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THE SEEDS OF DUALITY WHICH PRODUCE DUALITY'S PROGENY:
Offspring Number Sixty-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
[Continued from yesterday]
Maharaj invited seekers to reach a state of “zero concepts,” of total “belieflessness.”
Here, time and again over the last three decades, the invitation has been to reach those two states which Maharaj endorsed as well as a state of both “identitylessness” and “Identitylessness.”
He explained: “Once you are convinced that you cannot say truthfully about your self anything except ‘I am’ and that nothing that can be pointed at can be your self, [nor
Your Self] the need for the ‘I am’ is over — you are no longer intent on verbalizing what you are.”
Not “A Spouse” or “Partner”? No.
Not “A Parent”? No.
Not “A True Self” or “Infinite Self” or "Ultimate Self" or “Supreme Self?” No.
All is energy / matter, only. Whatever “you” are while manifested is that alone. Whatever “you” (or some conceptualized “You”) will be post-manifestation is that alone. Just energy / matter.
To understand that is to free you from endless religious and / or spiritual workaholism. To understand that is to free you from the imprisonment of believing any of the thousands and thousands of lies which you’ve read or been told.
To reach a state of zero concepts and “belieflessness” and “identitylessness” and “Identitylessness” is to be truly free, and to not reach those states is to be totally imprisoned in the warped mind which houses bogus concepts and untrue beliefs and false identities and false Identities.
To not reach those states is to be manipulated and fooled by those telling lies.
Maharaj: “All you need is to get rid of the tendency to define yourself. All definitions apply to your body only and to its expressions.
“Once this obsession with the body goes, you will revert to your natural state, spontaneously and effortlessly. The only difference between us is that I am aware of my natural state, while you are bemused.
“Just like gold made into ornaments has no advantage over gold dust, except when the mind makes it so, so are we one in being — we differ only in appearance.
“We discover that by being earnest, by searching, enquiring, questioning daily and hourly, by giving one’s life to this discovery.”
Questioning what? Everything that you have ever been told or have ever read which has amounted to nothing more than not-supported by scientific, precise, logical, verifiable and incontestably provable facts.
As far as what is happening in the “I AM” part of the summative statement of non-duality (I” AM THAT; I AM”) Maharaj clarified:
“All is a play in consciousness. All divisions are illusory. You can know the false only. The true you must yourself be”
and
“A spark of truth can burn up a mountain of lies. The opposite is also true. The sun of truth remains hidden behind the cloud of self-identification . . . ” (and so-called “Self-Identification”).
In the end, only by tapping into the wisdom and truth available via the Inner Guru or the inner resource can one be free of falling for the lies being told . . . can be free of being fooled. The challenge when seeking the truth the only way in which it can be found?
The need to circumvent the blockages of ignorance and insanity which have been taught and then accumulated in the mind. The problem with that approach? It is impossible.
Ignorance and insanity block making contact with the Inner Guru / the inner resource. The insidious mind filled with ignorant and insane beliefs is all-pervasive, all-controlling, all-encompassing;
therefore, it cannot be circumnavigated but must be first be eliminated completely in order to clear the way for contacting the Inner Guru / the inner resource.
How can that happen? By abandoning all beliefs. By truly reaching that state of “zero concepts.” By reaching a state of “identitylessness” and “Identitylessness.” By reaching a state of “no-who-ness” and no-WHO-ness.”
Some have said, "Floyd, Come on, man!! How could I possibly live without a mind?!”
The reply: “Freely and far more contentedly, that’s how.”
Of the trillions of species which have abided on planet earth, all have functioned without a mind . . . except for humans.
(And throughout humans’ early history, human-like beings also abided in a mindless fashion when the human brain was only one-cup in size. After it evolved into its present 3.5 cup size in adults, a section developed which could store what was taught or what was seen but usually misperceived.)
Yet trillions of mindless life-forms have survived and functioned quite well. How? By abiding under the auspices of the brain.
The brain overall cannot store nonsense and lies and distortions. That only happens in the small part of the brain which can store (in the mind-part) and retrieve from there the nonsense which has been taught.
Humans cannot function without a properly-functioning brain, but they can function spontaneously and happily and quite well – thank you very much – without a fiction-filled, nonsense-filled mind.
Maharaj:
"All illness begins in the mind."
"Your confusion is . . . in your mind."
"Whatever is conceived by the mind must be false, for it is bound to be relative and limited."
"Distrust your mind, and go beyond."
"There is no chaos in the world except the chaos which your mind creates."
" . . . The mind obscures and distorts."
"It is the mind that creates illusion."
"There is no such thing as peace of mind. Mind means disturbance. Restlessness itself is mind."
"Don't rely on your mind for liberation. It is the mind that brought you into bondage. Go beyond it altogether."
"Beyond the mind there is no suffering."
So if the problem centers in the mind, and since a sick mind - obviously - cannot heal a sick mind, then what is the solution, per Maharaj?
"Stop making use of your mind and see what happens."
"Learn to separate yourself from the image and the mirror. Keep on remembering: I am neither the mind nor its ideas."
"There is no such thing as mind. There are ideas . . . ."
"Abandon the wrong ideas, for they are false and obstruct your vision . . . ."
"The death of the mind is the birth of wisdom."
"To know that you are a prisoner of your mind - that you live in an imaginary world of your own creation - is the dawn of wisdom."
So what was his state in the end, the state which ultimately freed him and led to the birth of his wisdom? It was a no-mind state:
"There is no such thing as a mind," period.
"I have no mind . . . ."
Want to be free of the mind?
Again, Maharaj advised:
"Reach a state of zero-concepts."
He said:
"As to my mind, I have no such thing. There is consciousness in which everything happens."
"I am double dead: not only am I dead to my body, but to my mind, too."
"I find I have lost the mind irretrievably."
Maharaj said, “There’s no such thing as ‘peace of mind’.”
Here, that has been amended with this:
“There is only peace if you are out of your mind;”
and
“There can also only be freedom if you are out of your mind.”
The "Ultimate Self" is a hoax; however, the ultimate freedom - freedom from the mind - can be quite real.
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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