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YOU ARE NOT THE MIND
Many seekers never make it beyond the challenge of completing the second step on the reverse “path” where they must understand that the human mind shifted from being an asset to being a liability and, therefore, must be discarded.
“But what would that discarding leave?” most ask.
The reply: “All of the rest of the rest of the brain which is elemental and natural, as opposed to the mind which has become totally unnatural.”
Originally, human-like “beings” had no "mind part" of the brain. They abided under the auspices of the brain only. Later, they would abide under the auspices of a mind focused on survival. Eventually, they would abide – as is the case nowadays - under the auspices of a nonsense-filled, irrational mind which is bent on self-destruction rather than survival.
Early on, the adult human brain had a one-cup size, and the parts of the brain now referred to as “the mind” - where information could be stored and from which information could be retrieved – did not exist.
It was not until the adult human brain evolved from its original one-cup size to its present 3-1/2 cup size that any human ever had "a mind," that is, ever had those areas of the brain where information could be stored and from which information could be retrieved.
So a part of the brain is now capable of storing and retrieving information, and once that part of the mind became filled with nonsense via programming, conditioning, etc., a nonsense-filled mind formed.
But earlier, for many years, the information stored in the mind and recalled on occasion was, in terms of the relative existence, an asset because it facilitated the survival of the species.
The earliest version of "the mind" was originally an asset for humanity when it was filled with facts, such as when Thorson witnessed Rickback fall off a cliff and break into pieces on the rocks below and then Thorson stored in the mind-part of his brain the intuitive message, “Take caution around the edges of cliffs. The potential is an event which will not contribute to the survival of the species.”
Now, however, as a result of distorted and nonsensical programming, conditioning, domestication, acculturation, indoctrination and brainwashing, the mind - as Maharaj made clear in multiple warnings - is a liability.
The reason that Maharaj suggested that “ . . . You should go back, reverse, to the source” and “Follow the same path by which you came” is because it was during the “coming in leg” when foolishness was added, when, historically, each child is exposed to the hand-me-down ignorance and insanity which is being passed down to all children and which relocates them mentally and emotionally to the Land of Suckerdom where most of them will spend the rest of the manifestation.
The “realization” process, Maharaj said, is about nothing more than taking the steps required to be free of all of the learned ignorance which has taught.
It has been shown repeatedly on this site that "The Causes of the Ultimate Sickness" become "The Symptoms of the Ultimate Sickness" to the degree that "The Causes" (distorted and nonsensical programming, conditioning, domestication, acculturation, indoctrination and brainwashing") result in the passing down from one generation to the next the symptoms of the Sickness which Maharaj identified as "ignorance, stupidity, and insanity." Then, once the symptoms manifest in one generation, then those symptoms become the cause of the Sickness being passed down to the next generation.
So the transmission of the Ultimate Sickness now involves entrapment in a cycle of nonsense and what Maharaj called "learned ignorance."
You may have heard someone report something like this: "Well, my son brought home the crud from school, he passed it on the sickness to his brother and sister, they passed the illness to me, and I passed it on to my husband. We're all sick as can be."
The same happens with the Ultimate Sickness except it starts with the adults. What do their distorted and nonsensical programming, conditioning, domestication, acculturation, indoctrination and brainwashing generate? A crud-filled mind, now passed down to everyone.
Thus, this is a key point in understanding what the Sickness is about and how it is to be treated:
If persons were to all become reasonable and rationale in a flash, they would see that the greatest challenge being faced but ignored all around the globe is persons being fooled and then all acting the way that those playing the role of "The Complete Fool" act.
Maharaj said: "There is no such thing as peace of mind.”
I added: “There is only peace if you are out of your mind” which is actually “their mind” which has been “transplanted” into your head.
Yet seekers have told me, “What you’re asking us to do at the second step, to be rid of the mind, is . . .
“impossible”;
“a totally stupid idea”;
and / or
“insane in itself.”
In fact, it was quite easy for me to get rid of the mind once I realized how grand a liability it was. It was actually very simple after I realized that there is no such thing as “my mind.” There is only “their mind” which was passed on to me and which became stored in certain parts of my brain.
I had to realize that I did not come up with what is in “my mind.” THEY did.
Even as a child I was able to witness “my parents” and their “adult friends” and “their relatives” who became “my relatives” and I was able to see astounding levels of the “ignorance and stupidity and insanity” which Maharaj referred to as symptoms of the Ultimate Sickness.
They proudly self-identified as “East Texas rednecks.” They lied. They talked crazy s**t. They were religious hypocrites. They were more often than not white supremacists.
They were right-wing, religious fanatics whose blind faith led them to believe without any questioning at all every word of their Southern Baptist Evangelical preacher’s literal interpretation of everything in their supposedly holy book. And they were violent if their beliefs were challenged (which I often did).
Even as a five-year old and a six-year-old child, I was calling BS on their “Great Flood” tale, on their “survived three days in the belly of a whale” tale, and on their “all humans come from one man, one woman, and one son who killed his brother” tale (“So who did the remaining son have sex with to keep the baby-making deal going?”)
When I questioned all of that (and more), I became the rebellious target of their anger and violence.
