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THE SEEDS OF DUALITY WHICH PRODUCE DUALITY'S PROGENY:
Offspring Number Twenty-Eight =
Mistaking "love" for "Love"
Visitors to this site know all about "The Vision" which came in 2002 and which provided the final awarenesses that closed the remaining gaps in what could otherwise have been a complete understanding.
I only discussed the content with a few select people who were also on a "path" which began with a realization that "surely there's got to be more than this." Meaning?
Meaning more contentment and more peace and more stability and more joy via additional understandings without having to make a second job of what should have been a simple, relative existence.
I witnessed every living thing on the planet abiding simply and sanely and naturally and lightly and easily except for . . . humans.
There was a nagging suspicion deep within - a suspicion inspired by what some call an inner guru or inner resource - that all the years of accumulating more knowledge and doing more "spiritual exercises" had been for naught and that there should be some means by which a human could abide naturally like every other living thing on the planet.
It was noted that the total weight of certain small birds ranges from 2 to 20 grams while the brain of an adult human weighs around 1300 to 1400 grams.
Yet with a comparably tiny brain, I never saw a bird do anything that showed it was ignorant or insane; on the other hand, I have seen humans doing things every day which show - as Maharaj noted - that they are both. What was the difference? Both birds and humans have a brain, but only one - humans - have a "mind." Ahhhhh.
As for the content of the vision, it would be eleven years before I put the details into writing and shared that writing publicly. [A free copy of The Vision is available at the top of this page.]
The "gaps" mentioned above were eventually seen to have been existing in no small number once it was also seen that it took over 160 pages to list and discuss all of the "new" awarenesses which came during a fairly brief period of relaxing in a theta state of consciousness one afternoon in 2002.
Many additional, very different perspectives came via The Vision and one of those different perspectives involved the "Love" vs. "love" conundrum which is being discussed here.
Probably, the two most unpopular pointers offered by Maharaj were
(1) those which invited seekers to move on along the path and to be free of all identifications, including the religious ones and the spiritual ones which are played at the third of seven steps;
and
(2) to understand what Real Love is and to abandon all of their concepts about "love," which - among the non-realized - always is some version of not-Real-Love.
That said, in his later talks he often addressed both of those, and the same applies here. So, to move on, here's how the advice that "you must love everyone" has been addressed in the past:
Earlier it was noted that, in the purest, non-dual sense, "Love" is a noun, not a verb. The vision (along with the understandings which came with the subsequent considerations which the vision inspired) provided a clarification - a new and different perspective - around some of the most-often misunderstood pointers, pointers dealing with . . .
. . . Love vs. love; loving; loving all; the Oneness; and such beliefs as "You must love thy neighborhood"; and "You must love everything, seeing that 'it's all good'"; and "You must love everyone because we are all the children of the One True Father, God"; and "If you had been around in the 1940's in Europe, you would have needed to love Hitler, too"; etc., etc., etc., blah, blah, blah.
So many are trapped in the quandary of trying to reconcile all of those often self-contradictory (and impossible) dictates. During a period of quiet, while being totally open to any additional understandings which might come via the vision, a new clarity around the misconceptions and confusions generated by pointers regarding "Love" / "love" / Oneness came.
The following was recalled as certain past pointers began rolling across the internal screen in a stream of consciousness manner:
Maharaj made clear that there are two witnessing states:
1. The first is rooted in duality, in the blocked consciousness, and it is called Subject-Object Witnessing, as in, "I (subject) see you (object)."
"A" sees a "B"? That is duality.
2. The second is called Pure Witnessing (or, as some call that Pure Witnessing, "The True Self"). Of course, the realized understand that there is no selfness or Selfness and that there is no "one" or "witness" or Witness."
What there is, post-realization (post-removal of ignorance) is clear seeing, is proper perspective, is witnessing accurately. And what is doing that Witnessing? The conscious-energy part of a composite unity (which is a temporarily-manifested bundle of always-cycling elements, of always-cycling conscious-energy, and of always-cycling oxygen, all of which continues right up until the point when mahasamadhi is taken).
Want to point to that relative composite unity which can function in a post-realization fashion with a term such as "self?" Fine, as long as it is understood that there really is no self and there really is no witness to do any witnessing.
There is merely the witnessing itself which is happening. Maharaj did say that "Love is knowing I am everything," but what he never said is, "You must love everything and everyone."
The Vision offered a perspective which allowed me to be able to work with some who have been brainwashed and to free them of the nonsensical, insane beliefs which are being touted by some Big Name Teachers (to use Maharaj's term) who are the ones whose spoutings reveal the presence of the three key symptoms of the Ultimate Sickness which Maharaj identified as "ignorance, stupidity, and insanity."
Again, I worked with a lady who came here for a retreat, trying to undo the brainwashing she had been exposed to by a particular Big Name Teacher who especially attracts addicts and alcoholics who pay thousands of dollars to spend a week or more with her.
It was seen that, as always, the addictive behavior of the woman who came here was rooted in years of trauma, especially including the trauma caused by her having been raped.
So what did she tell me that the famous Big Name Teacher had advised?
She was told: "You must love your rapist. Invite him to dinner. Prepare a meal for him and serve him."
This is the same Big Name Teacher who says, "If you were alive during WWII and the Nazis tossed your child into a furnace, you should love that."
Then the woman gave my visitor the mantra she gives to all who will listen: "Love what is." That comes from a woman whose "recovery literature" advised, "Acceptance is the key" and who was taught to "Accept what is" and who then took those pointers to the greatest (and most perverted and most bizarre extreme imaginable); hence, her advice to "Love what is," be that the murdering of your child or you're being raped.
Let's see how Maharaj would have likely reacted had he heard her passing on that teaching which is at the heart of the BS message she is spreading:
Because his translators and editors played the role of "Self-Appointed Guardians Of Maharaj's Reputation," they edited out of his oral talks in the loft and out of the written transcripts of his talks all of the profanities which he often used for to provide emphasis and to provide clarity and to offer a direct-and-in-your-face-and-let-me-make-this-as-clear-as-possible-fashion certain key pointers.
Knowing some of the statements Maharaj made in the past, it is possible to guess what his response might have been to that Big Name Teacher if she had gone to his loft and suggested that "You must love everyone and you must love everything that happens to you and to everyone else throughout the relative existence and if you're raped you should prepare a meal for your rapist and invite him to come back into your home and let you serve him and if the Nazis pulled your child from your arms and tossed your baby into the flames of an oven and made you listen to it screaming and made you watch as its body is consumed by the fire, you should love that, too."
Knowing that there were certain supposedly "obscene" words and phrases which Maharaj used more often than others, his reply to her would likely have contained the terms "totally insane bullshit" and "get" and "the hell out of" and "this flat."
Seeing that allowed for a clarification to come in regards to those whom Maharaj tossed out of the loft, the ones who were only there to show off their accumulated knowledge ("learned ignorance," Maharaj called it) and to show off their assumed spiritual giantism but who were really only showing their egotism and ignorance.
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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