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To continue with non-duality-based pointers excerpted from the book
3.
"No one shall ever see the kingdom of heaven - it is within."
Among the non-dual pointers is an assertion that there is an "inner guru" or "inner resource" which is capable of knowing Truth but that is seldom tapped into because of the blockages which prevent the consciousness from seeing purely and accurately.
Those blockages are the result of programming and conditioning and acculturation and domestication and brainwashing and indoctrination. The "kingdom" is not a state "there" but is a state that is here and now . . . the state of total freedom and peace.
(To clarify, Pope John Paul II - to the chagrin of many Catholics - said that heaven and hell are not literally “geographic places” but are “states of mind.” More on that later.)
4.
"Heaven and earth shall fade away."
Why will heaven and earth fade away, according to the Advaitin / non-dual understanding? Because at the point of mahasamadhi (called "death" by most) the consciousness begins to fade away, to "un-manifest" and leave the body and re-enter the field of energy from which it manifested.
Because heaven and earth are concepts that have been dreamed up and believed in during the time that the consciousness have been manifested (believed in because of programming and acculturation and conditioning) then when the consciousness fades away, so will that which allowed those ideas to be believed in and stored what is called "the mind."
In fact, among "living beings or things" including deer, fish, birds, humans, trees, plants, etc. and all flora and fauna, conscious-energy is forever manifesting within spaces formed by elements and is forever fading away.
As for the flora, plants absorb energy via light (either sunlight or artificial light). The energy is used to combine carbon dioxide which plants absorb from the air with water which plants absorb from the soil to molecules of sugar.
Within the sugar molecules is stored the various types of energy (including conscious-energy) which the plants absorbed from the sun and which humans - in turn - use when they eat plants or animals which ate plants.
(Scientist Szent-Gyorgyi noted: “What
drives life is a little electric current set up by the sunshine.” The "electric current" can also be referred to as "conscious-energy" or "consciousness.")
Why do humans - if they have adequate access to food - eat regularly? "Food addiction," "comfort eating," etc. aside, humans eat because the composite unity triad of plant food elements, conscious-energy and oxygen (which is also produced by plants) have no capacity for the unlimited storage of energy, including conscious-energy.
It constantly cycles, in and out of the space formed by elements. It enters the space via eating, but it will soon . . . fade away.
A human elemental plant food body can typically survive (a) 8-21 days without food or (b) up to two months without food if there is access to adequate water intake.
The British have a long history of abusing and beating and even massacring the people living in the areas around the globe which they occupied, "colonized," etc.
In 1981 I followed closely the Irish hunger strike by Irish republican prisoners in Northern Ireland after those Irish people had finally "had enough." Ten prisoners would starve themselves to death before the protest was cancelled.
The ten men survived from 36 to 73 days with the intake of water and salt but without any food. What happened by the 36th or 73rd days? The conscious-energy faded away.
Because "heaven" and "earth" are merely dreamed up concepts and because the belief in them is sustained via the impure, blocked, programmed, and conditioned consciousness and stored in "the mind," then when the consciousness eventually fades away, then so do those dreamed up concepts.
They only exist in the mind, Yeshu'a / Jesus pointed out, so the prevailing fact is this:
No mind? Then no "heaven" and no "earth."
[Note that ignorance inspires the downgrading and upgrading of concepts / beliefs. "The Wife" will - in her mind - eventually self-upgrade to the ego-state of "The Super Wife." Husbands do the same. Similarly, humans do the same with all of their concepts, so "heaven" is nothing more than an upgraded version of "this world." ("Hell," therefore, is just a downgrade of "this world.")
Belong to a religion that generates the most bizarre beliefs about "relationships" and the roles of men vs. the role of women in your culture? Feel sexually repressed, sexually dysfunctional, etc.? Then note how easily such repressed males will buy into a version of "heaven" that will provide 72 virgins, thousands of whores, and thousands of pure wives. Now for those types, what an "upgrade"!
5.
Because "heaven" and earth shall fade away," then the same would have to apply to hell. In fact, Jesus never talked about hell. He used the term "gehanna" (to be discussed in more detail later).
So much for the dualistic pair of "heaven vs. hell." Because Jesus was teaching non-duality during the three years that he returned to Jerusalem, he was also dispelling any beliefs in dualities.
