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CAUSATION and RELATIVE EVENTS AND BEHAVIORS:
“Evil?” or “Ignorance, Stupidity, and Insanity”?
There's
a saying that goes something like this: “If you accept the praise of the town,
be prepared to accept the scorn of the village.” It points quite well at the
state of the relative, namely, that all is in a state of flux and inconsistency
and that all is marked by duality.
It also points to the state of the planet today where the Borderline
Personality Disorder runs rampant: “I love you today. I will hate you tomorrow.
I hate you . . . wait, don't leave me.”
There is another comment which suggests that “you will always eventually have
to pay the piper” and another that talks about “what is good for the goose is
good for the gander.”
Another suggests, “You might want a pit bull to protect you and yours, but do
not be surprised when your infant is mistaken for dinner.”
As long as there is manifested consciousness, there will be movements, shifts,
impermanency in the relative. All things are coming together and coming apart,
and those who believe in an over-simplified version of causation will believe
the following:
1. “I can intervene and cause effects to be different”
and
2. “I can control things and bring about different results that are more
desirable”
and
3. “I can make my own personal world better.”
What does all that mean in terms of the relative existence and in terms of
false beliefs?
A man came here and made the claim that his first wife had fooled him, that -
from the way she had presented herself - he thought she was a “good and moral”
woman. “But eventually,” he said, “she had an affair with another man and left
me for him.”
He went on to say that he was determined that, when he married again, it was
going to be to “a truly upright and moral woman with high standards.” As a
result of that goal, he decided that he would join a large church and only date
women who were active in the church and who were nothing like the first wife
whom he had “met in a bar.”
Per his plan, he found a woman that certainly seemed to be a “good” and “moral”
and “upright” woman with “high standards,” those words being the ones he used
to describe her when he came to announce his plans to marry.
The result: it took less than a year of marriage for her to check him out
thoroughly and to begin using on him that moral yardstick of hers (which he has
decided originally was one of the things that made her so wonderful). She began
using it more and more frequently to measure his worth, and she used her high
standards to evaluate him, and she found that he was falling short in many
areas.
First came some fairly pleasant instances that began with “We need to talk,”
during which his shortcomings were discussed calmly, along with suggestions for
change and improvement.
Eventually,
those sessions were followed with sessions in which her directions became
somewhat less pleasant in tone and far more straightforward while cataloguing
his shortcomings, in noting the ways he was not meeting her “high moral
standards”-based expectations, and listing the changes that better start taking
place immediately.
In the end, much like the ironic case of the parents who had bought a pit bull
for protection - only to have the pit bull become the only real source of danger
- the irony was that the man's seeking and finding someone with higher moral
standards than those of his first wife led to his finding exactly that, only to
have those moral standards used to judge him and to find him lacking in all
ways.
When a couple of bombers were in the news, investigations showed that several
new ego-state had been adopted.
Things
were moving along swimmingly until one recast himself as “The One Who Is Good
and Moral, The One Who in Truly Upright, The One With High Standards in a
Nation Full of Evil and Immoral People With No Decency at All and with No
Standards at All.”
In a nation such as the U.S. where so many seek to be valued as a result of
their religious principles and their strict adherence to their dogma and
beliefs in order to receive “the praise of the town,” they are never ready to
allow others to express and act on their “scorn for the village” that is based
in their religious principles and their strict adherence to their dogma and
beliefs. Why? Because their religion is not the “right” one or the “best one.”
They do not want to admit that “If they accept the praise of the town, they
must also be prepared to accept the scorn of the village.” Their egotism and
arrogance that support their religious roles cannot accept that “what is good
for the goose is good for the gander.”
If you accept that the cause of “the ills of the world” is “evil” and that your
beliefs alone are the ones that can remove that evil and that the beliefs of
others contribute to evil, then the rules of the game have been set forth; therefore,
there is no justification for criticizing “others” when they play by the very
rules that you set forth.
In the relative, all non-realized persons accept as truth that they and their beliefs
are the ones that are “good” and “upright” and “moral.” In the relative, what
is deemed to be “good” and “upright” and “moral” - and what is deemed to be “bad”
and “indecent” and immoral” - all depend on perspective, and perspective is
rooted in programming and conditioning and acculturation and domestication and
brainwashing and indoctrination.
Persons have no right to despair the warped perspectives of “others” that are
rooted in their programming and conditioning and acculturation and
domestication and brainwashing and indoctrination when their own warped perspectives
are also rooted in programming and conditioning and acculturation and
domestication and brainwashing and indoctrination.
Yet in the realm of ego-states and egotism, the only thing really acceptable to
the non-realized is “another version of me”:
“Enmesh with me.” “Mirror me.” Be like me.” The man who came here proclaimed
that he was going to intervene and cause the effects in his second marriage to
be different, and he thought he could control things and bring about different
results that would be more desirable, and he thought that he was going to make
his world a better place by finding someone with high standards. Yet he was
shocked by the actual results of his plan.
The same applies to the majority of the persons in this nation who were shocked
that dogma could convey to two brothers a sense that they were really good and
moral and upright and that “others” were evil and immoral and indecent.
Yet what dogma-based conclusions were drawn about the brothers after the
bombing?
They were “evil personified.”
“They are evil, but good will prevail.”
“The
good people in this nation far outnumber the evil people in the world.”
