TODAY'S CONSIDERATIONS
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THE RATIONALE FOR REACHING A
"NO-BELIEFS,"
"ZERO CONCEPTS,"
"NO-MIND" STATE
AS RECOMMENDED BY MAHARAJ AND THEN ABIDING UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE ELEMENTAL BRAIN RATHER THAN THE DISTORTED, FICTION-FILLED MIND
--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
"Here,
there is nothing that is believed, so there is no 'one' here who wants
you to believe anything, either. Here, the invitation is to be free of
all that you have been programmed, conditioned, domesticated,
acculturated, brainwashed, and indoctrinated to believe so that you can
be free, period; therefore, the plan here is not to teach more
and facilitate the learning of more but is to facilitate the process of
un-learning all and being un-taught all of the learned ignorance which
the masses have accumulated and passed down from one generation to the
next. Only if that approach is adhered to
can realization happen."
--Floyd Henderson
Why "Only if that approach is adhered to can realization happen"? Because of this:
"Realization is nothing more than a process which results in a person being freed from believing in all learned ignorance."
--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Two Tools Which Can Be Used To End Attachment To False Beliefs,
Part "C"
[Continued from Thursday]
Here, it is shown that along
"the path," "religious and / or spiritual roles" (or
"religious-like or spiritual-like" roles) will usually be assumed and
played at the third step. Often those roles, along with the role of "The Super Seeker," dominate all of the scores of other personality identifications which are assigned by other or assumed by persons.
Typically, heads must enter the clouds in an effort to try to see "noumenal things." In order to break the attachment to phenomenal things only and to be motivated to seek the light, that is often required by many.
Yet the fact remains, one cannot see any more light with his head in the clouds than a person standing on the ground, gazing skyward on a cloudy day, and also having the light blocked from view.
The problem with the assumption of those roles is that seekers typically fixate at that point - at the level which Maharaj called "kindergarten spirituality." In describing their circumstance, Krishna was not especially "kind" when discussing the ego / ego-state that is assumed at that level, suggesting that those who do not understand that "Reality" is beyond both beingness and non-beingness are "fools."
Thus, such supposed beingness, including "being spiritual," is a trap if one does not eventually "transcend spiritual and / or religious roles" and if one does not transcend "man-fabricated religious and spiritual knowledge."
Maharaj also made clear that those who do not transition their religious and / or spiritual role-assumption and role-playing are also just fooling themselves with their prideful but false belief about having realized and are allowing "others" to fool them as well. As a result, he said, they will never reach the fullness of the light:
"There are so many who take the dawn for the noon, a momentary experience for full realization, and destroy even the little they gain by excess of pride."
Indeed, how foolish persons to believe that they are being bathed in the full light of the noontime sun when in fact they are still standing in the dull dimness of dawn.
And how foolish persons are to believe that they can "become something different" from that which they truly are, were, and shall forever be, namely, energy-matter.
Moreover, in the case of humans (and deer, and fish, and birds, etc.) many forms of energy can manifest temporarily within a space formed by an elemental plant food body, one of which is conscious-energy.
That elemental plant food body forms a three-part composite unity consisting of (1) elements which are constantly coming together and coming apart and through which (2) energy enters and exits throughout the manifestation and through which (3) oxygen also enters and exits.
Were it not for the fact that elements are constantly coming together and coming apart, persons would not have to eat to replace, for example, the skin cells which cycle in and out every 28 days or the stomach lining cells which only last a fraction of that time without having to be replaced;
and were it not for the fact that energy - including conscious-energy - enters and exits the elemental plant food body throughout the manifestation, persons would not have to eat to replace that energy - and the other forms of energy which come and go;
and were it not for the fact that humans use about 550 liters of pure oxygen (19 cubic feet) per day, then constant breathing would not be required.
Thus the sages have long made clear that there is no "one," much less anyone who is experiencing any continuity at all. Why is that distortion so widespread? Because of memories, which are always distortions and which give a false sense of continuity.
Why are memories always distortions? Because all which the non-realized masses witness is witnessed inaccurately because they are witnessing via the duality-based subject-object method of seeing and perceiving. If something viewed is viewed inaccurately, then the memory of what was viewed will be inaccurate.
