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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-Three =
Having a Propensity for Magical, Supernatural, Unquestioned Beliefs
MAGICAL, SUPERNATURAL, UNQUESTIONED BELIEFS
Yesterday, some of the consequences of being programmed and conditioned to think magically / supernaturally / religiously / spiritually - that is, believing the myths and superstitions and lies that one is told without ever questioning their validity or lack thereof - were shared:
Being fooled; used; hoodwinked; duped; conned; deceived; bamboozled; and, therefore, constantly being disturbed, angry, enraged, infuriated, and incensed.
Maharaj made clear that fools are those who accept “learned ignorance” as truth without ever questioning it.
He told one visitor to the loft, “I would be very happy to have you ‘back home,’ really glad to see you out of this foolishness.”
What foolishness? All of the foolishness taught and learned since leaving the Child Ignorance / Child No-Knowing State.
That is why there is no one here trying to teach anything to any visitor to this site and why there is no one here who would have any visitor to this site learn anything.
To the contrary, all here is ultimately about un-teaching, about inviting visitors to un-learn it all and return to the only state in which unconditional happiness or contentment can happen, namely, The Child No-Knowing / Pre-Fooled State.
Maharaj defined “knowledge” as “learned ignorance”; thus, when it was said that “fools may have the greatest repository of knowledge but will never attain wisdom,” he would not have disagreed . . . noting that only a small number on the planet shall ever be realized at any given moment.
"Realized" meaning? Meaning freed from the key symptoms of the Ultimate Sickness which he identified as “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity.”
Furthermore, he would have dismissed as pure poppycock and total nonsense the notion that there’s a new earth coming when the majority will be realized. The tipping point was passed long ago and now fools prevail.
Maharaj made clear that only a few shall be awakened to the truth of how much they are contributing to the near-universal mental cesspool of babble on planet earth.
(G.B. Shaw, when asked if he believed if there is life on other planets, said, “Absolutely.” The evidence he offered: “They are obviously using earth as their insane asylum.”)
One easy way to spot fools is to witness the unlimited babble being generated from the psychological cesspool of their minds and then flowing ceaselessly through their mouths. They hate the silence and, therefore, constantly disrupt it (along with the peace which it can provide).
To that end, the Talmud offered this consideration: “If silence be good for the wise, how much better for fools.”
As for the effects of magical thinking catalogued earlier, this can be added: Being a fool sets persons up to be controlled by other fools.
That rebellious author Thoreau said, “Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.”
Yet foolishness prevails in all aspects of the relative existence of humankind.
For example, Henry Fielding noted that there is “one fool at least in every married couple.”
They are the ones saying, “My husband only hits me because he cares so much that he gets really emotionally-involved, but he’s promised he won’t ever do that again so I’m staying with him”
or
“You’re an ass to even suggest that my partner only married me for my money. I have never been so loved in all my life.”
What is a key difference in the fool and the wise one? Hesiod said that “The fool knows after he's suffered,” suggesting that the wise are the ones who have the skill set to avoid - before it actually occurs - much of the misery and suffering which the relative existence can offer.
And in the end, Maharaj made clear what this deal is really about, saying that “The only job of ‘the non-dual teacher’ to end the misery and suffering of those who come seeking.”
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 worshiped 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 worshiped 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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