THE DARK TRIAD

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THE DARK TRIAD:
The Identity-Ignorance Connection

Those among “the non-realized masses” (a phrase which Maharaj used merely to refer to those among the masses who “have not been freed from ignorance”) are forever either (a) trying to be something (or “SOMETHING!”) or (b) trying to hang onto some identities which they are not but which they believe they are or want to think that they are.

See? Ignorance. 

Maharaj: “When you believe yourself to be a person, you see persons everywhere. In reality there are no persons, only threads of memories and habits. At the moment of realisation the person ceases. 'Identity' remains, but identity is not a person. It is inherent in the reality itself. The person has no being in itself; it is a reflection in the mind of the witness, the 'I am', which again is a mode of being.” 

Here, there is no identified person and there is no belief in some "one" who is personal and who is identifiable and who is writing this blog entry this morning. There is just a composite unity, a triad of (1) elemental plant cells which have converted into human cells which are presently, in turn, forming a space – an elemental plant food body, if you will - which is circulating (2) air and circulating (3) conscious-energy. 

Per the Second Law of Thermodynamics, all which has come together to form what some deem to be “floyd” or “Floyd” will come apart. Meanwhile, the triad involves nothing more than cycling: 

First, the plant food body is changing every second, and either more plant food must be eaten or more things which ate plant food must be eaten in order to replace the cells which are – at this very moment – coming apart. Skin cells are falling off, being totally replaced every month. Stomach cells are being replaced every four days or so. Bones are losing density.

If this "i," this "floyd" is not what it was yesterday, if this "i," this "floyd" has had no continuity which can even last for 24 hours, how could anyone believe that this "i," this "floyd" will have eternal continuity? That belief, so popular among those self-identifying as "The Super Religious Ones" and "The Spiritual Giants,"can be seen by the wise to be a total fraud, a deceit, a falsehood, an untruth.

There is one piece of the evidence of the "Identity-Ignorance Connection."

Secondly, conscious-energy is forever cycling into and out of the space. Again, either more plant food must be eaten or more things which ate plant food must be eaten in order to replace the quantity of conscious-energy which is also constantly coming and going. 

Thirdly, the air will also cycle in and out of the space until the point when the plant food body is no longer capable of circulating air. 

That’s all that is here: an identity-less composite unity which is cycling “stuff.” Nothing unique. Nothing special. Nothing Special or Supreme. 

Want to see what part of the composite unity called “Maharaj” was left behind after mahasamadhi was taken and which is visible / viewable nowadays? Go to the room in Mumbai where a handful of his ashes which were retrieved from the remains of his funeral pyre and which were placed behind glass are currently on display.

(There you can also see the non-realized persons who gather daily to worship and pay homage to a handful of elements deemed to be special or Special by persons whom Maharaj would describe as being driven by “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity”). 

Thus he asked this: “What is identity, after all? Continuity in memory? Can you talk of identity without memory?” 

He explained: “The present 'I am' is as false as the 'I was' and 'I shall be'. It is merely an idea in the mind, an impression left by memory, and the separate identity it creates is false. this habit of referring to a false centre must be done away with, the notion 'I see', 'I feel', 'I think', 'I do', must disappear from the field of consciousness; what remains when the false is no more, is real.” 

In CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE of the book explaining in detail the "Child No-Knowing State" - a chapter entitled “The Illusion of "Becoming" - this is offered:

1. The notions that one has "become better," that one has "become something really 'good'," that one has "become super religious or super spiritual," and / or that one has "really become 'something special'" or is now seen to be SOMETHING SPECIAL or SUPREME or GOD-LIKE or GODLY or REALLY SPIRITUAL AS OPPOSED TO JUST RELIGIOUS involve . . .

(a) nothing more than the same kind of deception and self-deception which plagues "the totally non-realized masses"; and involve

 (b) nothing more than the same kind of identity or ego-state assumption which leaves the masses without a clue about who / what they are not.

(c) Then, and all of that  triggers the use of the same ego-defense mechanisms (such as egotism and arrogance) which are used by all persons who assume identities - whether those assumed identities are deemed by their cultures to be "bad" ones or "good" ones. 

2. Next, this is offered for consideration: completion of the entire "journey" to "Full Realization" does not result in egotism and arrogance and narcissism being replaced by "humility" (which is actually always just false humility) or by "modesty" (which is actually always just false modesty). Why? 

Because those are nothing more than the opposite extreme of the "egotistical vs. humble" duality; instead, what manifests upon reaching the end of the "path" is a neti-neti type of understanding involving neither egotism nor humility; involving neither the notion that you are now "this" instead of "that which you were in the past"; 

involving neither the notion that you are a religious person or an atheist; involving neither the notion that you are "better as opposed your former condition when you were worse than you are now"; involving neither a notion that you are the "the best vs. the worst"; 

and involving neither the notion that you are "a spiritual giant vs. a spiritual pygmy." (The charge leveled against "The 'Later' Maharaj Who Dismissed Spirituality" and "The Present Floyd" is that they are "spiritual pygmies" as opposed to "spiritual giants." The fact: it's neti-neti.) 

At the end of the "path," after completion of the entire "journey," the passage will have moved you from identifying with a host of false "I's" to an understanding of the Absolute; to a state of Full Awareness, to an understanding of Your Original Nature; 

to an understanding of the Void and the Nothingness which was prior to this universe and prior to all universes; to an understanding of exactly why you cannot "become spiritual," "become better," or "become anything"; 

and to the freedom of being freed of any and all notions about being SOMETHING, being something special, being something really "good" (or, conversely, to freedom from any notions about "not being enough and never having enough because of not being 'good' enough"). 

You are invited to consider all of the above and see what - if any - further awarenesses come into consciousness.

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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