WHY BE RID OF PERSONALITY?

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 WHY BE RID OF PERSONALITY?

To continue with the postings given in reply to this:

FROM A SITE VISITOR: Like Raja, I’m new to Advaita--but never had any religious training. It is easy enough to know that I am more than a body but why do you say I should not have a personality? Thank you.

F.: So, to review, here are the pointers that address the question:

1. Persons are unconsciously and subconsciously driven and controlled by personality, even as they erroneously believe that they are choosing their thoughts and their words and their actions (resulting in self-delusion and chaos).

2. Under the influence of personality, persons experience a false sense of being split, of being many things (hindering the consciousness from being aware of the Oneness).

3. Under the influence of personality, persons are driven to maintain false images (further hampering any effort to find the authenticity that is soon lost during the childhood years and throughout the adulthood years among humans).

4. The assumption of personas is always accompanied by egotism (in an effort to defend false ego-states that are taken to be real), and egotism is at the root of all relative misery.

5. Attachment to personality automatically triggers fears and desires which—in turn—trigger instability and unhappiness.

6. Personality, rooted in duality as it is, will always entrap persons in their relative fears and desires, their loves and hates, their happiness and unhappiness, their stability and their instability, and their fluctuations between exhibiting their "assets" and their "liabilities."

7. Personality prohibits liberation.

8. Personality is a coping tool that children develop to adapt and survive; however, adults allow that childish tool to control them throughout the manifestation unless they Realize.

9. Personality reinforces the illusion of doership, and doership reinforces the acceptance of false identifies (the belief among the non-Realized being, "What I do also defines who I am.").

10. Personality sets persons up for personality disorders.

11. Personality, with its fictitious “assets” and “liabilities,” fosters belief in duality.

12. Because personality is used by children for self-preservation and then maintained by adults, it reinforces childish beliefs in adults about what “self” is.

13. The effect of personality assumption is perceived fear and unmet desires, including the desire for body-mind-personality continuity (which sets persons up to believe in the nonsensical promises contained in dogma, in magical beliefs, and in myths based in ancient superstitions).

14. Personality-driven belief in nonsense prevents persons from finding a sane and sound and reasonable philosophy and encourages them to buy instead into the teachings of various ideologies and cults and religions.

15. Personality fosters nonsensical thinking and childish talk and immature actions since it is formed in childhood, but it dominates persons throughout their adulthood as well.

16. Driven by the influence of personality and illogical conditioning and programming and acculturation and domestication and brainwashing and indoctrination, the use of logic and reason cannot happen among persons.

17. Persons / Personas, taking their identities to be real, will fight (often to the death) to preserve mirages.

18. Personality is a prerequisite for “psychic disintegration.”

19. Personality assumption and its accompanying psychic disintegration will guarantee that persons will be trapped in delusion and turmoil.

20. At the root of all relative ills is egotism. 

At the root of egotism is ego (i.e., assumption of the false “I,” of ego-states, of personas, of personality). 

At the root of all personality is ignorance which drives the non-realized to believe in false identities and inspires their willingness to fight to preserve their images.

The overall result of personality (which inspires ego-state assumption and which fosters its accompanying egotism) is a planet with a population that is dominated by personas, assuming ego-states and using ego-defense mechanisms to defend what amounts to nothing more than a mirage . . . nothing more than the false images assumed by the non-realized as identities.

Accepting images as reality, those trapped in personality are thereby trapped as well in self-delusion and arrogance. Arrogance generates a false sense of separation, and the result of persons being driven blindly by egotism and arrogance and a sense of “separation” is one broken relation after another (relatively speaking, of course).

Those broken relations, again relatively speaking, assure that those trapped in personality, egotism, and arrogance will know no stability. When select persons move into the role of arrogant leaders, they will always spread their egotism throughout their cultures. Those cultures will, in turn, tolerate ignorance, fighting, war, killing, mayhem, depression, misery, suffering and chaos.

And that is why "realized non-dualists" suggest being completely rid of personality identification.  

FOR MORE DISCUSSION AND CLARIFICATION, THESE ARE RELATED TO TODAY’S POST:

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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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