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Grasping a Clearer Understanding of Non-Dual Terms
This series is focusing on popular but totally false phrases and statements which are presented as non-dual pointers”:
ADVANCING YOUR SPIRIT
The notion that one “has a spirit” and that one can “advance that spirit” has been talked about and written about by some who were or continue to be among the group Maharaj told seekers to avoid, namely, “Big Name Teachers.”
The group has included or includes Dyer, Williamson, Chopra, Wilde, and many more who might not have led anyone to “advance their spirit” but who certainly advanced their own bottom line.
They may as well have been talking about “advancing the purity of your body and then keeping it pure” which requires one to ignore that fact that the human body is Filth Central and always will be as long as one breathes and eats.
Pardon the indelicacy but the body is a giant repository of germs, mucus, snot, boogers, foul gases, a GI tract which at any given moment has rotten food measuring in the double-digit-pounds range, and - by adult age, especially in the West - with cloggings throughout, including . . .
in the heart, arteries, veins, the liver, the kidneys, the gall bladder, the “tract” mentioned above as well as the urinary tract and the bladder, the prostrate, the pancreas, etc.
If one believes that she or he can “advance and maintain a level of purity in the body,” then, one might as well spend time and money and energy and effort to try to “advance the spirit” as well.
How have some of the Big Name Teachers suggested that one can “advance one’s spirit”? By “being spiritual,” by “being more spiritual,” by “hanging out with spiritual people and spiritual guides,” by “doing spiritual practices on a daily basis,” by “visiting spiritual places all around the globe,” by "buying and reading their books," by "buying and listening to their tapes," by "attending their conferences," ad infinitum.
But what did Maharaj have to say about those concepts? He said:
“Give up spirituality”
and
“follow your normal inclinations"
and
“forget spirituality.”
[Note: Understand that Maharaj was not “anti-religion” or “anti-spirituality.” That is not the case here, either. It’s just that he came to see that both are irrelevant for those who are trapped in personality and misery and suffering and the “ignorance and insanity” of the Ultimate Sickness and who would be free of all of that. Thus, rather than becoming “anti-religion” or “anti-spirituality,” Maharaj became doggedly “anti-ignorance” and staunchly “pro-sanity.” Same here.]
Focusing on the psychological roots of the Sickness, he advised seekers to go to the “no-mind” state, to reach a state of “zero concepts.” Why? Because the Ultimate Sickness is not about having too little religion and it is not about having a “spiritual malady” or a “sick spirit” or a "spirit which has not been advanced."
Humankind’s main problem, he came to see, is a mental problem marked by what he called “ignorance and stupidity and insanity.”
Religion does not cure ignorance. It contributes to it. Spirituality does not cure ignorance. It can contribute to it. Nor can either eliminate the insanity of distorted thinking, delusions, personality disorders, neuroses or psychoses.
Yes, the masses are indeed marching along in a long, “Night-of-the-Living-Dead” kind of crazy, zombie-like, sleepwalking line. At first they line up to follow their parents’ teaching (which are not really their parents’ beliefs at all but are actually part and parcel of the hand-me-down belief systems which they unquestioningly accepted and now pass along).
Initially, those currently among the sleepwalking, sleep-talking masses followed those before them. Then, they began moving along in that long line of unquestioning followers who came before them and continue their sleepwalking march now.
But now they are the leaders passing on to those lined up behind them a set of belief systems which have nothing to do with freeing persons of the insane inability to differentiate between true and false.
Instead, they are passing on what was passed on to them, namely, insane programming and conditioning which programs and conditions persons to not differentiate between true and false and to accept the false as true by virtue of blind faith alone.
Moreover, for persons to refuse to believe what is true will not make their foolishness any less a fact.
I shared the following over seven years ago on this site, and it’s still relevant today because the ignorance-driven, gullibility-driven masses are not fewer in number now than they were back then; their numbers are obviously much higher now.
Steve Martin had a comedic bit he called “Teach Your Kid to Talk Wrong”:
“I got a great dirty trick you can play on a three-year-old kid. See, kids learn to talk from listening to their parents. So what you do is, whenever you’re around him, you talk wrong. So now it’s like his first day in school (and he needs to go the bathroom) but he raises his hand and says to the teacher, ‘May I mambo dogface to the banana patch?’ Hilarious!”
