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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.)
MORE CLARIFICATIONS FROM MAHARAJ ON THE AM-NESS FROM HIS LATER TALKS
So why realize (always remaining aware of the fact that Maharaj said that “realization is simply being free of all learned ignorance”)?
Consider the following including Maharaj’s pointer explaining what the priority must be if one is to realize fully (that is, be free of all learned ignorance):
Questioner: “When do I know that I have discovered truth?”
Maharaj: “When the idea ‘this is true’, ‘that is true’ does not arise. Truth does not assert itself; it is in the seeing of the false as false and rejecting it. It is useless to search for truth when the mind is blind to the false. It must be purged of the false completely before truth can dawn on it.”
He said, “It is the discarding the false that opens the way to the true”
and
“It is the clinging to the false that makes the true so difficult to see.”
To be rid of believing in the false, there is (1) a long and grueling path that can followed (and it will never purge the mind of all beliefs) or there is (2) a simple, instantaneous way to accomplish the same. Consider:
An adult mind might have thousands and thousands and thousands of false beliefs stored therein. One can set out to try to analyze every belief and test each for validity or lack thereof, or one can take the easier way and purge the mind in one fell swoop by discarding belief in everything one has ever heard or read or been told.
Maharaj spoke of fostering the ability to discriminate between the true and the false and endorsed renunciation of the false.
He also adumbrated relevant points on this subject from the Tao Te Ching which states:
”The tao that can be told
is not the eternal Tao”
and
”The name that can be named
is not the eternal Name”
and
"whatsoever can be said cannot be true."
The wise have long explained that “the truth can be known but cannot be stated.”
Maharaj would go a step further: “You can know the false only.”
Here’s another way that the pointer has been offered:
One doctor who specialized in the treatment of those suffering from the Addictive Personality Disorder said “they cannot after a time differentiate the true from the false.”
More significantly, that does not refer only to the times when they are intoxicated. It refers to all of the time, drunk or not.
More broadly, that has always been, and still remains the case to this day, with the “non-realized masses.
Maharaj: “The only true statement you can make is ‘I am’.”
Moreover, even that can only be true temporarily and can only be true if it is understood that the “I” in “I am” refers only to a composite unity of elements, air, and conscious-energy, not some “one” with a personal identity and not some "one" which can also have a Supreme Identity, either.
How pervasive is the inability among persons to differentiate the true from the false? It is all-pervasive.
Maharaj: “Your ideas are false, for all ideas are false.”
One approach to full realization and to freedom from believing lies which Maharaj offered included this:
“Stay with the changeless among the changeful, until you are able to go beyond.”
Questioner: When will it happen?
Maharaj: “It will happen as soon as you remove the obstacles.”
Q: “Which obstacles?”
M: “Desire for the false and fear of the true.”
Spot on, for the masses have long desired the false over the true. It is and will remain the permanent state for almost all humans.
The antidote? Per Maharaj:
“Awareness is the point at which the mind reaches out beyond itself into reality. In awareness, you seek not what pleases but what is true.”
Maharaj was once asked, “How can we know that what you say is true?” Talk about missing the entire point!
The same has been asked here on many occasions. Talk about missing the entire point!
Here, there has never been a single statement that was intended to be taken as “the truth.” Again, words cannot state the truth. The truth cannot be stated; however, it can be understood, from within, if all of the blockages of the consciousness - set in place by programming, conditioning, etc. - are removed.
Here, of the nearly 3700 posts on this site, there is not so much as even one single statement which is believed to be “a statement of truth.”
Instead, every single statement that had ever been offered was not intended to encourage anyone to believe what is believed here because there is nothing that is believed here.
Every statement, ultimately, is intended to un-teach, to allow visitors to the site to unlearn all of the lies which have been taught and which have been accepted unquestioningly as truth.
So why realize?
(A)In order to be able to differentiate the true and false
(B) in order to no longer be driven by three of the key traits of the Ultimate Sickness, identified by Maharaj as "ignorance, stupidity, and insanity."
Maharaj will be given the final words on today’s subject:
“Do not try to know the truth, for knowledge by the mind is not true knowledge. But you can know what is not true — which is enough to liberate you from the false"
and
The idea that you know what is true is dangerous, for it keeps you imprisoned in the mind”
and
“The ‘true teacher’ will not imprison disciples in a prescribed set of ideas, feelings and actions; on the contrary, he will show them the need to be free from all ideas . . . .”
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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