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.
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.
* * * * * *
SECTION TWO:
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.
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.
* * * * * *
SECTION TWO:
Other Recent Posts
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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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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Behind the Thesis of the Book
Behind the Thesis of the Book
Statistics from research (cited in this upcoming fifth-in-a-series-of-five free eBooks) offer proof that the majority of people incarcerated in jails and prisons are suffering from at least one – and often more – serious personality disorders and mental illnesses.
To understand the toll that personality disorders and serious mental illnesses are taking on families, talk with parents who are dealing with a child who is suffering from a serious mental illness and allow them to explain in detail the colossal hardships involved.
Talk with any experienced counselor or psychologist or therapist with at least twenty years of experience in their field and receive some understanding about how much more widespread and how much more serious the mental conditions are which they are dealing with nowadays as opposed to those they saw two decades ago in order to appreciate how personality disorders / mental illnesses are increasing at an alarming rate.
Speak with social workers whose clients include the homeless, the chronically-addicted, or the imprisoned and ask how many of those clients are where they are because of an untreated mental illness.
Speak with the parents or children left behind annually in the U.S. as 59% of all women killed and 41% of all men killed each year are murdered during a breakup; then, ask about the tolls that those acts of emotional intoxication and insanity continue to take on them.
Then note the toll taken on societies as governments during the last several decades have "saved money" at the local or state or national levels by cutting mental healthcare funding, by closing mental institutions, and by (supposedly) turning over the care and treatment of the mentally ill to volunteers; to religious institutions; to twelve-step programs or other spiritual groups; and to often-unaffordable private, for-profit facilities; then return to the experienced counselors or psychologists or therapists and ask how that "money saving" plan is working, based in an observable and objective look at the results.
Then consider:
Why are religious institutions with billions of members not reducing the widespread and far-flung and ever-increasing levels of mental illness around the globe?
Why are so-called spiritual groups and spiritual institutions with their millions of members not reducing the widespread and far-flung and ever-increasing levels of mental illness around the globe, even as the still-insane members there are claiming that they “were crazy in the past but are not crazy anymore” and even though they continue to exhibit the most self-defeating and self-destructive behaviors imaginable?
Why are some of the most intelligent people you might know also behaving in highly ignorant and insane ways?
If interested in non-duality . . .
You might ask why Maharaj first tried to incorporate religious dogma into his sharings as he tried to find an efficient form of Medicine to treat the Ultimate Sickness but eventually abandoned the use of all dogma;
or you might ask why Maharaj next tried to use an all-spiritual-principles approach as he tried to find an efficient form of Medicine to treat the Ultimate Sickness but abandoned the use of spirituality as the Ultimate Medicine as well;
or you might give some consideration to why persons with extremely high IQ’s exhibit, just as often as anyone else among the non-Realized masses, the three keys traits of the Sickness which Maharaj identified, namely, “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity.”
If such inquires are undertaken, it may become clear that . . .
. . . the Ultimate Sickness is a Mind Sickness rather than a sickness caused by someone not being religious enough; that
. . . the Ultimate Sickness is a Mind Sickness rather than a sickness caused by a “spiritual malady” or a “sick spirit”; and that
. . . the Ultimate Sickness is a Mind Sickness rather than a sickness caused by not being intelligent enough.
Moreover, the Ultimate Sickness involves another element which has left sufferers with a limited or missing ability, specifically, the ability to see and to see clearly and to see accurately and to see truthfully.
Among the earth’s population, there are people who are “partially sighted”; there are some who are said to be “sight impaired”; and then there are those who are completely blind.
When it comes to the Ultimate Sickness, some seekers are “partially sighted” or are “sight impaired” (even though they’ll claim that they can now see all quite clearly); among all of the billions of remaining non-Realized masses on the planet, most can see physically yet they can be said to be totally blind . . . that is, totally blind to truth.
They excel in differentiating between those at various points on the duality-based hierarchies that persons contrive, but they cannot differentiate between what is true and what is false.
And what symptom of the Ultimate Sickness accounts most for “the seeing problem”? The blindness which is generated by blind faith.
You are invited to read the book after asking the pertinent considerations above and (a) then find the facts regarding what the Ultimate Sickness really involves and (b) also find why approaches which have tried to address the Sickness with dogma or spiritual principles or excessive accumulation of large quantities of specialized knowledge (which Maharaj dismissed as “learned ignorance”) have totally failed to address the issue.
There is another way - another treatment plan – which can sometimes eliminate a person’s Ultimate-Sickness-based problems if that person is ready and willing. To begin, the readiness is all.
If you are seeking freedom, may the readiness manifest, possibly after reading this book and understanding all that the Ultimate Sickness entails. Best regards if you do continue with the seeking and if you become willing to seek until you have found.
Peace, Unity, Light, Love
To be continued.
Please enter into the silence of contemplation.
3 January 2015
To understand the toll that personality disorders and serious mental illnesses are taking on families, talk with parents who are dealing with a child who is suffering from a serious mental illness and allow them to explain in detail the colossal hardships involved.
Talk with any experienced counselor or psychologist or therapist with at least twenty years of experience in their field and receive some understanding about how much more widespread and how much more serious the mental conditions are which they are dealing with nowadays as opposed to those they saw two decades ago in order to appreciate how personality disorders / mental illnesses are increasing at an alarming rate.
Speak with social workers whose clients include the homeless, the chronically-addicted, or the imprisoned and ask how many of those clients are where they are because of an untreated mental illness.
Speak with the parents or children left behind annually in the U.S. as 59% of all women killed and 41% of all men killed each year are murdered during a breakup; then, ask about the tolls that those acts of emotional intoxication and insanity continue to take on them.
Then note the toll taken on societies as governments during the last several decades have "saved money" at the local or state or national levels by cutting mental healthcare funding, by closing mental institutions, and by (supposedly) turning over the care and treatment of the mentally ill to volunteers; to religious institutions; to twelve-step programs or other spiritual groups; and to often-unaffordable private, for-profit facilities; then return to the experienced counselors or psychologists or therapists and ask how that "money saving" plan is working, based in an observable and objective look at the results.
