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BELIEVERS AND THEIR "-ISM'S," NON-BELIEVERS, AND "NO-BELIEF-ERS," Part Three

2012-01-28T08:00:00.005-05:00

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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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"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.: To review:

1. There are those who are truly seeking peace.

2. There are those who are not seeking peace because they are attached to control and are addicted to the excitement of chaos in an effort to relieve a dull existence of its tedium and boredom and depression and monotony.

3. In an effort to escape monotony, both chaos and dualism seem appealing.

4. For those truly seeking peace, it cannot happen unless one is freed from belief in and attachment to any "-ism."

5. Nor can peace happen unless one is freed from belief in any false identity or role or personality or personas because they are the prerequisite for misery and the driving force behind all suffering.

5. The peace / "-ism" dilemma is this: attachment to "-ism's" reinforces attachment to "-ism"-related personas, and "-ism"-related personas reinforce attachment to "-ism's."

Example #1:

"We are a helping, civilizing people when we invade nations with their backwards populations and share our advanced culture with them," which actually means "we have a history of imposing our high cultural standards upon lesser people to our economic advantage." To assume the role of "The Helping, Civilizing People" reinforces attachment to colonialism; colonialism reinforces the false belief that the invaders are "helping" and "civil." That is not unlike the parent who says, "I am disciplining you by whipping you because I love you" while the child is thinking, "Then just stop loving me, you ignorant ass. Your version of 'love' is killing me."

Example #2:

"We (Jews / Christians / Muslims) are the only ones whose beliefs are right" reinforces belief in and attachment to Judaism / Protestantism or Catholicism / Islamism. Attachment to Judaism / Protestantism or Catholicism / Islamism, in turn, reinforces the false belief that "I am a Jew" or "I am a Christian" or "I am a Muslim." Such beliefs, in turn, support duality and a sense of "separation from" and "better-than-ment" and "different-from-ness," and those concepts and false identities and drivers of attachment to "-ism's," in turn, have resulted in more murdering than any other single factor in human history.

6. Attachment to "-ism's" will always 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.

7. So, personality and "-ism's" work hand-in-hand to support each other and to nurture attachments and personality-assumption.

8. Personality-assumption robs persons of the ability to choose thoughts and words and deeds and leaves persons at the mercy of the hidden agendas of personality (which is the root of all usually-unfounded-fears and all unmet-and-thus-frustrating desires).

9. Fears and desires generate misery and suffering and rob persons of any chance of finding peace.

10. To understand personality and which personalities are generating the personality-trance which traps persons in an endless cycle of misery-producing thoughts ("mind"-chatter) and which determines subconsciously all words and actions, the Enneagram provides a tool that can uncover the subconscious drivers of thoughts and words and deeds and can reveal - on an exact scale - the degree to which each assumed personality is driving a person.

Thus, the tool that can assist seekers with seeing which personalities are driving them - and to what degree and with what consequences - was introduced yesterday.

It was noted that Ichazo used Enneagram analysis to show seekers exactly how "the ego begins to develop, [how] there is a transition from objectivity to subjectivity, and [how humans] fall from essence into personality."

Ichazo saw the Enneagram as a tool that can be used to examine specifics about the structure of essence and particularly about the ways in which the qualities of essence "become distorted, or contracted into states of ego."

In developing his Enneagram theories, he drew upon the teachings regarding "the nine divine forms"; the teachings of Plato; the teachings of Plotinus; and teachings by early mystics who focused their studies on "the loss of the divine forms in ego consciousness" (those forms including tolerance, humility, sincerity, gratitude, non-attachment, courage, patience, temperance, and discernment).

Therein lies the core Advaita message: when trapped in "an ego-state / personality consciousness" as opposed to being free as a result of awareness of the essence and the True Self, then tolerance, humility, sincerity, gratitude, non-attachment, courage, patience, temperance, and discernment will never manifest during the AM-ness.

The opposites of the "divine forms," in the course of their travels from Greece to Egypt over the course of a century, became distorted and reduced by religion to "seven deadly sins" which pointed at the means by which "the divine forms" became distorted into the so-called "sins" of anger, pride, envy, avarice, gluttony, lust, and sloth.

