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THE SEEDS OF DUALITY WHICH PRODUCE DUALITY'S PROGENY:
Offspring Number Eighteen-
Those Whose Thoughts (Beliefs,) Words, and Actions Are Rooted in Duality Do Not Understand That "The Person Is Not Reality."
When Maharaj said that "the Person is not Reality," he meant that personas are not that which is Real.
"Reality" and "Real" are not capitalized because they are "more important than" or "superior to" "reality" and the "real." The summative statement of non-duality is "I AM THAT; I AM." That is a compound sentence with the two independent clauses connected by a semicolon. The rules of grammar explain that when that structure is used, the points in the two clauses are equal. Neither is more important than the other. Among the realized, it is understood that both just are.
In fact, as far as the relative (the phenomenal AM-ness) and the THAT (the noumenal THAT-ness) are concerned, neither is important or superior or supreme or special. They just are, the are-ness of one being temporary, the are-ness of the other being eternal.
While the status of a one-day-old or the darlings of parents' and grandparents' eyes or children of any other age often have heaped upon them love (healthy) and adoration (not healthy), the fact is that they came into beingness - far more often than not - simply because two humans entered into a act of friction more with the intent of experiencing physical pleasure than with the intent of fertilizing an egg with sperm.
(Disagree? Couples in long-term relationships might engage in the act of sex thousands of times but they are not intent on having thousands of children (Catholicism's strictures and goals notwithstanding).
David McCullough, Jr., a high school English teacher, presented a graduation commencement address entitled "You Are Not Special" and later penned a book entitled You Are Not Special and Other Encouragements. Ironically and unpredictably, the author's humor set the stage for the pointers presented originally in his commencement address to actually be well received. Some of his pointers included the following:
"You’ve been pampered, cosseted, doted upon, helmeted, bubble-wrapped. Yes, capable adults with other things to do have held you, kissed you, fed you, wiped your mouth, wiped your bottom, trained you, taught you, tutored you, coached you, listened to you, counseled you, encouraged you, consoled you and encouraged you again.
"You’ve been nudged, cajoled, wheedled and implored. You’ve been feted and fawned over and called sweetie pie. Yes, you have. And, certainly, we’ve been to your games, your plays, your recitals, your science fairs. Absolutely, smiles ignite when you walk into a room, and hundreds gasp with delight at your every tweet.
"Why, maybe you’ve even had your picture in the Townsman! And now you’ve conquered high school . . . and, indisputably, here we all have gathered for you, the pride and joy of this fine community, the first to emerge from that magnificent new building. But do not get the idea that you’re anything special. Because you’re not.
"The empirical evidence is everywhere, numbers even an English teacher can’t ignore. Across the country no fewer than 3.2 million seniors are graduating about now from more than 37,000 high schools. That’s 37,000 valedictorians, 37,000 class presidents, 92,000 harmonizing altos, 340,000 swaggering jocks, and 2,185,967 pairs of Uggs. But why limit ourselves to high school? After all, you’re leaving it.
"So consider this: even if you’re one in a million, on a planet of 6.8 billion that means there are nearly 7,000 people just like you. Imagine standing somewhere over there on Washington Street on Marathon Monday and watching sixty-eight hundred 'yous' go running by.
"And consider for a moment the bigger picture: your planet, I’ll remind you, is not the center of its solar system, your solar system is not the center of its galaxy, and your galaxy is not the center of the universe. In fact, astrophysicists assure us the universe has no center; therefore, you cannot be it. Neither can Donald Trump - which someone should tell him - although the hair is quite a phenomenon." (That line was delivered in 2012.)
How could anyone - any person - be considered "special" when all that those "you's" are (and all that this "i" is) is merely a composite unity, a space, made of elemental plant food and circulating air and conscious-energy.
So if being pampered, cosseted, doted upon, helmeted, bubble-wrapped, kissed, fed, wiped, trained, taught, tutored, coached, listened to, counseled, encouraged, consoled, encouraged again, nudged, cajoled, wheedled, implored, feted and fawned over and called "sweetie pie" does not make anyone "special," what are the effects of all of that?
The major effect is the assignment and / or assumption of a host of supposedly-special personas which - once assumed or assigned - inspired persons to accept scores of false identities as real identities and - for most - will end any chance of ever understanding that "The Person Is Not Reality."
Hence, the one playing the role of "The Husband" - a role assigned by cultures in general and by church or government officials specifically - really believes that he is "A Husband" once that is arbitrarily pronounced by an official. So convinced is each "Husband" that he really is that that one key result is this:
Each year, when those persons hear the required co-dependent, counterpart player called "The Wife" say "I'm leaving you," "The Husband" does not see that the husband is nothing more than a persona, a false identity, which is coming to end.
Instead, "The Husband" more often than not believes that "he" - which is really nothing more than a composite unity - is literally coming to an end. In reality, neither elements nor air nor conscious-energy can come to an end or be destroyed, but so fixed is the belief of every persona that it is real, the case is that - in the U.S. - 59% of all women killed annually are killed by a "mate" or "husband" during a breakup.
In such cases, so convinced is "The Husband" that his identity is real and that he is really under attack, he shifts to an offensive stance and kills she whom he believes is really, truly attacking "him" with the intent of destroying him.
Consider how different the history of the human experience on this planet would have been if it were understood all along and on a widespread basis that "The Person in not Reality." Yet the understanding of anything is not widespread among humans on this planet and never has been.
What is widespread is the Ultimate Sickness which reinforces the notion that personas are real. So it is when persons abide as the masses do under the influence of the warped mind rather than the elemental brain (the latter being the case with all living things on the planet except for humans)..
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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