CAUSATION and RELATIVE EVENTS AND BEHAVIORS: “Evil?” or “Ignorance, Stupidity, and Insanity”?

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CAUSATION and RELATIVE EVENTS AND BEHAVIORS: 

“Evil?” or “Ignorance, Stupidity, and Insanity”?

WHAT THE MASSES DO NOT UNDERSTAND:

There Are No Persons Who Are Either Right and Moral and Good and Virtuous 

and 

There Are No Persons Who Are Wrong, Immoral, Evil, and Sinful

To suggest that ego-state / personality-driven acts and that egotism-inspired acts and that ignorance-and-stupidity-and-insanity-based acts are really acts that happen because certain people are not virtuous (but are sinful and evil instead) is to oversimplify the actual chain of causation. 

It is the use of such religious and ideological and spiritual-based judgments and assessments that prevent the masses from ever understanding what is actually at play behind any and all acts of fighting and violence and bombing and mass murder and war. 

Consider the xenophobic-based arrogance that allowed the U.S. population to be appalled that persons would set off bombs and kill or injure citizens of the U.S. even as those same U.S. citizens were not appalled at all when . . . 

the U.S. in the most recent decades has invaded and shot and bombed millions of citizens in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Grenada (Grenada? Yes, Grenada), Honduras, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan and many other places all around the globe. 

And what do the populations in those countries have in common? They are not white. Huuum.

Now, there are many in the U.S. who will justify every one of those violent acts. And there are just as many who justify the attacks on U.S. embassies around the globe, the first attack on the World Trade Center, the follow-up 9-11 attacks, the Boston Marathon bombing, ad infinitum. So who is “right”? 

See, the problem with duality-based beliefs is that they all deal with relative issues while trying to impose some absolute truths upon them. The result: what Maharaj called “stupidity and insanity.”

How insane is it to conclude that the difference in bombings that are okay vs. bombings that are not okay is this: 

when we bomb, it is fine - totally excusable, really - but when we are bombed, bombing is appalling, horrendous, inexcusable, and atrocious? 

And how insane is it to conclude that the difference in fatal shootings that are okay vs. fatal shootings that are not okay is this:

when police shoot to kill, it is fine - totally excusable, really - but when police are ambushed, it is appalling, horrendous, inexcusable, and atrocious?  

How insane is it to conclude that when we bomb, bombing is a wonderful thing, but when we are bombed, bombing is disgusting, scandalous, horrifying, shocking? 

And how insane is it to conclude that when our police kill one among “the other,” killing is a wonderful or "justified" thing, but when the police are shot, shooting is disgusting, scandalous, horrifying, shocking . . . a total outrage? 

Yet such nonsensical, irrational thinking is what results when persons are driven by their duality-based beliefs involving “us vs. them,” “right vs. wrong,” “moral vs. immoral,” “good vs. evil,” and “virtuous vs. sinful.” 

The arrogance of ego and egotism and entitlement assures that those using the dualistic pairs above to describe “others” as opposed to “us” is that the ones judging and labeling will also be convinced that “we” are the ones who are right and moral and good and virtuous while “they” - those “others” - are wrong, immoral, evil, and sinful. 

The realized accept neither of those sets of labels. Again, that is why Maharaj said, “Only that person will visit this place whose virtue and sin have come to an end.” Why? 

Because such pairings as virtue and sin are based in dualistic beliefs. Because  right and wrong are based in dualistic beliefs. Because  moral and immoral are based in dualistic beliefs.

Because good and bad are based in dualistic beliefs. Because virtuous and sinful are based in dualistic beliefs.  And because evil and honorable are based in dualistic beliefs.

And that is why the case is that the only ones welcomed into the house here are either

(a) those whose dualistic beliefs about virtue and sin have come to an end,

or

(b) those who are seeking the means by which their dualistic beliefs about virtue and sin can come to an end. 

As long as persons believe that dualistic pairs have any validity at all (as do the non-realized) then they will believe that all people are, absolutely, in either “the right and moral and good and virtuous group” or in “the wrong, immoral, evil, and sinful group”;

additionally, all non-realized persons will believe that they are in the first group, and the activists who think they are in “the right group” will be driven to strike out at those “others” who are believed to be in “the wrong group.” 

One preliminary report claims that the surviving Tsarnaev brother said that it was “their [Islamic] faith” that drove them to target people in Boston, Massachusetts. 

The brothers did not know a single one of the people killed or injured by their bombs. The people were not considered to be “personal enemies” (except to the extent that anyone assuming a personal identity will always feel that there are some “others” who are interfering with or threatening their personal identification and who must be confronted and eliminated). 

The Brothers Tsarnaev used those people as a means to an end, namely, to advance the agendas of their assumed ego-states, including “The Ones Who Follow the Right Faith” and “The Ones Who Must Strike Out At Those Who Do Not Adhere to the Teachings of the Right Faith.” 

Is there a belief that one religion has cornered the market on radicalism and bombing and murder? If that false belief is held, be reminded that it was a group of self-professed Christians - including a president named Bush and his advisers - who were so radical that they started a war with bombings and murder . . . a war that was later seen to have been entered into as a result of personal agendas.

And recall that 3,000 were killed in the initial attack that was used to justify that war in which over 100,000 were killed in retaliation. Now there's a ratio that an arrogant, insane, war-like nation can love. 