Then consider:
Why are religious institutions with billions of members not reducing the widespread and far-flung and ever-increasing levels of mental illness around the globe?
Why are so-called spiritual groups and spiritual institutions with their millions of members not reducing the widespread and far-flung and ever-increasing levels of mental illness around the globe, even as the still-insane members there are claiming that they “were crazy in the past but are not crazy anymore” and even though they continue to exhibit the most self-defeating and self-destructive behaviors imaginable?
Why are some of the most intelligent people you might know also behaving in highly ignorant and insane ways?
If interested in non-duality . . .
You might ask why Maharaj first tried to incorporate religious dogma into his sharings as he tried to find an efficient form of Medicine to treat the Ultimate Sickness but eventually abandoned the use of all dogma;
or you might ask why Maharaj next tried to use an all-spiritual-principles approach as he tried to find an efficient form of Medicine to treat the Ultimate Sickness but abandoned the use of spirituality as the Ultimate Medicine as well;
or you might give some consideration to why persons with extremely high IQ’s exhibit, just as often as anyone else among the non-Realized masses, the three keys traits of the Sickness which Maharaj identified, namely, “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity.”
If such inquires are undertaken, it may become clear that . . .
. . . the Ultimate Sickness is a Mind Sickness rather than a sickness caused by someone not being religious enough; that
. . . the Ultimate Sickness is a Mind Sickness rather than a sickness caused by a “spiritual malady” or a “sick spirit”; and that
. . . the Ultimate Sickness is a Mind Sickness rather than a sickness caused by not being intelligent enough.
Moreover, the Ultimate Sickness involves another element which has left sufferers with a limited or missing ability, specifically, the ability to see and to see clearly and to see accurately and to see truthfully.
Among the earth’s population, there are people who are “partially sighted”; there are some who are said to be “sight impaired”; and then there are those who are completely blind.
When it comes to the Ultimate Sickness, some seekers are “partially sighted” or are “sight impaired” (even though they’ll claim that they can now see all quite clearly); among all of the billions of remaining non-Realized masses on the planet, most can see physically yet they can be said to be totally blind . . . that is, totally blind to truth.
They excel in differentiating between those at various points on the duality-based hierarchies that persons contrive, but they cannot differentiate between what is true and what is false.
And what symptom of the Ultimate Sickness accounts most for “the seeing problem”? The blindness which is generated by blind faith.
You are invited to read the book after asking the pertinent considerations above and (a) then find the facts regarding what the Ultimate Sickness really involves and (b) also find why approaches which have tried to address the Sickness with dogma or spiritual principles or excessive accumulation of large quantities of specialized knowledge (which Maharaj dismissed as “learned ignorance”) have totally failed to address the issue.
There is another way - another treatment plan – which can sometimes eliminate a person’s Ultimate-Sickness-based problems if that person is ready and willing. To begin, the readiness is all.
If you are seeking freedom, may the readiness manifest, possibly after reading this book and understanding all that the Ultimate Sickness entails. Best regards if you do continue with the seeking and if you become willing to seek until you have found.
Peace, Unity, Light, Love
To be continued.
Please enter into the silence of contemplation.
3 January 2015
A DAILY CONSIDERATION FOR YOU
PART TWO REVIEW [continued]
198. Consider “intelligence” as opposed to “wisdom.”
199. Intelligence is the prerequisite for an ability to comprehend or understand.
200. Intelligence points only to a capacity for awareness and logic and reason but guarantees none of those.
201. Thus, intelligence can never serves as the Ultimate Medicine for the Ultimate Sickness because highly intelligent persons can be - and usually are - controlled by the same degrees of “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity” which control the thoughts and words and actions of all non-Realized persons.
202. It is, instead, wisdom which allows some few to be freed from those three symptoms of the Ultimate Sickness.
203. With wisdom comes an ability to discern, and with discernment comes an otherwise non-existent ability to differentiate the true from the false.
204. In another free eBook offered on the author’s non-duality site, the fallacy of the dualistic belief in “good vs. evil” is discussed and offers the consideration that understanding the root cause of humanity’s problems requires a look at the two options:
205. either the right-wing, conservative fundamentalists are right and there are two gods - one god of evil and one god of good - and it really is the god of evil who is causing all of the evil happenings around the globe; or
206. things deemed by the duality-driven, non-Realized masses to be “evil” are really things rooted not in evil at all and not in an evil god at all but are rooted in the mind, in “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity.”
207. U.S. prisons have now become the de facto home of the mentally ill. A study in 2012 found that 356,000 mentally ill inmates were being held in state prisons and that as many as ninety-one percent of those prisoners were likely suffering from one or more serious mental illnesses. Evil? Or insanity?
208. A study of such statistics confirms what Maharaj came to understand via his own experiments and experiences: the main problems of humanity are not rooted in "evil" (which “believers” believe can be stamped out with more religious dogma or by treating some nebulous “spiritual malady”) but is, indeed, rooted in mental issues which involve “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity,” this is, the mind. Freedom involves freedom from the influence of those three. So how much freedom do you really have? How much freedom do you really want?
209. Some questions which might assist in finding out how many of the earliest effects of programming, conditioning, domestication, etc. are still driving you might include the following:
210. Do you believe that the problems of humanity might involve “the minds of others” but certainly do not involve “your mind?”
211. Are you, in fact, actually proud of your mind and what’s in it?
212. Do you think that it is the beliefs and values which you have been taught and which are now stored in your mind that supposedly make you "different from" and "better than" those who are not as good as you?
213. Are you proud of the beliefs that your parents and relatives and religious leaders or spiritual guides have implanted therein?
214. Do you think that there are no beliefs stored therein that need to be questioned thoroughly and objectively and maybe even discarded? Really? Hummm.
To be continued.
Please enter into the silence of contemplation.
