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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
To complete the discussion of the non-dual, Nisargan take on “God,” we’ll review some of the pointers offered by Maharaj, some of the pointers offered by Floyd, and then we'll allow a Christian pastor to have the last word.
Maharaj
"First of all you identify something as being good or bad for yourself. Then, in an effort to acquire good or to get rid of the bad, you have invented a God. Then you worship such a God and . . . you pray to that God for something good to happen to you."
“You think God knows you? Even the world He does not know.”
“You pray to save one, while thousands die. And if all stop dying, there will be no space on earth.”
“The way to truth lies through the destruction of the false. To destroy the false, you must question your most inveterate beliefs. Of these the idea that you are the body is the worst. With the body comes the world, with the world - God, who is supposed to have created the world and thus it starts: fears, religions, prayers, sacrifices, all sorts of systems, all to protect and support the child-man, frightened out of his wits by monsters of his own making. Realize that what you are cannot be born nor die and with the fear gone all suffering ends.”
Henderson
The two most disastrous results of the planets' religions on their followers are these:
1. They inspire a duality-based sense of separation which has led to millions being killed in the name of God during the conflicts they have started throughout history.
2. They train their members from early on to engage in magical thinking and distorted thinking, teaching that fictional myths and fictional stories and fictional superstitions are actually true and are based in fact.
Moreover, three religions in particular worship the same God yet they have generated the most religion-based fighting as they have historically waged war against each other. Here’s the background:
A man referred to as “Abraham,” originally “Abram,” is the common patriarch of what has been called “the three Abrahamic religions”: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
For thousands of years, in spite of the fact that all three religions reportedly worship “the God of Abraham,” the first two have been fighting and killing each other. For the last 1400 years, Islam has joined in to fight Jews and Christians in addition to having their own internal fights between their two rival sects.
Christians have a similar history of infighting as Protestants and Catholics killed each other for centuries and still believe that the other religion is not Christian at all.
Even as the members of all three religions worship the same God, their centuries-long battles have been over their “messiahs” / “saviors” / “prophets” (Moses vs. Yeshu’a / Jesus vs. Mohamed) as well as the differing dogma in their varied “holy books.”
While worshiping the one same God they share in common, they are divided by their devotion to three different prophets and the content of three different books.
That division has resulted in millions of people having died in religious wars, so those who claim that their religion provides a surefire method for bringing "peace on earth," the facts do not support their assertion.
Again, in addition to generating religion-based fighting, they all influence children to develop magical and distorted thinking, teaching that fictional myths and fictional stories and fictional superstitions are actually true.
The result? The approximately six billion, seven-hundred-and-ninety million people on the planet who claim an affiliation with one organized religion or another are functioning under the auspices of blind faith and unquestioning acceptance of their belief systems and are being driven by emotional intoxication and a denunciation of scientific facts.
From yesterday:
Now, if you can train up children to become adults who will unquestioningly believe all of the nonsense dreamed up by authority figures, then you will also have an adult population who will vote for a dictatorial, sociopathic, psychopathic leader to be the head of their nation and who will be driven by a host outrageously self-destructive tendencies (relatively speaking, of course).
Dr. Jim Rigby
Finally, a Christian pastor will be given the last word on the notion held by billions that humans have been created by a male God “in his own image,” making him physically a humanoid with ears and eyes and a torso and arms and legs and, psychologically, having the ability to become so angry that he is capable of killing almost everyone on earth while also being driven by a desire to be praised and worshipped and adored by everyone on earth.
The pastor is Dr. Jim Rigby, the only Christian in the last 50 years whom I have mentioned as someone seekers might enjoy listening to . . . or not.
He is the pastor of St. Andrews
Presbyterian Church in North Austin, Texas and has a most unique interpretation of the true meaning of the themes found in the Bible.
Those interpretations have led some to label Jim "The Wisest Man on the Planet Today" and others to label him "The Anti-Christ." So it is when one points to the truth.
[As regulars here are aware, the view is that "The truth will set you free but it's going to piss you off first." That has sometimes been the reaction to Jim throughout his career by those not ready to know the truth.]
He and I talked a week ago for a few minutes before he presented his sermon and once again he expressed his take on the efficacy of non-dual pointers, many of which are often included in his weekly messages.
For those who might be interested, Dr. Rigby will be given the final word on the recent topic involving persons' "concept of God" and their beliefs about "God":
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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