TODAY'S CONSIDERATIONS
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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.
TO REVIEW: Non-duality and non-duality-based seeking has everything to do with treating the Ultimate Sickness, a sickness which Maharaj eventually came to see has everything to do with "ignorance, stupidity, and insanity" and has nothing to do with either knowing too little dogma or with having a "spiritual malady" or a "sick spiritual" or being "spirituality unfit."
To that end, Maharaj would eventually explain that "realization" is simply a process by which a person can be restored to her or his original condition by "being free of all learned ignorance," including being free of all body and mind and personality identification which is also the result of learned ignorance.
Hence . . .
REALIZING WITHOUT DOGMA, WITHOUT CONTINUOUS SPIRITUAL PRACTICES, AND WITHOUT A PREOCCUPATION WITH “THE NATURE OF REALITY AND THINGS NOUMENAL":
Facts vs. fiction, the reasonable vs. the illogical, and sanity vs. insanity
These pointers were shared earlier:
The problems with listening to liars and accepting as truth anything they say is this:
Memories can be forgotten but they remain in "the mind part" of the brain even if they do not remain in "the conscious part." Most persons do not understand that because they do not access most of the forgotten memories.
Moreover, even if something seen or heard triggers a recall of a forgotten memory, the recall is almost always distorted because all of the memories of non-realized persons at the time they were being stored were being viewed via distorted and delusional seeing and hearing.
So lies, once heard, remain in the mind and can subconsciously drive thoughts and words and actions. Hear 3000 lies in 14 months? Then 3000 lies are stored in the mind and can consciously and / or subconsciously control behavior. Garbage in. Garbage out. Moreover, the same effects can result from one major trauma event or a series of minor trauma events.
Lao Tzu said that "The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao, understanding that "truth cannot be taught" and that "the moment you say something about truth, it is no more true."
Maharaj agreed that the truth cannot be spoken but that it can be understood. All pointers merely point seekers away from the false in order to re-create the child's original, post-manifestation "vacuum" which truth can rush into and fill.
What else did Maharaj have to say about the topic discussed the last few posts? He advised:
"See the contradictions, the incongruities, the falsehood and the sorrow of the human state, the need to go beyond."
He said:
"The way to truth lies through the destruction of the false. To destroy the false, you must question your most inveterate beliefs"
and
"Truth gives no advantage. It gives you no higher status, no power over others; all you get is truth and the freedom from the false."
A questioner said: "Surely truth gives you the power to help others."
Maharaj replied: "This is mere imagination, however noble! In truth you do not help others, because there are no others. You divide people into noble and ignoble and you ask the noble to help the ignoble. You separate, you evaluate, you judge and condemn — in the name of truth you destroy it. Your very desire to formulate truth denies it, because it cannot be contained in words. Truth can be expressed only by the denial of the false — in action. For this you must see the false as false and reject it. Renunciation of the false is liberating and energizing."
Q: "When do I know that I have discovered truth?"
M: "When the idea ‘this is true’, ‘that is true’ does not arise. Truth does not assert itself, it is in the seeing of the false as false and rejecting it. It is useless to search for truth, when the mind is blind to the false. It must be purged of the false completely before truth can dawn on it."
Once, when the presently most powerful politician in the U.S. was called out by Billy Bush for lying, he replied: "Billy, look, you just tell them and they believe it. That’s it. They just do."
A phrase associated with P. T. Barnum (an American showman of the mid-19th century) supposedly said, "There's a sucker born every minute." Although there is no factual proof that he actually said that, the statement would only be accurate if it said:
"There are 258 suckers made every minute." Why?
There are over four children per second "born" on the planet. None are suckers at birth because none have any beliefs at that point, but they will all soon be make into suckers and fools via programming and conditioning and indoctrination and domestication and brainwashing and acculturation.
And the key contributors to the acculturation which generates fools and suckers are those with the widest audiences, including: the "Big Name Teachers" whom Maharaj warned seekers to avoid; relatives; teachers; politicians; cult leaders, such as preachers, priests, rabbis, ayatollahs, and speakers in so-called "spiritual programs"; gurus; so-called "Truth-Sayers"; big business leaders and their ad writers, etc.
In other words, those who are most listened to.
Therefore, is it any wonder that so few nowadays can differentiate between the facts and the false? Between the reasonable and the illogical? Between sane and insane?
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."
