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FREEDOM FROM INSTABILITY AND SHIFTING Duality (per Maharaj) is fed by and sustained by and recognizable by the presence of its key symptoms: “learned ignorance, stupidity, and insanity.” Throughout human history, the heavy toll which duality has taken is obvious, as are the centers of distribution of duality-based belief systems. A visitor once asked, "Why should religion get so much of the blame for widespread duality?" The consideration was offered that - in the U.S. - the most segregated places in the nation are “houses of worship,” whether temples, churches, mosques, synagogues, etc. Their assumed task is to define what is (dualistically) “good” vs. what is “bad”; what is “right” vs. what is “wrong”; “who is okay to worship here and who is not”; “how to earn eternal rewards vs. how to avoid eternal punishment”; etc., etc., etc. Other centers of duality distribution include military institutions with there clearly define hierarchies and their “highest to lowest” rankings; businesses with their discriminatory hiring and promotion practices; and centers of power and control such as political institutions. Today, the relative effects of “duality on steroids” are playing out on screens where people around the globe are seeing what happens when dictators use their power and control to kill untold numbers of humans and to displace millions of others. In the U.S., the effects of giving an authoritarian power for four years are clear: take a nation (already long divided by political views, by economic discrepancies, by unchecked ignorance, and by huge swaths of the population being driven by their own false-self interests) and such an authoritarian in four years can inspire 50% or more of a nation’s population - who have already been stewing for generations in their duality-based hatred and sense of “different-from-ment” and “better-than-ment” - to act on their desire to overthrow the government and destroy the nation (a drive which has been played out in the U.S. since the Civil War theoretically ended in 1865) and to then rebuild a new nation in its place which uses the Jewish Torah / Old Testament section as its new constitution. The same has been repeated in recent years around the globe as more and more despots and dictators with their duality-based agendas let those agendas drive them to suppress and murder millions. None
of the centers of duality distribution referenced above are new. They are quite
old and have been exerting their duality-based beliefs and influences on sheep-like persons for centuries.
When that happens for generations, duality can take a very firm hold over the thoughts
and words and actions of the exposed masses. (Note the way that all duality-based beliefs foster a sense of separation and arrogance. A next-door neighbor told me that “the problems in America can be traced directly to Lincoln having freed the slaves and that’s what makes him the worse U.S. President in history.” The reply that “Huh. I figured that made him the greatest U.S. President.” At that point, I saw nothing but his back as he walked away, and in that moment he would have agreed with the “ex-wife” who listened to some of the non-dual pointers I was offering to visitors for consideration and then declared that “My God! You are a new age agent of Satan!” God? New age? Satan? Really? In her duality-based mind, the belief was, “Yes! Really!”) To continue: The first of any binary pair is given preferred status by the non-realized: “us vs. them”; “Christian vs. Jew”; “American vs. others”; “Russians vs. Ukrainians,” ad infinitum. Even if
ego-state-generated nonsense such as public declarations like “We are the greatest
nation on earth” were not verbalized, believing that the message implied by any
dualistic pair is true will automatically foster a “different-from” and therefore “better-than” mindset. Duality
has become big business across the globe nowadays, so trace its history from
“then” to “now” to see the role that religion has played. From
the past to the present, non-realized persons have unquestioningly believed duality-based statements
if delivered by a supposedly "holy person," statements such as
"An angry God vs. a happy God destroyed those people and their
homes" or such as the Dalai Lama’s claim that "Their bad karma vs. the presence
of good karma caused Hurricane Katrina to devastate New Orleans,
Louisiana," etc.) Today,
the continuum of duality - and thus ignorance - flows thusly: Thus, there is no recommendation here that religious or spiritual “works” or involvement be avoided. The third step's spiritual and religious role-playing and game-playing must happen, but it must also be transitioned if full
realization is to happen. Feelings,
by contrast, can happen; however, the realized merely witness them as they rise
and as they fall. They do not shift the realized from an uninterrupted state of
happiness into either a momentary or extended lapse into unhappiness. Misery
will accompany the belief in such illusions, and any sense of peace will be
destroyed if an ego-state is assumed or if a former ego-state is recalled from
"memory." The
“husband” that believes he has “lost his wife” can suffer untold levels of misery,
but if that so-called “loss” had been preceded by the understanding that “I am
not 'husband,” and that “husbanding can happen . . . or not,” then the subsequent
misery generated by hearing the words, “I’m leaving you” would not have
manifested (and would not continue to manifest). To be continued. Please enter into the silence of contemplation. |
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