See, among the realized, there is no preference for any conceptualized, personalized “us” over “them”; for some “me” vs. “another or others”; for Christians over Muslims; for Muslims over Christians;

for sin over virtue; for virtue over sin. All of that is concept-based, nonsense-based, dualistic ignorance and insanity which supports a sense of different-from-ment and better-than-ment which, in turn, provides justification for conflict and chaos and shootings and bombings and murder and war. 

Do you see how personality-driven insanity works? Do you see why non-duality teachers for ages have warned about the relative consequences of personality identification? 

The facts: there are no persons who are either right and moral and good and virtuous and there are no persons who are wrong, immoral, evil, and sinful. Why? Because there are no persons at all.

There are elemental plant food bodies that are circulating air and that are - for the most part - handicapped by the fact that the consciousness which is manifested temporarily in that body-cum-consciousness has been blocked by programming and conditioning and acculturation and domestication and brainwashing and indoctrination, resulting in the formation of a “mind” that becomes - as noted - nothing more than a compost heap of nonsense and ignorance and stupidity and insanity. 

Furthermore, there are no nonsensical persons or ignorant persons or stupid persons or insane persons. 

There is just nonsense and ignorance and stupidity and insanity and elemental plant food bodies that are burdened with - and driven by - “minds” that are packed to overflowing with nonsense and ignorance and stupidity and insanity. 

There is only an elemental plant food body that is circulating air and that has the conscious-energy within that is capable of witnessing as long as that energy is manifest. The problem: witnessing can happen in two very different ways: either as (1) subject-object, dualistic witnessing or as (2) non-dual Pure Witnessing. 

Maharaj: “As you watch your mind, you discover yourself as the watcher. When you stand motionless, only watching, you discover yourself as the light behind the watcher.” 

He continued, “That source alone is. Go back to that source and abide there.” 

His advice: “To deal with things, knowledge of things is needed. To deal with people, you need insight, sympathy. To deal with yourself, you need nothing. Be what you [presently] are - conscious being - and don't stray away from that.”

To be continued.

Please enter into the silence of contemplation.

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Here, with those who are still driven to talk about "god," the "Son of god," the "Holy Spirit," "Buddha," "Krishna," etc., etc., etc., the invitation to them is to view those as verbs, not nouns.

THE EXPLANATION

If looked at as nouns, they point to illusions and are, therefore, a total waste of time to even discuss; if looked at as verbs which are resulting in certain sane but rare behaviors among humanity, then they are worthy of some attention during the relative existence.

Meaning? There are members of certain groups who say things such as "My concept of god in the past was of a weak god, an absentee god, A Santa Claus-type god, a mean, punishing, vindictive god, etc. Today, I am in close contact with a loving and caring god whom I worship and praise and glorify and give thanks to."

The reply to that usually goes like this: "If you are in contact with a god that wants to be worshipped and praised and glorified, then you're dealing with someone like yourself - a narcissist - and hanging out with narcissists will never bring an end to your narcissism (that narcissism evidenced by the fact that you think you are "godly").

Next, in the phrase 'loving and caring god,' any supposed god that truly had her or his act together would tell you that the totally irrelevant part of that phrase is 'god' and that the only part that is relevant is the "loving and caring" part.

"That is, a non-narcissistic their god / their goddess would say, "I care not an iota about being worshipped and praised and glorified by you or anyone else. How arrogant and insecure and needy would I have to be to want that? Forget the man-made, dreamed up noun 'god' and focus on the 'god as a verb' understanding and then go forth and let loving and caring be verbs - not adjectives - and let them generate the act of love and the act of caring and let those actions manifest through you." 

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"

--Yeshu'a (Jesus)

and 

"Heaven and earth shall fade away."

--Yeshu'a (Jesus)

and 

"Heaven and hell are not geographic places

but are states of mind, nothing more than

concepts dreamed up by men."

--Pope John Paul II 

"There is no hell."

--Pope Francis, the current pope

in an interview with journalist Eugenio Scalfari,

a writer used by the Pope to issue off the record

teachings which become a part of the Papal Magisterium.

[That said, would that the popes who have shown the courage to reject a core concept of their dogma - namely, "hell" - would find the additional courage required to question the very existence of their institution in light of the centuries-long cover-up of their history of raping children and in light of the mental and emotional and psychological scarring of billions of their members past and present.

And that need for courage also applies as questions need to be asked about why so many other sky cults are still being supported and allowed to continue to exist as well. When certain types of programming and conditioning have been shown to blind the masses, they should end. Will they? Not likely. Why?

Because what the masses think and say and do is most influenced by the international crime families which hold sway over the masses as criminals conduct their planet-wide operations. What are the major international crime families and which are the most influential and have the largest memberships?

The Mafia / La Cosa Nostra; the Catholic Church (with it 1.2 billion followers) whose Vatican Bank worked for decades with the Mafia while laundering mob earnings (for a 15% all-profit charge by the Bank); Protestant and Evangelical Churches (with over 1.2 billion followers) like the one I was raised in where the youth director molested and sexually assaulted young girls; big business which has long created environments in which people have been abused; powerful political bodies like the U.S. Congress, etc., etc., etc.)

With all of those crime families, neither the followers nor the leadership ever voluntarily step down or shut down their criminal activities. Be they gangs, organized crime families, religions, big business, politicians, etc., they all want control and they all want power and they all want money, and nothing internal will interfere with the driving forces at play.

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