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WHY MAHARAJ ABANDONED RELIGIOUS AND SPIRITUAL VERSIONS OF THE ULTIMATE MEDICINE AND TURNED HIS FOCUS TO PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALING INSTEAD
Those Who Fool and the Fooled
(and why too often those are the same)
There’s an old adage: Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice (or 10,000 times or 20,000 times or more than 30,000 times) then shame on me.”
Lets’ make that “What a shame or pity when persons never address their ignorance, their stupidity and their insanity for they function as fools of the highest order. That becomes a blight on their entire existence and is a blight on the existence of all who deal with them.”
Non-duality is about unlearning all of the ignorance and stupidity and insanity which was taught and believed in order to stop those three from controlling every foolish thought that is thought, every foolish word that is spoken, and every foolish action that is driven by insanity.
A politician in the U.S. told a confirmed 30,573 lies in his four years in office. Day one began with a big lie; his final days began with “the Biggest Lie” which is still being told on a daily basis.
His distortions fooled millions who are separated from reality (I AM) and who are most assuredly separated from an understanding of Reality (I AM THAT).
Yet if one’s
relative existence lasts long enough, persons will have fooled themselves far
more than that politician fooled his followers. In fact, they had long been fooling themselves and had long been abiding as fools of the highest order long before they fell under the influence of the one who fooled them another 30,000 times.
Fool can only access two of the three ways by which they can control the way their manifestation unfolds; that is, only two options about how to abide throughout the manifestation are available to them:
They will abide either unnaturally or abide while trying to live supernaturally (spiritually, religiously). The third option, abiding naturally - in a Nisargan fashion - is impossible for fools to accomplish.
So why did Maharaj abandon the use of dogma and spirituality in his final version of the Ultimate Medicine? Because he came to understood that both of those (1) generated foolishness and both of those (2) blocked persons from abiding in a sane, Nisargan manner.
Nisarga (natural) living happens when Reality is overlaid on reality, on the beingness, on the current manifestation. In the THAT-ness state, there is no person who believes anything or who is driven by insane concepts. There is no WHO-ness, period.
Persons can reach that same state, one’s “original nature,” when they take mahasamadhi, or they can reach that state now if belief in all ego-states and magical / supernatural thinking ends; if the belief that a relationship with a mirage can be real ends;
and if all that happens subsequently unfolds in a mode of living, right now, that is as sane and logical and reasonable and natural as that of a deer or a bird or a fish or any other living being beside an ignorance-and-stupidity-and-insanity-driven human.
The one with a non-dual understanding that questions all that was taught can be freed from abiding as a fool. The subsequent wisdom which comes is all that is required for programmed, conditioned, acculturated, domesticated, indoctrinated, and brainwashed persons to be free of their belief in - and attachment to - falsehoods and nonsense.
The wisdom will be a shield which can block others who would otherwise fool them.
Functioning spontaneously is a marker of realization, so questioning happens spontaneously as well. As soon as something is heard or “seen,” it is questioned: “I turned it over to god and now I am free of worry.”
In the early part of the “journey,” the seeker might move through stages: “Ok, let’s see, that might be true or that might be false…I’ll question that . . . let’s see . . . god is a concept . . . concepts cannot free anyone of anything . . . they actually trap persons . . . that’s mind stuff . . . mind stuff is false . . . my BS detector has been activated . . . I call ‘BS’ on that.”
Once realized, the spontaneous questioning moves at warp speed and activates the detector. Later, once realized fully, the process unfolds instantly and thusly:
Claimant: “I turned it over to god and now I am free of worry.”
The response from F. (and from all that are realized): “BS.”
Yet when one is attached to mind-language and engaged in mind-speak, then mind-thinking and mind-speaking prevent questioning. Mind-speak always takes the forms of declarative, imperative, or exclamatory sentences. It never employs the interrogative form, preventing questioning, preventing receipt of pointers, and preventing the seeing of falsehoods.