Ichazo's non-dual message that was delivered with a focus on personality and "personality-driven defects" also drew from the teachings of the Kabbala, but his key contribution as far as Advaitins are concerned was in discovering how these "divine forms" and their corresponding distortions connected with the already-existing Enneagram symbol and with human thinking, feeling, and instinct.

With that understanding, he showed how a person loses both awareness and the sense of pure presence, falling away from essence into the trance of the personality; how the loss of awareness becomes a person's ego-fixation; how the loss of contact with essence and Self eliminates tolerance, humility, sincerity, gratitude, non-attachment, courage, patience, temperance, and discernment;

and how the loss of contact with the essence and the Self sets the stage for persons to be driven by their "characteristic passion" (or "passions" or "personality traits"), including wrath and resentment and anger; pride; deceit; melancholia and jealousy and envy; greed and avarice; panic and cowardice; conceit and gluttony; lust; and indifference or laziness.

The link with the Advaita message is this: when one loses contact with the essence and with Self and falls into a personality trance, then the combined effects of

(1) that loss of contact with the essence and the Self

and

(2) the subsequent identification with body and mind and personality

become so acute that the person's ego-states become preoccupied with recreating the contact.

It is - at least in some cases - that "acute" search for contact with one's Original (Pure) Nature that drives persons to assume the role of "The Seeker."

That would be fine except for the fact that - without a Realized teacher as a guide or without being in touch with the inner guru - then the search unfolds in a totally futile and self-defeating way.

The masses are engaged in that blind search for their essence and for an awareness of the True Self, but blocked from seeing clearly by the sources of ambiguity and duality (rooted in programming, domestication, conditioning, acculturation, and their personality trance), they know not what they seek;

in most cases, their seeking ends at the third of seven steps on the seven-step "journey" from identification with the false "I" to abidance as the Absolute (the third step being where they assume the false identity of "The Religious One" or "The Spiritual One" or "The Realized One" and where their search becomes focus of seeking control and power);

furthermore, the odds are slim that they will ever cross paths with a Fully Realized teacher that can reveal to them exactly what "that / That" is which they are "missing" and thus seeking; therefore, they will usually seek blindly or will be misled by their "leaders" or "big name teachers" - all of whom are equally blind.

So it is, but so it need not be for those that have come this way and that accept what the Enneagram and the Advaitin teachings combined can reveal.

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BELIEVERS AND THEIR "-ISM'S," NON-BELIEVERS, AND "NO-BELIEF-ERS," Part Two

2012-01-27T06:39:00.006-05:00

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"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.: To attach to - and to be driven by - the agendas of the "this-ism's" or "that-ism's" catalogued yesterday is to eliminate any chance of "giving peace a chance."

Peace cannot happen unless one is free and - just as a ship attached to a dock is not free and, therefore, cannot fulfill its natural providence - a person cannot function naturally or peacefully if attached to any of the "-ism's" mentioned in that earlier post.

Why? Because, as mentioned, attachment to "-ism's" will always 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.

The same applies when personas are assigned or adopted because persons fall under the blinding spell of the belief that "this" or "that" defines who (or what) they are.

The antidote that some sages have used throughout history to treat belief in the "this-ism's" and "that-ism's" which persons use to identify themselves is the mantra "I AM." The advice is to focus on the “I AM” and to break the habit of allowing any word or label other than “THAT” to ever follow the phrase.

Then, “I am a great husband” and “I am a great wife” and “I am a super employee” and “I am a great lover” all become instead “I AM” ... only, “I AM” ... only, “I AM” ... only, and “I AM" ... only.

An impression based in reality is an intrinsic impression. Prior to having being taught even a single idea or concept, a child (i.e., a space housing newly-manifested consciousness) is aware of its Is-ness. Even the most recently-manifested speck of consciousness is in touch with the intuitive impression that It Is. It intrinsically “knows” I AM.

Were it to later Realize, it could say as another Realized teacher said and as is said here: "Do not speak of me as 'floyd'; speak of me as I AM." Were it to later Realize, the speck would not mistakenly believe that it was born but would say, "Before my 'parents' and even before 'this world,' I AM."

