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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.
3. A new video ("Number Ten: Awakening Together Satsang, March 2018") has now been added in the far right column of this page, offering the opportunity to view a recent 2018 satsang session with Floyd being interviewed by Regina and Jacqueline of "The Awakening Together Group." (See the details in the blue text after this post.)
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FREEDOM FROM BELIEFS (Believers, Non-Believers, and “No-Belief-ers”)
“People are capable sometimes of the strangest of transactions: they pay with their own lives for something as abstract and seemingly inconsequential as an idea."
(Costica Bradatan)
“This-ism,
that-ism, is-m, is-m, is-m.”
(John Lennon / Yoko Ono)
“
. . . Stop imagining yourself to be ‘this’ or ‘that.’ Just be.”
(Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj)
“Neti-Neti”
(Non-Duality Pointer to Identity-Less-Ness)
“Here,
there is nothing that is believed, so there is no one here who wants you to
believe anything, either. Here, the invitation is to be free of all that you
have been programmed, conditioned, acculturated, domesticated, indoctrinated,
and brainwashed to believe so that you can be free, period.”
(f.h.)
OTHER POSSIBLE, 180-DEGREE OPPOSITE PERSPECTIVES, Continued
Maharaj also made
clear that those who do not transition their religious and / or spiritual
role-assumption and role-playing are also just fooling themselves with their
prideful but false belief about having realized and are allowing “others” to
fool them as well. As a result, he said, they will never reach the fullness of
the light:
“There are so many who take the dawn for the noon, a momentary experience for
full realization, and destroy even the little they gain by excess of pride.”
Indeed, how foolish one is to believe that he or she is being bathed in the
full light of the noontime sun though actually standing in the dimness of dawn.
And how foolish one is to believe that she or he can “become something
different” from THAT which they truly are, were, and shall forever be. More on
that later.
That which believes it can “become” something else, can become “better” (or “worse”), or can become “spiritual” is an ego-state (a false role, a bogus identity, an assumed personality / persona).
When the consciousness (as a result of programming, conditioning, domestication, and acculturation) is blocked from seeing truth and Reality, then the counterfeit body-mind-personality triad is believed to be real and can thereafter generate a near-infinite number of beliefs that are taken to be true but that are not.
In fact, the only “triad”
that non-duality recognizes as being presently based in fact is the
air-elements-energy triad, and even that triad forms what is nothing more than
a temporary grouping; therefore, the air-elements-energy triad is not that
which is uniquely Real either.
If it is understand that the triad is merely a “composite unity” that is
temporary, then it should become clear that the oxygen being circulated through
a space or from cannot become something other than oxygen;
and if it is understood that the elements forming the temporary space cannot become something other than elements; and if it is understood that the energy manifested in that space (specifically, the conscious-energy) cannot become something other than the type of energy that it is;
and if all of that
is understood, then it can also be understood that neither air nor elements nor
energy can “become spiritual,” can “become better,” can “become worse,” or can
become anything that is different from what they already are.
In fact, the entire notion of “becoming” - the very belief that one can “become”
something else - is just one more belief that is based in learned ignorance and
- often - in the egotism that always manifests alongside the assumption of an
ego-state.
Thus it can be
asked: can H2O “become” a cube or a lake or a river or a waterfall or vapor or
ice or snow or sleet or steam or a puddle or a stream, or are those also
nothing more than “man-fabricated concepts” which erroneously suggest that an “A”
can become a “B” or which suggest that something can become something else that
is totally different from what it really is?
That which is real is unchangeable, fixed, constant, consistent, unalterable,
immutable, and absolute. That which believes it is changeable, variable, and
alterable is the blocked consciousness, blocked from seeing facts and Reality
and Truth, blocked by the accumulated and bogus contents of a “mind” which
leads persons to assume that they are that which they are not.
That which believes it can change or grow or develop into something that is different from what it actually already is is a speck of consciousness that has been fooled. That which believes it can become enhanced or improved or made better or made worse or ungraded or downgraded is a speck of conscious-energy that has been fooled.
