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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 Fifty-four =
No Interest in Being Truly Free and Independent
THE MASSES PREFER DEPENDENCY AND CODEPENDENCY AND ATTACHMENT TO THE THINGS WHICH ROB PERSONS OF THEIR FREEDOM
Maharaj said that - at the core of the Ultimate Sickness and its role in driving humankind’s chaotic existence – are three key symptoms of the Sickness: “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity.”
Those three manifest in varying degrees throughout one's relative existence, their intensity always seeming to fluctuate; however, in the absence of intervention, all three usually follow a progressively-worsening track overall.
Personality disorders such as the Dependency Personality Disorder and the Co-Dependency Personality Disorder and the Attachment Personality Disorder can manifest and then disintegrate into various and more serious neuroses and psychoses.
Another mental illness discussed here throughout what will be thirty years this coming July is what I labeled "The Goldilocks Syndrome" back in the mid 1980’s. That was also discussed in the book entitled Overcoming the Fear of Being Totally Independent and will be shared now:
The reason many do not want to be free is because they are suffering from the mental illness called "The Goldilocks Syndrome": they are willing to readily give up what they think is "too this" or "too that" but unwilling to give up what they think is "just right" - just perfect at any particular moment.
The insanity of that is this: the only constant in the relative existence is change, so whatever the distorted seeing takes to be perfect now will change shortly. The Laws of Thermodynamics are not suspended either by ignoring them or denying them. What has come together will come apart, be it "you with the perfect mate," "the perfect relationship," the "perfect locale," "the perfect body" ... whatever.
The soup that Goldilocks found to be too hot, if left alone patiently for a few minutes, could have been "just right." But that condition of just right-ness would soon have given way to soup that was perceived to be too cold. Try to function as a person and it will be revealed that any and all satisfaction is fleeting.
To be totally free is to be free of trying to manipulate the environment or the body - or other bodies - to one's own self-will and instead merely witnessing whatever happens spontaneously.
The deer that finds the levels of noise that come from a nearby house on occasion to be contrary to its nature does not approach the house and knock on the door and ask the woman if she and her family have ever considered measuring the family's "noise footprint on the environment." The deer merely moves away from that house when the noise is erupting.
Freedom is not the freedom to control others. Consider one of the former dictionary definitions of freedom that was discussed and one new one as well:
DEFINING FREEDOM - CONVENTIONAL SOURCES (cont.)
"Freedom" is the state of being free or at liberty rather than in confinement; or, having the ability to move without restraint.
For the deer to be free and therefore at peace, it need not have the "power" to make others "do this" or "stop that." It requires only freedom from confinement and the ability to move away.
"But Floyd," some have said, "I feel imprisoned in a relationship at home" or "I feel imprisoned in my relationship at work, and circumstances have robbed me of the freedom to move."
The reply: "First, there are more ways than one to move; secondly, there are changes that can happen which do allow for movement when it is considered impossible; and, thirdly, nothing is robbing you except your personal fears and desires."
Once de-accumulation happened here, then far less work and income was required. Speaking with a seeker in Australia last night during the standing "Saturday-night-here-Sunday-morning-there-Skype-conference," it was seen that the illusory need for more and more money can end when de-accumulation begins.
The expense of accumulation only begins with the initial cost of whatever (or whomever) you are determined to buy. The maintenance costs of accumulations eventually exceed by far the initial expense.
Far less money is required when freedom from accumulation and maintenance happens, and then freedom of movement from employment that is enslaving can happen.
Yet the move need not always be literal. Last night, he spoke of a remote island on which he wants to buy a cabin to use for his retirement someday. It was asked, "How many years until retirement?" The reply: "Twenty." The response: "You need not wait twenty years to 'move' to the place of perfect peace. It is within seven steps of where you think you are right now."
Yet few will ever understand the seven steps in the "journey" from identification with the false "I" to abidance as the Absolute. Few will come to understand that freedom and peace are right here, right now or that the only movement required is the movement / non-movement along a path / non-path (except for the direct path offered here).
It was explained that some might know the physical address where they can go for satsang / retreats with whatever "floyd" is assumed to be but that very few know where Floyd - the Real Floyd - "lives." That place is typically cave-like (remote and quiet) but even there is not where the abidance of this speck of conscious-energy is happening.
The freedom that precedes peace can happen "now" and "here," not "later" and "there." It comes when "The Goldilocks Syndrome" has been transitioned, where there is a position of neutrality and no dualistic judgments are being drawn about things being "too hard vs. too soft" or "too hot vs. too cold." It comes when the equally-as-delusional-notion that "something is just right and will always remain that way" is transcended.
Only the Absolute is a non-moving target. All else will be in constant flux, and the "joy" of things perceived to be "just right" will give way to the misery of those same things soon perceived to be "all wrong." Here's the way Louise Sterling - who was once a co-host of this site - put it after returning to "the cave" after a holiday:
Louise, who lives alternately in Cape Town, South Africa and in another city to the east along the southern coast, shared this:
Today, walking in the garden to find fresh herbs, there is simply gratitude for this preference-free view. You expressed this so clearly recently when you said, 'Do you not see that hope generates hopelessness and that the relative existence would unfold more pleasantly is you allowed what happens to happen spontaneously without complicating things with your wishes and desires and hopes and, yes, fears as well?'
"A recent visit to Bazley was full of contrasts: the idyllic, silent beauty of the natural setting, but sharing a house with three children, two adults and DSTV. Within the home, there was a higher level of background noise, personal ego demands, and busyness than I am used to in the cave. Would it be possible to grasp the understanding within the busyness and noise? Unlikely.
"With the withdrawal from all that is extraneous, the movement away from the phantasmagoria of the relative, there is simply resting in silence. In this silence, the winds of preference or non-preference are subtle, and more easily discerned and observed. This is the forest dweller stage I guess.
"Here this stage involved working, parenting and caring for the body’s needs, yet almost all other activities dropped away. In this environment of simplicity and silence, preference for or against could drop away, and the vast spaciousness of neutrality enjoyed.
"Once neutrality is tasted, it is not easily forgotten. This view becomes permanent. Then it is possible to be in the ego-led noise of society without being pulled into preference or non-preference. Although, the movement will always be away from the noise to the gentle, silent, peacefulness modelled by the petite buck that come to graze and drink at the bottom of the Bazley garden each morning and evening."
The reply: And that is what the relative existence looks like when the Absolute is laid over it; and that is what the unassailable peace looks like when the movement to freedom happens; and that is what it looks like to be neither pro-life nor pro-death but "preference-free," not unlike the naturally-abiding, spontaneously-living deer.
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
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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