TODAY'S CONSIDERATIONS
These questions have been asked:
A. Why is it that persons (the "non-realized") are willing to enter onto a "path" and then end up staying on it, and willing to begin a "journey" which never reaches the destination but continue on that "journey" anyway, and are willing to accept a treatment plan which offers no cure for what ails them?
Additionally, site visitors were invited to look at the reasons behind that behavior and then answer this:
B. Is that sensible and sane, or senseless and insane?
Finally, and most relevant is this:
C. What are the simple ways to stop being driven by those often subconscious reasons and to transition beyond a lifetime of seeking and searching and find a way to just be, to just live, and to just relax?
Now, a few days will be spent reviewing the reasons which drive persons to follow unquestioningly and with blind faith whatever "path" they were put on as a child or have found as an adult; to obsess over any given set of teachings (be they thought to be religious, spiritual, philosophical, ideological, whatever); to become a compulsive seeker; and to commit to seeking fanatically for the remainder of one's relative existence.
After that, certain pointers will be offered which include the ways that some have become freed from being driven by those (often subconscious) reasons and have been able to abide thereafter in a Nisargan, natural, no-workaholism, no-fanaticism, no-obsessions, no-compulsions manner for the remainder of the existence, just as every living thing on the planet does except for mind-driven humans.
So why do humans become willing to do what they are told, become willing to follow whatever "path" they are put on as if they are some kind of wind-up toy car; become willing to do what they do in a blind and unquestioning manner, and become willing to do that for as long as they live rather than march to the beat of a different drummer?
They do that . . .
18. because persons are so attached to the content of their minds, and so proud of all of their accumulated knowledge ("learned ignorance," per Maharaj), that they are highly offended to hear it when any of their beliefs are challenged;
19. because a convergence of multiple factors can have a geometric rather than arithmetic effect;
20. because they are still suffering from the presence of some remaining degree of "ignorance";
21. because they are still suffering from the presence of some remaining degree of "stupidity" or foolishness or senselessness;
22. because they are still suffering from the presence of some remaining degree of "insanity";
23. because persons want Power, and they believe that the other-worldly Powers or Power they've hooked up with is not only All-Powerful but is Omnipresent, that is, (a) able to do anything for them and is (b) always present and reliable and willing to do for them, if only they ______. (Fill in the blank with the hundreds and thousands of things that persons have dreamed up and reported that gods or goddesses or The One True God wants in order for them / Him to be pleased and, therefore, willing to grant the wishes being asked for on a daily basis to the tune of billions and billions of requests per hour);
24. because persons believe that there is a god or goddess or God that will give them what they want if they worship that Power and pray to It and have unquestioning faith in It throughout an entire manifestation;
25. because many want to please others in order to get the love now that they did not get as children;
26. because guilt is preferred over the feeling of helplessness: "At least if I am guilty of something, I can repent and thus, have some control."
27. because they believe that if they repent, their deity may feel kindly toward them and will do what they want him / her / them to do, and that takes away their perceived hopelessness and helplessness;
28. because they believe that if they have Someone to pray to, that Someone will part the heavens and enter and change the path of the storm to kill someone other than them;
29. because religion appears to make perfect sense to persons who desperately desire to control their world;
30. because post-programming, post-conditioning, post-domestication, post-acculturation, post-brainwashing, and post-indoctrination, the case among the masses is that, to them, the senseless seems to make "perfect sense" rendering their perceptions and perspectives the 180-degree opposite of reality and truth;
31. because they believe in "the other" (which they are taught from early on to fear and hate);
32. because the masses are capable of believing that they are awake when they are actually totally asleep;
33. because of the refusal to face the facts and admit that all gods and goddesses and "The One True God" were "invented" by humans; and
34. because of the widespread prevalence nowadays of the Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder which has resulted in almost every person on the planet being fanatical and overly-zealous.
To be continued.
Please enter into the silence of contemplation.
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