Sunday, December 07, 2014

THE MISERY OF MIND-FULL-NESS . . . THE JOY OF MINDLESSNESS

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A DAILY CONSIDERATION FOR YOU


F.: In spite of all of the 

(a) duality-based notions of “We’re right and you’re wrong” and “I’m okay but you’re not okay” and all of the 

(b) duality-based beliefs that lead to a sense of separation and hierarchy-maintenance as well as to 

(c) duality-based beliefs that result in disagreements and arguing and fighting and conflicts and wars and bombings and suicide-vest bombings and racially-based murders and divorce-associated murders and money-driven murders, ad infinitum

there is one belief which 99.9% of all humans share in common. 

It is one belief which never leaves the non-Realized masses in disagreement (though, ironically, the collateral damage from that belief has led to more killings and deaths than any other belief held dear by humans). 


Ninety-seven percent of all humans claim an affiliation with one religion or another and assert that one belief in particular is the most important belief of all; millions more claim membership in step programs and they also believe that one belief in particular is the most important belief of all. 


And with all of the other cults operating around the globe in addition to those two, millions more persons can be added to the total of non-Realized humans who agree that one belief in particular is the most important belief of all. 


That one belief is the belief in . . . blind faith. It includes a confidence in the nobility of blind faith; complete and total trust in all who have taught them the necessity of blind faith; a certainty regarding what they believe in (which they believe in without any evidence or factual proof at all, other than the so-called "supernatural evidence" which they cite but which is actually evidence of natural occurrences); and an unquestioning acceptance of what any person in authority has told them. 


What do the members of those three cults all have in common? Consider the basic traits of cults and see how all three of the groups above are exactly alike: 


All cults have members who are excessively zealous; 


who are unquestioning committed to the identity and leadership of the group (as opposed to Maharaj’s pointer that “from my angle, you are nothing . . . you have no identity”); 


who submit to being exploited and manipulated; 


who tolerate – or even welcome - harm or the danger of harm to themselves, their families and / or society; 


who have no tolerance for more rational, open, and benevolent systems; 


who harden their shells by becoming totalistic, elitist, and isolated; 


who allow others to dictate, sometimes in great detail, how members should think, act, and feel; 


who claim a special, exalted status (for example, “occult or spiritual powers” or “a mission to save humanity” or "a mission to reform all people and make the world a better place") 


and who eventually intensify their opposition to - and alienation from - society at large. 


Contrast all of that with the non-dual teachings when combined with the Nisargan understanding: 


That method does not ask anyone to be a member of anything; does not invite anyone to be excessive or zealous; does not ask anyone to be involved with any identity or any “leader” with an assumed identity; 

does not seek 10% of seekers’ total income; does not encourage tolerance of relative harms or dangers; does not allow anyone to dictate how anyone should think (since an end to thinking is the final “goal”); does not dictate how anyone should act and feel; 


does not claim any special, exalted status; and encourages an end to – rather than intensification of - opposition and a false sense of “separation” and a false sense of “different-from-ment” and a false sense of “better-than-ment.” 


Nowadays, on a global basis, the belief in the value of blind faith among 99+ percent of all humans (who are totally and completely non-Realized and therefore totally and completely unawake, unaware, and unconscious) has become foundational, pervasive, inescapable, and near-universally-accepted without question. No matter how insidious and deceptive and dangerous the results of blind faith are (relatively speaking) – more than any other beliefs – that one remains almost totally unchallenged. 


Next, consider Maharaj's disputing of the fact that truth and blind faith (in the existence of gods or goddesses or a god) can co-exist: "First of all you identify something as being good or bad for yourself. Then, in an effort to acquire good or to get rid of the bad, you have invented a God. Then you worship such a God and . . .  you pray to that God for something good to happen to you."
 

Recall the woman in St. Louis who offered her response to a similar pointer offered here: "No god created man; it was man who created – that is, who just dreamed up - the concept of ‘god’."

Her reply: “Floyd, millions of people cannot be wrong.” 


[Consider: Is it possible that the epitome of ignorance is to believe that widespread ignorance is actually proof of widespread wisdom?]
 

The reply: “You’re right. Millions of people have not been wrong. Billions and trillions have been wrong.”

What, in terms of the total human experience, would have been different if no one had ever dreamed up the concept of the existence of gods and goddesses and / or the concept of “The One, True God” or the concept of blind faith? What, in terms of the total human experience, would have been different if no one had ever dreamed up the concept of gods and goddesses and / or a “One, True God” who will never show themselves / Himself but prefer instead that persons believe in them / Him based in blind faith alone? 


1. Without billions and trillions of persons having been misled, deceived and deluded in regards to the value and efficacy and usefulness of blind faith, there would be no religions because no religion has ever functioned, or ever been sustained for any time at all, without blind faith. 


2. No other types of cults could have ever existed without blind faith. 


3. Kings and queens (who reigned as a result of convincing the masses that the rulers were ruling as a result of the concept of “the divine right to rule,” that God has chosen them to rule, and that God is empowering them to continue to rule) could not have existed. 


4. Crooked politicians could never have existed and functioned - and could not continue to exist and function - without blind faith. 

5. No con man could ever have sold any type of "snake oil," be the type liquid, financial, political, medical, nationalistic, mental, emotional, religious, spiritual, etc.

6. The masses could not be occasionally calmed without blind faith. 


7. Wall Street could not make billions each day without blind faith. 


8. No global economic collapse could have happened without blind faith in what was being told by Wall Street brokers and investment bankers. 


9. The belief by billions of persons on the planet that the concept of “doubt” is a sin could not continue without blind faith. 


10. The rejection of scientifically-proven facts could not continue without blind faith. 


11. No one in history would ever have been fooled without blind faith. 


12. People in the U.S. could never have believed that Vietnam, Grenada, Iraq, Central America, South America, etc., etc., etc. were an actual threat to the U.S. without blind faith.

13. Maybe most significantly, without blind faith, there would be no more fools (or foolishness) on the planet. 


14. Thus, without blind faith, the pervasiveness of the Ultimate Sickness (and the “ignorance and stupidity and insanity” which it spreads) could not exist. 


For all the touting of the worthiness and nobleness and usefulness of blind faith, any honest and impartial and objective witnessing of the actual effects of blind faith would reveal instantly the undesirable consequences on the relative existence of trillions upon trillions of persons. 


Maharaj: “ . . . Remember that whatever is going to be of use to you ultimately is going to harm you. Wherever there is use, there is also dis-use in this world of duality. Whatever you like is going to create harm for you. Whatever you like most is, in the end, going to be most harmful for you” 


and 


“When the birth is disproved, the great noble meaning of spirituality and the meaning of this world—everything—is disproved.” 


A few voices have tried to speak into the darkness which has blocked humanity from ‘seeing the light,” including some few sages in the Far East; one in a loft in Bombay, at least during his later talks; a few in the Mideast; and a few scattered elsewhere around the globe, and they all shared messages like these: 


“The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.” – Benjamin Franklin 


“Be careful of living your life based only on faith and signs or you might find yourself standing in a South American jungle holding a glass of Kool-Aid. Common sense is the foundation of any good testimony.” – Shannon Alder 


"Most people around here just say they believe whatever their family believes. They don't bother thinking for themselves. And the less they know, the louder they believe it." – Angela Blount 


And Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj: 


“I have no faith in anything which has ever been told, not even what has been told by the Vedas. Only my own experience.” 


"After the information given to you by the mother, that you are a boy or girl, all your further acquisitions are by hearsay." 


“It is always the false that makes you suffer . . . .” 


"Both the mantra and the faith in the mantra will get dissolved."
 

"Go to zero concepts." 

“Whatever you have tried to understand during your spiritual search will prove false.” 


To be continued. 


Please enter the silence of contemplation. 




NOTE: Sections Two through Six follow:


 
Section Two offers other recent posts. (All of the nearly 2,400 posts as well as any specific topics which you’re interested in can be accessed by using the search feature at the top of the right column.)


Section Three offers ways that seekers have Realized, tools which some have used, and information on floyd's books.

Section Four offers four free eBooks, compliments of Andy Gugar, Jr.

Section Five discusses parallels in Maharaj's and Floyd's "journey" and provides a chance for you to see if you've had any such parallels as well.

Section Six offers information on paperbacks that are available through Amazon.com for those who prefer a book in hand.

 
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SECTION TWO:
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6 December 2014 


A DAILY CONSIDERATION FOR YOU


F.: An eBook below traced the course of “Maharaj’s Evolution” as he tried to find the proper form of the Ultimate Medicine to offer to seekers who came his way and who were suffering from the Ultimate Sickness. 

Because of the shifts in his understanding of the roots of the Ultimate Sickness (and, therefore, the proper version of the Ultimate Medicine that is required to try to address it) he had been cast into a state of ill-repute during the earlier and middle years of his teaching career by those who took themselves to be religious persons and in his later years by those who took themselves to be spiritual persons. Such criticisms continue to this day. 


What were the shifts which happened? Initially, almost 100% of those visiting the loft were Hindus. Maharaj early on engaged with them in some of the traditional Hindu methods of worship and then tried to sprinkle in some non-dual pointers. By the time Westerners began coming, he was already familiar with the history of religions and with the endlessly-occurring religious conflicts which they generate. By then he had also seen that religion was not healing the Ultimately Sick but was actually aggravating their Sickness. 


He knew that Islam had initially entered the largely-Hindu nation of India in the 7th century as Muslim invaders first conquered some of the northern regions through military conquest and sacked many Hindu temples along the way. Mass genocide of Hindus followed, but later those who paid a tax to the Muslims could be spared, for a time. 


