A DAILY CONSIDERATION FOR YOU
[An additional consideration for the day: Of “Je suis Charlie,” what might Maharaj say, were that speck still manifest”? It is clear, based in what he did say: “I do not see a sufferer. I am the sufferer. I know him from within . . . .” The same would be his reply in all such cases: “Je suis Trayvon M.”; “Je suis Wenjian L.”; “Je suis Michael B.”; “Je suis Rafael R.”; and “I Am All”; and “I Am One.”]
Now, a new series begins:
F.: There are some parallels which exist between the way that sane persons behave after a physical problem with the plant-food body has been effectively addressed and the way that previously-insane-but-now-sane persons behave after a mental problem has been effectively addressed: once an effective treatment has resulted in an end to a problem, all focus upon the past problem should end.
A couple of examples involving the plant-food body here will be offered. When certain medications prescribed by a doctor led to internal bleeding, the blood count in the body became so low that physical consciousness was lost. Finding the source of the bleeding became all-important, relatively speaking.
During the first stay in the hospital, the source was not found. The conclusion drawn by the medical team was that the hemorrhaging had stopped on its own (which does happen on occasion) Once released from the hospital, other medications prescribed by the attending physician began to cause even more bleeding. Four days later, back in the hospital, the source of the hemorrhaging was found and cauterized; that ended the ordeal. Back home a few day later, the issue which had been all-important for a time, relatively speaking, became totally unimportant.
The same had happened years before when cancer had been diagnosed. When the cancer was found, the need for its removal became all-important, relatively speaking. After several cancerous polyps had been removed, a process was found that prevented its recurrence; after tests confirmed that the new, preventive protocol was working to keep that part of the plant-food body cancer-free, everything involved with the earlier events became . . . totally unimportant.
The same happened after “seeking” and “searching” and “doing all kinds of work” and then, eventually, “completing the journey” and “following the proper path”: those last steps finally led to Realization (that is, to being freed from the bondage of learned ignorance and being freed from all parentally-and-culturally-induced insanity).
After that happened in conjunction with an understanding of the message of the Nisargan Yoga (and because of the understanding of the message of the Nisargan Yoga) then natural, spontaneous abidance began and has continued for the nearly twenty-six years since. (Are any of you beginning to see already where this is going?)
Maharaj said: "Awareness itself is all-important" [but] "not the content of it." Here, once awareness became aware of itself, all content – as set forth by institutions and programs and an endless supply of other sources – became irrelevant.
Similarly, if I am hunger at night and go about the kitchen searching for food, one of two things are going to happen:
(1) If food is found and eaten, the search for food will end and the fact that I had been hungry becomes irrelevant;
or
(2) If food is not found at first, the search will continue until food is found and eaten.
If anything other than those two options are used to address my hunger, then there would be evidence of ignorance and / or insanity.
In the recently-made-available eBook entitled “The Most Dangerous Belief of All,” mention was made of the relative dangers faced by a neighbor named John K. who was plagued for years by sleepwalking, often leaving the house and walking in the street at night. Being conscious and awake and aware when walking about became all-important to him and his parents.
Nothing took priority over that issue. Nothing else could be important to them if their son was forever likely to be run down by a car at night in the dark. Suddenly, neither other health issues nor problems in the neighborhood nor problems at school carried any weight at all in light of the obstacle to basic survival which John was facing.
His parents having no religious beliefs, they did not take John to a church for “the laying on of hands” and a healing ceremony. They did not try to find an SA group (Somnambulists Anonymous) in which amateurs could offer their non-professional advice to John about his problem and do nothing else except talk endlessly about the problem; thus, no one told him that his nighttime episodes of restlessness “were due to a spiritual malady” or that his problem was so unique and special that “only God would be able to help him with his troubles.”
Instead, after seeking help from one medical professional after another, his parents finally crossed paths with a medical doctor who had found - via her own trial and error experiments - that a certain all-natural, non-synthetic, side-effect-free sleep aid had brought an end to the sleepwalking episodes which some of her other patients had been experiencing. After only a few nights, that treatment worked and John’s somnambulism ended.
The concept of “sleepwalking” – which had been all-important – soon became viewed as something which was totally unimportant. The end to walking about in his sleep allowed attention to be focused on other health issues, on problems being experienced in a neighborhood that was dominated by the members of two gangs, and on problems that were being experienced in the classroom or in the schoolyard.
For John, walking about while conscious and aware and aware became automatic . . . became spontaneous. It was basically just taken for granted from that point on. The issue fell from the rank of “all-important” to “totally insignificant.”
The new perspective happened without thought or special effort. There was no notion that walking about while being fully awake and aware and conscious was some “wonderful accomplishment” or that the ability to walk while awake rather than asleep made John “different” and “special” and better than others.
Additionally, the ability to do what was simply normal and natural did not become a source of arrogance or false pride. John did not believe that there was a "New Self" that was superior in all ways to his “former self,” and he did not feel superior to “others.”
Furthermore, after he began walking about in a fully conscious and awake and aware state, he did not begin to feel self-important; instead, his existence began to unfold in a way which was more in line with the way that Maharaj described his existence: “From my point of view, everything happens by itself . . . quite spontaneously.”
Nor did John become condescending because he was suddenly able to do what was simply normal and natural. He did not look back at his former life and compare his “old lesser self” with his “new Supreme Self” which had come into being and which was allowing him to walk about while being fully awake rather than fully asleep.
And he did not become haughty about the fact that he was finally abiding in a natural way after so many years of having lived in an unnatural way.
Nor did he proclaim that “God is good!” or that “God gives me special attention and blesses me each day with His almightily healing powers!” The sleepwalking just stopped after receiving a natural treatment, and it stopped with no evidence whatsoever of an intervention in his behalf from “some other-worldly being / Being / Supreme Being.” That which gave him freedom from what was unnatural was not supernatural but was all-natural instead.
Thus, he simply slept well at night and walked about sanely and safely during the day.
Maharaj: “Life is to be lived. There is no time for analysis. The response must be instantaneous; hence, the importance of the spontaneous, the timeless.”
After receiving a natural treatment for what was ailing him, John’s existence became marked by spontaneity and lightness and a new sense of freedom instead of dominated by the anxiety which resulted from sleepwalking and which had generated miserable challenges and which had led him into danger, all of which had been part and parcel of his previous tendency to walk about in a dream state . . . in an unconscious state. After receiving a natural treatment, he began to merely abide naturally and spontaneously.
Maharaj: “Once you are quiet, things will begin to happen spontaneously and quite naturally without any interference on your part”
and
“What you are, you already are. By knowing what you are not, you are free of it and remain in your own natural state. It all happens quite spontaneously and effortlessly”
and
“I live my physical, waking life automatically, reacting spontaneously and accurately.”
Maharaj said that, after awakening and being fully conscious and fully aware, “Spontaneity became a way of life, the real became natural and the natural became real.”
See? What had been all-important at first later became totally unimportant. With Maharaj, engaging in religious activities and study of “holy books” ended; engaging in spiritual exercises and meditation and meetings ended; and making a second, arduous job out of living ended. And what began was a simple, enjoyable manner of abidance.
That is what happened with Maharaj and with Floyd and with John. It can also happen with you.
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
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:
12 January 2015
F.: There are some parallels which exist between the way that sane persons behave after a physical problem with the plant-food body has been effectively addressed and the way that previously-insane-but-now-sane persons behave after a mental problem has been effectively addressed: once an effective treatment has resulted in an end to a problem, all focus upon the past problem should end.
A couple of examples involving the plant-food body here will be offered. When certain medications prescribed by a doctor led to internal bleeding, the blood count in the body became so low that physical consciousness was lost. Finding the source of the bleeding became all-important, relatively speaking.
During the first stay in the hospital, the source was not found. The conclusion drawn by the medical team was that the hemorrhaging had stopped on its own (which does happen on occasion) Once released from the hospital, other medications prescribed by the attending physician began to cause even more bleeding. Four days later, back in the hospital, the source of the hemorrhaging was found and cauterized; that ended the ordeal. Back home a few day later, the issue which had been all-important for a time, relatively speaking, became totally unimportant.
The same had happened years before when cancer had been diagnosed. When the cancer was found, the need for its removal became all-important, relatively speaking. After several cancerous polyps had been removed, a process was found that prevented its recurrence; after tests confirmed that the new, preventive protocol was working to keep that part of the plant-food body cancer-free, everything involved with the earlier events became . . . totally unimportant.
