Saturday, December 30, 2006

THE REAL REASON THAT PERSONS VALUE TRADITIONS, Part Four

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From a site visitor: I read your postings about Christmas traditions and most of it made sense. I’ve also been going thru your archives and last summer you said the Dark Ages was when ignorant people valued traditions. I agree with your argument that doing things a certain way because they have always been done that way is not smart, but isn’t there some value to observing some traditions?

F.: Being fully awake and fully aware assures that nothing happens in an unconscious, hypnotic, or sheeplike manner. All of the behaviors associated with observing traditions are conducted in a sheeplike fashion by people attached to a fictionalized “past.” The observances were originally dreamed up by controlling men who used them to influence the unquestioning and ignorant masses. As with all “leaders” who want to program and to condition persons to believe and behave in certain ways, repetition is required. Pavlov’s dogs were not conditioned in one session, and persons cannot be conditioned by doing one thing for one time.
Instead, the event or activity must be repeated over and over in order for the masses to buy into the dualistic lies behind the traditions: this group of citizen-fighters are special; this savior is better than that one; this day honoring this person or group is different from the other days on the calendar; this woman never had sexual relations but she still got pregnant; this is the right time to genuflect, to bow, to raise a candle, to smell a scent, to sprinkle some water, to chant a chant in unison, to cut down a tree, to spend huge sums of money, to ring a bell, to sing special songs containing false messages that further enculturate, ad infinitum.

The honoring of traditions keeps persons out of touch with the NOW and links them instead with a counterfeit “past.” Since “the past” is an illusion—along with memories and reminiscences and recollections about the past—the blind performance of traditional rituals keeps persons trapped in the illusions they value as a result of having been enculturated. “Why would you say that my memories are illusions?” it was recently asked. Persons are unaware of what is happening right NOW, so they certainly were not capable of seeing accurately what was happening "then." To behave in ways that honor past illusions is to remain trapped in the illusions.

The Realized are awake and can no longer be influenced by the programming and conditioning that drive persons to believe that traditions have “value.” The Realized have no false notions about “their own value” (WHO would be capable of “having” that value?) so they certainly give no value to arbitrary dates on an arbitrary calendar or to fiction-based events that were dreamed up by men with hidden agendas who wanted their beliefs to be widely accepted and regularly reinforced via the repetition of traditional celebrations.

By being free of ego and programming, which contribute to the assigning of “value” to traditions, the Realized are freed of the duality of “good and bad” and “better and worse” and “the highs that persons suffer when desires are met vs. the lows they experience when other desires are not met.” The Realized are freed of being driven by a false sense of need and dependency and role-playing and are also free of any false sense of continuity. They are freed of being deluded by leaders (including political and religious and business leaders) who are controlling the masses by encouraging participation in traditional celebrations. They are freed from doing what the masses do in their blind, repetitious fashion in a night-of-the-living-dead, zombie-type manner.
That, in turn, frees them of (1) being controlled by ego-states and leaders and frees them of (2) all the doings that persons do in order to insure that their illusory body and illusory mind and illusory personality and illusory ego-states will be allowed to pass eternity in a “good” place rather than in a “bad” place. It also frees them of (3) the chaos and emotional intoxication that result from experiencing extreme highs which are always followed by extreme lows. Freed thusly from such dualistic concepts and conduct, the Realized cannot fear and are not driven to do anything. Anything can happen, but no belief is held that one thing or another has to happen in order for happiness to manifest. Please enter the silence of contemplation. [Tomorrow: the conclusion]

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