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2. 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.
3. 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."
THE SEEDS OF DUALITY WHICH PRODUCE DUALITY'S PROGENY:
Offspring Number Twenty-Five =
A Continuation to Wear Disguises Even While Claiming to be Realized and Therefore Ego-and-Egotism-Free
Maharaj warned those declaring that they are "realized and therefore ego-and-egotism-free" that they might yet have some outstanding self-inventory to complete. [He often sent those types out of the loft so they could go elsewhere and possibly find the "super-duper" ego-states which were still driving their thoughts and words and actions subconsciously, heavy on the "dupe" part. Did they? Likely not.]
He suggested to some that they were stuck in a “kindergarten-level of spirituality” and that they "were erroneously believing that they were being bathed in the full light of the noonday sun when they have not even really moved beyond the dull light of dawn."
Last week five people sent spam to me. I speak not of this mystery meat . . .
. . . but of something as equally undesirable, namely, their unsolicited and also distasteful electronic messages.
And in all five cases, the writers would assure you that they are "Fully Realized" and have thankfully and gratefully been free of all ego-states and all of the egotism which had accompanied the false personality identifications which they had assumed in their past.
Now, they are convinced that anyone associated with the non-dual understanding would surely be interested in reading their epistles and their lengthy missives and their surely-unique dispatches in order to be further enlightened by their individual / individualized take on "the truth" and which would surely further inform any reader, no matter what the intended-reader presently understands.
They ask no questions. They only offer hundreds of unwelcome declarative statements. A cursory glance before deleting their unsolicited and unwanted writings reveals that their content can be summarized in three words:
Blah, and blah, and blah.
Ironically, they are continuing to assume as much today as they did during the days when they assumed 80 or 90 or 100 false identities at any given point.
They assume that after I spend some minutes in the morning adding a post to this blog, I spend the remaining hours of the day preoccupied with non-duality, absorbed with non-dual pointers, focusing on nothing other than realization or enlightenment or om chanting or accumulating even more insight or seeking more explanation or discussion or something beyond what the current level of "edification or knowledge or refinement or awarenesses" might be.
When Maharaj finished the morning session in the loft, he often traveled with a friend who owned an automobile for a ride into the countryside. When he finished the afternoon session, he sometimes walked to the river and sat in the quiet, watching the water flow by.
Here, after devoting a very small part of the day to posting, I finish my second cup of coffee; I go for a walk and pause to watch the deer which are always nearby, foraging or just hanging out or resting in one copse or another; I return to the house to prepare breakfast; I do chores, which might involve doing some laundry or repairing something inside or outside which requires maintenance;
I go the store for supplies and groceries; I prepare book orders for shipping or engage in other activities which pay the bills, such as analyzing the personality inventory results sent to me or provided to counselors around the globe who use that same service I provide for their clients or that were sent by business owners who use the results to made hiring decisions, making more informed management decisions, or organizing more effective staff enhancement workshops. Then I send the completed reports to the clients or counselors or owners.
In other words, I just . . . abide. Moreover, I abide naturally and spontaneously. I do not seek anything else or anything more. All beliefs have been discarded, so there is certainly no interest in allowing someone else to share their beliefs in order to impress me with their "knowledge." I have discarded all knowledge too, which Maharaj explained is just more learned ignorance.
Because water is needed, I was shown one time how to turn on a faucet. I'm done wasting even a second on discussing my faucets. I no longer need to be taught how to turn on a faucet and do not need to understand a new way to turn on a faucet which someone had just discovered or supposedly invented.
Now, all just happens spontaneously. Postings happen spontaneously. Some day they won't happen at all. Maharaj said that some, upon realizing, will share. Others, he said after they realize, will enter into complete silence.
Is non-duality never discussed after a posting is complete? That would not be abiding spontaneously. If someone like Bill writes or like Andy calls - both having realized - then the conversation will be like attending a dance. We dance lightly, so we might dance about lightly through a conversation. Whatever comes up comes up spontaneously.
Our talks are agenda-less. They are not marked by anything "personal," though they might deal with something happening at the moment in the relative. Yet I never send any unsolicited considerations.
I might offer that point as a suggestion to those sending their unsolicited and unwanted spam here, or who might be offering their spam or blah-blah-blah to their friends or family. I might suggest that they ask those people if they give a tinker's damn about whatever they are discussing endlessly and obsessively, or I might suggest they give the captive audience an option to let them declare if
(A) they want to keep hearing the blah-blah-blah
or if
(B) they would rather never hear another damn word for as long as they live about non-duality or religion or spirituality or recovery from addiction or politics or whatever else one might be fixated on and obsessing about at the moment.
But I won't. I won't make that suggestion, because those still wearing disguises - such as the disguises of "The Wise One" or "The Clear Seer" or "The Super Religious One" or "The Spiritual Giant" - (even while claiming to be realized and therefore ego-and-egotism-free) so they would completely ignore the suggestion and say:
"Give up the 'bad' personas from the past? Sure thing. Give up the 'good' one and the 'super good' ones used to replace them? No damn way!"
So it is.
In the meantime, I'll just keeping tossing out the spam as fast as it comes. That'll likely include five or so pieces of that stuff this coming week which will only take about 5 seconds to discard and the minute or so to block the senders permanently.
And, also in the meantime, I'll offer some posts to those who are interested and who seek it out rather than having it sent to them unsolicited.
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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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