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:

Maharaj advised visitors that “You are not in the world - the world is in you” (meaning, in your mind, pictured via your faulty perceptions, in the misperceptions and misinterpretations and misunderstandings regarding what you erroneously think you have seen which was not at all what it appeared to you to be).

Yet Maharaj never suggested that the composite unity which “you” presently are is not actually and literally walking about the surface of the planet called “earth.” He did not assert that the AM-ness is not real.

All is energy / matter, and he never suggested that earth elements are merely imagined and not real. What he explained was this: that which is formed of earth elements is taken to be something that it is not.

A composite unity is a composite unity, not “A Super Spouse” as it is often misidentified by cultures; not “A Super Virtuous Person” or “A Super Sinful Person” as it is so often misclassified by persons; and not “A Bad Person” or “A Good Person” as is so often labeled in homes and schools and societies.

In touch with the realities associated with the relative existence and with the AM-ness, Maharaj was willing on occasion to enter into discussions with visitors about topical issues and “current events” such as a war in a neighboring country that could potentially spill over into India; such as the “demise” of a child; and such as the insinuation he once made about the too-often restrictive nature of marriage. 

He was well aware that problems exist, and he was aware that the cause was in the mind (where persons’ concepts about “the world” are stored, where their false identities / personalities are stored, where their fallacious concepts and bogus beliefs are stored).

He was also clear that the problems of humanity which are based in the mind can (1) sometimes be addressed by the pointers such as the ones he offered but that (2) sometimes they cannot.

He understood that the readiness was all, and if he spotted someone not ready, they were not allowed to remain in the loft and not allowed to participate in the discussions there.

Yet early on he began to question the efficacy of the version of the Ultimate Medicine that was passed down to him. Eventually his devotion to - and worship of - his guru would fade.

For a time he still offered mantras per his guru’s instructions even though he began to admit that he was doing that because he was instructed to do so but that he was doing so without any conviction on his part that it was really a part of what was going to address what needed to be addressed by seekers.

He would eventually abandon his attachment to what his guru said and would begin to seek to understand - via his own experience and awarenesses - what might be a more effective version of the Ultimate Medicine.

He was seeing that the religion-oriented version was not having an effective impact on the Ultimate Sickness, but he continued to use a religion-spirituality-non-dual combination approach until Westerners began to outnumber the local Hindus in the loft.

Typically, the Westerners were far less interested in the dogma of Hinduism and far more interested in pointers regarding what they took to be “spirituality.”

Thus, he understood that religion was not the Ultimate Medicine but he knew that it was what was bringing visitors to the loft, so he continued to use it in the blended version of the Medicine that he was prescribing.

He would, however, come to see fully that his earliest version of the Ultimate Medicine was ineffective long-term; later, he would also see that his intermediate version of the Ultimate Medicine – “spirituality” and “kindergarten-level spirituality” - was also off the mark.

It was only then that he advised persons to “Just give up spirituality" and to “do your normal duties” and to “forget spirituality” and to “follow your normal inclinations.” And even early on he peppered his sharings with what he understood to be the real version of the Ultimate Medicine, namely, one which addresses the real problem of humanity.

That version of the Ultimate Medicine which he eventually came to see was a version that addressed the psychological distortions and delusions and psychic perversions and disorders and neuroses and psychoses that were the true and real and actual cause of the key problems of humanity.

He did not deny relative issues, but he did come to understand that at the root of war and murder and “relationship” problems were mind-based issues, some of which could be addressed by the non-dual teachings and some of which could not. 

His focus upon things natural made clear that all life-forms on the planet face relative challenges (that is, “have relative problems,” if you will), but he found that those among humans were unique in many ways. Consider:

Each day on walks through the neighborhood and through some of the wooded areas here, deer are seen, squirrels are seen, and humans are seen. The deer and the squirrels and the humans often face the same problems, problems that are natural . . . that are a part of nature: droughts, severe thunderstorms, severe heat waves, and the occasional hurricanes that make landfall here.

But, as noted, some problems are unique to humans, and those are not rooted in natural causes. Some of the most serious problems among humans on the planet right now are involved in things unnatural and things deemed to be “supernatural” (specifically, religious and spiritual beliefs).

When those type problems are at play, the experiences of the deer and squirrels share nothing in common with the problems experienced by those other life-forms called “humans.”

Now if you listen to the “leaders” mentioned earlier, including military leaders, political leaders, religious leaders and spiritual leader, they all offer a different solution to the problems that plague humanity. Their solutions range from . . . 

“Bomb ‘em” and “shoot ‘em”

to

“let those on the lower rungs of the hierarchical ladder flounder in poverty, let ‘em starve, let ‘em do without medical care, let ‘em die for all I care”

to

“the only hope for humanity is for persons to come to know their Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, but it must be found in the right denomination” or “the only hope for humanity is for persons to come to know the prophet Mohammed and to worship - and be willing to die for - Allah, but that must happen via the right sect” or “the only hope for humanity is to study the scriptures in our holy book and to allow the Word of God to determine everything that you think and say and do” or

to 

“you have a spiritual malady and if you develop conscious contact with God through completion of a set of spiritual exercise on a daily basis, then you and your body and mind and your spirit will all be fit.”

Yet Maharaj eventually realized that the problems of humanity are centered in the mind. He saw that the problems of the humanity involve “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity.”

His final conclusion paralleled that which Albert Einstein arrived at later on: “Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.”

Maharaj saw that the duality which humankind buys into generates a sense of separation and better-than-ment and he saw that those drive the problems of humankind. Again, Einstein was in agreement with the non-dual take on humanity’s problems:

Einstein: A human “experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.

“his delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures.

“Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation, and a foundation for inner security.”

Thus, Einstein suggested a different approach by which humankind might “find in that way peace and security which he cannot find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.”

Next: Why the deer and squirrels - which have no beliefs about being anything that is “personal” - function far more sanely than humans who are trapped in scores of personality identifications. 

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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