A DAILY CONSIDERATION FOR YOU
198. Consider “intelligence” as opposed to “wisdom.”
199. Intelligence is the prerequisite for an ability to comprehend or understand.
200. Intelligence points only to a capacity for awareness and logic and reason but guarantees none of those.
201. Thus, intelligence can never serves as the Ultimate Medicine for the Ultimate Sickness because highly intelligent persons can be - and usually are - controlled by the same degrees of “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity” which control the thoughts and words and actions of all non-Realized persons.
202. It is, instead, wisdom which allows some few to be freed from those three symptoms of the Ultimate Sickness.
203. With wisdom comes an ability to discern, and with discernment comes an otherwise non-existent ability to differentiate the true from the false.
204. In another free eBook offered on the author’s non-duality site, the fallacy of the dualistic belief in “good vs. evil” is discussed and offers the consideration that understanding the root cause of humanity’s problems requires a look at the two options:
205. either the right-wing, conservative fundamentalists are right and there are two gods - one god of evil and one god of good - and it really is the god of evil who is causing all of the evil happenings around the globe; or
206. things deemed by the duality-driven, non-Realized masses to be “evil” are really things rooted not in evil at all and not in an evil god at all but are rooted in the mind, in “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity.”
207. U.S. prisons have now become the de facto home of the mentally ill. A study in 2012 found that 356,000 mentally ill inmates were being held in state prisons and that as many as ninety-one percent of those prisoners were likely suffering from one or more serious mental illnesses. Evil? Or insanity?
208. A study of such statistics confirms what Maharaj came to understand via his own experiments and experiences: the main problems of humanity are not rooted in "evil" (which “believers” believe can be stamped out with more religious dogma or by treating some nebulous “spiritual malady”) but is, indeed, rooted in mental issues which involve “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity,” this is, the mind. Freedom involves freedom from the influence of those three. So how much freedom do you really have? How much freedom do you really want?
209. Some questions which might assist in finding out how many of the earliest effects of programming, conditioning, domestication, etc. are still driving you might include the following:
210. Do you believe that the problems of humanity might involve “the minds of others” but certainly do not involve “your mind?”
211. Are you, in fact, actually proud of your mind and what’s in it?
212. Do you think that it is the beliefs and values which you have been taught and which are now stored in your mind that supposedly make you "different from" and "better than" those who are not as good as you?
213. Are you proud of the beliefs that your parents and relatives and religious leaders or spiritual guides have implanted therein?
214. Do you think that there are no beliefs stored therein that need to be questioned thoroughly and objectively and maybe even discarded? Really? Hummm.
To be continued.
Please enter into the silence of contemplation.
2 January 2015
A DAILY CONSIDERATION FOR YOU
PART TWO REVIEW [continued]
166. The Ultimate Sickness is a mind sickness, and the fuller the mind, the more serious the Sickness.
167. The invitation is to seek the Ultimate Medicine which amounts to nothing more than receiving the understanding which can render you fully conscious of what you are actually thinking; fully conscious of what you are actually saying; fully conscious of what you are doing; and fully conscious of why you have did everything you've ever done after personality began driving you subconsciously.
168. Thus, the full, unblocked consciousness allows you to understand fully WHY you are thinking and talking and doing the things you do;
169. allows you to understand fully WHY you are being controlled by the continuum which unconsciously drives humanity and which preempts any opportunity to enjoy the silence and the non-doingness and the peace; and then
170. allows you to finally understand fully that only if mindless (rather than mind-full) can you return to the peace and silence and non-doingness which once characterized Your Original Nature. (See the eBook below if further understanding of that subject is being sought.)
171. Another eBook below which is available on the author’s site traces the course of “Maharaj’s Evolution” as he tried to find the proper form of the Ultimate Medicine to offer to seekers who came his way and who were suffering from the Ultimate Sickness.
172. Because of the shifts in his understanding of the roots of the Ultimate Sickness (and, therefore, the proper version of the Ultimate Medicine that is required to try to address it) he had been cast into a state of ill-repute during the middle and later years of his teaching career by those who took themselves to be religious persons and by those who took themselves to be spiritual persons. Such criticisms continue to this day.
173. What were the shifts which happened? Initially, almost 100% of those visiting the loft were Hindus. Maharaj early on engaged with them in some of the traditional Hindu methods of worship and then tried to sprinkle in some non-dual pointers.
174. By the time Westerners began coming, he was already familiar with the history of religions and with the endlessly-occurring religious conflicts which they generate.
175. By then he had also seen that religion was not healing the Ultimately Sick but was actually aggravating their Sickness.
176. He knew that Islam had initially entered the largely-Hindu nation of India in the 7th century as Muslim invaders first conquered some of the northern regions through military conquest and sacked many Hindu temples along the way.
177. He also knew that Mass genocide of Hindus followed, but later those who paid a tax to the Muslims could be spared, for a time.
178. Thus, Maharaj knew that the history of Hindu-Muslim “relationships” had been marred by violence, the mark of which is seen even today, especially in India's right-wing Hindutva movement vs. those in the mostly Islamic State of Pakistan.
179. The historical evidence, combined with his own experience (which showed that religion does not address the Sickness but actually exacerbates the Sickness) led him to focus on spiritual talks – such as those in I AM THAT.
180. More and more Westerners came who were willing to listen to "spiritual" talks but were not interested in Hinduism or in any of the other religions which they had tried out during their searching, so he was influenced by them to focus on “spirituality” in his talks.
181. Eventually, his own experiments and experience would lead to this shift in focus: he saw that neither religion nor spirituality were addressing the Sickness at all, so he focused more on the specific cause of the Sickness in an effort to try to find a more effective form of Medicine that might work.
182. As a result, he came to see that all of the main problems of humanity center in the mind, not in having too little religion and not in having a spiritual malady.
183. What followed was an abandonment of Hinduism entirely;
184. the offering of pointers which encouraged visitors to abandon spirituality entirely; and
185. advice to seekers to stop reading the "spirituality-based talks" in I AM THAT.
