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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. 

At the request of some visitors, further discussion or explanation of some of the Maharaj pointers shared recently is being provided. 

A DEEPER LOOK AT SOME OF THE POINTERS OFFERED BY SRI NISARGADATTA MAHARAJ 

From yesterday: 

Maharaj advised, “See the false as false.” Easier said than done.

His advice regarding the mind where false beliefs (lies) and false identities are stored would actually go far beyond the suggestion that the lies and identities stored in the mind should not be believed in. 

Consider this headline and note how practical the actions were which were taken recently by a bomb squad: 

Bomb squad detonates suspicious package in Wadsworth 

June 17, 2019 

RENO, Nev. (AP) — A Washoe County sheriff's bomb squad detonated a suspicious package at a home in Wadsworth with a history of explosive devices. 

In fact, it is actually fairly common for bomb squads to blow up houses and cars when it is suspected that they might contain explosives which could harm squad members or the public.

They frequently go with that approach as “Option One.” 

“Option Two” would have been to delay, to inspect, and to take time and expend energy to study any and all potentially-deadly devices stored inside and then process them one at a time and possibly clear the house or car of devices which could be harmful to the squad members or the public at large and still never be sure that some other hidden devices might remain and explode later. 

Those sharing non-dual pointers through the use of the Direct Path Method in conjunction with the Nisarga yoga would endorse the bomb squad’s detonate-it-all approach. Meaning? 

In the case here, the long and grueling search was sabotaged time and again by my using an “Option Two”-like approach rather than an “Option One”-type approach. 

Having been long intrigued with Grandmother’s talk of “casting aside phoniness and nurturing authenticity,” I spent years searching for "the truth" and “The True Self.” 

Maharaj early on endorsed that (“spiritual,” “SELF-Enquiry,” seven-step) approach with the seekers that came his way. That approach is only recommended if one buys into the notion that the Ultimate Sickness has something to do with a “sick spirit” or a “spiritual malady.” 

Later, however, when he became convinced that the Ultimate Sickness has nothing to do with knowing too-little-dogma and nothing to do with a "spiritual sickness," he endorsed a (four-step, self-inquiry / false-self, psychological inquiry) approach with the seekers that came his way. 

Thus led to his his bomb squad, “Option One,” detonate-it-all approach, and in the example above, the house or a car can represent the minds of 99.99% of the masses, made up of "non-realized" persons. 

Maharaj said that “there’s no such thing as peace of mind” (and I added, “there’s only peace if you are out of your mind”). 

No one who has a mind filled – as do all among the “non-realized” masses - with the nonsense which always comes with programming, conditioning, etc. will ever live long enough to delay, to inspect, and to take enough time and expend enough energy to study each and every concept, notion, idea, thought, impression, image, opinion, view, theory, etc. (a.k.a., “beliefs”) stored in the mind and then test then for validity or falsehood and “see the false as false.” 

Instead, the mind must go, period; then the remainder of the manifestation can happen under the auspices of the the no-mind, all-natural, elemental brain (which is exactly the way that every living thing on the planet does except for humans). 

Thus, the point yesterday: 

Once free of the mind, then nothing “deliberate is required. All will happen spontaneously, and that includes recognizing falsehoods instantly and rejecting the false as soon as it is heard. 

Maharaj said: "I have no mind . . . ." and advised seekers to . . . 

"Reach a state of zero-concepts" and said, “As to my mind, I have no such thing. There is consciousness in which everything happens” and "I am double dead: not only am I dead to my body, but to my mind, too" and "I find I have lost the mind irretrievably." 

But there’s the rub: when I have shared that no-mind pointer in satsang or at retreats or in writing for years, the listeners or readers usually “checked out” with such reactions as, “That’s it – I’m gone” or “Impossible!” or “You’re nuts” or “It can’t be done.” 

They needed a simple method for being free of the mind and abiding thereafter under the auspices of the brain, so I offer this: 

Everything in your mind - be it considered a concept, notion, idea, thought, impression, image, opinion, view, or theory - is actually just . . . a belief. 

That is all the mind is: a storehouse of thousands upon thousands of beliefs, most of which are filed away and are not consciously tapped into but which nevertheless determine all thoughts and words and actions. 

