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Grasping a Clearer Understanding on Non-Dual Terms
Before continuing with the discussion of how the elements of the non-dual, nisargan understanding “went off the tracks” and became morphed into nonsense, let’s pause to consider what was first in place for a widespread belief in BS to happen for thousands of years.
The first belief that sets the stage for children to believe in the BS which they are taught and then to continue into adulthood to believe in BS (to the point that they end up not being able to differentiate the true from the false) is the notion that there is some truth being pointed to with the word “conventional.”
“Conventional” means “based in or in accordance with what is generally done or believed.”
What is “generally done” refers to what is generally done by “the masses” - that is, by the “non-realized masses” who make up over 99% of the planet’s population and with trillions upon trillions of minds which throughout the last 5000 years were pumped chockfull of BS and nonsense and distortions and misperceptions and lies.
Thus follows acceptance of the widespread idea that the concept of “conventional
wisdom,” defined as “a generally-accepted theory or belief,” is valid. That is not true.
Five years ago, the following was offered for consideration of this site:
For those tired of the phoniness and who are therefore seeking authenticity, this deal is about being shown how to listen to the beat of your inner guru and then how to allow that to be the drum which provides the beat to which you march.
To review some strategies offered previously on this site:
** Find the simplest version of the non-dual pointers. Do not complicate the process, and do not allow others to complicate the process for you.
** Seek and accept only that which leads to the ability to abide naturally and spontaneously and unaffectedly and effortlessly.
** End all efforts to replace former "bad" labels and roles with "new and improved and upgraded and noble labels and roles."
** Reality is non-dual and is identity-less and is concept-less, so why put your life "on hold" for decades while trying to determine if you are "an Infinite Self" or "a Supreme Self" or "The Most Superior Self" when - in the end - you are to see the reality of the no-identity, no-concept, non-dual Nothingness?
** Everything in the relative is much ado about nothing, and everything in the Absolute is also much ado about nothing. There is no "later," no "judgment," and no "eternal reward" or "eternal punishment," so abide naturally, now, and stop being so damn serious. Just be, instead. Relax. Enjoy.
** Understand that, while the relative existence will never be stable, the real is that which is fixed and pure and stable and unadulterated when the abidance happens naturally as the pure and total awareness.
** Question everything and everyone in order to eventually understand this: Truth can be known but cannot be spoken.
(No matter what you might think is true, and no matter how much you might be inspired to take exception and say, "Well, Floyd, I do know for certain that 'a' is true and that 'b' is true," this speck of the universal consciousness will always be able to provide examples of instances where both your "a" belief and your "b" concept are not true at all).
** See that programming, conditioning, domestication, acculturation, brainwashing and indoctrination provided the means by which "they" accepted as fact (without any questioning and with blind faith alone) what became their learned ignorance;
then, see that "their" programming, conditioning, domestication, acculturation, brainwashing, and indoctrination of you transferred "their" learned ignorance to you if you did not question "them" and everything they told you and taught you.
** And now, if seeking authenticity, listen to the beat of your inner guru and allow that to be the drum that provides the beat to which you march.
The So-Called "Conventional Wisdom"
vs.
Being able to listen to the beat of your inner guru and allow that to be the drum that provides the beat to which you march can only happen if you understand that the term "conventional wisdom” is an oxymoron.
While the "convention wisdom" convinces persons that they are the many roles which they have been assigned or have adopted as identities, actual wisdom is knowing that you are nothing.
All that
is thought to a part of the "conventional wisdom" is actually the
learned ignorance which is widely-accepted among the masses as being factual
when, in actual fact, the body of "conventional wisdom" contains
instead only non-truths and hearsay and myths and superstitions and bogus
concepts and nonsensical beliefs and distorted ideas and ignorance.
To march to the beat of those who are in step with the cadence that is played out on the drums of personality, personality defects, ignorance, and insanity is to fall in line with sheep-like marchers who can only guide you over the edge of the cliff of distortion and illusion and self-deception.
From the realized write Henry David Thoreau:
"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away"
and
"Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer."
The so-called "conventional wisdom" is that people must "go along to get along"; actual wisdom is understanding that to go along with those marching blindly in the darkness of ignorance and insanity is not "getting along" at all.
The so-called "conventional wisdom" is that much is understood by humans; actual wisdom is that which the masses have never even once considered, must less understood.
The so-called "conventional wisdom" involves the belief among the masses that they really are the many roles they play; actual wisdom is (a) understanding that they are none of the things that they believe they are and (b) understanding that, in fact, they are nothing.
The so-called "conventional wisdom" among the masses, specifically, among the 6,790,000,000 humans (now, nearly 8,000,000,000 humans) on the planet who claim to be associated with one organized religion or another) is that truth is revealed only in books deemed "holy," in books written (usually) by men who claim that they "heard God" - or one of many gods - speaking to them;
actual wisdom is knowing that persons who claim that they are hearing an all-powerful entity speaking to them from another world are either frauds or are psychotics who are admitting that they are suffering from instances of "auditory locution," that they are hearing voices in their heads, and that they are subject to schizophrenia-induced hallucinations.
Dr. Jeffrey A. Schaler explained it this way:
“Psychosis” refers to a way of thinking and speaking. It depicts an apparent failure to differentiate between the symbolic and the real. People are labeled 'psychotic' when they refer to mental representations of the world as if they were substantive and real.
"Another example of confusion is the description of the 'voice of conscience' as the literal voice of another being (known as "hearing voices").
The failure to differentiate between the symbolic and the real may be intentional (artistic license) or strategic (lying) or the result of a cognitive inability to differentiate between fantasy and reality.
"There are three ways of using ”psychosis” to refer to people speaking and behaving in certain ways:
(1) Psychosis is used to refer to the state wherein symbolic representations of the world (and metaphors) are confused with the real (literal) things they represent.
(2) Psychosis is an applicable label when one ascribes confused speech to something else.
(3) Finally, the term psychosis is also used to describe abnormal speech and behavior."
The doctor added: "The schizophrenia referenced earlier is said to be characterized by hallucinations, i.e., self-reported imaginings. Belief in God has become a socially-acceptable, self-reported imagining among the 97% of programmed and conditioned persons on the planet who proudly proclaim their belief in a god or gods.
Never again giving any credibility to the so-called "conventional wisdom" of the masses is required to being able to realize, that is, to be able to abandon all belief in all of the learned ignorance which has been taught and learned for over 5,000 years.
To be continued.
Please enter into the silence of contemplation.
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THE EXPLANATION
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"
and
"Heaven and earth shall fade away."
and
"Heaven and hell are not geographic places
"There is no hell."
teachings which become a part of the Papal Magisterium.