No one “learns” while speaking, and no one “unlearns” while speaking. Speaking reinforces false beliefs—it does not eliminate them. Yet only by questioning what one has been told and taught, what one believes, what one hears, and what one reads (and yes that includes the pointers on this site) only then is there an opportunity to be free of the belief in and attachment to nonsense.
Being free always involves being free of beliefs and attachments, and the shift to that state of freedom begins with questioning. Yet questioning cannot happen when only declarations, imperatives, and exclamations are being spoken. The invitation is to consider those pointers as the transcript of the exchange continues:
Visitor: “My point was that once people stop worrying they are better off. Not using the ‘created’ past or future to upset and distort the present. Whatever reason causes them to stop worrying, they have to be better off, relatively speaking.”
The man mentioned earlier who had “turned it over to god” and who was touting his “In-God’s-time-not-mine” concept (trying to display how truly “spiritual” and "worry-free" he was) seemed to have stopped worrying, so see this:
“According to the ‘best’ thinking that your mind can come up with, that man was ‘better off’ by ‘turning it over to god’ and not worrying about being unemployed for eleven months and depleting his retirement fund? Better off in spite of a wife's disgust and a child's stress and anxiety? Yes, that's all about the relative, but what your mind-speak is actually revealing is your belief that persons are ‘better off being spiritually intoxicated’.”
Decisions made under the influence of spiritual intoxication are just as debilitating as those made when physically intoxicated or emotionally intoxicated. The only real antidote for worry is Full Realization, which you have tasted to some degree in the past but have not chewed and swallowed and digested.
You have also tasted how fleeting relief from worry is when you try to “turn it over.” You have admittedly tried that approach off and on all your life and should, therefore, be able to see by now that the “ostrich approach” does not work.
(To the man who used the term "a real nut"): “Finally, you label the woman ‘a real nut,’ yet you are accepting her thinking and her belief as truth. Hummmm.”
Visitor:
“I am saying that she is better off at this moment in time because she
stopped worrying.” She is deluded into thinking she is better off, and you are deluded into thinking that she is “better off.” But with the variable mind at work, do you really think that ten minutes after she wrote that lofty claim that she had no worries? And do you not see that the sole intent of her providing that “testimony” was to show what a really good Christian she is as a result of "her faith" and her ability to "surrender"? And do you not realize that moments later she was once again embroiled in the quagmire of her concerns? And if that is not her case, do you not see - at least by your own admission - that such has surely been your life-long pattern? Worry and anxiety and dread are like the flu: you cannot wish them away, you cannot pray them away, and magical thinking will not run them away. Because worry and anxiety and dread are generated by the non-realistic thoughts of the "mind," the only “treatment” for them is to see Reality. At one time, persons turned it over to Zeus, to Mars, to Woden, to Thor, ad infinitum. Now you are a complete atheist in that regard. You do not believe in made up gods if they were made up by ancient Greeks or Romans, yet now you have regressed after years of studying these teachings and report that you got relief when you turned it over to a more recently made up god. You know there is no god, that god is just a concept, so to pray to a god for help and ask him to take care of it and then turn it over and leave it alone is nothing more than self-delusion. You might as well turn it over to a mirage in the Arizona or Saharan desert. But now you're writing to one fixing in the non-dual understanding and trying to argue your belief and hers that people are better off when they delude themselves, as if that can fixate her in a state of peace. Instead, it will fixate her in a state of fluctuation. [Now one might say, “Floyd, you don’t have my worries . . . my problems.” No I do not, but I did have, prior to realization, what was taken to be “my problems” and “my worries.” There was no valid perspective, there was no possibility for non-attachment, and there were so many fears and desires that every aspect of the relative existence was ironically burdened with what was perceived/misperceived to be an unbearable heaviness that was nevertheless being borne.] Is
realization as much about putting a “spin” on reality as talk of
"praying" and “turning it over”? Absolutely not. Realized, it is
clear that there is nothing to turn over. To be continued. Please enter into the silence of contemplation. |
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"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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