Want to have no mind? You might try “Option Two” as I did for years. I wrote out what I took to be comprehensive lists of my belief systems and then tried to analyze them all for validity or falsity. 

That is what is impossible. What eventually happened was that I realized it was all BS, as explained in Freedom from Beliefs: 

The garbage actually just faded away after its value was finally questioned and seen to be worthless as a result of its senseless content. Yet note how much the ego-defense mechanism of arrogance (which protects the illusory “I”) hates any suggestion that would devalue all of the knowledge—all of the learned ignorance—that has been accumulated throughout a relative existence and stored in what is called a “mind.” 

When ego (ego-states) and egotism were cast aside, there was nothing to defend and – as was the case with Maharaj – I reached a state of no-beliefs, of zero concepts. 

The mind was gone. 

Most, even those who have assumed the role of “The Ardent Seeker,” refuse to accept the bomb squad’s approach: 

“They had a perfectly good house or car. They could have saved it and maybe helped the homeless or poor” or “They could have auctioned it off and given the processed to charity.” 

Right, and in the process, the squad or neighbors may have been annihilated. 

Annihilation among “non-realized” humans is usually a result of the beliefs in their minds. Their minds are far more dangerous than the houses and cars which are detonated by bomb squads.

Better that a house or car  go, and better that the mind go. 

I was invited to speak for an hour and a half to 300 or so people about reaching that no-mind, no-beliefs, no-thinking state, but when at the end an opportunity was offered to ask questions, the first question asked was: 

“How does Floyd think about the Holy Spirit?” 

Really?

I did not answer “Where in the hell have you been? Did you miss 89 of the 90 minutes of the discussion of the ways by which one can reach a no-mind, no-beliefs, no-thinking state?” 

But what flashed into the consciousness was a passage I’d heard most of my life about what happened when Yeshu’a ("Jesus") saw that, after years of discussing non-duality with his disciples, what they said and did exposed the fact that they really didn’t grasp a damn thing he’d been talking about. 

His reaction was reported thusly: 

“And Jesus wept.” 

No joke. I'm not surprised that he did so.

I did not reply, “I just told you I have no beliefs, so that would exclude any chance that I believe in some “Holy Spirit”; additionally, I just told you as well that I have no mind so I cannot think at all about a “Holy Spirit” or any other concept dreamed up by ignorant and controlling sleep-walking and sleep-talking men of ages past who abided when ignorance was widespread and wisdom was all but absent. 

Instead, I used the opportunity to explain why “God” and “the Holy Spirit” etc. might be more accurately perceived if seen as a verb rather than a noun. (See the part in green text below.) 

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 their god / their 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.] 

Here's 

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or 

You can click on video "Number Ten" in the upper right-hand column on this page. 

If preferred, here's 

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THE NON-DUALITY MESSAGE HAS LONG BEEN WIDESPREAD BUT IT HAS SELDOM BEEN UNDERSTOOD EITHER THEN OR NOW

TODAY'S CONSIDERATIONS

ANNOUNCEMENTS 

1. [See the offer in gold text following this post for details on how you can watch a retreat on video which includes a detailed discussion of all seven of the steps on the path as used by Maharaj] 

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. 

At the request of some visitors, further discussion or explanation of some of the Maharaj pointers shared recently is being provided. 

A DEEPER LOOK AT SOME OF THE POINTERS OFFERED BY SRI NISARGADATTA MAHARAJ 

Of the lies which the “non-realized” cling to, Maharaj said: 

32. "After the information given to you by the mother, that you are a boy or girl, all your further acquisitions are by hearsay” and 

33. “When the birth is disproved, the great noble meaning of spirituality and the meaning of this world—everything—is disproved” and 

34. “Whatever spiritual things you aspire to know are all happening in this objective world, in the illusion. All this is happening in the objective world. All is dishonesty. There is no truth in this fraud” and 

35. “Whatever you have tried to understand during your spiritual search will prove false” and 36. “I have no faith in anything which has ever been told, not even what has been told by the Vedas. Only my own experience.” 

Maharaj said: 

“Enlightenment acts like a burning match in a heap of saw dust. A spark of truth can burn up a mountain of lies. The opposite is also true, meaning the sun of truth can remain hidden behind the cloud.” 