The same happened after “seeking” and “searching” and “doing all kinds of work” and then, eventually, “completing the journey” and “following the proper path”: those last steps finally led to Realization (that is, to being freed from the bondage of learned ignorance and being freed from all parentally-and-culturally-induced insanity).
After that happened in conjunction with an understanding of the message of the Nisargan Yoga (and because of the understanding of the message of the Nisargan Yoga) then natural, spontaneous abidance began and has continued for the nearly twenty-six years since. (Are any of you beginning to see already where this is going?)
Maharaj said: "Awareness itself is all-important" [but] "not the content of it." Here, once awareness became aware of itself, all content – as set forth by institutions and programs and an endless supply of other sources – became irrelevant.
Similarly, if I am hunger at night and go about the kitchen searching for food, one of two things are going to happen:
(1) If food is found and eaten, the search for food will end and the fact that I had been hungry becomes irrelevant;
or
(2) If food is not found at first, the search will continue until food is found and eaten.
If anything other than those two options are used to address my hunger, then there would be evidence of ignorance and / or insanity.
In the recently-made-available eBook entitled “The Most Dangerous Belief of All,” mention was made of the relative dangers faced by a neighbor named John K. who was plagued for years by sleepwalking, often leaving the house and walking in the street at night. Being conscious and awake and aware when walking about became all-important to him and his parents.
Nothing took priority over that issue. Nothing else could be important to them if their son was forever likely to be run down by a car at night in the dark. Suddenly, neither other health issues nor problems in the neighborhood nor problems at school carried any weight at all in light of the obstacle to basic survival which John was facing.
His parents having no religious beliefs, they did not take John to a church for “the laying on of hands” and a healing ceremony. They did not try to find an SA group (Somnambulists Anonymous) in which amateurs could offer their non-professional advice to John about his problem and do nothing else except talk endlessly about the problem; thus, no one told him that his nighttime episodes of restlessness “were due to a spiritual malady” or that his problem was so unique and special that “only God would be able to help him with his troubles.”
Instead, after seeking help from one medical professional after another, his parents finally crossed paths with a medical doctor who had found - via her own trial and error experiments - that a certain all-natural, non-synthetic, side-effect-free sleep aid had brought an end to the sleepwalking episodes which some of her other patients had been experiencing. After only a few nights, that treatment worked and John’s somnambulism ended.
The concept of “sleepwalking” – which had been all-important – soon became viewed as something which was totally unimportant. The end to walking about in his sleep allowed attention to be focused on other health issues, on problems being experienced in a neighborhood that was dominated by the members of two gangs, and on problems that were being experienced in the classroom or in the schoolyard.
For John, walking about while conscious and aware and aware became automatic . . . became spontaneous. It was basically just taken for granted from that point on. The issue fell from the rank of “all-important” to “totally insignificant.”
The new perspective happened without thought or special effort. There was no notion that walking about while being fully awake and aware and conscious was some “wonderful accomplishment” or that the ability to walk while awake rather than asleep made John “different” and “special” and better than others.
Additionally, the ability to do what was simply normal and natural did not become a source of arrogance or false pride. John did not believe that there was a "New Self" that was superior in all ways to his “former self,” and he did not feel superior to “others.”
Furthermore, after he began walking about in a fully conscious and awake and aware state, he did not begin to feel self-important; instead, his existence began to unfold in a way which was more in line with the way that Maharaj described his existence: “From my point of view, everything happens by itself . . . quite spontaneously.”
Nor did John become condescending because he was suddenly able to do what was simply normal and natural. He did not look back at his former life and compare his “old lesser self” with his “new Supreme Self” which had come into being and which was allowing him to walk about while being fully awake rather than fully asleep.
And he did not become haughty about the fact that he was finally abiding in a natural way after so many years of having lived in an unnatural way.
Nor did he proclaim that “God is good!” or that “God gives me special attention and blesses me each day with His almightily healing powers!” The sleepwalking just stopped after receiving a natural treatment, and it stopped with no evidence whatsoever of an intervention in his behalf from “some other-worldly being / Being / Supreme Being.” That which gave him freedom from what was unnatural was not supernatural but was all-natural instead.
Thus, he simply slept well at night and walked about sanely and safely during the day.
Maharaj: “Life is to be lived. There is no time for analysis. The response must be instantaneous; hence, the importance of the spontaneous, the timeless.”
After receiving a natural treatment for what was ailing him, John’s existence became marked by spontaneity and lightness and a new sense of freedom instead of dominated by the anxiety which resulted from sleepwalking and which had generated miserable challenges and which had led him into danger, all of which had been part and parcel of his previous tendency to walk about in a dream state . . . in an unconscious state. After receiving a natural treatment, he began to merely abide naturally and spontaneously.
Maharaj: “Once you are quiet, things will begin to happen spontaneously and quite naturally without any interference on your part”
and
“What you are, you already are. By knowing what you are not, you are free of it and remain in your own natural state. It all happens quite spontaneously and effortlessly”
and
“I live my physical, waking life automatically, reacting spontaneously and accurately.”
Maharaj said that, after awakening and being fully conscious and fully aware, “Spontaneity became a way of life, the real became natural and the natural became real.”
See? What had been all-important at first later became totally unimportant. With Maharaj, engaging in religious activities and study of “holy books” ended; engaging in spiritual exercises and meditation and meetings ended; and making a second, arduous job out of living ended. And what began was a simple, enjoyable manner of abidance.
That is what happened with Maharaj and with Floyd and with John. It can also happen with you.
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:
Other Recent Posts
12 January 2015
A DAILY CONSIDERATION FOR YOU
This fifth of five free eBooks
(made available on this site without any cost by Andy Gugar, Jr. and Floyd) can now be requested by scrolling down to the section of this page which provides the means by which you can receive your free copy or can have a free copy sent to friends.
[Any of the thousands who have requested the free eBooks on this site can testify that you will not be contacted and that your email address will not be given to anyone, so feel free to ask if you are interested.]
Coming soon: A new series on what Realization is and what it is not.
11 January 2015
A DAILY CONSIDERATION FOR YOU
If you request a copy of the upcoming free eBook, "THE MOST DANGEROUS BELIEF OF ALL," you’ll see that Andy Gugar, Jr. said the following in the front piece entitled “Considerations from the Editor”:
“In terms of my own ‘third step experience’ (where religious and / or spiritual roles are played), it was seen that the impediments there were the same as in all other cases, including false identifications and bogus concepts and a mind that is full to the max”
and
“Beware. That third step will catch you; but it also can provide the opportunity to be free because if seekers see that they are playing those roles – and see that they are really just that, mere roles – then that third step can be transitioned.”
He said: “On the seven-step ‘path’ which is taught here, the third step (again, where religious roles and / or spiritual roles are played) can include the roles of ‘The Super Religious One’ and ‘The Spiritual Giant’ and ‘The Greatest Seeker of All.’ But no matter how much ‘better’ those roles are thought to be when compared to other roles which have been played or which can be played, they are still just roles . . . are still just false identities.”
Andy continued: “It [the third step] is a point of separation which can lead to a sense of unification, to the understanding of the unicity. To transition those roles is what separates those who really want to know the truth from those who do not.”
To transition the third step where those roles are played is to move to the fourth step which some non-dualists refer to as “The Child Ignorance Stage” (termed here, “The Child No-Knowing State”).
Andy said earlier: “The 'ignorance' which Maharaj referenced is nothing more than ‘learned ignorance’ (which he also called ‘knowledge.’) It’s all just learned ignorance.”
During the “coming in phase,” as the consciousness manifested within one (composite unity) space or another, there was no knowledge and no ignorance because nothing had yet been taught or learned. Learned ignorance came after the child began to be exposed to programming, conditioning, domestication, acculturation, brainwashing, and indoctrination and after the child was taught to have blind faith in anything and everything that is passed on by authority figures (along with a warning about not questioning any of what is being passed on).
It is the task of the teacher and the seeker - the guru and the protégé - to un-do all of that. That does not involve accumulating more learned ignorance. It involves un-learning. It involves being un-taught all of the learned ignorance which has been accumulated along the way and stored in what is called “the mind.”
Next, Andy said: “Natural abidance happens spontaneously when the existence unfolds via the guidance received from a contamination-free brain, but unnatural or so-called supernatural abidance lead to nothing more than wishful thinking.”
