From a site visitor: “I found your site several months ago and now I read your daily posts as part of my regular morning routine but this is the first time I’ve written to you. (Sometimes in the evening, I go back through your archives too). Anyway, my question is about you saying to question everything. I know you’ve discussed this before and maybe you don’t want to go over it again, but aren’t there some things that just can’t be questioned? If I add 10 and 3, it’s thirteen every time. Why question that? It’s a fact----it’s not a lie, so how do I find the lies you talk about and get rid of them and not be concerned with facts that shouldn’t be questioned? Thank you very much, Eddie.”
F.: Hello, Eddie. Thx for writing. The example you offered can serve to illustrate how appearance and perspective make all things in the relative existence a lie and how persons so often take something to be “fact” when it is not. You think that if you “add 10 and 3 it’s thirteen every time,” but that is valid only in base 10 math. In base 5 math, it’s 23. Expand that to understand that all persons who believe any lie are just that convinced that what they believe is definitely true and factual.
So how do you “find the lies”? First, let your questioning begin in the areas that cause the greatest emotional intoxication among persons on the planet. Base 10 vs. base 5 lies are not the source of a false sense of separation among persons, nor the source of the subsequent fighting and disharmony and conflict in the relative existence. So start your “getting rid of” process by eliminating first the concepts that cause the most misery and suffering on the planet. Currently, religion-based conflicts top the list, a spot they’ve held off-and-on for several thousand years. If you have months and years to dedicate to the task, you might join with those who take the course of knowledge acquisition for a time.
F.: Hello, Eddie. Thx for writing. The example you offered can serve to illustrate how appearance and perspective make all things in the relative existence a lie and how persons so often take something to be “fact” when it is not. You think that if you “add 10 and 3 it’s thirteen every time,” but that is valid only in base 10 math. In base 5 math, it’s 23. Expand that to understand that all persons who believe any lie are just that convinced that what they believe is definitely true and factual.
So how do you “find the lies”? First, let your questioning begin in the areas that cause the greatest emotional intoxication among persons on the planet. Base 10 vs. base 5 lies are not the source of a false sense of separation among persons, nor the source of the subsequent fighting and disharmony and conflict in the relative existence. So start your “getting rid of” process by eliminating first the concepts that cause the most misery and suffering on the planet. Currently, religion-based conflicts top the list, a spot they’ve held off-and-on for several thousand years. If you have months and years to dedicate to the task, you might join with those who take the course of knowledge acquisition for a time.
If your studies are thorough, you’ll find that Moses plagiarized Advaita teachings and ancient myths and that he merely inserted himself in the god-role of ancient stories; you would find that not one historical document exists that corroborates his tale of an "Exodus" from Egypt; you would discover that Moses stole the tale of a 40-year desert journey from an ancient pagan religion; you would understand that Christ’s early message was a Jewish message but that his final message was an Advaita message; you’d find that the tenets of Islam have been totally warped; you’d see that the concepts of Abraham evolved into all three of those religions; you’d find that the “god of Abraham” is a nothing more than a composite of all the previous pagan gods, just rolled into one; and you would find one lie after another that is being told by leaders of those religions. Finding the lies believed in by adherents of those three groups would be as effective a place to start as any, since they currently have such a tremendous relative-existence-impact. Cast their concepts and beliefs aside and you’ll be well on the way to re-purifying the warped consciousness and being free of the influence of any movements that generate a sense of guilt and unworthiness on one hand or extreme arrogance on the other.
But beyond religious lies, you might look at political lies and historical lies and non-scientific lies; however, such research could take decades to find and to eliminate all the lies generated by the trillions and trillions of persons who have walked the planet. So keep it simple. Find the lies that are believed in by the largest numbers of persons; that inspire the most dis-ease on one hand or arrogance on the other; that result in the most conflict; and then you’ll have found the lies that are resulting in the most emotional intoxication and insane conduct in the relative existence; then, begin the purification-of-the-consciousness process by discarding all of those beliefs and concepts. Please enter the silence of contemplation. [To be continued]
But beyond religious lies, you might look at political lies and historical lies and non-scientific lies; however, such research could take decades to find and to eliminate all the lies generated by the trillions and trillions of persons who have walked the planet. So keep it simple. Find the lies that are believed in by the largest numbers of persons; that inspire the most dis-ease on one hand or arrogance on the other; that result in the most conflict; and then you’ll have found the lies that are resulting in the most emotional intoxication and insane conduct in the relative existence; then, begin the purification-of-the-consciousness process by discarding all of those beliefs and concepts. Please enter the silence of contemplation. [To be continued]
