Grasping a Clearer Understanding on Non-Dual Terms

 

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Grasping a Clearer Understanding on Non-Dual Terms

To continue from yesterday:

“noble truths”

The “noble truths” are often discussed in relation to Buddhism. For seekers, Buddhists offer a “simpler” message since there are not “twelve steps” or “twelve truths” but there are only “four noble truths” or “the truths of ‘the noble ones,” (a.k.a., the truths or realities for the "spiritually worthy ones”).

Okay, so it doesn’t remain that simple a message since there is also a “noble eight-step path.” At least here, as with Maharaj, the seven-step path has been reduced to a four-step path since Maharaj determined that “persons need not find ‘Who They Are” (a seven-step process with him originally) but would do well to find who they are not (a four-step process in the end).

The four steps involve being freed from belief in body and mind and personality identifications and returning to “the Child Ignorance Stage” (or, as identified here, as “The Child No-Knowing State”) when no identity was believed in.

Now, all “teachings” - religious, spiritual, cultural, whatever - have certain alarms or warnings or signals which should activate the internal BS detector in any sane and rational human.

With the “noble truths,” the word “noble” is the first signal. There are truths which are “noble” and truths which are not “noble”? Really?

Next, consider how many narcissistic, egotism-driven persons have been attracted to the notion that they are among “the noble ones” and are among “the spiritually worthy ones”). Really?

“Wow! May I touch the hem of your Kāṣāya the way that some of the followers of Yeshu’a did and the way that some of Bill Wilson’s followers touched the hem of his coat when he walked down an aisle on his way to a stage with a podium with a microphone which awaited his arrival? It will be life-changing for me if you only allow that homage and indulge my worship of you.”

[That stage Bill was headed to, like all stages involved with dogma and spirituality, has a name: The stage is “The Theater of the Lie.”]

Now “the Buddhists” (false identity) had nearly 500 years more to perfect their “Super Ego-States” (false identities) than the Christians (false identity) had, so it should be no surprise that the Buddhists’ Super Ego-States have a more righteous and distinguished and venerable and majestic sound to them than the Christians’ “Super Religious Ones” or their “cousins” “The Spiritual Giants” (false identities).

How much more high-minded and dignified “The Noble Ones” and “The Spiritually Worthy Ones” (false identities) sound than do “the best (false identity) who walk the planet now, namely, today’s “Super Religious Ones” or “Spiritual Giants” (false identities).

Truth is truth. Truth cannot be “noble” because that implies duality, suggesting that there are “noble truths” as well as truths which are “ignoble truths.”

how to know God

Yesterday, it was shared that . . .

the false concepts of “WHO-ness and / or who-ness” are rooted in domestication, acculturation, brainwashing and indoctrination, that is, in BS.

What there is, in terms of clarifying what people "are and are not," is revealed by understanding that a temporary composite unity can manifest as a triad involving an elemental plant food body, the air / oxygen which it circulates, and the conscious-energy (“consciousness”) which comes to and leaves the elemental plant food body throughout a relative existence if that body consumes food in the form of plants or in the less-potent form of something which ate plant food.

Composite unities, as is the case with all "humans" in this universe (as well as that which is in all universes that have ever been or that shall ever be) are at their core, energy / matter. 

Science has shown that neither energy nor matter can be created or destroyed, so whatever was also is and also shall forever be, and it’s all energy / matter. (Some use the term "THAT" to refer to what actually is.)

Consider those who are called “parents”: 

Did they “create” a child? No, they merely circulated / cycled already existing energy and matter. 

An act of friction sometimes triggers a process whereby a sperm cell fertilized an egg and, voila, a 9- month cycle begins.

If the “mother-to-be” eats plant food or eats something that ate a plant, then automatically and spontaneously the natural functioning allows plant cells to be converted into humans cells. 

Nothing is being "created" during the nine-month cycle. "Stuff" which already exists is merely being cycled. 

Thus, if nothing can be created, then there are no “creators” in the universe and there are no “Creators.”

So, want to know God? Then allow yourself to be programmed, conditioned, domesticated, acculturated, brainwashed and indoctrinated to believe the nonsense written about in not-really-holy-books and spoken by not-really-holy-persons in not-really-holy-venues;

then you can get to know “God” - fictional though he may be -  just as children get to know Santa Claus, Goldilocks, tooth fairies, Gandalf, Mirabel, Snow White, Prince Charming, Elsa, Anna, Olaf, Kristoff, etc., etc., etc.

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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