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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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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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