Now people laughed at that joke, but it’s not really a joke at all. It’s what happens all day, every day with sleepwalking, sleep-talking parents.
It was noted that “it is not as relevant for any given seeker to see the madness of the planet and the madness of ‘others’ as it is to see one’s own madness.”
But to see the madness can serve the purpose of alerting persons to the pervasiveness of madness, and if they hear an example of ignorance or insanity, they might not relate to it exactly and say, “Oh my, oh yes, I said that exact same crazy thing”;
instead, they might recognize a general class of delusional beliefs or reasoning fallacies which they can relate to. So consider some statements that have been heard here in recent months and years:
“No, your Grandma is not going to die any time soon. She helps so many people through her church work that God is going to let her live a long time.”
“So why did Grandpa die so young?”
“Well, we can’t know why God does everything he does. Sometimes God works in mysterious ways.”
“So did my cousin Suzy die from cancer when she was six because she was not doing good things?"
“No, Suzy was not bad.
God just needed another little angel in heaven.”
But see, even children (with fewer years of programming, conditioning,
acculturation, domestication, brainwashing, and indoctrination) have more sense
than most adults. In the beginning, children question adult nonsense until
pressured by adults to stop questioning anything.
So . . .
“No, Suzy was not bad. God just needed another little angel in heaven.”
“There’s a God who loves you unconditionally, but He will send you to burn in hell forever if you do not please Him.”
“We worship one Being of Ultimate Oneness, but that One Being manifests as thousands of gods and goddesses and they are incarnate within idols, temples, gurus, rivers, cows and other animals.”
"You were born and you will die but you will come back to earth as a higher or lower form and you will do that many times. I’ve done it dozens and dozens of times”
or
“What we seek to attain is spiritual enlightenment and, with that, freedom from continuous cycles of life and death.”
“What we believe is this: the creator of the universe that we worship is the source of not only all good but is also the source of all evil, so everything that happens is actually His will.”
“Our Savior’s mother was a virgin” (a claim made by 22 other religions before Christianity)
“You will go into the fires of hell for eternity if you waste the seed by masturbating. Have all the unprotected sex you can have and then leave it up to God to decide if a pregnancy happens or not.”
“Males at birth should have some of the skin on their penises cut off and females should have their clitorises cut off.”
“I might appear to be standing here with you, but really I live outside my body in another place that is a field of Pure, All-Knowing Energy.”
“Each person is being guided by a sacred contract that our soul made with God before we were born when everything in each person's life was predetermined, including what kind of work we do; what our key relationships are going to be; and what our purpose for being born and living is supposed to be.”
“Love everything that is. If the Nazis threw your baby into a furnace, you should love that. If you are raped, you should love your rapist. Hell, have him over for dinner.”
“People with skin color ‘A’ are better in every way than people with skin color ‘B’.”
“A woman in our faith can only get into heaven after her husband dies. She will float by a veil and will stop when she hears her husband on the other side whispering the secret name he gave her when they married. Then she will know to pause at that point and he will pull her through a slit in the veil. And yes, while on earth, we wear sacred underwear which provide magical, protective powers.”
“Xenu was the evil dictator of the Galactic Confederacy 75 million years ago. He brought billions of people to earth, grouped them near volcanoes, and proceeded to drop hydrogen bombs on them. The souls of the dead people then had to watch a ‘three-D, super colossal motion picture’ which gave them false memories of Jesus, the crucifixion, and all major world religions. These souls now negatively affect everyone who has not had them removed by our Church.”
Not everyone on the
planet accepts all of those beliefs, but nearly everyone on the planet accepts
one or more of those beliefs. Specifically, nearly 8 billion persons - the
number presently claiming a religious affiliation - believe one or more of
those concepts.
With nearly 8 billion humans are on this planet. Any wonder that Maharaj's guesstimate
of the number of persons who will ever realize and be freed from the bondage of
ignorance and insanity was raised over the years from 1 out of 100,000 to 1 out
of 1,000,000 to 1 out of 10,000,000?
And that "religious and spiritual stuff" above is just the tip of the ignorance and insanity iceberg, including the concept that you need to "advance your spirit."
To be continued.
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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."
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"Heaven and hell are not geographic places
"There is no hell."
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