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How Dualistic Thinking Reinforces Ignorance, Justifies Inaction, and Prevents the Understanding of Causation
[Continued from yesterday]
MARY, THE NON-REALIZED, AND THE REALIZED
[PLEASE NOTE: Catatonia (also referred to as catatonic depression) is a subtype of depression or trauma or other mental / emotional issue characterized by not speaking or seeming to be in a daze for a prolonged period.
A person with catatonic depression does not respond to what is going on around them and may be silent and motionless.
Many doctors now recognize that catatonia can accompany many different mental health conditions, including but not limited to schizophrenia, depression, mood disorders, and personality disorders (which are a part of the Ultimate Sickness).
The most common symptoms associated with catatonia are mutism (not speaking) and stupor (the state of being in a daze).
It should not be assumed that patients presenting with catatonia are unaware of their surroundings as some patients can recall in detail their catatonic state and their actions.
Another part of the Ultimate Sickness – which centers in the mind – is that the mind is generating thoughts at an inordinate rate. (Thus Maharaj endorsed reaching a zero concepts state – a no mind state – in order to halt the otherwise nonstop activity of the mind and its thoughts. How to do that? Abandon all beliefs, all that has been taught and learned.)
So, it's not that people with catatonia have no thoughts - it
might be that they have too many. The same applies to the non-realized.]
To continue:
Mary began a slow retreat during her teen years, moving away from what is called “this world” and toward the no-name place in her mind where she resides to this day.
By the time she reached her early twenties, her
retreat was already near-complete. Yet who among the non-realized masses, by
their twenties, are not also lulled into a state where they can no longer
differentiate true from false?
The cancerous mind of the non-realized - after twenty years of programming and
conditioning and acculturation and domestication and brainwashing and
indoctrination - has metastasized among the non-realized masses and left them
as sick as Mary.
The masses gather daily or weekly to hear messages that are no less absurd than
what Mary was hearing early on from the so-called “leaders” throughout her
culture; what the masses are hearing and believing and accepting as gospel
truth is no less ridiculous and illogical and bizarre than what Mary heard and
was taught and experienced, all of which combined eventually and drove her to
the condition she was in by the time she was admitted to a mental
hospital.
As one visitor that heard Mary's story noted, she is trapped in what many would
call a “toxic system” though most do not acknowledge the fact that there exists
“a myriad of other systems” that are controlling persons and “corrupting” the
consciousness in the same way.
The point: those persons who are suffering from the blocked or corrupted
consciousness . . . they are also Mary. Once the illusion of personality is able
to determine the thoughts and words and actions of a person, that person is
just as much a “goner” as Mary. Once mirages control a person's behavior, that
person is as far “gone” as Mary.
Yes, the homeless and the incarcerated and the institutionalized can be judged “insane”
by the masses who are walking about unimpeded, but to be given a glimpse of (a)
not only the insanity that is observable in public on a daily basis but also of
(b) the insanity that is being displayed behind closed doors, it should be seen
that there is not one mentally and emotionally Mary; instead, there are
millions and billions of Mary's around the globe.
What insane nonsense do they believe?
A virgin was impregnated by angels sent from a god in another world, and she
had a baby, and it was both god's son and her son but she was still a virgin
afterwards? Okay. A whale swallowed a man for three days and he lived?
Okay.
There is a god who loves everyone unconditionally, but one time he did drown
everyone on the planet except for the members of one family? Okay. There is a
god that wants me to kill everyone who is not a member of my religion? Okay. I
will go to heaven if I strap on a suicide bomb vest and blow up a busload of
people? Okay.
If a woman is legitimately raped, her body will not allow her to be
impregnated? Okay. If a woman is raped and becomes pregnant, god wanted that to
happen? Okay. The earth is only 6000 years old? OK. You say it is “those non-heterosexual
people” who are going to destroy the sanctity of marriage although the divorce
rate among heterosexuals has long been 50-60% at any given time? Okay.
And people who know about Mary's circumstances think she - and the ones like
her who are also locked away - are the only truly crazy people on the
planet? Geez.
George Bernard Shaw was once asked if he thought there was life on other
planets. His reply: “I know for a fact there is. They are using earth as their
insane asylum.” To paraphrase him on another occasion, nations around the globe
are nothing more than open-air asylums where the insane are allowed to walk
about freely.