6.
"Cleave a piece of wood and I am there; lift up the stone and you will find Me there."
The non-dual / Advaitin ("not two") teachings point to the Oneness of all. Jesus was saying that, "I am the wood, I am the stone, I am that which is under the stone . . . I Am all." Scientists understand that everything in what is called "this universe" began with a single atom.
From that one, all came. Scientists also know that the only reason that things take on appearances that seem to be different is because they are vibrating at different frequencies. If one could force a human body to vibrate at the same frequency as a baby grand, then that person would take on the same appearance as a piano. That Jesus knew; that he taught.
7.
"If you do not know yourselves, then you are in poverty and you are poverty."
Non-duality teaches that those who do not understand the teachings cannot understanding the functioning of the totality and are, therefore, "poor" in understanding, in awareness.
Non-duality teaches that the Realized - those abiding in Full Awareness - know the Self, that is, the True Self. They also know the unicity, meaning the Oneness of Self. The "Advaitin / non-dual teacher" Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj taught that "Love is knowing that You are everything" (meaning, at one with all).
Jesus was saying that if persons do not know themselves - that is, the True Self . . . the One - then their lives will not be rich in understanding or freedom or peace.
8.
"I will give you what the eye has not seen, and what the ear has not heard, and what the hand has not touched, and what has not arisen in the heart of man."
The non-dual understandings are beyond the physical realm of seeing and hearing and touching and also beyond what people take to be the "heart" or the "soul." Jesus knew that nothing is as it appears.
An example often used is the steel beam. People believe they know exactly what a steel beam is, but that which it is truly is actually not even close to what it looks like to the human eye. Use an electron microscope and you will see that what is called "a beam" is mainly space with masses of subatomic energy particles swirling about.
Also, he makes the point that Truth cannot be stated so it cannot be heard with the human ear. Instead, it is the consciousness or awareness that speaks, and it is the consciousness or awareness that hears via the inner resource.
Thus, it is not the heart or soul that hears, and it is not a human that hears. It is that inner resource that can hear. When it hears a point that is accurately pointing to Truth, then there is an inward resonance that is "hearing." What is then "seen" (or understood) is the Truth that can be known but that cannot be spoken.
9.
"If they say to you, 'from where have you originated?' say to them, 'We have come from the light, where the light originated through itself'."
Again, the scientist Szent-Gyorgyi noted that “what drives life is . . . a little electric current, set up by the sunshine." All so-called "life" on planet earth "comes from the light" and "shall return to the light." Everything merely cycles. Yeshu'a / Jesus was challenging the common belief in his day - still pervasive today - in a linear timeline: birth, life, death, punishment or reward.
In this quote, he was pointing to the Advaita teachings that all cycles instead. Trillions upon trillions of humans have "come" and "gone" but nothing has been added to or subtracted from the elements of the earth that merely cycled in order for life-forms to happen.
The only "ingredient" added from without - from beyond what is already on the planet - is light / energy / sunshine. What "made" the Light? Nothing. Neither energy nor matter can be created and neither energy nor matter can be destroyed. What Jesus was saying, therefore, is that there is no creator / Creator because "all that is" has always been.
The light originated through itself. It was not created by something or someone else. (Scientists know that a single hydrogen atom manifested, then split time and again until helium atoms manifested. After they all crashed together, an amazing release of energy and light happened. Thus, "the light originated through itself."
10.
"I AM light."
Yeshu'a / Jesus did not say, "I am the light." He said, "I AM light." [Note the punctuation that is used by Advaitins and that Jesus used (as in quotes #1 and #2 earlier). View quote #11alongside quote #10 to understand the Advaitin pointer he was offering about "light."
11.
"If they ask you, 'what is the sign of your father in you?' say to them, 'it is a movement and a rest'."
So forget this talk about "The Father," he is saying. He made clear in quotes #10 and #11 that there was no creation, a fact now supported by scientific proof. Again, neither energy nor matter can be created or destroyed.
He also made clear in quote #4 that "heaven and earth shall fade away." If the place where "The Father" supposedly resides is not forever, then there is not place where "The Father" does or could reside; furthermore, quote #3 affirms his point: if heaven is within, then there is no place "out there" or anywhere else where "The Father" could be or will be.
