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Your programmers and conditioners completely fooled you about who / what you
are—which in turn robbed from you the lingering intimation of who (or what) you
truly were prior to manifestation and truly are and truly shall be:
(1) energy-matter / matter-energy and, for now, (2) THAT-"this."
It was your parents' and culture's dissemination of false information that
deprived you of much happiness by instilling a sense of fear and desire and
angst, all in an effort to control you and your behavior and beliefs and
attitudes.
In addition to the fraud of dreamed-up personas and their imaginary
"personal needs," your programmers also set you up for tremendous
misery by first convincing you that you are your body and that you are,
therefore, limited rather than infinite, partial rather than complete,
dependent rather than capable of being independent.
Pretend for a moment: if you knew someone had been a cat for twenty years and
then a dog for twenty years and then at age forty magically became a human,
would you say that person has been a human for all forty years? No.
Then
why speak of a “baby” and then a “child” and then a “teen” and then a “young
adult” and then an “adult” and then a “senior” and suggest that the current
senior human (and human body) is the same human (and human body) that was
referred to originally as a particular, personal "child"?
The “me” who looks at pictures of itself as “baby” and then “child” and then
“teen” and then “young adult” and then “adult” and then “senior” and believes
that those are all the same body is glaringly unobservant.
If you were to lay out pictures of each of those bodies and ask any child (who
had not yet been hopelessly programmed) if those were all the same person, the
child would deny it immediately.
The
differences are obvious to any objective observer, and only fraudulent
teachings and confused "memories" could so confuse persons that they
can believe in body continuity.
There has never been one body with continuity, and there will never be a body
with continuity (whether talking about pre-manifestation, manifestation or
post-manifestation periods).
The
human body is constantly replacing and regenerating cells to maintain proper
and efficient functioning, so it is forever in a state of flux and never in a
state of continuity or stability.
Cells such as blood cells, skin cells, and bone cells are being replaced at
different rates. If you spend ten minutes reading this chapter, during that
time you will have shed 250,000 skin cells and those will have been replaced by
250,000 different cells. Not one cell of the billions of skin cells that came
about during the last twenty-eight days is now present.
From one month to the next, your body in not even “enclosed” in the same skin!
The basal cells will divide in order to insure a certain skin thickness. If the
outer layers of dead skin peel away more frequently, the basal cells on the
inside will divide more frequently to make up for the lost skin.
If
your skin has had no continuity for even a month, why the misconception about
the space within? (Must you "dust the furniture" frequently in your
home? What are you dusting away, for the most part? "Dead skin cells"
that you and others have shed.)
Bone marrow cells called “hemopoietic stem cells” can divide over and over to
generate red blood cells as well as different kinds of white blood cells.
In the inner lining of the small intestine, cells are "turned over" / replaced every seven days or so. In the pancreas, the turnover time may be as long as a year or more, but that organ too is subject to the same “turnover.”
Liver
cells rarely divide, but if there is an injury to the liver and the liver is
somehow reduced, liver cells will divide to try to return the liver to its
pre-injury size.
So if the body (which the non-realized believe has been "one continuous
body") has different red blood cells, different white blood cells, a
different pancreas, a different lining to the intestines, completely different
skin on a regular basis, different bone cells, etc., where is the continuity?
Forget
about the concept of body continuity post-manifestation; forget about the
concept of post-manifestation body continuity which would facilitate the
enjoyment of eternal rewards;
forget about the concept of post-manifestation body continuity which would
allow for the experiencing of the pain and suffering of eternal punishment;
forget
about the concept of male carnal pleasures happening at the expense of multiple
virgins and wives and prostitutes for eternity; forget about the concept of a
series of post-manifestation births and rebirths.
Nothing that requires a body (or the truly-dreamed-up notion of "a
body-soul" that would be capable of feeling the pleasures of fornication
or capable of feeling pain and / or misery) will ever happen
post-manifestation.
