[Continued from yesterday]
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.: Next, Eddie, there are some specific tools that you can use which can assist you in finding many of the commonly-held lies. Be aware of them and it becomes easy to know when you are about to hear a falsehood. In conversation, lies are introduced by certain phrases:
“Here’s what I believe about that….”
“My view on that topic is that….”
“My faith alone is all I need to know for a fact that….”
Why is any statement that follows those introductory words always a lie? No person today has come up with any belief. There is no such thing as “your” beliefs. All beliefs have been adopted from persons who have expressed “their” beliefs which you take to be “your” beliefs. And “their” beliefs are not “their” beliefs, either. They are beliefs that were dreamed up thousands of years ago by ignorant men, that have been handed down over the years, and that are now accepted as truth by persons today—many of whom are intelligent but who have been conditioned to accept as truth the lies that are being passed on by authority figures. If you want to find the lies to reject, see those being spread by authority figures in politics, in religion, and in business (which were in the past three separate entities but which have now been morphed into one mega-influential entity across the globe). If you really want to ferret out the lies that are having the most negative impact in the relative existence and that are inspiring fighting and separation and disharmony, then look objectively at the concepts that are being espoused by leaders and followers associated with those three institutions.
Some would say, “That’s all relative existence stuff. Why even discuss it? Freedom comes with abidance as the Absolute.” The Advaita teaching is summarized in the ancient phrase, “I AM THAT; I AM.” Some would have you focus on the I AM THAT and ignore the I-AMNESS, but as long as the consciousness is temporarily manifested, to ignore either part of the truth of “I AM THAT; I AM” would be more evidence of insanity. Why?
1. The “freedom” mentioned by them can only be known during the I-AMNESS anyway.
2. Post-manifestation, there is no “one” to understand anything or to be impacted by anything or to be freed from anything, including the misery generated by believing in lies.
3. By distorting that truth, by ignoring the “I AM” part of the teachings, and by advancing the dualistic falsehood of heaven-hell, one of the grander lies has been circulated that has mesmerized trillions over the centuries. That lie is often expressed thusly: “This life is a travail, but it is in the afterlife where the reward and the pleasures come…unless you are ‘bad’ and then even greater pain will come.” [How attached are the programmed to their belief in that dualistic heaven-hell lie? When Pope John Paul II declared that, “We must correct the geography of Gehanna: there is no literal heaven or hell…they are mental states, and you are in one or the other right now,” the Catholic News Service immediately sent a wire worldwide telling Catholics not to take that literally. Even when a very rare occurrence happens and a leader finally admits to the "flock" that they have been lied to, "the shepherd’s” truth is rejected by "the sheep.”]
Full Realization turns that lie on its head, and the Realized know that the exact opposite is the reality, understanding that (1) there is no "one" to experience any reward or pleasure or pain in an “afterlife” since there is no “afterlife,” only that which remains beyond both the beingness and the non-beingness, and that (2) freedom in the relative existence comes when it is fully realized that there is no "one" to experience any reward or pleasure or pain now either. [See http://floydhenderson.com/whenidie.htm for more explanation.]
So, Eddie, best regards in your effort to find which lies are resulting in the most distortion and delusion (and therefore in the most misery and suffering) and then being free of their influence in the relative existence. Please enter the silence of contemplation.
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.: Next, Eddie, there are some specific tools that you can use which can assist you in finding many of the commonly-held lies. Be aware of them and it becomes easy to know when you are about to hear a falsehood. In conversation, lies are introduced by certain phrases:
“Here’s what I believe about that….”
“My view on that topic is that….”
“My faith alone is all I need to know for a fact that….”
Why is any statement that follows those introductory words always a lie? No person today has come up with any belief. There is no such thing as “your” beliefs. All beliefs have been adopted from persons who have expressed “their” beliefs which you take to be “your” beliefs. And “their” beliefs are not “their” beliefs, either. They are beliefs that were dreamed up thousands of years ago by ignorant men, that have been handed down over the years, and that are now accepted as truth by persons today—many of whom are intelligent but who have been conditioned to accept as truth the lies that are being passed on by authority figures. If you want to find the lies to reject, see those being spread by authority figures in politics, in religion, and in business (which were in the past three separate entities but which have now been morphed into one mega-influential entity across the globe). If you really want to ferret out the lies that are having the most negative impact in the relative existence and that are inspiring fighting and separation and disharmony, then look objectively at the concepts that are being espoused by leaders and followers associated with those three institutions.
Some would say, “That’s all relative existence stuff. Why even discuss it? Freedom comes with abidance as the Absolute.” The Advaita teaching is summarized in the ancient phrase, “I AM THAT; I AM.” Some would have you focus on the I AM THAT and ignore the I-AMNESS, but as long as the consciousness is temporarily manifested, to ignore either part of the truth of “I AM THAT; I AM” would be more evidence of insanity. Why?
1. The “freedom” mentioned by them can only be known during the I-AMNESS anyway.
2. Post-manifestation, there is no “one” to understand anything or to be impacted by anything or to be freed from anything, including the misery generated by believing in lies.
3. By distorting that truth, by ignoring the “I AM” part of the teachings, and by advancing the dualistic falsehood of heaven-hell, one of the grander lies has been circulated that has mesmerized trillions over the centuries. That lie is often expressed thusly: “This life is a travail, but it is in the afterlife where the reward and the pleasures come…unless you are ‘bad’ and then even greater pain will come.” [How attached are the programmed to their belief in that dualistic heaven-hell lie? When Pope John Paul II declared that, “We must correct the geography of Gehanna: there is no literal heaven or hell…they are mental states, and you are in one or the other right now,” the Catholic News Service immediately sent a wire worldwide telling Catholics not to take that literally. Even when a very rare occurrence happens and a leader finally admits to the "flock" that they have been lied to, "the shepherd’s” truth is rejected by "the sheep.”]
Full Realization turns that lie on its head, and the Realized know that the exact opposite is the reality, understanding that (1) there is no "one" to experience any reward or pleasure or pain in an “afterlife” since there is no “afterlife,” only that which remains beyond both the beingness and the non-beingness, and that (2) freedom in the relative existence comes when it is fully realized that there is no "one" to experience any reward or pleasure or pain now either. [See http://floydhenderson.com/whenidie.htm for more explanation.]
So, Eddie, best regards in your effort to find which lies are resulting in the most distortion and delusion (and therefore in the most misery and suffering) and then being free of their influence in the relative existence. Please enter the silence of contemplation.
