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THE SEEDS OF DUALITY WHICH PRODUCE DUALITY'S PROGENY:
Offspring Number Sixty-Three =
No Interest in Being Truly Free and Independent
THE MASSES PREFER DEPENDENCY AND CODEPENDENCY AND ATTACHMENT TO THE THINGS WHICH ROB PERSONS OF THEIR FREEDOM
The sages have long discussed truth and seeking it and finding it. Why? Because, as Maharaj said in several different ways, “The sole job of ‘the non-dual teacher’ is to free seekers of their learned ignorance.”
Moreover, because learned ignorance is based in lies, then the job of ‘the non-dual teacher’ is also to point toward the truth in order to allow seekers to realize the truth in order to free them from their belief in the lies which have robbed billions and trillions of humans of freedom and wisdom and sanity.
Yet few will ever cross paths with an actually wise teacher that can point toward the truth; thus, Maharaj warned seekers to “stay away from ‘the Big Name Teachers’.” Why?
Use syllogistic reasoning to understand:
If “A” loves lies and tells lies
and
if “B” loves “A”
then
it becomes obvious that lies are more popular than truth with "B."
To be popular among the masses ("B" above) requires one to avoid telling them the truth and requires one to avoid telling them “their truth” (which is always a lie).
Hence, humankind's long-standing propensity for the lie over the truth and for liars over the truthful is observable, as touched upon in these pointers:
TOLERATED LIES
“When truth is replaced by silence, the silence is a lie.”
― Yevgeny Yevtushenko
“RELATIONSHIP” LIES and “RELATIONSHIPS-WITH-POLITICIANS-BASED” LIES
[There is no difference in being in a “personal relationship” with a liar and being in relationship with lying politicians. What applies in one case applies in the other:]
“By the time you swear you're his,
Shivering and sighing.
And he vows his passion is
Infinite, undying,
Lady make note of this:
One of you is lying.”
― Dorothy Parker
“The rules are simple: they lie to us, we know they're lying, they know we know they're lying, but they keep lying to us, and we keep pretending to believe them.”
― Elena Gorokhova
“Cheating and lying aren't struggles . . . they're reasons to break up.”
― Patti Callahan Henry
“Fiction was invented the day Jonah arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.”
― Gabriel García Márquez
“Facts are threatening to those invested in fraud.”
― DaShanne Stokes
“There’s a tipping point with lies, a point where you’ve said something so many times that it feels truer than the truth.”
― Holly Black
XENOPHOBIA-BASED LIES
“History is a set of lies agreed upon.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
["Ours is the greatest country on earth."]
“THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE, BUT IT’S GOING TO REALLY PISS YOU OFF FIRST”
“The truth is always an insult or a joke; lies are generally tastier. We love them. The nature of lies is to please. Truth has no concern for anyone's comfort.”
― Katherine Dunn
[Hence, lairs are more popular than those that point to the truth and become popular and are thus "Big Names"]
LIES PASSED DOWN FROM ADULTS TO CHILDREN
“How is it possible that our parents lied to us? Let’s see:
‘Santa,’ ‘the Tooth Fairy,’ ‘the Easter Bunny,’ um, ‘God.’
‘You're the prettiest kid in school.’
‘This won’t hurt a bit.’
'Your face will freeze like that . . . . ‘
‘Everything’s going to be alright.”
― Brian K. Vaughan
EGOTISM-BASED LIES
and
DISTORTION-AND-DELUSION-BASED LIES
“The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made . . . is being ashamed of what they were, lying about it, trying to be somebody else.”
― J.K. Rowling
“Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.”
“I lie to myself all the time.”
― S.E. Hinton
“I believe in my mask . . . the man I made up is me.”
― Sam Shepard
“The most dangerous lies are the ones you tell yourself.”
Maharaj was quite clear when differentiating between “the true vs. the false”:
“Truth is simple and open to all: Why do you complicate?
“Truth is loving and lovable. It includes all, accepts all, purifies all. It is untruth that is difficult and a source of trouble. It always wants, expects, demands.
“Being false, it is empty, always in search of confirmation and reassurance. It is afraid of and avoids enquiry. It identifies itself with any support, however weak and momentary.
“Whatever it gets, it loses and asks for more.
“Therefore put no faith in the conscious. Nothing you can see, feel, or think is so. Even sin and virtue, merit and demerit are not what they appear.
Usually the bad and the good are matter of convention and custom and are shunned or welcomed, according to how the words are used.”
Seems simple enough to grasp, yes? The rub? The "non-realized masses," abiding as they do under the auspices of their learned ignorance, cannot differentiate between the true and the false.
Thus - once programmed, conditioned, acculturated, domesticated, brainwashed and indoctrinated - they are forever trapped and, therefore, never free.
How to be free?
Abandon all beliefs
which will in the process
undo the effects of the distorted and delusional and ignorant programming and conditioning and acculturation and domestication and brainwashing and indoctrination which strip the masses of any possibility of understanding the difference in what is true as opposed to all that they have been told . . . which was all totally false.
which will in the process
undo the effects of the distorted and delusional and ignorant programming and conditioning and acculturation and domestication and brainwashing and indoctrination which strip the masses of any possibility of understanding the difference in what is true as opposed to all that they have been told . . . which was all totally false.
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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