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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.
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THE SEEDS OF DUALITY WHICH PRODUCE DUALITY'S PROGENY:
Offspring Number Twenty-Seven =
Mistaking "love" for "Love"
Yesterday there was a discussion of the occasion when I required a "re-awakening" to the fact that I had become so smitten - and so emotionally-intoxicated around the object of an infatuation - that I regressed from an earlier understanding of "Love" and became absorbed in the ego-states which were generated by the version of "love" which the masses buy into.
At any given moment throughout earth's entire history of humankind on the planet, there have only been a few persons who truly understand the difference in the True Love which Maharaj pointed to in his statement that "Love is knowing that I am everything" as opposed to the subject-object version of so-called "love" which the masses speak of.
As it was with me for a period, so it is with them:
The case is like that in the sentence "I (subject) hit the ball (object)" except humans don't overuse the word "hit" the way that they overuse the word "love."
The rate at which they use the word "love" is so frequent and so excessive that it has been trivialized like all of the words which are generated while humans are moving about while in their sleep talking and sleepwalking, personal identifications state:
"I love the gifts I got for Christmas / Purim or Hanukah / Diwali (Deepavali) / a Potlatch, etc."
"I love my dog / cat / hamster / goldfish / parakeet / horse, etc. It's so cute."
"I loved the meal we had last night."
"Me, too, and I loved the new wine that David and Mary served with it."
"I love the new Lexus that my mate gave me as a retirement gift" (not admitting that it might not have been "a "gift" at all but might have been a conscious or subconscious "payment for services rendered").
"I know how you feel. I absolutely love the Ferrari my darling bought me with the Christmas bonus that the investment bank gave to all of their top-ranked employees last year."
"I absolutely love my daily self-help meetings."
"I love the people in our church / temple / synagogue, etc."
"I'm like Linus:
"I love the Bible / Qur'an / Torah / the book written by my favorite teacher / the book with my guru's talks, etc."
"I love killing infidels / terrorists / people in that other sect, etc."
"I love my city / state / country."
"I love this year's bachelor / bachelorette."
"I love playing the slots in our local casino."
"I love the new song just released by _____."
"I love my counselor. I've been seeing her weekly for 22 years."
"I love God / Allah / Yahweh / Jehovah, etc."
See? In addition to the fact that the word is not understood to begin with, it is bandied about so much that it has been demeaned even further through conscious-less repetition.
And what about when there was an occasional exchange of "I love you, Brother" with someone? The actual message of Oneness behind that was fully understood. And what about when I say, "I love you" to the ones called "my daughter and granddaughters and my son-in-law or a friend"?
Do they understand the actual message behind that? Probably not. So it is. But when I say it, I understand. They can do with it what they will, but that is a far cry from the way the masses use and abuse the word "love."
For the masses, however, it's always about them - the subject - and what they claim to love at the moment - some object.
Some say, "Well, I might have had some mistaken perceptions over the years about the people and things I thought I loved, but don't tell me not to love my God."
Okay. I'll let Maharaj tell you:
[For Maharaj, that stage was the "third stage" or the third of seven steps on "the path."]
Next, what about the advice from one Big Name Teacher whom we've discussed before, that you should love everything that is or the advice from some "religious" or "spiritual" people that you must love everyone or that you can "hate the sin but must still love the sinner."
To the notion that one must love everyone else:
To believe that there is even a remote possibility that all “A’s” can love all “B’s” - and vice-versa - is duality. Real Love IS; subject-object love is not real, based in duality as it is.
At the purest level of understanding, there is no separation into “A’s” and “B’s,” so there can be no case in which any “A” can love “B.” It can simply be understood that there are no “A’s” and “B’s” and that Real Love simply IS. Love is, but it is known only when the Oneness is understood.
Tomorrow: The Additional, Very Different Perspectives Which Came Via The Vision Regarding the "love" vs. "LOVE" Conundrum
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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