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

To continue with the discussion of non-duality-based pointers excerpted from the book The Non-Duality Pointers Offered by Yeshu'a ("Jesus the Christ")

12.  

"Whoever drinks from my mouth shall become as I AM and I myself Will become he, and the hidden things shall be revealed to him." 

Review the explanation to quote #6 which was offered yesterday and understand that in this quote, Jesus is again referring to the Oneness that all is but that the "non-realized masses" are not aware of, seeing all as "separate" and "apart from" and "different from." 

Also, the explanation for quote #8 from yesterday makes clear that the "drinking from his mouth" is not literal but that it is the consciousness / awareness that speaks; therefore, the Advaitin pointer is that if you can hear what comes from "the mouth of consciousness / awareness," then all things presently hidden from you - unknown to you or not understood by you - will be understood. 

At that point, the understanding of the Oneness makes clear why, in this quote, Jesus will become him / her and why he / she will become Jesus. 

13.  

"It is impossible for a man to mount two horses and to stretch two bows; and it is impossible for a servant to serve two masters; otherwise, he will honor the one and offend the other." 

This pointer also strikes at the core of the Advaitin teachings: duality is impossible. There can be no such thing as "dualities." There is only non-duality, and any statement of duality is false and any beliefs in duality are false. 

14. 

"When you make the two one, and when you make the inner as the outer and the outer as the inner, and the above as the below, and When you make the male and the female into a single one, so that the male will not be male and the female not be female, then shall you enter the kingdom." 

Again, "the kingdom" is the state of freedom and peace. Also once more Jesus points to the understanding of "Advaita" (literally meaning "not two"); thus, the Advaitin understanding "makes the two one" . . . makes clear that what is thought to be two will - in the light of Truth and understanding - be understood to be one. 

There is no inner and outer, no above and below, no male or female, nothing that is different from or separate from anything else in the Advaitin teachings and the Advaitin understandings. 

15.  

"I come not to bring peace, but to bring a sword." 

Jesus is making clear that peace cannot come until the sword does its job, not to kill off humans literally but to kill off their faulty beliefs, their erroneous concepts, and their false identifications which block them from knowing the Oneness. Only then can peace come. 

16.  

"I came to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law." 

So does Jesus literally mean that he wants to break up families? No, he means that all roles and role-playing and false identities must end if one is to be in touch with Reality / reality, if one is to be free, and if one is to be at peace. 

A man wrote to say he was suicidal because his wife left him. He felt as if he were dying, so the conclusion was that he might as well hasten the process to end the suffering. 

Not understanding the false selves which Yeshu'a / Jesus referred to, the man had accepted the limited identification that had been assigned by his culture. The fact is that if anyone clings to any false identity - in this case, the false identity of the “husband” - then they shall never find that which is beyond the false selves. 

To ask, "WHO is suffering?" might open the door for the man to understand that "he" is not suffering but that the false identity of "The Husband Who Is No More" is driving his sense of suffering. There need not be a funeral for "him" if he buries all of the false identifications which his culture assigned and which he had taken (mistaken) to be real and to define "him."

Otherwise, peace can never happen consistently. If persons find truth and authenticity, then “husbanding” or “not husbanding” can happen, "wifing" or not "wifing" can happen, and consistent peace can happen either way. 

All conflict results when one assumes an ego-state (that is, a false identity) because that assumption triggers the use of ego-defense mechanisms to defend the assumed role. One such mechanism is egotism, so conflict will be generated. 

Assuming the roles of "a man," "a father," "a daughter," "a mother," "a daughter-in-law," and "a mother-in-law," etc. and adding egotism into the mix will set the stage for people to try to control, to resist control, and to argue. Again, the Advaitin point that Jesus was trying to make was that peace can only come when persons are not being driven by the agendas of their false identities. 

17.  

"A man’s enemies will be the members of his household." 

See the explanation to quote #16 because this quotation is merely reinforcing the same point. 

18.  

"A dual-minded person is unstable in all ways." 

Once more Yeshu'a Jesus offered an Advaita-based pointer which drives to the very core of the teachings, namely, that all duality is false and that belief in false, dualistic concepts can only result in instability in the long run.

19.  

"If anyone comes to me, and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple." 

This quote reiterates the points offered in quotes #16 and #17 above.

Meanwhile, by way of contrast, consider more examples of the type of duality-based messages which have received national and international exposure over the past few years, this time involving disparaging racial and prejudicial actions and comments which were made by the chief politician in the U.S.:

A. He fought to keeps blacks out of his housing units in N.Y.; 

B. he railed against “lazy” black employees; 

and he said 

C. “Black guys counting my money? I hate it! The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day.” 

When one is trapped in duality, all thoughts and words and deeds dualistically promote and endorse and spread false beliefs about different-from-ment and better-than-ment and separation and division and artificial, dreamed-up hierarchies and which bring about hatred and abuse and instability and chaos and "the breaking of relationships" and fighting and war and killing.

 And when one is trapped in dualistic beliefs, then there will not be a preference for peace. There will be a preference for instability and chaos.

That was the very point which Yeshu'a was emphasizing when he said, "A dual-minded person is unstable in all ways."

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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