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Earlier, these comments about Muhammad Ali were shared:
The mayor of his hometown called Ali “a selfless giant.”
Another said: “Selflessness and bravery — those are the two things he epitomized.”
Also, these pointers from Ali were shared:
“Best friends often become strangers when egos begin to replace selflessness and love”
and
“Stop being selfish – become selfless instead.”
So what did Maharaj have to say about that topic of selflessness?
A questioner asked: “How does one go beyond the mind?”
Maharaj replied: “There are many starting points - they all lead to the same goal. You may begin with selfless work, abandoning the fruits of action; you may then give up thinking and end in giving up all desires.” (Maharaj understood the psychology of self-ness, aware of the fact that all fears and desires are rooted in the hidden agendas of assigned or assumed personality identifications.)
Maharaj said, “Only a selfless society based on sharing can be stable and happy”
and
“It is the absolute in you that takes you to the absolute beyond you - absolute truth, love, and selflessness are the decisive factors in self-realisation. With earnestness these can be reached.”
If one would enjoyed a sense of lightness as opposed to being strapped with the burdensome weight which leads to a sense of heaviness, then one must find the key contributors to the weight which mindful persons carry about. The weight is in the mind, but that seems to put, in turn, a heavy weight on the shoulders as well.
Were animals to be as trapped in duality as most humans are and, therefore, hear all sorts of voices with conflicting agendas speaking to them all day long, then their life would be as confused and confusing as that of humans. It would be something like this:
Yet animals are mindless, as are all of living things with one exception: humans (especially “non-realized” humans who experience all day long, every day, that constant, contradictory, dualistic chatter originating from between their ears):
Yet humans don’t really get off as easily as that picture suggests. Why?
Because there are not just two choices being heard all day long. Why? Because humans over a very short period can assume eighty or more personality identifications / roles / characters / personas / guises / fronts / individualizations / faces / facades / selves / Self or Selves / etc., and each of those will have "a voice" (in fact, "many voices").
[Such auditory hallucinations, or hearing of voices, is a common symptom in people who are suffering schizophrenia (with between 70% and 80% of those with schizophrenia reporting such "hearings"; however, reaching the 73rd year of manifestation next month as I shall, boundless opportunities have been presented throughout the years to observe that most who are publicly reporting such "conversations" with "unseen entities" are using such "hearings" for the sake of manipulating their audience.
Recently, a national leader shared at a campaign rally the back and forth details of "a talk he had with with God." Schizophrenics are far less prone to stand in front of crowds and share information about the voice they are hearing and what the voices are saying; by contrast, those playing the role of "The Super Religious One" or "The Spiritual Giant" - in order to get respect or to have the power to influence others or to get votes in an upcoming election - are more than willing to add some "divine weight" to what they are saying and would have their listeners believe. ]
[Such auditory hallucinations, or hearing of voices, is a common symptom in people who are suffering schizophrenia (with between 70% and 80% of those with schizophrenia reporting such "hearings"; however, reaching the 73rd year of manifestation next month as I shall, boundless opportunities have been presented throughout the years to observe that most who are publicly reporting such "conversations" with "unseen entities" are using such "hearings" for the sake of manipulating their audience.
Recently, a national leader shared at a campaign rally the back and forth details of "a talk he had with with God." Schizophrenics are far less prone to stand in front of crowds and share information about the voice they are hearing and what the voices are saying; by contrast, those playing the role of "The Super Religious One" or "The Spiritual Giant" - in order to get respect or to have the power to influence others or to get votes in an upcoming election - are more than willing to add some "divine weight" to what they are saying and would have their listeners believe. ]
So it is not as if those trapped in their personality identifications have two contradictory voices to deal with but it is more like they have a large cast of characters which are walking across the stage of “The Theater of the Lie” which is what the human mind is. Thus the seeming weight on the shoulders for those types will look like this at any given moment:
No wonder so many people are so stressed out. Rather than being able to say,
“I am focused on one agenda, namely, abiding in an authentic and sane and wise manner which is rooted in my Original Nature and which is tapped into spontaneously in all moments and in all situations and which is not influenced at all by any assigned or assumed roles which I am not”
most will, instead,
be driven subconsciously by the hidden agendas of numerous personas which determine unconsciously their every thought and word and action.
Mentioned before on this site was "Dave" who completed the two enneagram personality sessions here. After the second session, he was assigned the tasks of making a list of every persona he had assumed during recent years.
Of course, being a seeker at that point rather than one who had “gotten it” and could - therefore - stop seeking, the Obsessive-Compulsive nature of “The Seeker” – always soon elevated to “The Super Seeker” – drove him to compile a list on the way home, insanely driving in a distracted fashion while writing a list at the same time.
As soon as he arrived home, he called to say,
“I got it! Wow! So many roles!”
F.: “How many?”
D.: “Fifteen!”
F.: “Not even close. Go to a quiet room, alone, and continued to consider. And don’t call for what my grandmother would identity as a period of three moons . . . meaning in your way of counting, 72 hours.”
D.: “Geez!”
F.: “Yes, Geez indeed.”
After being sent away to work more thoroughly on his list, he found many additional roles; he called three days later to report that he had found eighty-seven personas which he had played in the prior decade. He also found that each of those personas had up to seven potential "areas of concern" (including concerns about its financial state, concerns about its personal relationships, concerns about its sexual relationships, etc.)
He also saw that each "concern" had a "voice," driving "dave" to talk to "dave" about this worry or that distress or this affront or that slight or offense. When he did the simple math, he saw exactly why he felt as if, far too often, that he was hearing what is pointed to here with the phrase “the chatter of a thousand monkeys in your head."
When heaviness is marking the relative existence of a person, it is guaranteed that the sense of an immense weight on one’s shoulder will be in direct portion to the number of false selves which are at play in the play going on in the mind.
Self-ful-ness is marked by the sensation of a burdensome load, by an encumbrance of troublesome weight, by what feels like multiple stacks of heaviness on one’s shoulder and mind; selflessness, by contrast, is marked by a sense of lightness, of weightlessness and buoyancy.
Which shall it be? A weighty sense of self or Self or self-ful-ness or Self-ful-ness? Or, by contrast, a sense of lightness? The latter is as close as your willingness to be free of all identifications (and all so-called, so-thought "Identifications").
Again, “Absolute truth, love, and selflessness are the decisive factors in self-realisation. With earnestness these can be reached.”
To be continued.
To be continued.
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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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