Thus, Maharaj knew that the history of Hindu-Muslim “relationships” had been marred by violence, the mark of which is seen even today, especially in India's right-wing Hindutva movement as opposed to those in the mostly Islamic State of Pakistan. 

The historical evidence, combined with his own experience (which showed that religion does not address the Sickness but actually exacerbates the Sickness) led him to focus on spiritual talks – such as those in I AM THAT – as more and more Westerners came who were willing to listen to "spiritual" talks but were not interested in Hinduism or in any of the other religions which they had tried out during their searching. 


Eventually, his own experiments and experience would lead to this shift in focus: he saw that neither religion nor spirituality were addressing the Sickness at all, so he focused more on the cause of the Sickness in an effort to try to find a more effective form of Medicine that might work. 


As a result, he came to see that all of the main problems of humanity center in the mind, not in having too little religion and not in having a spiritual malady. His (a) abandonment of Hinduism entirely and his (b) offering of pointers which encouraged visitors to abandon spirituality entirely and (c) his advising seekers to stop reading the "spirituality-based talks" in I AM THAT followed. 


He came to understand that it is mind-full-ness which generates misery and suffering and that a state of joy or bliss can only come via mindlessness. He said: “There is no such thing as peace of mind,” that he had reached a state of zero concepts, and that he no longer had a mind at all. 


“It's the economy, stupid” is a slight variation of the phrase "The economy, stupid" which was coined by James Carville (who served as one of Bill Clinton’s campaign strategists during his successful 1992 presidential campaign against George H.W. Bush.) 


With Maharaj having identified three of the key symptoms of the Ultimate Sickness as being “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity,” he could have as easily said in the end, “It’s the mind, stupid.” He didn't because he never called anyone “ignorant” or “stupid” or “insane.” He said instead that “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity” were driving humanity’s thoughts and words and actions. Persons are as much an illusion as a mirage, so there are no “ignorant” or “stupid” or “insane” persons. There is, however, much “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity,” all of which involve the mind. 


Therefore, the Ultimate Sickness is about the mind, so the Ultimate Medicine must be one which addresses the issues of the mind. In the end, his focus shifted to that approach as Maharaj abandoned all talk about religion and all talk about spirituality; thereafter, his talks concentrated solely on psychological issues (on mind issues) which are at the core of the Ultimate Sickness. 


The free eBook below which discusses the root cause of humanity’s problems provides a look at the two options: either (1) the right-wing, conservative fundamentalists are right and there are two gods - one god of evil and one god of good - and it really is the god of evil who is causing all of the evil happenings around the globe; or, (2) things deemed by the duality-driven, non-Realized masses to be “evil” are really things rooted not in evil and not in an evil god but are rooted in the mind, in “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity.” 


Consider, if you will: the United States represents about five percent of the planet's population, but it houses around twenty-five percent of the planet's prisoners. Imprisonment of America's 2.3 million prisoners (many serving time because of multiple infractions involving minor offenses such as pot possession or distribution) costs $24,000 per inmate per year. Add in the $5.1 billion in new prison construction annually and imprisonment consumes $60.3 billion in the nation's budget expenditures. Then there are the additional costs of dealing with the 4,814,200 adults who, as of December 2011, were on probation or on parole. 


According to a 2014 report by a group called Human Rights Watch, the Republican Party’s “Tough-on-Crime” and “Mandatory Sentencing” laws which have been adopted since the 1980s have filled U.S. prisons with mostly non-violent offenders. 


Among the more violent felons, however, the most conservative estimate is that over 50% of those prisoners have been diagnosed with full-blown mental illness. When fiscal conservatives began dismantling the U.S. mental healthcare sector, the same number of people who had been placed in treatment facilities were shifted to the streets and / or to prisons. 


In fact, U.S. prisons have now become the de facto home of the mentally ill. A study in 2012 found that 356,000 mentally ill inmates were being held in state prisons and that as many as ninety-one percent were likely suffering from one or more serious mental illnesses.


Evil? Or Insanity? 


A study of such statistics confirms what Maharaj came to understand via his own experiments and experiences: the main problems of humanity are not rooted in "evil" (which “believers” believe can be stamped out with more religious dogma or by treating some nebulous “spiritual malady”) but is, indeed, rooted in mental issues which involve “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity,” this is, the mind. 


Believe that the problems of humanity might involve “the minds of others” but certainly do not involve “your mind?” In fact, actually proud of your mind and what’s in it? Think that it is the beliefs and values which you have been taught and which are now stored in your mind which make you different from and better than those who are not as good as you? Proud of the beliefs that your parents and relatives and religious leaders or spiritual guides have implanted therein? Think that there are no beliefs stored therein that need to be questioned thoroughly and objectively? Really? Hummm. 


To be continued. 


Please enter the silence of contemplation. 


4 December 2014
 

A DAILY CONSIDERATION FOR YOU


F.: At the root of what the non-Realized masses say and do are the subconscious, hidden agendas of the many personalities / personas which persons have been assigned (by family, culture, etc.) or which they have adopted on their own. 

And where is the belief in those personalities stored? In the mind. 


Moreover, it is in the mind where those subconscious agendas first manifest as thoughts; thus, the continuum which determines what persons say and what they do progresses in this fashion: 



The Ultimate Sickness is centered in the mind and begins only after a mind has been pumped full of Sickness-inducing contaminates (that is, contaminated or obtuse or perverted or really-sick ideas, concepts, etc.) all of which make up what can be called a non-Realized person’s “belief system.” 
The more content (i.e., nonsense) that is stored in the mind, the greater the Sickness. The fewer beliefs, the less serious the Sickness. If the mind ends, by eliminating all beliefs, then the Sickness also ends. 

And what does the mind do . . . constantly? It thinks. When persons say that they want “peace of mind,” what they are really longing for is a no-thought state. “Pleasant” thoughts are thoughts about what one desires, but those always eventually lead to disappointment. All other thoughts are "unpleasant" and thus disturbing; they are peace-breakers, not peacemakers. 

The various types of noisemakers developed nowadays are near endless in number, but the peaceful silence is most often broken first and foremost by . . . words. To be able to enjoy the peace that comes with the silence (which happens when words are absent) then – as the continuum above illustrates – there must first be an absence of thoughts. 

Most, after having been programmed and conditioned, etc., will never experience samadhi (the “still-mind” state). For those who do reach the state, it is usually a temporary event rather than a fixed state. If there is a mind that is present, it will be forever in motion. Only if the mind has been eliminated – by giving up all beliefs – can the peace of a "no-words state" and of a "no-actions state" exist.

Maharaj: “I am fully conscious, but since no desire or fear enters my mind, there is perfect silence.” 
Of course, he would eventually report that when he reached a “zero concepts” state, he simultaneously reached a “no-mind” state. 

He explained that when “all subsides,” then “the mind merges into silence,” saying, “as to my mind, there is no such thing.” 

How easy it could be to return to the original no-belief, no-mind condition if one were to come to prefer the natural (nisargan) over the unnatural and / or the supposedly supernatural
Maharaj said, “No particular thought can be mind's natural state, only silence.” 

Here is the reality around "the no-peace and no-silence condition" vs. "the peace and the silence condition": both are guaranteed to come someday (when mahasamadhi is taken), so why not welcome peace and silence sooner rather than later? 

Maharaj: “When the relative is over, the absolute remains. The silence before the words were spoken, is it different from the silence that comes after? The silence is one, and without it the words could not have been heard. Shift your attention from words to silence and you will hear it.” 

And to shift attention from words to silence, the continuum shows that thoughts must go first. 

For three summers during the 1960’s while otherwise attending college, I worked as an apprentice to John Warren, who ran the machine shop for a steel fabrication company. He had little formal education, having dropped out of school around the seventh grade, but he was nevertheless most wise. On the wall in front of his desk, he had hung sign which said, “If I am the one talking, I am not the one discovering or understanding that which I have not yet discovered or that which I do not yet understand.” 

Something about the sign “grabbed me.” When I ask John about it, he explained, “Steel fabrication companies are the noisiest workplaces in the U.S. Why add to the noise with needless talk?”

Among the realized, that is almost "a motto": Why add to the already-excessive amount and volume of noise with needless talk?

Yet most persons will never sit in the silence (in fact, cannot stand the silence), and that is why most persons cannot sit still rather than being driven to go and do and zoom.


Words which break the silence also inspire action . . . doingness. As an understanding of the continuum above makes clear, as long as there is a mind, there will be thoughts; and as long as there are thoughts, there will surely follow words; and as long as there are words, then actions and going and doing and zooming will surely follow.


To watch a newscast is to see the functioning of humankind’s insane goings and doings and zoomings as their thoughts lead to their words and their words lead to their actions. And because the thoughts among the non-Realized masses are rooted in what Maharaj called “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity,” then the words (and then the insane actions seen via broadcasts) will also be rooted in insanity. 


So what sort of actions does the always-insane mind inspire? As a result of both conscious and subconscious beliefs, and as a result of being driven by the unconscious, hidden agendas of personas which generate totally insane behaviors, persons are willing to:


a. accept unhappiness over loneliness (and thus remain in the most destructive and insane “relationships” imaginable); or to


b. accept chaos over boredom (and thereby be driven to forfeit the peace while abiding in the most disordered, disorganized, confused, and frenzied fashions imaginable); or to


c. accept taking a chance at contracting a fatal STD rather than continuing to feel rejected or “unloved” or simply horny; or to


d. accept a religion’s teachings which suggest that one should “die while killing infidels for God and thereby go to harem heaven where you will be accommodated by virgins and servants in your own personal brothel rather than continuing to live but remaining celibate because no woman who knows you wants to have anything to do with you” (and rather than live and learn how to abandon a culture’s relationship-busting, chauvinistic beliefs about the inferiority of women); or to


e. accept being driven by the beliefs of others and by the hidden agendas of false identities rather than having any real ability at all to consciously choose your own words or to consciously determine your own actions and behaviors; or to


f. accept the notion that misery and suffering in this life are to be tolerated as a result of believing that eternal happiness awaits if you will only live the way that some religious or spiritual person tells you to live; or to


g. accept unquestioningly the beliefs and values and ways of one's parents and thereby perpetuate the ignorance and insanity that has dominated family members for generations. 


