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2. 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. See the green text after today's post for the full meaning and implications of that.
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SEEKING: WHY, WHAT AND HOW?
To review for those that are still inclined seek:
1. Seek to abide as all life-forms on the planet abide except for humans: naturally, not unnaturally and not supernaturally.
2. Seek not to find all that you supposedly are; it is enough to find who / what you are not. (Maharaj)
3. Seek to understand how you were programmed, conditioned, domesticated, acculturated, indoctrinated, and brainwashed resulting in you and all humans at some point ending up with no ability to use logic and reason but instead accepting anything from any authority figure as truth without questioning and based on blind faith alone.
4. Relatedly, seek to comprehend how phony personality identities subconsciously determine and control your every thoughts, words, and deeds, thereby eliminating the ability to make conscious choices.
Most persons will never seek, already convinced that they can find all they need to know in their “holy” religious books. Others proudly announce: “I am not religious. I am spiritual.”
For those who are seeking, a seven-step approach is offered here (as was the case with Maharaj).
There were seven steps on the initial “path” which Maharaj discussed (later reduced to four steps). He never presented them in a “1” to “7” step ordering (or, later, a “1” to “4” step ordering) but instead merely referenced them when sharing pointers in the loft.
If a seeker’s words indicated that he was stuck at step three, Maharaj offered pointers that provided an opportunity to shift beyond that and move to step four.
If a seeker’s words indicated that he was stuck at step two, Maharaj offered pointers that provided an opportunity to shift beyond that and move to step three.
Most who entered the loft were stuck at the religious or spiritual Step Three, though most thought they had reached the end of the “path.” Of those types he said: “They think they are being bathed in the full light of the noonday sun but they are really still standing in the dull light of dawn.”
They were playing roles, and defending those false identities vigorously, even as they entered “a role-elimination room.”
At the third step, some were playing a role assigned by a parent or parents and / or culture, namely, the role of “The Religious One” which was eventually self-elevated to the status of “The Super Religious One”;
or
many were playing their “new and improved good role,” that of “The Spiritual Giant.”
In any and every ashram in India (in “Maharaj’s day” and now), one or both of those roles was being reinforced (again, then as well as now). Only in the loft of Maharaj was this the approach:
Maharaj: I will give you nothing; instead, I will take everything away.
The same happens here. With 97% of the persons on the planet until recently reporting that they are affiliated with one religion or another and thus accepting a religious identification as being real, and with millions more proudly proclaiming that they are “beyond being religious and are now spiritual,” then 99.99% of all persons are stuck at the third step (and want to stay there).
The rarest occurrence of all here is to cross the path of one who has transcended the third step and is working toward the abandonment of all identification.
Some ask why I spoke often in the past, as Maharaj did, about “being nothing” and about “the nothingness” and about persons “not having a clue where I live.” They want to know if I “lost that understanding” or “never really had that understanding.”
What was understood about “nothing” and “nothingness” remains, but there is caution today about whom that is shared with. Why?
Because of the widespread abuse that persons have suffered in their past, more persons than ever are using dissociation and escapism and avoidance and schizoid-avoidance and addictions as the often subconscious means by which they can escape “all things relative” (or claim to abide solely “as THAT” or “in THAT”).
To speak nowadays of the nothingness and nothing to most becomes an invitation, for far too many persons, to dissociate from reality and to move into Foo-Foo Land or into the castles in the air that their minds have supposedly constructed.
Nowadays, there is an epidemic of escape-oriented personality disorders which can lead persons to disintegrate into states of neuroses and psychoses. The result: a global population that is suffering from . . .
The Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder (P.D.), the Avoidant P.D., the Borderline P.D., the Schizoid-Avoidance P.D., the Schizotypal P.D., the Bi-Polar P.D., the Addictive Personality P.D., and the Dissociative P.D. (to mention but a few).
The result is a global population that is totally out of touch with reality while most deny that fact and while some now claim that they are totally and singularly in touch with “Reality;”
thus, caution is used nowadays around sharing the non-dual pointers regarding nothing and nothingness because it has been witnessed that many use those pointers to avoid work, avoid relative responsibility, and avoid the relative itself.
After having come to understand, as did Maharaj, that the Ultimate Sickness is not rooted in too little religion or in a spiritual malady and that it is a condition rooted in mental illness, then the last thing he would do, at least at the end of his teaching career, was reinforce that already-present mental illness. Same here.
So Maharaj stopped discussing “nothing” and the “nothingness” in his later talks and stopped discussing things “Noumenal” and focused on offering a non-religious, non-spiritual, psychological version of the Ultimate Medicine to treat the Ultimate Sickness.
He advised seeker to ignore the books with transcripts of his earlier religious-spiritual talks and to listen to his more current talks which were inviting seekers to simply live normally and naturally, addressing their (relative) normal duties and following their normal inclinations.
Here, for the same reason, a three-leg “journey” is discussed:
LEG ONE: the “coming in” stage when the consciousness manifested and was soon exposed to programming, conditioning, acculturation, domestication, brainwashing, and indoctrination, resulting in widespread ignorance and insanity.
LEG TWO: What Maharaj referenced as the “going back out” phase. He advised those ready for the second “leg” of the “journey” thusly:
“ . . . You should go back, reverse, to the source”
and
“Follow the same path by which you came.”
LEG THREE here involves the “coming back in” process whereby one was freed of all false identifications and all beliefs and all ignorance and insanity via realization and then “comes back in” to the relative, to reality, so to speak.
That “coming back in” differs from the initial “coming in” stage because on LEG THREE the coming back in happens without the programming, conditioning, acculturation, domestication, brainwashing, and indoctrination that happened during LEG ONE.
Then, Reality is overlaid on reality. That is, understanding and awareness and sanity and logic and reason will manifest throughout the remainder of the relative manifestation because the dual-mindedness that leads persons to “be unstable in all ways” has ended when mindedness ended.
And when does mindedness end? When one reaches what Maharaj called a state of “zero concepts.” To be free of “beliefs” is to be emptied of all ideas, perspectives, views, thoughts, impressions, false images, notions, opinions, theories, inklings, and concepts which have never been questioned but that have been believed in wholeheartedly because of blind faith alone.
Maharaj said that “it is enough to know what you are not.” Discussions of “being nothing” have allowed some to adopt “nothing” as a supposedly new and loftier and more noble and more surreal and more fantastic identity.
Here, the intent is to “reel those types back in” and to invite them to stop ignoring the “I AM” part of the summative statement of non-duality and to be fully in touch with reality and fully in touch with Reality, meaning with that which is free of being driven by what Maharaj identified as three of the major traits of the Ultimate Sickness, namely, “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity.”
Indeed, the Ultimate Sickness is not rooted in too little religion; nor is it a spiritual malady. It is a sickness that centers in the mind, and only an Ultimate Medicine which addresses the problems generated by the bogus content of the mind can effectively address the Ultimate Sickness.
That understanding was finally reached by Maharaj via his own experiences and observations, and that understanding was reached here the same way.
So, best regards if you are yet seeking. May you find both reality and Reality. May you find the only effective Ultimate Medicine.
To be continued.
Please enter into the silence of contemplation.
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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."
teachings which become a part of the Papal Magisterium.
