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THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS PEACE OF MIND [Continued from yesterday] If you seek reality you must set yourself free of all backgrounds, of all cultures, of all patterns of thinking and feeling. ---Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj   You imagine that you were born at a certain time and place, that you have a father and a mother, a body and a name. This is your . . .  calamity! ---Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj   “You do not want to give up either worldly knowledge or so-called spiritual knowledge and yet, through these worldly concepts, you want to understand the riddle of your existence, and that is precisely why you are not able to understand.” ---Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj   "After the information given to you by the mother, that you are a boy or girl, all your further acquisitions are by hearsay." ---Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj   This was offered yesterday for consideration by site visitors: The interesting thing about “seeking” or “following a path” or “undertaking the journey” which was discussed yesterday is that most will never seek and that the few who do haven’t the slightest clue what they are to seek or what path to take to find that which they seek or what the “journey” they discuss should involve. Regarding that, Maharaj said, “Having never left the house you are looking for the way home.” You are where you need to be - wherever you are right now - to begin using the proper methods to seek the proper thing that is to be found. If Maharaj’s point about the Ultimate Sickness - that it is a sickness of the mind which results in persons being driven throughout an entire relative existence by ignorance, stupidity and insanity – then the proper task of the seeker is be free of the influence of those symptoms. And “the proper thing that is to be found” is the source of the ignorance, stupidity and insanity so that one can eliminate the attachment to the source and thereby set the stage for being free of the attachment that passed those three along to you and stored them in the mind part of your brain. Something else which is to be “found” is the true and exact bequests which have been left to you.   Finding out that an inheritance has been left is enough to shift many humans into overdrive: race over to a “dearly departed’s” home to see what has been left inside that can be claimed and hauled off; race off to the lawyer who has a will with a listing of what has been left; race off to the banker who can pass along details about assets which have been left. Post-mortem inventories can become very popular and can inspire some to dedicate huge levels of time and energy to find out, “What am I going to get, if anything?” But that’s all post-mahasamadhi stuff. The key to realization is to understand why so few give even a second’s consideration or concern with the pre-mahasamadhi stuff and to become inspired to complete a pre-mahasamadhi inventory to find the parts of the legacy which have already been left to you. When most persons hear the term “legacy,” they begin to focus on the possibility that a gift, especially a gift of money or other personal property, has been left to them. Yet most persons will never focus on the possibility that some things have already been transmitted to them or passed down to them by parents or by their society or by the institutions or by ancient ancestor or by predecessors from the long ago. Those non-monetary, non-material elements which make up an already-received legacy are what need to be inventoried in light of the fact that one does not have to accept the legacy which has been handed down. As with the woman yesterday, her legacy includes the belief that she is not good enough and that no one could ever really love her. It is not her belief - handed down by one person - her mother -  that of the the billions of persons on planet earth she could met, not one of them would consider her to be lovable or acceptable or good enough. Billions of potential perceptions have been negated by one woman who suffered the symptoms of the Ultimate Sickness throughout her entire relative existence and infected all of her children with it as well. What are some other commonplace elements in the legacies which have already been passed down and received and accepted unconditionally? Sadness. Confused thinking and a reduced ability to concentrate. Excessive fears or worries or extreme feelings of guilt. Extreme mood changes of highs and lows. Withdrawal (driven subconsciously rather than being consciously chosen) Significant tiredness, low energy, and  / or problems sleeping. Depression. Anxiety. Addiction. Magical thinking. Detachment from reality, delusions, paranoia and / or hallucinations. An inability to cope with relative problems or stress. Trouble  understanding and relating to situations and to people. Problems with alcohol or drug use. Major changes in eating habits. Excessive anger, hostility or violence. Suicidal thinking. No one chooses those. They are a part of one’s legacy left by those with the most influence over the persons to whom they passed down those legacies. Having a near-sighted perspectives. Meaning? Like the daughter yesterday, when she looks at the problems above from which she suffers, she only looks to herself as the cause. She cannot see anything beyond herself as the potential source. It would be no different from someone saying, “I am furious with myself, and sad and angry and depressed, because I gave myself covid.” “And I have been a big loser all my life: I once gave myself tuberculosis; another time I gave myself AIDS; I’ve given myself hundreds of cases of strep throat, colds, the flu, chicken pox, and infectious mononucleosis. I am so tired of always contracting illnesses from myself.” The fact: no one can give herself or himself covid, tuberculosis, HIV / AIDS, a cold, the flu, strep throat, chicken pox, Infectious mononucleosis, or the Ultimate Sickness. Can persons do things that exacerbate their chances of allowing others to pass those along to them? You bet. As for the Ultimate Sickness, can one pass down the symptoms identified by Maharaj as “learned ignorance, stupidity, and insanity.” Again, nope. However, though one cannot give himself or herself the Ultimate Sickness, one can normalize it and can ignore all of its symptoms and variances. While the daughter’s self-message is “I am not worthy,” the self-message of the narcissist or the sociopath or the psychopath is, I am the most worthy. I am fine. You are the one with a problem.” When assuming an ego state as an identity, multiple ego-defense mechanisms will be triggered, and the most frequently used by humans to protect their false identity and their false image are egotism, arrogance, haughtiness, a sense of superiority, and condescension. For the egotistical and arrogant and haughty to refuse to see that the people who raised them are the same ones who passed down the contagions of their mental and emotional sickness and their personality disorders and their neuroses and their psychoses and their current case of the Ultimate Sickness is to perpetuate their sicknesses rather than to treat them. Welcome to the fork in the path.  Along one route, you can continue to cling to the part of your legacy which have already been passed down but which are not serving your own relative interests. Or, at the fork, your can begin tossing aside all of the elements of your current legacy which are perpetuating your sickness / Sickness. So what's it to be? Follow the same old / same old or take a walk along a new path? Finally, finally, you have a choice that can be made consciously.  Maharaj: “You do not want to give up either worldly knowledge or so-called spiritual knowledge and yet, through these worldly concepts, you want to understand the riddle of your existence, and that is precisely why you are not able to understand.”  Are you ready to give up . . . to give up a legacy that has made you ill and is keeping you ill? The readiness is all. Wellness (mental wellness) awaits. To be continued. Please enter 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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