Any impression other than the intrinsic impression that I AM (and, post-Realization, I AM THAT) is merely an idea, a concept. All other impressions are nothing more than learned, acquired, false beliefs.

All man-fabricated religious and spiritual “knowledge,” all ideas, and all concepts are generated from that accumulation of fiction called the “mind” and from fictional identities called personas or personalities or roles or ego-states or stage characters or states-of-being-this or states-of-being-that. How could that which is associated with a mind-mirage and associated with a personality-mirage possibly be real?

Yet such impressions control the thoughts and words and deeds of persons (the non-Realized) across the planet. The result is that persons are unstable and are offensive at times as they are driven by their impressions and are defensive at times when driven by other impressions. Their impressions will also drive them to be aggressive at times and cowering at other times. Instability is guaranteed.

The following pointers are often shared with those trying to understand personality and trying to understand why all sages have advised seekers to take the steps required to be free of personality ... to be free of belief in all of their "this-ism's" and "that-ism's" which they actually think can identify who they are:

Many ask why the enneagram personality inventory tool is offered here along with Advaitin pointers. Consider: at the root of the hundreds of personality disorders that can

a. guarantee a loss of contact with the essence and the True Self and that can

b. generate ignorant or insane thoughts and words and deeds is - of course - personality.

Personality - the belief that "I am this" or "I am that" - must be understood completely in order to be discarded completely as an identity and to be eliminated as the key hidden motivator of dualistic thoughts and words and actions.

Further, Realization cannot happen unless the seeker understands personality; understands how personality drives persons via misery-producing desires and fears; understands the full impact of personality on the relative existence; understands how it generates a sense of dis-ease and separation; understands how personality produces emotional instability; and understands how it blocks any and all opportunity to know the Oneness (reinforcing instead the false belief in "different-from" and "better-than" and "higher than" and "apart from").

One of the most ancient of all methods used to "treat" the sicknesses that are generated by personality is Advaita, and the Advaita-Enneagram connection is ancient as well, though the enneagram or enneagram-like revelations that were a part of the ancient teachings appeared in a variety of versions.

The science-based version used here is relatively new, now offering the ancient understanding with more clarity and validity than ever before and allowing the transitioning beyond personality-identification to happen more quickly and efficiently for many seekers of Full Realization.

That said, the kind of information that is revealed by the testing and personality typing that is employed here is the information that Advaitin teachers have shared for hundreds and thousands of years, making the understanding of one's personality (actually, "personalities") central to the Realization process.

It is one thing to speak of personality in the most general of terms, but when persons are shown on a scale of 1-100 the exact rate of their personality-based anger or pride or lust or laziness, then more awareness seems to come (which allows for many the ability to detach from the personalities that are blocking the "path" to Realization).

To understand the Advaita-Enneagram linkage, consider some of the historical background, with gratitude to the early teachers such as Evagrius and Ichazo and to the more recent instructors that are versed in the use of the Enneagram (called by some "a matrix of personality structures that recognizes nine observable points of view" among persons).

To understand the historical background is to understand how persons become separated from the essence and the Self; how that separation results in passions that generate the most despicable "personality defects" imaginable, relatively speaking; and why the Advaita "path" has become necessary as a means by which persons can "re-connect" with the essence, the Self, and Real Love.

Ichazo, who early on made the link between the non-duality teachings and the understandings that can be revealed via the Enneagram, said:

"We have to distinguish between [humans] in essence [vs. how they are] in ego or personality. In essence, every [human] is perfect, fearless, and in a loving unity with the entire cosmos; there is no conflict within the [human] between head, heart, and stomach or between the [human] and others. Then something happens: the ego begins to develop, there is a transition from objectivity to subjectivity, and [humans] fall from essence into personality."

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BELIEVERS AND THEIR "-ISM'S," NON-BELIEVERS, AND "NO-BELIEF-ERS," Part One

2012-01-26T09:04:00.004-05:00

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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.

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Lines from I AM THE WALRUS

[F.: One writer claimed that the song’s opening line is "'The Beatles' most succinct affirmation of the metaphysics of Vedanta which underscores our basic unity.”]