Yet there is an alternative: find true freedom by being truly free of the content that has been crammed into the mind via programming, conditioning, acculturation, domestication, brainwashing, and indoctrination. 


The Ultimate Sickness is a mind sickness, and the fuller the mind, the more serious the Sickness. The invitation is to seek the Ultimate Medicine which amounts to nothing more than receiving the understanding which can render you fully conscious of what you are actually thinking; fully conscious of what you are actually saying; fully conscious of what you are doing; and thus allowing you


to understand fully WHY you are thinking and talking and doing the things you do; to understand fully WHY you are being controlled by the continuum which unconsciously drives humanity and which preempts any opportunity to enjoy the silence and the non-doingness and the peace; and then finally to understand fully that only if mindless (rather than mind-full) can you return to the peace and silence and non-doingness which once characterized Your Original Nature. 


To be continued. 


Please enter the silence of contemplation. 


3 December 2014


A DAILY CONSIDERATION FOR YOU



F.: From yesterday:

Maharaj advised: “Be alert. Question, observe, investigate . . . but, you must not ask idle questions to which you already know the answers.” 


For example, it is needless to question whether “2 + 2 really equals 4,” or not. Here, there are no beliefs, but some have asked just that: 


“Well surely you believe that 2 + 2 equals 4, right?” 

The reply: “No. That only applies if you are speaking of ‘base ten numbers,’ but that is irrelevant. Moreover, there are realities that can be understood intuitively and innately, but those differ from ‘beliefs,’ and the masses are usually blocked from being aware of those understandings which deal with the functioning of the totality.” 


The questions to be asked that most persons do not know the answers to are those dealing with the firmly-held beliefs that relegate them to entrapment into the dream state which the masses have been lulled into. 

Furthermore, the questions to be asked that most persons do not know the answers to are those dealing with the beliefs of others which they have accepted without “being alert,” without any “questioning,” without any “observation,” and without any “investigation”; instead, those beliefs came to be believed in as a result of having been blinded by programming, conditioning, domestication, acculturation, indoctrination, and brainwashing. 


Thus Maharaj said, “When you shall begin to question your dream, awakening will be not far away” 


and 


thus, his key point on the subject: “You must question everything.”
 

Yesterday, this was offered: “Everything” includes parents, government, big business, God, religion and religious dogma, spiritual principles, etc. 

And what is believed in more than anything by the masses? The dogma to which most have been exposed since a very early age, including the teaching that nothing is more important than blind faith. Without blind faith, the 97% who believe in God and report that they are affiliated with one religion or another would not do so, because their God has never appeared even once to the trillions who have believed in a God or gods or goddesses as a result of blind faith. No willingness to appear even once? Then blind faith must prevail.


If blind faith is missing, religions teach, then all else is lost. That is the key. That is the foremost guiding principle. That is the basic, elemental, central, fundamental, primary, necessary, crucial, critical, essential, indispensable, and chief requirement. It is deemed to be the most important belief above all else. All hail blind faith!


And the masses have bought into that for thousands of years. 


Regular site visitors know that a woman from St. Louis, Missouri once said, "Floyd, millions of people cannot be wrong." The reply, “Agreed. In truth, billions and trillions have been wrong.” 


Millions of Greeks believed in gods and goddesses and let those supposed gods and goddesses rule their lives. Those Greeks even killed and died for their false gods and goddesses, but today, who believes in those mythological gods and goddesses? No one. Millions of Romans believed in gods and goddesses and let those supposed gods and goddesses rule their lives. Those Romans even killed and died for their false gods and goddesses, but today, who believes in those mythological gods and goddesses? No one. 


The quintessential fact: if there were gods or goddesses or if there is a God who wants you to play The Blind Faith Game and unquestioningly accept the claim that “He” exists and if "He" wants you to worship “Him” - and you do so - then you are insane because you are worshipping what would have to be one of the most insane things ever (that is, a "god" who would play that game). Why? 


In 1984, the one called “floyd’s wife” at the time was said to have “given birth” to “a daughter.” Now, suppose I had been a religious fanatic and agreed – as the masses do all around the globe do - that blind faith is the key and that it should be the guiding principle above all else and that blind faith is the basic, elemental, central, fundamental, primary, necessary, crucial, critical, essential, indispensable, and chief requirement
. Suppose, as is the case with 97% of all persons on the planet, I had deemed blind faith to be the most important belief above all else.

And suppose to teach my daughter that, I decided to move into the closet in the master bedroom. Suppose I told my wife:


“I care so much for my daughter and love her so much that I will do anything to teach her that the most important thing in the world is blind faith. So what I am going to do is spend the rest of my life in the closet. Send food in. I’ll send out bags of waste. Never let her see any of that. When she comes to you and asks, ‘Mommy, why don’t I have a daddy like my cousins and friends?’ tell her that she does, but that she just can’t see him. Then tell her, ‘But you must understand that just because you cannot see The Father does not mean that he does not exist. He is just out of sight, yet he loves you from afar. He’ll always be there for you, sort of. Above all else, he wants you to have blind faith in him and to believe in him though you’ll never see him, no matter how long you live.” 


Now, there’s a saying, “Out of the mouth of babes.” It refers to the fact that children, not yet TOTALLY programmed and conditioned, etc., are more likely than adults to make statements of truth and to ask questions that point to the truth. 


So when my daughter was told that I did exist but would never show myself to her but that I still loved her and – above all else – wanted her to believe in me based on blind faith alone, then in an “out of the mouth of babes” style, she would have likely then said: 


Daughter: “Hummm. Mommy, can I ask you another question?” 


Mommy: Of course, Darling.” 


Daughter: “So is daddy batshit crazy?” 


Mommy: “Probably so, Sugar. Probably so. In fact, yes, he is totally crazy. And if we buy into his game and believe that what he is doing is a normal way to behave, then we will be crazy, too.” 


See, Maharaj for a time played the role of “The Super Religious One” and the role of “The Spiritual Giant.” Those are the roles played at the third step on the seven-step "path" from identification with the false “I” to Realization. But he transitioned those roles. He became alert. He questioned. He observed. He investigated. And he woke up from the dream of the planet. Then he said: 


"Whatever spiritual things you aspire to know are all happening in this objective world, in the illusion. All this is happening in the objective world. All is dishonesty. There is no truth in this fraud" 


and 


“Whatever you have tried to understand during your spiritual search will prove false.” 


And when that happened, his talks changed. He rejected his earlier blind faith. He addressed the actual root of the Ultimate Sickness: the content in the minds of programmed and conditioned humans. 


His guesstimates of how many would ever be Fully Realized at any given time changed over the years from the millions to the thousands to the hundreds. With 97% of the persons on the planet being willing to function is an unquestioning, blind-faith manner, then few will ever Realize. 


They will continue to think magically and they will believe that supernatural – spiritual – forces are determining everything that happens on the planet. When asked about a Supreme Being who allows prejudice and separation and war and abuse and disease and poverty and rape and murder and misery and suffering to happen, the answer is that “He works in mysterious ways.” Indeed, like a father hiding in a closet from his child to teach her blind faith. You know, crazy. 


From the eBook below entitled THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS PEACE OF MIND: 


An understanding of the personality types—and the obstacles to Realization that are generated by each personality—can reveal why so few will ever Realize. 


Fifty percent of the earth’s populations are Type Sixes. When Sixes are programmed with dogma, as 97% on the planet are, they will remain loyal to those beliefs, unquestioningly, and will accept what they have been told. Why? Being fear-based, they become trapped by their programmers’ threat: “If you do not have faith in what we say or if you doubt any part of it at all, you will be punished and you will suffer now and forevermore.” 


Therefore, the tally of those who will never be enlightened starts with that 50% who most likely will never give up their beliefs in dogma and nonsense. Writer Mark McCloskey had this to say about faith: “Faith is a crutch that humans have used for millennia as a way to explain the unexplainable . . . .” 


(The point is offered in satsang here that religious leaders have historically dreamed up “concepts and ideas and teachings and beliefs that were used to convey false and supernatural explanations for events that were totally natural happenings.” Such is the essence of childish, magical thinking. Only if you mistakenly believe that an imagined “world” is real will you also be required to mistakenly believe that an imagined god—who was actually “created” by man in man’s image—is real.) 


McCloskey continues, “If you stay with a crutch when you do not need it, you can become lame by reason of the crutch itself. The crutch must be abandoned, thrown away and then you can walk freely again . . . . ” He says, “Faith or any belief system as a whole is the final hurdle to overcome in the human path towards freedom and joy. Let me say it on a very 'personal' level. 


"Until you, as a human being, are able to completely abandon what you believe, what you have been told or taught, and what you were told to believe or believe in, you will never experience this moment of reality as it is. You will never be fully free. You will be conditioned to experience present reality through a veil of the past.


" …. This is not a joke, not any agnostic or atheistic principle. I am trying to point you to your own total human freedom to be able to live in this world joyfully . . . ."

McCloskey and Maharaj would be in agreement: 


Question everything. 

Abandon what you believe and have been told or taught. 

Maharaj: “I have NO FAITH in anything which has ever been told, not even what has been told by the Vedas. Only my own experience” 


and 


“You must question everything.” 


