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THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS PEACE OF MIND “MIND” and PERSONALITY: What Cultures Consider “Assets” Are Actually “Liabilities” Part One “Mind” and “personality” cannot be separated since the former generates belief in the latter. The latter, in turn, generates all emotional intoxication. [While the realized can witness feelings rise and fall, only ego-states—only assumed personas—emote. When personas believe that they are experiencing some slight, hurt, threat or interference, a series of actions and reactions are inspired which trigger emotional intoxication as well as destructive and / or self-destructive behavior.] When persons are trapped in the agendas of their false roles, then emotions will always overwhelm cognitive functioning, so now a new pointer is available: It has been seen that the “mind” can override the constructive functioning of the brain; now it is seen that persona-generated emotionalism can also subdue the manner in which nature had originally intended that the brain should function. Now the degree of wisdom behind the non-dual pointer that one must relinquish identification with the “mind” and the personality as well as with the body becomes clear. Review the evolution of the brain in regards to this latest understanding: Humanity functioned with a mind-less brain for thousands of years. The brain evolved, developing an area for storing memories and an organ that could retrieve memories. Those two areas of the brain were intended to help humanity survive and to behave constructively. No personas were taken to be identities. As language developed, information being stored in the brain was less and less of the character of things observed and became filled more and more with the remembering of things told. To observe a friend who touched a burning log, to see his pain, to file away that memory, and to recall that memory when next in the presence of a burning log produced behavior that would be considered “sane.” To the contrary, to observe crops dying as a result of the lack of rain, and then to be told that the rain is being withheld by an angry god who wants a priest to fornicate with a virgin and who wants the priest to cut out her beating heart with a sharp-edged rock and pass it through the crowd during a commune-with-god service produced behavior that would be considered “insane.” The result of thousands of years of being conditioned to believe in whatever one is told rather than witnessing objectively and believing in that which is observable and provable has resulted in a planet that is populated with masses of sheep-like persons who unquestioning go along with almost anything that they are told by persons who are labeled as “their leaders” or as so-called “experts” in their cultures. After centuries and millennia of such conditioning, the ability among persons to distinguish true from false has been lost. The result is an appearance that the earth’s masses are all insane because they have abandoned natural living and are living unnaturally or supernaturally (that is, trapped in magical thinking that tries to explain naturally-occurring events with supernatural explanations that amount to nothing more than fantasies). In modern cultures, however, such phrases as “Look at that idiot” or “That’s guy’s insane” are usually off the mark. A more accurate diagnosis would be, “Look at that space that has assumed a persona which is inspiring idiot-like behavior” or “Look at that space that has assumed a persona which is inspiring insane-like behavior.” The distinction must be made: the non-dual understanding cannot address mental illness. The understanding addresses the far more common condition in which persons appear to be suffering a mental illness when in fact they are merely trapped in identification with personas that were assigned by members of a culture or that have been adopted by persons living under the influence of a culture. Thus, an earlier quote can now be expanded: “Consciousness is rooted in the Absolute. The brain is rooted in the elements. The ‘mind’ is rooted in wrong programming and faulty conditioning and lies and concepts and ideas and superstitions and falsehoods. Personas are rooted in programmed minds and are sustained by the ego-based lies and by the learned ignorance that are being taught in most modern cultures.” Since mental illnesses cannot be addressed by philosophical teachings, the difference in being truly insane and in merely functioning under the auspices of a warped “mind” (and under the influence of believing that personas are real identities) must be made clear. The pointer is often offered that it certain appears insane when one does not know Who / What He / She Truly Is. Now the clarification can be offered that, technically, that is not insanity. That is nothing more than evidence of the power of programming. For example, it certainly appeared insane when Pavlov’s dogs salivated at the sound of a bell rather than as a result of smelling the aroma of meat. But those dogs were not insane. They were programmed and conditioned. Such is the case with almost all of humanity today, so while most who do not know "Who / What They Truly Are" would be considered insane, the "not-knowing" is understandable when it is clear that programming and conditioning and acculturation combine to blind persons and to block them from being able to differentiate between the true and the false, the authentic and the phony. [Maharaj eventually suggested that "it is enough to know who or what you are not," but the point still applies: to believe that one is something or someone that one is not is also insane.] Lacking the ability to differentiate mentioned above sets persons up to adopt false identities instead, and no one living the lie and desiring to perpetuate the lie will ever be freed from being driven by the Ultimate Sickness’s “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity” (per Maharaj). To be continued. Please enter into the silence of contemplation. |
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