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Here, with those who are still driven to talk about "god," the "Son of
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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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Consider some of the personality types which inspire and support excessive pride:
The Perfectionism Disorder: "I'm perfect and you're not. You should be more like me."
The Narcissist Personality Disorder: "I am entitled to be admired and taken care of because of my physical appearance (rated a 10 out of 10) and my talents and my high morals and my ability to attract money."
The Know-It-All Personality Disorder: "I have gathered more knowledge in the last ten years than most will accumulate in a lifetime. If there is anyone who should be listened to, it is I."
The Sociopath / Psychopath Personality Disorders and The God Complex Disorder: "I am the best there is at running businesses, running a country, and running the world. I want to have unlimited power and control and deserve both. I alone can solve the problems of a country. All should be grateful that I'm even willing to take charge of their lives and their nation. P.S. I also deserve to have the power to decide who lives and who dies."
The was received from another site visitor after some of the previous posts:
EXCESSIVE PRIDE AND THE PERSONALITY DISORDERS WHICH FOSTER IT AND SUSTAIN IT
Consider some of the personality types which inspire and support excessive pride:
The Perfectionism Disorder: "I'm perfect and you're not. You should be more like me."
The Narcissist Personality Disorder: "I am entitled to be admired and taken care of because of my physical appearance (rated a 10 out of 10) and my talents and my high morals and my ability to attract money."
The Know-It-All Personality Disorder: "I have gathered more knowledge in the last ten years than most will accumulate in a lifetime. If there is anyone who should be listened to, it is I."
The Sociopath / Psychopath Personality Disorders and The God Complex Disorder: "I am the best there is at running businesses, running a country, and running the world. I want to have unlimited power and control and deserve both. I alone can solve the problems of a country. All should be grateful that I'm even willing to take charge of their lives and their nation. P.S. I also deserve to have the power to decide who lives and who dies."
The was received from another site visitor after some of the previous posts:
I'm writing to confess that I've obviously been suffering from some self-deceiving pride.
You've mentioned pride (of the "false" variety) as a trait of fanatics and pride in the previous post as one of the sins which some religious people call "deadly."
You've also said that more of humanity's problems have been caused by ego-state assumption and the egotism that always comes along with that than anything else. I agree with your point. Too, growing up, I heard "pride comes before a fall" and have continued to agree with that maxim also.
I've also long seen how pride has blocked me from seeing truth and even being "decent company" for friends and family and co-workers. And I've also seen how many times since I started seeking via non-duality and the nisarga yoga that I thought, "I've finally got it!" only to have some additional awareness comes along and casts light on my pride-based distortion. You did that yesterday.
I've asked many people the same question that the man you quoted yesterday earlier: "How can these religious people tolerate and even support a man for president who is an admitted sex predator?"
Yet never once did I see the obvious, meaning, their historic practice of tolerating and supporting their own leaders who have been revealed to be sex predators. There it was, right before my very eyes for decades, yet I didn't connect their support for predatory religious leaders with their support for a predatory political leader.
I've been on this path for years. Why am I yet so blind?
The reply: At least you're seeing that you're still not seeing all that can be seen. Many are blind but still believe they see quite well, thank you very much. With you, the "clear perceiver" (the so-called "knower") had been there but does not always send into consciousness what it can perceive ("know").
Consider the relevance of this pointer from Maharaj:
"Surely you cannot say the knower was absent. The experience of things and thoughts was not there, that is all. But the absence of experience too is experience. It is like entering a dark room and saying ‘I see nothing’. A man blind from birth knows not what darkness means. Similarly, only the knower knows that he does not know. Sleep is merely a lapse in memory. Life goes on."
Most do not know what they do not know. All that remains for you is some additional time spent with one who sees clearly to point out what you are looking at but not seeing clearly.
Maharaj: "In due course a guru appears to inspire us to practise Yoga (here, the Nisargan Yoga) and a ripening takes place as a result of which the immemorial night of ignorance dissolves before the rising sun of wisdom. But in reality nothing happened. The sun is always there - there is no night to it."
What did he say is the culprit that makes that happen? "The mind."
Clear seeing cannot happen unless there is light. It is the darkness of the mind which always blocks out the light.
I was recently in Austin and my granddaughter and I went for a walk. At one point, she stopped abruptly and pointed toward the landscaping in front a house and said, Look!" I said, "Yes, those are pretty plants, aren't they." She said with a chastising tone, "No! Cat!" and pointed again.
Botched surgical procedures on my eyes and the subsequent complications have left the sight blurred or distorted. By squinting and looking closely, in the shadows of the plants, there it was . . . a cat.
She saw easily what I was barely able to see at all. So it is with "the fully realized." They see easily what others are not able to see easily or at all, even though all might be looking at the same thing.
Thus the stage can be set for conflict as a result of faulty seeing:
One says, Look at that scoundrel."
Another looks at the same person and says, "He is my hero, my idol, my deity personified."
Let's revisit an illustration used in the past to emphasis the point. Suppose I show you this picture:
and ask,
F.: "What do you see?"
The answer might be: "A beautiful ocean-side vista at sunset."
F.: "Okay. And did you notice the rock duck in the picture as well?"
The reply might be,
V.: "I don't see any duck - not a wood duck, a mallard duck, or a rock duck, whatever that is."
F.: "Well look again at this version of the picture:
"Oh, that's what you were talking about. I was looking out in the water and in the distance sky. I didn't see what was right in front of me that you were inviting me to see. I didn't even understand the basic term. You weren't talking about a real duck but were seeing the likeness of a duck in the rock formation."
"The fully realized," free of all of the blockages which had been stored in the mind, can see clearly and can see things - as did my granddaughter - which others don't see or never even notice at all.
Two doctors - to cover their ineptness - have told me that once I have "the next procedures" on my eyes, then I will see very clearly.
Similarly, as you continue along the path, someday your vision may well become sharper and sharper.
Maharaj said: "To know that consciousness and its content are reflections - changeful and transient - is the focusing of the real. The refusal to see the snake in the rope is the necessary condition for seeing the rope."
[Yet many who are naive or ignorant because of their mind-content-blocked consciousness and their resultant poor seeing also refuse to see the snake that appears to be a rope.]
Consider:
Questioner: "When do I know that I have discovered truth?"
Maharaj: "When the idea ‘this is true’ / ‘that is true’ does not arise. Truth
does not assert itself; it is in the seeing of the false as false and rejecting it. It is useless to search for truth, when the mind is blind to the false. It must be purged of the false completely before truth can dawn on it"
and
"There is no such state as seeing the real. Who is to see what? You can only be the real — which you are, anyhow. The problem is only mental. Abandon false ideas, that is all. There is no need of true ideas. There aren’t any."
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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
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"
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."
and
"Heaven and earth shall fade away."
--Yeshu'a (Jesus)
and
"Heaven and hell are not geographic places
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."
"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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