Today's Considerations
Before continuing, note that there is a great irony in
regards to which “path” or “route” seekers use or which of the five non-dual teaching methods (or their near-limitless sub-types) that seekers try to use in order to be freed
from false personal / personality identifications. Through no conscious choice
of their own (in spite of believing that choices are being made) the method or
path which seekers are attracted to or which they reject or which they
supposedly choose and attach to is actually determined by . . . their personality!
Of the nine basic personality types out there:
a Personality Type One will seek via a means which promises
perfection and purity;
a Personality Type Two will seek via a means which provides
service opportunities (in order to give help with the ulterior motive of
getting back love from those helped);
Personality Type Threes will seek via a means which allows them
to fabricate a public image of being so religious or so spiritual that they are
admired by all – authenticity be damned and appearance being everything;
a Personality Type Four will seek via a means which allows
for isolation (engaging in an excess of meditation, in extended periods supposedly
spent in a samadhi state, etc.) or, if that is transitioned, will seek by way of
a method which leads to authenticity;
a Personality Type Five will seek via a means dominated by
study and reading and analysis, eventually using the accumulation of religious
or spiritual or mythical knowledge to try to impress others;
a Personality Type Six will seek via whatever means is used
by the majority of the people around him or her;
a Personality Type Seven will seek via a means which allows for
escapism;
a Personality Type Eight will seek via a means which
promises power; and
A Personality Type Nine will seek via a means which forges an
image of being “The Peaceful One” or “The Divine Nine” and which best provides
a means for avoiding.
Each of those personality types, save one, will guarantee
that a plethora of fears, desires, and hidden agendas will determine what is
believed and what pointers will be rejected and will also assure that, even when
freedom from concepts might come for a spell, there will be a return to attachment to concepts the very first time that a fear or a desire rears
its ugly head.
The non-dual pointer that “a dual-minded person will be unstable
in all ways” explains why “I-have-it! I-have-it! Damn, I don’t have
it” cycles and vacillations are so common. The return to duality-driven thinking will continue
unless one fixates in the “no-beliefs, no-personal-identifications, no-mind, no-thinking,
zero-concepts state.
To continue. Yesterday, this was offered: And all that
“religious and spiritual stuff” is just the tip of the insanity iceberg.”
[Again, why see the pervasive ignorance and insanity around
the globe? Not because you will say, “Oh, yes, I have also believed some of
those crazy concepts and I have also verbalized some of those ignorance-based concepts.”
No, the reason for offering examples and illustrations is so that seekers might
be inspired to look within to uncover examples of distorted beliefs and reasoning
fallacies of a similar class or category or type and then be free of those in order to be free, period. If persons
do not notice the garbage which had accumulated inside the house and which has not been set out
to be collected and hauled away, it will remain inside and stink up the
environment. Distorted beliefs and reasoning fallacies which are allowed to
remain inside - inside a mind - do the same to a relative existence.]
So additional examples of distorted beliefs and reasoning
fallacies which have been heard over the years - beyond those shared yesterday which
were only a few of those dreamed up by religious leaders and leaders of spiritual
movements - include these:
“American exceptionalism is not a theory. It is real. Our
nation is the greatest nation on earth and has been for its entire history.”
“My husband hits me when he’s angry but he doesn’t really
mean anything by it. He calls them ‘love taps’ and says if he didn’t care so
much about me he wouldn’t get worked up like that.”
To a third party: “She (my wife) is falsely accusing me of having
sexual affairs. I did not have any sexual affairs. The four women she caught me
with only gave me oral sex, not real sex.”
“I believe there is a God gene which explains why everyone
knows deep inside that there really is a higher power.”
“There are times when I love my spouse 100%, unconditionally,
but I’ve got to tell you that there are other times when I absolutely hate my
spouse.”
“Sometimes when I was a kid, my dad made me drop my jeans
and he beat with a belt or a tree limb until my legs bleed, but I can stand
before you today and tell you that I not only deserved it (and, really, asked for it!) but that it definitely made me
a better person in the long run.”
“I can promise you that I wouldn’t be alive today if it
weren’t for her / him” and “I could not live without him / her.”
“The earth is only about 6000 years old.”
“My spouse is the cause of 95% of the problems in our
marriage.”
“Actually, slaves had it pretty good in the U.S. They were a
heck of lot better off picking cotton and being fed and sheltered than they
were when they were living in an African jungle like before.”
“I have learned over the years that my relationships are
much healthier if I just do what I’m told.”
All scientists are atheists.”
“If a woman is raped and it's a legitimate rape, the female
body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.”
A college professor who taught for thirty years how programming, conditioning, etc.
drive human behavior talked non-duality as eloquently as ever heard. He once
said, “Maharaj was right: ‘Humans created God to get whatever they want or to avoid whatever they want to avoid’.” Yet when he
was diagnosed with an untreatable form of cancer, he asked one day when it was becoming clear that the end of the manifestation was near: “Floyd, don’t you believe, when you look
back over your life and the turns you took along the way that there was the hand
of some higher power that was pushing you in the right direction or was placing a hand on
your shoulder to guide you along and encourage you?” (Many have been witnessed, when they are suddenly driven by the fear
of pending death, to “backtrack” and to try to cover all bases, just in case.)
Quotes from “Fundamentalist Christian Preacher One” (which have been echoed by thousands more):
“If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a
human being.”
“I hope I live to see the day when, as in the early days of
our country, we won't have any public schools. The churches will have taken
them over again and Christians will be running them. What a happy day that will
be!”
“Jesus didn’t have to deal with gay couples because they
were all stoned to death.”
“AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is
God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.”
