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THE SEEDS OF DUALITY WHICH PRODUCE DUALITY'S PROGENY:
Offspring Number Thirty =
Mistaking "love" for "Love"
[Continued from the previous post:]
As for trying to "love everyone and everything," the one with an understanding of the Nisarga yoga looks to nature for an example of what natural abidance looks like:
Here in this neighborhood where many deer roam about, there are certain adolescents who harass them. They chase them; they yell at them; they throw rocks and sticks at them. Most of the year, the deer merely amble off into the woods to be free of the nuisance.
If it's that time of year when a buck is courting a doe for the sake of breeding, then those adolescents who try to mess with him when he's trying to attract a doe in heat may well find themselves racing for the shelter of their homes as the buck tries to impale them on the horns of its rack.
With that particular exception, however, the deer being harassed by the adolescents will typically just move away from them. The deer retreat to one of the many copses of trees where they can rest in the quiet and take it easy.
So what do the deer usually model? This:
They move away from noisy or harmful humans who disturb the peace so that they can, as Maharaj said, "Relax in the cool blue shade."
Do the deer feel a need to love the delinquents? No.
Do they hate the delinquents? No.
The deer know neither of those concepts.
But do they get the heck away from those types? Yes.
Do the realized do the same when around those types? Often, yes.
Do I feel a need to love those delinquents? No.
Do I feel a need to hate those delinquents? No.
Do I prefer to stay the heck away from those delinquents. Yes.
Do I understand that "that which they really are is what I really am, too"? Yes.
Does that make me love to be around people like that? No.
Did the realization process make clear that I, too, had been suffering from a major case of assholism for years? Yes.
Does that allow me to spot cases of full-blown assholism now when they are at play? Yes?
Do I now understand how assholism is passed down from one generation to the next? Yes.
Do I now want to hang out with those who are presently suffering from a severe case of assholism? No.
Do I love them? No.
Do I hate them? No.
[Maharaj said that only those who are beyond both sin and virtue will seek him. The same is true in regards to being beyond "loving" and "hating" and all other duality-based conceptualized pairings.]
Does realization mean that, had I lived in Nazi Germany, the understanding would have led me to love Hitler and his fellow Catholic and Lutheran white supremacists? Hell no.
Abiding as I do in the U.S., I witness on a daily basis the results of the fact that fanatical Christians and white supremacists and non-Nazis and Alt-Righters and believers in eugenics joined forces to turn control of the country over to a bunch of other white supremacists who are now demonstrating on a daily basis what it is like to be trapped in the depths of the Ultimate Sickness.
Does being realized ("freed of ignorance") mean that I must love those white supremacists and eugenicists? Hell no. Do I want to hang out with them? Hell no. Their thoughts and words and actions display the epitome of duality. It's the old "hang out with dogs and you'll get fleas" maxim. Who would find that path attractive?
Does being realized that I believe that there are "ignorant, stupid, and insane" people who should be considered abhorrent? No. It means that it is understood that the masses, as Maharaj put it, are suffering from and being driven by "ignorance, stupidity, and insanity."
Might "ignorance, stupidity, and insanity" be considered "abhorrent" by the realized? No. The human condition is merely witnessed objective without triggering either "love of " or "hatred of."
(1) To realize,
and
(2) to understand the Oneness,
and
(3) to know that "Love" involves knowing that I am everything and that I share a common denominator with all
does prevent my being driven by a different-from and better-than ego-and-egotism-and-BS-and-duality-based set of beliefs;
yet
(4) the realization and the understanding do not mean that I must practice a duality-based Subject-Object perspective which demands that I say, "I (subject) love those white supremacists (object)" or "I love my rapist" or "I love the Nazis who threw my baby into a fire."
Both the common version of "love" and the now-prevalent levels of hatred being displayed are both rooted in "ignorance, stupidity, and insanity," and that is why the masses - trapped in the Ultimate Sickness as they are - toggle between the two like the Borderline types they are:
"I love you. I hate you"; "I hate you . . . no wait, don't leave me"; "I'll love her 'til death do us part" but in the case of 59% of the women killed annually in the U.SD., they are killed by a mate or spouse who previously professed "eternal love."
Maharaj said that "relationships" often move along this continuum:
From stranger to acquaintance to friend to best friend to lover to fiancé / fiancée to spouse to partner for life to one who can be irritating at times to one who is consistently irritating to one who becomes an enemy to one who becomes a mortal enemy and should die."
So much for the warped and perverted versions of duality-based "love" vs. "anti-love" or "hate" which the masses are driven by, usually throughout their entire relative existence.
All of the above clarifications came via the different perspective which came while considering the implications of the content of the vision and finally putting to an end once and for all the confusion surrounding the "love" vs. "LOVE" conundrum.
As for the perspectives and ideas and concepts and notions (a.k.a. "beliefs") which persons have about "love" and "relationships," there may be hundreds of thousands of comments made by parents and siblings and other relatives and teachers and politicians and celebrities, etc. all of which contributed the body of programming, conditioning etc.
However, there are often just one or two statements which will consciously or subconsciously drive a person's thoughts and words and actions for an entire lifetime.
Just one or two statements . . .
about one's "worth or lack thereof" or about one's "intelligence or lack thereof" or about one's "good looks or lack thereof" or about "the shape of one's nose" or about "relationships" and "love" (messages delivered verbally or by example) . . .
can have a life-long effect.
A few seekers found their way to India and climbed the stairs to a loft above a flat after having built a multi-year history of destructive or self-defeating acts (relatively speaking).
The record of their lives reveals amazingly bizarre actions which had been driven by the most bizarre beliefs, all of which seemed quite "normal" to them but which were, in fact, actually quite abnormal and unnatural. And some of the most abnormal and unnatural were rooted in their beliefs about "relationships" and "love."
In terms of their relative existence, they were in dire need not of being re-programmed but of being de-programmed; in dire need not of being taught more but of being un-taught all; and not in dire need of learning more but of un-learning all.
A few other seekers have found their way to South Texas and entered the house here, and their circumstances were the same: in terms of their relative existence, they were in dire need not of being re-programmed but of being de-programmed; in dire need not of being taught more but of being un-taught all; and not in dire need of learning more but of un-learning all.
And in many cases, the decisive and fundamental contributor to their history of problems often rested in one or two statements which they were given during the early phases of their programming, conditioning, etc., which they accepted without question, and which they subsequently allowed to drive the most influential and destructive thoughts and words and actions for decades.
And they usually enter without a clue about what has been driving them and without having a clue that they need to be totally de-programmed.
But even when some come to see that is the case, undoing the lifetime effects of even one or two statements which were a part of a massive body of statements used during the process of programming, conditioning, etc. can prove to be an insurmountable obstacle.
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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