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The point in this series is that the non-dual message has long been widespread but has seldom been understood either then or now.
So, to move on . . .
NON-DUAL POINTERS IN THE WRITINGS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
QUOTATIONS #6 and #7 (Continued from yesterday)
“Life is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing"
and
“It’s all much ado about nothing”
To be sane is to be free of both sound and fury. Truth is uncovered in the absence of sound, not in the presence of sound. The realized realize in the quiet, and then they become very quiet. No fury is experienced after realization since there are no persons to experience fury.
Egomaniacs (persons assuming ego-states as identities and then using ego-defense mechanisms to preserve their image) love to hear their own sounds. They love to sing before audiences and then play back their performances and listen to the sounds being emitted from their mouths.
They love to talk at meetings or gatherings or before large crowds; they love to listen to the sounds coming from their mouths; and they love to listen to the playback of their sounds. They love the spotlight and the applause that their sounds receive.
They are performers who require a captive audience or play-actors who manipulate circumstances so that their own sounds can be heard, and all who are performing are merely playing out their false roles “on stage.”
In fact, those loving their own sounds and those loving the sounds of others are both “fools” and / or “idiots” (per the qualifications set forth by the two Advaitins being quoted above) because they are all reinforcing the false belief in ego-states or false identities or assumed roles.
Persons who suggest that “truth can be found by listening to them,” to the sounds coming from their mouths, are actually removing your opportunity to know truth. Why listen to the sounds coming from any person(a)? All persons who are living in the false ego-state of “the one who has knowledge that you need” will be full of sound.
And if you do not listen to them and follow their instructions, they will also be full of fury. What need for sound when the truth cannot be stated? Are you seeking to escape the foolishness and the idiocy of “life” as lived by persons on this planet by attending daily meetings where sound dominates?
Are you going to a place once a week to hear the sounds in your effort to escape the idiocy and the foolishness? Is so, have you not yet seen their inherent contradictions that are exposed via the sounds that come from personas during those daily or weekly meetings?
What of persons who think they are “more spiritual” if they hear the sound of a bell or the sound of humming or the sound of chanting or the sound of singing or the sound of the "preachings" offered by self-proclaimed “leaders” who earn salaries to tell them that they need the knowledge their leaders have?
What of those who believe that they are more religious or more spiritual if they join voices with those who are furious that people are not living according to their rules and dogma?
What of those who really believe that such "leaders" are so special and so different that "The Truth" is being delivered directly to them but cannot be known directly by them?
No “Realized Advaitin” will ever suggest you learn what she / he knows. “No Realized Advaitin” will ever suggest that any sound emanating from a space can give you the answer. You have the answer. It is within.
You need learn nothing; however, you do need to unlearn much, namely, your belief in the lies that block you from seeing the unspoken and unspeakable truth.
“Non-dualists” do not offer knowledge and they never solicit a commitment to attend anything regularly in order to listen to them or to their sounds. If it is suggested that you read anything, it will not be a “holy” book.
It will be a book that ends the need to read all books. Book studies are for personas who are trapped in ego-states. If you read the “right” book at the “right time” - meaning that "the readiness is all" - then truth will explode into consciousness, you’ll set down the book, and all seeking will end.
Spiritual workaholism will end. Spiritual intoxication will end. Believing that you need more knowledge will end. The realized invite you to enter the silence, to contemplate, to reject all knowledge, to find all the lies, to know less and less until you finally reject it all (after which the unspoken, unspeakable truth will spring into consciousness).
Too, the poet makes clear that (1) the more fury witnessed in a person, the more idiocy they will also observe and that (2) the more idiocy they observe in a person, the more sounds they will hear and the more fury they will also observe.
Finally, those who claim that their life has meaning and signifies something (and that they can give “your life” meaning and significance) are also idiots - are non-realized persons who have been fooled - according to the poet.
For those who would not "be an idiot," they must refuse to believe idiots who tell stories (fictional tales) about “life,” about what it is, about what it means, about how significant it should be, and about why you should think as they think and believe as they believe. Peace only comes in the belief-free state.
They will tell you that it is much ado about something, but it is all just much ado about nothing . . . nothing more than a tale being told by an idiot. And who would listen to an idiot?
Do not believe those who tell you that you need more knowledge in order to know how to live “life.” The realized poet Shakespeare explains that they are offering you nothing more nor less than a "tale being told by an idiot."
Imagine: human-like beings have walked the planet for 14.5 million years and have made it just fine - continuing a line which evolved into homo sapiens 200,000 years ago and which survives to this day - but now there are those who would tell you that you need to add (to all that you already know) their special knowledge in order to know how to live your “life.”
Intuitive motivations, sixth-sense clarity, and the absence of frontal-brain “stuff” (such as beliefs and ideas and concepts and distorted memories) allowed 14.5 million years of natural living, but now those are no longer workable?
Really? There are priests and medicine men and gurus and jnanis and preachers and “life coaches” and spiritualists ad infinitum who would distract your attention from the only real guru (the inner guru) and have you believe that they know the secret to life.
They will tell you a tale, explaining that they alone know the way that “life” should be lived (and their methods are always based in information contained in their “holy” or “special” text which needs to be “studied”). Their tales are also based in their misunderstanding of what “realized teachers” have long explained.
For example, how many Christians understand and can explain the actual teachings of Christ when he said, “When you speak of me, speak of me as I AM” and “Before Abraham was, I AM”?
And how many have even the slightest clue about what was meant by the words I AM THAT I AM as cited in their “holy text” during “The Talking, Burning Bush” yarn (especially since the semicolon was left out of that version of the summative statement of non-duality)?
And how many truly understand that “the THAT” referenced by Krishna is beyond both being and non-beingness?
Only "the realized" will suggest that you need nothing more and that you need far less. Only the realized will admit that you need no significance. Of all the sounds to be heard, only the ego will shout with fury that you need more and more and more;
and conversely, only the Pure Consciousness will “speak” in the “sound of silence” and reveal that you need nothing more than to remember the truth which had already within (though the awareness of that truth has been blocked by the miasma of nonsense stored in the minds of almost all humans).
Early on, children have an active BS detector:
Adult: "Women have painful periods every month because the first woman named Eve was very bad and fell under the influence of a snake that told her to tempt her husband to violate god's order not to eat the apples from one particular tree and she did so God now punishes all women to remind them every month not to ever encourage anyone to defy God's commands."
Child: "What?! Nuh uh!!"
Adult: "A whale swallowed a man and it was in the whale's belly for three days but God kept the man alive and then the whale regurgitated the man and he was fine."
Child: "What?! Nuh uh!!"
Adult: "God became so angry at humans that he drowned all of them in a great flood except for the members of one family and a male and female pair of every species on earth."
Child: "What?! Nuh uh!!"
After children are punished or threatened for questioning authority figures who spread BS, their BS detector eventually becomes de-activated and, thereafter, those children become adults who buy into all the BS taught in their cultures and who then take up the task of spreading it to others.
All that you need to "get" in order to begin the “journey” to realization is the following:
that which separated you from an ability to differentiate between the true and the false came about after years of being exposed to ignorant and insane programming and conditioning and acculturation and domestication and brainwashing and indoctrination and threats of punishment, all of which was rooted in idiocy and sounds and fury.
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) whose Vatican Bank worked for decades with the Mafia while laundering mob earnings (for a 15% all-profit charge by the Bank); 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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