I am he as you are he
as you are me and
we are all together.

(John Lennon with Paul McCartney)

Lines from NOT GUILTY

Not guilty
For getting in your way
While you’re trying to steal the day.

I am not trying to be smart.

Not guilty
For looking like a freak,
Making friends with every sikh.
Not guilty.

I’m really sorry that you’ve been misled.
But like you heard me say:
Not guilty.

(George Harrison)

Lines from All Things Must Pass

Sunrise doesn't last all morning;
a cloudburst doesn't last all day.

All things must pass,
all things must pass away.

Sunset doesn't last all evening.
All things must pass,
all things must pass away.

All things must pass -
none of life's strings can last.

Darkness only stays at nighttime;
in the morning it will fade away.
Daylight is good at arriving at the right time.

All things must pass,
all things must pass away.
All things must pass,
all things must pass away.

(George Harrison)

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F.: George Harrison said that the song "I Me Mine" is "about the ego - the eternal problem."

I Me Mine

All thru' the day: I me mine, I me mine, I me mine.
All thru' the night: I me mine, I me mine, I me mine.
Now they're frightened of leaving it,
Ev'ryone's weaving it,
Coming on strong all the time,
All thru' the day: I me mine.

I-I-me-me mine,
I-I-me-me mine,
I-I-me-me mine,
I-I-me-me mine.

All I can hear: I me mine, I me mine, I me mine.
Even those tears: I me mine, I me mine, I me mine.
No-one's frightened of playing it,
Ev'ryone's saying it,
Flowing more freely than wine,
All thru' Your life: I me mine.

[Chorus]

All I can hear: I me mine, I me mine, I me mine.
Even those tears: I me mine, I me mine, I me mine.
No-one's frightened of playing it,
Ev'ryone's saying it,
Flowing more freely than wine,
All thru' your life I me mine.

(George Harrison)

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STRAWBERRY FIELDS FOREVER

Let me take you down, 'cause I'm going to Strawberry Fields.
Nothing is real and nothing to get hung about.
Strawberry Fields forever.

Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see.
It's getting hard to be someone, but it all works out:
It doesn't matter much to me.

Let me take you down, 'cause I'm going to Strawberry Fields.
Nothing is real and nothing to get hung about.
Strawberry Fields forever.

No one I think is in my tree - I mean it must be high or low.
That is you can't. you know. tune in ... but it's all right.
That is, I think it's not too bad.

Let me take you down, 'cause I'm going to Strawberry Fields.
Nothing is real and nothing to get hung about.
Strawberry Fields forever.

Always know ... sometimes think it's me ... but you know I know, and it's a dream.
I think I know of "thee," ah yes, but it's all wrong.
That is I think I disagree.

Let me take you down, 'cause I'm going to Strawberry Fields.
Nothing is real and nothing to get hung about.
Strawberry Fields forever.
Strawberry Fields forever.
Strawberry Fields forever.

(John Lennon, attributed to Lennon / McCartney)

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the park across the street from The Dakota where he had lived and where he was assassinated at approximately 10:50 P.M. on 8 December 1980.

Lennon and Yoko often walked through the area of the park across the street from their apartment, the area renamed "Strawberry Fields" by the city of New York in 1985.

The city of Napoli (Naples), Italy donated the "Imagine" mosaic
which is now the centerpiece of the memorial.

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Eleanor Rigby

Ah, look at all the lonely people.
Ah, look at all the lonely people.

Eleanor Rigby, picks up the rice
In the church where a wedding has been ...
Lives in a dream.

Waits at the window, wearing the face
That she keeps in a jar by the door.
Who is it for?

All the lonely people.
Where do they all come from?
All the lonely people.
Where do they all belong?

Father McKenzie, writing the words
of a sermon that no one will hear.
No one comes near.

Look at him working, darning his socks
In the night when there's nobody there.
What does he care?

All the lonely people.
Where do they all come from?
All the lonely people.
Where do they all belong?

Ah, look at all the lonely people.
Ah, look at all the lonely people.

Eleanor Rigby, died in the church
And was buried along with her name.
Nobody came.