And all such
beliefs are rooted in the duality of either (1) an egotism-based notion of
being “very good” or even “great” or (2) a guilt-and-shame-based notion of
being “bad” or “unworthy.”
Either way, all such notions and beliefs are outgrowths of a fiction-filled “mind”
that is plagued with psychological distortions which were set in place by
faulty programming, warped conditioning, perverted domestication, arrogance-based
acculturation, distortion-generating brainwashing, and delusion-producing indoctrination.
Because all in the relative existence truly is relative - that is, all observed and judged via differing and varying misperceptions only - then the very notions or beliefs about what is “good vs. bad” and “right vs. wrong” and “better vs. worse” and “spiritual vs not spiritual” and “religious vs. not religious” or “spiritual enough vs. not spiritual enough” and “changed for the better vs. changed for the worse” will vary from one person to the next.
Who, then, could
possibly claim to know which of the above elements in those dualistic pairs are
the “right” ones?
Who believes that he or she can define in absolute terms any or all concepts
and beliefs when all beliefs and concepts are totally relative and not absolute
at all?
Only the programmed and conditioned and domesticated and acculturated and brainwashed and indoctrinated; only specks of blocked consciousness that have assumed the most arrogant of assumed personas;
only those who take themselves to be right and perfect and capable of judging dualistic pairs and determining - without any doubt or question - which of the opposite elements in each pair is at play in any given situation.
Yet all the time,
they might as well be debating “sasquatches vs. unicorns”; “satanic reps vs.
guardian angels”; “tooth fairies vs. Easter bunnies.”
No element of a dualistic pair has any more or any less credibility than the
opposite element in the dualistic pair. All duality is false. It is all a part
of the dream; all a part of the scheme; all a part of the scene.
It all amounts to nothing more than a flash across the screen of blocked consciousness. Persons viewing movies in 3-D have been seen to jump back in fear when it appears that something has left the screen.
Their perception / misperception is that they really are about to be struck by whatever they think is flying directly at them.
And that is the way that the non-Realized masses traverse the relative existence, seeing images and believing that they are all real; believing that some of the images they see are “good”; believing that some of the other images they see are “bad”;
believing that some of the formerly “bad” images have changed or improved and are now “good”; and believing that some of the formerly “good” images have suddenly been exposed and revealed to have been “bad” all along.
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.
If you prefer PAPERBACK copies
(collected in two anthologies).
Links for ordering are below with
BARNES and NOBLE presently providing better service
than AMAZON
when it come to fulfilling orders for
paperback and hardcover books
as opposed to delivering digital books.
[NOTE: Wherever you live, you can search for the books below by title with booksellers in your country. With 40,000+ retailers distributing my paperback books, you may order from U.S. stores or you may find someone nearer to you.]
For NON-DUALITY AUDIENCES
The Advanced Seekers' Series (344 pages) is an anthology of four books that share Advaita-based, non-duality pointers that can guide seekers to abide as their original nature. Included in the anthology are
"From the I to the Absolute (A Seven-Step Journey to Reality");
"Consciousness / Awareness: The Nature of Reality Beyond SELF-Realization (Peace Every Day When Abiding As the Absolute)";
"From the Absolute to the Nothingness";
and
"The Final Understanding."
from BARNES AND NOBLE by clicking here
or (sometimes less efficiently nowadays in terms of paperback delivery)
This anthology (438 pages) contains the six books that make up what has been called The Blissful Abidance Series for those seeking to live blissfully and happily for the remainder of the manifestation, including:
“What BLISS is and what BLISS is not”
“There’s No Such Thing As Peace of Mind (There’s Only Peace If You’re ‘Out of Your Mind’)”
“Liberation (Attaining Freedom from Personality via Realization)”
“Freedom from Shifting Between States of Happiness and Unhappiness”
“Why You Must Be Empty If You Would Be Full”
and
“When REALITY Is Overlaid on the RELATIVE.”
Order a PAPERBACK copy of The Blissful Abidance Series
from Amazon by clicking here.
SEND A GIFT BOOK TO SOMEONE
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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.