To be continued. 


Please enter the silence of contemplation. 



2 December 2014

A DAILY CONSIDERATION FOR YOU


F.: The prerequisite for being restored to sanity is the same as the prerequisite for Realization (which actually go hand-in-hand because they are one and the same): you must question everything.

Maharaj advised: “Be alert. Question, observe, investigate . . . but, you must not ask idle questions, to which you already know the answers.” 


To awaken as a result of questioning it all effectively, you must first see that you were put to sleep via programming, domestication, conditioning, acculturation, brainwashing and indoctrination. The result was, ever since those processes went into effect, that you walked in your sleep; talked in your sleep; drove in your sleep if you had a car; worked in your sleep if you had a job; and functioned (or malfunctioned) in your “relationships” while asleep to truth and reality. 


Here, and now, comes the invitation to realize that being asleep while dreaming one is awake is (a) natural if physically asleep but is (b) most unnatural if physically awake. 

Thus Maharaj said, “When you shall begin to question your dream, awakening will be not far away” 


and 


"As long as you do not see that [personality] is mere habit, built on memory, prompted by desire, you will think yourself to be a person - living, feeling, thinking, active, passive, pleased or pained. Question yourself, ask yourself. 'Is it so?' 'Who am l'? 'What is behind and beyond all this?' Soon you will see your mistake, and it is in the very nature of a mistake to cease to be, when seen."


Thus, his key point on the subject: “You must question everything.” 


“Everything” includes parents, government, big business, God, religion and religious dogma, and spiritual principles; “everything” also includes all authority figures, such as preachers, priests, rabbis, ayatollahs, “sponsors,” “guides,” “coaches” and their “values” and beliefs; grandparents and their “values” and beliefs; your “ancestors” and their “values” and beliefs; 


all other relatives and their “values” and beliefs; all neighbors and their “values” and beliefs; all employers and their “values” and beliefs which they inspire you to adopt in order to please them and gain favor; all teachers; all Big Name Teachers; all gurus; all of your so-called “lovers” and their “values” and beliefs; but, most of all, yourself . . . your selves . . . and their agendas (which function at a subconscious level). 


That is why, when there is an invitation to consider and possibly determine if truth might be the 180-degree opposite of what one believes, it is only the wise who are at least willing to question themselves and ask, “Might that be a fact? In the example that has just been raised, might my perspective be based in total delusion? Might truth be the 180-degree opposite of what I’ve been taught or have come to believe (unquestioningly) for my entire life? 


Maharaj: “Question every urge; hold no desire legitimate.” 


What are you presently doing that is not based in logic or reason but is a result of obsessing over desires and being driven by often-subconscious urges (which are exclusively and entirely the “stuff” of personalities)? 


For example, are you staying with someone because there are providing financial support, that action based in the belief that “my expenses are being paid so I stay, and I am not troubled in the least by having assumed the role - and by continuing to play the role - of “A Lifestyle Whore” (which is not a sex-specific role because it is played by both males and females). 


Or, are you staying with someone because there’s some kind of ego-based payoff, such as “I am hot, really hot, so I am entitled to not have to work in order to pay my own bills because I deserve to have my bills paid for me” or “that person is really hot and my image is enhanced by being with that ‘good-looking’ or ‘successful’ or ‘respected’ person, no matter how big a pain in the rear that person really is behind closed doors”? 


Or, might you be staying with someone because of some perverted psychological implantation of a belief from your youth, as was the case with one woman whose dad sent her brother to college “because men need an education nowadays to find a good job and make enough to support a wife and children, but I’m not sending you or your sister to college because you are both really good looking so it will be easy for you both to find men to take care of you.” (And that has been their approach throughout the forty years since they left home at the age of eighteen. For them, the subconscious belief throughout adulthood has been, “A man is a plan,” so they have been driven subconsciously for forty years by the effects of one, single, distorted comment from a parent.) 


Or, are you with someone because your childhood experiences left you with certain notions about being “less than” and “not enough” and “not good enough” so that now you’ll do anything and tolerate anything in order to attain a sense of being “loved”? 


Or, were you raised in a way that normalized abuse or neglect so that now an abusive “relationship” is deemed acceptable and “just the way it is”? 


Some few function via wisdom, so they know immediately that the price of such entitlements take far-too-heavy a toll to be worthwhile; a few more might learn about the heavy costs via experience and finally realize that the price of gratifying their desire for financial perks or that the price of satisfying their psychological agendas is too high to be worth continuing along the same path; but most will continue to tolerate what the wise and sane determine is not to be tolerated. 


No price is higher than the price of inauthenticity. To avoid the roots of misery and suffering in the relative is to insure that misery and suffering will characterize the relative, and all of that has to do with unquestioned mind-full-ness. 


It is pain that is of the body; misery and suffering are strictly and solely of the mind. 

So what are the prerequisites for misery and suffering?


1. a mind; 


2. a mind which has been programmed, domesticated, conditioned, acculturated, brainwashed and indoctrinated and filled with dualistic prejudices and concepts and all sorts of other nonsense; 


3. that is, a mind filled with beliefs; 


4. a mind that now takes assigned or assumed personalities to be actual identities; 


5. a mind that is thus driven by the hidden fears and desires of the multiple personalities that have been assigned and assumed; 


and 

6. a mind which has been programmed to question nothing and to accept all that has been taught by authority figures and which now accepts all of the implanted beliefs as a result of blind faith alone. 


Freedom and peace come with questioning; with seeing that what you were taught and what you now believe is all BS; with seeing that your seldom-considered perspectives might well be totally backwards and are not serving your best (relative) interests; 


with being free of the constant desire to have, and to have more of what you don’t have, and to have less of what you do; and then turning away from nonsense and being open to the truth surrounding your reality as well as the Truth regarding Reality (neither of which can come until all which is false has been discarded). 


During days long past, the mind was humanity's friend; nowadays, however, to sleepwalk under the auspices of the content of the modern mind is to sleep with the enemy. 


To be continued. 


Please enter the silence of contemplation. 



1 December 2014



A DAILY CONSIDERATION FOR YOU


F.: [Continued from yesterday]

So why else do all of those who hear the problem of the planet identified . . . that is, who hear the root of the Ultimate Sickness . . . why, then, do they not address their “mind-based issues”? 


BECAUSE OF ARROGANCE, DENIAL, RIGIDITY, OBSTINACY, STUBBORNNESS AND THE HABIT OF AUTO-REJECTING (WHICH LEADS THEM TO LIVE IN AN UNCONSCIOUS, AUTO-PILOT MANNER)

Some of the work here involves taking personality inventory test results of clients of counselors and providing the client and counselor both with an analyses of the results, showing specifically which personalities are subconsciously driving thoughts and words and actions, which personality disorders are in evidence, and then offering a suggested treatment plan for addressing those disorders before they disintegrate into full-blown neuroses or psychoses. 

Too, there is also work with non-dual seekers who are trying to be free of the effects of personality.

There are also occasional discussions with others who are “life coaches.” 


Too, there are training sessions with professionals who are adding personality testing and analysis to the package of services they offer to those who come their way, coming ostensibly to “change” or “to have a better life” or “to have a more stable existence” or “to improve relationships.”

Yet what do the clienteles of those counselors and teachers and coaches and professionals also have in common with many who visited Maharaj’s loft or with many who have come to this house to seek or with many who come to this “electronic loft”?

This: a far-too-common tendency to automatically and spontaneously reject (a) suggestions and (b) proposals and (c) considerations and – via the personality test – (d) concrete, indisputable facts about personality traits and disorders that are at play. And all of those are rejected even prior to consideration.


It is as if - as children - such persons had been asked so many times by parents, “Did you do so and so?!” or “Did you really start that fight at school?!” or “Did you get into the candy before dinner?!” – to which they eventually developed the habit of saying “No!” automatically and mechanically and instinctively and unconsciously and routinely and spontaneously in order to avoid punishment – that it is now the subconscious, auto-response that is used constantly throughout their adult lives as well. For example: 


F.: “Is it possible that you are actually using your child’s supposed needs or interests in order to stay attached to and to engage with your “Ex” because you are still hooked on him or her even after seeing how insane and destructive and injurious and unsafe and risky he or she was throughout the years you two were married?”

The reply: “Absolutely not! You are so off base it’s crazy!” 

F.: “You just told me why you have been doing the same thing over and over for years and that the only reason you’re doing that is because of “this” or “that” but is it possible that, in fact, you’re doing it because there is some kind of payoff involving your ego and egotism?”

The reply: “No way. I told you why I do what I’m doing and that’s that.” 


F.: “Is it possible that, in fact, you are no different from and no better than those with a different skin color whom you are judging and condemning rather than understanding why they are behaving as they do?”

The reply: “Ha. You are so naïve.”

F.: “Is it possible that ‘she did not leave you’ but that you ran her off like a Mack truck instead.”

The reply: “Absolutely not! She is the one who had the choice to honor her vows or break them. SHE broke them, not me.”

F.: “Is it possible that you have never consciously chosen to be a Catholic (or Baptist or Hindu or Muslim, etc.) but that you are playing that role because your parents passed on to you a “value” or “belief system” that you have never questioned or considered objectively even once?”

The reply: “No! I make the choice every day of my life to continue to practice my faith. There’s nothing blind or subconscious involved at all.”

F.: Is it possible that you have such a high Personality Type Two 'Love-Seeker' score because your father was unavailable during your childhood, either because of death or divorce or because he was 'there physically' but was 'unavailable' nevertheless?"


The reply: "No! My father was always there for me. He was a great dad!"

