NEEDLESS WORK and COUNTER-PRODUCTIVE ACCEPTANCE and THE CURSE OF HABITS

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NEEDLESS WORK and COUNTER-PRODUCTIVE ACCEPTANCE and THE CURSE OF HABITS

The Three Legs of "The Journey," Part Two

After completing the "journey" to "there" and then coming back in (for the second time, but with a totally sane and sound and accurate perspective), then AS IF, natural living happens.

From there, the AM-ness is not ignored, for that would be unnatural. While only humans can verbalize the words "I AM," birds know the I AM, the deer know the I AM, the fish know the I AM. Approach any and they will move away, automatically and naturally longing to extend the AM-ness, the manifestation of the consciousness.

That is natural. That is what Nisarga abidance looks like. To claim to abide as THAT only is not natural; natural living puts one fully in touch with the AM-ness but with an entirely different perspective, post-Realization.

Also, to claim to have been "there" and to have returned and “overlaid Reality on the relative” is proved to be totally artificial if non-Nisarga, non-natural living is happening.

If persons who think they have realized are humming, shaving their heads, beating on a drum, burning a stick, displaying special crystals, ringing a special bell, striking a special bowl on a special pillow with a special stick, then they have not overlaid Reality on the relative at all.

Pre-language, pre-bells, pre-bowls, and pre-pillows, humans or human-like creatures intuitively sensed THAT via the inner guru. Tapping into the inner resource is natural; tapping objects to be more religious or spiritual is not.

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"The review covered the entire seven-step-"coming in" process from the awareness manifesting as consciousness: the shift through the witnessing stages; the bliss of the child with no ideas or concepts or beliefs;

"the child being assigned identities (which have subsequently been upgraded and downgraded, giving joy at time and hurt at times, generating instability of moods).

"Then it was seen how the seven steps taught here can take a seeker back to the beginning (to the Absolute, to THAT) to see how the "coming in" happened the first time and how body-mind-personality identification came about. It was seen that the human tendency to attack the body when the mind is the source of misery and suffering is useless.

"The steps 'back out' were taken, but it was then seen that one cannot stay 'there' alone, so the steps back in (again) were taken - but with CLARITY this time - so that the present manifestation can be free of all that was collected when the seven "coming in" steps were taken the first time.

"Now, we are done with THAT . . . with the philosophical, with the metaphysical, with the excessive focusing on the noumenal, with ignoring the phenomenal, with all attention focused on 'the path,' with a preoccupation with the 'journey.' Now you are here, and NOW you should be ready to have a different experience with the relative existence.

"While 'power' is just a concept too, there are those who would prefer that you be powerless throughout the relative, the better to control your thoughts and words and actions.

"The tools available to you - including witnessing and Pure Witnessing - can help prevent your giving them that power. You can stop allowing 'others' and' 'the world' and places and things and people to have the power or influence to determine how you feel.

"Next, the difference in love and Real Love was discussed. It was seen that the I AM matters as much as the I AM THAT in non-duality’s summative statement, so the relative does matter;

"in fact, for NOW it is the only thing that matters, for when THAT (the Absolute) is returned to, eventually, there will be no 'one' to know the presence there.

"It was seen that as far as what matters NOW - namely, the relative existence - that words are significant and that words are either words of Love (based in an awareness of the Oneness) or they are words of fear, which can trigger any of the subsets of fear: jealousy, anger, depression, etc.

"When that happens, words become vile and generate a sense of separation rather than a sense of the Oneness and Love, and only a sense of Love will end your depression or your roller-coaster shifts in moods.

"You were invited to get off the hectic roller coaster and to ride the smooth ride on a train which moves along its steady, even tracks; you saw that boredom is what can lead to a desire to get back on the roller-coaster and to generate chaos in yourself and those around you.

"You are, from now on, going to be conscious of the words you use and are going to begin shifting to (a) words of Love only or (b) you will otherwise stay in the peace and silence if words of Love are not forthcoming at any given moment.

"It was seen that generational chains of acculturation can be broken in one instant when a single seeker shifts to knowing the Oneness, to understanding Love, to showing Love, and then not settling for just a show of Love (which can include hugging) but including an overt, verbal expression of Love as well.

"It was shown that the teacher that comes to the seeker comes in Love, wanting nothing other than a chance to assist in bringing suffering to an end.