When I “disrupted” Ms. Myrtle’s Sunday School class by challenging the nonsensical stories being passed on as truth, my dad would be called and I would be taken home and forced to drop my jeans and would be whipped with the buckle end of a U.S. Navy belt left over from my dad’s WWII uniform. (Such was the result of his belief in the “Spare the rod and spoil the child” rule in his "holy book.")
When my sister saw the violent practice about to begin once again, she would go to the bathroom and collect the cotton balls and alcohol which she would use to rub down the bleeding wounds on my back and legs after the administering of dad’s punishment for my having the audacity to question “the holy word.”
All of that is what I witnessed and experienced as a child as a result of “their minds” and “their beliefs stored therein.” Seeing all of that, it became easy for me to discard what had been thought to be “my mind” which I came to see was not my mind at all. It was a mind which had been made by pumping it full of the ignorance and stupidity and insanity which filled their minds.
But what about you? Many cannot relate to all of the events I experienced early on, but all were programmed, conditioned, etc.
One should not have to go through such extreme events as described above in order to also be able to see that (1) much of what everyone is taught is total nonsense, rooted in ignorance, stupidity and insanity and to see that (2) the mind is a cesspool of dimness and darkness and denseness.
Yet egotism about how great one’s parents are or were leads to the conclusion, “Hey, screw you Floyd. They obviously did a helluva of a job – look how well I turned out” and that arrogance-based belief leads most to cling to all that was passed down to them.
I communicated recently with a professional baseball player whose story includes being driven from early on, getting the big pro contract, playing on a team that was a contender, bringing in millions, ultimately being unfulfilled, throwing it all away to become a janitor, then finding the non-dual message, and now playing once more but as "a free agent."
That should be the story of everyone. You were programmed, conditioned, etc. to do what “they” wanted. You tried it their way or you’re still trying it their way. Yet one who does what "they" want is not free, and one who is not free cannot be happy. Ask anyone locked away in prison. Or ask anyone locked away in “their mind,” in the mind of others, and being driven by their nonsensical beliefs.
See, when it comes to ending the suffering and the misery and the pain of following the dictates of a mind that is not even your own, you must become a free agent . . . free of “their” influence. That would be the goal for all who are sane.
Are you really willing to become a free agent, or do you want to continue to live under their influence, really being nothing more than “their agent,” an agent of their will, trying to please others and do what others expect, even though their minds are cesspools of nonsense?
Again, “There is no such thing as peace of mind”
and
“There is only peace if you are out of your mind” meaning – actually – out of the control and influence of “their” mind.
So what else did Maharaj have to say about the mind specifically?
WHAT HE SAID:
"All illness begins in the mind."
"Your confusion is . . . in your mind."
"Whatever is conceived by the mind must be false, for it is bound to be relative and limited."
"Distrust your mind, and go beyond."
"There is no chaos in the world except the chaos which your mind creates."
" . . . The mind obscures and distorts."
"It is the mind that creates illusion."
"There is no such thing as peace of mind. Mind means disturbance. Restlessness itself is mind."
"Don't rely on your mind for liberation. It is the mind that brought you into bondage. Go beyond it altogether."
"Beyond the mind there is no suffering."
So if the problem centers in the mind, and since a sick mind - obviously - cannot heal a sick mind, then what is the solution, per Maharaj?
"Stop making use of your mind and see what happens."
"Learn to separate yourself from the image and the mirror. Keep on remembering: I am neither the mind nor its ideas."
"There is no such thing as mind. There are ideas . . . ."
"Abandon the wrong ideas, for they are false and obstruct your vision . . . ."
"The death of the mind is the birth of wisdom."
"To know that you are a prisoner of your mind - that you live in an imaginary world of your own creation - is the dawn of wisdom."
"I have no mind . . . ."
Want to be free of the mind? Maharaj advised, then . . .
"Reach a state of zero-concepts."
"As to my mind, I have no such thing. There is consciousness in which everything happens."
"I am double dead: not only am I dead to my body, but to my mind, too."
"I find I have lost the mind irretrievably."
[If the mind goes, then peace comes, and if peace comes, then going and doing and zooming and racing about also go.]
WHAT HE DID NOT SAY AT THE END:
"Your confusion is a result of the fact that you have accumulated too little knowledge of dogma."
"Your confusion is a result of the fact that you have a spiritual malady and are not spiritual enough."
"Your confusion is a result of the fact that you have not completed the entire Self-Inquiry process."
NOR DID HE SAY AT THE END:
"There is no chaos in the world except the chaos which comes from having accumulated too little knowledge of dogma.”
"There is no chaos in the world except the chaos which comes from people not being spiritual enough."
"There is no chaos in the world except the chaos which comes from not knowing the Supreme Self."
NOR DID HE SAY AT THE END:
"To know that you are a prisoner of your ignorance of religion and of your inadequate knowledge of dogma is the dawn of wisdom."
"To know that you are a prisoner of your sick spirit, of your spiritual malady, is the dawn of wisdom."
"To know that you are a prisoner of your insufficient understanding of the Supreme Self is the dawn of wisdom."
Consider: Being mindless is far from a detriment. The content of the mind blocks one from tapping into the pure universal consciousness. To be mindless is to be able to tap into the pure universal consciousness, is to be able to tap into full awareness, is to be able to tap into the understanding of the functioning of the totality, and is to be able to tap into the true wisdom accessible via the "inner guru."
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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