F.: "Is it possible that you were subjected to some form of abuse or some degree of abuse when you were young – be it mental or physical or emotional or sexual abuse – and that is why you are now also showing some degree of sociopathic, abusive behavior to others?"


The reply: “Absolutely not! I am a really nice person!”

F.: “Is it possible that you are totally depressed in spite of all of the spiritual work you have done?”

The reply: “No! I am NOT depressed!” (the fact that the person could get the role of “Death on a Cracker” or “The Night of the Living Dead Personified” in a Hollywood movie even without an audition).

F.: “Is it possible that you are a controlling, abusive Personality Type Eight who keeps falling for supposedly docile, avoidant Personality Type Nines because you are driven to be an insensitive, domineering, self-centered, aggressive person who is obsessed with being completely in charge in every 'relationship' . . . be it at home, in traffic, in checkout lines at stores, at work, ad infinitum?”

The reply: “Screw you!”

F.: “Is it possible that the 'relationship problems' you are bringing up might not be the fault of your partner at all but are really rooted in the fact that you are a full-blown Personality Type Three narcissist who lacks authenticity and who is obsessed with your image and who must be in the spotlight and who can really only love yourself?”


The reply: “You go to hell!”

F.: “Is it possible that the Big Name Teacher you so admire has really sold you a bill of goods that has nothing to do with the actual non-dual teachings and understanding?”

The reply: “Is it possible that you are jealous because he’s made millions of dollars from his book sales and you’re still dirt poor?”

F.: “You said you told him when you were dating him that you loved him because he was a great lover, but you now tell him that you hate him because he’s a sex fiend; you told him when you were dating that you loved him because he had a great work ethic, but now you tell him that you hate him because he's a workaholic; you said you told him when you were dating that he was the wonderful kind of Christian man that you’d been looking for all your life, but now you are telling him that he a ‘New Age Agent of Satan.’ Is it possible that he has not changed but that you are the one who is forever changing your views and perspectives and opinions because you have the Borderline Personality Disorder and that what you love one day you can hate the next?”

The reply: “Up yours!”

A Counselor: “Is it possible that the things your parents did to you when you were young are still driving the way that you think and talk and feel and behave even today as an adult?”

The reply: “Absolutely not?!”

And so it goes, over and over and over again. Those claiming they “are ready” and “are willing” and
are open to considerations and suggestions” are far more prone to being driven by arrogance and denial and rigidity and obstinacy and stubbornness and are prone to auto-reject anything they hear which is anything short of being totally complimentary of them and their partner and their parents and their religion or their spiritual program or some other type of cult which is influencing and controlling them.

To be continued.

Please enter the silence of contemplation.



30 November 2014



A DAILY CONSIDERATION FOR YOU



F.: If the main problem of humankind centers in the mind,

a. if certain Realized teachers share that, or
b. if certain writers share that, or
c. if certain group members occasionally mention that,
 

ignorance, and insanity. All belief in false selves is rooted in dysfunctionalism, ignorance, and insanity. If trapped in ego and egotism, then insane thoughts and words and actions are assured.


2. BECAUSE OF THE TENDENCY OF EGO-DEFENSE MECHANISMS TO INSPIRE A (DUALISTICALLY) COMBATIVE / DEFENSIVE NATURE 


A man said yesterday that his counselor had angered him in a session the previous week when she suggested that his current problem was actually rooted in a series of childhood incidents involving his parents and their less-than-logical and far-from-normal approach to child-rearing. His sense of perfectionism required that “those who made him the way he is” also had to have been perfect. 


That counselor he mentioned had spotted something already seen here long ago, and she was totally spot on; but the ego-state of “The One Who Was Made Into a Perfect Adult by Perfect Parents” became combative when the validity of that false identity was challenged; then, the ego-defense mechanism of egotism was triggered and came to the defense of his false image. 


Here, when a hidden motive is clearly driving persons and they are invited to consider if their actual motivation is quite different from what they claim to be behind their actions, they often vehemently deny the alternative motive which they are being invited to consider. How can any shift away from insanity-inspired behaviors ever end when such defenses are operating at an unconscious level? The odds of such a shift happening are slight. 


3. BECAUSE OF PROJECTION

Projection is another ego-defense mechanism that is used frequently. To protect one’s ego / self-image, the tendency among the non-Realized is to ignore their defects and flaws which personality brings to the relative existence, to take those defects and flaws which usually only register on a subconscious level, and to then try to cast them out by spotting them in others and judging them and assigning those defects and flaws to them while ignoring them in “self,” in one’s false selves.


4. BECAUSE OF THE TENDENCY TO DENY AND TO PUT A SPIN ON THE FACTS SURROUNDING ONE’S PERSONALITY FLAWS AND PERSONALITY DEFECTS, RELATIVELY SPEAKING 


On the personality inventory test used here, a very low Type Eight score indicates that the person being tested is likely going to behave in the fashion of a doormat, letting those with higher 8 scores walk all over them. A high Type Eight score indicates that one is likely to show certain levels of antisocial behavior. Depending on the score, an above-average score in the 8 might guarantee that there will be occasional evidence of some degree of callousness, meanness, and ruthlessness. A very high 8 score will guarantee that there are some deep-seated sociopathic tendencies. 

 
When that is revealed, some sociopaths in the past have laughed, as if to say, “You got me! Ha. That’s me alright!” They do not care. Others who are still working diligently to maintain a “positive image” in public will become quite angry and will deny the truth regarding their actual “state of mind” and the actual degree to which their personality disorder is manifesting. One person rather recently said quite vehemently, “I am NOT a sociopath! I do not have ANY sociopathic tendencies. Your test results are bogus!” Okay. So long. 


5. BECAUSE OF THE NEAR-UNIVERSAL TENDENCY AMONG THE EGO-AND-EGOTISM-DRIVEN, NON-REALIZED MASSES TO BELIEVE THE FOLLOWING (AND TO BELIEVE IT WITHOUT THE SLIGHTEST DOUBT AT ALL): “MY CA-CA STINKETH NOT, BUT THOU CA-CA DOTH MUCH OFFEND”


Ego and egotism, functioning hand-in-hand, will block any possibility of seeing one’s own truth while readily judging others and critiquing them.


6. BECAUSE CRAZY CANNOT SPOT CRAZY


An uncle was the chief administrator at a mental institution in Texas, and I occasionally visited him for a day or two in his home and at his workplace during the summers spent at Grandmother’s cabin. As an adolescent, I visited him in the Texas State Mental Hospital in Rusk, and time was spent around the patients there (an act in the late 1950's and early 1960’s that could not take place nowadays). 



In one open area of the facility which provided a place for recreation or exercise or fresh air for the sometimes-violent or for the seriously-mentally-ill patients, there was a three-story-high chain link fence surrounding that section of the facility. 


There was shock when I would see certain inmates climbing ten to twenty feet up the fence and swinging back and forth and screaming. My uncle explained that those inmates did not have a clue about who there really were and that they “lived in another world.” 


See? When persons do not have a clue about who they really are, and imagine that they are many other things, and take many false, dreamed up selves to be real, they are as insane as those inmates; yet most nowadays who are insane to one degree or another are not locked away as those inmates were.


They are moving about the planet, sharing common roofs with families, going to work, and abiding in a way that appears to be normal in many cultures around the globe. (What goes on behind closed doors in something else entirely.) But like the inmates who were “living in another world,” most roaming about the planet freely are insane to one degree or another without having any clue at all about their actual, mental condition.


The challenges involved with being restored to sanity - after being driven into the depths of the Ultimate Sickness via faulty and perverted programming, conditioning, domestication, acculturation, indoctrination and brainwashing - are usually so overwhelming that the masses are all likely to be driven throughout their entire relative existence by the three key symptoms of the Ultimate Sickness which Maharaj identified: “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity.”


It was by mere chance that the path here crossed the path of one – and then, later, another – both of whom had been restored to sanity and could see clearly by the time our paths crossed. The first was one who would tell the truth and let the chips fall where they may. As here, he would share the obvious and would show that one’s perceptions were all twisted a full 180 degrees from reality (not to mention from Reality). If there has been any lingering tendency to argue rather than surrender to the process completely, the door would have been opened and the invitation to leave would have been extended . . . and enforced.


Yet what are the odds, when so few can see clearly and when most are being driven by the arrogance-fostering and the deception-generating personalities and beliefs that persons hold so dear, that one will ever be able to undo the mental and emotional damage which infects the masses who are suffering from the Ultimate Sickness without even knowing it? 


The odds are slight, but if persons reach the point where they are finally able to admit, 

 
“You know what? The way I’m living is totally insane. I am ready to do whatever is required to put an end to that, once and for all”

 
then 


the possibility of “a chance” - as happened here - might also happen for them as well. 


To be continued.


Please enter the silence of contemplation. 

 
 29 November 2014

A DAILY CONSIDERATION FOR YOU


F.: To review 20 of the key pointers offered so far: 

1. The history of human or human-like beings is that, during the entire pre-mind period, they functioned in a manner guided by the brain (not unlike the deer and not unlike every other life-form on the planet, except for modern humans).


2. The human brain began to expand in size and capability only recently (in evolutionary terms) and developed the capacity to store memories and to retrieve (what were at one time natural) memories in order to recall information that could protect the body and perpetuate the survival of the species. 


3. Pre-language memories did their natural job: they created a “mind” that contained information which led to constructive behavior and helped avoid potentially-dangerous situations. 


4. After languages developed, persons with personal agendas began programming and conditioning the minds of other persons in order to influence them and control their conduct via the placement of beliefs in a mind and then locking those beliefs in place with the use of positive and negative (that is, dualistic) reinforcement. 


