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Two Tools Which Can Be Used To End Attachment To False Beliefs, Part "A"
This was offered earlier:
When people prepare for a journey, there are certain items that they take along in order to make the trip somewhat easier. Later, some of the items that can be used on the "journey" to becoming free of the effects of believing in false beliefs and concepts and ideas shall be shared.
To continue with that:
First, there are some specific tools which you can use which can assist you in finding many of the commonly-held but false beliefs. Be aware of the phrases which indicate that a falsehood is about to be stated and it becomes easier to know when you are about to hear a false belief. In conversation, distorted concepts and delusional statements and false beliefs are often introduced by certain phrases:
"What I believe about that is . . . . "
"I'll never forget my granddad's words of advice when he always told us that . . . . "
"My personal view on the topic is that . . . . "
"My faith alone is all I need to know for a fact that . . . . "
"When we were growing up, my parents always told us . . . . "
"My (preacher / priest / imam / ayatollah / rabbi) has no reason to lie to us, so when he tells us . . . . "
"I know that if millions and millions of people have believed what I believe, we can't all be wrong, so it's clear to me that . . . . "
"My beliefs are supported by the writings in our holy text which tells us that . . . . "
"Our political party's candidate for that office tells it like it is, and he / she said . . . . "
"No one could have made it any clearer than the spokesperson for that group who said . . . . "
Why is any statement which follows those introductory words always a distortion, a false belief, or an outright lie?
a. The words of those with personal agendas are rooted in personality. Personas are false, so any words inspired by personality are false.
b. People who claim to be sharing "their beliefs" are lying at the outset, for they have no beliefs of their own. To review: no person today has come up with any belief. There is no such thing as “your” beliefs. All beliefs have been adopted from persons who have expressed “their” beliefs which you take to be “your” beliefs.
And “their” beliefs are not “their” beliefs, either. They are beliefs that were dreamed up thousands of years ago by ignorant men, that have been handed down over the years, and that are now accepted as truth by persons today—many of whom are intelligent but who have been programmed and conditioned to accept as truth the falsehoods that are being passed on by the masters of deception in all cultures, namely, "the authority figures."
If you want to find the major sources of the false beliefs which are to be rejected, begin by seeing those being spread by authority figures in politics, in religion, and in business (which were at some in the past three separate entities but which were morphed into one mega-influential entity around the globe which continue to function together to accumulate wealth and to control the masses).
If you really want to ferret out the distortions and misrepresentations and fabrications and falsifications and totally-bogus beliefs that are having the most negative impact in the relative existence and that are inspiring fighting and disharmony - and belief in separation and duality - then look objectively at the concepts which are being espoused by leaders and followers associated with those three "-ism's" / institutions.
So, the first invitation is to be aware and to be alert enough to listen for those introductory phrases which precede the verbalization of false beliefs.
Next, understand that the Truth can be known but cannot be stated. Talking is the tool of the ego (of an ego-state or assumed but false identity). Talking is used to fabricate an image, to display an image, and to try to sustain an image. Because images are false, then so are any words used to support them.
To that end, this is offered for consideration: those who have not rejected all identities - but who have merely assumed new and "improved" and "upgraded" identifications such as "The Religious One," "The Spiritual Giant," "THAT only" and even "God" - will find such pointers as the ones offered above or offered by "the later Maharaj" to be anathema.
Yet those who report "I am now this" or "I now know that I am that" or "I am (whatever)" are stating something, so it cannot be Truth, and to believe that false statements are Truth is also insane, along with believing that one is what one is not;
along with making irrational statements which have no foundation; along with accepting a claim as fact without ever having questioned the claim; along with abandoning a phenomenal dream state, only to reside in a supposedly "noumenal" dream state; and along with having one's head in the clouds without having one's feet planted firmly on the ground.
Those persons fail to understand that they are actually seeing no more of The Light with their heads in the clouds than the persons planted on the ground who also cannot see the sun because of the clouds.
What other approaches are used here alongside the dispelling of the myths about birth and death and casting aside belief in any and all concepts, including "spirituality" and "this world" and "meaning" and things thought to be "noble"?
What else is used to begin un-doing the confusion, the learned ignorance, the personality disorders and the various degrees of insanity that are so common among the masses and that trap then in their belief in - and their dissemination of - falsehoods? Two additional " tools":
1. One is called "The 180-Degree Rule."
2. The other is called "Obliterating the Present Thought-Based Mode of Talking and Becoming Skilled at Using Only The Vocabulary of Restored Sanity / Full Realization."
More on those tomorrow.
To be continued.
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