186. He came to understand that it is mind-full-ness which generates misery and suffering and that a state of joy or bliss can only come via mindlessness.
187. He said: “There is no such thing as peace of mind.”
188. He said that he had reached a state of zero concepts.
189. He said that he no longer had a mind at all.
190. With Maharaj having identified three of the key symptoms of the Ultimate Sickness as being “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity,” he could have as easily said in the end, “It’s the mind, stupid.”
191. He didn't because he never called anyone “ignorant” or “stupid” or “insane.”
192. He said instead that “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity” were driving humanity’s thoughts and words and actions.
193. Persons (assuming personas as identities) are as much an illusion as any mirage.
194. There are no “ignorant” or “stupid” or “insane” mirages, so there are no “ignorant” or “stupid” or “insane” persons.
195. There is on a global basis, however, much “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity,” all of which involve the mind.
196. Therefore, the Ultimate Sickness is about the mind, so the Ultimate Medicine must be one which addresses the issues of the mind.
197. In the end, his focus shifted to that approach as Maharaj abandoned all talk about religion and all talk about spirituality; thereafter, his talks concentrated solely on psychological issues (on mind issues) which are at the core of the Ultimate Sickness.
To be continued.
Please enter into the silence of contemplation.
1 January 2015
166. The Ultimate Sickness is a mind sickness, and the fuller the mind, the more serious the Sickness.
167. The invitation is to seek the Ultimate Medicine which amounts to nothing more than receiving the understanding which can render you fully conscious of what you are actually thinking; fully conscious of what you are actually saying; fully conscious of what you are doing; and fully conscious of why you have did everything you've ever done after personality began driving you subconsciously.
168. Thus, the full, unblocked consciousness allows you to understand fully WHY you are thinking and talking and doing the things you do;
169. allows you to understand fully WHY you are being controlled by the continuum which unconsciously drives humanity and which preempts any opportunity to enjoy the silence and the non-doingness and the peace; and then
170. allows you to finally understand fully that only if mindless (rather than mind-full) can you return to the peace and silence and non-doingness which once characterized Your Original Nature. (See the eBook below if further understanding of that subject is being sought.)
171. Another eBook below which is available on the author’s site traces the course of “Maharaj’s Evolution” as he tried to find the proper form of the Ultimate Medicine to offer to seekers who came his way and who were suffering from the Ultimate Sickness.
172. Because of the shifts in his understanding of the roots of the Ultimate Sickness (and, therefore, the proper version of the Ultimate Medicine that is required to try to address it) he had been cast into a state of ill-repute during the middle and later years of his teaching career by those who took themselves to be religious persons and by those who took themselves to be spiritual persons. Such criticisms continue to this day.
173. What were the shifts which happened? Initially, almost 100% of those visiting the loft were Hindus. Maharaj early on engaged with them in some of the traditional Hindu methods of worship and then tried to sprinkle in some non-dual pointers.
174. By the time Westerners began coming, he was already familiar with the history of religions and with the endlessly-occurring religious conflicts which they generate.
175. By then he had also seen that religion was not healing the Ultimately Sick but was actually aggravating their Sickness.
176. He knew that Islam had initially entered the largely-Hindu nation of India in the 7th century as Muslim invaders first conquered some of the northern regions through military conquest and sacked many Hindu temples along the way.
177. He also knew that Mass genocide of Hindus followed, but later those who paid a tax to the Muslims could be spared, for a time.
178. Thus, Maharaj knew that the history of Hindu-Muslim “relationships” had been marred by violence, the mark of which is seen even today, especially in India's right-wing Hindutva movement vs. those in the mostly Islamic State of Pakistan.
179. The historical evidence, combined with his own experience (which showed that religion does not address the Sickness but actually exacerbates the Sickness) led him to focus on spiritual talks – such as those in I AM THAT.
180. More and more Westerners came who were willing to listen to "spiritual" talks but were not interested in Hinduism or in any of the other religions which they had tried out during their searching, so he was influenced by them to focus on “spirituality” in his talks.
181. Eventually, his own experiments and experience would lead to this shift in focus: he saw that neither religion nor spirituality were addressing the Sickness at all, so he focused more on the specific cause of the Sickness in an effort to try to find a more effective form of Medicine that might work.
182. As a result, he came to see that all of the main problems of humanity center in the mind, not in having too little religion and not in having a spiritual malady.
183. What followed was an abandonment of Hinduism entirely;
184. the offering of pointers which encouraged visitors to abandon spirituality entirely; and
185. advice to seekers to stop reading the "spirituality-based talks" in I AM THAT.
186. He came to understand that it is mind-full-ness which generates misery and suffering and that a state of joy or bliss can only come via mindlessness.
187. He said: “There is no such thing as peace of mind.”
188. He said that he had reached a state of zero concepts.
189. He said that he no longer had a mind at all.
190. With Maharaj having identified three of the key symptoms of the Ultimate Sickness as being “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity,” he could have as easily said in the end, “It’s the mind, stupid.”
191. He didn't because he never called anyone “ignorant” or “stupid” or “insane.”
192. He said instead that “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity” were driving humanity’s thoughts and words and actions.
193. Persons (assuming personas as identities) are as much an illusion as any mirage.
194. There are no “ignorant” or “stupid” or “insane” mirages, so there are no “ignorant” or “stupid” or “insane” persons.
195. There is on a global basis, however, much “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity,” all of which involve the mind.
196. Therefore, the Ultimate Sickness is about the mind, so the Ultimate Medicine must be one which addresses the issues of the mind.
197. In the end, his focus shifted to that approach as Maharaj abandoned all talk about religion and all talk about spirituality; thereafter, his talks concentrated solely on psychological issues (on mind issues) which are at the core of the Ultimate Sickness.
To be continued.
Please enter into the silence of contemplation.