5. Rather than storing natural information, the brain began storing unnatural teachings and magical teachings about supposedly "supernatural" beings and events. Perverted “mind stuff” began to prevail. 


6. True freedom was lost because behavior came to be controlled by one's programmers and their teachings, even if they were not present. (If one is conditioned, then freedom is nothing more than a concept and certainly cannot be real if a person's actions and reactions are the unconscious result of programming and conditioning. More “mind stuff.”) 


(Maharaj: “In reality all is here and now and all is One. Multiplicity and diversity are in the mind only.”


7. Nowadays, persons are living their relative existence in a manner controlled by, among other factors, a host of relatives both living and long “deceased.” It is as if all non-Realized persons are burdened with a heavy load on their shoulders which becomes a heavy burden on their minds. (Are you familiar with the expression, “Get off my back!”?) The “load” can include a grandfather whispering in one ear; a grandmother whispering in another ear; a father whispering in an ear; a mother whispering in the other ear. 


8. And even if, for example, a father was absent as a result of a “death” or a divorce or because he was there but “mental and emotionally unavailable,” he is nevertheless whispering in his absence. What is being heard? “I didn’t love you. You mean nothing. You are not worth my time. Feel abandoned forever. Feel as if you never received all of the love that you wanted as a child. Then spend the rest of your existence seeking love from everyone. Give to others until you are exhausted. Ignore your own relative needs as you put the mental and emotional "needs" of others ahead of your own actual relative requirements in order to try to get them to love you. Be driven by that subconscious driver forever.” More “mind stuff.” 


9. Or, in cases where the father was there and abused a child physically, then the message being whispered in the ear and heard to this day is, “You are not good enough. You are unloved because you are not lovable, but keep loving me and trying to get my love.” (It is normal – as with those who suffer from the Stockholm Syndrome - to stay with or attach to abusive people. "Also, spend your entire life being a doormat. Now, go forth and become an abuser yourself and keep our family tradition going for another generation." More “mind stuff.” 


10. Or, in the case where the father was there and the abuse was sexual, the whispers being heard now are, “You are your body. Your only worth involves using your body to please others. You will only be loved if you never say ‘No!’ You must always acquiesce to others and allow them to use you for their own gratification.” More “mind stuff.” 


(Maharaj: “That you hear . . . is a fact. What you hear . . . is not. The fact can be experienced, and in that sense the sound of the word and the mental ripples it causes are experienced. There is no other reality behind it.”


11. Thus, the mind forms via programming, conditioning, acculturation, domestication, brainwashing, indoctrination and via examples that were set and via perverse or ignorant behaviors that were modeled. The result? Your mind has now normalized the totally abnormal and redefined the totally-unacceptable as being quite acceptable indeed. 


12. Once persons began storing ideas and beliefs and concepts in their minds (instead of recording fact-based observations that could assist in natural living), then memories became dualistic in their nature: “Our tribe is good, but their tribe is bad,” and “We have the right to punish those whose memories contain information that differs from the concepts and beliefs in our memories.” The “mind” thus became a distorted conglomeration of corruptions and lies. More dualistic, perverted “mind stuff.” 


13. As human behavior became more deviant and abnormal as a result of dualistic beliefs and concepts, children began forming personalities in an effort to try to deal with abnormal situations in their dysfunctional families. More and more “mind stuff” prevailed. 


14. As more dualistic beliefs and concepts were stored in memory because humans were being exposed to more and more programming and conditioning, a greater sense of separation from others and Self became more common as the “mind” became more corrupted and warped and as personas became attached to more and more false identities. 


(Maharaj: “There is the Self, the only Self of all. Misled by the diversity of names and shapes, minds and bodies, you imagine multiple selves”


and 


(“Even to talk of re-uniting the person with the Self is not right, because there is no person, only a mental picture given a false reality by conviction. Nothing was divided and there is nothing to unite.”


15. As more adjusting was required among children who were trying to adapt to more and more abnormal circumstances, more personalities were formed. Then, children attached to their personalities (that is, to that childish set of “tools” being used to cope with the abnormal. More abnormal, perverted “mind stuff.”) 


16. As persons attached more and more to personality, which is rooted in childhood and in childishness, the eventual result was a proliferation of adults who lost the ability to choose and instead fell under the influence and control of a childish personality. Childish ways were carried over into adult-age situations. Adults, unconsciously driven by childhood memories and childhood programming and personality, began to behave more and more in childish and nonsensical ways. More really ignorant and insane “mind stuff.” 


17. Human behavior which is typically inspired by aberrations of personality now generates the majority of the “problems of the planet” as personality disorders determine (unconsciously) how persons emote, how they think, and, therefore, what they do. Each of the basic personality types eventually began to generate a particular set of personality disorders which then generated suffering for each person plagued by those multiple personality types and for all of those who must try to deal with them. More and more and more “mind stuff.” 


18. The result is this: billions of persons are walking about the planet, believing that they are choosing to do what they do when, in fact, they are sleepwalking . . . doing what their programmers would have them do; thus, all that they think and feel and do is determined by the emotional intoxication that they suffer as a result of unconsciously allowing a set of childish, childhood tools to guide them through adulthood. And all of that is based in illusion. Why? The past is an illusion. How can one possibly be free if everything being said or thought or done or felt in “the present” is a reaction to false perceptions and bogus messaging from "the past"? 


19. The solution to "the problem of the planet,” to the Ultimate Sickness, could come via Full Realization in many instances, a process which begins with the discarding of all body-mind-personality identifications. 


(Maharaj: “When all the false self-identifications are thrown away, what remains is all-embracing Love.”


20. All thoughts about the body and about false identities come via the mind, so – in the end – the real problem among humans on the planet is a mental problem rooted in mind-full-ness. The solution? Freedom from “mind stuff.”
 

(Maharaj: “You are so blinded by what is personal, that you do not see the universal. This blindness will not end by itself - it must be undone skillfully and deliberately. When all illusions are understood and abandoned, you reach the error-free and perfect state in which all distinctions between the personal and the universal are no more.”

To be continued. 


Please enter the silence of contemplation. 

 

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DAILY CONSIDERATION FOR YOU


F.: Some take great offense at Maharaj’s having shared that most are suffering from the key symptoms of the Ultimate Sickness, namely, “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity.” 

They seem to be slightly more accepting when a discussion centers on personality and the problems which are rooted in personality and in the motives of personas (which unconsciously control all thoughts and words and actions). 


The point here is that whether the discussion centers on “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity” or on personality-driven problems or on neuroses or on psychoses, 


a. all of that involves the mind (i.e., involves mind-full-ness) and 


b. all of that is ultimately about one problem - a mind problem - what is simply manifesting in varying degrees. 


The sequence from sanity to insanity follows this path: 


I. What is called “a newborn” begins with a brain but without what will soon become a fiction-filled, content-filled, warped mind. 


II. A mind is stuffed full of nonsense via programming, conditioning, domestication, acculturation, indoctrination, and brainwashing – all of which also involves the assignment of false identifications and the subsequent development of personality / personalities (which results from a “survival response” as children try to adapt to the dysfunctional environments in which all children are being raised nowadays). 


III. As more and more personalities are assigned and / or later adopted, an “identity crisis” begins. Persons do not have even the slightest clue about who they are after they are assigned or after they assume multiple personalities (that is, roles / stage characters / personas / guises / facades / fronts / faces / images, etc.) as identities. 


IV. Once persons are being driven, subconsciously, by the hidden agendas of their multiple personalities (the end result being that every non-Realized person on the planet ends up suffering from the effects of the Multiple Personality Disorder), then – when stressed - they will begin to suffer from the worst possible traits of each personality which they have been assigned or which they adopted. 


V. As stress increases, so does the process of personality disintegration. What may have been early on a state of psychic health becomes a state of average psychic health which, without intervention or Realization, will eventually give way to more psychic disintegration and psychic unhealthiness


VI. In the absence of intervention or Realization, the deterioration of the mind – of the psyche – continues and then results in the development of neuroses or even psychoses. 


Consider an example offered by the Enneagram Institute to show what happens when a person’s mind moves away from the “healthy levels” of psychic health to the levels of disintegration which follow when no intervention or Realization happens. 


(The example offered will be of the Type Six because 50% of all persons on the planet have a Type Six Personality style as their primary type. The example will move past “Levels 1, 2, and 3” where “healthy levels” of personality are observable and begin with the traits of Type Sixes as they move through the “average levels” of psychic health and will then show what they are like when they disintegrate to the three “unhealthy levels”). 


AVERAGE LEVELS 


Level 4: Start investing their time and energy into whatever they believe will be safe and stable. Organizing and structuring, they look to alliances and authorities for security and continuity. Constantly vigilant, anticipating problems. 


Level 5: To resist having more demands made on them, they react against others passive-aggressively. Become evasive, indecisive, cautious, procrastinating, and ambivalent. Are highly reactive, anxious, and negative, giving contradictory, "mixed signals." Internal confusion makes them react unpredictably. 


Level 6: To compensate for insecurities, they become sarcastic and belligerent, blaming others for their problems, taking a tough stance toward "outsiders." Highly reactive and defensive, dividing people into friends and enemies, while looking for threats to their own security. Authoritarian while fearful of authority, highly suspicious, yet, conspiratorial, and fear-instilling to silence their own fears.


UNHEALTHY LEVELS 


Level 7: Fearing that they have ruined their security, they become panicky, volatile, and self-disparaging with acute inferiority feelings. Seeing themselves as defenseless, they seek out a stronger authority or belief to resolve all problems. Highly divisive, disparaging and berating others. 


Level 8: Feeling persecuted, that others are "out to get them," they lash-out and act irrationally, bringing about what they fear. Fanaticism, violence. 