"You were invited to log the instances in the next week that mark a shift to Love, to focusing on being free of the content of the "mind," and to ignoring the body.

"It was seen that suffering is not a call for drastic action but is a call for attention. It was seen that focusing attention on the source of the suffering - be the re-focusing guided by a respected relative and / or a teacher and / or a professional counselor - can help fixate the shift to a state of happiness or contentedness.

"It was seen that identifying with 'THAT philosophical whatever' is useless and that the understanding means nothing unless it is applied in the relative. We saw that THAT means nothing except to the degree that it can impact the relative in a safe and sane and sound manner."

To be continued.

Please enter into the silence of contemplation.

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Here, with those who are still driven to talk about "god," the "Son of god," the "Holy Spirit," "Buddha," "Krishna," etc., etc., etc., the invitation to them is to view those as verbs, not nouns.

THE EXPLANATION

If looked at as nouns, they point to illusions and are, therefore, a total waste of time to even discuss; if looked at as verbs which are resulting in certain sane but rare behaviors among humanity, then they are worthy of some attention during the relative existence.

Meaning? There are members of certain groups who say things such as "My concept of god in the past was of a weak god, an absentee god, A Santa Claus-type god, a mean, punishing, vindictive god, etc. Today, I am in close contact with a loving and caring god whom I worship and praise and glorify and give thanks to."

The reply to that usually goes like this: "If you are in contact with a god that wants to be worshipped and praised and glorified, then you're dealing with someone like yourself - a narcissist - and hanging out with narcissists will never bring an end to your narcissism (that narcissism evidenced by the fact that you think you are "godly").

Next, in the phrase 'loving and caring god,' any supposed god that truly had her or his act together would tell you that the totally irrelevant part of that phrase is 'god' and that the only part that is relevant is the "loving and caring" part.

"That is, a non-narcissistic their god / their goddess would say, "I care not an iota about being worshipped and praised and glorified by you or anyone else. How arrogant and insecure and needy would I have to be to want that? Forget the man-made, dreamed up noun 'god' and focus on the 'god as a verb' understanding and then go forth and let loving and caring be verbs - not adjectives - and let them generate the act of love and the act of caring and let those actions manifest through you." 

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"

--Yeshu'a (Jesus)

and 

"Heaven and earth shall fade away."

--Yeshu'a (Jesus)

and 

"Heaven and hell are not geographic places

but are states of mind, nothing more than

concepts dreamed up by men."

--Pope John Paul II 

"There is no hell."

--Pope Francis, the current pope

in an interview with journalist Eugenio Scalfari,

a writer used by the Pope to issue off the record

teachings which become a part of the Papal Magisterium.

[That said, would that the popes who have shown the courage to reject a core concept of their dogma - namely, "hell" - would find the additional courage required to question the very existence of their institution in light of the centuries-long cover-up of their history of raping children and in light of the mental and emotional and psychological scarring of billions of their members past and present.

And that need for courage also applies as questions need to be asked about why so many other sky cults are still being supported and allowed to continue to exist as well. When certain types of programming and conditioning have been shown to blind the masses, they should end. Will they? Not likely. Why?

Because what the masses think and say and do is most influenced by the international crime families which hold sway over the masses as criminals conduct their planet-wide operations. What are the major international crime families and which are the most influential and have the largest memberships?

The Mafia / La Cosa Nostra; the Catholic Church (with it 1.2 billion followers) whose Vatican Bank worked for decades with the Mafia while laundering mob earnings (for a 15% all-profit charge by the Bank); Protestant and Evangelical Churches (with over 1.2 billion followers) like the one I was raised in where the youth director molested and sexually assaulted young girls; big business which has long created environments in which people have been abused; powerful political bodies like the U.S. Congress, etc., etc., etc.)

With all of those crime families, neither the followers nor the leadership ever voluntarily step down or shut down their criminal activities. Be they gangs, organized crime families, religions, big business, politicians, etc., they all want control and they all want power and they all want money, and nothing internal will interfere with the driving forces at play.

The masses must demand that all those in charge must step down and their groups and institutions must shut down, and there's the real problem because the continuation of their crimes are enabled not as much by the people running such crime organizations as they are enabled by the masses of people who - wanting some perceived "payoff" - remain involved with them and give them money and support them and aid and abet the continued existence of those criminal enterprises and thus facilitate the ability of church criminals and political criminals and other types of criminals to continue to commit their crimes.] 

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