Consider two recent headlines in the U.S.: 

“THE PRESIDENT HAS MADE MORE THAN 10,000 FALSE OR MISLEADING CLAIMS” 

vs. 

“THE PRESIDENT’S SUPPORTERS SAY, “I LIKE HIM BECAUSE HE TELLS THE TRUTH” 

Presidential supporter and advisor Steve Bannon leaked a broader administration strategy for dispensing with facts: “The real opposition is the media, and the way to deal with them is to flood the zone with shit.” 

Their "flood of shit" (that is, their preponderance of lies), along with the ignorance which allows the masses to believe that lies are truth, is not new. The examples offered in the contrasting headlines above are merely current ones and are not totally unique, historically-speaking (the quantity of so many lies coming nowadays from one, single source notwithstanding).

The facts show that lying and ignorance and the inability (or unwillingness) to differentiate between the truth and falsehoods are global, and history shows that their presence is timeless as well. 

Above all else, the non-dual understanding confronts learned ignorance and provides a means by which the lies and distortions stored in humans’ minds can be purged in order to allow persons to be able to accurately differentiate between the true and the false. 

Maharaj’s quotes above challenge the prevalence of false information, hearsay, the distortions which the masses believe have meaning, falsehoods, and blind faith which prevents the questioning of lies if told by an authority figure. 

Maharaj said that “ . . . enlightenment acts like a burning match in a heap of saw dust. A spark of truth can burn up a mountain of lies. The opposite is also true,” meaning “the sun of truth” can “remain hidden behind the cloud.” 

Maharaj explained that “humanity’s problem lies in the misuse of the mind only.” 

He said, “The way to truth lies through the destruction of the false. To destroy the false, you must question your most inveterate beliefs.” 

Yet . . . 

who is willing to question beliefs if they have been convinced that to question beliefs can result in their being cast into their religion’s version of hell / eternal punishment forever? 

Who is willing to question lies if the liar is working behind to scenes to shift wealth from others to them? 

Who is willing to question lies if both the listener and the liar are fanatics who seemingly share common values? 

Who is willing to question beliefs which are rooted in the fears and desires of false personality identifications which are forever engaged in trying to sustain their false identities and the false image presented on a daily basis in public? 

Actors who lives are nothing more than a series of falsehoods being asserted from the stage of “The Theatre of the Lie” where they abide will feel certain that their very being is threatened if they should abandon the beliefs which support the inveterate (ingrained, entrenched) lies which their ego-states are willing to defend to the death in order to keep their illusions and self-delusions in tact. 

Maharaj said that it is imprisonment in the mind - which stores the belief in “false selves, false ideas and desires - which leads to bondage”. Regarding that, he said, “Liberation is of the self from its false ideas.” 

He said: “All is a play in consciousness [which happens on the stage of the Theater of the Lie.] All divisions are illusory. You can know the false only. The true you must yourself be.” 

He said that, in the beginning, “Deliberate daily exercise in discrimination between the true and the false and renunciation of the false” is required.

Once free of the mind, then nothing "deliberate" is required. All will happen spontaneously, and that includes recognizing falsehoods instantly and rejecting the false as soon as it is heard. 

He advised, “See the false as false.” Easier said than done, yes? Especially if one’s false ego-states believe that attaching to lies and liars can “benefit” them, protect them, alleviate their fears, and fulfill their desires. 

At the very heart of the willingness of the masses to accept and cling to and defend lies and liars are mirages, images, and false identifications which have all have agendas – often hidden – and which inspire them to set aside even the slightest inclination to prefer truth over lies. 

Thus, Maharaj and the sages before and after him focused on lies and the need of humankind to be able and willing to differentiate between the true and the false and to cast aside the false. 

Why have sages even needed to say that? Should it not be obvious? Yes. Is it, to the sleepwalking masses? No. 

Their desire and willingness to believe lies is rooted in their self-serving agendas, in agendas which serve all of the many false selves which they have been assigned or which they have assumed. 

Why else are the masses so willing to believe lies? 

According to Dr. David Feldman, there are many reasons, some of which he discussed in an article published in “Psychology Today”: 

Availability Heuristic 

The reason most of us believe non-truths is because of "the availability heuristic," a mental shortcut that can lead us to overestimate the frequency of an event when that event is more “available” or vivid in our memory. 

