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WHY MAHARAJ ABANDONED RELIGIOUS AND SPIRITUAL VERSIONS OF THE ULTIMATE MEDICINE AND TURNED HIS FOCUS TO PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALING INSTEAD
“Do not come here expecting me to give you anything. To the contrary, I will take away everything,”
and
“Avoid the Big Name Teachers”
--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
[Continued from the two previous posts]
Maharaj all but begged seekers who came to the loft to “avoid the Big Name Teachers.” The first time a man told me he sat in the loft and heard those words coming from Maharaj’s mouth, the reaction here was, “Dang straight. Absolutely.” But there’s more that he could have offered with that pointer / admonition.
It’s like the title of one of the books offered here: I quoted Maharaj when he said, “There’s no such thing as peace of mind” and then I added, “There’s only peace if you’re out of your mind” (that is, free of all of the garbage that persons place in our minds which form a body of beliefs that determine and control every thought and word and action).
So what could be added to the pointer “avoid the Big Name Teachers” that Maharaj would likely agree with? How about this:
Not only "avoid the Big Name Teachers, but also avoid ALL teachers" including those in the fields of religion and spirituality and politics and big business and the military industrial complex and former military persons who are now controlling law enforcement as well as “patriots” and fanatics of any and every ilk, period.
It was shown in the last two posts that the programming and conditioning and acculturation and domestication and brainwashing and indoctrination to which I had been subjected in the first six years of “my manifestation” had driven me batshit crazy.
My previously-empty mind which they filled with dogma and spiritual messages and lies and nonsense and warnings and threats left me and my mates with feelings of angst and worry and torment and sorry and fear and apprehension and unease and nervousness and anxiety and concern for the safety and well-being of our physical bodies at that time and then forevermore.
And that’s the condition they put us in BY THE AGE OF SIX!
Moreover, that condition would last – as shown – into my teen years and then actually lasted into my adult years; thus, there would be years of seeking more and more teachings and reading hundreds of books by authors offering to teach readers even more. The seeking expanded to include attendance at meetings and studies and going to retreats and traveling the globe to visit supposedly "holier people" and supposedly "holier places."
But pause for a moment and see why
those who are using programming and conditioning and acculturation and
domestication and brainwashing and indoctrination to warp young minds and,
later, older minds are so effective at disseminating BS and having it accepted as "the truth":
They have in common two things which are the most effective tools of their trade of influencing and controlling others:
1. They are seen as people whose
primary goal is to “help others,” so they come with caring and loving and
giving reputations.(Thus the reason that the wise make clear, "I will not help you. This understanding is not about being helped.")
2. They come as wolves in sheep’s clothing, whether they know it or not.
“SUPPOSEDLY HELPING OTHERS”
Many over the years who have heard these pointers here love to argue that “Well, Floyd, they were doing the best they could and they were doing what they believed was right.”
The reply: The same two arguments could be made to support the actions of Hitler: “Well, he was doing the best he could and he was doing what he believed was right. But indeed he did the best he could. He tried to kill every Jew on the planet but he only killed 6,000,000.
He also tried to kill every physically-deformed person, blacks, political enemies, many members of artistic communities, the blind, the deaf, every mentally-challenged person, every gypsy, every homosexual and any others who did not display the qualities of the master race which the Germans so admired, but he also only killed 6,000,000 humans in those non-Jewish groups.”
WOLF IN SHEEP’S CLOTHING
That term has been said to be one “used to describe those playing a role contrary to their real character with whom contact is dangerous, particularly false teachers.”
A Jew two thousand years ago left organized religion and would later share non-dual pointers as an adult. He was named Yeshu’a (erroneously called “Jesus”) and reportedly warned persons to beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves.
See, the people who drove me insane in their religious community were seen by all to be “The good people, the people helping others, the people with the best intentions, the people who are the best that humanity has to offer.”
With that reputation, anything they said was given a stamp of approval. Additionally, they would deny to their last days that anything they taught the young people was anything less than “the most valuable lessons that any child could ever receive.”
So that covers the pastor and his
assistance and his staff and the volunteers and the membership as a whole. It also covers those in mosques, temples, synagogues, and all other sky cults.
But those are just some of the Big Name Teachers to avoid.
Others, as noted, are working not just in the fields of religion and spirituality and politics and big business and inn the military industrial complex and as former military persons who were programmed to "seek out and destroy" and who are now law enforcement personnel as well as people working behind the scenes who deem themselves to be “patriots.” The ranks of all of those groups are of course emotionally-intoxicated fanatics of every ilk.
Also, all are filled with teachers, but Maharaj eventually tried to make clear that no one needs to be taught more and that all need to be un-taught instead.
He said, “Do not come here expecting me to give you anything. To the contrary, I will take away everything,” including concepts, ideas, notions, thoughts, perceptions, impressions, hypotheses, views, etc., (a.k.a., “beliefs”).
Occasionally, this clarification is offered: “There is no ‘one’ here who believes anything, so there can certainly be no one here that wants you to belief what I believe since I believe nothing. That being the case, there is no one here that wants you to learn anything and there is no one here that wants to be a teacher and no one here who wants to persuade you to let me teach you.”
As for any “identifiers” that can be used for the sake of discussion only, what you have found here is “An Un-Teacher” . . . “A Guide to Un-Learning.”
That practice was available for a time in the loft as well, after Maharaj abandoned religious and spiritual versions of the Ultimate Medicine and turned his focus to psychological healing / cleansing instead.
Those who taught me their dogma and beliefs during my early years were teachers to be avoided because they set the stage for insanity to manifest, for the mind to be filled with garbage that inspires the kind of stream of consciousness (actually, streams of unconsciousness).
Those streams of unconsciousness were exposed in the two previous posts and showed the kinds of crazy thoughts that I was having after being exposed to their “O Be Careful” programming tool.
But I had no option as a child to avoid them. Moreover, those trapped in their belief systems have no options because choices can only be made when all subconscious and unconscious drivers come to an end when belief in all personality identifications and their hidden agendas come to an end.
Have you identified the wolves in sheep’s clothing who filled your mind with their nonsense and lies and concepts and dogma and ideas (“beliefs”) which led to fear and anxiety and craziness and which have blocked any chance you might have had to exist in a calm and peaceful and contented and relaxed and comfortable manner?
Do you see how far off the mark persons are if they tell you that they can teach you how to be calm and peaceful and contented and relaxed and comfortable?
Are you a member of a group that has written a list of wonderful “Promises” that they can guarantee will come to you if you just learn what they have to teach you?
Have you seen the arrogance involved with those who think they know more than you and who believe you need to let them teach you what they know?
Those italicized words above (teach) are warning signs telling you to beware . . . to understand that those speakers are “persons with whom contact is dangerous, particularly those who are nothing more than false teachers” who are convinced that they can help you if you just let them teach you what they know and what they believe.
Now, let’s let Maharaj have the final words:
“Do not come here expecting me to give you anything. To the contrary, I will take away everything”
and
“Avoid the Big Name Teachers.”
To be continued.
Please enter into the silence of contemplation.
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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"
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"Heaven and earth shall fade away."
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"Heaven and hell are not geographic places
"There is no hell."
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