of criminals to continue to commit their crimes.]
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