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REJECT INSTEAD OF ACCEPT
Maharaj actually recommended a two-prong approach in order to end (1) the calamitous effects of having one’s thoughts and words and actions determined by the nonsense stored in the human mind and to eventually be free of (2) the nonsense-filled mind itself.
First, being free of the calamitous effects of having one’s thoughts and words and actions determined by the nonsense stored in the human mind involves . . .
seeing that concepts, ideas, notions, thoughts, perceptions, theories, views, etc. are all really just one thing, namely “beliefs”;
seeing that all beliefs are stored in the mind;
seeing that you are not the one who came up with what you now mistakenly take to be “your beliefs” and that they are actually “their beliefs,” the beliefs of others, the beliefs of those who programmed, conditioned, domesticated, acculturated, indoctrinated, and brainwashed you into accepting “their beliefs” as “your own” without having ever questioned at all what they taught you; and
seeing that if you want to be wise and sane, you need not learn more and need not let anyone teach you more but, to the contrary, need to be un-taught and need to unlearn it all and then discard all that they taught you, realizing that you do not have a body of valuable knowledge stored in "your" mind but actually instead have a body of learned ignorance which was passed down by them.
Next, to be totally free of the mind, one must also be rid of the mind. How can that state be reached? It’s simple:
Upon seeing that you have no beliefs that you came up with on your own, and understanding that the beliefs which they passed down to you are just myth-and-superstition-and-ignorance-based concepts, ideas, notions, thoughts, perceptions, theories, views, etc., you can determine to purge the mind and reach a state of what Maharaj called “zero-concepts” and therefore abide as every living thing on earth abides - except for humans - under the auspices of the brain rather than under the auspices of a fiction-and-nonsense-filled-mind.
So the key is this:
The understanding requires no additional teaching and no additional learning. It requires questioning it all and it requires being led through an un-teaching process and it requires discarding all that has been learned and eventually un-learning it all. It requires rejection, not more accumulation.
Therefore, consider Maharaj’s advice to reject rather than to blindly accept:
Maharaj on rejecting external sources of “knowledge and beliefs” vs. tapping into the inner resource:
“I do not care what others claimed to know. What do you know?”
Maharaj on rejecting blind faith and the content of so-called “holy books”:
“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 on rejecting spiritual searching:
“Whatever you have tried to understand during your spiritual search will prove false” and "Just give up spirituality" and "Abide naturally" (meaning, not "supernaturally" / “spiritually” and not "unnaturally").
Maharaj on rejecting the intellect / the mind because it will guarantee instability:
“People who depend on the intellect only always will be swinging like a pendulum.”
Maharaj on rejecting all you have been told by parents and all you have been told that is based not in fact but in hearsay:
"After the information given to you by the mother, that you are a boy or girl, all your further acquisitions are by hearsay"
Maharaj on rejecting all that has been used along “the path” or on “the journey”:
"Both the mantra and the faith in the mantra will get dissolved."
Maharaj on rejecting the notion that there is something to gain now and something to gain later:
"There is no progress"
so
Maharaj encouraged rejecting any and all credibility formerly given to concepts, ideas, notions, perceptions, taught knowledge (a.k.a., “learned ignorance”), thoughts, impressions, memories, theories, and views (all of which, when combined, form what is taken to be “your belief systems” which are not "your beliefs" at all but are merely “their beliefs” which have been accepted by you without question.
Maharaj on rejecting all of the above:
"Go to zero concepts."
Maharaj on rejecting any notion that you can finally attain “peace of mind” . . .
. . . if you just work hard enough and long enough or worship enough or study enough holy scriptures or Big Books or go to a church / temple / mosque / synagogue regularly or visit enough holy sites or go to enough retreats or listen to enough talks or visit enough holy men or read and accumulate enough books by “Big Name Teachers” or refuse to eat certain foods or wear special clothes or wear a special hairdo or have no hair at all or attend enough meetings or listen to enough speakers at speaker meetings or hang out with enough religious people or hang out with enough spiritual people or go into complete isolation and drop out and mentally dissociate.
That's all nonsense.
Peace begins when mental imprisonment ends.
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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