“Good Christians, like slaves and soldiers, ask no
questions.”
“Pagans, abortionists, feminists, gays and lesbians in
America caused the 9/11 attacks.”
Quotes from “Fundamentalist Christian Preacher Two” (which have been echoed by thousands more):
“Men with rebellious wives should live where wife-beating
is legal.”
“God punishes people for having too much education.”
“Abortion is a lesbian conspiracy.”
“The earthquake punished Haitians for overthrowing slavery
years ago.”
“I think ‘one-man, one-vote’ would not be wise in South
Africa. There needs to be some kind of protection for the minority which the
white people represent.”
Next, consider that it is personality–based belief systems which generate
and sustain the “personal traits” below (and yes, while the following are about the
relative, that fact guarantees that these "personal traits" will impact the AM-ness throughout an entire manifestation in ways that only the insane would find tolerable):
1. Selfishness: Caring too much for one’s self, about the
agendas of one’s false selves; caring solely about the fears and desires of one’s
false selves; having no sense of the Oneness.
2. Judging: Ego-state-and-arrogance-based criticizing or
evaluating those viewed dualistically as “others.”
3. Projecting: Believing that one can predict future events as
a result of accepting myth-and-superstition-based fiction about “the next life,”
“heaven,” “hell,” “multiple lives” or other such concepts.
4. Rejection: If to the extreme, being sociopathic and psychopathic,
willing to kill those with different beliefs.
5. Inadequacy: Believing humankind is anathema
and then reacting in extreme ways to compensate.
6. Envy: Discontented as a result of viewing "other persons" as
superior or more successful; accepting the validity of a duality-based hierarchy and being angry because one has not attained “a higher place” within that system.
7. Jealousy: A personality-identification-based uneasiness
because of suspicion or fear or rivalry that is rooted in a dualistic sense of
better-than or worst-than, of more deserving vs. less deserving, etc.
8. Impatience: Restlessness generated by having fixated at a childish personality level; intolerance of delay and expecting or demanding immediate
gratification as a result of being driven by the agenda of an immature persona.
9. Impulsiveness: Tending to act impetuously in order to
satisfy the desires or to avoid the fears of one or more personal identifications;
swayed by the emotional intoxication which is always generated by ego-state identifications.
10. Oversensitivity: The result of a personal identification
taking something “persona-ly.”
11. Procrastination: Putting off or delaying; putting
off to some future time, again, generated by having fixated in a childish personality
state.
12. Dependence: The result of an ego-state relying upon
another person for emotional or physical support, existence, or well-being, also generated by having fixated in a childish personality
state.
13. Worry: Tormenting oneself with, or suffering from,
disturbing thoughts which are rooted in a host of personality identifications;
being driven by persona-based fears.
14. Indecisiveness: Being unable to make decisions because
the fears and desires of multiple personalities are at cross purpose; being
dual-minded and, therefore, unstable in all ways.
15. Isolation: Separation from others; cutting oneself off
from contact with others, either because of ego-state-based arrogance or an
ego-based sense of superiority. (Contrast that with the Realized that can be
content in the solitude vs. being driven to isolate.)
16. Self Pity: Feeling pain or grief inspired by one’s false
self or false selves; suffering which is exacerbated by one’s own false-identity-generated
distress and one’s ego-based sense of not having received all that one’s ego feels entitled
to receive.
17. Perfectionism: A "personal" philosophy rooted in the
arrogance of ego-states and their always-accompanying egotism which generate a belief that one's sense
of flawlessness is valid.
18. False Pride: Having a belief in the
superiority of one's self over all others; inordinate self-esteem and / or “Self-Esteem.”
19. Guilt: A feeling of remorse caused by accepting “personal”
responsibility for an offense or problem; the result of believing the lie that
non-Realized persons can make conscious choices and dualistically believing
that one can only be either good or bad and that one can - and should - always choose
“being good” over “being bad.”
20. Resentment: A deep sense of some “self” having been
injured; lingering anger arising from an ego-state-based sense of having been wronged
or an ego-state’s anger over not having its desires met.
21. Intolerance: Refusing to tolerate considerations which
do not reinforce one’s presently-held beliefs.
22. Demanding: Making authoritative requests or claims that
are rooted in the agenda of one or more false identities; being driven by a
power-seeking persona.
23. Vengeance: An ego-rooted trait sustained by a
persona’s belief that it has been wronged or injured and cannot possibly rest
until revenge is exacted.
24. Manipulation: Fraudulent management of "others" by an ego-state to have
its desires met.
25. Alibis (Lying / Excuse-Making): Providing a fabricated
excuse in order to maintain an ego-state’s supposedly positive image.
26. Dishonesty: The inclination – rooted in the desires or
fears of a false identity - to deceive, cheat, steal, embezzle, or defraud in
order to gain what a persona wants to receive (or wants to avoid) during
the relative existence.
27. Fear: A misery-inducing emotion rooted in an ego-state’s
expectation of pending loss.
28. Quarrelsome: The ego-driven tendency to argue for the sake
of exerting one’s self-will; a willingness to argue or fight to impose one’s beliefs
on others; a tendency to argue in order to prove one is right and someone else is wrong.
29. Controlling: An ego-generated action based in wanting to
have the power to rule, guide, or manage others; wanting to be in charge at all
times, which is based in the fears and desires of any number of personality identifications.
COMING SOON: “Dualistic Belief Systems Which Drive Ego-States
to Use Ego-Defensive Mechanisms, Resulting in Relative Instability and Chaos"
and
“Dualistic Belief Systems Rooted in Distorted Beliefs and Reasoning
Fallacies, Resulting in Relative Instability and Chaos”
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
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