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
The examples offered yesterday support the pointer offered on occasion by Maharaj and offered here periodically: of all of the ideologies and philosophies and cultural teachings and businesses with their marketing machinations and manipulations along with educational institutions and rulers and politicians, ad infinitum, no single source has generated more lies and distortions and delusional claims nor more ignorance and insanity than . . . religion.
Over the years, Christians and others have been quick to argue that point and dismiss it and then hate this messenger and all messengers who have offered that point for consideration.
Back during the days when I shared that pointer and instantly became the target of their attacks (and before I had stopped responding to such attacks), I invited them to see the message behind the actions of the one whom they claim to be following.
What exactly do the actions of Yeshu’a / ‘Jesus’ show that he would have his followers emulate? The actions of the one whom they claim to follow send this message to his so-called followers:
“I abandoned organized religion and I rejected all belief in the dogma I was taught. If you were truly a follower of me, then you too would leave organized religion and would toss aside all of the dogma you have been taught. Moreover, after having left organized religion and abandoned the use of dogma, you would seek and find the non-dual understanding, as I did.”
So, two of the traits which Maharaj identified as symptoms of the Ultimate Sickness are “ignorance” and “insanity.” It has been said that ignorance cannot spot ignorance and that the insane cannot spot their own insanity.
That's usually the case, but many among the insane can spot the insanity of others though they cannot spot their own; thus, a common perspective among the masses is, “My poop stinketh not; thy caca doth much offend.”
Most among the masses would be millionaires if they had a nickel for each time they said, “Will you look at that total nut job!” or “Do you see how crazy that entire group is?” or “Have you ever seen anyone in your life who is as crazy as he / she is?”
Over the years, posts have contained pointers from Robert M. Pirsig’s book entitled Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Relevant to yesterday's post as well as today’s post, he said . . .
The result? When the examples provided yesterday to illustrate what can happen when such concepts as “turn it over to god” are unchecked and allowed to run wild, the man who called his sister-in-law a “nut” read those illustrations and then replied:
“Floyd, we’re not crazy—we took our daughters to the doctor when they were ill.”
How truly asleep and truly dense can someone be who has claimed for years that he is awake? The answer: That asleep. That dense.
The purpose of offering examples is that the wise can read them and can then move beyond the specifics of any given example and can relate to the key message behind the example which is to see how commonplace their own magical and insane thinking is, not how common the specific examples are.
Conversely, therefore, the problem with examples is that seekers can hear certain illustrations and say, “Well I must be fine. I’ve never done anything that crazy.”
Those among the masses will look at any given illustration from their narrow, literal, and limited view of that example, will look only at the specifics of that particular example, and will then dismiss the message of the illustration by concluding, “I’ve never done anything that crazy.” The result?
They are thereby blocked from seeing the parallels which do exist, not in any specific, given action but in the same type of faulty logic and warped perspectives which come by way of their own distorted belief systems.
True, most may not have ever engaged in the same specific act in an example, but there have been instances when they have clung to similarly-warped beliefs which they could relate to if they could develop the ability to be awake and honest and objective.
The task of the seekers that earnestly seek an awareness of their own faulty thinking and belief systems is to reach a point where they can say, “Okay, I looked at your example and I’ve never done anything that crazy, but I can see now that certain behaviors of mine have been rooted in the exact same kind of nonsensical beliefs which I was taught and which have resulted in my engaging in some crazy behaviors (that is, in some - relatively speaking - self-defeating and self-destructive acts which proved to be - relatively speaking - harmful to myself on some occasions and harmful to some people on other occasions).
Who
(other than the totally deluded) can claim - after having been raised in any of
the planet’s typical cultures which inspire supernatural and magical and
distorted and delusional thinking - that they have always been exempt from any
and all influence of acculturation and the insane belief systems which are so
prevalent on a global basis?
The point yesterday was not, “Have you ever denied medical treatment to a child? No? Okay, well then, your thinking is A-OK. Rock on!” The point was, “What ways of thinking and what beliefs do you have which have blocked you at one time or another from doing the wisest and the most reasonable and the most logical and the most sane thing in every case?"
The fact remains that most persons will never be able to grasp the truth surrounding their own defective thinking and distorted beliefs. Why?
(1) Because one property of programming, conditioning, etc. is that they result in an inability to differentiate between what is true and what is false, and that never applies more than when persons are invited to look honestly for instances when ignorance and insanity guided them and continue to guide them;
and
(2) because magical thinking is also
“spin-thinking.”
What Maharaj called “mind-language” will be used to “put a spin on it” if there
is any inkling at all that one might have certain relative flaws which are
needing to be addressed; then, ego-and-egotism-driven mouth-speak will manifest
to put into words the mind-concocted-spin which came via a warped perspective.
When “floyd” once asked a preacher about the low success rate of prayer (e.g.,
"deaths" happening in spite of prayers, damage from storms occurring
in spite of prayers, crop failure happening as a result of drought in spite of
prayers for rain, “relationships” ending in spite of prayers, wars happening in
spite of prayers for peace on earth, ad infinitum) his explanation was
this:
“Floyd, Floyd, Floyd. All prayers are answered, but you should only
expect about one-third of the answers to be ‘yes.’ One-third will be ‘no’ (for
your own good) and one-third will be ‘later,’ to be determined by God’s
timing and 'His Divine Plan'.”
His quoting of those dreamed-up statistics which have no statistical basis at
all is as irrational as talk about “turning it over” and about “relief coming
after having done so.” The fact is that delusion-based acts such as “turning it
over” to some fictional entity provide no permanent relief from any relative
problem.
Most will spend the entire manifestation being fooled by others and fooled by
self, and that was also the case with “the now realized” during their days
prior to realization. Post-realization, the registering of nonsense as nonsense
starts happening spontaneously, so they cannot be fooled any longer. Meanwhile,
prior to realization, it is logic and reason which register with “the
non-realized” as being “nonsense.”
So this was offered to the man who wanted to continue to argue about the
validity of nonsensical beliefs: “You are invited to find why it is that, after
years of exposure to these teachings, (a) you can still be fooled by the
nonsense that you hear from “the non-realized” and then (b) you can repeat that
nonsense and (c) you can enthusiastically argue for its legitimacy.”
To be continued.
Please enter into the silence of contemplation.
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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."