Emotional Intoxication 

Whether we like it or not, all of us can be powerfully swayed by emotions. Sometimes we end up using our reasoning ability (or lack thereof) to justify or defend a conclusion that we’ve already drawn based on our emotions. This phenomenon can lead us astray without our ever knowing. 

Confirmation Bias 

Once we have a belief, we tend to cling to it, even when it’s untrue. The confirmation bias is the tendency to seek out information that supports what we already believe. (Thus, many only watch newscasts which are biased and which use their bias to reinforce the false beliefs of viewers.) 

Feelings (Actually, again, Emotions) over Facts

“It’s easy to unconsciously buy into beliefs that feel right, even though they’re not.” 

Such beliefs are behind the biases involving race and skin color, sexual preferences, religion, spirituality, nationality, and all other duality-based beliefs. 

Again, two of Maharaj’s key recommendations: 

“Have no faith in what you hear or read. Question everything.” 

and 

Seek “enlightenment which can act like a burning match in a heap of saw dust and can burn up a mountain of lies.” 

Will many ever heed that advice? Not likely. Not likely at all. 

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 their god / their 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.] 

Here's 

the direct link to the VIDEO VERSION 

of the "Awakening Together" satsang session with Regina and Jacqueline referenced earlier, 18 MARCH 2018 

or 

You can click on video "Number Ten" in the upper right-hand column on this page. 

If preferred, here's 

the direct link to the AUDIO VERSION 

of that session.

THE NON-DUALITY MESSAGE HAS LONG BEEN WIDESPREAD BUT IT HAS SELDOM BEEN UNDERSTOOD EITHER THEN OR NOW

TODAY'S CONSIDERATIONS

ANNOUNCEMENTS 

1. [See the offer in gold text following this post for details on how you can watch a retreat on video which includes a detailed discussion of all seven of the steps on the path as used by Maharaj] 

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. 

X3. 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. 

At the request of some visitors, further discussion or explanation of some of the Maharaj pointers shared recently is being provided. 

A DEEPER LOOK AT SOME OF THE POINTERS OFFERED BY SRI NISARGADATTA MAHARAJ 

This point has been offered in posting for over 14 years and in satsang starting 30 years ago: 

No belief can exists without that which is at its core: belief. 

Of the lies which the “non-realized” cling to, Maharaj said: 

32. "After the information given to you by the mother, that you are a boy or girl, all your further acquisitions are by hearsay” and 

33. “When the birth is disproved, the great noble meaning of spirituality and the meaning of this world—everything—is disproved.” 

and 

34. “Whatever spiritual things you aspire to know are all happening in this objective world, in the illusion. All this is happening in the objective world. All is dishonesty. There is no truth in this fraud” 

and 

35. “Whatever you have tried to understand during your spiritual search will prove false” 

and 

36. “I have no faith in anything which has ever been told, not even what has been told by the Vedas. Only my own experience.” 

37. “Each must say ‘I am’ and realize it. There is no you, and there is no me, as individual entities. Until the ‘I am’ thought was there, there was no manifestation; both came about simultaneously.” 

“Until the ‘I am’ thought was there, there was no manifestation”? Exactly. 

Some believe they lived a previous life with their god prior to their “birth” and believe that their “purpose” had been determined and defined before their “birth.” 

A woman wrote, “I believe that each of us is guided by a Sacred Contract that our soul made before we were born.” 

So there's quite a belief.

A slogan, dreamed up by the advertising agency Young & Rubicam goes back many decades. It was meant to promote the United Negro College Fund scholarship program for black students. The slogan was: 

“A mind is a terrible thing to waste.” 

For the sake of accuracy, the “realized” would change (a) the punctuation and (b) one word and then restate the slogan this way: 

“A mind is a terrible thing, a waste.” 

The following considerations are offered in the book 

FREEDOM FROM BELIEFS

How has the "mind" evolved from its original purpose of storing survival-related, retrievable data to its present state of storing distorting, deluding, misleading, fooling, peace-robbing, harmony-destroying, happiness-blocking beliefs which in many cases amount to nothing but nonsense? 

