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QUOTATIONS AND POINTERS dealing with NON-DUALITY, ADVAITA, NISARGA YOGA and more
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REGARDING
"RELIGIOUS AND / OR SPIRITUAL EGO-STATES" SPECIFICALLY
All human suffering is rooted in not living naturally, and all suffering
persons (i.e., the non-realized) are living (a) unnaturally or (b)
supernaturally (which is most unnatural in itself).
Those living unnaturally can be recognized by their self-destructive behaviors
and / or by their magical thinking.
Unnatural living and supernatural living are both tiresome and exhausting, but
natural living is easy.
As well as by their magical thinking, those trying to live in a supernatural
fashion can also be recognized by their belief in modernized versions of
ancient gods, by their acceptance of ancient myths and superstitions as fact,
by their disdain for scientific evidence and facts, and by their belief in
non-factual explanations for naturally-occurring events.
Faith in dogma demands that you question nothing. The invitation here is for
you to question everything. The "journey" only begins when
questioning begins. The "journey" only continues if questioning
continues.
Pray all the prayers that you think you need to pray; knell, bend over, stoop,
or lie prostrate as much as you think you need to kneel, bend over, stoop, or
lie prostrate; read all the “holy” books that you think you need to read; visit
all of the “sacred” sites or “sacred” men that you think you need to visit;
chant or hum every chant or hum you think you need to chant or hum; ring every
bell you think you need to ring; and burn every stick of incense that you think
you need to burn.
But when you are
done with all of your religious doingness and / or all of your spiritual
doingness, realize that you—and all persons who are fixated in a stage and who
are playing their religious or spiritual roles—are mistaking the dull light of
dawn for the full brightness of the noonday sun.
Realize that praying and knelling and bending over and stooping and lying
prostrate and reading and visiting and chanting and humming and ringing and
burning (and every other external thing you try to use to be more religious or
spiritual or to try to demonstrate how religious or spiritual you are) will
actually block you from finding the truth which can only be found within after
certain pointers are taken into quiet and solitary consideration.
One must either find a working philosophy or be doomed to adopt
"their" ideology instead, and both the historical and current
evidence show that nothing is more destructive, relatively speaking, than
buying into "their" ideology.
It eventually had to be asked, “WHO (what false persona) wants to be a ‘Supreme
Self’?" and "WHO (what false persona) is making the dualistic claims
that 'I am free of all concepts' and 'I am freed from assuming identities' but
then claiming as well that 'I Am the Supreme'?"
Focusing on the “I Am” is a tool that is only effective after body identification
is forfeited. Then, the “I Am” can be used to negate the mind which supports
the personality that wants to add words after the “I Am”: “I am spiritual”; “I
am a teacher”; “I am good”; “I Am the Supreme.”
The only reason for the pointer to “focus only on the ‘I Am’” is to divert the
focus from the false identities that have been assumed, from the talk about “I
am so-and-so.” Once persons cast aside two of the final personas which persons
assume (namely, “The Religious One” and “The Spiritual Giant”), the use of the
“I Am” will also end, right along with the former belief in “The User of
Spiritual Tools.”
Supernatural living leads to magical thinking which convinces persons that they
can have access to power that will allow them to control.
The master addiction among persons is a desire to control, and the secondary
addiction is the addiction to power, which the non-realized think will allow
them to control.
The result of programming and conditioning among persons is a belief in the
illusion of power / powers and an overwhelming desire to control others, to
control their surroundings, or to control other nations.
The master addiction among non-realized persons is to control; the secondary
addiction is to have power / a Power / Powers that allow them to control.
All efforts to control will fail and will lead to chaos. Chaos, in turn, will
lead to the desire for more control.
The typical relative existence on the planet today is one marked by the
instability of constantly shifting between states of chaos and periods of
trying to control in order to eliminate chaos, followed by even more chaos.
Such instability inspires most persons to search for external power sources and
eternal "problem solvers" and "external solutions" rather
than seeking within to find the Truth that can be known but that cannot be
stated.
If that Truth within is understood, then full realization will result and will
eliminate belief in the duality of internals and externals and will also
eliminate both chaos and the desire to control.
When persons become religious or spiritual, they try to use their power (or
superpower) to control their racing, variable, tortuous “minds” or to control
the behavior and "minds" of others (all of which is impossible since
what they are trying to control is a mirage).
For as long as non-realized persons (who make up the masses) believe that they
have power, they will continue to believe in the false. For as long as non-realized
persons believe in the false, they will be blocked from seeking the truth and
will - in fact - have no motivation to seek truth, believing they already know
it all and understand it all.
As long as persons do not understand that the cause of all is all, they will
continue to believe that there is a Power (or multiple "God-and-Goddess-Powers")
and that they - those believing persons - thereby have power.
As a result,
they will also believe such falsehoods as "I can affect when it
rains" and "I can influence healing" and "I can impact the
paths of hurricanes" and "I can control who wins wars and who
loses" and "I can control who receives blessings and who is
cursed" and "I can use my powers (or Power or Powers) to manipulate
and control others to get what I want," ad infinitum.
Supernatural beliefs and magical thinking are the compost from which springs
forth the illusions of megalomania, egomania, and self-aggrandizement.
Therefore, while religion and spirituality are not necessarily to be avoided,
they are to be transitioned. They are but one step along a "path" to
the freedom that happens when the understanding of what is "natural"
displaces unnatural and supernatural thinking.
To believe that all is caused by one cause - namely by "one Prime
Causer," believed to be an other-worldly power - is to believe that one
understands why everything happens as it happens; as a result, in actuality,
those who believe such a belief will never truly understand why anything
happens as it happens.
Since the time that some (1) began to believe in the concept of a god or gods
while others (2) began to use scientific methods to identify and understand
cause(s), the debate participated in by those two groups has always been tied
to the duality of faith vs. fact.
In order to be reincarnated or to have a resurrection and life eternal, you
would have to be a body and a mind and you would have to "have" a
personality.
Here, the pure, universal consciousness speaks to you of the no-self, no-Self,
no-SELF Reality. All pointers are just words which can guide you to the no-word,
no-thought silence and the no-concept bliss.
If your decades of religious effort and spiritual practices had resulted in the
ability to understand the truth that cannot be stated, to be comfortable in the
silence, and to be content in the awareness of “Wholeness” and “Completion,”
then fixation at the mid-point on "the path" could be understandable.
But the objective observer knows that is not the case.
Since what is believed "to be working" is not working at all, then
such fixation is senseless.
Do not disparage, however, those decades of effort; instead, transition your
religious and spiritual roles just as you must transition beyond your belief in
all the other roles you've played;
otherwise, you
will continue to stand in the subdued light of dawn while insanely believing
that you are being bathed in the full light of noon.
In response to,
"Floyd, millions of people who believe in Him can't be wrong!"
the response is,
"Indeed, your notion is accurate; in truth, it is not millions who have
been deluded in their beliefs. It is trillions upon trillions."
There are no "different persons" at "different levels" of
enlightenment or at different levels of goodness or badness. There are
quantities of manifested conscious-energy that are obscured by varying
quantities of bogus concepts and beliefs and ideas and myths and superstitions
(all amounting to an accumulation of so-called "knowledge” . . . a.k.a.,
"learned ignorance") .
Either way, ultimately, all of the manifested conscious-energy (obscured or not)
will unmanifest and merge into the vast pool of conscious-energy that is not
manifested, and then that's that / THAT.
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."
teachings which become a part of the Papal Magisterium.
