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FREEDOM FROM BELIEFS (Believers, Non-Believers, and “No-Belief-ers”)
Beliefs Rooted in Personality and “-ISM’S,”
Part “B”
First, personality identifications are the Ultimate Belief which accounts for the manifestation of the Ultimate Sickness. Among the non-realized masses, no belief is more prevalent than the belief that personality identifications are real and truly define one’s personhood.
It can be seen,
therefore, that attachment to personality is not only fueled by “-ism’s” but
also reinforced by the ideas and beliefs and concepts that are at the root of
all “-ism’s.
As long as thoughts
and words and deeds are being driven subconsciously by the hidden agendas of
false identities and by belief in the concepts that are promulgated by “-ism’s,”
then every aspect of one’s relative existence will be tarnished by the insanity
of belief in “-ism”-based dualities and will be spoiled by the
personality-induced trance that leaves them unawake, unconscious, and unaware.
In that condition, persons will claim that they “really do, most assuredly,
have free will” when in fact they are thinking and talking and walking about in
their sleep while feeling certain that they are awake. Where in that scenario
is there even the slightest chance for “free will” to be exerted?
Maharaj: “In Hinduism, the very idea of ‘free will’ is non-existent, so there
is no word for it. Will is commitment, fixation, bondage.”
Maharaj explained, therefore, that the purpose of the pointers is to free persons from their fixations and bondage; is to eliminate mind-driven chaos; is to put to an end once and for all personality-driven instability; is to free persons from the “-ism”-driven volatility that marks their existence.
How offensive his words were (and are) to those trapped in ego-states and egotism. How in error they assumed his teachings to be when he reported that they had no free will at all. How deluded the non-realized are, then, when they believe that they are abiding under the auspices of free will.
With that belief in
place, they give themselves “credit” for the “good” things they accomplish via
their “free will” or they blame themselves for the “bad” things that happen
when they “do not hold their free will” in check.
Or, depending on their programming and conditioning, they will speak of other types of “will” that have been conjured up by their “religious leaders” or “spiritual guides” and which are even more magical and are of a totally fictitious character, namely, “God’s will” or “the will of the universe.”
The fact is,
nothing is unfolding according to the will of any god or goddess. All is
energy-matter, and neither can be created nor destroyed; thus, there is no
creator at all to exert his / her will. Nor is anything unfolding under the
supervision of “the universe.” Nothing is happening per the auspices of some “plan”
or “divine plan.”
To study history and to see mankind’s penchant for meanness and cruelty and ignorance and insanity is evidence enough to confirm that if there were someone or Someone planning what is happening on this planet, that plan could never be rightly classified as “divine.”
It could only be
classified as “a very mean and cruel and ignorant and insane plan.” The fact
is, instead, that persons are driven by the unconscious fears and desires of
their personalities; are driven by the concepts that are promulgated and
broadcast by their “-ism’s”;
All sorts of processes are going on that determine thoughts and words and that
subconsciously drive actions, processes which persons haven’t the slightest
awareness of:
Maharaj: “A tremendously complex work is going on all the time in your brain
and body. Are you conscious of it? Not at all.”
Moreover, all thoughts and words and deeds that are driven by the sick “minds” of the non-realized which - from the age of two years and onward are contaminated with the germs of the Ultimate Sickness - leave persons in a prison while believing that they are free.
The prison is
located between their ears, and each bar of the prison is a personality-based
fear, a personality-based desire, or an “-ism”-based” concept or belief that is
totally false but that is wholeheartedly believed to be true.
What - other than ignorance and insanity - would convince a person in prison
that he or she is free or has the “free will” to choose? Again, to be “driven”
in a car is to be in the passenger seat, the back seat, or the trunk (boot) but
is to be precluded from being behind the steering wheel and freely choosing
where one is going to go, how one is going to go, when one is going to go, etc.
“Free will” and “being driven” cannot co-exist. To be driven by entrapment in a personality trance - and to allow “-ism-based” concepts and beliefs to determine thoughts and words and deeds - is to block any chance for free will to manifest.
What - other than
ignorance and insanity - would prevent persons from seeing that, according to
Maharaj, they “are using things and people for purposes alien to them” and are
playing “havoc with the world and yourself.”
Such is the way it is when personalities and “-ism’s” are in charge: they rob persons of free will, of the ability to consciously choose, of the ability to behave in a sane manner.
And that is why all
available tools (including the Enneagram) are employed here to allow seekers to
identity the personality types that are driving them and to thereby have a
chance to be free.
