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

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What AS IF Living Looks Like

Next, AS IF living is marked by clarity, sanity, Wisdom and True Love; therefore, it is appropriate at this juncture in the discussion to answer three other questions that have been raised about the way non-personal, spontaneous, AS IF functioning happens after completing the third leg of the three-leg "journey," after realizing fully, and after Wisdom and True Love begin to direct all that happens. It has been asked:

1. "If Maharaj was abiding within a state of True Love, could True Love ever possibly abandon or run off a seeker? I love my child, and no matter what the child does, I could not abandon it."

First, do not mistake "love" and "Love." True Love is that which manifests when the Oneness is known and understood, unwaveringly. It is pure and unadulterated and exists in only one form, so it is REAL.

As for "love," it is not REAL, not eternal, appearing in so many diverse forms that seldom will any two people really be discussing the same thing when they talk of "love."

That which is not Real Love always involves an object; Real Love has no object, for to have an object is to have a subject, and to have a subject and object is duality.

That which is not Real Love can take a variety of forms: self-love; selfish, self-serving love; prurient or eros love; philia (brotherly) or storge (friendship) love; agape love; pragma love (where a person - coldly - pursues a relationship for "practical" or financial reasons, for personal gain);

banquet love; passionate love; compassionate love; ludus love (where the deal is about playing games and not wanting to really develop a relationship); or manic, obsessive love that can be intense and intimate and fast-paced but will also eventually expose the possessive and jealous nature of the manic one.

(And it is such possessiveness and jealousy, combined with obsessive and compulsive personality traits, that often lead to acts of domestic violence.)

Next, with so many versions of "love" out there, consider the confusion among the masses when a man tells a woman, "I love you." Ah, such excitement, such emotional intoxication, but what if the speaker is (maybe even unconsciously) speaking of ludus love but the woman thinks she is hearing an expression of whatever she takes "real love" to be?

With non-realized persons speaking about "love" when there are so many versions out there, consider how prevalent the possibility of misunderstanding; then, understand also why many will hear at some point: "I never loved you" or "You have never loved me."

It was asked once, "Isn't it unbelievable that the divorce rate over the last twenty years have ranged in the fifty to sixty percent range?" The reply: "Yes. I would have guessed that it would have been much higher."

So when you equate your agape love for a child with the essence of Maharaj, namely, True Love (as well as Wisdom), then you are comparing apples and oranges. Neither Maharaj nor I have ever abandoned a seeker or run off a seeker (though some will tell you otherwise after the work with them came to a halt here).

The work with any given seeker will come to an end when (a) the seeker becomes interested in another teaching method or yoga; when (b) a seeker driven by personality and egotism would interrupt the opportunity for other seekers to receive pointers;

when (c) a seeker makes clear that the readiness is not present; when (d) a seeker continuously takes comments personally rather than considering pointers or suggestions objectively; when (e) the seeker continues to cling to the notion that he / she understands more than the teacher;

or when (f) the seeker "fires" the teacher (always as a result of being driven by the fears and desires of personalities that preempt any chance for one to Realize and then have the ability to choose rather than to be blindly driven by ego and ego-states).

For Maharaj to demand that a nor-ready person leave the loft was not to "abandon" that person - any "person" not being real at all anyway; instead, True Love was on display as the purity of the environment was being guarded and preserved for the other seekers that were present and in a state of readiness.

2. "If the realized are influenced by True Love, how could Love call people 'stupid' and 'insane'? Doesn't sound too loving to me."

Understand that no "one" is being called anything. When personality is being discussed with seekers, and they become offended when they begin to see their "liabilities" or "weaknesses" or "defects," the point is made that no one is talking about them. What is being discussed are all of the "not-thems," all of their false personas.

And it is the "not-thems" - their false personas - that generate insane thoughts and words and stupid actions.

Understand also that neither Wisdom nor True Love are personal; therefore, neither can have an agenda, for agendas exist only in the domain of personality; know that neither can fail to be objective; and understand that neither can like or dislike.

Any seeker who has been offended, either there with Maharaj in Bombay / Mumbai or here, has misperceived the pointers or suggestions being offered or the actual "intention" behind the pointers or suggestions, for neither Wisdom nor True Love can be non-objective.

With Wisdom and True Love behind every pointer offered, either

(A) clarity will be affirmed,

or

(B) distorted perceptions and false beliefs and erroneous concepts and delusional conclusions will be challenged

(much to the chagrin of whatever personas, or would-be personas, are driving one's thoughts and words and actions and attitudes).

3. "Wouldn't True Love cause all of the Realized to share what they understand?"

No. Many remain silent, but even those that share remain in the silence much of each day as well. Yet understand this point about AS IF living:

Post-realization, and post-completion of the third leg of the three-leg "journey," there is no one left to teach or share. Teaching or (un-teaching) or sharing can happen, but they will happen without any notion of there being "A Teacher" or "An Un-Teacher" or "A Sharer."

The understanding is applied without any belief in "An Applier"; the experience of happens and, in the process, ends belief in "An full realization Experiencer."

The same applies in every facet of the relative existence where Reality is overlaid on reality, where Awareness is overlaid on consciousness, and where the Absolute understanding eliminates any further lack of clarity regarding relative happenings.

Then, "wifing" can happen even in the absence of "A Wife"; "husbanding" can happen even in the absence of "The Husband"; and Loving can happen even in the absence of "The lover" or "The Lover."

That, too, is what AS IF living looks like.

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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