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NEEDLESS WORK and COUNTER-PRODUCTIVE ACCEPTANCE and THE CURSE OF HABITS
The Thought-Word-Deed Roots of Duality and Insanity
(continued)
This was offered yesterday for your consideration:
Thus, a discussion of words is as suitable a subject as any to make clear the fact that realization does not negate the relative . . . it clarifies it, it brightens it, it colors it beautifully. And that is natural. The significance of words, relatively speaking, is that they are the second of two factors that contribute to all actions.
First, there is a thought; then, the thought is expressed with words; only then does an action take place. Thought-to-word-to-deed is the continuum that leads to every action that persons take.
This explanation has been offered in the past:
Because thoughts (the content of the mind) control words and because words—in
turn—control deeds, then the words used during the relative existence exert
tremendous influence over behavior among non-realized persons.
For
example, certain racist, white supremacist men living in Jasper, Texas in the late 1990's were
members of a white supremacist group, all of whom had the thought that they
were better than non-whites. They often verbalized their belief, speaking words
of hatred and arrogance.
Eventually, their deed followed: three of those men kidnapped a black man,
James Byrd, Jr., and would take him to an isolated area nearby. There, they
beat him, chained him to a pickup truck, and dragged him behind the vehicle for
two miles. In the process of killing him in that manner, they tore off his
head, his neck and his right arm.
THEIR THOUGHT: Whites are better than blacks.
THEIR WORDS: “We are better than black people. They are inferior to us.”
THEIR DEED: The murder of a black man.
All deeds are directly preceded by words, and all words are preceded by
thoughts. Is it any wonder that Maharaj cautioned against the careless use of
language? Yet do not conclude that 50% of all actions result from thoughts and
50% from words.
Nonsensical
talk could not happen were it not for the nonsense stored in “the mind” that is
constantly cycled and recycled among the non-Realized as thought after thought
after thought.
Additionally, there is no need to cut off the tongue and lips and discard them
in order to put an end to the nonsense being verbalized millions of times per
day across the planet. The requirement is to cut out the nonsensical thinking
by discarding the contents of “the mind.” When nonsense is eliminated at the
source (called “the mind”) then it cannot manifest via the mouth.
If there is no constant running of the mind, then there can be no constant
running of the mouth. Is it becoming clear why the realized spend so much time
in the silence? Is it clear that those who have to talk the most are the most
removed from Reality / reality (that is, from understanding both THAT and the
AM-ness)? Is it clear why the truth can be known but cannot be spoken? Is it
clear, therefore, why most of what is spoken is to be ignored because it is
false?
For nonsensical words and deeds to end, persons must be rid of their belief in
the concepts and ideas that generate the thinking which leads to nonsensical
talking and nonsensical behaviors. Yet in cultures where “freedom of speech” is
endorsed over freedom of silence - such as in most Aryan, Anglo-Saxon cultures
- then talking flourishes, talk radio flourishes, talk shows on television
flourish. And they all add to the already-widespread dissemination of nonsense
across the globe.
There is a "vocabulary of realization." It is a vocabulary that is
based in an understanding of the Oneness, the unicity - the actual unity beyond
the seeming multiplicity - and Real Love. It is a vocabulary that contains
nothing intended to make anyone feel miserable but is, instead, a vocabulary
that can lead to the end of suffering.
The non-dual message has become so distorted over the years that now there is as much misunderstanding around (a) realization and what a sane and sound post-realization existence looks like as there is around (b) what is taken to be real prior to realization.
Once
the results of the thought-word-deed continuum are seen clearly, then the need
to reach a no-mind-no-thought state becomes clear; and once the relative impact
of the use of (1) vile words vs. (2) post-realization words pointing toward
Love and the Oneness is understood, then the relative significance of words is
understood as well.
Again, realization for the sake of realization - or for the sake of bragging
about "being realized" or "better" or "Supreme"
or "special" - is useless. If the understandings that come via realization
are not overlaid on the relative existence (that is, if the understandings are
not "applied," even as there is no belief in an "applier")
and
if a natural and spontaneous manner of abiding does not end all unnatural
living and all efforts to live supernaturally and magically, then Realization
has not happened and all efforts to that point has been a waste of time and
energy.
Thus the pointers earlier regarding words. If full realization has happened,
then the answer to, "So why do words matter?" is clear: Words that do
not deal with Peace and Love and the Oneness indicate that thoughts are
present, and the presence of thoughts are a deeper problem, relatively
speaking, indicating the presence of a "mind" and mind-supported
personas which generate thoughts and which eliminate any possibility of knowing
the peace of "Presence Only."
[The "curse of habits" is that they drive persons to take actions which are driven by the ignorant thoughts and insane words which the Ultimate Sickness generates. Some define a habit as "a tendency or a repetitive manner of behavior" or as "an acquired mode of behavior that has become nearly or completely involuntary." Habits are done regularly or as addictions and are driven by forces which are usually functioning at a subconscious or unconscious level.
Talk about the symptoms of the Ultimate Sickness which Maharaj said include "ignorance, stupidity, and insanity." What could be more ignorant and stupid and insane than when what one says is said without knowing what is driving one to say those words or when one takes actions without knowing the real reason why one is taking those actions?]
To hear words from a person (as opposed to when the consciousness speaks) is to
know that thoughts were present first, and thoughts only originate from
ego-states which are supported by the falsehood-filled "mind." When
the consciousness speaks, it speaks words of Love - words revealing an
understanding of Real Love, of the Oneness - never words of hate or words that
reveal a sense of separation or belief in subjects and objects.
Words that express anything else indicate that Love is not understood, indicate
that the Oneness is not understood, and indicate that a mind is supporting the
lies that some thought-generating, words-generating, egotism-supported persona
is inspiring. So why do words matter?
Why
does an x-ray revealing the presence of lung cancer matter? Why does blood in
the urine matter? Why does a pain in the chest matter? As far as the Absolute
is concerned, none of those matter at at all. But does the summative statement
"I AM THAT; I AM" suggest that the AM-ness - and the relative things
that happen during the AM-ness - should be ignored? Quite to the contrary.
The fact is that those signs mentioned above reveal that a relative problem
exists, within. The same applies when vile and mean and peace-breaking words
are spoken. They reveal a relative problem, within, and if the relative problems
within need not be addressed, then all teaching of non-duality should cease
immediately.
As long as the AM-ness is on-going, all of that matters, relatively speaking.
The x-ray and blood and pain referenced above reveal sickness - reveal an
internal cancer or growth or organ malfunction - and all of those are calling
out for treatment. The evidence is showing that, relatively speaking, there are
some things inside that need to be excised or addressed.
Words that reveal the presence of anything other than True Love and an
understanding of the Oneness are also indicators of sickness within . . . of the
Ultimate Sickness within. They are calling out for the Ultimate Medicine,
though the infirmed seldom realize that they are infirmed.
Thus, the number that will ever complete the entire "path," Realize fully, overlay “Reality on the relative,” and abide in a sane and sound and logical and Loving and Caring fashion is an infinitesimal number. So it is, but so it need not be.
To be continued.
Please enter into the silence of contemplation.
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"There is no hell."
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