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CAUSATION and RELATIVE EVENTS AND BEHAVIORS:
“Evil?” or “Ignorance, Stupidity, and Insanity”?
DISTANT CAUSATION VS. CLOSER CAUSATION
[Continued from yesterday]
Earlier, this was shared: a fellow mistakenly called “Jesus”
said, after he being exposed to the non-duality teachings and then sharing
sharing them: “A dual-minded person is unstable in all ways.” Not, “A
dual-minded person is evil in all ways”? No. Unstable. Mentally and emotionally
unstable.
Have you ever considered how unstable those are who are trapped in dualistic
thinking - and, therefore, in the dual-mindedness - which dominates the entire
existence of persons whose every thought is driven by an ideology and a massive
level of arrogance which combine to inspire an endless obsession with
constantly judging who is “right” and who is “wrong”; who is “good” and who is “evil”;
and what is “good” and what is “bad”?
Meanwhile the masses have no clue about why they think what they think, why they say what they say, and why they do what they do. Few understand that the process has three parts, each one leading to the next:
Thoughts (which lead to words) and words (which lead to actions).
The “garbage in, garbage out” adage can help identity the “closer, short-term” cause of the condition which renders persons incapable of understanding what drives their thoughts and words and actions:
“Garbage in” explains why almost all persons now have nonsense stored in their minds, and having only nonsense therein determines what they think (which can only be . . . nonsensical).
THE CESSPOOL AND THE MIND
There is much that a typical mind and a cesspool share in common. A cesspool is a disgusting and corrupted place, as is the mind of every programmed, conditioned, domesticated, acculturated, brainwashed and indoctrinated human.
A cesspool is used for the storage of waste and sewage. Same with human minds.
A cesspool is a collection tank designed for the purpose of storing waste without treating it. Same with human minds.
Therefore, if one is drawing from the contents of either a cesspool or a mind, then one will only be able to draw out waste (or, as Maharaj so often said, “BS”).
Next, waste is drawn out of a cesspool through the use of a pump. Waste is drawn out of a human mind through the use of a human mouth. So “garbage out” explains why humans say what they do.
Finally, the extent of human ignorance and insanity can be seen if one observes persons taking the garbage and filth and waste out of a cesspool and then slinging it all over humanity and the planet.
The same is true with the actions of persons who are driven by the garbage in their minds and by the garbage that comes out of their mouths.
And most will assure their listeners that the garbage coming
from their mouths is the absolute truth.
How assured it is that misery and suffering will manifest when anyone tries to
apply supposedly-absolute truths to an all-relative existence. Suffering and
resentment and anger and discontentment will most certainly dominate the
existence of those who are bent on reforming the world; on changing
people;
on stamping out “evil”; on desiring to improve themselves (their “selves”) and
all “others”; on working to live “the right way” (as determined by whom?); on
trying to force all people to improve; and
on forcing all “others” to think exactly the way that they
think rather than enjoying the peace that only comes with a no-thinking
existence; in other words, on being perfect and demanding that all others be
perfect as well (again, as determined by whom?)
What a futile effort to pin one's happiness on hitting a target . . . dead center
. . . every day . . . all day long when, not only would a relative target be in
constant motion but when the fact is that a target that can be hit dead center
every time does not even exist.
To set an unattainable goal is to set oneself up for misery and suffering and
pain throughout the entire relative existence, and to desire to control the
minds and the behavior of every human on the planet (in fact, of any human on
the planet) is a goal that is both unattainable and unbelievably arrogant and
extraordinarily insane.
To travel for days and weeks and months and years to reach a city that does not
existence would be insane. Similarly, to be driven to reach an unreachable goal
is another form of insanity.
Moreover, to believe that - in an existence where all things are relative -
that one can know, absolutely, what is always “right” and what is always “wrong”;
that one can know what is definitely “good” and what is definitely “bad”;
and that one can know who is most certainly “good” and who
is most certainly “evil” is not only one of the greatest forms of arrogance but
is also one of the greatest forms of insanity.
No one can know what is “good” and what is “bad” for no one is able to see into
the future and know absolutely and definitely and certainly what the results of
any given happening will be in ten or twenty or fifty or a hundred years.
