MAHARAJ'S FINAL PLAN: REALIZE WITHOUT DOGMA, WITHOUT CONTINUOUS SPIRITUAL PRACTICES, AND WITHOUT A PREOCCUPATION WITH “THE NATURE OF REALITY AND THINGS NOUMENAL”

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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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MAHARAJ'S FINAL PLAN: REALIZE WITHOUT DOGMA, WITHOUT CONTINUOUS SPIRITUAL PRACTICES, AND WITHOUT A PREOCCUPATION WITH “THE NATURE OF REALITY AND THINGS NOUMENAL” 

RE: Yesterday's post:

Has it, twenty-four hours later, sunk in that the story shared yesterday regarding a man named Mark was not told with even the slightest intent for anyone to focus on Mark but was told with the intent of seekers taking away from that story the understanding that, "Holy smoke! I have been Mark. We have all been Mark." 

"What!!? How?"

To the degree that we have all - post-programming, post-conditioning, post-acculturation, post-domestication, post-brainwashing, and post-indoctrination - been reduced to persons ("personas") that have gone through the relative existence while being . . . 

-driven by the hidden agendas (i.e., by the desires and fears) of personality identifications which were assigned or assumed by us and allowed to define who we supposedly are and to define who others think we are;

-driven to stagger through life while being asleep while thinking we are awake;

and

-driven to stagger through life while being emotionally-intoxicated and reacting impulsively rather than having an ability to exercise the wisdom of rational analysis and simple logic.

Now here is the way many conversations have unfolded with visitors and seekers who have come here over the years:

"I'm not him!! He was surely high on drugs or alcohol or both. I've never abused drugs or alcohol."

"That was supposedly the case; however, the people who say, 'But he was surely high on drugs or alcohol or both' and 'I've never abused drugs or alcohol' are people that are inadvertently admitting that they are crazier than he was."

"What!!? How?"

"Setting murder aside, who can honestly say, 'I have lived a life for forty years on planet earth and not once during that time done anything that was crazy, done anything that would have shown I was behaving in a totally destructive and insane manner, or had thoughts or expressed thoughts or took actions that revealed even the slightest degree of ignorance or insanity'? The fact is this: no one can honestly make such a claim."

"Well no one has always been perfect 100% of the time, but . . . "

"Okay, let me stop you there. The point is, you have done things that were crazy and you have done things that would have shown you were behaving in a totally destructive and insane manner and you have had thoughts or expressed thoughts or taken actions which were rooted in the agendas of false identities which revealed the presence of some degree of ignorance or insanity. Right?"

"I guess so."

"No, you have."

"So what if I have, dammit!! But how can you say that proves that I am crazier than that guy!!"

"Easily. You said he was likely high on drugs and / or alcohol. That's probably the case. You also said that you've never been high on drugs or alcohol. Therefore, the crazy stuff he did was done while he was under the influence of drugs and / or alcohol, but when you did the crazy stuff you did, you were stone cold sober! Whoa! Oh my gosh! Consider how much worst that is. And consider that the next day he and any other addicts or drunks likely sobered up, but in your case the day after doing things that were crazy and destructive and insane, you woke up in the same state of ignorance and insanity that you were in the day before . . . and the day before that . . . and the day before that."

The point: A spouse might be able to say accurately to his or her spouse, "You know, you act like a total ass when you're drunk!" But the spouse might be able to correctly respond, "And you act like a total ass even if you're not drunk. Which is worse?"

A friend and I co-authored one book and then a few months before his demise we has started co-authoring a second book entitled, YOU'RE NUTS! WE'RE NUTS! NOW WHAT? The writing of that book ended when he died, but the the thesis of the book lives on and is yet available. It is this:

Nowadays, 

post-programming, post-conditioning, post-acculturation, post-domestication, post-brainwashing, and post-indoctrination, 

all humans have accumulated and stored in the mind-part of their brains an incalculable quantity of learned ignorance; additionally, everyone has been rendered insane to one degree or another.

The book intended to share our experiences which revealed how we were driven nuts and trapped in learned ignorance, how the experiences of all persons lead to the same, and how the non-dual process in many cases can free persons of learned ignorance and insanity if they are willing to seek the understanding and are capable of understanding that understanding.

That means that addicts and alcoholics are driven by ignorance and insanity (whether drunk or sober), and it means that non-addicts and non-alcoholics are also driven by ignorance and insanity.

It also means that addicts and alcoholics as well as non-addicts and non-alcoholics need not kill a spouse in order to generate their own misery and suffering and in order to spread that misery and suffering everywhere they go.

The non-dual understanding is about ending one's own misery and suffering and thereby end the spread of misery and suffering to so many others, no matter what the various degrees of ignorance and insanity and misery and suffering might be.

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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