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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.
A DEEPER LOOK AT SOME OF THE POINTERS OFFERED BY SRI NISARGADATTA MAHARAJ
Some visitors to the site have admitted that they can relate to the man who wrote that “there seems to be more to certain of Maharaj’s pointers than I’m understanding.”
Indeed, but that can often be the case, especially for those seekers in the “early days” stage. So some additional discussion of the quotes presented recently will be offered:
1. One of the earliest pointers which Maharaj’s guru offered to him was one Maharaj would repeat time and again. He was told, "You are not what you take yourself to be . . . . "
After years of recommending to seekers that they engage in “SELF-Enquiry” and that they find “the True Self” and that they find the answer to the query “Who Am I?” Maharaj would eventually shift away from that message and share instead this:
Maharaj’s guru was more of a traditionalist who set Maharaj on a course of “Self-Enquiry” with talk about a “True Self” and about finding one’s “Real Identity.”
Maharaj would abandon that course which his guru set him on, but not until having reached a point where he regretted influencing so many seekers to follow that route as well.
He would eventually say,
2. “You do not need to find ‘Who You Are'; it is enough to know who you are not.”
And “who you are not” includes all identifications, be they “A Spouse,” “An Employee,” “A Knower,” “A Teacher,” “A Hindu, Christian, Jew, Buddhist, etc.,” “The Super Religious One,” “A Spiritual Giant,” “A Godly One,” etc. or “An Infinite Self,” “A Supreme Self,” “An Eternal Self,” “Your True Self,” or an “Ultimate Self.”
Maharaj reached a point eventually where he advised:
3. “Reach a state of zero concepts”
which necessarily requires that seekers also “reach a state of zero beliefs and, therefore, zero identities or Identities.”
The justification for focusing on the elimination of personality identification is this: each assumed ego-state / personal / identity has two basic, usually-hidden, usually-subconscious agendas:
A basic desire and a basic fear.
Having desires, which are seldom met, leads to depression. Having fears leads to anxiety, worry, unease, apprehension, and angst.
Too, the assumption of an ego-state as an identity triggers the use of ego-defense mechanisms, including egotism (and egotism and pride and arrogance are the observably the bane of the human existence).
Moreover, assuming such Identities as “The Super Religious One,” “A Spiritual Giant,” “A Godly One,” “A Supreme Self” or “The Ultimate Self” also brings hidden agendas and a plethora of beliefs and often lead to the highest levels of egotism and pride and arrogance as well as the dissociation which comes with living in Foo Foo Land.
Personality identifications and Identifications both lead to (personality) disorders, and those can lead to neuroses and psychoses. Dissociated persons and those attached to avoidance and escapism techniques will build castles in the air; once serious disorders and neuroses and psychoses manifest, persons move into those castles in the air; then, the rent will be collected by psychologists, psychiatrists, treatment centers, facilities specializing in working with the mentally ill, and / or the owners of funeral homes.
As uncomfortable as it have been throughout the relative existence to deal with those dissociated from things phenomenal, the maximum levels of discomfort have often been reported by those dealing with persons who believe that they are “special” or “Special” or “godly” or “super religious” or “Spiritual Giants.”
Therefore, in the end, whether discussing “phenomenal identities” or “Noumenal Identities,” the only sane and sound approach when dealing with either identifications or Identifications is to . . .
“reach a state of zero concepts”
and to
“reach a state of zero beliefs”
and to
reach a state of zero self-ness
and to
reach a state of Zero Self-ness
and to
reach the states of no-personhood and No-Personhood
and to
reach a state of absolute and unmitigated Identitylessness.
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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