Such dual-mindedness, such “good” vs. “bad” or “good” vs. “evil”
nonsense, was illustrated this way a little over five years ago:
Tom and Jim met in a nearby mall:
Tom: Hey Jim. Long time no see.
Jim: It's been a while, hasn't it?
Tom: Fall of 2002, I think, at the state championship game when Jim Jr. played.
Did he go on to play college ball?
Jim: Yeah. He got a full scholarship to the University of Texas.
Tom: Well that’s good.
Jim: No, that was bad because the pressure was too much for him . . . football . . . studies . . . constant concern on campus about terrorism attacks or gun shootings . . . and then he broke a leg in a game.
Tom: Awww, that’s too bad.
Jim: Actually, he thought it was good. The time required to heal gave him time
to think about what he wanted to do with his life.
Tom: Well then, that was a good thing.
Jim: Well, we thought it was bad. During that time he decided he wanted to join
the military and fight for his country. He said that was his calling and wanted
to make a career of the army. The leg healed perfectly and they took him.
Tom: Well, that’s a good thing . . . at least he found a direction for his
life, and he followed his heart.
Jim: Well, my wife and I think it was a bad thing . . . they sent him home a
month ago.
Tom: Well, that sounds like a good thing to me.
Jim: Not really. He was in a flag-draped coffin.
Tom: Oh my gosh, Jim! That’s horrible!
No one in the realm of relatives can correctly say with certainty that “this is
good, but that is bad” or “this is bad, but that is good.”
Persons are trapped in ignorance because of their dualistic perspectives and
because of their supposed “need” to classify everything as “positive or
negative,” as “good or bad,” as “black or white” as “good or evil” with no
possible chance of any gray areas existing at all.
Here, religious persons have been heard for most of the
seventy-five years of manifestation, explaining exactly what will get me a
reward and exactly what will get me punishment, though their criteria vary by
denomination or sect;
judgmental persons have been heard as they share what they are sure is moral
and what they are sure is immoral; politicians have informed the nation that “this
country” or “that country” was evil, only to start a war, end a war, and then
become their trading partners and allies decades later;
spiritual persons have assured me over the last several
decades that they could teach me some spiritual disciplines that - if practiced
on a daily basis - would guarantee a “good” life.
Persons talk about “good weather” and complain about “bad weather”; about
getting a “good job” but later about leaving that “bad job”; about finding “a
good man” or “a good woman,” only to leave after finding they had “married some
kind of wicked devil”; about finding “a great lover” who would later be
re-labeled as “a sex maniac” instead;
about a man with “a great work ethic” who would later be re-classified as “a
workaholic”; about a “really cool woman” who would later be labeled as “an
emotionally-unavailable witch”; about “True Believers” vs. “Infidels”; and
about “good people” vs. “evil people.”
In an existence in which everything is relative, in which change is the only
constant, and in which there are no absolutes, what (other than colossal
egotism, self-satisfied arrogance, and total blindness) would make persons
think they know - for a fact - exactly what is “good” and exactly what is “bad”?
And what (other than colossal egotism, self-satisfied arrogance, and total
blindness) could convince people that the lone basis of all things considered
to be “evil in the world” involves a single-dimension, totally-simple cause
namely, not worshiping the right god (i.e., their god) and being led instead
by the god of darkness or by those nebulous “forces of evil in the universe.”
The result of entrapment in such dual-mindedness is that “a dual-minded person
[will be] unstable in all ways.” Not “evil in all ways” but unstable in all ways.
Totally unstable. Mentally and emotionally unstable.
And it is mental and emotional instability - combined with
false-identity-assumption and the massive levels of egotism and arrogance that
accompany the acceptance of ego-states as real identities - which will get
theatergoers shot while watching a movie; that will get children slaughtered in
an elementary school;
that will get people at a marathon killed or maimed; that will allow people to
invade a continent and to kill 150,000,000 in order to set up “a godly nation
that will shine its light on all world”; that will allow government leaders and
their citizens to believe that they have the right to drop bombs on other
nations, ad infinitum.
And all of that, in turn, can only happen as a result of the two-fold scourge
of the planet and the two-fold scourge of the relative existence, namely:
(1) beliefs
and
(2) “Believers.”
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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