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1. Following eye surgery, clear focusing has not returned and eye strain results from anything other than a brief exposure to a computer screen; moreover, two follow up procedures must be arranged to "fine tune" the effects of the surgery; hence, the postings will be brief for awhile.
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3. 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.
4. A new video ("Number Ten: Awakening Together Satsang, March 2018") has now been added in the far right column of this page, offering the opportunity to view a recent 2018 satsang session with Floyd being interviewed by Regina and Jacqueline of "The Awakening Together Group."
Some regular visitors to this site are aware that a woman who was and continues to be a religious fanatic had judged me and found me to be different from her and therefore less than her. Confusing non-duality with the 1970's New Age movement, she informed me that I was a "New Age Agent of Satan," that she "would never have anything to do with a non-Christian," and that she "had been praying for a year that God would kill me."
Praying every day for a year for her God to kill someone? (That is, thinking she's such a Super Christian and so hooked up with God that she was entitled to be able to hire her God as a Celestial Hit Man? Now that is some persistent fanaticism.)
But that fanaticism only thrived as a result of being totally asleep to the reality one's own "self" / "selves"). Only then can fanaticism flourish and foster an amazing ability to spin one's own reality or an amazing ability to deny the truth regarding oneself.
Though her work in the ministry at several churches resulted in her being seen as one of the most devout Christians ever, she had played some role in the demise of several marriages as a result of her having affairs with married men; had destroyed her own marriage; and had pretty much abandoned her own child.
Of course one benefit of being fanatically-religious is the perk of being able to ask forgiveness for anything said or done, believing that one has been forgiven and given a clean slate, and then continuing to do whatever one wants again and again, no matter the relative consequence for others.
I recall a man telling me that he had defrauded a bank of $100,000 after they had issued him a credit card and had made him a cash loan. He explained that he "had joined a spiritual group and had asked God to forgive him for that" and then explained how great he felt "when God lifted from him the burden of guilt and shame and worry over that."
The reply: "Wonderful. Sounds like a rather keen and passionate - and maybe even fanaticism-generating - experience. Congratulations. So now that you've worked with God to make you feel better after having stolen $100,000, what arrangements have you made with the bank to repay them?"
End of that conversation, or any possibility of future conversations as well.
A man a few months ago apologized for damages his work crew made to my sprinkler system while working in a neighbor's yard. He said, "I've pointed out the damage and showed them what they did and told them not to ever do that again. I assure you it will not happen anymore in the future."
I explained that an apology without restitution was meaningless and gave him a bill for the repairs.
Until my neighbor told him that he could never work for her again unless he paid for the repairs to my sprinkler, he had no intention of accepting responsibility for the damage his crew had done.
Another man last week apologized for damages his work crew made to my property. I explained that an apology without restitution was meaningless. End of conversation.
All of those people are fanatical about hanging on to their money instead of using some of it to make restitution when due while believing that making an apology shows clearly that they are nice and decent people and that nothing more than an apology should be asked of them.
As soon as I explained that recompense was expected, it turns out that - in their view - I was being a jerk.
As soon as I explained that my take was that one "being the most devout Christians ever" was a phony image rather than one's actual reality if one is praying for every day for a year for her god to kill someone and abandoning her daughter and having affairs with married men. The view that I was being a jerk was reinforced in her mind.
Does all of that have to do with the relative existence only? You bet. It's only during the relative existence that one can spin and deny and self-deceive and rob persons or institutions of their property and develop a sense of being different from and thus better than "others" who are of a different skin color or of a different economic class or of a different sexual orientation or of a different political party or with a different perspective regarding religion or spirituality.
No sense of being different from and better than and no sense of superiority could be believed in were it not for a belief in duality first.
Nor could any sense of superiority be believed in were it not for being fanatical about one's own race or economic status or sexual orientation or politics
and
being totally asleep to one's own relative condition.
So it is when the masses all around the globe have contracted the duality-based Ultimate Sickness and are quite willing to accept and normalize its key symptoms (identified by Maharaj as being "ignorance, stupidity, 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."
--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 become a part of the Papal Magisterium]
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of the "Awakening Together" satsang session with Regina and Jacqueline referenced earlier, 18 MARCH 2018
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the direct link to the AUDIO VERSION
of that session.
