TODAY'S CONSIDERATIONS
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THE RATIONALE FOR REACHING A "NO-BELIEF," "ZERO CONCEPTS," "NO MIND" STATE AS RECOMMENDED BY MAHARAJ AND THEN ABIDING UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE ELEMENTAL BRAIN RATHER THAN THE DISTORTED, FICTION-FILLED MIND, PART THREE
A recent headline reported:
AI (Artificial Intelligence) To Create False Reality;
Humans Can't Distinguish.
Jean Baudrillard wrote in his book Simulacra and Simulation, “People lose the ability to distinguish between reality and fantasy; they also begin to engage with the fantasy without realizing what it really is.”
Sim, a long-time "frequent flyer" on this site said: "I believe you would say that 99% of humans have already done that."
The reply: "Indeed."
"Intelligence" can be defined as "the ability to understand." So which should be of greater import to a seeker? "Intelligence"? Or "the understanding reached via the vehicle of intelligence"?
As noted here before, some of the most intelligent persons I have met are also - to use Maharaj words - the most driven by "ignorance and stupidity and insanity." So consider:
Which should be of greater import to one on a journey? The car or plane or train which facilitated the ability to complete the journey, or completing the journey and then enjoying that which has been reached?
The last few days, my daughter and her husband and my granddaughter and a friend arrived in two different cars. The time spent together was most enjoyable. But not once did anyone reflect on the two cars which enabled them to complete their journey to this house.
So it is with "intelligence" and "understanding." Intelligence is irrelevant except to the degree that it can facilitate arriving at the understanding.
One of the travelers was delayed along the way because of a three-car accident which temporarily blocked all of the lanes of the road. Among seekers, obstacles can also block progress on the journey, and most of those obstacles have been dreamed up and set in place by cult leaders / religious leaders and spiritual movement leaders and big business leaders and big government leaders than any other persons or groups or "-ism's."
And the tools used to fabricate those obstacles are programming, conditioning, acculturation, domestication, indoctrination, and brainwashing, especially marked by the sharing of false concepts and false claims and false promises and more distortions than most persons will ever recognize as such because most are raised to believe unquestioningly, with blind faith, whatever persons in positions of authority tell them.
Maharaj: "It is useless to search for truth when the mind is blind to the false."
Required first is the ability to see the false. That sets the stage for being able to differentiate consistently between true and false.
Maharaj: "There is no other way out of misery which you have created for yourself through blind acceptance without investigation."
And to reinforce their efforts, such leaders include the most horrendous threats regarding the most dreadful consequences if their words are not believed without questioning:
"If you do not believe that Jesus was 'the only begotten Son of God' (as well as 'God' and also 'The Holy Spirit') and that he was crucified under Pontius Pilate, that He suffered death and was buried, that He rose again on the third day, that He ascended into heaven, that He is presently seated at the right hand of God the Father Almighty, and that only He alone can save you from your sins and from eternal punishment for your sins, then you shall spend eternity suffering mentally as well as physically in the flames of Hell"
or
"If you do not believe what we tell you and if you do not act accordingly, then you will be reborn in a lower form than your present one and will live an even more wretched existence than your current one"
or
"If you do not live for Allah or kill and die for Allah, you will not go to The Great God-Run Brothel in the Sky and you will not be rewarded eternally with 72 virgins" (nor with the "thousands of wives" and the "thousands of whores" which are also included in some "rewards list" as well as the "twenty-eight young pre-pubescent boys" who are also included in some lists).
The result?
And throughout the history of humankind, nothing has generated more of the kind of blindness which inspires persons to misperceive themselves as "this" or "that" than the false identities dreamed up and perpetuated by cult leaders / religious leaders and spiritual movement leaders and big business leaders and big government leaders than any other persons or groups or "-ism's."
Maharaj: "It is your fixed idea that you must be something or other that
blinds you."
This deal is about seeing, seeing clearly, seeing accurately, and seeing as a result of functioning as the Pure Witnessing rather than via duality-based Subject-Object Witnessing.
To be continued.
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