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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":
Realization Requires A Sense of Unimportance
To review some of the key pointers offered so far:
1. Discussions are offered here which have allowed some to shift from the false “I” to the Absolute, but . . . that is not said to be “the end goal.”
2. There must be a completion of the "third leg of the journey." [You may use the search feature at the top of this page for more on that.]
3. Certainly, an understanding of the unicity might impact a false sense of pride and arrogance and egotism which come with a belief in the opposite of understanding the unicity, namely, a belief that one is “different-from” and, therefore, also “better-than.”
4. Edgar Wallace: “The trouble with you is that you have no sense of unimportance.”
5. Next, in order to be free of a false sense of pride rooted in one’s sense of importance, and to be freed from even the false sense of some Grand Identity (“My Supreme Self,” “The Supreme Self,” or even “I am God”) there must be a shift, not just from the “I” to the Absolute but from the Absolute to an understanding of the Nothingness.
6. In the end, the process involves being free of all identities as well as any Identity. Why? Because the process is about eliminating all identification and Identification since any ego-state (or Ego-State) will trigger the use of ego-defense mechanisms (such as egotism and arrogance and entitlement and amazing levels of a sense of importance) which perpetuate identity and / or identity assumption and distortion and delusion.
7. Maharaj endorsed identitylessness and Identitylessness and a sense of the nothingness because he witnessed first-hand the ways that religion and spirituality and “being Supreme” foster a mind and thereafter assure that a mind shall be filled with concepts and ideas and notions and perceptions / misperceptions (a.k.a., “beliefs”) which, in turn, have fostered a global sense of “different-from-ment” and “better-than-ment” which, in turn again, has led to the widespread duality and ignorance and insanity and instability and chaos which plague the masses all around the globe.
8. The problem with all humans is their entrapment in identities or in an “Identity,” meaning both personal identifications as well as some lofty “Personal Identification.”
[That is discussed in detail in the eBook, There is Nothing That is Personal (Including You and Including God.]
9. Religions, while giving lip service to humility, do anything but lead to “a sense of unimportance,” what with their false personal identifications such as “The Reverend”; “The One Anointed as God’s Representative on earth” and “God’s Anointed People” and “God’s Chosen People”; “The Senior Pastor”; “The Supreme Leader”;
or this official title of the one considered to be the most important of all Catholics: “His Holiness, Bishop of Rome, Vicar of Jesus Christ, Successor of the Prince of the Apostles, Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church, Primate of Italy, Archbishop and Metropolitan of the Roman Province, Sovereign of the Vatican City State, and Servant of the servants of God” as well as "The Holy Father" and “Father of Fathers” and "His Holiness the Pope";
or in Buddhism, “His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama”;
or, among some Easterners and “non-dualists”: “The Master”; “One’s Universal Self”; “The True Self”; “The Real Self”; “The Supreme Self”; “The Pure One”; “The Divine Power”; “The Highest”; the “Supreme"; “Parama Siva”; “The Absolute” (meaning literally “one than whom nothing is higher” rather than referring simply to a field of energy which might or might not manifest temporarily as conscious-energy); “paramAtma”; “ParaBrahman”; and even “God” (as in “I Am God” or “I am at one with God”) or whatever other title or status state might be assumed.
10. In such cases, one personality disorder is merely exchanged for another. Some come to see that they have long suffered from the ramifications of personality identification which led to the development of personality disorders such as: the Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder (P.D.), the Addictive P.D., the Narcissistic P.D., the Borderline P.D., the Bi-Polar P.D., the Antisocial / Sociopathic P. D., the Pathological P.D., the Sadistic P.D., the Schizoid P.D., the Passive-Aggressive P.D., the Dissociative P.D. or many others.
11. Among many who feel they have transcended all personality identification and have been freed from the effects of any and all past disorders, does it make any sense to trade one disorder for another by claiming that they are now “The Supreme Self” or have become “God,” only to be trapped in another personality disorder, namely, the God Complex or Narcissistic Personality Disorder (which is marked by a pattern of grandiosity and a grandiose sense of self-importance, a need for admiration, a lack of empathy, arrogance, egotism, a sense of entitlement, preoccupation with controlling others, fanaticism, megalomania, etc.)?
12. Does it really make any sense at all to enter into a process or to adhere to the teachings of a philosophy or ideology or religion or spiritual movement and then say, “I am going to be free of all egotism and pridefulness and arrogance caused by personal identifications, and to achieve that I am going to replace all of those various identities with just one truly Lofty or Grand or Holy or Sacred or Hallowed or Divine or Saintly or Pious or Virtuous or Sublime or Supreme Identity"?
13. Next, consider the vocabulary which has been developed and which is now being used by those who “have no sense of unimportance”: important, valuable, that which is the main, chief, principal, prime, paramount, significant, central, prized, needed, powerful, influential, high-ranking, prominent, eminent, preeminent, noteworthy, distinguished, esteemed, respected, prestigious, celebrated, famous, great, momentous, major, pivotal, weighty, etc., etc., etc. So much for any more than just a few seekers ever “having a sense of unimportance.”
14. The problem Maharaj faced are the same being faced here today when inviting persons to transcend the third of seven steps on the seven-step “path” (where religious or spiritual personas are assumed as identities) and to leave behind both religious and spiritual role-playing and to focus instead on addressing the problems which are being generated by warped and nonsensical minds.
15. To invite some Eastern-oriented seekers to “reject both identifications and any 'Identity' as well" would seem as foreign to them as it would be to ask Christians to “reject Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior and as the One Who will be returning to earth any day now”; as it would be to invite some Buddhists to “re-consider if the Dalai Lama is really holy”;
or as it would have been to have asked some past cult members, “Do you really believe you should drink that spiked Kool-Aid?” or “Do you 'Applegaters' really believe that you need to castrate yourself and commit suicide in order to meet up with aliens who are trailing along behind a comet?”
16. Programmed is programmed. That applies to all, whether their programming has been of a Western style or of a Mid-Eastern style or of an Eastern style. It is all programming, and being programmed preempts any chance to be awake and aware and conscious.
17. Thus, the restoration of sanity can only come by seeing and then eliminating all traces of one’s former programming, conditioning, domestication, acculturation, brainwashing, and indoctrination which have resulted in a mind which is presently packed chock full of Western nonsense and “learned ignorance and insanity,” chock full of Mideast nonsense and “learned ignorance and insanity,” and chock full of Far Eastern nonsense and “learned ignorance and insanity.”
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."
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."
