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”?

A REVIEW OF THE KEY POINTERS REGARDING THE DUALISTIC BELIEF IN “GOOD” VS. “EVIL”

(continued)

“Little else blocks the real understanding of cause / causes as much as the ‘good’ vs. ‘evil’ beliefs which are rooted in dogma and politics and passed down by puritanical types.”

--Floyd Henderson

“The cause of all is . . . all.”

--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

316. 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”; 

to say, “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 involves killing us)”;

to say, “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.” 

317. It is ignorance and stupidity and insanity - not “evil” - that allows persons to say, “We are the good people, and you are the evil people”; 

and to say, “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.” 

318. A fellow called “Jesus” 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. 

319. Have you ever considered how unstable those are who are trapped in the dualistic thinking - and, therefore, in the dual-mindedness - which dominates the entire existence of persons whose every thought is driven by an ideology and / or a massive level of arrogance and / or confusion 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”?

The non-realized masses are all suffering from one degree or another of Borderline Personality Disorder and what is referred to here as “The Goldilocks Syndrome”: 

“ This is too hot; this is too cold; this is just right.”

 “ This is too hard; this is too soft; this is just right.”

 “You're too liberal; you're too 'woke'; I'm just right.”

  320. Misery will be always be assured when trying to apply supposedly-absolute truths to an all-relative existence. 

321. 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; and on stamping out “evil.” 

322. What a futile effort to set an unattainable goal, which is actually setting oneself up for misery and suffering and pain throughout the entire relative existence. 

323. 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. 

324. 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. In fact, the very notion of “good vs. bad” is rooted in the delusion of duality. 

325. 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. 

326. 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 and self-absorbed arrogance) would make persons think they know - for a fact - exactly what is “good” and exactly what is “bad”? 

327. Again, 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. 

328. 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.” 

329. And that applies whether the beliefs are religious beliefs, political beliefs, economic beliefs, spiritual beliefs, best type of government beliefs and every other kind of belief, leading to the overall belief that “Our beliefs are good, yours are not; our way is the right way; your way is the wrong way.” 

330. All fighting and shooting and bombing and war on the planet is rooted in insane minds that are driven by the differing beliefs which are stored therein and which are highly valued by non-realized persons who are all driven by the bogus content of their minds. 

331. There is not likely anything that a non-realized persons cherishes more - and is more willing to fight for - than one's beliefs, all of which are based in myths and superstitions and baseless hearsay. 

332. Is it any wonder that persons around the globe can no longer distinguish reality from appearance and cannot differentiate true from false? Is it any wonder that the ignorant identify “evil” as the cause of anything that happens that they do not approve of, even as they identify as “good” their motive for doing the very same thing? 

333. It would seem that (a) if persons are certain that the cause of that which they do not approve of is “the evil in the world” and (b) if they believe that their religion or spiritual programs or movements can provide the means by which evil can be eliminated, 

then 

(c) it would seem that at some point they would look at what they believe to be the solution and (d) would begin to see at some point that the plan is not working. 

334. They might not see it after persons with their same belief systems have practiced patience for one-hundred years or maybe for five-hundred years, but if they were sane, would they not begin to doubt the plan after one-thousand years of failure, or two-thousand years of failure, or five-thousand years of failure? 

335. In fact, they do not believe that the plan will ever work, and the key factor is that they are involved with religion or spirituality for personal gain alone. 

336. The personal gains include rewards now and rewards later (which they believe will last forever) and involve enjoying the perk of doing whatever they want to whomever they want (no matter how selfish or cruel or dishonest, relatively speaking) but then getting “a clean slate” by the mere asking. Stole money? No need to give it back . . . just a need to say, “Dear Higher Power, please forgive me. Amen.” Done. 

337. It is the misery and suffering generated by all things “personal” that have motivated sages for millennia to warn persons about the consequences of personality identification. 

338. If there were no personalities being formed, there could be no development of personality disorders. If there were no personality disorders, then there would be none of the serious personality disorders that can lead to a disintegration of psychic health which can result in the various levels of sociopathic or psychopathic conduct that are so prevalent among persons all around the globe.

339. The invitation here is to understand that the prerequisite for such acts is not “evil in the world” and it is not “evil in a person.” 

340. The prerequisites include being raised in a dysfunctional environment (and all home environments now are dysfunctional, the degree of dysfunctionalism being the only variable); and include:

341. identifying with self instead of “another” and then forming a primary personality style in response; and include:

342. being driven by an assumed personality's hidden desires and fears; and include:

343. developing the master and secondary addictions of humans (the master addiction being to control and the secondary addiction being to power in order to be able to control); and include:

344. developing a sense of having no control and no power; and include:

345. as a result of stress and a sense of personas feeling threatened, the suffering of psychic deterioration that can lead to fear, anger, resentment, and rage; and to a host of personality disorders; and to all sorts of neuroses and psychoses.

To be continued.

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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.

The masses must demand that all those in charge must step down and their groups and institutions must shut down, and there's the real problem because the continuation of their crimes are enabled not as much by the people running such crime organizations as they are enabled by the masses of people who - wanting some perceived "payoff" - remain involved with them and give them money and support them and aid and abet the continued existence of those criminal enterprises and thus facilitate the ability of church criminals and political criminals and other types of criminals to continue to commit their crimes.] 

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