The tools of the ego, which ego-states use to defend and protect and sustain
and enhance themselves, include denial and putting a spin on the facts. It is
not unlike the man who went with his wife for marital counseling. Her
complaint? He was “sexually promiscuous and unfaithful” and “has had at least
four affairs with other women that I know of.”
His reply: “Those were NOT acts of promiscuity or unfaithfulness and they were
not sexual affairs. In all four cases, I only had oral sex with them, never
real sex.”
[Where
do you go once you hear those words and see how warped that person truly is? If
wise, out the door.]
When one nation bombs another and kills over 100,000 of its citizens, and when
one-half of the people in the attacking nation still claim that the war was
justified even though the premise for the war was proved to be false, how could
any logical and sane and reasonable person suggest that an act of retaliation
for that act, a retaliation that includes an attack on our “innocent civilians,”
is horrible
but
claim at the same time that the attack against “the innocent civilians” of the
nation bombed and invaded was justifiable, fine, and even - what history will
show - a really good move?
See? Denial. Spin. Ego-state-sustaining arrogance. And the same applied in the
case of the man whose second marriage was going to be really good for the
simple reason that he was going to marry a really good woman with the highest
of religious principles.
The marriage lasted just over a year before it was determine that he was
actually, to use a term that was once aimed in this direction, “A New Age Agent
of Satan.”
Now all of the above deals with the relative, and in the relative, all is in
flux; therefore, if one's desire is to be with someone who has shown that he or
she is “ethical” and “idealistic,” then expect their close cousins - namely, “being
judgmental” and “critical” and “dogmatic” - to be invited along for the ride as
well.
In that example, the “praise of the town” (that is, a woman praised for being
so “good”) was accompanied by “the scorn of the village” (which came with
judging and a knack for critiquing and a firm and unshakeable conviction that
morals and ideals are not relative but are firmly-fixed absolutes.)
In the end, the ego-state of “The Wife” and “The Good Religious Woman”
self-promoted themselves. Those identities were upgraded to “The Super Wife”
and “The Super Religious Woman,” and in the process of upgrading, there will
always be the accompanying act of downgrading, so “The Husband” became “The Bad
Husband” and “The Not-Religious-Enough Husband.”
He, later: “You know, Floyd, I see now that those people in that church all
have the opinion that they are better than everyone else because of their high
standards, and when they decide that someone is worst than them, it's almost
like they want to attack them and punish them, even destroy them.”
F.: “You think?”
“Additionally,
isn’t that a result of their being “godly”? Isn’t that exactly the way their god
purportedly behaves when humans displease him? Attack them, punish them, even
destroy them”?
In Boston, two brothers had the opinion that they were better than everyone
else here because of their high standards, and when they decided that everyone
here was worst than them, they wanted to attack them and punish them, even
destroy them.
The brothers had upgraded themselves to “The Ones Who Are Good and Moral and
Truly Upright, The Ones With High Standards.” As a result, those “others” who
were citizens of a nation where a different religion was dominant and who
seemingly accepted their government's bombing of other nations had - in the “minds”
of the brothers - formed “A Nation Full of Evil and Immoral People With No
Decency at All and with No Standards at All.”
Insanity is at play when persons hate persons who behave exactly as they do.
Psychological projection can be a real bugger, yes? And projection is not a
form of evil. It is a psychological phenomenon, defined as such:
“Projection is a psychological process by which someone denies some aspect of
their own behavior or attitudes and assumes instead that everyone else is doing
or thinking so instead. It is usually seen as the externalisation of a person's
negative traits, placing blame on an outside force such as the environment, a
government, a society, or other people.”
The notion that “I am going to be protected from future hurt by getting a woman
who is as tenacious as a bulldog when it comes to sticking to her high standards”
actually blinded a fellow to the possibility that those standards might be
applied to him and that he might end up being chewed up and spit out.
So when the notion is that one's dogma in the only one that contains the right
beliefs and is the only means for eliminating evil - while also being convinced
that the beliefs of all of those “other people” are the source of evil in the
world - why should it come as a surprise when the “high standards” assumed by “others”
might be applied to them and that they might end up being chewed up and spit
out?
It is ignorance and stupidity and insanity - not “evil” - that allows persons
to say:
“The way we behave is okay, but it is not okay for you to behave that way.”
“Our beliefs are right so, of course, it is okay when we act on them (even if
that involves killing others), but it not okay when you act on your beliefs
(especially if that involve killing us).”
“Our religion and what we do in the name of our religion is sacrosanct and
above the law, but your religion and what you do in the name of your religion
is not sacrosanct and is not above the law.”
“We are the good people, and you are the evil people.”
“It is okay for us to be driven by our beliefs because they produce good, but
it not okay for you to be driven by your beliefs because they produce evil.”
The relevant facts:
If you accept the praise of the town, be prepared to accept the scorn of the
village
and
What is good for the goose is good for the gander
and
Be prepared to pay the piper if you dance, especially if you dance on “others.”
Meanwhile there is all of this duality-based nonsense: “You.” “Us.” “Versus.” “Good.”
“Evil.” “Others.” “Them.” “Moral.” “Upright.” “Decent.” “Immoral.” “Indecent.” “Sinful.”
“Virtuous.”
Welcome to the products of dualistic beliefs. Welcome to the insanity and chaos
of duality that always accompany those products.
As a fellow named Yeshu’a (called “Jesus” nowadays) said after he was exposed
to the non-duality teachings and began to share 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.
To be continued.
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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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