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THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS PEACE OF MIND
“MIND” and PERSONALITY: What Cultures Consider
“Assets” Are Actually “Liabilities”
Part Eleven
It
has been shown that the “mind” supports the assumption of personality and that
personality is at the root of most relative existence problems. It has been
asked, “Doesn’t all this talk about the mind and personality and personality
disorders deal with the relative, and isn’t the relative an illusion?” The
answer:
of
course; however, if one believes in mirages and continues to suffer from
automobile accidents that result when the driver takes evasive action to dodge
mirages that seem to appear in the road, then mirages have to be discussed.
They also have to be understood by the person driving and swerving and
suffering if that destructive behavior is to end. Thus, this discussion.
TO
SUMMARIZE:
1. For millions of years, humans survived and functioned well enough with a
small, primitive brain and with no mind.
2. Over the last four million years, human brain volume has increased from
about 250 ml (which is about ½ of a cup in size) to about 875 ml (which is
about 3 and ½ cups in size).
Some
anthropologists have estimated the difference at closer to 400ml originally to
1400 ml post the brain’s evolutionary development.
Only
recently during the evolutionary period did the brain develop the capacity to
store memories and to retrieve memories, allowing for the formation of a “mind”
which could store and retrieve information which could help avoid
potentially-dangerous situations.
3.
After languages developed, persons with personal agendas began programming and
conditioning the minds of persons, and the corrupted “mind” began overriding
the brain, motivating foolishness and / or dangerous conduct (such as the brain
saying, “Alcohol poisoning is killing the body and making it feel ill” but the
“mind” overrules the brain and says . . . .
“It
will be used anyway since it will make me feel better”; or the brain saying,
“This dogma is self-contradictory nonsense” but the programmed “mind” saying,
“I have to believe all of my religious and spiritual teachings or my body will
be tortured with fire forever”).
4. When one has been programmed and conditioned, freedom does not exist since
the power to choose does not exist.
5. Once persons began storing in their “minds” the memory of ideas and beliefs
and concepts that are taught by persons with agendas, then memories became
dualistic in their nature.
6. As human “minds”—and therefore human behavior—became more abnormal as a
result of dualistic beliefs and concepts, children began forming personalities
in an effort to adapt to abnormal family situations.
7. With its belief in personas, the “mind” became more corrupted and warped and
personas were attached to as identities. Personality then began to generate a
variety of personality disorders, and personality disorders now generate most
of the insane-like thinking and behavior of humans.
8. Some claim, “A mind is a terrible thing to waste?” Nowadays, it would be far
more accurate to say, “A mind is a terrible waste.” As Dennis Waite puts it,
“The purpose of j~nAna yoga is to remove the obstacles to Truth.” The content
of the “mind” has become the obstacle to seeing the Truth. Maharaj advised: “Go
to zero concepts.”
9. Adults, unconsciously driven by memories and programming and personality,
behave more and more in childish and nonsensical ways.
10.
Personality now generates the majority of the “problems of the planet” as
personality disorders determine how persons emote and think and, therefore,
determine how they behave.
11. Billions of persons are blindly and unquestioningly doing what their
programmers would have them do.
12. The solution to "the problem of the planet" is realization,
including the discarding of all body-mind-personality identifications.
Maharaj
defined realization as something that is very simple. He said, “Realization is
merely being free of belief in any and all learned ignorance.”
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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