The offer from a Realized Nisargan is an invitation to persons to Realize (that is, to be restored to the early state of full sanity of the No-Knowing Child who had not yet been taught the programming, conditioning, domestication, acculturation, brainwashing, indoctrination and blind faith which would eventually mark and mar the child’s entire relative existence).
Next, Andy said: “When ignorance subsides, then blind faith will be seen as just another concept. At that point, you can report that You Are, and that’s it. STOP! End of conversation.
"So STOP! Stop believing. Stop everything other than enjoying that natural beingness.”
Peace to you all.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
10 January 2015
THE CONCLUSION
If you request a copy of the upcoming free eBook, "THE MOST DANGEROUS BELIEF OF ALL," you’ll see that Andy Gugar, Jr. said the following in the front piece entitled “Considerations from the Editor”:
“In terms of my own ‘third step experience’ (where religious and / or spiritual roles are played), it was seen that the impediments there were the same as in all other cases, including false identifications and bogus concepts and a mind that is full to the max”
and
“Beware. That third step will catch you; but it also can provide the opportunity to be free because if seekers see that they are playing those roles – and see that they are really just that, mere roles – then that third step can be transitioned.”
He said: “On the seven-step ‘path’ which is taught here, the third step (again, where religious roles and / or spiritual roles are played) can include the roles of ‘The Super Religious One’ and ‘The Spiritual Giant’ and ‘The Greatest Seeker of All.’ But no matter how much ‘better’ those roles are thought to be when compared to other roles which have been played or which can be played, they are still just roles . . . are still just false identities.”
Andy continued: “It [the third step] is a point of separation which can lead to a sense of unification, to the understanding of the unicity. To transition those roles is what separates those who really want to know the truth from those who do not.”
To transition the third step where those roles are played is to move to the fourth step which some non-dualists refer to as “The Child Ignorance Stage” (termed here, “The Child No-Knowing State”).
Andy said earlier: “The 'ignorance' which Maharaj referenced is nothing more than ‘learned ignorance’ (which he also called ‘knowledge.’) It’s all just learned ignorance.”
During the “coming in phase,” as the consciousness manifested within one (composite unity) space or another, there was no knowledge and no ignorance because nothing had yet been taught or learned. Learned ignorance came after the child began to be exposed to programming, conditioning, domestication, acculturation, brainwashing, and indoctrination and after the child was taught to have blind faith in anything and everything that is passed on by authority figures (along with a warning about not questioning any of what is being passed on).
It is the task of the teacher and the seeker - the guru and the protégé - to un-do all of that. That does not involve accumulating more learned ignorance. It involves un-learning. It involves being un-taught all of the learned ignorance which has been accumulated along the way and stored in what is called “the mind.”
Next, Andy said: “Natural abidance happens spontaneously when the existence unfolds via the guidance received from a contamination-free brain, but unnatural or so-called supernatural abidance lead to nothing more than wishful thinking.”
The offer from a Realized Nisargan is an invitation to persons to Realize (that is, to be restored to the early state of full sanity of the No-Knowing Child who had not yet been taught the programming, conditioning, domestication, acculturation, brainwashing, indoctrination and blind faith which would eventually mark and mar the child’s entire relative existence).
Next, Andy said: “When ignorance subsides, then blind faith will be seen as just another concept. At that point, you can report that You Are, and that’s it. STOP! End of conversation.
"So STOP! Stop believing. Stop everything other than enjoying that natural beingness.”
Peace to you all.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
10 January 2015
A DAILY CONSIDERATION FOR YOU
PART TWO REVIEW [continued]
294. Why offer a caution about religion-based blind faith and / or spirituality-based blind faith to non-dual seekers? First, that caution is based in experience.
295. Both “maharaj” and “floyd,” though aware of the non-dual teachings, tried for a time to intermingle those teachings with religious dogma in order to compound an Ultimate Medicine that could address the Ultimate Sickness. The experiment failed miserably.
296. Then, both “maharaj” and “floyd” tried to intermingle those teachings with spiritual principles and spiritual exercises in an effort to compound an Ultimate Medicine that could address the Ultimate Sickness. That experiment also failed miserably.
297. As with everyone who has ever been witnessed on “the path,” the third step – where religious and / or spiritual roles are assumed and played - must be taken.
298. One cannot “leap frog” beyond body and mind identifications and thereby skip over the process which frees persons from their having been assigned or assumed personality identifications (including “the good ones,” such as "The Super Religious One" or "The Spiritual Giant" or “The Super Seeker”).
299. Instead, the mind must be emptied completely (of all beliefs including beliefs about personal identifications) before a seeker can move to the fourth step on the seven-step “path” which is taught here.
300. Only after abandoning all ideas, concepts, notions, etc. (also known collectively as “beliefs”) will the mind be purged completely, allowing the seeker at that point to return directly to the earlier stage - “The Child Ignorance Stage” (or, as termed here, “The Child No-Knowing State”) - where there was no mind at all, much less a mind that would soon be filled with ideas, concepts, notions, etc., which make up each person’s "belief systems."
301. How was there no mind at all at the point of “The Child No-Knowing State”? Because at that point, the child had not yet (A) been programmed and conditioned and acculturated and domesticated and brainwashed and indoctrinated to accept - unquestioningly – all sorts of nonsensical ideas and concepts and notions and impressions and opinions and views and theories and perceptions / misperceptions and had not yet (B) stored away into a part of the brain that would be called “the mind” all of the ignorance and insanity which persons accumulate.
302. At that point, the child was mindless, not mindful / mind-full. That was originally the case with you. Mindlessness happened once with you. It can happen again. You don’t HAVE to believe anything, and your relative existence will be far saner if you don’t.
303. If you don’t believe anything - and if you don’t have a mind filled with the nonsense spread by humanity - then you can abide naturally . . . like every other living thing on the planet (except, of course, for humans).
304. Thus, the invitation to abandon blind faith is just as relevant for non-dual seekers as for those in any cults, including religious cults, spiritual programs / cults or any other types of cults.
305. Most seekers - as if the case with (a) the 97% who are involved with one organized religion or another and with (b) the millions claiming that they are spiritual – will never transcend the third step.
306. Moreover, blind faith and mind-full-ness are not a product of only organized religions, spiritual groups, and other similar types of cults.
307. The invitation is to wake up and to see how much one’s so-called “spiritual journey” or one’s “movement along the non-dual path” actually has in common with the run-of-the-mill religious and spiritual and political and racial cults which have not totally cornered the market on faith-based nonsense.
308. The invitation is to wake up and to see that those persons whom Maharaj warned seekers to avoid (namely, Big Name Teachers) are spouting as much nonsense as one hears in those other run-of-the-meal venues.
309. The invitation is to wake up and to see that those Teachers are popular because they are not offering a pure, non-dual message but are filling their talks with comments that appeal to the masses who would otherwise reject a truly non-dual talk (just as Christians do when they hear the non-dual pointers which are attributed to Jesus).
310. The invitation is to wake up and to see that the Big Name Teachers are attracting the masses not by offering truly non-dual pointers but by talking about popular, relative issues such as “success” and “improving the mind” and “changing your thoughts” and “getting power” and “getting power now” and “advancing your spirit” and “fulfilling your desires” and “knowing God” and “loving what is,” (that is, developing the tendency to dissociate and feel nothing) no matter if “what is” is a rape or the murder of one’s child or genocide or being abused by the authorities because of the color of one’s skin or because of one’s low economic level.
311. The invitation is to wake up and to see that having blind faith in a guru who is demanding that you engage in "this action" or "that action" on a daily basis and forever is not a guru who is concerned with your being freed from being driven by blind faith and mind-full-ness and is not concerned with pointing you toward total freedom and total independence at all.
End of Review Part Two
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
9 January 2015
A DAILY CONSIDERATION FOR YOU
294. Why offer a caution about religion-based blind faith and / or spirituality-based blind faith to non-dual seekers? First, that caution is based in experience.
295. Both “maharaj” and “floyd,” though aware of the non-dual teachings, tried for a time to intermingle those teachings with religious dogma in order to compound an Ultimate Medicine that could address the Ultimate Sickness. The experiment failed miserably.
296. Then, both “maharaj” and “floyd” tried to intermingle those teachings with spiritual principles and spiritual exercises in an effort to compound an Ultimate Medicine that could address the Ultimate Sickness. That experiment also failed miserably.
