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"The death of the mind is the birth of wisdom"
and
"To know that you are a prisoner of your mind - that you live in an imaginary world of your own creation - is the dawn of wisdom"
and
"I have no mind . . . ."
--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
"Realization is nothing more than a process which results in a person being freed from believing in all learned ignorance."
--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The Anatomy of Human Memory Storage: The Elemental Brain vs. the Non-Elemental Mind
or
The Natural Brain vs. the Never-Natural Mind
YOU ARE NOT THE MIND
Many seekers never make it beyond the challenge of completing the second step on the reverse “path” where they must understand that the human mind shifted from being an asset to being a liability and, therefore, must be discarded.
“But what would that discarding leave?” most ask.
The reply: “All of the rest of the brain which is elemental and natural, as opposed to the learned ignorance which is stored inthe mind which has become totally unnatural.”
[The parts of the brain which allow for storage and retrieve of information is natural; what is unnatural is the information itself which is being stored and retrieved.]
Originally, human-like “beings” had no "mind part" of the brain. They abided under the auspices of the brain only. Later, they would abide under the auspices of the brain plus a mind focused on survival. Eventually, they would abide – as is the case nowadays - under the auspices of a nonsense-filled, irrational mind which is bent on self-destruction rather than survival because it has the power to override the brain.
Early on, the adult human brain had a one-cup size, and the parts of the brain now referred to as “the mind” - where information could be stored and from which information could be retrieved – did not exist.
It was not until the adult human brain evolved from its original one-cup size to its present 3-1/2 cup size that any human ever had "a mind," that is, ever had those areas of the brain where information could be stored and from which information could be retrieved.
So certain parts of the brain are now capable of storing and retrieving information, and once those parts became filled with nonsense via programming, conditioning, etc., a nonsense-filled mind forms.
But earlier, for many years, the information stored in the mind and recalled on occasion was, in terms of the relative existence, an asset because it facilitated the survival of the species.
The earliest version of "the mind" was originally an asset for humanity when it was filled with facts, such as when Thorson witnessed Rickback fall off a cliff and break into pieces on the rocks below and then Thorson stored in the mind-part of his brain the intuitive message, “Take caution around the edges of cliffs. The potential is an event which will not contribute to the survival of the species.”
Now, however, as a result of distorted and nonsensical programming, conditioning, domestication, acculturation, indoctrination and brainwashing, the mind - as Maharaj made clear in multiple warnings - is a liability.
The reason that Maharaj suggested that “ . . . You should go back, reverse, to the source” and “Follow the same path by which you came” is because it was during the “coming in leg” when foolishness was added, when, historically, each child is exposed to the hand-me-down ignorance and insanity which is being passed down to all children and which relocates them mentally and emotionally to the Land of Suckerdom where most of them will spend the rest of the manifestation.
The “realization” process, Maharaj said, is about nothing more than taking the steps required to be free of all of the learned ignorance which has taught.
It has been shown repeatedly on this site that "The Causes of the Ultimate Sickness" become "The Symptoms of the Ultimate Sickness" to the degree that "The Causes" (distorted and nonsensical programming, conditioning, domestication, acculturation, indoctrination and brainwashing") result in the passing down from one generation to the next the symptoms of the Sickness which Maharaj identified as "ignorance, stupidity, and insanity." Then, once the symptoms manifest in one generation, then those symptoms become the cause of the Sickness being passed down to the next generation.
So the transmission of the Ultimate Sickness now involves entrapment in a cycle of nonsense and what Maharaj called "learned ignorance."
You may have heard someone report something like this: "Well, my son brought home 'the crud' from school, he passed on the sickness to his brother and sister, they passed the illness to me, and I passed it on to my husband. Now we're all sick as can be."
The same happens with the Ultimate Sickness except it starts with the adults. What do their distorted and nonsensical programming, conditioning, domestication, acculturation, indoctrination and brainwashing generate? A crud-filled mind, now passed down to everyone.
Thus, this is a key point in understanding what the Sickness is about and how it is to be treated:
If persons were to all become reasonable and rationale in a flash, they would see that the greatest challenge being faced but ignored all around the globe is persons being fooled and then all acting the way that those playing the role of "The Complete Fool" act.
Maharaj said: "There is no such thing as peace of mind.”
I added to that, “There is only peace if you are out of your mind” which is actually “their mind” which has been “transplanted” into your head.
