FREEDOM FROM INSTABILITY AND SHIFTING (The Conclusion)

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FREEDOM FROM INSTABILITY AND SHIFTING (The Conclusion) “If you un-learn what you have learned, if you enter into the process endorsed here of being un-taught what you have been taught, and if you surrender to a process which allows you to un-do all that has been done to you by your programmers, conditioners, domesticators, acculturators, brainwashers and indoctrinators, then mental and emotional instability and shifting and chaos can end.” --Floyd Henderson To end with these final considerations:  “Goodbye Sadness” must be preceded by “Hello Clarity.” If clarity (per realization) does not happen, continued sadness shall happen. Periods of relief might be interspersed, but a lack of clarity guarantees instability. Instability is also guaranteed if one believes in dualistic concepts such as “gain vs. loss.” The related concept of “missed opportunities” can generate a sense of frustration, as if there is something other than the consciousness . . . as if there is “someone” who might have gained but did not or as if there is “someone” who gained but then lost. Too, desires and fears will generate alternating periods of happiness and unhappiness because some desires might be fulfilled, some desires will never be fulfilled, and some that were fulfilled will not remain fulfilled forever. Meanwhile, the fear of never receiving all that is desired, or the fear of losing what has been “attained,” will also manifest. Mood swings will also happen if a person takes the objective world to be real and engages in subject-object witnessing (which still involves duality) rather than pure witnessing. Subject-object witnessing can generate a thought such as “He / She (subject) hurt me (object) by saying the most vicious and vile words imaginable.” Pure Witnessing sees no “he” or “she” but can merely witness with non-attachment any blocked speck of consciousness in motion. Freedom from lingering resentments comes when it is understood that, as a result of that warping, some person / persona thought and spoke and acted on “auto-pilot. “Auto” means “self,” so persons operating on “self-pilot” (taking self to be real), work to fabricate and maintain the image of self and attack any who seemingly threaten their (false) self-image. By contrast, the realized function in a spontaneous fashion which might sound similar to “auto-pilot,” but in the case of the Realized there is no self that is taken to be real. Thinking will generate instability. Thoughts are produced as “the mind” is in constant motion, generating current distortions or recalling past distortions. Current “memories” are a recalling of past distortions and, when recalled, become current distortions. Current distortions are being generated as a result of distorted programming and conditioning and will become "memories" at some point in the “future.” All thoughts, marked by egotism since they are generated by the belief in ego-states, spawn views that are the 180-degree opposite of reality, such as: “I’m going to tell the boss to take this job and shove it.” Opposite view: “It would be reasonable to put the ego on hold and find another job before quitting this one.” “I was ripped off in that relationship. I did not get what I deserved.” Opposite view: Did you deserve what you did get that you only thought was “good”? Did you deserve what you did get, which most would have considered “bad”? The very concept of “relationship” (see "relative" in the name?) is dualistic. To believe that "this" can be "related" to "that" preempts any possibility of understanding the unicity, and if the unicity is not understood, how could any notions about what "Love" is be understood? “Hurricane Rita did great damage in our area - God is trying to tell us something” (to quote a resident of West Texas). Opposite view: Is it possible that hurricanes happen, that any meteorologist can explain why, that there is no god who sends messages via weather systems, that there is no god controlling weather patterns, and that there is no god at all? “Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans because of the bad karma of the people there” (to quote the Dalai Lama). Opposite view: “Is it possible there is no good karma, no bad karma, no ‘Karma Record Keeper and Karma Balancer in the Sky,’ and no karma at all?” “I’m unhappy because of him, her, what happened, what was taken, what I never got that I should have gotten, what I don’t have, what I do have, the lack of fairness in the world, the inequities that life has handed me, the way people have treated me, the things taken from me, ad infinitum.” Opposite view: “There is no ‘I’ to experience any of that. All of those beliefs are figments of the imagination, generated by ‘the mind.’ "Furthermore, ‘the mind’ is a just collection of the figments of the imaginings of other programmed persons who were told lies that they took to be truth and then passed on. I Am a speck of consciousness that is temporarily manifested. I cannot "have," "gain," "lose," be treated unfairly, or experience. I can only witness with clarity . . . or without." Similarly, ego-states generate egotism, egotism generates a sense of entitlement, and entitlement will generate a sense of anger or disappointment. Why? Because the ego can never be satisfied since it never believes that it is getting everything it deserves, as expressed in these types of statements or thoughts: “I’m entitled to have what I want but don’t have.” I’m entitled to be taken care of, but I’m not being taken care of.” “I’m entitled to be treated like a prince or princess, but I’m not being treated that well." “How dare you not honor me!” or “How dare you not show me proper respect!” Instability will manifest when persons (the non-realized) are driven to live unnaturally or supernaturally. Both of those styles of living involve body-mind-personality identification. Stability manifests when a natural AS IF style of living happens, devoid of identification and personal attributes. The deer lives naturally because it does not have any body or mind or personality identification, and the result of living naturally and without any body-mind-personality identification is that the deer passes each day and night of its relative existence in a stable fashion. The same is true for the realized. To know what nisarga (natural) living is like, look to nature for models . . . not to your family or your culture or other cultures. Sanity, reason and stability are evidenced during the relative manifestation only if abidance happens without concepts and without belief in any dualities. Only the no-concept, non-dual reality exists, and to believe that anything pertaining to the relative existence is based in truth is to be insane, is to function without reason and logic, and is to be unstable.  And to be unstable is to constantly shift between states of happiness / contentment and unhappiness / misery. Please enter into the silence of contemplation. Peace, Unity, Love, Light and Sanity to you all.

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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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