1 January 2015
A DAILY CONSIDERATION FOR YOU
PART TWO REVIEW [continued]
Today’s post is being written on what is marked on some calendars as "the first day of a new year." It is a day that is supposedly different from other days among cultures which favor hierarchical concepts about being "different from" and "better than."
If past trends continue, then those who watch television all day today will see many advertisements trying to entice females to take advantage of clothing sales. The ads will feature a day-long series of models with ectomorphic, and even anorexic, body types which will depress or humiliate or trigger a sense of guilt and shame in those viewers with a mesomorphic or endomorphic body type.
Other ads will encourage men and women to join one fitness club or another and to “start the year off right by getting in shape” (again referring to the shape of the plant food body, of course.)
Male hunks and female vixens in tantalizing workout garb will be featured, provided a visual representation of what the viewers’ goals should be in terms of how they look . . . in terms of the kind of image they should develop.
A few local ministers will cut into programming with paid ads in which they will invite persons to attend their worship services in three days and to “let the first Sunday of this New Year become the day that you work with us to create a new you in 2015, to help you to be all you can be” (that is, to help you accumulate even more and even better and even noble false identities); and to “allow the word of God to guide you - beginning this coming Sunday and for the rest of your lives - to be the best person you can be.”
Talk shows will offer features on “personal resolutions for the new year” and will interview people about the changes they intend to make in 2015. Most of the changes will deal with “changing the body” or “developing a better attitude” or “being a better partner in my relationship” or “focusing on making more money and getting out of debt” or "giving up my bad habits (or at least cutting back on them some . . . maybe . . . possibly . . . perhaps").
So the focus will be on changing things physically or spiritually or choosing to consciously address things that are being determined by unconscious agendas which persons cannot affect at all unless they become free of their attachment to the false identities which are unconsciously and involuntarily driving all of their thoughts and words and actions.
In other words, the focus today will be on the same thing that the non-Realized masses focus on every other day of their existence: the shallow, the superficial, the external, the artificial, the not-real, the trivial, and the frivolous.
Therefore, there will not be one advertisement today – or any day – which invites viewers to address the key issue that is preventing the manifestation of freedom and peace and happiness, namely, the screwed up, blind-faith-driven, programming-controlled, conditioning-motivated, acculturated, domesticated, indoctrinated, duality-driven, image-conscious and noise-and-restlessness-generating minds.
Once, when comedian / philosopher George Carlin was playing the role of “Al Sleet, the Hippy Dippy Television Weatherman” who stayed high on pot all day long, Sleet informed the television audience that “the radar is picking up a line of thundershowers which extends from a point nine miles NNE of Secaucus, New Jersey, along a line - and six miles either side of the line - to a point five miles SSW of Fond Du Lac; however, the radar is also picking up a squadron of Russian ICBMs, so I wouldn't sweat the thundershowers.”
A similar point is offered here regularly: Yes, there’s an Ebola outbreak; yes, you and your spouse made $350,000.00 last year but then also told me last week that you “live paycheck to paycheck and don’t have a saving account,” proving my earlier pointer that you have no financial sanity at all;
yes, your car is already two years old and the advertized sale on the new models has led you to plan a trip to the dealership tomorrow; yes, you’ve gained thirteen pounds from late November to January First and you’re going to start today the latest crash diet you’ve found;
yes, your nose is rather large and so 2015 will be the year that you’re going to see a cosmetic surgeon and buy a new nose and also have a breast augmentation thrown in since you’ll already be in the hospital and already be sedated anyway; and yes, I hear you saying that today is the day to begin a fresh start, a renewal, a new beginning . . . a grand rebirth:
“This year is the year when I am going to find the ideal job, the ideal nose, the ideal gym, the ideal exercise equipment, the ideal body, the ideal car, the ideal home, the ideal mate, the ideal mindset that I can find in church or in a spiritual group, the ideal people to hang out with so we improve together, ad infinitum.
As with Al Sleet, the consideration offered here is, "With the toll that your mind is taking - with its horrendous toll currently showing up on the radar of your entire relative existence - I wouldn't sweat the other stuff."
Non-duality offers a far different option which is far different from anything ever considered by most persons, asking: "Might you be interested in being truly free . . . specifically, free of the self (of all false selves assumed to be identities)? Might you consider de-accumulating rather than accumulating even more?"
That can include de-accumulating and / or down-sizing things tangible and thus being rid of the needlessly over-sized and high-maintenance possessions which have been accumulated.
How large and grand a house is really needed? How many dogs or cats or other pets are really needed?
How much more helping do you really need to engage in (especially when it is usually done as the result of a subconscious desire to receive love now to fill the hole inside that exists because of the sense that too little love was received early on as a result of either absent parents or parents who were physically present but were really unavailable and unable to love anything or anyone except themselves)?
That de-accumulation can also include being rid of the massive accumulation of beliefs (accepted as fact without questioning and being held to firmly as a result of blind faith).
Of all of the mind games that come with those desiring to “improve themselves” and to “let today be the day of rebirth for you,” non-duality invites persons to be free of all concepts and beliefs, especially those dealing with "birth" and "rebirth."
Maharaj, to that end, said:
"My true state, which is whole, undifferentiated, is beyond birth and death. I am never bound by my body and mind. I am limitless”
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
"There is no progress"
and
“You have some experiences and you try to benefit from them, but 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
"Whatever spiritual things you aspire to know are all happening in this objective world, in the illusion. All this is happening in the objective world. All is dishonesty. There is no truth in this fraud"
and
“When the birth is disproved, the great noble meaning of spirituality and the meaning of this world—everything—is disproved.”
Please enter into the silence of contemplation.
International buyers: note the separate option for those outside the continental U.S.
II. BY READING the explanations offered in the collection of non-duality books that are available on this site and at www.floydhenderson.com.
III. BY ENROLLING in the Online Advaita Classes For information, visit Information on the Advaita Classes on the Internet To enroll visit Enroll in the Advaita Internet Course
IV. BY ATTENDING an Advaitin retreat with floyd and being guided through all seven steps. For details of the retreats offered, please visit the retreat information site.
