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DE-AWESOME-FYING NON-DUAL TERMINOLOGY
More on the rationale for this series:
1. Among the 7+ billion non-realized persons on planet earth, 97% reported in a survey that they limit their “search area” to the space beneath the roof a church or basilica or cathedral or temple or the meeting room of a “spiritual group” or a wat or mosque or synagogue or gurdwara. Actually, they seldom seek because they are convinced that they have found. They are taught to “question nothing” and to “accept with blind faith” whatever they are taught.
2. The same applies to the millions supposedly seeking in particular rooms or a loft or a home or a borrowed gathering space or via a particular ideology, cult, philosophy, or theory.
3. Of those seeking via a system of pointers which included the invitation to “question everything,” few question it all.
4. Here, “non-dualists” are encouraged to “question it all” and then an expanded caveat is added: “even question every non-dual pointer you’ve ever heard or read.”
5. Long before Maharaj shared pointers on the bogus beliefs regarding body and mind and personality identification; and long before he advised seekers to abandon their religious and spiritual role-playing; and long before he advised them to give up their spiritual workaholism and merely abide naturally, he laid the groundwork for all the pointers to come by saying, “Question everything.”
He meant with those words that every belief accumulated by listening to others and by reading the words of others and by going to gatherings (where those he derided as “Big Name Teachers” were collecting millions of dollars a year from seekers) must be questioned.
6. There have been millions of religious and spiritual and philosophical and ideological and Eastern and, yes, even non-dual concepts / beliefs which billions of humans have taken to be “awesome.”
In addition to “awesome,” so many simple and basic parts of the non-dual understanding have been “elevated in status” in a most supercilious, pompous fashion, reporting that various elements of the message are “noble,” “other-worldly,” “extraordinary,” “exceptional,” “distinctive,” and “exclusive.” None of them were, and none of them are.
7. This series is offering a different perspective about those concepts / beliefs / pointers / whatever.
So far in this series, it has been shown that - far from being “awesome concepts or teachings” - there is actually no validity or logic at all to such concepts or teachings as . . .
continuity
and
WHO-ness and / or who-ness
and
“SELF-Actualization”
and
“SELF-Realization”
and
“self-realization” (unless referring to the fact that one has realized that all assigned or assumed selves are illusions as are all assumed Selves as well)
and
liberation
and
enlightenment, awakening, and spiritual awakening,
and
“the Spiritual Malady”
and
higher consciousness
and
and
how to know God
and
finding your life’s purpose
and
how to find peace of mind
and, relatedly,
mindfulness
and
becoming who you are
and
having an ageless body and timeless mind
and
karma
and
“Infinite Self” and “Supreme Self” and “Eternal Self”
and
birth-death-rebirth cycles
and
“The Universe”
and
“the work” / “spiritual work” / “spiritual workaholism”
and
contrary types vs. contrarians
and
being blessed and having blesséd days.
Today, the discussion continues with a concept which is widely popular in both religious and spiritual venues.
BEING BLESSED AND HAVING BLESSÉD DAYS (con’t.)
[An additional consideration: Have you noticed how "the non-realized masses" love the things which they and their culture take to be awesome and how dissatisfied they are with the things that are natural or ordinary or simple or commonplace or uncomplicated?]
This was asked yesterday:
Might it be that the real motive for talking about blessed days and for wishing blessed days to everyone in earshot has nothing to do with whether the one being told about blessed days really has nothing to do with rather or not the speaker real cares if the listener has a great day or not?
If so, then what might be the actual motive which is driving the use of such comments all days long regarding being blessed and having a blessed day?
Might it be that their words are intended to show everyone how religious or how spiritual the speaker / wisher is? Is it just one more example of the way that false ego-states drive the thoughts and words and actions of the “non-realized” among the masses? Is it just one more way to advertise that "You are in the presence of religious giant and / or spiritual giant"?
And is it possible that persons reporting loudly and proudly that they "are blessed" is just another way of saying, “I am so close to God, so hooked up with God, that he is making sure than I am living a charmed and blessed existence (which anyone who knows me would understand exactly why I am counted among the small group of those whom he has chosen to give a blessed life)?
A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE WHICH SHOWS WHY YOU'RE GOING TO HEAR ALL ABOUT BLESSINGS IN THE U.S. AND ELSEWHERE
The concept of Christianity was introduced to North America as it was colonized by Europeans in the 16th and 17th centuries. The Spanish, French and British brought the concepts of Roman Catholicism while Northern Europeans introduced Protestantism.