Level 9: Hysterical, and seeking to escape punishment, they become self-destructive and suicidal. Alcoholism, drug overdoses, "skid row," self-abasing behavior. Generally corresponds to the Passive-Aggressive and Paranoid personality disorders. 


Note that 


A. the last levels involve neuroses and, in the end, psychoses; that 


B. when “Twelve Steps Groups” label someone as a “high bottom,” those persons are usually at level 8 and those whom they label as “low bottoms” are usually at level 9; and that 


C. all of the levels involve the mind and its deterioration and degeneration when under stress and when being swept about in a helter-skelter fashion via cultural influences. 


Want to be free? Be free of the content of the mind. 


Want to be at peace? Be freed from being driven by the hidden agendas of personality / personalities. 


Want freedom and peace? Reject all that you have been taught via programming, conditioning, domestication, acculturation, indoctrination, and brainwashing. 


To be continued.


Please enter the silence of contemplation. 



25 November 2014


A DAILY CONSIDERATION FOR YOU


F.: So the question at this point is, “Are you seeking Full Realization, are you Fully Realized, or do you only think that you are Fully Realized”? There’s an easy test that can be used by those who understand the pointers in these recent posts on "the mind": 

TEST #1: Are you seeking Full Realization? Seek on. (Where are people still seeking usually “stuck?” At the third step where three roles especially are played: “The Super Religious One,” The Spiritual Giant,” and / or “The One Absorbed in Super, Excessive-Level Seeking.” Seek on. Abandon the first two roles and all beliefs and you’ll almost be at the end of the “path.”) 


TEST #2: Are you Fully Realized? Only if the following truly apply: 


a. you have given up trying to accumulate more information / dogma / spirituality / knowledge; and 


b. you have given up everything that your mind was full of and have emptied it completely of all beliefs (which is a catch-all term for ideas, concepts, notions, attitudes, ideas, certainties, faith, etc.), so 


c. you have reached a state of what Maharaj called zero concepts and no-mindedness and (therefore ) narrow-mindedness as well, 


d. which means you have been purged of all sense of different-from-ment, all sense of better-than-ment, and (therefore) all prejudices and bigotry


e. as well as all distortions, delusions, misperceptions, and other mental accumulations that were stored in your mind when you were being fooled early on by parents and relatives and friends and your culture and during the subsequent years when you continued to be fooled by your culture and most teachers and friends and lovers and spouses and big corporations and big religion and big governments, etc. 


TEST #3: Or do you only think that you are Fully Realized, which is the case if “a” through “e” above do not honestly apply. 


Presently, most of the false sense of separation and different-from-ment and duality that are leading to conflict around the globe involves racial differences, sexual issues (involving debates about males vs. females and about sexual orientation and preference) and religious differences (involving members of one major religion vs. members of another major religion; involving members of one Christian denomination as opposed to members of other denominations; involving members of one sect of Islam against members of another sect of Islam; and involving conflict among the members of various branches of the Jewish religion including Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, and Reconstructionist).


RELIGIOUS CONFLICT 

Begin with a 5000-year review of history and then bring the study to the current day by watching any newscast later tonight. 

RACIAL CONFLICT

Study history for the last several hundred years and see what you find. Then look at the U.S., which has long made the apartheid-days in South Africa look sane and peaceful by contrast. 

In the U.S., racial tension is omnipresent: one side cheered the outcome of the 1995 O.J. Simpson trial while the other side booed the results; one side cheered the outcome of the 2013 George Zimmerman trial while the other side booed the results; one side cheered the outcome of the 2014 Michael Dunn trial in Florida while the other side booed the results; and one side last night cheered the outcome of the Darren Wilson grand jury inquest in Missouri while the other side booed the results. 


SEX-BASED CONFLICT

Read recent statements by leaders around the globe and then listen to certain politicians in the U.S. who are making outrageously ignorant and chauvinistic comments about women as those men try to control – as always – what women do with their bodies. Meanwhile, the non-duality-based tool for seeking clarity around one’s persona-based motives can be used to see how personality is driving thoughts and words and actions: WHO cares who has consensual sex with whom? WHO thinks that they, as males or as straight males, are better than anyone else? 

Then consider these recent pointers offered by a famous U.S. writer: 


"No civilization can be perfect until exact equality between man and woman is included” 


and 


The United States shall never reach its potential and shall never be at peace unless it addresses its race issues. 


Oh . . . wait. Was “recent” the word used? That should have been “consider these pointers offered by a famous U.S. writer, Mark Twain, in the late 1880’s.” 


Twain criticized (1) organized religion, (2) sexual discrimination, and (3) racial discrimination. Associated with Missouri as he was, he might look, if he could, at what has happened - or not happened - from135 years ago to the present in terms of addressing the three issues which he identified as key to humanity. He would probably just shake his head in disgust that so little actual change has come.


And nothing regarding any of the key religious issues, sexual issues, and racial issues which lead to the majority of humankind’s problems can or will change until the mind issue is addressed. And that does not involve “changing one’s mind” but involves discarding all of the content of one’s mind, an act which is accomplished fully when the last belief is discarded. 


Are you seeking Full Realization? Then all beliefs in your mind regarding religion and spirituality and sexual discrimination and racial discrimination must go, along with all other beliefs held dear.


Are you Fully Realized? Then all beliefs that had been accumulated in your mind regarding religion and spirituality and sexual discrimination and racial discrimination have gone, along with all other beliefs which were held dear. 


Or do you only think that you are Fully Realized? That is the case if all beliefs that have been accumulated in your mind regarding religion and spirituality and sexual discrimination and racial discrimination have not gone, along with all other beliefs which you have hold dear. 


One organization that works to advance, via higher education, the state of blacks in the U.S. has this as its motto: “A mind is a terrible thing to waste.” 


Their laudable intent notwithstanding, a more accurate pointer that can only be appreciated by those that understand non-duality and the role that the mind plays in generating havoc on all levels around the globe would not be “A mind is a terrible thing to waste” but would be instead “A mind is a terrible waste, period.” 


To be continued.

 
Please enter the silence of contemplation. 


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WHY NISARGA YOGA IN ADDITION TO THE ADVAITA TEACHINGS?
 


A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE via the Non-Duality Teachings and the Nisarga Yoga
 


YOUR ORIGINAL NATURE
 


GOING CRAZY / GOING SANE
 


INSTABILITY / INSANITY: WHAT THE ADVAITA TEACHINGS CAN (AND CANNOT) ADDRESS
 


THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS "PEACE OF MIND" (THERE IS ONLY PEACE IF YOU'RE OUT OF YOUR MIND)
 


FREEDOM FROM SHIFTING BETWEEN STATES OF HAPPINESS AND UNHAPPINESS
 


THE ULTIMATE SICKNESS / THE ULTIMATE MEDICINE
 


PROGRAMMING, CONDITIONING, DOMESTICATION, AND ACCULTURATION (THE SOURCES OF THE ULTIMATE SICKNESS; THE NON-DUALITY TREATMENT)



"WHAT HAPPENS WHEN I DIE?"
 




THE MYTH OF "DEATH"
 


THE ESSENCE OF THE TEACHINGS: THE SIMPLICITY OF REALIZATION
 


FINDING REAL LOVE IN AN UNREAL WORLD
 


CASTING LIGHT ON THE DARK SIDE OF RELATIONSHIPS
 


OVERCOMING THE FEAR OF BEING TOTALLY INDEPENDENT
 


THE NON-DUALITY POINTERS OFFERED BY YESHU'A ("JESUS THE CHRIST")
 


WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE THE ADVAITIN
 


WHEN ONLY THREE HOURS OF MANIFESTATION REMAIN (THE "FINAL" TALKS OF FLOYD HENDERSON)
 


I AM THAT (vs. "This Is Who I Think I Am")
 


QUOTATIONS AND POINTERS DEALING WITH NON-DUALITY, ADVAITA, NISARGA YOGA, AND MORE
 


DANCING LIGHTLY
 


THE PATH TO FREEDOM VS. THE PATH TO MISERY
 



THERE IS NOTHING THAT IS PERSONAL (INCLUDING YOU AND INCLUDING GOD)
 



LIBERATION (ATTAINING FREEDOM FROM PERSONALITY VIA REALIZATION)
 

WHY YOU MUST BE EMPTY IF YOU WOULD BE FULL

 


FREEDOM FROM BELIEFS (Believers, Non-Believers, and "No-Belief-ers")
 


WHEN REALITY IS OVERLAID ON THE RELATIVE
 


THE RELATIVE RESULTS OF RETURNING TO "THE CHILD IGNORANCE STAGE" OR "THE CHILD NO-KNOWING STATE"
 


WHAT BLISS IS AND WHAT BLISS IS NOT
 


THE TWICE-STOLEN NECKLACE MURDERS
 

THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF WARS

 


LESSONS IN NON-DUALITY FROM TRAVELS IN SOUTH AFRICA
 


A SERIES OF ESSAYS DISCUSSING THE FIRST STEP ON THE SEVEN-STEP PATH TO REALIZATION
 


A SERIES OF ESSAYS DISCUSSING THE SECOND STEP ON THE SEVEN-STEP PATH TO REALIZATION
 


A SERIES OF ESSAYS DISCUSSING THE THIRD STEP ON THE SEVEN-STEP PATH TO REALIZATION
 


A SERIES OF ESSAYS DISCUSSING THE FOURTH STEP ON THE SEVEN-STEP PATH TO REALIZATION
 


A SERIES OF ESSAYS DISCUSSING THE FIFTH STEP ON THE SEVEN-STEP PATH TO REALIZATION
 


A SERIES OF ESSAYS DISCUSSING THE SIXTH STEP ON THE SEVEN-STEP PATH TO REALIZATION
 


A SERIES OF ESSAYS DISCUSSING THE SEVENTH STEP ON THE SEVEN-STEP PATH TO REALIZATION
 


SPIRITUAL SOBRIETY (RECOVERING WHAT RELIGIONS LOST)
 



IT'S ALL BULLSHIT (AND WHY KNOWING IT SETS YOU FREE)
 




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Maharaj said of each that visited his Bombay loft, “Only that person will visit this place whose virtue and sin have come to an end.” He also said that the problems of humankind are problems associated with the Ultimate Sickness and that three of the key traits of the Ultimate Sickness are "ignorance, stupidity, and insanity."