The "mind" is made of several parts of the brain where information can be stored and retrieved, originally used as a "constructive" tool for survival; now, it is a destructive force that drives nonsensical behaviors that are based in nonsensical thoughts generated by the "mind." 

What types of information are stored there? Ideas, concepts and beliefs, beliefs that were set in place by programming and conditioning and domestication and acculturation and brainwashing and indoctrination. 

Everything stored in the "mind" is an illusion because it is an area now used for storing an entire network of belief systems that are generated from the dreamed up "-ism's" that are valued by cultures and societies but that are based in non-facts rather than facts. 

It is the area of the brain that accepts beliefs such as "I am this" and "I am that," and the false personas that are mistakenly believed to identify who you are will subconsciously drive thoughts and words and deeds, removing all ability to choose and resulting in the non-Realized masses being driven by agendas that are stored in the fictitious "mind." 

Moreover, the persons being driven have no clue at all about what the hidden agendas are and how they block any opportunity to be awake, aware, conscious, sane, reasonable, rational, and to be in charge of what they say, what they do, and how they traverse the relative existence. 

And all the while, they are convinced that their beliefs give their relative existence some worth and value and purpose and meaning and direction and power and control. 

To see the actual effects of one's beliefs, to be able to look back objectively and to realize that every destructive and insane act was based in one or more beliefs, is to ease the transition away from belief-based ignorance and belief-based insanity and to pave the way for being free of living under the influence of "their" ideas and concepts and beliefs that have been driving "you" in ways that have not proven to be to your benefit at all - relatively speaking. 

The unblocked consciousness gives no credibility to concepts or ideas or attitudes (i.e., beliefs). It understands the unicity; conversely, the conceptual, blocked consciousness erroneously accepts beliefs and takes the perceived multiplicity to be real. 

The unblocked consciousness, being free of delusion and illusion, allows for the abidance as the Absolute. Then, even the concepts / pointers offered by “non-dualists” will have been transcended. 

Years and years of the accumulated mental and emotional and spiritual garbage of the culture can be tossed . . . and tossed without concern, without dread, without any sense of loss. Later, it will be realized that it wasn’t even tossed because there is no “tosser.” 

The "mind" has been filled with fiction; with lies; with beliefs that are based not at all in fact; with beliefs that have never been questioned; 

and with beliefs that have been accepted with no evidence at all but have been accepted on "blind faith" alone. 

Among the masses, the contents of the "mind" are now held in such esteem that people are willing to fight for those beliefs or - in some cases - are even willing to die in a fight over those beliefs. 

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 their god / their 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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The point in this series is that the non-dual message has long been widespread but has seldom been understood either then or now. 

At the request of some visitors, further discussion or explanation of some of the Maharaj pointers shared recently is being provided. 

A DEEPER LOOK AT SOME OF THE POINTERS OFFERED BY SRI NISARGADATTA MAHARAJ 

28. “That mind-language will talk only about the impressions it has collected. The knowledge ‘I Am’ is not a thought but observes the thoughts.” 

29. [Emphasizing that you are not the body]: “When you travel in a car, are you the car?” 

30. "There are two witnessing stages." 

31. “At the time of the emotions, you were one with the emotions—you were not witnessing.” 

Those four pointers from Maharaj might seem to deal with several dissimilar issues, but it will be shown today that they are all connected. 

This was shared three years ago on this site: 

“Among ‘the realized,’ there is a vocabulary of realization,’ a vocabulary of freedom from ignorance, a vocabulary of restoration to sanity, a vocabulary of speaking sensibly rather than talking nonsensically, and a tendency to use any vocabulary minimally.” 

In the West, there is much talk about one’s right to his or her freedom of speech; there was a time in the East when freedom from speech was widely valued. Now, freedom from speech is no longer commonplace in any geographic locale but instead happens only with the few that have “realized,” that is, per Maharaj, that have been freed of all beliefs in “learned ignorance,” that have been freed of all taught “stupidity,” and have been freed of all imposed “insanity.” 

Also among "the realized," if speaking happens, then it happens only with the use of that “vocabulary of realization,” a vocabulary which contains words drawn from "the universal consciousness” with its vocabulary which is used only by those that are sane and exact and clear-seeing and clear-speaking. 