[In Indian philosophy and religions, samskaras (sanskaras) are spurious mental impressions, supposed recollections, or fictitious psychological imprints which are, by their very nature, inaccurate and which therefore give rise to inaccurate concepts (such as "karma" which Maharaj eventually discarded as just one of the plethora of false beliefs dreamed up by men. He said to one believer in karma, "Karma is only a word you have learnt to repeat." He said, "You were never born even once," and then asked, "So how can you possibly be born again?"]
Yet look at one's school pictures from age 6 to age 18 and it should be clear that the "person / body" thought to be in picture one of that set is not the same "person / body" shown in picture two, much less the same "person / body" shown in picture twelve.
There is no continuity. Per the Second Law of Thermodynamics, all that comes together will come apart, including bodies and minds and specks of consciousness. That is simple science, the science which Maharaj said could substantiate the non-dual teachings.
In the absence of understanding science or discarding the validity of scientific evidence or believing what their religious or spiritual leaders tell them, then the masses for the most part believe that they will continue to exist for eternity in one form or another.
Some believe that form will be a gauzy, transparent form, (a.k.a., "an angel"); some believe that the form will be an invisible, winged, half-bird, half-human being, capable of flying and even hovering over a person to be its "guardian");
and
some men believe that their earthly
form will not change and that they will exist forever as a physical form capable
of enjoying the benefits of abiding in a celestial brothel where they will be
capable of experiencing an endless series of orgasms with thousands of whores
(who can be de-flowered and then will immediately be re-flowered) and thousands of dutiful, accommodating wives and with seventy-two special, angel-like virgins at their disposal for eternity. Some accounts even include willing young boys who will provide physically pleasure to those males who earn their way into heaven.
The Christian man living next door believes that he, too, shall exist forever as a form capable of enjoying physical pleasure and that his God is going to get rid of his current wife whom he has tired of and will get him someone else who is younger and more attractive whom he can enjoy being with forever, or at least until he tires of that replacement and then calls on his God to pimp for him again and get another replacement. He did not care to hear it when I invited him to see that his beliefs align him more with Muslim men than with his "Christian brothers."
In the absence of scientific understanding, there are beliefs and beliefs and beliefs, all of which are lies and distortions and delusions.
That which believes it can "become" something else, can become "better" (or "worse"), or can become "spiritual" is an ego-state (a false role, a bogus identity, an assumed personality / persona).
When the consciousness (as a result of programming, conditioning, domestication, acculturation, brainwashing and indoctrination) is blocked from seeing "Truth and Reality," then the counterfeit body-mind-personality triad is believed to be real and can thereafter generate a near-infinite number of beliefs which are taken to be true but are not.
In fact, the only "triad" that non-duality recognizes as being presently based in fact is the air-elements-energy triad, and even that triad forms what is nothing more than a temporary grouping; therefore, the air-elements-energy triad is not that which is uniquely real, either.
If it is understand that the triad is merely a finite "composite unity" which exists temporarily, then it should become clear that the oxygen being circulated through a space cannot become something other than oxygen;
and if it is understood that the elements forming the temporary space cannot become something other than elements; and if it is understood that the energy manifested in that space (specifically, the conscious-energy) cannot become something other than the type of energy that it is;
and if all of that is understood, then it can also be understood that neither air nor elements nor energy can "become spiritual," can "become better," can "become worse," or can become anything that is different from what they already are.
In fact, the entire notion of "becoming" - the very belief that one can "become" something else - is just one more belief that is based in learned ignorance and - typically - in the egotism which always manifests alongside the assumption of an ego-state. Thus it can be asked:
Can H2O "become" a cube or a lake or a river or a waterfall or vapor or ice or snow or sleet or steam or a puddle or a stream, or are those also nothing more than "man-fabricated concepts" which erroneously suggest that an "A" can become a "B" or which suggest that something can become something else that is totally different from what it really is?
All of those are the same, merely H20 at their core, manifesting in a variety of forms with various "appearances." The same applies to all members of what is referred to as "humanity."
Humans change physically every day. Cells come and go. Conscious-energy comes and goes. That which is real is unchangeable, fixed, constant, consistent, unalterable, immutable, and absolute.