After any particular composite-unity-triad "ends," the elements will
return to the universal pool of elements; the air will return to the universal
pool of air; and the conscious-energy will return to the universal pool of
energy.
If those scientifically-provable facts are understood, then how could there possibly by a belief that some part or embodiment or piece or segment of some supposed "you-ness" - or some part thereof - could remain intact post-manifestation and then be capable of feeling physical pleasures or capable of feeling pain and / or misery?
See? The slightest degree of wisdom or science-based awareness makes it a simple matter to answer accurately the question, "What happens when I die?" The understanding above should be the end of the story, and the end of "related stories," and the end of dogma-based myths, and the end of
belief in all superstitions, and the end of distortions, and the end of misrepresentations, and the end of believing lies and
falsehoods, and the end of being open to deceit.
Nobody (no body) will remain to do or feel or experience or enjoy or hate or
suffer from anything.
(Thus, the "mystery" in one religion's teaching
- regarding whether "good persons" will spend eternity in heaven with
"Spouse One" or "Spouse Two" or "Spouse Three,"
etc. - has been solved! For many, that is "the real 'Good News'.")
Is it becoming clear that the body seen in the first-grade photo has
practically nothing in common with the body seen in the second-grade photo,
much less with the body seen in a high school senior photo, much less with a
senior citizen's body seen in another photo? What do those bodies / spaces have
in common, if not you?
Only
the illusions stored in a "continuous mind" that continuously stores
memories of things (which were misunderstood even at the moment they happened)
and which continue to mislead the corrupted / blocked consciousness into
believing in the fallacious concepts of “continuity now” and “continuity
forever.”
If all bodies are in a constant state of flux because of constant cell replacement and conscious-energy replacement (becoming a different body this
second, and then a different body the next second, and then a different body
the next second), then no body should be mistaken as something that is “set” or
“permanent” or “fixed” as a continuous form.
Because no “set” body exists, then that which is constantly changing into
something else cannot possibly define anything, including the supposed "You" or "you" and
including THAT vs. the temporarily-manifested AM-ness.
[Compare that misunderstanding with someone saying, "The ice cube that
I've dropped onto the hot pavement is a cube . . . no wait, it's part cube and
part water . . . no wait, it's water . . . no wait, it's vapor . . . no wait, it
had disappeared and no longer exists."
Then,
understand that the various "forms" were all illusions and that the
only thing that was real was the combination of hydrogen and oxygen atoms.
Understand that those elements continue to exist, even as they always existed
and even as they always shall exist - just not in any of the perceived /
misperceived forms or shapes that they were mistakenly thought to be. See the
body as the cube and see the atoms as the energy-consciousness.]
Thus, the flaw in the concept of "body continuity for eternity"
should be obvious: which body would exist for eternity if no body is the same
for even a split-second during the period of manifestation?
If
you have had no body continuity during “this life,” then you cannot possibly
have body continuity in "an afterlife." (To believe in that falsehood
is an example of magical thinking at its worst.)
Consider what freedom comes about by way of the understanding that nobody (and
no body) will exist forever and by way of the understanding that nobody (and no
body) will experience the pain of eternal flames and the misery of eternal
angst!
If you are not the continuous body you have taken yourself to be, and if you
are not a body at all, then who (or what) are you, truly? Do you understand why
the only accurate statement that can be made about "identity" during
this manifestation is offered in the declaration, “When you speak of Me, speak
of Me as I AM”? That is the only “Me” there is.
In
order to transcend the attachment to something as superficial and limited as
your body, the following pointer might help in setting aside the ego’s
“Assumption of Specialness” about the individualized and personalized
body-mind:
From a satsang session: “I am sorry to shatter another popular illusion, this
one relating to what a special gift you were from some entity, but now is an
appropriate time to report to you that your body resulted nine months after two
plant-food-eaters entered into an exercise of friction. That’s it."
(And they most assuredly were not thinking during their act of friction about
"making 'you'!" Humbling, yes?)
To be continued.
Please enter into the silence of contemplation.
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"There is no hell."
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