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Grasping a Clearer Understanding of Non-Dual Terms

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Grasping a Clearer Understanding of Non-Dual Terms

Sleepwalking and sleep talking persons dominate most cultures on planet earth. Wherever nonsense and ignorance are normalized, there is a higher than usual level of the unquestioning acceptance. 

The most outrageous statements or claims can be spoken or written and the masses there allow concepts to be implanted in their minds without being even slightly aware of what just happened.

In such cultures, the use of oxymorons always prevails and are seldom questioned; thus, the masses in those cultures are conditioned to accept self-contradictory words and term and pointers as truth.

An oxymoron is defined as “a self-contradicting word or pair of words or groups of words.” An example was offered yesterday, namely, “conventional wisdom.” Of course there is no such thing.

Examples offered in the past include such contradictory terms as “military intelligence,” a “definite possibility,” “imperfect perfection,” “controlled chaos,” an “organized mess,” “jumbo shrimp,” the “American dream,” “true myth,” a “wide fool,” George Bush’s a “compassionate conservative,” etc.

The non-dual understanding should be a simple message. Maharaj noted time and again that it is a simple understanding. 

Yet it has become a near-impossible-to-grasp message as a result of pedantic, sophistic persons complicating the message as happened with the non-duality-based pointers offered by “Yeshu’a” (a.k.a., known incorrectly as “Jesus” or “Jesus the Christ” meaning “Jesus the Anointed One,” meaning “the anointed son of King David, based in the belief of some Jews that Yeshu’a was expected to restore the fortunes of Israel”).

The current discussion is attempting to cast some light on the plethora of totally-misunderstood-but now-commonplace terms / concepts which have become commonplace among some “non-dual seekers and Big Name teachers.”

The next self-contradictory group of words to be discussed are “becoming who you are.”

Is there anything that can be something other than what it is? Is it possible to not be what you are but to someday become what you are? Ignoring the fact that there is no "who" or "WHO" to begin with or to end with, do you see the ignorance behind that notion of "becoming who / what you are"?

“Becoming what you are” would involve changing one’s identity at some point, while “realized non-dualists” understand that any identity is false, so whatever persons think they are now - and whatever they think they will supposedly be at some future point - is all an impossibility.

As with oxymorons, that belief is totally contradictory, yet one can read the writings of Danna Yahav, James Martin, Dutch Sheets, Thomas Merton, Stasi Eldredge, Michael Bryant (who goes farther and discusses “becoming who you are meant to be”), and with an assortment of teachers who claim to be non-dualists, there are many who will be glad to explain how you can become what you are.

Even Alan Watts, whose pointers were often spot on, wrote a book entitled “Become What You Are.” Of course, it’s been made clear here that both Maharaj and I “missed the boat” time and again as well. This “Mea Culpa” and “Maharaj Culpa” was written seven years ago on this site:

In the case of the first 8,000 or so who came to hear "floyd," and in the case of the hundreds of thousands who went to hear Maharaj, the fact is this: 

the pure consciousness - blocked in both cases throughout the early years of sharing - was not able to speak as the totally-unblocked, pure, universal consciousness speaks (to the relative misfortune of those who listened back then). 

Moreover, it is a tendency among many other persons to only "hear" what they want to hear. As with "Early Maharaj," some came for what they took to be "a religious message," and they heard one. Others came later for what they took to be "a spiritual message," and they heard that.

In both cases, seekers were hearing "Maharaj Lite" (and here, the earliest visitors were hearing "Diet Floyd"). Both drinks were intoxicating for those who came for nothing more than reinforcement of their bogus beliefs but who were actually, subconsciously, content to remain thirsty . . . totally dry . . . even parched.
 

Both "Maharaj Lite" and "Diet Floyd" were yet adulterated and therefore unable to quench the thirst for truth or understanding or realization or freedom from the ravages of the Ultimate Sickness which some were seeking. 

Later, when the unadulterated versions of the drinks were offered, those seekers sought out more popular “Big Name Teachers” who offered - and still offer - the yummy kind of drinks which they desired.

Many who visit nowadays claim that they really are placing an order for a "Big Gulp of a BS-Free Beverage," but when the order is filled and they receive their first no-BS taste, it becomes clear that what they really desire is a big dollop of "Super Sweet Spiritual Cream" dropped on as a topping in order for that "Heavenly Splotch of Sugary Syrupiness" to provide a more palatable taste, a flavor more like what they are accustomed to.

So the simple message regarding this topic is the following:

Since all is energy / matter and neither of those can be created or destroyed, then “what one is” is something that has always been, namely, THAT energy / matter which has always been and which can be cycled but cannot be “made.”

One cannot “become” what one is and has always been, namely, THAT.

As for the IS-ness or AM-ness, that is a temporary state which exists when a speck of consciousness / conscious-energy manifests when it is pulled into a process of cycling, be it cycling in the elemental plant body knows as a fish or a bird or a human; but any label or identity assigned or assumed during the manifestation is a total falsehood.

Humans might “play a role or roles,” but they are not players or those roles or anything else.

Is the non-dual summative statement “I AM THAT; I AM” a contradiction? No. The terms merely point to the fact that energy / matter can change locations, not identities, so . . .

energy-matter might be located in the actual, real, universal, eternal and infinite no-knowing, no-awareness field of unmanifested energy or in the temporary, finite field of manifested (conscious-) energy which will return eventually to the unmanifested field from which it came.

The point: you . . .

(currently a manifested “composite unity” called “a human,” both terms to be used for the sake of discussion only and then tossed aside) . . .

are THAT.

Manifested or not, you can never be anything but THAT, also a term used for the sake of discussion only.

So ignore even THAT as a label, and ignore ignorance-based instructions on “how you can become what you are.”

Thus, you need not spend your life involved in religious or spiritual or non-dual workaholism, trying to do the impossible and “become what you are.”

Maharaj said, “Living is life’s only purpose,” not “Spending all of your energy for an entire lifetime, working and working and working to become what you already are, is your purpose.”

Most humans will not accept that pointer, but the deer and the fish and the birds - all with much smaller brains and far less intelligence - seem to be doing quite well abiding by that truism and abiding by it . . . naturally and spontaneously.

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.

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