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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.
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THE SEEDS OF DUALITY WHICH PRODUCE DUALITY'S PROGENY:
Offspring Number Twelve-
Instability and Chaos
After Yeshu'a (a.k.a., "Christ" - meaning "The Chosen One" or "The Anointed One" - a.k.a., "Jesus," etc.) was exposed to certain Eastern teachings, he would be credited in the following years with having offered scores of non-dual pointers. In the book
dozens of non-dual pointers which have been attributed to him are shared and discussed. Among those is this:
"A dual-minded person is unstable in all ways."
"Unstable" refers to a mental / psychological condition which leaves persons prone to psychiatric problems or sudden changes of mood. Among "non-dualists," instability is a key symptom of the Ultimate Sickness
which Yeshu'a identified as a mental / mind Sickness
and
which Maharaj would eventually come to see as a mental / psychological illness rather than as a too-little-dogma-sickness or as sickness involving a "spiritual malady"
and
which he also said is a Sickness characterized not only by mental and psychological instability but also by "ignorance, stupidity, and insanity."
Robert Powell said that Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj provided "powerful antidotes to unawarenesses," that is, to the sickness that marks and mars the relative existence because it leaves person unaware, unawake, and unconsciousness while believing that they are totally aware, totally awake, and totally conscious.
From The Non-Duality Pointers Offered by Yeshu'a:
"The Ultimate Sickness, like most sicknesses, is passed on when persons interact; it is contracted when a previously-well person is exposed to another person or persons who have the sickness, and the exposure always begins at an early age.
"The Sickness is passed on via the 'germ' of programming and the 'virus' of conditioning and the 'contaminate' of acculturation and the 'bacteria' of domestication and indoctrination and brainwashing."
The Sickness adversely impacts the "mind" of the persons whom it contaminates and they end up believing . . .
that they are humans but are very different from humans with different skin color;
that their race alone entitles them to special treatment and special benefits;
that being born in a certain nation makes them better than people not born in that nation;
that their skin color makes them better than others with a skin color which is different from their own;
that no matter how rich they might be, their economic well-being is being threatened by the poorest persons in their culture and that it is the weakest among them who are nevertheless most able to "screw them over royally";
that separation and division and disconnection and splitting away from and discord and rupturing and schisms are the most effective tools which can be used to protect themselves;
and that there is no greater enemy than "the other."
All of that is the essence of duality and renders those with such duality-based belief systems as being "unstable in all ways" as well as fearful and angry and driven by hatred.
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"
--Yeshu'a (Jesus)
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.
[That said, would that the popes who have shown the courage to reject a core concept of their dogma - namely, "hell" - would find the additional courage required to question the very existence of their institution in light of the centuries-long cover-up of their history of raping children and in light of the mental and emotional and psychological scarring of billions of their members past and present.
And that need for courage also applies as questions need to be asked about why so many other sky cults are still being supported and allowed to continue to exist as well. When certain types of programming and conditioning have been shown to blind the masses, they should end. Will they? Not likely. Why?
Because what the masses think and say and do is most influenced by the international crime families which hold sway over the masses as criminals conduct their planet-wide operations. What are the major international crime families and which are the most influential and have the largest memberships?
The Mafia / La Cosa Nostra; the Catholic Church (with it 1.2 billion followers); Protestant and Evangelical Churches (with over 1.2 billion followers) like the one I was raised in where the youth director molested and sexually assaulted young girls; big business which has long created environments in which people have been abused; powerful political bodies like the U.S. Congress, etc., etc., etc.)
With all of those crime families, neither the followers nor the leadership ever voluntarily step down or shut down their criminal activities. Be they gangs, organized crime families, religions, big business, politicians, etc., they all want control and they all want power and they all want money, and nothing internal will interfere with the driving forces at play.
The masses must demand that all those in charge must step down and their groups and institutions must shut down, and there's the real problem because the continuation of their crimes are enabled not as much by the people running such crime organizations as they are enabled by the masses of people who - wanting some perceived "payoff" - remain involved with them and give them money and support them and aid and abet the continued existence of those criminal enterprises and thus facilitate the ability of church criminals and political criminals and other types of criminals to continue to commit their crimes.]
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