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FAILS TO ADDRESS THE REAL CAUSES OF HUMAN PROBLEMS
The understanding which ends ignorance and stupidity and insanity can allow for peace to manifest, can still allow for the peace to be occasionally interrupted, can allow for psychological processing to happen, and can allow for peace to return even as there is no belief in the delusional concept of “uninterrupted happiness” throughout the relative existence. Understanding is key.
Maharaj: “There is no such thing as mind. There are ideas. Abandon the wrong ideas.”
Thus, when visiting with a woman recently who had undergone a miscarriage, the typical, often overwhelming emotions manifested, including immense levels of sadness but also the accompanying but unwarranted guilt and shame and self-blame which also often manifest. There was also some sense of life being "unfair" and trying to understand why a loving god let’s “bad things happen to good people.”
None of the emotions being expressed were discounted. Nor was it the time to address the false belief that there is some imaginary God who is controlling everything on the planet, right down to what happens after a sperm cell and an egg meet.
Instead, the conversation was moved
to an understanding, an understanding of the biological forces at play and to the
fact that up to 25% of all first pregnancies in the U.S. end with a
miscarriage;
that because of a number of environmental factors, many sperm cells and eggs have chromosome issues, and that – in spite of all that – most of the 4.4 million people who want a child but have miscarriages every year will, eventually, become pregnant again and will procreate.
The plan: to assist those who are suffering to be able to move beyond that state.
Maharaj identified as a key "goal" of the non-dual "teacher":
To eliminate the excess pain and misery and suffering which persons are trying to endure and seeking to be freed from.
Maharaj’s understanding, that “when you desire and fear and identify yourself with your feelings, you create sorrow and bondage” – is a freeing understanding, but the one trapped in sorrow and bondage cannot be freed from sorrow and bondage upon request or demand; instead, in this case, the pain and misery and suffering were all felt right along with the woman. There was no sociopathic, psychopathic comment that “You must love this. I know I do.”
What kind of insane ass, playing the role of The Big Name Teacher, would recommend, “Well, the proper way to handle this is to love your miscarriage.” Recall, Maharaj was asked, “Do you care at all about the people who come your way?” His reply, evidencing the way that the understanding of the unicity functions, was: “More than you will ever know.”
Also, how totally asinine it would have been to tell the woman who had just miscarried, “I just want you to be happy. Come on. Get over it right now. Just be happy.”
Maharaj abandoned the use of religion and spirituality and Self-Inquiry to address the problems of humanity after he came to understand that the problems of humanity center in the mind, and he certainly must have understood that psychological processing of happenings that are deemed by the masses to be “unhappy events” or even “traumatic events” require psychological processing in order to be able to recover and move on.
Maharaj: “If you want to be beyond suffering, you must meet it half way.” That means, denial of your suffering will not end it; dissociation from what you are feeling will not end it; nor will putting a spin on your suffering and dismissing it with the delusional claim that “It’s all good!” bring it to an end.
Unprocessed trauma remains in every cell of the plant food body. There are techniques which the best-trained therapists can used to free that up, but only those best-trained in EMDR will even begin to probe the depths of the psyche and released the vestiges of trauma which remain and which subconsciously control the way persons think and talk and behave.
So, there are generally-speaking three type of “peace-robbers” at play all around the planet:
One, the kind of peace-robber represented by the challenges which the relative existence often tosses one's way: the type discussed above dealing with miscarriages; or the type involving the "loss" of relations or friends; or the type surrounding murders or wars. It is understandable when one experiencing the kinds of pain and misery and suffering which such events can generate and which the trauma associated which such events linger, yet there are means by which that trauma can be addressed (and that does not always include the non-dual understanding).
Two, there is a peace-robber which involves self-imposed crises among those who habitually forfeit their peace as a result of their tendencies to make mountains out of molehills and then live in the darkness of the valleys generated from their exaggerating, stress-inducing, over-reacting, embellishing, amplifying minds which inflate any irritant by assigning it disaster status.
Their relative existence unfolds from a supposed predicament . . . soon followed by some sort of imagined emergency . . . which is then followed by an event which is only thought to be a catastrophe . . . which is followed by a supposed calamity.
And all of those events are viewed without any clear perspective at all because of a mind which is incapable of providing an accurate, objective, balanced perception.
Some might conclude that those types are not robbed of their peace as much as they forfeit their peace because of the warped condition of a mind - warped because of programming, conditioning, etc.
Three, there is the type of peace-robber which is rooted in false identifications (including body and mind and personality identification which are also a result of programming, conditioning, etc.) and which produce particular, specialized, personality-specific kinds of pain or misery and suffering.
Again, of that common source of pain and misery and suffering, Maharaj explained:
"There is no chaos in the world except the chaos which your mind creates."
"There is no such thing as peace of mind. Mind means disturbance. Restlessness itself is mind."
"Beyond the mind there is no suffering."
"To know that you are a prisoner of your mind - that you live in an imaginary world of your own creation - is the dawn of wisdom.”
To be continued.
Please enter into the silence of contemplation.
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