Soon after settling, those Europeans began killing the indigenous peoples who continued to practice their form of “spirituality” rather than join a Christian community. The have-a-blessed-day” group would kill off 98% of the indigenous people and would claim ownership of 99% of the land and would transport than to small parcels of land which were “reserved” (make into reservations) for the supposedly inferior, non-Christian “natives” who needed to be separated from “the good people.”
THE IMPACT THAT THE EARLIEST CHRISTIANS IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE HAD ON MILLIONS OF PEOPLE
Christopher Columbus led the early enslavement and decimation of some 1.5 million people in the West. Before the invasion / “American Holocaust” was over, the have-a-blessed-day Europeans invaded the territories now called “North America, Central America, and South America” (where, ironically, they were initially welcomed by the current populations).
Throughout those territories, they would kill 150,000,000 people in order to be the founders of “new, Christian nations.” Ronald Reagan would one day - using a Biblical reference - compare the U.S. (founded on the slaughter of almost all of its occupants and on the stealing of the land) to . . .
“A City upon a Hill,” shining its “light of Christian love and hope,” a message still used in United States politics to this day to refer to “America” as a "beacon of hope" and a shining “beacon on a hill” for all the world.
THEIR CONTINUING LEGACY
One legacy is still being used to support the “who is blessed and who is not theory” which dates back to the Anglo-Saxons in England. If you survived a battle, you were blessed because you are better than the ones who did not. If your understandings are successful and you earn a lot of money, it is because you are better than those who are failing. If you have a child who dies, obviously you had some secrets that cast you into the ranks of “the not-blessed.”
To this day among their institutions, the religious members who are “doing well” are being blessed as a reward for their goodness. The others? Well, they are obviously not as good as they appear to be in public.
Another of the legacies of the invading murderers was the establishment throughout the West of religious institutions which are marked by the traits of the “Borderline Personality Disorder” (BPD) which inspires . . .
mental and emotional instability;
an “I love you, no wait, I hate you” mentality;
a normalization of emotional intoxication;
dual-mindedness;
black and white, always right or always wrong belief systems;
paranoia;
dissociation;
shame;
anxiety;
guilt;
intense anger;
a “my way or the highway” mindset;
an unchecked desire for control and power and respect and authority;
and
no sense of compassion or apathy.
Some authorities report that (1) those with BPD are highly represented among groups with psychopathy and that (2) psychopathic traits are highly prevalent in patients with BPD.
The absence of any sense of compassion or apathy is especially obvious when the “I’m so blessed types” are in their “I'm showing my closeness to God as evidenced by my charmed life mode.”
“MY EX” took a job in a church where the pastor set up a “prayer chain.” If anyone had a “need,” they could call the prayer line, provide details, and then watch as the system was triggered:
One would call ten members, ten members would call ten members, etc., etc. etc. The claim was that within a half hour, hundreds were praying for the same thing. (God is evidently impressed by numbers when deciding to answer prayers or he suffers from Attention Deficient Disorder so groups have to keep nagging him over and over, hundreds and hundreds of times, reminding him about what is being requested. With trillions of prayers a day coming in, supposedly it can’t hurt to keep asking in huge numbers in order to finally get what is wanted.)
So two elderly women in that church both suffered strokes on a Monday. The prayer chain was activated, yet, one was dead by Tuesday while the other was released from the hospital and went home on Friday and is still kicking about today.
On Sunday, of course the pastor had to take credit for the survivor. Ironically, “The EX” (whose mom was the one who survived) was seated next to the lady whose mom did not. The power of the prayer chain comments focused only on the survivor.
Heads were bobbing up and down as the “why she was blessed and survived” comments rang out (without any sense of compassion or apathy for the woman whose mom did not benefit from the same prayer chain efforts).
And all of the BS and angst and hurt feelings and sense of separation and all of the effects of duality-based beliefs about good vs. bad continue because persons believe “The Greatest BS Story Ever Told,” as explained again by Maharaj:
“First of all you identify something as being good or bad for yourself. Then, in an effort to acquire good or to get rid of the bad, you have invented a God. Then you worship such a God and . . . you pray to that God for something good to happen to you.”
There is so much which all persons seeking to learn more could well ignore, allowing them to focus instead on the packs of lies which they believe but which are calling out to be unlearned.
To be continued.
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