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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 green text after today's post for the full meaning and implications of that.
3. A new video ("Number Ten: Awakening Together Satsang, March 2018") has now been added in the far right column of this page, offering the opportunity to view a recent 2018 satsang session with Floyd being interviewed by Regina and Jacqueline of "The Awakening Together Group." (See the details in the blue text after this post.)
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
QUOTATION #11 and #12 and #13
“Out, out, brief candle”
and
“All that lives must die, passing through nature to eternity”
and
“There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”
Imagine a candle as your body; imagine the wick as the fuel—the food inside—that allows the light to happen. As long as the candle is there and the wick is there and oxygen is available, then the light can continue to appear.
When the elements of the candle/body no longer retain their temporary form, and when the wick / food is no longer in its temporary form, then the light will appear no more. How briefly one candle can burn and then be out in comparison to all eternity.
The elements from which the candle is made can hold that shape for a time, but that form cannot last. The wick-as-wick is limited as well. So, too, is the flame limited in terms of the time that it can appear. All are merely elements which allow the light to appear for a brief time. The elements are natural, are nature.
The consciousness is that which is passing through nature and which is also nature itself. It IS, and it is THAT. The scientist Szent-Gyorgyi observed, “What drives life is thus a little electric current, set up by the sunshine.”
That is all that is happening: conditions evolved on the planet so that plants could thrive and so that a little electric current that is set up by the nuclear furnace called “the sun” could manifest in a plant.
That energy has many properties, one of which is a consciousness that allows for automatic functioning. The consciousness passes through nature to eternity since energy can neither be created nor destroyed.
Further, both individual philosophies (which are nothing more than personal beliefs) as well as personal ideologies prevent seeing the reality beyond the false things that are dreamt of by men. (Women repeat the magical stories and baseless myths, but men were the ones who dreamed up the concepts.)
And while there is so much more to reality than dreams suggest, there is far less in reality than what has been dreamed up by men in the past and what is now being dreamed up by men. Everything is only one thing and is not at all the millions of images that persons take to be real.
There is far less than meets the eye and the imaginary “mind” and far more to be understood beyond. To take the candle to be what it appears to be (or to take that which is briefly manifested in nature as the everlasting, or to imagine that personal ideologies can in any way reveal the truth) is to live in the darkness and ignorance that Shakespeare spoke of.
Do you see that you are neither the body nor the food-body but are that which is manifested temporarily and briefly? Do you see that what You Truly Are is merely passing through this natural setting to eternity, manifested for a brief moment and then unmanifested?
Imagine a candle as your body; imagine the wick as the fuel—the food inside—that allows the light to happen. As long as the candle is there and the wick is there and oxygen is available, then the light can continue to appear.
When the elements of the candle / body no longer maintain that form, and when the elements of wick / food transition beyond that form, then the light will appear no more. How briefly one candle can burn and then be out in comparison to all eternity.
The elements from which the candle is made can hold that shape for a time, but that form cannot last. The space of the wick-as-wick is limited as well. So, too, is the flame limited in terms of the time that it can appear. All are merely elements which allow the light to manifest for a brief time.
The elements are natural, are nature. The consciousness is that which is passing through nature and which is also nature itself. It IS, and it is THAT. Again, “What drives life is thus a little electric current, set up by the sunshine.”
That is all that is happening: conditions evolved on the planet so that plants could thrive and so that a little electric current that is set up by the nuclear furnace called “the sun” could manifest in a plant.
That energy has many properties, one of which is a consciousness that allows for automatic functioning. The consciousness passes through nature to eternity since energy can neither be created nor destroyed.
Further, both individual philosophies (which are nothing more than personal beliefs) as well as personal ideologies prevent seeing the reality beyond the things that are dreamt of by men. (Women repeat the magical stories and baseless myths, but men were the ones who dreamed up the concepts.)
And while there is so much more to reality than dreams suggest, there is far less in reality than what has been dreamed up by men in the past and what is now being dreamed up by men. Everything is only one thing and is not at all the millions of images that persons take to be real.
There is far less than meets the eye and the imaginary “mind” and far more to be understood beyond. To take the candle to be what it appears to be (or to take that which is briefly manifested in nature as the everlasting, or to imagine that personal ideologies can in any way reveal the truth) is to live in the darkness and ignorance that Shakespeare spoke of.
Do you see that you are neither the body nor the food-body but are that which is manifested temporarily and briefly? Do you see that “What You Truly Are” is merely passing through this natural setting to eternity, manifested for a brief moment and then unmanifested?
Do you realize that you need no one’s ideologies to know who you are because there is no who-ness and no WHO-ness involved with anything going on in the universe or on this planet?
Moreover, do you realize what Maharaj meant when he said that “You do not need to find the answer to ‘Who Am I?’ and said that, “Instead, you need only find out all that you are not.”
Do you realize how much more there is than what has been dreamt of in humankind’s philosophies? Additionally, do you realize how much less there is than has been dreamt of in peoples’ philosophies?
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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