297. As with everyone who has ever been witnessed on “the path,” the third step – where religious and / or spiritual roles are assumed and played - must be taken.
298. One cannot “leap frog” beyond body and mind identifications and thereby skip over the process which frees persons from their having been assigned or assumed personality identifications (including “the good ones,” such as "The Super Religious One" or "The Spiritual Giant" or “The Super Seeker”).
299. Instead, the mind must be emptied completely (of all beliefs including beliefs about personal identifications) before a seeker can move to the fourth step on the seven-step “path” which is taught here.
300. Only after abandoning all ideas, concepts, notions, etc. (also known collectively as “beliefs”) will the mind be purged completely, allowing the seeker at that point to return directly to the earlier stage - “The Child Ignorance Stage” (or, as termed here, “The Child No-Knowing State”) - where there was no mind at all, much less a mind that would soon be filled with ideas, concepts, notions, etc., which make up each person’s "belief systems."
301. How was there no mind at all at the point of “The Child No-Knowing State”? Because at that point, the child had not yet (A) been programmed and conditioned and acculturated and domesticated and brainwashed and indoctrinated to accept - unquestioningly – all sorts of nonsensical ideas and concepts and notions and impressions and opinions and views and theories and perceptions / misperceptions and had not yet (B) stored away into a part of the brain that would be called “the mind” all of the ignorance and insanity which persons accumulate.
302. At that point, the child was mindless, not mindful / mind-full. That was originally the case with you. Mindlessness happened once with you. It can happen again. You don’t HAVE to believe anything, and your relative existence will be far saner if you don’t.
303. If you don’t believe anything - and if you don’t have a mind filled with the nonsense spread by humanity - then you can abide naturally . . . like every other living thing on the planet (except, of course, for humans).
304. Thus, the invitation to abandon blind faith is just as relevant for non-dual seekers as for those in any cults, including religious cults, spiritual programs / cults or any other types of cults.
305. Most seekers - as if the case with (a) the 97% who are involved with one organized religion or another and with (b) the millions claiming that they are spiritual – will never transcend the third step.
306. Moreover, blind faith and mind-full-ness are not a product of only organized religions, spiritual groups, and other similar types of cults.
307. The invitation is to wake up and to see how much one’s so-called “spiritual journey” or one’s “movement along the non-dual path” actually has in common with the run-of-the-mill religious and spiritual and political and racial cults which have not totally cornered the market on faith-based nonsense.
308. The invitation is to wake up and to see that those persons whom Maharaj warned seekers to avoid (namely, Big Name Teachers) are spouting as much nonsense as one hears in those other run-of-the-meal venues.
309. The invitation is to wake up and to see that those Teachers are popular because they are not offering a pure, non-dual message but are filling their talks with comments that appeal to the masses who would otherwise reject a truly non-dual talk (just as Christians do when they hear the non-dual pointers which are attributed to Jesus).
310. The invitation is to wake up and to see that the Big Name Teachers are attracting the masses not by offering truly non-dual pointers but by talking about popular, relative issues such as “success” and “improving the mind” and “changing your thoughts” and “getting power” and “getting power now” and “advancing your spirit” and “fulfilling your desires” and “knowing God” and “loving what is,” (that is, developing the tendency to dissociate and feel nothing) no matter if “what is” is a rape or the murder of one’s child or genocide or being abused by the authorities because of the color of one’s skin or because of one’s low economic level.
311. The invitation is to wake up and to see that having blind faith in a guru who is demanding that you engage in "this action" or "that action" on a daily basis and forever is not a guru who is concerned with your being freed from being driven by blind faith and mind-full-ness and is not concerned with pointing you toward total freedom and total independence at all.
End of Review Part Two
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
9 January 2015
A DAILY CONSIDERATION FOR YOU
PART TWO REVIEW [continued]
284. Blind faith and mind-full-ness are not only a product of organized religions, spiritual groups, and other similar types of cults, though those are the key sources; for example, such blindness can also be rooted in pseudo non-duality.
285. Some report that “my guru told me to do this or that every day” and “my teacher taught me to do such-and-such on a daily basis,” and many playing the role of “The Spiritual Giant” use a variety of what they erroneously take to be “non-dual tools” which they vehemently claim offer benefits:
286. Those "tools" can include special crystals; music from the Far East or music recorded by Native Americans; special bowls placed on special pillows and made to ring by being struck by a special stick; special food plans; special sticks with special scents which are released when burned; visiting special places all around the globe; chanting special chants and humming special hums; special meditation exercises; etc., etc., etc.
287. None of that eliminates the mind but instead crams it full of more and more nonsense which reinforces their belief in the false - but supposedly noble - identities which they assume.
288. Maharaj (explaining that he had cast aside the use of all “non-dual tools” after the mind was emptied into a “zero concepts” state and after the mind had thereby come to a complete end) said: “I am stabilized. There is no going into samadhi or coming down from samadhi. That is over.”
289. He made clear that there is no such thing as being “free of the mind.” There is either a mind or there is the complete elimination of the mind via the elimination of all concepts, ideas, notions, (that is, “beliefs”) which are stored there.
290. When a true awakening happens, it can be recognized by many signs, most of which have to do with de-accumulating and have nothing to do with accumulating; that can include the de-accumulation of all “non-dual tools” or “spiritual exercises.”
291. What definitely comes to an end with Full Realization is the use of externals to try to address internal issues (that is, issues which are rooted in the content of the mind).
293. See, the run-of-the-mill religious and spiritual and political and racial cults have not cornered the market on blind-faith-based nonsense, as evidenced by those having blind faith in their supposedly non-dual gurus and in their gurus’ supposedly non-dual pointers (which actually have nothing whatsoever to do with the non-dual Truth at all).
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
8 January 2014
284. Blind faith and mind-full-ness are not only a product of organized religions, spiritual groups, and other similar types of cults, though those are the key sources; for example, such blindness can also be rooted in pseudo non-duality.
285. Some report that “my guru told me to do this or that every day” and “my teacher taught me to do such-and-such on a daily basis,” and many playing the role of “The Spiritual Giant” use a variety of what they erroneously take to be “non-dual tools” which they vehemently claim offer benefits:
286. Those "tools" can include special crystals; music from the Far East or music recorded by Native Americans; special bowls placed on special pillows and made to ring by being struck by a special stick; special food plans; special sticks with special scents which are released when burned; visiting special places all around the globe; chanting special chants and humming special hums; special meditation exercises; etc., etc., etc.
287. None of that eliminates the mind but instead crams it full of more and more nonsense which reinforces their belief in the false - but supposedly noble - identities which they assume.
288. Maharaj (explaining that he had cast aside the use of all “non-dual tools” after the mind was emptied into a “zero concepts” state and after the mind had thereby come to a complete end) said: “I am stabilized. There is no going into samadhi or coming down from samadhi. That is over.”
289. He made clear that there is no such thing as being “free of the mind.” There is either a mind or there is the complete elimination of the mind via the elimination of all concepts, ideas, notions, (that is, “beliefs”) which are stored there.
290. When a true awakening happens, it can be recognized by many signs, most of which have to do with de-accumulating and have nothing to do with accumulating; that can include the de-accumulation of all “non-dual tools” or “spiritual exercises.”
291. What definitely comes to an end with Full Realization is the use of externals to try to address internal issues (that is, issues which are rooted in the content of the mind).
293. See, the run-of-the-mill religious and spiritual and political and racial cults have not cornered the market on blind-faith-based nonsense, as evidenced by those having blind faith in their supposedly non-dual gurus and in their gurus’ supposedly non-dual pointers (which actually have nothing whatsoever to do with the non-dual Truth at all).
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
8 January 2014
A DAILY CONSIDERATION FOR YOU
PART TWO REVIEW [continued]
267. Duality cannot exist except in the presence of beliefs; those trapped in beliefs – sustained by having blind faith in those beliefs - will feel certain that they know the difference in what is “right” vs. what is “wrong” and what is “good” vs. what is “bad.”
268. With a tendency to engage in black and white (dualistic) thinking, then relationships, tasks, and even life in general are judged either “good or bad,” “right or wrong,” “fair or unfair.”
269. Attention to “things that are wrong or bad” can lead to a compulsive need to criticize, judge, and “correct” both yourself and others.