Father McKenzie, wiping the dirt
From his hands as he walks from the grave.
No one was saved.

All the lonely people.
(Ah, look at all the lonely people)
Where do they all come from?
All the lonely people.
(Ah, look at all the lonely people)
Where do they all belong?

(Paul McCartney, et. al.)

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While My Guitar Gently Weeps

I look at you all - see the love there that's sleeping -
While my guitar gently weeps.
I look at the floor and I see it needs sweeping.
Still my guitar gently weeps.

I don't know why nobody told you
How to unfold your love.
I don't know how someone controlled you.
They bought and sold you.

I look at the world and I notice it's turning
While my guitar gently weeps.
With every mistake we must surely be learning;
Still my guitar gently weeps.

I don't know how you were diverted.
You were perverted, too.
I don't know how you were inverted.
No one alerted you.

I look at you all - see the love there that's sleeping -
While my guitar gently weeps.
Look at you all ...
Still my guitar gently weeps.

(George Harrison with John Lennon and Paul McCartney)

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TOMORROW NEVER KNOWS

Turn off your mind ... relax and float down stream:
It is not dying. It is not dying.

Lay down all thoughts - surrender to the void:
It is shining. It is shining.

Yet you may see the meaning of within:
It is being. It is being.

Love is all and Love is everyone:
It is knowing. It is knowing.

And ignorance and hate mourn the dead:
It is believing. It is believing.

But listen to the colour of your dreams:
It is not leaving. It is not leaving.

So play the game "Existence" to the end
Of the beginning ... of the beginning.

(John Lennon / Paul McCartney)

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ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE

Love, Love, Love.
Love, Love, Love.
Love, Love, Love.

There's nothing you can do that can't be done.
Nothing you can sing that can't be sung.
Nothing you can say but you can learn how to play the game.
It's easy.

Nothing you can make that can't be made.
No one you can save that can't be saved.
Nothing you can do but you can learn how to be You in time.
It's easy.

All You need is Love.
All You need is Love.
All You need is Love, Love.
Love is all You need.

[Chorus]

Nothing you can know that isn't known.
Nothing you can see that isn't shown.
Nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be.
It's easy.

[Chorus]

(John Lennon, credited to Lennon / McCartney)

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F.: [The following song was written during John Lennon and Yoko Ono's "Bed-In" honeymoon in Amsterdam as they protested war and promoted peace. "Bed-In" was used to describe their method of protest as opposed to a "sit-in" (which was one of the typical methods of protest during the years of U.S. involvement in the war in Vietnam).

A reporter asked Lennon what he felt they could accomplish by staying in bed. Lennon replied, “All we are saying is give peace a chance.” The song evolved from that comment.

Later in that summer of 1969 - in Room 1742 at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal - their protest continued and the song that was composed in The Netherlands was recorded live from their hotel room in Canada. The recording session was attended by dozens of journalists and various celebrities, and many of those present were mentioned in the lyrics at the end of the song, along with the names of other celebs of the day.

Note how the song begins by mocking the "ism's" that cultures dream up and by scorning the habit of personal identification with "this" or "that," both of which teachers of non-duality have challenged for centuries.]

GIVE PEACE A CHANCE

Two, one two three four:
Everybody's talking about
Bagism, Shagism, Dragism, Madism, Ragism, Tagism
This-ism, that-ism, is-m, is-m, is-m.

[Chorus]
All we are saying is give peace a chance.
All we are saying is give peace a chance.

C'mon
Everybody's talking about Ministers,
Sinisters, Banisters and canisters.
Bishops and Fishops and Rabbis and Pop eyes,
And bye bye, bye byes.

[Chorus]

Let me tell you now:
Everybody's talking about
Revolution, evolution, masturbation,
Flagellation, regulation, integrations,
Meditations, United Nations,
Congratulations.

[Chorus]

Everybody's talking about
John and Yoko, Timmy Leary, Rosemary,
Tommy Smothers, Bobby Dylan, Tommy Cooper,
Derek Taylor, Norman Mailer,
Alan Ginsberg, Hare Krishna,
Hare, Hare Krishna.

(John Lennon, Yoko Ono)

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