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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
Beliefs, especially beliefs based in duality and in the warped perspectives which those generate, have long been the source of almost all human conflict and pain and suffering.
The Ultimate Sickness is rooted in duality-based beliefs which, in turn, are rooted in what Maharaj identified as “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity.” That explains why he recommended that seekers realize fully by discarding all belief in the “learned ignorance” which they have been taught and by addressing the roots of their insanity and purging their minds of all stupid and insane influences.
Moreover, the duality-based beliefs of political leaders – along with their “ignorance, stupidity and insanity” and the “ignorance, stupidity and insanity” of their followers - have long been the impetus for human conflict and pain and suffering.
In the recent 30 May post, this was shared:
Before, there was never any way to estimate exactly how many of those abiding in the U.S. were driven by hate-filled and anger-dominated minds and by their separatist and duality-based and prejudice-inspiring mindsets, but in November of 2020, some 74+ million publicly exposed themselves.
Combine that pointer with this one:
Yesterday, reference was made to a woman who spoke about “drinking the Kool-Aid.” Her reference was to the 900+ people in a remote compound in “Jonestown,” Guyana who followed the dictates of their ignorance-and-stupidity-and-insanity-driven cult leader and pastor Jim Jones who ordered them on 18 November 1978 to give cyanide-laced grape Kool-Aid to their children and then to drink the Kool-Aid themselves.
Yet those 900+ persons cannot compare to the 74+ million referenced in the recent 31 May post who showed for over five years that they were willing to drink the Kool-Aid if their cult leader so ordered, many claiming they were willing to die on Jan 6th of this year in their attempt to overthrow the U.S. Government in order to stage a coup which would keep their leader in power.
[Bill, a regular
visitor to the site, mentioned in a text this morning that it was Voltaire who
said: "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit
atrocities."]
In the 30 May post, the sharing continued:
When visiting South Africa some ten years ago, I responded to some who were applauding “the accomplishments of the U.S. during the Civil Rights movement”:
“Stay tuned. You will see someday that the levels of white supremacy and racial hatred in the U.S. will be exposed and - as horrible as South Africa’s years of apartheid were - they will be made to look like child’s play by comparison.”
Study the history of the U.S. and its warrior-mentality culture and one can see that nothing compares to the chaos and pain and suffering which has been rooted in duality-based-beliefs resulting in a sense of separation, in a belief in “the other,” in racial hatred, in arrogance-based white supremacy, and in an endless stream of warped perspectives which have been the hallmark of the United States.
Extreme? Consider the major wars that the U.S. has fought in and how many died in each:
The American Revolution: 4,435
The War of 1812: 2,260
The Mexican War: 13,283
The Spanish-American War: 2,446
World War I: 116,516
World War II: 405,399
The Korean War: 36,574
The Vietnam War: 58,220
The Gulf War: 383
The Iraq / Afghanistan War: 6,773
TOTAL of those: 639,134
Now, look at the total that died in the race-based U.S. Civil War: 750,000 soldiers and 1.5 million U.S. citizens total.
See that the war which the U.S. fought over a duality-based belief in racial superiority and racial inferiority cost nearly 3 times more deaths than were lost in all of the other major wars catalogued above . . . combined.
Then re-consider this earlier pointer:
Study the history of the U.S. and its warrior culture and one can see that nothing compares to the levels of chaos and pain and suffering which have been rooted in duality-based-beliefs resulting in racial hatred and arrogance-based white supremacy and an endless stream of warped perspectives which have been the hallmark of the United States.
Additionally, the anger and hatred and duality-based beliefs about being victimized led to a willingness among some of those 74+ million in the U.S. to “Drink the Kool-Aid of the Big Lie of a White Supremacist”;
moreover, their anger and hatred and duality-based beliefs about being victimized can be traced back over 150 years to the U.S. Government taking away the right of their white ancestors to own and fornicate with and beat and work to death the African slaves that they bought and sold as if they were human chattel . . . as if they were nothing more than the personal possessions of white people.
Look at the instability and volatility and mental unrest and emotional intoxication of those 74+ million persons and see how their thoughts and words and deeds prove the validity of what the non-dualist Yeshu’a (“Jesus”) said:
“Dual-minded persons are unstable in all ways.”
And being “dual-minded” leaves humans vulnerable to being manipulated by religious and business and political leaders who are driven by the key symptoms of the Ultimate Duality-Based Sickness, namely, ignorance, stupidity, insanity and warped perspectives.
So it is, but so it need not be for the few who might seek full realization, (meaning, reach a state or condition whereby they are fully and completely freed from beliefs, especially from duality-based beliefs, which result in the unquestioned acceptance of “taught and learned ignorance”).
Meanwhile, among the "non-realized" masses, their beliefs - especially their beliefs which are based in duality and in the warped perspectives which those generate - will continue to cause their relative existence to be both marked and marred by human conflict and pain and suffering.
So that is, too.
To be continued.
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