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In Step One on “the path,” the non-dual pointers offered by an awake, aware, and conscious guide can direct the ready and willing seeker beyond the distortion of body identification; in Step Two, the non-dual pointers offered by an awake, aware, and conscious guide can direct the ready and willing seeker away from the adulation and exaltation of the content stored in a human of mind and further the movement away from bogus beliefs;
And in Step Three, the non-dual pointers offered by an awake, aware, and conscious guide can direct the ready and willing seeker beyond the distortion of personal identification and can lay a foundation for questioning the most revered and honored and admired and venerated “Identities” - including “The Super Religious One,” “The Spiritual Giant” and / or “the Super Seeker” - (which are frequently used and abused for the sake of doing whatever one wants and then getting her or his slate cleaned by some so-called "forgiving other-worldly Power” or “forgiving Higher Power” or “forgiving Will of the Universe,” whatever, simply for the asking).
If all personal identifications which persons believe identify them are discarded, and if all thought-to-be Special Identities which are believed to be “Supreme” or “Infinite” or “God-like” or “Brahma-like” or “Ishvara-like” or “Shiva-like” or “Vishnu-like” etc., etc., etc., near-ad-infinitum” are discarded, then one can return to that early, post-manifestation Child Ignorance State or No-Knowing Stage when the no-identity condition existed and thus allowed the freedom and unconditional contentment of that zero-concepts, no-beliefs state to happen.
To review:
THE CHILD IGNORANCE STATE OR THE NO-KNOWING STAGE
Maharaj: “From the Absolute no-knowing state, spontaneously, this consciousness ‘I am’ has appeared—there is no reason, no cause”
and
“From my angle, you are nothing. You have no identity.”
After completion of the first and second and third steps on “the path,” what is to be realized next:
U. Among persons, only a child - existing in a pre-programming, pre-conditioning state - will witness without judgment, without thoughts, and without beliefs (including those based in duality).
For adults to be able to witness without judgment, without thoughts, and without beliefs based in duality requires a shift “back” to the state of "child ignorance" by casting aside all of the nonsense which has been generated by conditioning and programming and acculturation and domestication and indoctrination and brainwashing.
Nothing is more at peace than a healthy child if its physical needs have been met and if it is free of contaminants. As long as health and food and shelter requirements have been met, perfect peace happens. Contentment can only happen in that pre-mind state of existence.
Realized, contentment happens as a result of "returning to" that earliest, post-manifestation, no-mind state. That is to say, contentment happens as a result of removing the layers of concepts which obscure consciousness so that it is as available as it was during the brief period of childhood that happened prior to the obscuring and blocking of the consciousness. Why should one who currently takes himself to be "an adult" settle for less contentment than that experienced by "a child"?
That which the Childhood Ignorance State offers - as the consciousness manifests and eventually deteriorates to identification with the "I" - is nothing more than an opportunity to know that you exist, period; therefore, as you take the steps from the "I" to abidance as the Original Nature as happened in the Absolute, this stage is again nothing more than an opportunity for seekers to understand that they simply exist (that is, to know "I AM" and "I AM" only).
A fictional mind during that state had not yet resulted from hearing the lies about who or what you are and had not yet assumed any false role or identity or personality. As a child, all merely happened via natural instinct and body chemistry rather than programming and conditioning.
Here is why worldwide ignorance has not been stamped out and will not be stamped out: persons believe that the planet-wide epidemic of ignorance could be solved if only people would acquire more knowledge. The “non-dualist” understands that the knowledge is the ignorance and that the ignorance is the knowledge.
The ignorance is that which the masses have been taught and have learned, and their ignorance will only be compounded if more of the same type knowledge is injected into the equation. Ignorance could be stamped out if persons were to forfeit their revered ideas and concepts and dogma (a.k.a., "beliefs").
Since that happens so rarely but is a prerequisite for realization, only a few will ever realize (that is, be freed from the bondage of ignorance and be restored to sanity). There is no lever to pull or handle to push that can produce a brain-flush . . . nothing other than the non-duality-based realization process.
(Were the brain to be flushed of all of the concepts / beliefs that fill the "mind," then the peace of the Child Ignorance Stage could happen. Unlike adult-age ignorance, the Child-age Ignorance State - which is of course really a misnomer used only for the sake of discussion - actually refers to the "no-mind," pre-programming, pre-knowledge, pre-ignorance state. Children early on don't really have the ignorance / knowledge that adults must be freed of if they are to return to this former, peaceful stage.)
The level of peace which a child enjoys in that state of "ignorance," prior to programming, conditioning, etc. and prior to being assigned a plethora of false identities, is never realized again in its lifetime, in most cases.
The exceptions are those few seekers that complete the first three steps and then return to that "state" of peace that exists when one is once again free of learned ignorance and free of the influence of the illusions of the body-mind-personality triad.
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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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