270. The overall result? Persons who are subsumed in perfectionism and judgmentalism; who think they “know-it-all”; who are rigid and inflexible; who are obsessive-compulsive; who are overly-serious and find the faults in others while being blind to their own relative shortcomings; and who focus on living up to the silly expectations of parents, teachers, preachers, priests, rabbis, ayatollahs, etc.
271. Such persons are forever going about the business of building walls, thus fostering more and more duality.
272. Maharaj: “There is no wall between us, except the one built by you.”
273. Duality is the father of polarization, and polarization sets the stage for disagreement and conflict between those fixated at the opposite, extreme poles of all sorts of continuums.
274. Note how all of that translates into actions that are totally contradictory to stated beliefs: it has been shown to any objective witness that - in "the world" of blind-faith-based ideologues - murder and capital punishment and killings and suicide vest bombings are not incompatible with faith-based beliefs.
275. Moreover, blind faith really does separate persons from “common sense and objectiveness,” attaching them to the ideological, illogical, belief systems which are passed on by all cults – including political cults, racial cults, religions, spiritual groups, etc.
276. Their attachment to such belief systems results in persons being driven by the hidden agendas of their assigned and / or assumed personalities.
277. It is those subconscious agendas which are “so strong and so powerful” that they “cloud the vision,” resulting in faith-based blindness.
278. And faith-based blindness will block any opportunity to see anything “sensibly or objectively."
279. Blind faith also assures the continuation of the polarization which differentiates between those operating from a position of wisdom (who are willing to question and to seek facts) versus those who are trapped in ignorance and insanity (who seek no facts whatsoever to support – or refute - their beliefs).
280. Additionally, blind faith and mind-full-ness always go hand-in-hand.
281. They are co-dependent, existing alongside each other, simultaneously generating ignorant and insane thoughts and words and actions which are based in exceedingly-full minds (which have been filled with the most ignorant and insane beliefs imaginable).
282. A state of mindlessness, a state of zero concepts, a state of no-minded-ness cannot exist as long as persons adhere to their blind-faith-based beliefs. Why?
283. Because blind faith requires a passionate attachment to all sorts of concepts and ideas and values and principles and morals and standards and ethics and ideals and notions (a.k.a., “beliefs”) which are all deemed to be "worthy and important and consequential and significant and meaningful and meritorious and holy and sacred and right and righteous and praiseworthy and laudable and commendable and most excellent and helpful and empowering and useful and profitable and often holy and sacred."
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
7 January 2014
267. Duality cannot exist except in the presence of beliefs; those trapped in beliefs – sustained by having blind faith in those beliefs - will feel certain that they know the difference in what is “right” vs. what is “wrong” and what is “good” vs. what is “bad.”
268. With a tendency to engage in black and white (dualistic) thinking, then relationships, tasks, and even life in general are judged either “good or bad,” “right or wrong,” “fair or unfair.”
269. Attention to “things that are wrong or bad” can lead to a compulsive need to criticize, judge, and “correct” both yourself and others.
270. The overall result? Persons who are subsumed in perfectionism and judgmentalism; who think they “know-it-all”; who are rigid and inflexible; who are obsessive-compulsive; who are overly-serious and find the faults in others while being blind to their own relative shortcomings; and who focus on living up to the silly expectations of parents, teachers, preachers, priests, rabbis, ayatollahs, etc.
271. Such persons are forever going about the business of building walls, thus fostering more and more duality.
272. Maharaj: “There is no wall between us, except the one built by you.”
273. Duality is the father of polarization, and polarization sets the stage for disagreement and conflict between those fixated at the opposite, extreme poles of all sorts of continuums.
274. Note how all of that translates into actions that are totally contradictory to stated beliefs: it has been shown to any objective witness that - in "the world" of blind-faith-based ideologues - murder and capital punishment and killings and suicide vest bombings are not incompatible with faith-based beliefs.
275. Moreover, blind faith really does separate persons from “common sense and objectiveness,” attaching them to the ideological, illogical, belief systems which are passed on by all cults – including political cults, racial cults, religions, spiritual groups, etc.
276. Their attachment to such belief systems results in persons being driven by the hidden agendas of their assigned and / or assumed personalities.
277. It is those subconscious agendas which are “so strong and so powerful” that they “cloud the vision,” resulting in faith-based blindness.
278. And faith-based blindness will block any opportunity to see anything “sensibly or objectively."
279. Blind faith also assures the continuation of the polarization which differentiates between those operating from a position of wisdom (who are willing to question and to seek facts) versus those who are trapped in ignorance and insanity (who seek no facts whatsoever to support – or refute - their beliefs).
280. Additionally, blind faith and mind-full-ness always go hand-in-hand.
281. They are co-dependent, existing alongside each other, simultaneously generating ignorant and insane thoughts and words and actions which are based in exceedingly-full minds (which have been filled with the most ignorant and insane beliefs imaginable).
282. A state of mindlessness, a state of zero concepts, a state of no-minded-ness cannot exist as long as persons adhere to their blind-faith-based beliefs. Why?
283. Because blind faith requires a passionate attachment to all sorts of concepts and ideas and values and principles and morals and standards and ethics and ideals and notions (a.k.a., “beliefs”) which are all deemed to be "worthy and important and consequential and significant and meaningful and meritorious and holy and sacred and right and righteous and praiseworthy and laudable and commendable and most excellent and helpful and empowering and useful and profitable and often holy and sacred."
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
7 January 2014
A DAILY CONSIDERATION FOR YOU
PART TWO REVIEW [continued]
243. Programming, conditioning, domestication, acculturation, brainwashing, and indoctrination generate blind faith, and blind faith – in turn - locks persons into assuming and playing the roles – among many others - of “The Super Religious One,” “The Spiritual Giant,” “The Perfectionist,” “The Judge,” “The Reformer,” and “The Know-It-All”; thereafter, programming, conditioning, etc. become the tools of their trade.
244. Then, they use the tools to try to program, condition, domesticate, acculturate, brainwash, indoctrinate and encourage all to mimic them, to speak the words they speak, and to think and believe only what they think and believe.
245. Just as parents use those tools to try to make their children into a mirror image of themselves, so those who are programmed, conditioned, domesticated, acculturated, brainwashed, and indoctrinated from early on can spend an entire relative existence absorbed in the process of trying to program, condition, domesticate, acculturate, brainwash, and indoctrinate all those whose paths they cross.
246. Once nonsense is considered sensible, then nonsense will be passed on, considered by the next generation to be sensible, passed on again, etc., etc., etc., in an endless loop, assuring that ignorance will be circulated constantly.
247. Ignorant thoughts then drive ignorant words which then lead to ignorant behavior, a sequence referenced by Forrest Gump’s mama who “always said” that “stupid is as stupid does.”
248. And all of that nonsense is a result of person never having questioned any of their blind-faith-based beliefs (nonsense) which they were programmed, conditioned, domesticated, acculturated, brainwashed, and indoctrinated to believe.
249. The effects of blind faith, then, are far-ranging: persons become trapped into clinging to nonsensical beliefs; persons are put to sleep; they generate judgmentalism, rigidity, inflexibility, severity, strictness, stiffness, and an overall anal view of - and anal approach to - life.
250. The result of that? There is no “relaxing and taking it easy” among obsessive, perfectionistic, forever-uptight, controlling persons who are driven by their beliefs which are being sustained by blind faith.
[What does that look like in practice? This was received in an email this morning from a regular visitor to the site:
As you have said, we can see each day in the headlines more and more evidence of mindFULLness and of the insanity of blind faith beliefs. I read this today:
PARIS (AP) -- Masked gunmen stormed the Paris offices of a satirical newspaper Wednesday, killing twelve people before escaping, in France's deadliest terror attack in at least two decades. French President Francois Hollande said the attack on the Charlie Hebdo weekly, which has frequently drawn condemnation from Muslims, is a terrorist attack, without a doubt. Extremist Muslims have been outraged by caricatures of their prophet Mohammed which have appeared in the satirical paper which denounces all forms of extremism. And so it is, and so it goes.]
251. When assuming the role of “The Super Religious One,” “The Spiritual Giant,” “The Perfectionist,” “The Judge,” “The Reformer, and “The Know-It-All,” the focus of attention will be on “What’s wrong?” and “How I can I change that and improve the world and make it right?” and “How can I make people think and talk and behave exactly as I think and talk and behave?” and “How can I make everyone believe exactly what I believe?”