V. BY ARRANGING a one-hour session via Skype or telephone with Floyd. (Skype is a free service.)
Click the button to pay and you will be contacted to arrange a date and time for the call.
VI. BY USING EBOOKS available at
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Anthology of four books
Anthology of six books
SELF-TRANSFORMATION MEDITATION GUIDE (VOLUME ONE)
WHY YOU MUST BE EMPTY IF YOU WOULD BE FULL
THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF WARS
The following eBooks are available without charge for you or for friends:
I.
"GOOD vs. EVIL?" or "IGNORANCE, STUPIDITY, and INSANITY?"
II.
"THE VISION"
III.
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:
Today’s post is being written on what is marked on some calendars as "the first day of a new year." It is a day that is supposedly different from other days among cultures which favor hierarchical concepts about being "different from" and "better than."
If past trends continue, then those who watch television all day today will see many advertisements trying to entice females to take advantage of clothing sales. The ads will feature a day-long series of models with ectomorphic, and even anorexic, body types which will depress or humiliate or trigger a sense of guilt and shame in those viewers with a mesomorphic or endomorphic body type.
Other ads will encourage men and women to join one fitness club or another and to “start the year off right by getting in shape” (again referring to the shape of the plant food body, of course.)
Male hunks and female vixens in tantalizing workout garb will be featured, provided a visual representation of what the viewers’ goals should be in terms of how they look . . . in terms of the kind of image they should develop.
A few local ministers will cut into programming with paid ads in which they will invite persons to attend their worship services in three days and to “let the first Sunday of this New Year become the day that you work with us to create a new you in 2015, to help you to be all you can be” (that is, to help you accumulate even more and even better and even noble false identities); and to “allow the word of God to guide you - beginning this coming Sunday and for the rest of your lives - to be the best person you can be.”
Talk shows will offer features on “personal resolutions for the new year” and will interview people about the changes they intend to make in 2015. Most of the changes will deal with “changing the body” or “developing a better attitude” or “being a better partner in my relationship” or “focusing on making more money and getting out of debt” or "giving up my bad habits (or at least cutting back on them some . . . maybe . . . possibly . . . perhaps").
So the focus will be on changing things physically or spiritually or choosing to consciously address things that are being determined by unconscious agendas which persons cannot affect at all unless they become free of their attachment to the false identities which are unconsciously and involuntarily driving all of their thoughts and words and actions.
In other words, the focus today will be on the same thing that the non-Realized masses focus on every other day of their existence: the shallow, the superficial, the external, the artificial, the not-real, the trivial, and the frivolous.
Therefore, there will not be one advertisement today – or any day – which invites viewers to address the key issue that is preventing the manifestation of freedom and peace and happiness, namely, the screwed up, blind-faith-driven, programming-controlled, conditioning-motivated, acculturated, domesticated, indoctrinated, duality-driven, image-conscious and noise-and-restlessness-generating minds.
Once, when comedian / philosopher George Carlin was playing the role of “Al Sleet, the Hippy Dippy Television Weatherman” who stayed high on pot all day long, Sleet informed the television audience that “the radar is picking up a line of thundershowers which extends from a point nine miles NNE of Secaucus, New Jersey, along a line - and six miles either side of the line - to a point five miles SSW of Fond Du Lac; however, the radar is also picking up a squadron of Russian ICBMs, so I wouldn't sweat the thundershowers.”
A similar point is offered here regularly: Yes, there’s an Ebola outbreak; yes, you and your spouse made $350,000.00 last year but then also told me last week that you “live paycheck to paycheck and don’t have a saving account,” proving my earlier pointer that you have no financial sanity at all;
yes, your car is already two years old and the advertized sale on the new models has led you to plan a trip to the dealership tomorrow; yes, you’ve gained thirteen pounds from late November to January First and you’re going to start today the latest crash diet you’ve found;
yes, your nose is rather large and so 2015 will be the year that you’re going to see a cosmetic surgeon and buy a new nose and also have a breast augmentation thrown in since you’ll already be in the hospital and already be sedated anyway; and yes, I hear you saying that today is the day to begin a fresh start, a renewal, a new beginning . . . a grand rebirth:
“This year is the year when I am going to find the ideal job, the ideal nose, the ideal gym, the ideal exercise equipment, the ideal body, the ideal car, the ideal home, the ideal mate, the ideal mindset that I can find in church or in a spiritual group, the ideal people to hang out with so we improve together, ad infinitum.
As with Al Sleet, the consideration offered here is, "With the toll that your mind is taking - with its horrendous toll currently showing up on the radar of your entire relative existence - I wouldn't sweat the other stuff."
Non-duality offers a far different option which is far different from anything ever considered by most persons, asking: "Might you be interested in being truly free . . . specifically, free of the self (of all false selves assumed to be identities)? Might you consider de-accumulating rather than accumulating even more?"
That can include de-accumulating and / or down-sizing things tangible and thus being rid of the needlessly over-sized and high-maintenance possessions which have been accumulated.
How large and grand a house is really needed? How many dogs or cats or other pets are really needed?
How much more helping do you really need to engage in (especially when it is usually done as the result of a subconscious desire to receive love now to fill the hole inside that exists because of the sense that too little love was received early on as a result of either absent parents or parents who were physically present but were really unavailable and unable to love anything or anyone except themselves)?
That de-accumulation can also include being rid of the massive accumulation of beliefs (accepted as fact without questioning and being held to firmly as a result of blind faith).
Of all of the mind games that come with those desiring to “improve themselves” and to “let today be the day of rebirth for you,” non-duality invites persons to be free of all concepts and beliefs, especially those dealing with "birth" and "rebirth."
Maharaj, to that end, said:
"My true state, which is whole, undifferentiated, is beyond birth and death. I am never bound by my body and mind. I am limitless”
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
"There is no progress"
and
“You have some experiences and you try to benefit from them, but 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
"Whatever spiritual things you aspire to know are all happening in this objective world, in the illusion. All this is happening in the objective world. All is dishonesty. There is no truth in this fraud"
and
“When the birth is disproved, the great noble meaning of spirituality and the meaning of this world—everything—is disproved.”
