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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. See the end of the post for the full meaning and implications of that.
REALIZING WITHOUT DOGMA, WITHOUT CONTINUOUS SPIRITUAL PRACTICES, AND WITHOUT A PREOCCUPATION WITH “THE NATURE OF REALITY AND THINGS NOUMENAL"
The bondage of world concern, self-concern, material concern, religious concerns, and spiritual concerns
"The Bondage of Material Concern"
ACCUMULATION
Yesterday it was noted how prevalent is the concept of "self-concern" which always generates selfishness. Once realization happens and purges all sense of different-from-ment and better-than-ment and "the other" and separation, there is, as Maharaj said, "no way of being selfish." He explained that "to be selfish means to covet, acquire, accumulate on behalf of the part against the whole."
Thus Maharaj warned: "Whatever you do for your own sake accumulates and becomes explosive."
To be driven to accumulate "on behalf of the part against the whole" will result in the one desiring limitless accumulation to become combative because a sense of "me vs. them" manifest and everyone is a potential enemy.
Whining about being victimized and abused when one is actually the victimizer and the abuser will reinforce suspicion and paranoia and obsession and an endless desire to control all people and all places and all things which , in turn, and generates and reinforces sociopathic and psychopathic tendencies.
Maharaj: "Through Yoga you have accumulated knowledge and experience. This cannot be denied. But of what use is it all to you? Yoga means union, joining. What have you re-united, re-joined?"
Then he returned to the emphasis of the pointer offered during the third and final stage of his teaching years: He said that the sharing of non-dual pointers can "prepare the mind for voiding itself of its accumulations," and that's the key.
All of humankind's problems are rooted in the accumulations stored in mind. All chaos is generated from what has been accumulated in the mind. All delusion and distortion flows from what has been accumulated in the mind. Yet how persons value their minds and the content accumulated and stored therein.
When the Ultimate Sickness has reached a full-blown stage, accumulation is king. When persons - especially those in the West - hear the term "accumulation," images of material accumulation are invoked: cars, wealth, a house (or many houses), etc.
Yet the list can be expanded to include
a. children (often accumulated in an unconscious act of emotional incest to try to get a built-in and ready source of "love" to make up for the love not received from one's unavailable parents during childhood);
b. names of famous people or things that can be "dropped";
c. "friends" (who are actually nothing more than an accumulation of people being used to form an audience that is willing to listen - or that is often trapped into listening - to the incessant talking that marks the existence of non-Realized persons who hate the silence);
and
d. anything that can feed and sustain the image of "The Bigshot" (and perpetuate another symptom of the Ultimate Sickness called "bigshotism").
Moreover, even those who claim to be "on a path" or "on the journey" - and who claim to be attuned to pointers regarding de-accumulation - also accumulate, including
1. an accumulation of visits to famous sites that are supposedly "religious and / or spiritual places";
2. an accumulation of books written by what Maharaj called "The Big Name Teachers" who are persons that Maharaj warned visitors to avoid;
3. an ever-growing accumulation of religious and / or spiritual and / or philosophical undertakings; and
4. an accumulation of "good roles" and "special identities" to replace their former "bad" roles.
To review, that leaves a relative existence that is marked by
** artificiality
** pretentiousness
** valuing form over substance
** shallowness
** incessant, nonsensical talking
** arrogance
** narcissism
** vanity
** self-absorption
** conceit
** a sense of self-importance
** delusion
** egotism
** a lack of awareness of efforts to self-inflate
** an obsession with self-aggrandizement
and
** an inability to see how totally transparent their self-absorbed agendas are to all that are awake, conscious, and aware.
Again, that is the way it is when accumulation becomes king after the Ultimate Sickness has reached the full-blown stage.
Tomorrow: "The Bondage of Religious Concern"
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 relevant is the "loving and caring" 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."
--Yeshu'a (Jesus)
and
"Heaven and hell are not geographic places but are states of mind, nothing more than concepts dreamed up by men."
--Pope John Paul II
"There is no hell."
--Pope Francis, the current pope
[in an interview with journalist Eugenio Scalfari,
a writer used by the Pope to issue off the record
teachings
which are part of the Papal Magisterium]
