THE DARK TRIAD

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THE DARK TRIAD

To assist in assuring that there is a relative existence which is dominated by lightness, humans must acquire an ability to (1) deal with and (2) to cope. To assure that one will suffer from a seemingly heavy existence, don’t deal with and don’t cope. 

Coping skills allow for dealing with. In keeping with Maharaj’s ultimate realization regarding the roots of the Ultimate Sickness (which led him to move away from a religious / non-dual version of the Ultimate Medicine and away from a spiritual / non-dual version of the Ultimate Medicine and to offer instead a psychology / non-duality based version of the Ultimate Medicine) a discussion of the need for the masses to understand and develop coping skills to use throughout the relative existence is consistent with his ultimate finding and teachings.

Coping skills are defined thusly: “Coping skills are methods a person uses to deal with stressful situations; the development of effective coping skills leads to mental health wellness.” Yet the “non-realized” masses - rather than “deal with” - will more often “battle with.” 

The residual fear and anger and frustration which have continued to fester after the U.S.-led housing bubble and crash in 2007 and 2008 (which affected millions upon millions of persons directly or indirectly all around the globe) has led to a 20-year low in home ownership and available cash. 

For eight years, since the greedy few screwed the many out of their money and homes; and since their actions were aggravated by the fact that the masses spent and spent and accumulated rather than preparing for hard times by creating a savings account with reserve funds;

and because most persons typically blame and resent others rather than accept whatever degree of responsibility is their own; and because the fear and anger and frustration has not being handled or coped with, that fear and anger and frustration has continued to grow for over eight years and has now reached epic proportions. 

Thus, all around the globe, fear is driving many persons and anger is driving even more persons and both of those personality-based factors are driving political preferences and voting patterns in the countries where citizens have the right to vote. 

Too, while those economic problems might certainly be serious in many cases – relatively speaking – the fact is that most persons, rather than carry on in the face of adversity, will carry on about the trivial and make mountains out of minutiae, making for an even heavier existence. The absence of coping skills makes for a heavy existence because it assures that most persons will mismanage rather than manage.

Among psychologists and therapists who work with those suffering from stress and who sometimes assist them with the development of coping skills, one of the first recommendations is to “manage yourself.” 

One non-dualist says in that regard: “What you identify as stress, fear or anger doesn’t happen because of what’s around you but are due to your own faculties not taking instructions from you.

If your mind were taking instructions from you, it would create pleasantness, not unpleasantness. It is your inability to manage your own system that causes this problem. Assume control over your own being, and everything will be fine.” 

The first point is accurate. Stress is generated by what is happening within, not by what is happening without. And yes, the “non-realized” are usually incapable of “managing their own system” (that is, their own thoughts and words and actions and, therefore, their lives) because the hidden agendas of their false identities control all of that. 

What is not accurate? The notion that the mind can create pleasantness. Why? Because the content of the mind is the source of all that is perceived to be unpleasant. 

The same person advised that one should make one’s mind happy. Again, that is impossible. While pain is about the body, misery and suffering and unhappiness are about the mind. A child in the no-mind, “No Knowing State” can enjoy unconditional happiness.

Once the mind begins to manifest because a child has been exposed to warped programming, conditioning, etc., then any and all opportunities to enjoy unconditional happiness will come to a screeching halt.

Consider the plight of this fish, recently captured on film by an underwater photographer, the photo showing the fish trapped inside a jellyfish:

Those with an ability to feel empathy might be saddened to a tremendous degree upon seeing the plight of that fear-stricken fish; yet how many persons will never develop the same level of empathy for themselves, then seek until they find a way to escape the same kind of entrapment within their own mind?

(And by the way, persons are not actually "trapped in their own mind" but are trapped within a hand-me-down mind which is really the mind of their ancient ancestors and more recently the mind of their grandparents and the mind of their parents or guardians.)

See, that's what an existence is like when trapped in a mind that has been filled with the nonsense that comes via nonsensical programming, conditioning, etc. When personality is determining and controlling every thought and word and action, then one will be like that fish:

still physically "alive" for a time, but being moved through life by unconscious forces rather than by the ability to make conscious choices which allow one to cope and deal with and handle the vicissitudes of the relative existence.

