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FREEDOM FROM BELIEFS (Believers, Non-Believers, and “No-Belief-ers”)
Yesterday’s post ended with this:
The link with the non-dual message is this: when one loses contact with the essence and with authenticity and falls into a personality trance, then the combined effects of
(1) that loss of contact with the essence and authenticity and
(2) the subsequent identification with body and mind and personality become so acute that the person’s ego-states become preoccupied with recreating the contact.
To continue:
It is - at least in some cases - that “acute” search for contact with one’s Original (Pure) Nature that drives persons to assume the role of “The Seeker.”
That would be fine except for the fact that - without a realized guide or without being in touch with the inner guru - then the search unfolds in a totally futile and self-defeating way.
Seekers are often engaged in a blind search for “their essence” and “for an awareness of that which is authentic,” but - blocked from seeing clearly by the sources of ambiguity and duality (rooted in programming, domestication, conditioning, acculturation, brainwashing, indoctrination while being trapped in their personality trance) - they know not what they seek;
in most cases, their seeking ends at the third step on what is now considered to be a four-step “journey” from identification with the false “I” to abidance as the Absolute (the third step being where they assume the false identity of “The Religious One” or “The Spiritual One” or “The Realized One” and where their search becomes focus of seeking control and power);
furthermore, the odds are slim that they will ever cross paths with a fully realized guide that can reveal to them exactly what “that / That” is which they are “missing” and thus seeking;
therefore, they will usually seek blindly or will be misled by their “leaders” or “big name teachers” - all of whom are equally blind.
So it is, but so it need not be for those that have come this way and that accept what the Enneagram and the non-dual teachings combined can reveal. It was noted earlier that “-ism’s” support personality and personality supports belief in (and attachment to) “-ism’s.”
Another example: Sinclair Lewis on one “-ism”:
“When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross.”
Were Lewis in the U.S. nowadays, he could point to candidates in 2012 who would be the President of the United States and who are suggesting that women impregnated during a rape or as the result of an act of incest should not have the right to abort but should “make the best of a bad situation”;
that homosexual acts - which are banned by state law in many states - should be declared illegal by national law as well; that birth control should be banned because it is inspiring “unacceptable sexual activities”;
and that some persons have the right to marry but that the constitution should be amended to deny others the right to marry.
[The current crop of right-wing politicians make that earlier group seem to be the sane one in their party].
In those cases, note the combination of “flag and the cross / Catholicism”; the cross / Catholicism and flag. Fascism manifesting precisely as predicted. Such is the toll of belief in the arrogance-based concepts perpetuated by “-ism’s” and the blind acceptance of the desires of “-ism”-based personality / personalities.
Presently, six of the nine justices on the U.S. Supreme Court are fanatical Catholics, so there should be no surprise that their focus in less on the Constitution and more on their Bible and their right-wing religious views which opposed abortion, birth control, same sex marriage, homosexuality,
“Satan” infiltrating their church and their society, pre-marital sex, and a host of other culture-war issues which have now been warped into their political issues and political agendas
“-Ism’s” and personas; personas and “-isms.” Each supports the other in an endless cycle that encourages the reinforcement of persona-adoption, followed by a person attaching to the “-ism’s” that reinforce the persona, followed by the “-ism’s” reinforcing the belief that the persona is an actual identity, etc., etc., etc.
To claim that “I am a patriot” is to create an attachment to the beliefs that any given culture suggests are evidence of one’s patriotism, including such statements as . . .
“We are the greatest country on the planet”; “I am willing to die for my country”; “a real man is willing to sacrifice his life to protect his fellow citizens”; or “I will beat to a pulp anyone who desecrates our flag.”
Once the persona / personality of “The Patriot” has been adopted, then the conceptualized “-ism” of “patriotism” becomes sacred, hallowed, revered, and sanctified;
and once the conceptualized “-ism” of “patriotism” becomes sacred, hallowed, revered, and sanctified, then the persona / personality of “The Patriot” is also believed to have the status of being sacred, hallowed, revered, and sanctified and that belief will blindly drive all thoughts and words and deeds;
thus, those trapped in personality are killing and / or dying for their country; killing and / or dying for their god; killing and / or dying for whatever the popes’ desires were during the Crusades;
killing and / or dying for whatever the imam’s desires are nowadays; killing and / or dying for whatever the commander-in-chief’s desires are; killing and / or dying for whatever the prime minister’s desires are, ad infinitum.
Such are the results of the perverted beliefs in false personas and in “-ism’s.” To be free, the recommendation here is to employ the Enneagram as a tool to begin uncovering the variety of personalities which subconsciously drive thoughts and words and deeds and which, therefore, remove all opportunity to make independent choices.
It was noted
earlier that much can be revealed by understanding the history of the way that
the non-dual teachings became necessary and the way that the Enneagram has been
used by some teachers of non-duality to expose the personality trance in which
the masses live as well as the effects of personality assumption.
That which is real has been forever; all that is not real but is taken to be so
has not been forever but has come about at various times as a result of
distortion and ignorance. Such is the case with personality / personalities,
assumed roles, ego-states, personas, stage characters, false identities . . . call
them what you will.
The earliest humans
or human-like beings, as with modern persons, faced plenty of challenges during
the relative existence, but one challenge they did not have to deal with was
the nonsense of personality.
Did they desire? Yes, but were the desires natural rather than unnatural or
supposedly “supernatural”? Also, yes. Were they afraid at times? Yes, but were
the fears natural rather than unnatural or supposedly “supernatural”?
Yes, and that did not change until humans began dreaming up supernatural concepts based in magical, nonsensical thinking, in distortion, in ignorance, in myths, in superstitions, and in non-facts.
That paved the way for ignorance-based
explanations (and ignorance-based belief in ignorance-based explanations):
“Why did the hurricane devastate that city, O Holy One?”
“Because of the negative karma of the people there, my child.”
As humans began forming communities, some of the more observant began to notice
“individual differences” in the ways that people behaved and reacted alongside
patterns of behavior that were common among the members of certain sub-groups
in the community.
It was seen that some parents interacted in one way with their offspring, some in other ways that were quite different. It was also seen that children used different coping mechanisms to try to adapt to a variety of family situations.
Furthermore, it was seen
that during stressful events, a group of, say, five people all reacted the same
way but that another group of five all reacted the same way but in a way that
differed from the people in the first group.
The observant began to see that all of the members of the tribe or community
consistently revealed certain traits without exception: the prideful were
always prideful, no matter what;
the avoiders were always avoiding, no matter what; the admiration-seeking, narcissistic performers were always performing, no matter what;
the love-seeking
helpers and enablers were always helping and enabling in order to get love, no
matter what; the controllers were always trying to control, no matter what; the
escapists were always trying to escape, no matter what; the reformers were
always judging and trying to reform, no matter what.
The most observant began to see that (a) those with a similar family situation
behaved the same way and that (b) when stressful situations arose, those who
shared in common a dominate trait all showed the same opposite trait as well
when strained.
For example, those who “lost a father” early on were seen to be the seemingly-kind helper types. Though they seemed to be the friendly ones in the community, when they became stressed or were challenged, they showed the same traits as those in the village who were usually the angry, controlling, domineering, power-hungry, lustful types.
More tomorrow on the "-isms" / personality linkage.
To be continued.
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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");
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"From the Absolute to the Nothingness";
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“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)”
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"No one shall ever see 'the kingdom of heaven.' It is within"
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"Heaven and earth shall fade away."
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"Heaven and hell are not geographic places
"There is no hell."
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