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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-Two =
The Belief Among the Non-Realized Masses That They Are Seeing 20-20 When in Fact They Are Almost Totally Blind
As some are aware, there have been for five-and-a-half months certain eye-related issues and surgeries and procedures and complications which have impaired the vision here.
Old glasses and non-prescription reading glasses have been used during those months, so when the ophthalmologist sent an email yesterday explaining that my new glasses with a current pprescription were available for pickup, it seemed as if there might be an end to the inability to see clearly.
No such luck. After going for almost half a year without proper glasses and using glasses on occasion which did not have the proper prescription, the result was that my eyesight has undergone a series of shock and traumas.
So warped was my vision that now I am going to have to go through a period of adjustment as I use the new glasses intermittently in order to prevent the eye strain that came yesterday as my eyes began dealing with a new challenge:
namely, looking at things through a new pair of glasses with the correct prescription while my eyes are presently refusing to accept the new way of seeing as being "proper seeing and perceiving" after having been conditioned to accept the improper and warped view of all things which had nevertheless been deemed to be normal.
In terms of the non-dual understanding, do you see where this is headed? Doesn't that describe exactly the way the masses look at everything?
While trying to explain to one visitor that there is no such thing as "miracles" and "exceptions to nature's laws," Maharaj said: "You just do not look carefully enough. Look well, and see what I see."
Prior to realizing (that is, prior to casting aside all learned ignorance . . . all beliefs formerly accepted without questioning), I could neither look carefully nor look well nor see what a clear seer could see.
The problem among the non-realized is that persons can fail to see while believing that they are seeing quite well, thank you very much.
Maharaj said: "It is like entering a dark room and saying ‘I see nothing’. A man blind from birth knows not what darkness means. Similarly, only the knower knows that he does not know."
And there's the rub: if persons do not know what they do not know, then they can erroneously believe that they are seeing something that they are not really seeing at all.
Images will be taken for the real. Mirages will be deemed to be real and tangible. Form over substance will become preferred.
Trapped in more ignorance than ever during My Early Spiritual Giant Stage, I was certain that everything was exactly as I was now perceiving it in my new and special way of looking at things.
But even after a new pair of glasses was offered by one who knew I was still blind to truth, I could not yet take them and use them. My vision was not yet clear enough to see that what I seeing was not at all what I thought it was.
The result: a coil of rope was perceived to be a dangerous snake, and dangerous snakes were seen to be harmless or even helpful ropes.
Maharaj said: "I see what you too could see, here and now, but for the wrong focus of your attention."
As the case was yesterday, I was sure that the new glasses were finally going to allow me to see clearly again, but more than those new glasses was going to be required.
It is not unlike those in the U.S. who are frustrated because they believe that others are getting what they are entitled to (and entitled too simply because they are white and think that whites are superior). .
Then, they come across a piece on the internet, written by someone who is as equally driven by a sense of entitlement (and who is evidently work avoidant, having the time to sit around all day and compose rants about those who are members of the "inferior races).
Those rants, supporting their warped view, are taken to be a new pair of glasses. "Finally, "I see the light! I finally get it! I now understand! I finally see the truth clearly!" and here it is:
"The Neo-Nazis have finally given me the ability to see clearly," or
"the white supremacists have given me the ability to see clearly," or
"the anti-globalists have given me the ability to see clearly," or
"the nationalists / white nationalists have given me the ability to see clearly," or
"the alt-Righters have given me the ability to see clearly," or
"my religious or spiritual guides have given me the ability to see clearly," or
"my favorite politician has given me the ability to see clearly," etc., etc., etc.
In fact, just as my new glasses with their spirituality-focused lens warped my sight even more than it had been warped originally, so the case is with those who think they have been enlightened by their fellow ranters.
Some of you know that - wearing my new pair of spiritual eye wear - I went to visit a Cherokee Wise Man in Santa Fe. He could have said the same to me that Maharaj said about "wrong focus."
The Chief tried to shift my attention away from the spiritual workaholism I was engaged in and see the wisdom of relaxing and taking it easy, something he had come to see long before.
Yet having had what I deemed to be "a spiritual awakening," I was rendered incapable of truly seeing clearly as opposed to having my vision blurred by looking at everything through a Dreamed-Up God Filter.
Thorough that filter, I believed that I was seeing all when in fact the filter prevented me from seeing anything clearly, rendering me more sightless than I had been before my so-called "awakening."
At that juncture, I had definitely joined the ranks of those whom Maharaj said were trapped in "their kindergarten-level spirituality," delusionally "believing that I was being bathed in the full light of the noonday sun when I was actually still standing in the dull light of dawn."
My vision has been warped once more for a half year now, mainly because circumstances once more blocked me from seeing clearly.
Maharaj: Persons "see through the net of our desires, divided [dualistically] into pleasure and pain, right and wrong, inner and outer. To see the universe as it is, you must step beyond the net. It is not hard to do so, for the net is full of holes."
Questioner: "What do you mean by holes? And how to find them?"
Maharaj: "Look at the net and its many contradictions. You do and undo at every step. You want peace, love, happiness but work hard to create pain, hatred and war. You want longevity and overeat, you want friendship and exploit. See your net as made of such contradictions and remove them— your very seeing them will make them go."
So many are seeking "the Real beyond."
Maharaj advised: "To see the unreal is wisdom."
He said, "You need not see what you are. It is enough to see what you are not."
His advice: "Instead of seeing things as imagined, learn to see them as
they are. When you can see everything as it is, you will also see yourself as you are." But that is something that the masses have no desire to see at all.
So it is, but so it need not be.
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
XX"Heaven and hell are not geographic places but are states of mind, nothing more than concepts dreamed up by men."
--Pope John Paul II
XX"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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