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OVERCOMING THE FEAR OF BEING TOTALLY INDEPENDENT
“...You are afraid of freedom!”
--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Two political leaders during the days of WWII, Truman and Churchill,
made statements that are apropos to this discussion: Harry Truman, nicknamed “Give
'Em Hell Harry,” said: “I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they
think it's hell.”
While the truth cannot be stated but can be known, it could be said that
Maharaj offered pointers which were spot on and people thought that hearing
spot-on pointers was hell.
The same has happened here in the U.S. Why? Because spot-on pointers
are similar to the fictional tales of “driving a wooden stake into the heart of
the proverbial vampire” in order to be rid of it:
similarly, what happens when a realized guide strikes a blow at the false
personas that are assumed to be real by persons is either that
(1) the previously-blocked specks of consciousness can be free of the effects of believing in that which is false; or, as is more often the case, that
(2) such persons think that they are “being given hell,” instead.
Why else such reactions when freedom-offering pointers are taken to be “offensive”
(when the fact is that only an ego-state can think it has been offended)?
Winston Churchill's words also apply, specifically, when he spoke of “a
bodyguard of lies.”
For seekers and non-seekers alike, the term applies to the many bodyguards - to
the many guardians of the lies - which persons have been told. The term applies
to those who led the way in blocking the clear and unobstructed consciousness via
the use of the lies which were presented as unquestionable truths and which applies
to those who used lies to program each and everyone and to condition each and
everyone and to acculturate and to domesticate each and everyone.
How offensive it is to “The Good Son” and “The Good Daughter” who believe the egotistical
message that they “turned out so well” and that “their parents, therefore, must
have done a pretty damn good job.”
One need not carry a resentment against those who passed on lies that they took to be truth; however, if persons would be free, then they must be willing to see that the persons, the ones who taught them what they know, were guardians of lies.
They must understand that the messages delivered and received by countless
specks of blocked consciousness (which inspired them to use ego-defense
mechanisms to support false identities) had no validity at all.
Offensive it is to the ego to admit that, among the guardians of the lies were:
parents, religious leaders and / or spiritual leaders; famous Big Name
Teachers; political leaders; business leaders; gurus; and, in fact, their
entire culture.
“The Guardians of Lies” can apply to all of the specks of blocked
consciousness that are functioning in all of the major fields of influence:
in many Western cultures, that especially includes church, state, and business;
in some other theocratic cultures, that applies mainly to religious leaders; in
some cultures, at certain times in their history, it applies mainly to the
moneymakers.
Whatever the tendency of any given culture at any given time, the “Bodyguards
of the Lies” are robbing persons of their potential opportunity to be free.
Among “truly realized non-duality guides,” the intent is to undo the effects of
such robbery and to guide seekers through a process of un-learning, a process
which can thereafter restore the state of freedom that has been stolen from all
who take themselves to be persons. Yet most do not want to abandon their false
roles; thus, Maharaj's pointer that “you are afraid of freedom.”
Earlier, these words from a visitor to the loft were shared:
“You seem to say that there can be perceiving without a perceiver, knowing
without a knower, loving without a lover, acting without an actor.
Exactly! That is the key to “living free,” that is, to abiding post-realization
in a totally free state. Yet the perceiver and the knower and the lover and the
actor seldom have any inclination at all to abandon their false roles. They do
not so much as even consider the fact that:
husbanding can happen without the assumption of the false identity of “The
Husband” which soon becomes upgraded to “The Super Husband” and which brings
with that assumption and upgrading untold misery and suffering;
wifing can happen without the assumption of the false identity of “The Wife”
which soon becomes upgraded to “The Super Wife” and which brings with that
assumption and upgrading untold misery and suffering;
and employing can happen without the assumption of the false identity of “The
Employer” which soon becomes upgraded to “The Super Employer” and which brings
with that assumption and upgrading untold misery and suffering.
If one can still be offended by any of the words of a realized guide which seem
to feel like a wooden stake being driven through the heart, and if one thinks
that the spot-on words of such a guide are offensive, and if you believe that a
speck of pure consciousness that is pointing you toward Truth is “giving you
hell” . . .
. . . then that one is still assuming false ego-states as identities that are
being supported by ego-defense mechanisms; is still defending the Guardians of
the Lies; and is still vulnerable to suffering from the emotional intoxication
which is triggered when that to which one remains attached is shown to be in
error.
And the end result of all of that is this: one will continue to believe “their”
lies and will be afraid of being totally free. That need not be.
To take the discussion to another level, it might be said that the
masses are less afraid of freedom than they are uninterested in true freedom.
Why? First, they do not know that they are not free.
In the U.S., mislabeled a “democracy,” persons love to talk about their
freedoms, to sing about their freedoms, and to think they are separated from “others”
who are not as free. The U.S. president who knowingly invaded Iraq under false
pretense even made the ignorance-based claim that “people hate us for our
freedoms.”
Wait. For our freedoms? Not because the U.S. has historically robbed others of
their freedom, but because the U.S. has its own freedom? They are jealous?
Hatred is not inspired because the “defense budget” is larger than the
defense budgets of all other nations combined and is used to fund efforts to
control or to nation-build or to try to mold the world into its own image?
In fact, the U.S. has not defended itself successfully for decades, so that “defense
budget” is really an “offense budget,” used far more to attack than to defend.
Might that have something to do with much of the global animosity?
Yet that same president who verbalized his theory about “why they hate
us - it's because of our freedoms and our being a democracy” was elected to his
office though his opponent received 543,895 more votes. Democracy? Free?
The electoral college (and even the U.S. Supreme Court) have the power to determine
who is president rather than not the number of popular votes. “Majority rules”
is another delusion here.
There have been five U.S. presidents who received fewer votes than their opponents. Where is freedom and democracy there? Refuse to pay the taxes imposed by the federal government and see how free you are.
Drive faster than the authorities tell you that you can drive, drive by
a policeman who is hiding in wait along the highway (just as robbers did in the
past), and you'll pay a fine in the $250-$300 range. Free? Really? Yet the
masses here really believe that they are free.
Now, while the beliefs they have about being a part of a “democracy” and being
free are nothing more than parts of a culture-wide,
nationalism-and-ego-inspired delusion, the real entrapment comes each day as a
result of the “prison of the mind” and “the prison of personality.”
And that is another level at which the masses have no clue at all that they
have no freedom, that they are not free at all; additionally, most persons do
not want to be independent to even a small degree, much less totally
independent, so realization cannot come.
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.
