Today's Considerations
(Also from the eBook A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE: Additional
Perspectives Which Came During The Movement Along The Direct "Path"
To Realization):
If there is a “mind” that is present, then it will obscure the
consciousness because that "mind" is so marred with its belief in
lies and superstitions and all of its "knowledge"( all that learned
ignorance) that it will leave you insane . . . so insane that you don’t know what
you are (vs. what you are not) and so insane that you will believe the lies being spread by the authorities in your culture and that you will believe that the dreams
of the planet are real.
Once your body has disappeared, how can any person remain? And
if no body remains, how could a body feel the physical pain of torture, whether
supposedly imposed by a person or by some “angry, punishing God”? And if no
person remains, how can a mind remain? And if no mind remains, then how could
mental anguish be experienced? None of that would be possible.
In order to know (the great) Reality, you must be totally sane. And in order to know reality, your must be totally sane. And in
order to be totally sane, you must be out of your mind.
For their suffering to end, persons must understand the
functioning of the totality; must see that all suffering is rooted in the
assumption of ego-states as false identities; must realize that they have no
“mind” but instead are being driven by the “minds” of others (which they now
think is “their own mind”); must be aware of the fact that a “mind” is nothing
more than the storehouse of all of the lies and nonsense and ideas and concepts
(a.k.a., “beliefs”) that must be cast aside in order to end human suffering;
and must see the limitations of doingness but the timelessness and limitless
nature of beingness . . . and non-beingness as well.
In this relative existence, nothing is going on but a
breeziness of play, but persons are caught up in a tornado of work, in a storm
of seriousness, and in a tempest of drama.
So-called “life” in this sphere of consciousness is just a
process of functioning, and while the “mind” of a person will dream up notions
about separation or differentiation, none exists. The process just keeps on
happening.
A belief or a concept, a religion or a philosophy, a state
or a nation, a hero or a villain . . . all are just part of the process of distortion-driven
functioning. All those involve dreamed up labels and dreamed up beliefs, and
all such dreamed up labels and beliefs (dreamed up by that accumulation of corruptions
called "the mind") generate a false sense of reality.
The "journey" aims to put you fully in touch with
reality. To be out of touch with reality is to be insane. This
"journey" is about getting in touch with reality in order to be free
of the bondage of the illusions and falsehoods of a mind exposed to years of unrealistic
and distorted programming, conditioning, domestication, acculturation,
brainwashing and indoctrination.
Among religions and philosophies and ideologies and programs, none offer the necessary brain-flush required to be totally free of ignorance and insanity. All of those pass on more ignorance and insanity rather than rid persons of ignorance and insanity. Experience showed that only the completion of an entire non-dual-style
“journey” which invites the dissolution of all of the contamination that is
“the mind” can free persons of ignorance and insanity.
Ultimately, non-dual teachings, when combined with the
Nisargan yoga, are teachings with the "goal" of becoming non-teachings after the process of un-teaching is complete.
All human suffering is rooted in not living naturally, and
all suffering persons (i.e., the “non-Realized”) are living unnaturally or
supernaturally.
Those living unnaturally can be recognized by their
destructive and self-destructive behaviors.
Those living supernaturally can be recognized by the same as well as by their
magical thinking, by their belief in modernized versions of ancient gods, by
their acceptance of ancient myths and superstitions as fact, by their disdain
for scientific evidence, and by their belief in non-factual explanations for
naturally-occurring events.
Unnatural living and supernatural living are both tiresome
and exhausting, but natural living is easy.
This “teaching” invites you to question everything. Faith in
dogma requires that you question nothing. The "journey" only begins
when questioning begins. The "journey" only continues if questioning
continues.
Pray all the prayers that you think you need to pray; knell,
bend over, stoop, or lie prostrate as much as you think you need to kneel, bend
over, stoop, or lie prostrate; read all the supposedly “holy” books that you
think you need to read; visit all the “sacred” sites or “sacred” men or women whom
you think you need to visit; chant or hum every chant or hum you think you need
to chant or hum; ring every bell you think you need to ring; wear every kind of
“distinguishing garb” you want to wear in order to try to display for all your assumed or assigned condition of better-than-ment and different-from-ment; and burn
every stick of incense that you think you need to burn. But when you are done
with all of that, you are invited to realize that you—and all persons who are
fixated in a stage and are playing their religious or spiritual roles—are
mistaking the dawn for the noon.
Realize that praying and knelling and bending over and
stooping and lying prostrate and reading and visiting and chanting and humming
and ringing and burning (and every other external thing you try to use to be
more spiritual or to try to demonstrate how spiritual you are) will actually
block you from finding the truth which can only be found within after certain
pointers are taken into quiet and solitary consideration and the understanding
comes.
One must either find a working understanding or be doomed to
adopt "their" ideology instead, and both the historical and current
evidence show that nothing is more destructive, relatively speaking, than
buying into "their" ideology.
It eventually had to be asked, “WHO (what ego-state) wants to be a ‘Supreme
Self’? Who is making the dualistic claims that 'I am free of all concepts' and
'I am freed from assuming identities' but then claiming as well that 'I Am the
Supreme'?”
Focusing on the “I am” is a tool that is only effective
after body identification is forfeited. Then, the “I Am” can be used to negate
the mind’s beliefs which support the assumed personal or Personal identities
that want to add words after the “I am”: “I am spiritual”; “I am a teacher”; “I
am good”; “I Am the Supreme.”
The only reason for the pointer to “focus only on the ‘I
Am’” is to divert the focus from the false identities that have been assumed,
from the talk about “I am so-and-so.”
Once the last four personas (“The Super Religious One” and
“The Spiritual Giant” and "The Super Seeker" and "The Super
Knower") have been cast aside, the use of the “I Am” can also end, right
along with the former belief in “The User of Spiritual Tools.”
The master addiction among persons is a desire to control,
and the secondary addiction is the addiction to power, which persons think will
allow them to control.
Supernatural living leads to magical thinking which
convinces persons that they can have access to power which will allow them to
control.
The result is persons who believe in the illusion of
power / powers / Power which can facilitate their overwhelming desire to control what does and does not happen to them, to control others, to control their
surroundings, and / or to control other nations.
When persons become religious or spiritual, they also try to use
their power (or superpower) to control their racing, variable, tortuous “minds”
or to control the behavior and "minds" of others (all of which is
impossible since what they are trying to control in the case of the mind is nothing more than a multi-part mirage of
distortion and illusion and delusion).
To be continued.
Please enter into the silence of contemplation.
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