252. [Christians are told to “go to the four corners of the earth and baptize everyone in the name of Jesus Christ and have them accept him as their Lord and Savior”; Muslims are taught to convert everyone to the way that they think and to follow their beliefs exactly; Twelve-Steppers claim that “everyone should seek the benefits of our program, not just alcoholics / addicts – everyone needs what we offer in here,” etc.]
253. Maharaj’s take on that mindset? “The idea of responsibility is in your mind. You think there must be something or somebody solely responsible for all that happens.”
254. Thus, there’s another result of abiding in the grip of blind faith: a desire to control people, places, and things; to control everyone’s thoughts and words and actions. Talk about “malignant narcissism.” Talk about levels of arrogance that are usually only reached by sociopaths and psychopaths.
255. This point has been offered often here: “There is no ‘one’ here who believes in anything, so there is certainly no one here who wants you to believe anything, either.” This deal is about un-learning, about un-teaching, and about emptying minds (in those cases where one is interested in being truly and totally free).
256. Why cling to a mind-full-ness state when all minds are filled with nonsense and contradictions and when the beliefs stored therein only inspire disagreements (not only with “others” but also with "self / Self")?
257. Blind-faith, perfectionistic types are unable to see their own character / personality defects but are self-appointed experts at finding the defects of others (a.k.a., “psychological projection”).
258. Maharaj explained the process of projecting this way: “There is only one mistake you are making: you take the inner for the outer, and the outer for the inner. What is in you, you take to be outside you, and what is outside you take to be in you. The mind and feelings are external, but you take them to be intimate. You believe the world to be objective, while it is entirely a projection of your psyche. That is the basic confusion”
and
259. “Once you realize that the world is your own projection, you are free of it. You need not free yourself of a world that does not exist, except in your own imagination!”
260. What was his explanation to those who are functioning in the blind faith, rigid, judgmental fashion which results in warped perceptions about “the world” and in the arrogance-based belief among those types that they “can make a huge difference” and that they “really can change the awful, horrible, hideous world” for the better?
261. Maharaj: “You are the maker of the world in which you live.”
262. Maharaj also said, the world which you think you see "exists only as a dream in [your] consciousness”
and
263. “You are not in the world; the world is in you” (that is, in your mind); so, an awful, horrible, hideous world can only be generated by a mind filled with thoughts and beliefs that are also “awful, horrible, and hideous.”
264. Furthermore, he said, “As [one] only knows the contents of [the] consciousness, and an outside world is unprovable, all perceivables are only in [the] mind”
and
265. “Is there a world outside your knowledge? Can you go beyond what you ‘know’? You may postulate a world beyond the mind, but it will remain a concept, unproved and unprovable. Your experience is your proof, and it is valid for you only. Who else can have your experience, when the other person is only as real as he appears in your experience?”
266. In that regard, Maharaj advised seekers: “’The world' appears to you so overwhelmingly real because you think of it all the time; cease thinking of it and it will dissolve into thin mist.” See? Obsessed. Obsessive. Mind-based and belief-based obsessive thinking. Then, compulsive behaviors rooted in obsessive thinking.
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
6 January 2015
PART TWO REVIEW [continued]
243. Programming, conditioning, domestication, acculturation, brainwashing, and indoctrination generate blind faith, and blind faith – in turn - locks persons into assuming and playing the roles – among many others - of “The Super Religious One,” “The Spiritual Giant,” “The Perfectionist,” “The Judge,” “The Reformer,” and “The Know-It-All”; thereafter, programming, conditioning, etc. become the tools of their trade.
244. Then, they use the tools to try to program, condition, domesticate, acculturate, brainwash, indoctrinate and encourage all to mimic them, to speak the words they speak, and to think and believe only what they think and believe.
245. Just as parents use those tools to try to make their children into a mirror image of themselves, so those who are programmed, conditioned, domesticated, acculturated, brainwashed, and indoctrinated from early on can spend an entire relative existence absorbed in the process of trying to program, condition, domesticate, acculturate, brainwash, and indoctrinate all those whose paths they cross.
246. Once nonsense is considered sensible, then nonsense will be passed on, considered by the next generation to be sensible, passed on again, etc., etc., etc., in an endless loop, assuring that ignorance will be circulated constantly.
247. Ignorant thoughts then drive ignorant words which then lead to ignorant behavior, a sequence referenced by Forrest Gump’s mama who “always said” that “stupid is as stupid does.”
248. And all of that nonsense is a result of person never having questioned any of their blind-faith-based beliefs (nonsense) which they were programmed, conditioned, domesticated, acculturated, brainwashed, and indoctrinated to believe.
249. The effects of blind faith, then, are far-ranging: persons become trapped into clinging to nonsensical beliefs; persons are put to sleep; they generate judgmentalism, rigidity, inflexibility, severity, strictness, stiffness, and an overall anal view of - and anal approach to - life.
250. The result of that? There is no “relaxing and taking it easy” among obsessive, perfectionistic, forever-uptight, controlling persons who are driven by their beliefs which are being sustained by blind faith.
[What does that look like in practice? This was received in an email this morning from a regular visitor to the site:
As you have said, we can see each day in the headlines more and more evidence of mindFULLness and of the insanity of blind faith beliefs. I read this today:
PARIS (AP) -- Masked gunmen stormed the Paris offices of a satirical newspaper Wednesday, killing twelve people before escaping, in France's deadliest terror attack in at least two decades. French President Francois Hollande said the attack on the Charlie Hebdo weekly, which has frequently drawn condemnation from Muslims, is a terrorist attack, without a doubt. Extremist Muslims have been outraged by caricatures of their prophet Mohammed which have appeared in the satirical paper which denounces all forms of extremism. And so it is, and so it goes.]
251. When assuming the role of “The Super Religious One,” “The Spiritual Giant,” “The Perfectionist,” “The Judge,” “The Reformer, and “The Know-It-All,” the focus of attention will be on “What’s wrong?” and “How I can I change that and improve the world and make it right?” and “How can I make people think and talk and behave exactly as I think and talk and behave?” and “How can I make everyone believe exactly what I believe?”
252. [Christians are told to “go to the four corners of the earth and baptize everyone in the name of Jesus Christ and have them accept him as their Lord and Savior”; Muslims are taught to convert everyone to the way that they think and to follow their beliefs exactly; Twelve-Steppers claim that “everyone should seek the benefits of our program, not just alcoholics / addicts – everyone needs what we offer in here,” etc.]
253. Maharaj’s take on that mindset? “The idea of responsibility is in your mind. You think there must be something or somebody solely responsible for all that happens.”
254. Thus, there’s another result of abiding in the grip of blind faith: a desire to control people, places, and things; to control everyone’s thoughts and words and actions. Talk about “malignant narcissism.” Talk about levels of arrogance that are usually only reached by sociopaths and psychopaths.
255. This point has been offered often here: “There is no ‘one’ here who believes in anything, so there is certainly no one here who wants you to believe anything, either.” This deal is about un-learning, about un-teaching, and about emptying minds (in those cases where one is interested in being truly and totally free).
256. Why cling to a mind-full-ness state when all minds are filled with nonsense and contradictions and when the beliefs stored therein only inspire disagreements (not only with “others” but also with "self / Self")?
257. Blind-faith, perfectionistic types are unable to see their own character / personality defects but are self-appointed experts at finding the defects of others (a.k.a., “psychological projection”).
258. Maharaj explained the process of projecting this way: “There is only one mistake you are making: you take the inner for the outer, and the outer for the inner. What is in you, you take to be outside you, and what is outside you take to be in you. The mind and feelings are external, but you take them to be intimate. You believe the world to be objective, while it is entirely a projection of your psyche. That is the basic confusion”
and
259. “Once you realize that the world is your own projection, you are free of it. You need not free yourself of a world that does not exist, except in your own imagination!”
260. What was his explanation to those who are functioning in the blind faith, rigid, judgmental fashion which results in warped perceptions about “the world” and in the arrogance-based belief among those types that they “can make a huge difference” and that they “really can change the awful, horrible, hideous world” for the better?
261. Maharaj: “You are the maker of the world in which you live.”
262. Maharaj also said, the world which you think you see "exists only as a dream in [your] consciousness”
and
263. “You are not in the world; the world is in you” (that is, in your mind); so, an awful, horrible, hideous world can only be generated by a mind filled with thoughts and beliefs that are also “awful, horrible, and hideous.”