To be continued.
Please enter into the silence of contemplation.
SECTION THREE:
WAYS THAT SEEKERS HAVE REALIZED
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I. BY WATCHING the 4-Disk, Seven-Hour Video (DVD) Set of an advaita retreat, or the downloadable file version. To find out more or to purchase the DVD or downloadable computer file version of the retreat, DVD or Downloadable computer file versions of the Four-Day Advaita Retreat
International buyers: note the separate option for those outside the continental U.S.
II. BY READING the explanations offered in the collection of non-duality books that are available on this site and at www.floydhenderson.com.
III. BY ENROLLING in the Online Advaita Classes For information, visit Information on the Advaita Classes on the Internet To enroll visit Enroll in the Advaita Internet Course
IV. BY ATTENDING an Advaitin retreat with floyd and being guided through all seven steps. For details of the retreats offered, please visit the retreat information site.
V. BY ARRANGING a one-hour session via Skype or telephone with Floyd. (Skype is a free service.)
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CONSCIOUSNESS / AWARENESS
FROM THE ABSOLUTE TO THE NOTHINGNESS
THE FINAL UNDERSTANDING
THE ADVANCED SEEKERS' SERIES
Anthology of four books
THE BLISSFUL ABIDANCE SERIES
Anthology of six books
SRI NISARGADATTA MAHARAJ AND HIS EVOLUTION
THE FINAL FIFTEEN TOPICS DISCUSSED BY SRI NISARGADATTA MAHARAJ
A TWELVE-STEP JOURNEY TO SELF-TRANSFORMATION
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A GUIDE FOR WORKING THE STEPS (IN THE MANNER USED BY THE FOUNDERS)
THE TWELVE STEPS AND ADVAITA / NON-DUALITY: A 21-DAY PLAN FOR A PSYCHIC CHANGE
SELF-TRANSFORMATION MEDITATION GUIDE (VOLUME ONE)
SELF-TRANSFORMATION MEDITATION GUIDE (VOLUME TWO)
WHY NISARGA YOGA IN ADDITION TO THE ADVAITA TEACHINGS?
A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE via the Non-Duality Teachings and the Nisarga Yoga
YOUR ORIGINAL NATURE
GOING CRAZY / GOING SANE
INSTABILITY / INSANITY: WHAT THE ADVAITA TEACHINGS CAN (AND CANNOT) ADDRESS
THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS "PEACE OF MIND" (THERE IS ONLY PEACE IF YOU'RE OUT OF YOUR MIND)
FREEDOM FROM SHIFTING BETWEEN STATES OF HAPPINESS AND UNHAPPINESS
THE ULTIMATE SICKNESS / THE ULTIMATE MEDICINE
PROGRAMMING, CONDITIONING, DOMESTICATION, AND ACCULTURATION (THE SOURCES OF THE ULTIMATE SICKNESS; THE NON-DUALITY TREATMENT)
"WHAT HAPPENS WHEN I DIE?"
THE MYTH OF "DEATH"
THE ESSENCE OF THE TEACHINGS: THE SIMPLICITY OF REALIZATION
FINDING REAL LOVE IN AN UNREAL WORLD
CASTING LIGHT ON THE DARK SIDE OF RELATIONSHIPS
OVERCOMING THE FEAR OF BEING TOTALLY INDEPENDENT
THE NON-DUALITY POINTERS OFFERED BY YESHU'A ("JESUS THE CHRIST")
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE THE ADVAITIN
WHEN ONLY THREE HOURS OF MANIFESTATION REMAIN (THE "FINAL" TALKS OF FLOYD HENDERSON)
I AM THAT (vs. "This Is Who I Think I Am")
QUOTATIONS AND POINTERS DEALING WITH NON-DUALITY, ADVAITA, NISARGA YOGA, AND MORE
DANCING LIGHTLY
THE PATH TO FREEDOM VS. THE PATH TO MISERY
THERE IS NOTHING THAT IS PERSONAL (INCLUDING YOU AND INCLUDING GOD)
LIBERATION (ATTAINING FREEDOM FROM PERSONALITY VIA REALIZATION)
WHY YOU MUST BE EMPTY IF YOU WOULD BE FULL
FREEDOM FROM BELIEFS (Believers, Non-Believers, and "No-Belief-ers")
WHEN REALITY IS OVERLAID ON THE RELATIVE
THE RELATIVE RESULTS OF RETURNING TO "THE CHILD IGNORANCE STAGE" OR "THE CHILD NO-KNOWING STATE"
WHAT BLISS IS AND WHAT BLISS IS NOT
THE TWICE-STOLEN NECKLACE MURDERS
THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF WARS
LESSONS IN NON-DUALITY FROM TRAVELS IN SOUTH AFRICA
A SERIES OF ESSAYS DISCUSSING THE FIRST STEP ON THE SEVEN-STEP PATH TO REALIZATION
A SERIES OF ESSAYS DISCUSSING THE SECOND STEP ON THE SEVEN-STEP PATH TO REALIZATION
A SERIES OF ESSAYS DISCUSSING THE THIRD STEP ON THE SEVEN-STEP PATH TO REALIZATION
A SERIES OF ESSAYS DISCUSSING THE FOURTH STEP ON THE SEVEN-STEP PATH TO REALIZATION
A SERIES OF ESSAYS DISCUSSING THE FIFTH STEP ON THE SEVEN-STEP PATH TO REALIZATION
A SERIES OF ESSAYS DISCUSSING THE SIXTH STEP ON THE SEVEN-STEP PATH TO REALIZATION
A SERIES OF ESSAYS DISCUSSING THE SEVENTH STEP ON THE SEVEN-STEP PATH TO REALIZATION
SPIRITUAL SOBRIETY (RECOVERING WHAT RELIGIONS LOST)
IT'S ALL BULLSHIT (AND WHY KNOWING IT SETS YOU FREE)
SECTION FOUR:
FIVE FREE eBOOKS
(Compliments of Andy Gugar, Jr.)
