TODAY'S CONSIDERATIONS
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To review the key pointers being discussed at this point:
Here, with those who are still driven to talk about "God," the "Son of God," the "Holy Spirit," "Buddha," "Krishna," etc., etc., etc., the invitation to them is to view those as verbs, not nouns. See the end of the post for the full meaning and implications of that.
The most influential obstacles of all to realizing and being free have come via dreamed up myths and superstitions and via "religious" and / or "spiritual" sources, including religious and / or spiritual thoughts, ideas, concepts, notions, views, theories, inklings, perceptions, a.k.a., "beliefs."
A man who was abused as a child by a priest. man approached and asked for a way "to be guided to a state of realization and freedom without their having to buy into dogma."
The popular venues where seekers seek (or don't) have a 5000+-year history of failing to set persons free of their distorted and delusional and freedom-blocking and independence-blocking belief systems. venues.
Thus it should be clear why Maharaj eventually advised seekers to avoid those, leading to this totally different option:
REALIZING WITHOUT DOGMA, WITHOUT CONTINUOUS SPIRITUAL PRACTICES, AND WITHOUT A PREOCCUPATION WITH “THE NATURE OF REALITY AND THINGS NOUMENAL” ALLOWS ONE TO AVOID THE RELIGION-AND-SPIRITUALITY-BASED DUAL-MINDEDNESS ABOUT WHICH YESHU'A (JESUS) WARNED
Consider these parallels:
*** Maharaj: "There is no chaos in the world except the chaos which your mind creates."
+++ (About 1,950 years earlier) Yeshu'a / “Jesus”: “A dual-minded person is unstable in all ways."
*** Maharaj: Grew up in a highly-religious culture; heard and studied and considered the dogma spread via Hinduism; abandoned organized religion for the most part (though he did offer Hindu / non-dual combination sessions in his loft in the early days of his teaching); and then abandoned the use of religion and dogma completely and eventually focused on the non-dual / Nisargan message only, for the most part.
+++ (About 1,950 years earlier) Yeshu'a / “Jesus”: Grew up in a highly-religious culture; heard and studied and considered the dogma spread via Judaism; abandoned organized religion for the most part (though he did offer a combination of religious and / or non-dual pointers in his teachings (depending on his audience); and then abandoned the use of religion and dogma completely and focused on the non-duality message only, for the most part.
*** Maharaj: When Westerners began showing up in the loft and Maharaj stopped offering bhajans and turned his back on organized religion and advised people to toss the pictures of their gods into the sea and shared spiritual / non-dual combination pointers instead, the religious Hindus criticized him.
+++ (About 1,950 years earlier) Yeshu'a / “Jesus”: Yeshu’a at the age of 12 was teaching Jewish dogma in the temple. Eighteen years later, he had turned his back on organized religion and was sharing spiritual / non-dual combination pointers, and the religious Jews criticized him and left him to the Romans to get rid of.
+++ How ironic that an organized religion was founded in the name of Yeshu'a / “Jesus” when he modeled abandoning organized religion completely. How ironic that Christians today criticize anyone who worships with them for a time but then abandons organized religion, just as their Christ did. How ironic that the non-duality pointers offered by their so-called “Savior” are ignored by them while the content of the Jewish texts (which Christians call their “Old Testament”) is more influential on them than Christ’s teachings (in what they call “The New Testament”).
*** How ironic, too, that a cult has been founded around Maharaj with persons who pay a fee to visit the loft and drop to their knees in order to bow and pray and worship him therein; how ironic that persons go to sites Maharaj visited - and which are now deemed to be "holy" - and bow and pray and clap and chant there;
and how ironic that persons go to another room thought to be "special" and "holy" where some of the ashes from Maharaj's funeral pyre were collected and where those ashes are now on display and where those persons join others in bowing there to a handful of the remaining, burnt plant food elements of a body which Maharaj did not identify with at all.
Again, "There is no chaos in the world except the chaos which your mind creates” and “A dual-minded person is unstable in all ways." The latter is an accurate pointer which can be expanded to include:
"Dual-minded persons in a 'relationship' will be unstable in all ways"
and
"Dual-minded owners of multi-billion-dollar corporations will be unstable in all ways"
and
"Dual-minded citizens of a nation will be unstable in all ways"
and
"Dual-minded 'leaders' of a nation will be unstable in all ways"
and
"Dual-minded, xenophobic 'Super Patriots' will be unstable in all ways"
and
"Dual-minded citizens of a nation, or citizens of nations in conflict, will be unstable in all ways."
Can any sane and objective witness possibly claim that the key traits of the lives of most persons all around the globe are anything other than “chaotic” and “unstable”? And at the root of all of the chaos and instability? Duality. Dualistic thoughts. Dualistic talk. Duality-driven actions.
To be continued.
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Here, with those who are still driven to talk about "God," the "Son of God," the "Holy Spirit," "Buddha," "Krishna," etc., etc., etc., the invitation to them is to view those as verbs, not nouns.
THE EXPLANATION
If looked at as nouns, they point to illusions and are, therefore, a total waste of time to even discuss; if looked at as verbs which are resulting in certain sane but rare behaviors among humanity, then they are worthy of some attention during the relative existence.
Meaning? There are members of certain groups who say things such as "My concept of God in the past was of a weak God, an absentee God, A Santa Claus-type God, a mean, punishing, vindictive God, etc. Today, I am in close contact with a loving and caring God whom I worship and praise and glorify and give thanks to."
The reply to that usually goes like this: "If you are in contact with a God that wants to be worshipped and praised and glorified, then you're dealing with someone like yourself - a narcissist - and hanging out with narcissists will never bring an end to your narcissism (that narcissism evidenced by the fact that you think you are "godly").
Next, in the phrase 'loving and caring God,' any supposed God that truly had her or his act together would tell you that the totally irrelevant part of that phrase is 'God' and that the only part
"That is, a non-narcissistic god / goddess would say, "I care not an iota about being worshipped and praised and glorified by you or anyone else. How arrogant and insecure and needy would I have to be to want that? Forget the man-made, dreamed up noun 'God' and focus on the 'God as a verb' understanding and then go forth and let loving and caring be verbs - not adjectives - and let them generate the act of love and the act of caring and let those actions manifest through you."
Yeshu'a (Jesus) and Pope John Paul II and Pope Francis were spot on:
"No one shall ever see 'the kingdom of heaven.' It is within" and "Heaven and earth shall fade away."
and
"Heaven and hell are not geographic places but are states of mind, nothing more than concepts dreamed up by men"
and
"There is no hell."