264. Furthermore, he said, “As [one] only knows the contents of [the] consciousness, and an outside world is unprovable, all perceivables are only in [the] mind”
and
265. “Is there a world outside your knowledge? Can you go beyond what you ‘know’? You may postulate a world beyond the mind, but it will remain a concept, unproved and unprovable. Your experience is your proof, and it is valid for you only. Who else can have your experience, when the other person is only as real as he appears in your experience?”
266. In that regard, Maharaj advised seekers: “’The world' appears to you so overwhelmingly real because you think of it all the time; cease thinking of it and it will dissolve into thin mist.” See? Obsessed. Obsessive. Mind-based and belief-based obsessive thinking. Then, compulsive behaviors rooted in obsessive thinking.
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
6 January 2015
A DAILY CONSIDERATION FOR YOU
PART TWO REVIEW [continued]
215. With 97% of the planet’s population claiming an affiliation with one religious or another, none of which agreed on much of anything, there is nevertheless one belief which 99.9% of all humans share in common.
216. That one belief is the belief in – and the supposedly unlimited value of - blind faith.
217. All of those persons are in a modern version of some ancient cult which all religions and modern spiritual movements can be traced to.
218. As such, they – and all cult members – share in common many traits: they are excessively zealous; they are unquestioning committed to the identity and leadership of the group; they submit to being exploited and manipulated; they tolerate – or even welcome - harm (including mental, emotional, financial and literal harm) to themselves, their families and / or society; they have no tolerance for more rational, open, and benevolent systems; they allow others to dictate how members should think, act, and feel; and they claim a special, exalted status.
219. The non-dual teachings, when combined with the Nisargan understanding, offer exactly the opposite.
220. Recall Maharaj's understanding that truth and blind faith (in the existence of gods or goddesses or a god, for example) 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."
221. 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?
222. 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.
223. 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”
and
“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
"After the information given to you by the mother, that you are a boy or girl, all your further acquisitions are by hearsay"
and
“It is always the false that makes you suffer . . . ”
and
"Both the mantra and the faith in the mantra will get dissolved"
and
"Go to zero concepts"
and
“Whatever you have tried to understand during your spiritual search will prove false.”
224. Bottom line, above all, is this: to be driven by blind faith is to be . . . blind.
225. Shannon Alder cautioned: “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.”
226. Alder's reference was to one of the more dramatic mass murder-suicide events in the history of modern religious cults and the extremism they foster, that one orchestrated by James Warren "Jim" Jones. Over 900 of his followers died as parents killed their children and themselves because they had blind faith in what they were told by their leader.
227. The non-duality / Nisargan teachings invite seekers to consider what behaviors they have engaged in that were the result of being blind instead of seeing clearly and instead of being driven by assigned and assumed personas / false identities.
228. Are there any actions that you are taking which are not a result of being totally awake, totally aware, and totally conscious but are a result of blind faith and a failure to question what you have been told?
229. Again, Maharaj: “I have no faith in anything which has ever been told . . . .”
230. Programming and conditioning and acculturation and domestication and brainwashing and indoctrination lead to no questioning of anything that one is told; leading to all thoughts and words and actions being driven by blind faith; which leads in turn to involvement in or membership in all sorts of cults, including religions, spiritual programs, cults promoting political agendas, cults promoting racial / anti-racial agendas etc.; leading to a belief in the concepts of “separate from” and “different from” and “better than” and “being higher on the hierarchy than others”; which eventually leads to duality's false sense of separation as well as arguing, fighting, ending relationships, engaging in wars, and various forms of murder, (including literally killing as well as killing economically, killing in terms of character assassination, ad infinitum).
231. So is blind faith a dangerous belief, relative speaking, or not? Might it even be the most dangerous belief of all, considering the widespread, far-from-constructive effects?
232. Review the short list of a few examples and see that the relative results of blind faith have been that religion-based or religion-associated movements and events have led to the murder of billions upon billions in the last several millennia alone; recall virgins being killed to appease an angry god; consider all of the ancient religious wars; the Crusades; the European religious wars; the American Holocaust; witchcraft trials and the burnings and drownings of supposed "witches"; the European Holocaust; the 9-11 attack and the wars that followed; the current religious wars in the Middle East and all around the globe; ad infinitum.
233. Then add in the anger and separation that happens when the religious and non-religious in any nation or state turn on each other, as happened in ancient Florence when that city-state was divided 50-50 along religious vs. secular lines; as is happening in the Middle East today with Muslims turning again Christians and Jews and both of those turning against Muslims; with Sunnis turned against Shias and Shias turned against Sunnis; and as is happening in the U.S. with approximately half identifying themselves with right-wing religions and a right-wing conservative philosophy and approximately half identifying with the opposite.
234. What is standing between (a) entrapment via mental nonsense and (b) going beyond? Blind faith, which leads persons into membership in one or more of the variety of available cults and then locks persons into the resultant conflict-generating zealotry and manipulation and rigidity and irrationality and perfectionism and judgmentalism and narcissism and egotism and arrogance and the desire to control the thoughts and words and actions of all people whose paths are crossed.
235. Maharaj: “There is only imagination. It has absorbed you so completely that you just cannot grasp how far from reality you have wandered.”
236. How else is blind faith the most dangerous belief of all, in addition to the fact that it results from programming and conditioning and acculturation and domestication and brainwashing and indoctrination and then supports the programming, conditioning, etc. which guaranteed the belief in – and high regard for – one’s blind faith to begin with?
237. All programming, conditioning, etc. is passed down by persons who are asleep, so the messaging that is passed down via the use of programming, conditioning, etc. also puts the one being programmed and conditioned, etc. to sleep. Then the blind faith and the programming and conditioning etc. assure that the one put to sleep will most likely remain that way for the entire relative existence.
238. It will also assure that one will remain in the "personality trance," the condition in which the totality of the non-Realized (that is, not wise and not sane) masses are trapped.
239. It is as if (post-programming, post-conditioning, etc.) persons become just like zombies, and how dangerous is it, really, to move about in a zombie-like fashion and to walk in one’s sleep, to talk in one’s sleep, to drive in one’s sleep, etc.? Quite dangerous, relatively speaking, yet that is the case with almost all on the planet.
240. Maharaj said: “As I look at you, you all seem asleep, dreaming up words of your own.”
241. That typical - though certainly not "normal" - condition of humanity in general would be funny except for the fact that it is, you know, not funny at all. Instead, it is often dangerous, relatively speaking; in fact, it is the most dangerous condition of all.
242. And it is rooted in the most dangerous belief of all, namely, the insane belief that one can traverse the relative existence “much better” if one is blind (that is, totally asleep, totally willing to have faith in everything they have been told) rather than (1) being able to see reality and being able to see Reality and (2) being - as the case is now - totally unable to differentiate between what is false and what is true.
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
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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.
SECTION SIX:
PART TWO REVIEW [continued]
215. With 97% of the planet’s population claiming an affiliation with one religious or another, none of which agreed on much of anything, there is nevertheless one belief which 99.9% of all humans share in common.
216. That one belief is the belief in – and the supposedly unlimited value of - blind faith.
217. All of those persons are in a modern version of some ancient cult which all religions and modern spiritual movements can be traced to.
218. As such, they – and all cult members – share in common many traits: they are excessively zealous; they are unquestioning committed to the identity and leadership of the group; they submit to being exploited and manipulated; they tolerate – or even welcome - harm (including mental, emotional, financial and literal harm) to themselves, their families and / or society; they have no tolerance for more rational, open, and benevolent systems; they allow others to dictate how members should think, act, and feel; and they claim a special, exalted status.
219. The non-dual teachings, when combined with the Nisargan understanding, offer exactly the opposite.
220. Recall Maharaj's understanding that truth and blind faith (in the existence of gods or goddesses or a god, for example) 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."
221. 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?
222. 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.
223. 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”
and
“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
"After the information given to you by the mother, that you are a boy or girl, all your further acquisitions are by hearsay"
and
“It is always the false that makes you suffer . . . ”
and
"Both the mantra and the faith in the mantra will get dissolved"
and
"Go to zero concepts"
and
“Whatever you have tried to understand during your spiritual search will prove false.”
224. Bottom line, above all, is this: to be driven by blind faith is to be . . . blind.
225. Shannon Alder cautioned: “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.”
226. Alder's reference was to one of the more dramatic mass murder-suicide events in the history of modern religious cults and the extremism they foster, that one orchestrated by James Warren "Jim" Jones. Over 900 of his followers died as parents killed their children and themselves because they had blind faith in what they were told by their leader.