Cesar Millan said of humans that they are not only being deceived but are also practicing self-deception: 

“Denial, they say, stands for ‘Don’t even notice I am lying.’ Human beings are the only animals who are happily lied to by our own minds about what is actually happening around us” (and who are happily lied to by others and will then accept those lies as truth). 

Nine years ago, the following was shared on this site: 

Maharaj shared pointers in regards to the use of certain words and language, touting exactness in word choice even as he endorsed silence over talk. [As the silence becomes the typical marker among “the realized," there are fewer and fewer words used at all, but the ones used never support any “notions of two-ness” and always support the “not-two” understanding instead.] 

He told one visitor to the loft, 

“We are not speaking the same language. Yours is a make-believe talk [which] all hangs on suppositions and assumptions. You speak with assurance about things you are not sure of.” 

He said to another: 

“You want me to live your life, feel your way, use your language. I cannot, and it will not help you. You must come to me. Words are of the mind and the mind obscures and distorts. Hence the absolute need to go beyond words and move over to my side” 

and to a third:

“How misleading is your language!” 

and to a fourth:

“Mine is a silent language. Learn to listen and understand.” 

He also said: “I have no objection to the conventions of your language, but they distort and destroy reality.” 

Consider this exchange: 

Maharaj: “You have invented words like effort, inner, outer, self, etc. and seek to impose them on reality. Things just happen to be as they are, but we want to build them into a pattern, laid down by the structure of our language. So strong is this habit that we tend to deny reality to what cannot be verbalized. We just refuse to see that words are mere symbols, related by convention and habit to repeated experiences.” 

Questioner: “What is the value of spiritual books?” 

M: “They help in dispelling ignorance. They are useful in the beginning, but become a hindrance in the end. One must know when to discard them.” 

Ruiz also spoke of “being impeccable with your word,” a pointer offered by many that have shared wisdom throughout many millennia. 

Maharaj made clear that the vocabulary of the “non-realized” is the language of thoughts . . . of “impressions”; that it cannot be used to point to truth; and that it always flows from a warped mind. 

He noted that among the “non-realized,” “the mind shapes the language and the language shapes the mind” and said that “language is an instrument of the mind; it is made by the mind, for the mind” and again, “words are of the mind and the mind obscures and distorts.” 

“That mind-language will talk only about the impressions it has collected. The knowledge ‘I Am’ is not a thought but observes the thoughts.” 

Therefore, the mind-language he referenced can only express distortions and lies; only if the universal consciousness is speaking through a composite unity with unblocked conscious-energy can there be a pointing toward clear perspectives and truth. 

Thus his query: “When you travel in a car, are you the car?” 

The conscious-energy travels about, temporarily, in an elemental plant food body, but that does not mean that there is any “one” who “has” consciousness. The word “you” can refer to that which is presently capable of witnessing, but that should not be assumed to be an identification. 

Next, "There are two witnessing stages." 

In one case, the consciousness witnesses inaccurately because of blockages set in place by nonsensical programming, conditioning, etc. 

In the other case, which can only manifest after realization (that is, after all belief in learned ignorance has been removed and after all insane beliefs have been discarded and after all personality disorders and neuroses and psychoses have been transitioned) only then can the consciousness witness purely and accurately, only then can clear perspectives happen, only then can feeling happen without constantly emoting and being emotionally-intoxicated at all times, and only then can an accurate differentiation between the truth and the false occur.

“At the time of the emotions, you were one with the emotions—you were not witnessing.” 

Or, “you were not witnessing clearly and accurately and sanely.” 

The “non-realized” cannot see either so-called "phenomenal things" or so-called "Noumenal things" as they are but are instead only capable of viewing everything in the warped manner in which they were erroneously taught to see them. 

If realization happens, pure witnessing will follow and it will be understood that there is no you-ness, no You-ness, nor any other kind of identification; only then will the vocabulary of realization be used; and only then can its words point to clarity and truth. 

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 their god / their 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.] 

Here's 

the direct link to the VIDEO VERSION 

of the "Awakening Together" satsang session with Regina and Jacqueline referenced earlier, 18 MARCH 2018 

or 

You can click on video "Number Ten" in the upper right-hand column on this page. 

If preferred, here's 

the direct link to the AUDIO VERSION 

of that session.