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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 Forty =
An Inability to Differentiate Between What Is Permanent and What Is Not
WHAT IS LIMITED CANNOT ALSO BE UNLIMITED, IN ANY FORM OR IN ANY WAY
A few nights ago, I had used an old bed sheet to cover a plant and protect it against the freeze. When I unwrapped the plant, I wadded up the sheet and tossed it into a nearby patio chair because I would soon have to use it again for that purpose.
When, I stepped onto the back porch this morning, a wren that was lying on the sheet in the warmth of the sun became startled and flew away instantly. Why?
1. Because conscious-energy was manifested within that space called "a wren" and
2. because one property of consciousness is that, once manifested, it automatically desires continuity and will move away from anything that is supposedly threatening to interrupt that manifestation.
That has led to the maxim that, "Among humans, everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die."
That desire for continuity is at the root of the fight or flight syndrome:
The fight-or-flight response (also called 'hyper-arousal,' or 'the acute stress response') is a physiological reaction that occurs in response to a perceived harmful event, attack, or threat to survival" (as first identified and explained by Walter Bradford Cannon).
[The non-dual understanding can assist with turning off that response and removing the desire to fight and removing the fear which inspires humankind's tendency to run away, to try to avoid, to use substances to try to escape, etc.]
Maharaj said, "The unlimited and the limited are confused and taken to be the same. To undo this confusion is the purpose of Yoga."
He said that the masses who believe that they "were born" refuse to accept the fact that "whatever is born must die." Not understanding that also blocks them from understanding that nothing having even the slightest resemblance to their "humanity" will survive the process of mahasamadhi, "death," the ending of the manifestation, the "unmanifesting," etc.
Christians, all of who claim to be guided by "Christ," totally ignore his words of guidance when he said, "Heaven and earth shall fade away." Why "fade away?"
Because that is what happens with whatever quantity of conscious-energy is within an elemental plant food body at the time of mahasamadhi, "death," the "unmanifesting," etc. It does not instantly "disappear." It slowly fades away as it returns to the universal pool of conscious-energy from which it came.
So it is with the consciousness that dreamed up such concepts as "heaven" and "everlasting life" or "reincarnation" or whatever else the masses are taught so that persons in charge can manipulate them and control them.
Therefore, Christians ignore the fact that their "Lord" said that there is no heaven that awaits you and that it's only a concept which will fade away when the consciousness fades away. They ignore the fact that he said, "No one shall ever see the kingdom of heaven. It is within."
Any Christian or any other person who makes a claim to "eternal life" and "a life of eternal rewards in heaven" has been fooled and is now fooling others. It's all BS.
In seventy-one years, I have only witnessed two things that are proud of, and totally attracted to, their own crap: dogs and humans.
Yet humans should, theoretically, have the capability of pausing to ask,
A. "What is it, exactly, that I believe?"
B. Why, as a child, did I ever believe that stuff when I was taught that nonsense?"
C. "Okay. So why do I continue to believe it now as an adult?"
D. "Might all those beliefs that have been passed down to me just been one big load of crap?"
Why will 99.9% never inquire? Never investigate their beliefs systems? Never question themselves / their "selves?" Never accept that there will not be a single iota of their imaginary, relative "them-ness" or "self-ness" post-manifestation? Never accept that there will be no "Self-ness" of any form post-manifestation?
1. Because humans love their dreamed up concept of continuity.
2. And because they love their beliefs, no matter how nonsensical they are. They'll fight about them. They kill for them. They'll die for them. And yet all of those beliefs are lies and learned ignorance. Just BS.
Yet most persons among the uninformed, non-realized masses will spend their entire lives in this mode:
Proudly, rigidly, standing guard over a bunch of BS . . . over their total BS beliefs and ready to go to war to defend those total BS beliefs.
Pretty amazing, huh?
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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