To that end, either (1) the ancient view is spot on: that the "ills of the planet" are rooted in evil people, in people not being religious enough or spiritual enough, and are caused solely by bad morality; or, (2) the "ills of the planet" are rooted in ignorance, stupidity and insanity and "being good" or "being moral" does not put an end to ignorance, does not eliminate stupidity, and does not treat insanity in any way. 

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  While in South Africa in 2011, I was introduced to A Primate’s Memoir (2002) by Dr. Robert Maurice Sapolsky. Sapolsky is an American neuroendocrinologist; a professor of biology, neuroscience, and neurosurgery at Stanford University; a researcher; an author; and a Research Associate at the National Museums of Kenya. 

A Primate’s Memoir (which documents Sapolsky’s years in Africa while studying baboons), was recommended because there is much that a non-dualist or Advaitin or Nisargan can relate to by comparing and contrasting what Sapolsky reveals about the way certain troops of baboons live in Africa with the way that humans abide all around the globe. The book also portrays an unconventional way of studying neurophysiology to determine the effects of stress on life expectancy. (And the reduction or elimination of stress among humans is one of the aims of the non-dual understanding.) 

Now Sapolsky’s recent findings are offered in a documentary film entitled “Stress: Portrait of a Killer.” [The 56-minute film is available on YouTube in many countries.] 

This 152-page eBook catalogues the common, non-dual message shared by Sapolsky and Maharaj and reveals the ways that Sapolsky’s scientific research supports the non-dual pointers offered by Maharaj. 

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In “PART ONE” it will be seen that most persons on the planet are not seeking, and most will never seek, but for those who are seeking, most will face several obstacles:

Often, many do not really know WHY they are seeking. Too, many who are asked WHAT they are seeking often offer no clear-cut answer beyond the standard talk about "Realization" or "Enlightenment." For those who have come this way and have a clear notions about why they are seeking and what they are seeking, many have not yet found anyone that has shown them exactly HOW to go about the process. The content in "Part One" offers some considerations about all three.

In “Part Two” of this book, it will be seen why many criticized Maharaj for “changing his message in his later talks.” It will be seen that the changes were not about changing the message per se as much as about changing his methodology as he experimented with one version of the Ultimate Medicine after another in order to try to find an effective means for addressing the Ultimate Sickness. 

Maharaj’s loft was actually more of a laboratory in a loft in Bombay (now “Mumbai”) because he undertook in that loft many experiments in his efforts to find an effective form of the Ultimate Medicine that could treat the Ultimate Sickness effectively and successfully. In fact, he would eventually have three laboratories: 

He first ran . . . 

 ** a “Religion Laboratory,” then later 

** a “Spirituality Laboratory” and eventually 

** a “Psychology Laboratory.” 

All three will be discussed in detail in "Part Two."

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SECTION FIVE:
COMPARE YOUR "JOURNEY" AND SEE IF YOU'VE UNDERGONE ANY EVENTS THAT PARALLEL THOSE OF MAHARAJ AND FLOYD



The "experiences" of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj and Floyd share many parallel. Many visitors have said that they have also shared some of the same parallels. Can you relate to any of these?

1. Both grew up in very poor families 

2. both moved to populated areas to seek employment opportunities 

3. both exhibited business skills that led to their opening and operating many businesses and to their having a large number of employees working for them 

4. both succeeded financially 

5. both became attached to accumulating

6. both married and had a family 

7. both initially tried to address the Ultimate Sickness with religious teachings but realized that did not work, so both tried to address the Ultimate Sickness with spirituality, only to see eventually that "being spiritual" did not cure the Ultimate Sickness either

8. both then realized that the main problems of humanity center in the mind so both turned to the sharing of psychology and scientific-and-fact-based pointers to free persons of the effects of programming, conditioning, acculturation, domestication, brainwashing and indoctrination 

9. both had highly religious wives who were quite displeased with the shift away from religion

10. both had grown to feel empty in spite of all of their "spiritual seeking" and in spite of all of their accumulated "spiritual knowledge"
 

11. both began to de-accumulate after both saw that they could survive quite well on a fraction of the income they had been making 

12. both had wives who were unhappy when the de-accumulation stage was entered and both had wives who became unhappy about their husbands' focus on non-duality and who blamed their unhappiness on no longer having a religious husband (and no longer having a husband who brought in huge sums of money)

13. both eventually came to see that the religious and spiritual states were also ego-states, and both saw that there are far more steps on the "path" to complete after reaching the religious and spiritual steps and after playing those roles which are the third of seven steps on the entire "path" 

14. both "lost" their wives (one via "death," the other through divorce); 

15. both accelerated their seeking

16. both entered into the "forest dweller stage" 

17. both Realized 

18. both began to de-accumulate even more 

19. both began sharing the teachings 

20. for years, both offered satsang

21. both saw that most who hear the teachings are still not going to understand

22. both, therefore, offered pointers without expectation, without attachment to outcome, and without any concern about the way that persons react to hearing Truth

23. both suggested that seekers focus on the exact, step-wise "path

24. both made the decision that whatever amount of the relative existence remains shall be spent in sharing the teachings in the way that has been seen to be the most effective method: not suggesting that there are not enough religious persons; not suggesting that the Ultimate Sickness is caused by being "spiritually-unfit"; but by seeing that the problem centers in the mind (which must come to an end, which it will the moment all beliefs are abandoned)

Looking back over the list of those that have truly received the understanding, it is seen that Robert R. read all of the books, then took the online Advaita course and then completed some face-to-face Skype sessions to receive the final clarifications required. It was seen that Mac read all of the books, completed the online course, and then attended a retreat where he was guided through the seven steps. Mac said that the online course work inspired him to attend the retreat in order to be able to receive the final "pieces." It was seen that Andy Gugar, Jr. read all of the books, then came here for a retreat and was taken through the seven steps in order, and then returned once more for the final clarifications required. After reviewing the shifts that happened with him after attending two retreats, he reaffirmed this past week his commitment to helping spread the non-duality, nisarga understanding as presented here.

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The content of this eBook deals with one of the most common but erroneous beliefs that the non-Realized masses cling to and which they will fight about (and even kill over), namely, that there is a planet-wide duel going on between “the forces of good and evil” in the universe.

Either (1) the ancient view is spot on: that the "ills of the planet" are rooted in evil people, in people not being religious enough or spiritual enough, and are caused solely by bad morality; or, (2) the "ills of the planet" are rooted in ignorance, stupidity and insanity and "being good" or "being moral" does not put an end to ignorance, does not eliminate stupidity, and does not treat insanity in any way.

II.
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Comments regarding the free eBook entitled “THE VISION”:

“My thanks to you and Andy.” – Andrew “Mac” McMaster

“Thanks so much for the book! And, by the way, it is brilliant and the most effective pointing that you have done. It has served to help clear the remaining blockages.” – Stan Cross

“Greatly appreciate having “THE VISION” added to my Henderson resource library that is situated on the right side of my bed for easy access! Eternally grateful for what was received and what was given.” – Robert Rigby

“‘THE VISION’ is such a well-written, condensed version of the Nisarga Yoga approach to understanding and enjoying Reality that I feel it can serve as a must-read ‘meditation guide’ for all earnest seekers.” – Andy Gugar, Jr.

III.
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Dr. Robert Maurice Sapolsky is an American neuroendocrinologist; a professor of biology, neuroscience, and neurosurgery at Stanford University; a researcher; an author; and a Research Associate at the National Museums of Kenya.

There is much that a non-dualist or Advaitin or Nisargan can relate to by comparing and contrasting what Sapolsky reveals about the way certain troops of baboons live in Africa with the way that humans abide all around the globe.

This 152-page eBook catalogues the common, non-dual message shared by Sapolsky and Maharaj and reveals the ways that Sapolsky’s scientific research supports the non-dual pointers offered by Maharaj.

IV.
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In “PART ONE” it will be seen that most persons on the planet are not seeking, and most will never seek, but for those who are seeking, most will face several obstacles:

In “PART TWO” of this book, it will be seen why many criticized Maharaj for “changing his message in his later talks.” It will be seen that the changes were not about changing the message per se as much as about changing his methodology as he experimented with one version of the Ultimate Medicine after another in order to try to find an effective means for addressing the Ultimate Sickness.

He tried a religious version of the Medicine, a Spiritual version of the Medicine, and finally settled on a version which addressed to Sickness at its core . . . at the mental and emotional level.

V.
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“Dangerous” is a term that can only apply during the relative existence, but of those who do commit suicide, for example, how many shoot themselves in the foot over and over until they “bleed out”? None. They shoot themselves in the head. Why? In order to try to stop the noise - to try to stop the chatter of a thousand monkeys – to stop the noisy mind which is the area that stores the ideas, notions, concepts, mind-stuff, etc. which drives them into the depths of insanity.

And what are those ideas, notions, concepts, etc. called, collectively? "Their beliefs." The irony? They are not their beliefs at all. They are the beliefs of “others” that were set in place via programming, conditioning, etc. and which persons then think are their own.

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