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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.
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THE THIRD DEGREE OF SEPARATION FROM REALITY:
False Identifications with the Last to Go Being
“The Super Religious One,” “The Spiritual Giant,” and “The Super Seeker”
[Excerpts are from the book FROM THE I TO THE ABSOLUTE which includes transcriptions of talks offered during one of the last series of satsang sessions that I led.]
[Continuing with the topic of the last session discussed in the previous post]
F.: “If freed of the bondage of the illusions of a mind exposed to years of enculturation, you’ll be sane—no longer believing lies to be true. That restoration to sanity activates natural behavior—rather than the subconscious mind or the thinking mind—to conduct one through the relative existence.
[Referencing the events seen in the last post when a man became angry, cursed, screamed, and then walked out of the session because one of his key false identities was being challenged]:
"We just saw a demonstration of why these two roles form their own category of major obstacles on the path. Nothing impedes the shift to the sanity of touching reality like emotional intoxication and the resulting madness that is generated by these two states-of-being . . . of being ‘religious’ or being ‘spiritual.’ [Pause]
“Now, my original intent for this session was to start with a pointer from Maharaj. Actually, his words will probably be even more relevant now than before. Maharaj said, ‘There are so many who take the dawn for noon, [who take] a momentary experience for full realization and destroy even the little they gain by excess of pride.’ Why pride?
“Who, claiming to be a religious person or a spiritual person, will not also claim that he or she is unquestioningly ‘better’ as a result? Typical is the claim, ‘I'm a better person for being religious,’ or ‘I live a better life since becoming a spiritual person.’ The truth is, both are assumed personas, mistaken for the real but nonetheless limiting.”
Questioner 3: “But don’t you think the world does need to be better?”
F.: “My world is perfect. ‘Perfect’ comes from the Greek 'teleios,' meaning ‘complete.’ Christ was not perfect as a result of being without sin. The text said he was teleios . . . complete. He understood his 'completeness' after receiving the non-dual understanding and then demanding, 'When you speak of me, speak of me as I AM.'
"For me, I need nothing. That's ‘perfect,’ meaning complete . . . meaning whole, meaning I'm not fractured into dozens of false identities.
"[In non-dual terms, “perfect” - as with the post-realization "Christ," simply means “absolute” and “complete” and “not missing any ‘parts’ but instead having all that is ‘required’ for natural abidance to happen.” It does not mean - as ego-states supported by egotism believe - “as ‘good’ as it is possible to be” or “completely free of the faults or ‘defects’ which can come during the AM-ness.” To continue]:
“I'm not even two. As we discussed earlier, if you assume a role as an actual identity, you will always be incomplete, will always be missing elements of the understanding, will always be missing out on truths by accepting lies instead, and will not be free because you will be driven by the subconscious agendas of each fear and each desire which comes with each false personality identification. Why?"
Q.3: "You said every role requires another person to play the counterpart. This gentleman [pointing] thinking he had to have a woman willing to play 'wife' for him to exist as 'husband,’ felt incomplete without her."
F.: "Excellent! I am no role that requires a co-dependent partner to complete a false identity. No roles . . . no dependencies. No dependencies . . . no incompletion. I'm whole. I'm . . . 'perfect' in that sense. What's with this imagined need to be better if you're already 'perfect'?"
Q.3: "Finally!" [Pause, then laughter from others] "Well . . . I got it!"
F.: "[Pauses, allowing for full absorption of the awareness. Then . . . ] For most of you, your questions and comments show that your case is different. Instead of being in the world, the world is actually in you, meaning . . . in your mind.
"The world you see is you, projected by you, so it's not whole. It's incomplete and imperfect and fractured. That leaves you with a sense of being unfulfilled—you have unfulfilled desires and imagined fears about the state of 'the world.' You haven't yet lost your mind.”
[When Maharaj said, "You are not in the world - the world is in you," "in you" meant, "in your mind." There are as many views of "the world" as there are humans.]
Q. 3.: “I've spent my entire life up to now thinking the ultimate goal was to be spiritual and to work forever at being better." [Exhales, slowly. Looks down, then to side. Looks up. Shakes head, seeming to reveal a new understanding.]
F.: [Continues to wait, then . . . ] “The religious and spiritual levels are only the beginner’s stage. Those who stop there on the journey haven't even reached a halfway point. If you complete this journey, you’re going to see exactly, step-by-step, how you got from the Absolute state to the false belief that you’re a body.
"And you’re going to see how to get from believing that you're a body to realization of the Absolute. And seeing that complete cycle, then you’re going to understand all the cycles, how the happenings happen over and over and over again.”
Questioner 4: “I'm processing what you said about completion, but I’m still thinking about what he said earlier, [pointing at Q. 3] about making the world better. Don’t you think, over all the years, that religion has helped millions?”
F.: “You love your religious and spiritual identities, don't you? [Pause] Aren't you seeing the relief that's coming to him as he's dropping this burden of working all his life to be better? And imagine the relief that'll come to others around him who won't be dealing with him trying to force them to be better. [Laughter. Q. 3 smiles. Then to Q. 4:]
"You may have reached the end of your road. I suspect you're going to be stuck right here. For me, I deal in facts. I know that millions and millions have died from fighting over religious beliefs, but that’s not the pointer.
"The point is that, when I was assuming religious and spiritual roles—which I played with just as much enthusiasm and anger as that person who walked out of here—I was seeking eternal existence for a body-mind-personality triad. Required was the transitioning beyond the dogma and doctrine and beliefs as well as the continuation of the questioning that ultimately revealed the lies which in turn allowed the truth to be seen in order to be free of fears and desires.
"Until then, I remained trapped in anticipation and regret, focusing on the ‘everlasting fate’ of a personal body. I was seeking the ‘good’ label to earn my reward and working to avoid the ‘bad’ label in order to dodge eternal damnation and punishment. Don’t you see that the religious seeker is still being driven to have his desires fulfilled and to have his fears abated?”
Q 4.: “Aren’t there at least some who are motivated simply by a desire to help?”
F.: “Again with this ‘helping.’ Again with ‘desire.’ An entirely new ego-state is given birth to if one goes out to reform the world and make it a better place. The closest you are to 'complete' right now is being completely trapped in your ego.
"Your words tell me that you really do want to change the world, and that's the height of ego if you think you can. But you're not willing to let dissolve that which is within you that you're projecting as 'the world'."
Q. 4: [Frowns]
F.: "The irony is that anyone seeing a horrible world is simply projecting himself onto what he calls ‘the world.’ And how would the world be a better place via a reformer's religious or spiritual service, according to his beliefs? All would eventually think and feel and behave as dictated by his doctrine. They would live in the image of the reformer. They would think, feel and behave as he does.
"The egotistical belief is that the world would be better if all would just become clones of the reformer. Foster that belief system, and those with contradictory religious views—all trying to compel others to model them—will meet as they travel to the ‘four corners of the earth’ and they will clash at every turn. As those persons go forth, the rest of the people of the world will have their every thought, feeling, and behavior labeled as ‘bad’ or ‘good’ and the misery and destruction of dual-mindedness spreads.
"If you think that the power of a parent's definitions of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ can drive one all his life, imagine the power of believing in a god of duality as he defines what is ‘good’ and what is ‘bad’ and describes in vivid terms exactly what eternal reward or never-ending punishment will look like.
"The no-single-cause understanding will be missed and another concept of a divine plan will be assumed to be the cause. The cause of all is all that has ever happened before, but if you seek a prime cause—or a singular ‘causer’—then a person playing a religious or spiritual role will be glad to fabricate some concept of causation for you or will encourage you to dream up your own.”
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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