Yet seekers have told me, “What you’re asking us to do at the second step, to be rid of the mind, is . . .
“impossible”;
“a totally stupid idea”;
and / or
“insane in itself.”
In fact, it was quite easy for me to get rid of the mind once I realized how grand a liability it was. It was actually very simple after I realized that there is no such thing as “my mind.” There is only “their mind” which was passed on to me and which became stored in certain parts of my brain.
I had to realize that I did not come up with what is in “my mind.” THEY did.
Even as a child I was able to witness “my parents” and their “adult friends” and “their relatives” who became “my relatives” and I was able to see astounding levels of the “ignorance and stupidity and insanity” which Maharaj referred to as symptoms of the Ultimate Sickness.
They proudly self-identified as “East Texas rednecks.” They lied constantly. They talked ignorant and crazy shit constantly. They were religious fanatics, activists, and extremists while also being hypocrites. They were more often than not white supremacists.
They were right-wing, religious nuts whose blind faith led them to believe without any questioning every word spoken by their Southern Baptist Evangelical preacher’s literal interpretation of everything in their supposedly holy book. And they became militaristic and violent if their beliefs were challenged (which I often did).
Even as a five-year old and a six-year-old child, I was calling BS on their “Great Flood” tale, on their “survived three days in the belly of a whale” tale, and on their “all humans come from one man, one woman, and one son who killed his brother” tale (“So who did the remaining son have sex with to keep the baby-making deal going?”)
When I questioned all of that (and more), I became the rebellious target of their anger.
When I “disrupted” Ms. Myrtle’s Sunday School class by challenging the nonsensical stories being passed on as truth, my dad would be called and I would be taken home and forced to drop my jeans and would be whipped with the buckle end of a U.S. Navy belt left over from my dad’s WWII uniform. (Such was the result of his belief in the “Spare the rod and spoil the child” rule in his "holy book.")
When my sister saw the violent practice about to begin once again, she would go to the bathroom and collect the cotton balls and alcohol which she would use to rub down the bleeding wounds on my back and legs after the administering of dad’s punishment for my having the audacity to question “the holy word.”
All of that is what I witnessed and experienced as a child as a result of “their minds” and “their beliefs stored therein.” Seeing all of that, it became easy for me to discard what had been thought to be “my mind” which I came to see was not my mind at all. It was a mind which had been made by pumping it full of the ignorance and stupidity and insanity which filled their minds.
But what about you? Many cannot relate to all of the events I experienced early on, but all were programmed, conditioned, etc.
One should not have to go through such extreme events as described above in order to also be able to see that (1) much of what everyone is taught is total nonsense, rooted in ignorance, stupidity and insanity and to see that (2) the mind is a cesspool of dimness and darkness and denseness.
Yet egotism about how great one’s parents are or were leads to the conclusion, “Hey, screw you Floyd. My parents obviously did a helluva of a job – look how well I turned out.” And it is such arrogance-based, ego-defense belief system which leads most to cling to all that was passed down to them.
I communicated recently with a professional baseball player whose story includes being driven from early on, getting the big pro contract, playing on a team that was a contender, bringing in millions, ultimately being unfulfilled, throwing it all away to become a janitor, then finding the non-dual message, and now playing once more but as "a free agent."
That should be the story of everyone. You were programmed, conditioned, etc. to do what “they” wanted. You tried it their way or you’re still trying it their way. Yet one who does what "they" want is not free, and one who is not free cannot be happy. Ask anyone locked away in prison. Or ask anyone locked away in “their mind,” in the mind of others, and being driven by their nonsensical beliefs.
See, when it comes to ending the suffering and the misery and the pain of following the dictates of a mind that is not even your own, you must become a free agent . . . free of “their” influence. That would be the goal for all who are sane.
Are you really willing to become a free agent, or do you want to continue to live under their influence, really being nothing more than “their agent,” an agent of their will, trying to please others and do what others expect, even though their minds are cesspools of nonsense?
Freedom and independence require that there come an end to being imprisoned in the Parent-Child dynamics which were set in place during childhood and which trap persons in that childhood state even though an adult age has been reached.
It is the third option in the Parent-Child-Adult triad which is to be entered into as the ways of the Parent and the ways of the Child are all left behind.
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."
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"Heaven and hell are not geographic places
"There is no hell."