FIVE FREE eBOOKS
(Compliments of Andy Gugar, Jr.)
The following eBooks are available without charge for you or for friends:
I.
"GOOD vs. EVIL?" or "IGNORANCE, STUPIDITY, and INSANITY?"
The
content of this eBook deals with one of the most common but erroneous
beliefs that the non-Realized masses cling to and which they will fight
about (and even kill over), namely, that there is a planet-wide duel
going on between “the forces of good and evil” in the universe.
Maharaj said of each that visited his Bombay loft, “Only that person will visit this place whose virtue and sin have come to an end.”
He also said that the problems of humankind are problems associated
with the Ultimate Sickness and that three of the key traits of the
Ultimate Sickness are "ignorance, stupidity, and insanity."
To
that end, either (1) the ancient view is spot on: that the "ills of the
planet" are rooted in evil people, in people not being religious enough
or spiritual enough, and are caused solely by bad morality; or, (2) the
"ills of the planet" are rooted in ignorance, stupidity and insanity
and "being good" or "being moral" does not put an end to ignorance, does
not eliminate stupidity, and does not treat insanity in any way.
II.
"THE VISION"
Comments regarding the free eBook entitled “THE VISION”:
“My thanks to you and Andy.” – Andrew “Mac” McMaster
“Thanks so much for the book! And, by the way, it is brilliant and the most effective pointing that you have done. It has served to help clear the remaining blockages.” – Stan Cross
“Greatly appreciate having “THE VISION” added to my Henderson resource library that is situated on the right side of my bed for easy access! Eternally grateful for what was received and what was given.” – Robert Rigby
“ ‘THE VISION’ is such a well-written, condensed version of the Nisarga Yoga approach to understanding and enjoying Reality that I feel it can serve as a must-read ‘meditation guide’ for all earnest seekers.” – Andy Gugar, Jr.
“My thanks to you and Andy.” – Andrew “Mac” McMaster
“Thanks so much for the book! And, by the way, it is brilliant and the most effective pointing that you have done. It has served to help clear the remaining blockages.” – Stan Cross
“Greatly appreciate having “THE VISION” added to my Henderson resource library that is situated on the right side of my bed for easy access! Eternally grateful for what was received and what was given.” – Robert Rigby
“ ‘THE VISION’ is such a well-written, condensed version of the Nisarga Yoga approach to understanding and enjoying Reality that I feel it can serve as a must-read ‘meditation guide’ for all earnest seekers.” – Andy Gugar, Jr.
III.
While in South Africa in 2011, I was introduced to A Primate’s Memoir (2002)
by Dr. Robert Maurice Sapolsky. Sapolsky is an American
neuroendocrinologist; a professor of biology, neuroscience, and
neurosurgery at Stanford University; a researcher; an author; and a
Research Associate at the National Museums of Kenya.
A Primate’s Memoir (which documents Sapolsky’s years in Africa while studying baboons), was recommended because there is much that a non-dualist or Advaitin or Nisargan can relate to by comparing and contrasting what Sapolsky reveals about the way certain troops of baboons live in Africa with the way that humans abide all around the globe. The book also portrays an unconventional way of studying neurophysiology to determine the effects of stress on life expectancy. (And the reduction or elimination of stress among humans is one of the aims of the non-dual understanding.)
Now Sapolsky’s recent findings are offered in a documentary film entitled “Stress: Portrait of a Killer.” [The 56-minute film is available on YouTube in many countries.]
This 152-page eBook catalogues the common, non-dual message shared by Sapolsky and Maharaj and reveals the ways that Sapolsky’s scientific research supports the non-dual pointers offered by Maharaj.
In “PART ONE” it will be seen that most persons on the planet are not seeking, and most will never seek, but for those who are seeking, most will face several obstacles:
Often, many do not really know WHY they are seeking. Too, many who are asked WHAT they are seeking often offer no clear-cut answer beyond the standard talk about "Realization" or "Enlightenment." For those who have come this way and have a clear notions about why they are seeking and what they are seeking, many have not yet found anyone that has shown them exactly HOW to go about the process. The content in "Part One" offers some considerations about all three.
In “Part Two” of this book, it will be seen why many criticized Maharaj for “changing his message in his later talks.” It will be seen that the changes were not about changing the message per se as much as about changing his methodology as he experimented with one version of the Ultimate Medicine after another in order to try to find an effective means for addressing the Ultimate Sickness.
Maharaj’s loft was actually more of a laboratory in a loft in Bombay (now “Mumbai”) because he undertook in that loft many experiments in his efforts to find an effective form of the Ultimate Medicine that could treat the Ultimate Sickness effectively and successfully. In fact, he would eventually have three laboratories:
He first ran . . .
** a “Religion Laboratory,” then later
** a “Spirituality Laboratory” and eventually
** a “Psychology Laboratory.”
All three will be discussed in detail in "Part Two."
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A Primate’s Memoir (which documents Sapolsky’s years in Africa while studying baboons), was recommended because there is much that a non-dualist or Advaitin or Nisargan can relate to by comparing and contrasting what Sapolsky reveals about the way certain troops of baboons live in Africa with the way that humans abide all around the globe. The book also portrays an unconventional way of studying neurophysiology to determine the effects of stress on life expectancy. (And the reduction or elimination of stress among humans is one of the aims of the non-dual understanding.)
Now Sapolsky’s recent findings are offered in a documentary film entitled “Stress: Portrait of a Killer.” [The 56-minute film is available on YouTube in many countries.]
This 152-page eBook catalogues the common, non-dual message shared by Sapolsky and Maharaj and reveals the ways that Sapolsky’s scientific research supports the non-dual pointers offered by Maharaj.
IV.
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"
[Coming soon]
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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)
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