Only with the completion of the third step on the “path” from identification with the false “I” to understanding the Absolute can seekers move on to the total freedom that comes with the post-belief, post-concept, post-persona, post-personality assumption, post-full realization manner of abiding from the position of being fully awake, fully aware, and fully conscious.
It has been shown how the seeds of personality are sown in children as they attempt to adjust to the familial dysfunctionalism that all children are now exposed to and how the primary personality type is usually in place as early as the age of six.
That personality,
and the others that exert influence over thoughts and words and actions, are
reinforced by the “-ism’s” that are dreamed up by cultures around the globe. To
be “liberated” is to be liberated from belief in personas and the concepts and
ideas and beliefs that are propagated by the plethora of “-ism’s” that are so
pervasive in societies all over the planet.
Here and elsewhere, one tool that is used by willing seekers to advance the cause of liberation is the Enneagram test, accompanied by an analysis of the test results that are shared with the seeker - a process which can require only about two hours in most cases.
Additionally,
background information is being shared which will allow seekers to see how
personality came about and why these teachings - and the understanding they
offer - are required for seekers to understand completely how (on a universal
basis now) . . .
a. persons become trapped in the personality trance and how
b. stress leads to psychic deterioration (and to totally-predictable behaviors
among the mentally and emotionally unhealthy as their personality types
unconsciously drive thoughts and words and actions).
So, to review some of the main pointers offered so far:
1. At some point, it was seen by the most observant people in their community
that all persons were being driven by one of nine dominate traits or “passions,”
that is, by whatever they were seen to be “most passionate about.”
2. It was also 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.
3. Thus it was realized that “distinctions” and “dualities” were born with
personality. “Differences” and “personal characteristics” were noted.
4. That gave rise to “self”-ishness which, in turn, blocked the awareness of what is authentic and what is not as well as the sense of Oneness. (The same happens around the age of two when a child - previously identified totally with its mother - becomes aware of its own body, becomes conscious of itself, becomes self-absorbed, and is thus said to be “A Terrible Two.”
Indeed, once one loses a sense of authenticity and identities with body and mind and personality, then the results, relatively speaking, could indeed be said to be “terrible.”
Such is a microcosm
of what happens planet-wide as persons are separated from a sense of Oneness,
replace the innate sense of “Is-ness” with a false sense of “self-is-ness” /
selfishness, develop a primary personality type, and eventually assume dozens
and scores and hundreds of false personas as actual identities throughout the
relative existence.)
5. It was Evagrius who discussed the early Greeks’ version of the nine passions
(or the “nine obsessions” or “nine dominant personality traits and types”).
6. He showed how those passions (i.e., dominant personality traits / types)
distorted human perception and limited the human search for the essence and authenticity.
7. Religions further limited the search . . . to the confines of their
buildings and texts only.
8. People were dissuaded by their religious / spiritual leaders from seeking
answers scientifically or objectively and told to accept unquestioningly the
answers that were provided via dogma and “holy texts” only.
9. With the few remaining seekers who used the non-duality teachings to uncover
the root of all personality-driven 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.
10. It was seen by some that it is those “views” or “passions” or “primary personality traits / types” 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.
11. Those “separated from authenticity” will be blindly driven by their
dominate and secondary personality types and will be ruled by unconscious but
habitual responses as well as the hidden agendas of their personality /
personalities.
Now, to continue:
Those lost in the trance of personality / personalities will be driven by the
passions or personality traits of either wrath and resentment and anger; or
pride; or deceit; or melancholia and jealousy and envy; or greed and avarice;
or panic and cowardice; or conceit and gluttony; or lust; or indifference and
laziness.
Moreover, each of those passions aligns with one of the nine personality types
identifiable via the Enneagram method of personality identification and
analysis. For the dedicated non-dual seeker that is attempting to
1. understand the extreme (and extremely-adverse) effects that personality has
played as it has controlled all thoughts, all words, and all deeds and to
b. understand the degree to which an assortment of the nine personality types
has bastardized the relative existence and to
c. understand why personality must be transitioned and to
d. understand how to accomplish that transcendence,
then it must be seen exactly which of the passions (or personality traits) have been driving the seeker; it must be seen exactly to what degree that has happened; and it must be seen exactly how to be free of personality identifications and their effects.
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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“There’s No Such Thing As Peace of Mind (There’s Only Peace If You’re ‘Out of Your Mind’)”
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"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.