227. The non-duality / Nisargan teachings invite seekers to consider what behaviors they have engaged in that were the result of being blind instead of seeing clearly and instead of being driven by assigned and assumed personas / false identities.
228. Are there any actions that you are taking which are not a result of being totally awake, totally aware, and totally conscious but are a result of blind faith and a failure to question what you have been told?
229. Again, Maharaj: “I have no faith in anything which has ever been told . . . .”
230. Programming and conditioning and acculturation and domestication and brainwashing and indoctrination lead to no questioning of anything that one is told; leading to all thoughts and words and actions being driven by blind faith; which leads in turn to involvement in or membership in all sorts of cults, including religions, spiritual programs, cults promoting political agendas, cults promoting racial / anti-racial agendas etc.; leading to a belief in the concepts of “separate from” and “different from” and “better than” and “being higher on the hierarchy than others”; which eventually leads to duality's false sense of separation as well as arguing, fighting, ending relationships, engaging in wars, and various forms of murder, (including literally killing as well as killing economically, killing in terms of character assassination, ad infinitum).
231. So is blind faith a dangerous belief, relative speaking, or not? Might it even be the most dangerous belief of all, considering the widespread, far-from-constructive effects?
232. Review the short list of a few examples and see that the relative results of blind faith have been that religion-based or religion-associated movements and events have led to the murder of billions upon billions in the last several millennia alone; recall virgins being killed to appease an angry god; consider all of the ancient religious wars; the Crusades; the European religious wars; the American Holocaust; witchcraft trials and the burnings and drownings of supposed "witches"; the European Holocaust; the 9-11 attack and the wars that followed; the current religious wars in the Middle East and all around the globe; ad infinitum.
233. Then add in the anger and separation that happens when the religious and non-religious in any nation or state turn on each other, as happened in ancient Florence when that city-state was divided 50-50 along religious vs. secular lines; as is happening in the Middle East today with Muslims turning again Christians and Jews and both of those turning against Muslims; with Sunnis turned against Shias and Shias turned against Sunnis; and as is happening in the U.S. with approximately half identifying themselves with right-wing religions and a right-wing conservative philosophy and approximately half identifying with the opposite.
234. What is standing between (a) entrapment via mental nonsense and (b) going beyond? Blind faith, which leads persons into membership in one or more of the variety of available cults and then locks persons into the resultant conflict-generating zealotry and manipulation and rigidity and irrationality and perfectionism and judgmentalism and narcissism and egotism and arrogance and the desire to control the thoughts and words and actions of all people whose paths are crossed.
235. Maharaj: “There is only imagination. It has absorbed you so completely that you just cannot grasp how far from reality you have wandered.”
236. How else is blind faith the most dangerous belief of all, in addition to the fact that it results from programming and conditioning and acculturation and domestication and brainwashing and indoctrination and then supports the programming, conditioning, etc. which guaranteed the belief in – and high regard for – one’s blind faith to begin with?
237. All programming, conditioning, etc. is passed down by persons who are asleep, so the messaging that is passed down via the use of programming, conditioning, etc. also puts the one being programmed and conditioned, etc. to sleep. Then the blind faith and the programming and conditioning etc. assure that the one put to sleep will most likely remain that way for the entire relative existence.
238. It will also assure that one will remain in the "personality trance," the condition in which the totality of the non-Realized (that is, not wise and not sane) masses are trapped.
239. It is as if (post-programming, post-conditioning, etc.) persons become just like zombies, and how dangerous is it, really, to move about in a zombie-like fashion and to walk in one’s sleep, to talk in one’s sleep, to drive in one’s sleep, etc.? Quite dangerous, relatively speaking, yet that is the case with almost all on the planet.
240. Maharaj said: “As I look at you, you all seem asleep, dreaming up words of your own.”
241. That typical - though certainly not "normal" - condition of humanity in general would be funny except for the fact that it is, you know, not funny at all. Instead, it is often dangerous, relatively speaking; in fact, it is the most dangerous condition of all.
242. And it is rooted in the most dangerous belief of all, namely, the insane belief that one can traverse the relative existence “much better” if one is blind (that is, totally asleep, totally willing to have faith in everything they have been told) rather than (1) being able to see reality and being able to see Reality and (2) being - as the case is now - totally unable to differentiate between what is false and what is true.
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
SECTION THREE:
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THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS "PEACE OF MIND" (THERE IS ONLY PEACE IF YOU'RE OUT OF YOUR MIND)
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"WHAT HAPPENS WHEN I DIE?"
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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
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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 . . .
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** a “Spirituality Laboratory” and eventually
** a “Psychology Laboratory.”
All three will be discussed in detail in "Part Two."
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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."
V.
"THE MOST DANGEROUS BELIEF OF ALL"
Regarding the content in this 337-page book:
“Dangerous” is a term that can only apply during the relative existence. Among the Realized, there are no beliefs about “birth” so there are no beliefs about “the danger of death” (or the danger of anything else, for that matter).
Certainly,
therefore, there are no concerns about “dying,” “an afterlife,” or
“receiving reward vs. punishment.” Additionally, the Realized make no
judgment about suicide or the “rightness” or “wrongness” of that act.
But
of those who do commit suicide, 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.
And
what are those beliefs rooted in, and what reinforces those beliefs and
convinces persons that they are sacred and worth fighting over and even
sometimes worth dying for? Blind faith.
So how can “dangerous” have any relevance alongside an understanding which has no beliefs
about birth, death, or an afterlife? It is relevant only in terms of the
way that the relative unfolds.
Strictly relatively speaking, there are those who move through the
relative existence without being driven by what Maharaj called “ignorance and stupidity and insanity”
and there are those who move through the relative existence while being
driven by all three of those symptoms of the Ultimate Sickness.
Persons in the latter group who are driven by those three traits are the most
likely to generate, relatively speaking, hazard / menace / chaos /
danger . . . call it what you will.
While the Realized give no validity to any "a" vs. "b" duality, the Realized are
wise enough to stand (a) outside the tigers’ cage at a zoo rather than (b) enter
into the tigers’ cage.
If
a wise one were to somehow magically have the option of meeting either
Gandhi or ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in a dark alley, the wise one
would be interested in the beliefs of neither and would be in awe of
neither but would likely choose Gandhi over Abu Bakr, based in a wise
one’s tendency to seek peace rather than peril and wellbeing rather than
danger.
Yet that choice would be based in sanity and wisdom rather than in fear or fright; it would be based more in a tendency to end suffering rather than a propensity for increasing suffering.
Yes,
to bring an end to the fear in which one might be trapped, the non-dual
teacher will gladly point out that that the rope in the dark corner of a
barn is a rope rather than a snake, but the teacher will be equally as
glad to point out the pending “danger” to the seeker who is about to try
to pick up a snake because she or he is mistaking it for a rope.
Again, Maharaj: “The teacher does not evaluate. His sole concern is with suffering and the ending of suffering.”
The
Realized understand that, in the end, those persons with the most
blind-faith-based beliefs are usually going to be the ones who are least
concerned about peace and the ones most likely to generate chaos and
relative dangers.
The
reason for offering the pointers in this book are in alignment with the
same reasons that any true non-dual pointers are offered: to cast light
onto the darkness; to allow those who cannot see to finally see; to
provide a method by which those who cannot differentiate between the
true and the false may finally do so;
to
offer an effective version of the Ultimate Medicine in order to
alleviate the ignorance-and-insanity-induced-suffering which results
from the Ultimate Sickness; and thus to facilitate the opportunity for
those seeking peace and light and True Love to succeed in their quest.
To that end, best regards.
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SECTION FIVE:
COMPARE YOUR "JOURNEY" AND SEE IF YOU'VE UNDERGONE ANY EVENTS THAT PARALLEL THOSE OF MAHARAJ AND FLOYD
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
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"
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
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
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.
SECTION SIX:
FOR THOSE WHO PREFER A BOOK IN HAND TO READING eBOOKS, THESE PAPERBACK BOOKS ARE AVAILABLE THROUGH AMAZON.COM
(Four by Floyd Henderson and two by Dennis Waite. Click the picture for more information or to order)
(Four by Floyd Henderson and two by Dennis Waite. Click the picture for more information or to order)
