MAHARAJ’S SHIFTS AWAY FROM DOGMA, FROM SPIRITUAL PRACTICES, AND FROM A PREOCCUPATION WITH “THE NATURE OF REALITY AND THINGS NOUMENAL”

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The discussion at this point in the series is now focusing on "The Most Influential Obstacles Of All" which have come via dreamed up myths and superstitions and via "religious" and / or "spiritual" sources, including religious and / or spiritual thoughts, ideas, concepts, notions, views, theories, inklings, perceptions, a.k.a., "beliefs."

Recall the man who approached me after a talk and said, "I was abused as a child by a priest. I've done years of work to try to get beyond that, but where I am today is, I still cringe when people start talking religion to me. So my question is, have you found a way to guide people to realization and freedom without their having to buy into the dogma you talk about?

Moreover, look at the fact that the popular venues where seekers seek (or the popular venues where people go who are convinced that they have never had to seek because their parents hooked them up with those venues and taught them that their particular venue was the only one where truth was taught) and see that they have a 5000+-year history of failing to set persons free of their distorted and delusional and freedom-blocking and independence-blocking belief systems. Then it should be clear why Maharaj eventually advised seekers to avoid those venues.

Thus, this:

MAHARAJ’S SHIFTS AWAY FROM DOGMA, FROM SPIRITUAL PRACTICES, AND FROM A PREOCCUPATION WITH “THE NATURE OF REALITY AND THINGS NOUMENAL”

[Continued from yesterday]

Had Maharaj not been the sole maverick, rebel, mutineer, revolutionary, and radical dissenter in a 5000-year lineage of Far Eastern teachers who offered so many different ways and forms and processes to be used to address an illness (a Sickness) which was rooted

in humankind’s most significant problem

but which

had been completely misdiagnosed as a too-little-dogma problem and / or misdiagnosed as a sick-spirit-related problem,

then

the few who are seeking, and seeking via Eastern teachings, and who have been exposed to the teachings offered during the last stage of Maharaj's evolution and during the days when his experimenting with various forms of the Ultimate Medicine had been completed,

then

those seekers would have likely had no alternative method or approach available to use to address the true roots of the Ultimate Sickness, namely, the mental problems which now plague the masses all around the globe.

[Want to seek via religion (or not seek at all because religion has convinced you that it and you already have all the answers)? Fine. Want to seek via spirituality (or not seek at all because spirituality has convinced you that it has moved you to a higher plane than religious people are on and has convinced you that you now have found all the answers)? Fine. But consider potential scenarios "A," "B," and "C":

(A) Imagine what the results might be if the 97% of the people on the planet who are involved with one organized religion or another could persuade the other 3% of the people on the planet to join them and become religious; or,

(B) imagine if the millions who proudly boast that they “are not religious but are spiritual” could entice the billions of religious people to abandon their dogma and take up spiritual exercises and principles; or,

(C) imagine if everyone on the planet suddenly understood the concept of “the Supreme Self” and started thinking and talking and behaving like a “Supreme Self.”

Then imagine – in contrast to those three scenarios - scenario "D":

(D) Imagine what the results might be all around the globe if persons were effectively treated for “learned ignorance” and “insanity,” just as Maharaj eventually recommended.

Which of those four scenarios might any truly honest and objective and sensible and astute and wise observer conclude is most likely to have any significant effect on changing the way that persons behave on a global basis?

Being religious? Being spiritual? Identifying with a Supreme Self and acting like a Supreme Self with everyone encountered? Or being freed of ignorance and being returned to one’s original condition of being sane? Of those four, isn’t the accurate choice a "no-brainer"?]

That said, Maharaj was not invested at all in what method or approach any seeker tried, nor did he try to persuade those not seeking to begin seeking. Same here.

Now some persons want to debate what method Maharaj used, not realizing that he tried many methods and abandoned many methods. And some actually want to explain to me what approach is being used here though they haven’t the slightest degree of understanding regarding what approach is presently being offered vs. what methods were tried in the past and abandoned.

With Maharaj, his attitude was . . . argue away if you like, but the argument is going to be one-sided because the debate will happen without my participation. (And isn't that always the reality of what is involved? Persons who want to enter into such arguments are always actually just arguing with themselves, with one or more of their false selves).

Somewhere along the way a man who offered non-dual pointers was heard to say something that related to this topic, something about how he no longer assumes any role, including the role of the one who is desiring to wake up as many people as possible. Many persons hate the alarm clock which wakes them each morning, so imagine how they feel about a human doing the same.

Here, the same view is held: argue on, but the argument will have to happen without any participation on this front. An old redneck comment heard mainly in the deep South in the U.S. is, “I ain’t got no dog in that fight, so I don’t care about that fight at all.”

Maharaj had no dog in that fight. I have no dog in that fight. Fight on, but the focus here will remain on those who have at last – once and for all – tired of the fight and are now earnestly seeking a method or approach that might finally lead to peace (and to peace NOW, not “later”).

What disrupts the peace more than anything? Ignorance and insanity.

So what can restore peace more effectively than anything?

Religion?

Spirituality?

Assuming the identity of "The Supreme Self"

or . . .

bringing to an end one's ignorance and insanity?

Hummm. Which would you conclude?

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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