TODAY'S CONSIDERATIONS
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The Pure, Universal Consciousness,
Pure Awareness,
and a
"Proper Perspective"
“I talk to you from the perspective of the universal consciousness.”
---Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Today, billions of people all around the globe are having their emotions ratcheted up by those who are speaking from the perspective of the body and the mind in order to increase the ratings of their news shows or their ranking in political polls.
Those in both groups are rocketing the present levels of hysteria into a whole new realm. Their words offered not from the perspective of the universal consciousness but from the perspective of the body and the mind are convincing persons all around the globe that their bodies are in eminent danger of being shot or blown up or beheaded.
If a proper perspective were in place, that message could not be sold to the masses, but 50% of the masses are Personality Type Sixes who live perpetually in a state of fear and anxiety and preoccupation every day of their lives, no matter what is being reported in the news and no matter what is happening – or not happening – in their lives.
Want to tap into the largest audience possible and move a news station’s rating up from a 9% share of viewers? Generate fear and you’ll capture the attention of 50% of all persons on the planet. Want to raise your ranking in a political poll above a single-digit number?
Tap into the fears of Personality Type Sixes, feed their always-present fear and anxiety, and you’ll attract 50% of all voters if you can assuage their fears to even a slight degree by speaking from the perspective of the body and the mind rather than talking from the perspective of the universal consciousness.
Bristle, bluster, harangue, threaten, rant, sermonize, and shout tirades about those who are “different from” and therefore “not as good as” and 50% will all reply, “Amen! There’s a potential leader of our nation who really sees the truth of the danger. There’s someone who can take care of us because he’s the only one who really sees the extent of the threat and because he’s the one who is calling for drastic and radical and extreme and harsh and strong and desperate actions . . . right now!”
The perspective shared with my daughter when she was once in a state of fear: “Consider everything you have ever feared or dreaded. How much of that ever came to be? Almost none of it.
"Next, consider the things that have happened which, in terms of the relative existence, felt like real blows which generated pain in the body or misery and suffering in the mind for a time. You never saw them coming!
"Then consider the facts surrounding your own experiences and see the reality of what happened and what never happen; then, see that (a) whatever you might dread will seldom manifest and see that (b) what actually manifests comes like a meteor and shatters whatever it hits in a matter of seconds without having been anticipated at all. Then, if you see with a proper perspective the Truth of your own experiences, why would you ever allow yourself to be pulled into a state of fear and dread and anxiety around what – historically and in your own experience – is not likely to ever happen?”
Those 2015 events in Paris which she brought up for us to discuss, via distorted perspective, appear to be the most important happening in the news and seem to be the best indicator of the actions which should be taken in order to guarantee protection of the bodies in other cities all around the globe:
“We need to identify and track all Muslims. We need to close their mosques. We must let only Christians come here. We must clear out all non-Christians and all 'non-American' people and build walls around the nation’s borders. But right now, above all else, we must ban Syrian refugees.”
If one studies who and what is responsible for harming people in the U.S. (relatively speaking), then none of those suggestions and plans above are based in a clear perspective or even in the most basic understanding of the facts.
If a clear perspective and facts were to be driving suggestions and plans, then persons would not say “We need to identify and track all Muslims" but would say instead, "We need to track the insane citizens in the U.S. who are marrying people and then killing their mates."
(That conclusion is reached although the attackers in Paris were French nationals, and French nationals are free to book passage on any France-to-U.S. flight and enter the U.S. legally . . . right now or later tonight or tomorrow or any day in the future.)
Hundreds of books, movies, essays and reports exist with the title "The Enemy Within." Those who have written such works "get it"; that is, they understand that throughout history, the enemies within have been able to generate far more (relative) harms than the enemies from without.
And humankind's most prevalent enemy within nowadays is . . . ? The content of humans' minds.
Those who speak from the perspective of a body and mind, and those who listen to persons who speak from the perspective of a body and mind, will become trapped in a series of hysterical reactions and actions of the type which would inspire a farmer to try to lock imaginary predators out of his hen house even as he provides unfettered access to his own hens by those who actually attacked hens in other houses.
Distorted perspectives are the compost heap which fuel the growth of fear and ignorance and insanity and nonsense and self-contradictions and the drawing of erroneous conclusions because the clear seeing of facts is blocked by emotional intoxication and fear and anxiety, all of which can only be experienced by an ego-state.
Maharaj: “What contradicts itself has no being. Or it has only momentary being, which comes to the same. For what has a beginning and an end has no middle. It is hollow. It has only name and shape given to it by the mind, but it has neither substance nor essence.”
Maharaj: "Learn to separate yourself from the image and the mirror."
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Maharaj also said: "Keep on remembering: I am neither the mind nor its ideas.”
More to the point, I am neither their minds or their ideas, so I need not be driven by their minds and their ideas.
See? The enemy is within . . . within the mind; thus Maharaj said:
"There is no chaos in the world except the chaos which your mind creates."
"Whatever is conceived by the mind must be false.”
" . . . The mind obscures and distorts."
"It is the mind that creates illusion."
"Abandon the wrong ideas, for they are false and obstruct your vision . . . ."
"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."
Those are suggestions which were offered by one “talking to you from the perspective of the universal consciousness.” Such talk will free you.
If you are listening to those who are “talking to you from the perspective of the body and the mind,” then you will be imprisoned by their words.
There are outer / external resources of influence and inner / internal resources of influence. Which type has been allowed to become your primary nexus of power? Are you being guided by an internal nexus of influence or by an outer nexus of influence?
To reject the influence of all external nexuses of influence leaves one free to then address the inner influences which were set in place by external influencers who programmed and conditioned and domesticated and acculturated and indoctrinated and brainwashed you (which means that all in your mind was also put there by external nexuses of influence).
The invitation is to be free of being influenced by all those external nexuses of power which are speaking from the perspective of a body and a mind; to be free of being influenced by all of the internal nexuses of power which were set in place by programmers, conditioners, etc.; and to then abide naturally without being afraid of things dreamed up by nonsense-filled minds (be they your minds or be they their minds).
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
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"No one shall ever see 'the kingdom of heaven.' It is within"
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"Heaven and earth shall fade away."
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"Heaven and hell are not geographic places
"There is no hell."