As for "a movement," that which the "realized non-dualists" identify as a movement within is the movement of consciousness, ever in motion (as are all forms of energy).
As for rest, the Advaitin teaching is that rest cannot come when identified with the body or the mind or false identities or the ever-in-motion consciousness; rest comes when abidance happens as the Awareness - the original state.
[The explanation of that point is book-length and is far longer than the framework of this book allows. The book Consciousness / Awareness provides the full explanation.]
Meanwhile, by way of contrast with non-duality-based pointers:
Among there are those in the U.S.
who are driven by dualistic beliefs, including white supremacists, neo-Nazis,
white nationalists, and members of the alt-right movement and several fascist
movements, who organized a "Unite the Right" rally in
Charlottesville, Virginia in August of 2017.
They gathered to protest the possibility that the city might remove from public grounds a statue which honors Robert E. Lee, a traitorous confederate general during the Civil War (1861-1865) who led forces attempting to overthrown the United States Government in order to preserve the right to own slaves.
That's correct: in the U.S. - as in August 2017 - it was seen that persons are still fighting after 150 years a war originally rooted in duality and a sense of different-from-ment and better-than-ment and which continues to inspire a sense of different-from-ment and better-than-ment and resentment that the U.S. Government, 150 years ago, took away a source of near-free labor which reduced the profits of slave owners - especially in the cotton and tobacco businesses - by 25% or more.
Of the estimated 46,200 plantations (farms and estates being worked by a slave force) which are known to have existed in the U.S. in 1860 . . .
20,700 had 20 to 30 slaves;
2,300 had a workforce of a hundred or more slaves;
and
the rest had slaves in between those two totals.
Overall, in the U.S. in 1860, there were nearly 4,000,000 slaves owned by white men.
It was not uncommon for 10 to 15 slaves to be crammed together in a small cabin, called "the quarters."
One or two times per month on my
travels to Louisiana, along a stretch of Hwy 190, I pass a dozen or so abandoned slave
cabins, some of which have rotted away or collapsed in on themselves; a few
others, however, have been maintained and are still standing as a tribute to
"the good ole days." Confederate "Rebel" flags which are displayed there and in front
of many other houses owned by whites along the route.
One of the men seen marching at the Charlottesville rally with the fascist group calling itself "American Vanguard" - a man named James A. Fields - deliberately rammed his car into a crowd of counter-protesters at high speed, killing 32-year-old counter-protester and anti-fascist Heather Heyer and injuring dozens more.
Of the white supremacists, neo-Nazis, white nationalists, and members of the alt-right and fascist movements, the chief politician in the U.S. at the time said:
“The press has treated them absolutely unfairly. You have some very fine people on both sides.”
The founder of Daily Stormer, an American neo-Nazi and white supremacist site which considers itself to be part of the alt-right movement, said of the president:
"His comments were good. He didn't attack us. When asked to condemn, he just walked out of the room. Really, really good. God bless him."
Duality thrives in the U.S. and around the globe. Look at the total votes cast last month in the U.S. presidential election:
One candidate's comments consistently supported a non-dual view in terms of race, sexual preference, etc. The other candidate's comments consistently supported a duality-based, "them vs. us," racial superiority view.
What was the duality vs. non-duality breakdown of votes?
81,000,000+ votes were cast for the non-duality side.
74,000,000+ votes were cast on the duality-based side.
While not scientific, that's getting very close to a 50:50 ratio.
The implications regarding the devaluation of a democratic form of government and an increase in the affinity for strong-arm, authoritarian, dictatorial type leaders should be clear. Should that shift occur, duality will reign.
The pendulum of history from darkness to light has long swung, and the swinging toward duality and the darkness in the U.S. and some Western European nations is becoming more vigorous every day.
What can one do that would possibly inspire 50% of a population to see the light and prefer the light?
Very little. Look at Florence, Italy during its "Bonfire of the Vanities" days. Only the time necessary for the pendulum to swing the other way allowed for the overthrow of an authoritarian, dictatorial religious leader and for the restoration, to at least some degree, of sanity and wisdom and awareness.
To be continued.
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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"
and
"Heaven and earth shall fade away."
and
"Heaven and hell are not geographic places
"There is no hell."