Additionally, those with no coping skills - rather than looking after themselves - will sabotage and abuse themselves. Such types will always “mishandle” rather than “handle.” 

Maharaj: “Often people come with their bodies, brain and minds so mishandled, perverted, and weak that the state of formless attention is beyond them.” 

Most cannot really pay attention to anything for long and cannot be aware of all that is involved with any given event; 

or, 

conversely, some will pay so much excess attention to one thing or to one person (see the Obsessive- Compulsive Disorder) that they become monomaniacs, driven to focus on one thing only; those types cannot see the forest because they are only paying attention to one particular tree. 

Maharaj said that the sun “may seem obscured by clouds and dust, but only from the point of view of the perceiver. Deal with the causes of obscuration (of things being obscured), not with the sun.” 

Additionally, whining does not address misery and suffering – it prolongs it – so Maharaj gave short shrift to seekers trapped in that mindset: 

Questioner: “All I want to know is how to deal with the world's sorrows."

Maharaj: “You have created them out of your own desires and fears, so you deal with them.” 

An even more effective manner of abiding would be to stop “creating them” – stop creating the misery and suffering and sorrow which afterwards require so much effort to try to address. Take the steps to avoid the emotional intoxication which will always render persons incapable of dealing with or coping. How? 

Emotions are the product of personal identifications. No ego-states? Then no emoting, just feeling and witnessing feelings as they rise and fall rather than allowing them to make one’s peace rise and fall. 

Maharaj: “I don't get flustered. I just do the needful. I do not worry about the future. A right response to every situation is in my nature. I do not stop to think what to do. I act and move on. Results do not affect me. I do not even care whether they are ‘good’ or ‘bad’. Whatever they are, they are. If they come back to me, I deal with them afresh. Or, rather, I happen to deal with them afresh. There is no sense of purpose in my doing anything.” 

As for those playing the role of a Personality Type Two (“The Reformer,” “The Savior,” “The Rescuer,” “The One Who Is Determined to Change the World For the Better,” “The One Sacrificing to Take Care of Others in Order to Be Loved") Maharaj offered advice for such types whose personality-based agendas drive them to create a heavy existence for themselves as they end up placing everyone else’s needs ahead of what is in their own AM-ness-involved interests: 

Questioner: “Is there no salvation for the world?” 

Maharaj: “Which world do you want to save? The world of your own projection? Save it yourself. My world? Show me my world and I shall deal with it. I am not aware of any world separate from myself, which I am free to save or not to save. What business have you with saving the world when all the world needs is to be saved from you? Get out of the picture and see whether there is anything left to save.” 

Maharaj: "The causes of perversity are also natural - heredity, environment and so on. You are too quick to condemn. Do not worry about others. Deal with your own mind first.” A related suggestion in Latin dating back thousands of years advised: “Cura te ipsum” (that is, "heal thyself"). 

Maharaj tried to redirect seekers to focus less on gaining knowledge, (their "knowledge" being nothing more than “learned ignorance” anyway, he said) and focus more on being fully authentic: 

Maharaj: “I have told you already that knowledge is most useful in dealing with things. But it does not tell you how to deal with people and yourself, how to live a life. We are not talking. of driving a car, or earning money. For this you need experience. But for being a light unto yourself material knowledge will not help you. 

"You need something much more intimate and deeper than mediate knowledge, to be yourself in the true sense of the word. Your outer life is unimportant. You can become a night watchman and live happily. It is what you are inwardly that matters. Your inner peace and joy you have to earn. It is much more difficult than earning money. 

"No university can teach you to be yourself. The only way to learn is by practice. Right away begin to be yourself. Discard all you are not and go ever deeper. Just as a man digging a well discards what is not water, until he reaches the water-bearing strata, so must you discard what is not your own, till nothing is left which you can disown. 

"You will find that what is left is nothing which the mind can hook on to. You are not even a human being. You just are- a point of awareness, co-extensive with time and space and beyond both, the ultimate cause, itself uncaused. If you ask me: 'Who are you?' My answer would be: 'Nothing in particular. Yet, I am’.” 

Working to be something (or many things or many different things / personas which you are not) is heavy; being authentic makes for an easy and simple and light existence.

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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