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FREEDOM FROM BELIEFS (Believers, Non-Believers, and “No-Belief-ers”)
Yesterday’s post ended with this:
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.
If one understands the Enneagram, she / he will know that what happened in the scenario described above is that a Personality Type Two Helper became stressed and was driven by arrogance to disintegrate to the Personality Type Eight Controller / Boss / “Parent” and to become for awhile an angry, controlling, domineering, power-hungry, lustful type person.
As an example, look at the Enneagram pictograph and focus on the Style 2 and the Style 8:
That explains the pointer at the end of yesterday’s post about persons all showing the same opposite trait as well when strained.
One capable of differentiating between another’s tendency to tell the truth or to lie can ask certain questions and gain some understanding of what primary personality type is at play.
That understanding can also come if one is a wise observer and can see what a person’s habits and obsessions are (or what they can be totally fanatical about or most passionate about).
If one has a habit of drinking alcohol heavily or a habit of getting drunk or if one obviously obsesses over alcohol and can even be fanatical about his or her drinking, then that person might well be a Type Seven which is the most likely type to have an Addictive Personality Disorder.
If one witnessed to be fanatic about controlling and “destroying” so-called “enemies” (that is, those who challenge them or disagree with them) then one is likely witnessing a Type Eight or a Type Two under inordinate levels of stress.
As Maharaj and other sages have long understood, personality drives chaotic and unstable behavior. After Yeshu’a (“Jesus”) was exposed to non-dual pointers and heard about why non-dual advocates were encouraging the abandonment of belief in personality identifications, he would say, “A dual-minded person is unstable in all ways.”
The non-dual message and the message about the ill effects of personality (relatively speaking) will not be separated by one that is wise and realized.
With an understanding of personality and the enneagram and the fact that stress leads to psychic deterioration (and to totally-predictable behaviors among the mentally and emotionally unhealthy) an in-depth understanding of how thoughts and words and deeds are driven by the unconscious motives of various personality identifications can manifest.
It was also seen by the most observant that persons are all being driven by one of nine dominate traits or “passions,” that is, by whatever it was that they were seen to be “most passionate about,” whether that was about reforming everyone;
or about creating or maintaining a phony image; or about trying to dominate everyone else; or about allowing others to dominate them in order to gain something they wanted, etc.
Moreover, it was seen that their behaviors were “textbook” in the way that those behaviors manifested so consistently and unwaveringly and in how unsurprisingly foreseeable and predictable their thoughts and words and deeds were going to be in any given situation, some being passionate about gaining power and leadership roles; some being passionately angry most of the time;
some being passionate about performing in ways that generated admiration from the entire community, etc.; thus, “distinctions” and “dualities” were born with personality.
“Differences” and “personal
characteristics” were noted, and the attention to one’s relativistic, personal
passion soon began to displace any former concern for the community as a whole.
That gave rise to “self”-ishness which, in turn, blocked the original sense of
Self and sense of Oneness and displaced the earlier all-for-one-and-one-for-all
attitude with a passion for fulfilling one’s own desires and avoiding one’s own
fears.
Conflict, driven by self-absorption, became the “norm.” It was Evagrius who discussed the early Greeks’ version of the nine passions (or the nine obsessions or nine dominant personality traits).
That list included anger, pride, vainglory, envy, greed, incontinence, gluttony, lust and acedia (i.e., boredom; listlessness; apathy; a lack of care or interest; indifference; and laziness).
Because he showed how those passions (i.e., dominant personality traits) distorted human perception and limited the human search for the essence and the Self to the trivial and clichéd and ordinary - especially after religion limited the search to the confines of their buildings and texts only - then Evagrius came under attack from the churches of Rome and Constantinople.
People were dissuaded by their religious leaders from seeking answers scientifically or objectively and told to accept unquestioningly the answers that were provided via dogma and “holy texts” only.
New, “good” selves
or personas or identities were generated, further eliminating any opportunity
among the mostly-religious masses to know the essence and the authentic.
With the few remaining seekers who used the non-duality teachings to uncover
the root of all disharmony and emotional instability and chaos, early teachers
discussed the way that everyone developed a primary “point of view” from the
list of nine possibilities.
It was seen by some
that it is those “views” or “passions” or “primary personality traits” that
mark and mar the human condition. The patterns of thoughts and words and
behaviors associated with the passions now align with the nine personality
types of the Enneagram.
What might be called - for the sake of discussion only - “human character” (as
exhibited among the realized) can be understood with a conscious-awareness of
the essence and with an ability to differentiate the authentic from the phony,
so the realized will behave in what most might call “the way of Love” without
having even a single belief about “love vs. hate.”
In fact, the realized
are functioning in the non-dualistic, no-concept, no-belief, no-identity manner
of True Love that manifests alongside the understanding of the unicity.
In contrast to what can manifest during the AM-ness if there exists a
conscious-awareness of the essence and authenticity and Love, those “separated
from authenticity” who are blindly driven by their dominate and secondary
personality types will be ruled by unconscious but habitual responses as well
as the hidden agendas of their personality / personalities.
To be continued.
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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"
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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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(collected in two anthologies).
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[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.”
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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.
