Sunday, December 06, 2020

The Wisdom of Listening for BOTH Non-Dual AND Duality-Based Messages: FROM JESUS TO SHAKESPEARE

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The Wisdom of Listening for BOTH Non-Dual AND Duality-Based Messages: FROM JESUS TO SHAKESPEARE

A new series begins today which offers for consideration this strategy: for those that would realize (that is, per Maharaj, for those that would be free of belief in all learned ignorance) they must listen as much for non-duality-based comments as well as for duality-based pointers.

There are those in the minority among the masses because they are familiar with non-duality to one degree or another. 

Many of them focus on the "I AM THAT" part of the summative statement of non-duality far more than they focus on the "I AM" part; 

there are those who focus far more on the "What I Am" part than on the "what I am not" part; 

and 

there are those who focus far more on finding non-dual talkers and far less on watching out for duality-based talkers. 

To ignore the AM-ness might put seekers in touch with Reality, but it will leave them out of touch with reality, and being in touch with reality is the actual aim of the realization process. Maharaj made that clear when he said that "realization is simply about being freed now, during the manifestation, from all 'learned ignorance'." 

To focus only on "The Self" . . . 

and to ignore the presently-manifested composite unity 

and, in fact, to ignore all of the false selves which drive thoughts and words and actions (which, in turn, spread the Ultimate Sickness with its symptoms identified by Maharaj as "ignorance, stupidity, and insanity")

is to remain in darkness. 

And to ignore all of the duality-based talk which is now reaching billions while paying attention only to non-dual talk is a setup for allowing duality-based concept to be spread even more and is a setup to allow some to be pulled into the whirlpool / cesspool of duality and separation and anger and hatred and fighting which are receiving far more exposure than non-dual talk of Love and the Oneness and peace. 

And be not fooled: none of that duality-based talk should be ignored because of the belief that "so much progress has been made in spreading the non-dual message and in awakening the masses as a whole." 

In 2000, one author published a book in which some self-professed or supposed "Big Name Teachers" were claiming that there was a great awakening in the West that was spreading enlightenment.

(Maharaj warned seekers who entered the loft to beware of all Big Name Teachers, explaining that those types could never lead them to what they seek.) 

Those Western teachers interviewed for that book in 2000 agreed that a new earth had come into being in the West where a heightened state of enlightenment was manifesting; nine years later, another Big Name Teacher (who had been one of the Western teachers interviewed in the earlier book), made millions of dollars when he took the ideas set form in that earlier book by many people and presented them under his own title and name while repeating their claim that a new earth - a "better world" - was forming because enlightenment was spreading. 

Millions of readers came to the conclusion that, (a) that author - who presented others' pointers as his own - must surely be a realized fount of wisdom; came to the conclusion that, indeed, there were not only far higher numbers of enlightened persons than ever before on earth but that there was also (c) a larger percentage of the overall population of the planet who were now enlightened. 

Those truly awake are well aware that the claims made in the 2000 book and the claims repeated in the 2009 book were nothing more than nonsense being set forth by Big Name Teachers in order to make them Bigger Name Teachers. 

There is no more of a "new earth" now than there was "A New World" back when Europeans invaded what is now called "The Americas." 

As far as "widespread awakening and enlightenment" goes, Maharaj originally said that only "1 in 100,000" will ever awake fully; later, he changed his guesstimate to "1 in 1,000,000"; later, he revised that to "1 in 10,000,000." 

Some social scientists, by contrast, point to the seeming growth in the number of "separatists" (white supremacists, alt-righters, KKK members, and right-wing extremists, a.k.a., "dualists")

The term "seeming growth" is used because there is not so much a growth in the numbers of those types per se as there is evidence of how many of those types have long been present but are now making their presence known.

Their Supreme Leader has lifted the rocks under which they were hiding and now they are broadcasting their duality-based, prejudicial, hate-filled beliefs out in the open. 

They - the persons who have believed in "the other" and in the concepts of "racial superiority" and "eugenics" and "superior genes" and "a super race" - have always been around. 

As more and more leaders in the West come forth and express and endorse those duality-based concepts in public, their followers are merely coming out of the closet and expressing what they have believed all along. 

And for the thousands of years during which the masses have feared and judged and attacked "the other," there have been a few lone voices whispering into the darkness a non-dual message of Oneness and Love and Light (which has almost always been shouted down by those loving the darkness and hating the light). 

Maharaj eventually suggested that "seekers should abandon the quest to find some 'Supreme Self'" and that "it is enough to know who you are not"; thus, it has become essential - if wisdom is to prevail - to be more alert to duality-based messages than to non-dual messages and then filter out the non-dual garbage before it settles in the mind and further contaminates it with the stink of duality-based beliefs.

Some who hear the non-dual message dismiss it as being "too philosophical or dreamy"; some will be incapable of even beginning to grasp the message; some will find it to be a message that is "too timid or too lily-livered during these times when what is required is for us to go all over this nation and all around the globe and kick ass." 

Some of their fellows will conclude, "Screw your namby-pamby talk of Love . . . nowadays it's anger and hatred and fighting and even killing that are being called for . . . big time!" 

Do you disagree with the suggestion that those sharing the non-dual message have historically been ignored or targeted? Consider:

After Yeshu'a (a.k.a., "Jesus") was not heard from for some twenty+ years by those reporting his words, and then after he showed up once more and was no longer sharing what he had been taught in the organized religion of his youth but began sharing non-dual pointers instead, what did they do to him? They tolerated his non-dual talks for only a relatively-brief time and then they killed him. 

Similarly, what do the 2.2 billion persons on the planet who now claim to be "His Followers" do in regards to his final message? Almost all of those 2.2 billion ignore his final message - his non-dual pointers - completely. 

They, too, have killed off his non-dual messages and only focus on the dogma of his youth and on what was written about his supposed beliefs by people (the "Gospel writers") who lived 70 to 100 years after his crucifixion and never met him or talked with him even once. 

Why listen at least as much to try to spot "duality talkers" as one seeks out "non-dual talkers" to listen to? 

The greatest asset of politicians and fraudsters and con artists and cheats and hacks and deceivers and liars and swindlers has nothing to do with them but has everything to do with their audiences and the inability of the members of their audiences to differentiate between true and false; between authenticity and inanthenticity; 

between sincerity and insincerity; between honesty and dishonesty; between genuineness and manipulation; between candor and deceit; and between "straight talk" vs. talk which will result in their being suckered, fooled, snowed, jerked around, duped, deceived, hoodwinked, bamboozled, scammed, screwed, shafted, flimflammed, and outwitted. 

Are there more non-dual talkers than before? Definitely, though many of their messages are presented in popular songs and other forms of poetry; in non-duality-based novels and plays and musicals; and in some very popular movies (though their viewers have no clue that the dialogue therein is offering the non-dual understanding). 

In this series, postings will include both (1) subtle examples of non-dual messages which are appearing in a variety of formats and public forums as well as (2) the current preponderance of in-your-face duality-based talk as well. 

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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