That which believes it is changeable, variable, and alterable is the result of the misperceptions which are fostered via the blocked consciousness. The blocked consciousness prevents the seeing of facts and the seeing of both "reality and Reality" (that is, both the AM-ness and the THAT-ness) and the seeing of truth and the ability to differentiate the true from the false.
Among the non-realized masses (meaning, per Maharaj, "those who have not been freed from belief in their accumulation of learned ignorance") valid and accurate seeing and understanding of truth will be blocked by belief in the accumulated and bogus contents of a "mind" which leads persons to assume that they are that which they are not.
That which believes it can change or grow or develop into something which is different from what it actually already is is a speck of consciousness which has been fooled.
That which believes it can become enhanced or improved or made better or made worse or ungraded or downgraded is a speck of conscious-energy that has been fooled.
And all such beliefs are rooted in the duality of either (1) an egotism-based notion of being "very good" or even "great" or (2) a guilt-and-shame-based notion of being "bad" or "unworthy."
Either way, all such notions and beliefs are outgrowths of a fiction-filled "mind" that is plagued with psychological distortions which were set in place by faulty programming, warped conditioning, perverted domestication, arrogance-based acculturation, insidious brainwashing, and debilitating indoctrination.
Because all in the relative existence truly is relative - that is, all observed and judged via differing and varying misperceptions only - then the very notions or beliefs about what is "good vs. bad" and "right vs. wrong" and "better vs. worse" and "spiritual vs. not spiritual" . . .
. . . and "religious vs. not religious" or "spiritual enough vs. not spiritual enough" and "changed for the better vs. changed for the worse" will vary from one person to the next.
Who, then, could possibly claim to know which of the above elements in those dualistic pairs are the "right" ones?
Who (what ego-state) believes that he or she can define in absolute terms any or all concepts and beliefs when all beliefs and concepts are totally relative and not absolute at all?
Only the programmed and conditioned and domesticated and acculturated and brainwashed and indoctrinated; only specks of blocked consciousness which have assumed the most arrogant of assumed personas; only those who take themselves to be right and perfect and capable of judging dualistic pairs and determining - without any doubt or question - which of the opposite elements in each pair is at play in any given situation.
Yet all the time, they might as well be debating "sasquatches vs. unicorns"; "satanic reps vs. guardian angels"; "tooth fairies vs. Easter bunnies" or concluding as one woman did that "Floyd is no longer a good man" vs. "He has become a New Age Agent of Satan."
No element of a dualistic pair has any more or any less credibility than the opposite element in the dualistic pair. All duality is false. It is all a part of the dream; all a part of the scheme; all a part of the scene. It all amounts to nothing more than a flash across the screen of blocked consciousness.
Persons viewing movies in 3-D have been seen to jump back in fear when it appears that something has left the screen and is charging them. Their perception / misperception is that they really are about to be harmed by whatever they think is flying directly at them.
And that is the way that the non-realized masses traverse the relative existence, seeing images and believing that they are all real; believing that some of the images they see are "good"; believing that some of the other images they see are "bad";
believing that some of the formerly "bad" images have changed or improved and are now "good"; and believing that some of the formerly "good" images have suddenly been exposed and revealed to have been "bad" all along.
Such dualistic beliefs have been dreamed up by leaders claiming to be "religious" or "spiritual" and those beliefs are being clung to by their followers, the non-realized masses; by contrast, such dualistic beliefs are disproved and discounted and discarded as a result of a few having received some basic scientific awarenesses, just as Maharaj predicted.
When the most basic scientific understandings are ignored - as is happening around the globe this very day - then two billion persons on the planet will show just how fooled they have been via their act of gathering to celebrate the "birth" of "A Savior" who was "Special" by virtue of having supposedly been "born of a virgin" (as if that were scientifically possible);
or, the males among some 1.8 million members of another religion will gather multiple times per day to keep a god happy in order to insure that they'll be allowed to enter into their god's awaiting whorehouse in the sky and be allowed to stay there forever in that Heavenly Playboy Club.
Wow.
To
be continued.
Please enter into the silence of
contemplation.
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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."