Thus Maharaj said that he was offering the pointers that he offered to try to
address the widespread “ignorance” and “stupidity, verging on insanity” that is
so commonplace among the billions of non-realized, personality-driven persons
on the planet.
And where is belief in those personalities stored? In “the mind,” of
course.
Next, we’ll look at what Mary and the realized have in common, at what Mary and
the non-realized have in common, and at what Mary and the non-realized do not
have in common with the realized]
For example, a parallel between Mary and the masses also
exists. Her first psychiatrist, the man who admitted her to the hospital many
decades ago, told me back then that “Mary chose to leave this world and to go -
mentally - to another that was not as disagreeable.”
He totally ignored the reply to that claim: “Since her initial problems were
rooted in personality - and because personality removes all ability to choose -
then isn't it true that she could not have possibly made a conscious choice to
'go there'?”
When personality subconsciously determines thoughts and words and actions,
where is there room for a choice when being driven by the agenda of one or more
personalities, especially when the agendas of personalities are always hidden
(even from the one assuming any given persona as an identity)? Mary did not “choose”
madness. No one on the planet has ever chosen madness.
The sanity of the blank tablet, no-mind, pre-programming, pre-conditioning,
pre-acculturation, pre-domestication, pre-indoctrination, pre-brainwashing
state is displaced by personality assignment, the development of multiple
personalities with multiple and opposing agendas, and by the resultant
personality disorders (aggravated into neuroses and psychoses); thus, sanity is
not willingly forfeited, and the madness that replaces sanity is not willingly
selected.
The same is true with the non-realized masses: they - like Mary - did not
choose to be lulled into the state of somnambulism that results in their
walking about in their sleep. But at least Mary is not like the non-realized
masses who spend all day talking in their sleep as well.
In fact, some people would prefer the company of Mary who does not talk . . . having
not spoken a word in nearly four decades. Some would prefer that quietness to
the racket caused by those suffering from one of the other symptoms of the
Ultimate Sickness in addition to somnambulism, namely, somniloquy (or, talking
in one's sleep).
Many might actually appreciate some silence for a change rather than the
incessant talking and blathering about self. A woman shared earlier this week
what happened when an acquaintance from out-of-state “wanted to come by for a
cup of coffee.” (That proved to be a lie. She really wanted to come by for a
captive audience.)
During her 45-minute visit, she began by asking one question about the person
she was visiting. The remaining 42 minutes were spent with the visitor entering
into a perpetual monologue about herself / her self / her selves.
Talk, talk, talk, talk, talk. Self-focused, self-centered, self-absorbed,
self-indulgent, self-interested, self-willed talk. Give me Mary any day.
But a more significant point about Mary's condition is this: it is also the
same condition of the many persons who claim that they have been liberated and
are now so fully enlightened and so fully realized that they are “THAT alone,”
having transcended the relative existence completely.
Being “in touch with Reality but not in touch with reality” puts them in the same boat as Mary; in fact, they ARE Mary and they ARE suffering from her very condition.
Before ending today’s post and moving deeper into the discussion,
visitors are invited to consider the following:
A. What are twenty things that the realized - in a certain fashion - have in
common with Mary?
1. both prefer silence
2. neither has a pressing need to talk
3. both merely witness
4. both accept the solitude
5. both tap in to the original void . . . the original nothingness
6. both seemingly tap only into the inner resource now
7. neither taps into any outer resource
8. neither is concerned with any external lexus of power or Power
9. neither has an interest in winning arguments, in fighting, in declaring war,
in harming others, or in the type of “shock and awe” behaviors that sociopaths prefer
10. neither has any notion of being better-than or higher up on a hierarchy
11. neither is involved in a culture's predilection for going-doing-zooming
12. neither is trying to create and sustain an image
13. both have been freed of the “committee meeting” that had previously gone on
in their minds
14. with both, there is no going into and out of samadhi . . . that is now a
fixed state
15. with both, there is an unwavering constancy and consistency
16. neither is seeking control any longer
17. neither is judging anything as being good or bad
18. neither is working 24 / 7 any longer to try to get the love not received
during childhood from emotionally-unavailable parents
19. neither has a pressing need to be heard
20. neither is trying to show off how much knowledge has been accumulated
Next: What do the non-realized have in common with Mary and what do those
claiming to be abiding as “THAT only” have in common with Mary and how do the fully
realized differ from Mary?
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."
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