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OVERCOMING THE FEAR OF BEING TOTALLY INDEPENDENT
“...You are afraid of freedom!”
--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
OVERCOMING THE FEAR OF BEING TOTALLY INDEPENDENT
“...You are afraid of freedom!”
--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
WHEN FREEDOM and TRUTH ARE LOST through SHARING “CONVENTIONAL WISDOM” AND BELIEFS in GROUPS AND INSTITUTIONS
[Continued from yesterday]
What are persons especially dependent on?
Some will answer “God.” Some will answer, “My twelve step group.” Some will answer “My mate and our family.” Some will answer, “My political party and its leaders.” Some will answer, “My guru and my fellow spiritual brothers and sisters.”
Some will answer, “My life coach and fellow group members.” Some will answer, “My employer and fellow employees.” Some will answer, “My religious leaders.” Some will answer, “My commander and fellow troops.” Others will answer, “My local police.” Some will answer, “My college professors.”
In almost all cases, the ones people are dependent on (or co-dependent
with) are in groups and institutions which they have joined.
Last night in “George Carlin: American Dream, Part Two,” he made clear that three of the traits of the Ultimate Sickness which Maharaj identified (“ignorance, stupidity, and insanity”) are spread at pandemic rates when humans form groups or associate with institutions.
He once said, “I was on a talk show recently, and the host asked me, ‘What do you think about the dope problem?’ I said, ‘Definitely, I feel we have too many dopes. No question about it’.”
Carlin often said, “Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.”
Several times in last night’s special, he was quoted as having said, “I love and treasure individuals as I meet them, but I loathe and despise the groups they identify with and belong to.”
Maharaj - a Personality Type Four Rebel / Maverick - spent a great deal of time being alone; Carlin - a Personality Type Four Rebel / Maverick - spent a great deal of time being alone; I - a Personality Type Four Rebel / Maverick - spent a great deal of time being alone.
If alone after one’s mind has been filled with nonsense and ignorance, then ignorant and stupid and insane beliefs might be considered, but if one is alone prior to programming, conditioning, domestication, acculturation, brainwashing, and indoctrination, then no ignorant, stupid, or insane thoughts / beliefs / ideas, etc. will be considered.
Ignorance and stupidity and insanity are accumulated and stored in the mind when one is not alone but after having been with someone else sharing her or his beliefs in a group or listening to someone in an institution (such as a church or synagogue or temple) or while attending a political rally or a business meeting.
The term “conventional wisdom” is a contradiction. There is wisdom and there are the conventional, usual, typical, traditional false beliefs which are thought to be true by the masses who are driven by “learned ignorance.”
The chances of hearing on any given day a load of conventional, usual, typical, traditional beliefs in most cultures is huge. The chance of anyone coming across one sharing wisdom is rare or non-existent.
Carlin and Maharaj both made clear that the larger the
group, the greater the chance of hearing false beliefs and total BS. Maharaj, therefore, limited the number of people who could visit him in the loft and limited the number of days they could return for more.
He turned down an offer from a millionaire to build an ashram in Maharaj's honor so more and more seekers could come and form large group to hear non-dual pointers and to discuss and share their beliefs about non-duality.
What did he understand that lead him to refuse the offer?
He understood that . . .
(1) hearing false beliefs and believing total BS always inspires the formation of dependencies and co-dependencies;
(2) he understood that being programmed and conditioned leads to a loss of freedom;
(3) he understood that the above leads to a fear of independence;
and
(4) he understood that a fear of independence leads to a fear of being totally free.
Thus, “...You are afraid of freedom!”
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.
