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THE MISUNDERSTANDINGS ABOUT BLISS [What "physical" bliss can reveal about "mental bliss"] True, when two humans engage in the sex act, one's mental state can often be more influential than physical factors, but . . . . he male-ego-inspired braggadocios spin which many crow about regarding their stamina and “staying power” reveals that males seldom have an effective ability to actually estimate time. Researchers have found that for many men who claimed to typically have a two-minute orgasm proved to have something closer to a 15-20 seconds event.  (Two-minute orgasms were seen to primarily be within the domain of women who have found one of those rare male or female lovers who are capable of facilitating such results.) The greater point: for all of the focus humans give to sex and sexual pleasure and to the bliss of the completion of the sex act, how many seconds or minutes of such pleasure / bliss could be sustained by any one human throughout the remainder of the rest of a 24-hour day? And even if one experiences physical bliss during several occasions throughout a day, how many can ever sustain that peak for an entire day? None. Therefore, what “physical” bliss can reveal about “mental bliss” or bliss in general is this: it is a total myth to believe that the kind of bliss which many claim to be seeking is actually something which can be attained and sustained with any unbroken chain of continuity for any length of time. F.: The following was part of a reply to a visitor's comments shared during satsang. The pointers are relevant to the on-going discussion: Yes - some teacher / seeker "relationships" differ not at all from that of a pursuer / pursued “relationship” wherein a man promises a woman the moon, as if that could be delivered. Same applies to this “bliss” concept. The seeker who is oversold a bill of goods - who is “promised the moon” in terms of “what bliss is” - will be placed in an expectation mode. And there’s the rub: the seeker in such instances is led to expect something (which can never be delivered) rather than understanding that bliss has to do with the realization of the nothingness and has not one thing at all to do with either the “something-ness,” much less with the “everything-ness.” Having been misled, though, the seeker anticipating far more than that which bliss actually is will be trapped in the search for some pot at the end of a rainbow when both the pot and the rainbow are mere mental illusions. So, to continue the clarification of what bliss is and what bliss is not, the understanding of the role of the "mind" in blocking any opportunity for bliss to manifest must also be understood. [The archived explanations of the differences in mind / brain / consciousness can be found by using the search tool above “Links and Resources.”] The manifested consciousness and the brain can function together and bliss can happen. Once the “mind” becomes involved, bliss cannot possibly happen. Fortunately, the “mind” can be cast aside by casting aside the belief in all of the content stored therein. [For more details, the full discussion is available in the ebook, “There's No Such Thing As ‘Peace Of Mind’ (There’s Only Peace If You Are Out Of Your Mind).”] Maharaj said: "The state of freedom from all thoughts will happen suddenly, and by the bliss of it you shall recognise it." So bliss is also to be understood to involve being free from thoughts . . . being freed from “the mind.” For most, the mind is so plagued with an excess of thoughts that the effects sound like the chatter of a thousand monkeys between one’s ears. There is no misery or suffering among persons which does not begin with a thought or thoughts. The progression among humans is always thought > word > action, and most often the sequence involves nonsensical thoughts > nonsensical words > nonsensical actions. Maharaj also explained to visitors to the loft that they should not use the mind to try to find bliss. His advice, instead, was to “do nothing.” To seekers far along “the path” he said, “Identify with the nothingness until even that identity fades away.” As for that nothingness, he also said, “The Ultimate state in 'spirituality' does not involve anything believed to be spiritual at all. He said, “It is that state where no needs are felt at any time, where nothing is useful for anything.” What could be more blissful than needing nothing and fearing nothing? And what could be more miserable - the opposite state of being “blissful” - than always feeling one need or another or one fear or another? Since desires and fears are rooted in personality, then the discarding of all identity can set the stage for being free of desires and fears which, in turn, sets the stage for blissful beingness throughout the remainder of the manifestation. Maharaj also taught in regards to the bliss-nothingness link: “You must thoroughly understand not what you (or what some dreamed up “You” is) but must understand instead all that you are not." Bliss can never manifest in the presence of false identities. Nor can it manifest when seekers have been misinformed about what it is to start with. A “guide” might as well tell her or his visitors to “start walking down the road and do not stop seeking until you find a ‘gasmodiphosomator’; then, grasp it and store it inside your body and mind.” And sadly, based on what has been witnessed here during a 74-year manifestation, most understand more about gasmodiphosomators than about what bliss actually is and is not. 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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