SEEKING: WHY, WHAT AND HOW?

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SEEKING: WHY, WHAT AND HOW?

Seek to Comprehend How Phony Personality Identities Subconsciously Determine Thoughts, Words, and Deeds

and

Thereby Eliminate the Ability to Make Conscious Choices

Continued from yesterday:

One additional clarification: those who offer the pointer that “nothing is real” are delusional. The invitation offered to one person years ago who repeated that concept was this:

Freedom from the relative problems that result from deceptions and misperceptions does not require a denial of the Am-ness nor a belief that relative things do not even exist.

So to get a grip on reality, try this: bend over, lower your head, and run as fast as you can into a brick wall; then, try to convince me, from within the painful state which would follow such a collision, that the wall does not exist. Tell me at that instant that you believe your head does not exist. Tell me that your pain is not actually happening.

Of course the wall and your head and the pain exist. Of course the entire body exists. The teaching is simply that You are not Your body. Regarding the wall, the Advaitin teaching is not that a brick wall which you can see does not exist.

The pointer is simply that a wall is not really what it appears to be, a fact that can be proved if one were to view the bricks through an electron microscope and see that, at their core, the bricks are a swirling mass of subatomic particles.

The deal here is about differentiating between appearance and reality (of the AM-ness variety) and between appearance and Reality (of the THAT-ness variety). It is not about denying the reality of things relative but is about seeing them clearly and accurately and seeing them for what they actually are instead.

Walk around in your sleep, claiming that you believe in Reality but that you deny reality and all things relative, and you might end up getting hit in the head with a brick, or running into a wall or a river, or driving into the back of a garbage truck that is stopped on your side of the road as one sleep-driver did recently.

You might even end up believing in the extreme inconsistency that there can be “a God who loves you unconditionally” but that he can be – at the same time – “willing to cast you into a place of eternal punishment where you will experience mental anguish and the physical torture of eternal flames, forever.”

That's unconditional love? Then as for that brand of “love,” no thanks. That is the kind of nonsense that an abusive husband or parent uses to justify hitting his spouse or child: “If I didn't love you so much, I wouldn't get worked up like that. I'd just ignore you.” (Tell you what: ignore me. Please.)

Those who are absorbed in the big titles assigned to things deemed to be “lofty and noble and other-worldly and superior and higher than high and soaring and elevated and exalted or holy” will be guaranteed to be out of touch with reality and will miss out on the pleasures and happiness that the sane and wise are able to enjoy during the manifestation.

The fact is that realization is not about finding “one special way” or “a thousand different ways” to be distracted, dissociated, preoccupied, sidetracked, diverted, inattentive, and out of touch.

Distraction is just another form of sleepwalking and sleep-talking, of working in your sleep, of driving in your sleep, of avoiding, of escaping mentally or via the use of intoxicants, or of finding ways to become emotional intoxicated as well.

Yes, Maharaj did say, “The nearer you get to the truth, the more you lose interest in the worldly affairs,” but he never suggested abandoning anything and everything that involves reality . . . the IS-ness . . . the AM-ness.

Instead - in the end, and quite to the contrary - he said, “Just give up spirituality” and “do your normal duties.” He advised: “Forget spirituality.”

This is from the ebook Maharaj’s Evolution:

“He encouraged seekers to follow ‘their normal inclinations,’ that is, to follow their natural tendencies, to abandon all of their spiritual work and just abide naturally - not unnaturally and not supernaturally (i.e., neither ‘religiously’ nor ‘spiritually’ nor ‘philosophically’).”

In the end, he said of the book I AM THAT: “That book and whatever was expounded at that time was only relevant for that period. I am speaking differently today” and am “emphasizing different aspects.”

What he offered later differed considerably from his earlier talks, making clear that the “spiritual” pointers in I AM THAT will take you to the midpoint of “the journey” but that his final talks point the way to “the finish line.” 

Next, THE MASTERS OF DISTRACTION: “LEADERS” (specifically, “Military Leaders,” “Political Leaders,” “Religious Leaders” and “Spiritual Leaders”)

Some in special branches of the military who will be operating in isolated areas beyond assistance if captured are taught to use certain “mental tools” to give them an ability to withstand torture. One of the key tools recommended is “distraction.”

How common is the use of distractions among those who find the relative existence to be torturous as well? How many are playing “The Realization Game” or the “I Am Fully Enlightened Game” as a distraction from the relative, from reality?

Politicians have raised the use of distraction to an art form, maybe not aware of the fact - but tapping into the fact anyway - that 50% of the humans on the planet are Personality Type Sixes who are constantly worried, nervous, anxious and fearful, continuously scared and afraid no matter their age. They often spike to even higher levels of fear and become frightened, paranoid, and terrified.

If a politician is experiencing a setback in his approval ratings, all he needs to do is gin up something that will trigger fear among the masses, assure them that he or she is the person with a plan to protect them, and then that politician’s approval rating will automatically move higher as the 50% Type Sixes will be ready to follow anyone whom they think can protect them their “Fear du Jour. 

Questioner: “How can I be in my true state and lose my fear?”

Maharaj: “You are already in your true state. Because of the mind, duality comes in and therefore you are afraid. The association with the body and mind is because of the love for the body-mind; that is going to go away; therefore, everyone is afraid of death.”

Yet when one gives careful consideration to the ways that persons use distraction as a means of escape (and control), then it can be seen that no one has mastered the art of using distraction and fear to the level of those who are spiritual leaders, associates of the all-time leading masters of distraction: 

religious leaders (a group which also includes cult leaders, leaders of ideological groups, and – likely the most fear-mongering of all – the combination that presents itself as “a religious politician.”)

Imagine the skill of so many religious leaders who are able to convince persons to normalize suffering NOW and who are able to convince the masses to ignore their suffering and to focus instead on a “wonderful reward which God has prepared for you after you die.” Now that's some big time, big title distracting going on there.

Originally, the belief among the masses was in multiple Gods: the Creator God, the Sustaining Gods, and the Destroyer Gods. After Abraham, when his notion that there is only one God caught on, followers began to believe in and worship a schizophrenic God, purported to be a creator and the sustainer but also a destroyer and punisher, so you better be “A Good, God-Fearing Person” if you want to have any hope at all.

The final words in this chapter go to Maharaj in the discussion about whether one should

(A) mentally move to another place, become a “Religious Superstar,” become a “Super Spiritual Giant” and model your new and improved roles for all to see;

or, should

(B) allow the understanding of Reality to be overlaid on the relative so that the relative is marked with sanity, with no hint at all of foolishness, with logic, with clarity, with a clear perspective, with reason, and with unadulterated awareness.

Again:

“Just give up spirituality”

and

“do your normal duties”

and

“forget spirituality” 

and 

“follow your normal inclinations.” 

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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