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FREEDOM FROM BELIEFS (Believers, Non-Believers, and “No-Belief-ers”)
Reactions to Pointers from This Author
The non-duality invitation is to question all, so as challenges comes, they can provide opportunities for teaching (actually, for un-teaching) as in this instance:
A visitor listening to a discussion of false beliefs said “it seems that everyone will still have points of view and strong opinions about things. It seems you do regarding such topics as 911, Hurricane Katrina being blamed on karma, religion etc. Explain.”
The reply: First, WHO is this that you are accusing of having an opinion? You
write to the no-WHO as if there were a WHO, revealing that, subconsciously, you
still believe very much in your own WHO-ness.
As for “points of view,” all that can be said with accuracy is that the
consciousness either witnesses what is happening from the subject-object
witnessing mode or witnesses purely and accurately via the Pure Witnessing. When
the consciousness speaks, it speaks from one of those two modes, depending on
the level of the seeker.
When dealing with “beginners” or “intermediate-level”
seekers, Maharaj would respond if relative issues such as “war” or “the death
of a son” or “mental and emotional suffering” or “physical pain” were raised.
(He would be doing the same today if questions were raised about relative
happening such as “911, Hurricane Katrina being blamed on karma, religion, etc.”
When he advised seekers to abandon their religious and / or spiritual roles and
then just abide naturally, there was no “one who had strong opinions” about
religion or spirituality.
There was a speck that was inviting seekers to
abandon all attachment to the “-ism’s” which all spread false beliefs, to stop
playing their belief-supported roles, and to just abide naturally instead.)
Always, his responses were level-appropriate, meeting the seekers at the place
on the “path” where the seekers’ words revealed them to be; yet that speck
called “Maharaj” was merely noting those instances of relative insanity and
misery in order to invite seekers to see insanity as insanity;
to see that their concepts were merely dreamed up conceptualizations; and to see that their beliefs were rooted in myths and superstitions and false concepts;
then, he
would invite seekers to move away from the cited examples of relative nonsense
and insanity, to understand their Original Nature, and to then abide as that /
THAT.
But understand in the case of that speck or in the case of this speck, there is
no “one” that could “have” or “possess” anything, including a “point of view”
or a “strong opinion.” Until you are free of all beliefs, that point will be
beyond your understanding;
nevertheless, all that is happening is that thorns are being used to remove thorns. Therefore, there is no “one” here that could “have strong opinions.” Here, there is the no-longer-blocked-conscious-energy that is temporarily manifested in an elemental-plant-food-body-cum-consciousness which is circulating air.
That which believes “he” or “she” or “others” can have
opinions is not the actual energy-elements-air triad; it is the fictional
body-mind-personality triad.
As often happens - as was the case with some of Maharaj’s visitor and with some
visitors here - seekers who have not completed the entire “journey” will
project the beliefs based in their relative misunderstandings onto the pure
consciousness when it speaks, revealing their belief that “because I have
strong opinions based in my beliefs, I can see when ‘you’ do, too.”
(By the
way, there are no guarantees that more than a few will ever grasp the pointers
being offered on the subject of belief-less-ness; in fact, the odds are ten
million to one, according to Maharaj’s final estimate, against seekers ever
reaching the Full Understanding, discarding all beliefs, and knowing the
difference in the Real “Oneness” and the false “one”-ness.)
Marahaj provided examples of relative nonsense on occasion in order for novice
seekers to actually see the relative insanity that happens when the
consciousness is warped or blocked.
Such illustrations served to contrast those examples of the results of relative
ignorance with the level of sanity and peace that can happen if persons abandon
the beliefs that lead to chaotic and insane relative happenings which are rooted
in the ignorance of believing in the false.
Only if seekers discard their belief in any and all ideas and concepts can they complete the “journey” and find Truth . . . and peace. The thorns used along the way to remove thorns are used at certain levels only. Some of those thorns are examples of relative happenings that are rooted in false beliefs.
For seekers that have reached the
later steps on the “path,” fewer and fewer thorns need be employed. Until those
steps are reached, the AM-ness (and the “stuff” of the AM-ness) can be
mentioned in order . . .
a. to provide examples of ignorance-based conflict and disharmony and
misperceptions and misery and suffering;
b. to distinguish the end results of believing in illusions rather than seeing
Reality;
c. to explain how the Ultimate Medicine can eliminate ignorance-based conflict
and disharmony and misperceptions and misery and suffering; and
d. to make clear that the elimination of ignorance-based conflict and
disharmony and misperceptions and misery and suffering can (1) only happen
during the limited remainder of the post-Realization manifestation, (2) can
only happen one seeker at a time, and (3) will never happen on a planet-wide
basis.
Why? Because in all societies, the most influential persons are the leaders and
“movers” and “shakers” who are involved with the cultures’ “-ism’s”; because
they and their “-ism’s” are the chief guardians and purveyors of false beliefs
and ideas and concepts and learned ignorance;
because the “-ism’s” and their false messages are so widely accepted that they
now control the thoughts and words and actions of the non-realized masses; and
because it is a culture’s most “sacred” or “proudly held” beliefs and ideas and
concepts and body of learned ignorance that generate conflict and disharmony
and misperceptions and misery and suffering.
Maharaj advised that if one wants to try to change “the world,” then he or she
is quite welcome to try; yet he advised that, in the end, the only change that
has a chance of actually coming to fruition will happen if a seeker begins to
focus on the false self (or selves) and the false beliefs that support them.
Seeing and discarding those false WHO’s that have been assumed as identities -
that is, seeing what is believed to be real or true but is not - must precede
the ability to see What IS.
So, to the original question again, maybe it can be seen now why the consciousness will speak occasionally of “things relative” which are not Real but which can nevertheless generate among believers-in-the-not-Real so much chaos and instability and conflict and disharmony and misperceiving and misery and suffering during the relative existence;
seeing that is preparatory to seekers finally understanding all that
must be cast aside - including all ideas and all concepts and all beliefs and
all attitudes - in order to complete the entire “journey,” to witness THAT
Which Is Real, and to abide as the subsequent no-ideas, no-concepts,
no-beliefs, no identity, non-dual Reality.
Finally, even among the realized, feelings happen and are witnessed as they
rise and fall. What does not happen is emotional intoxication, which can only
seem to be “experienced” and which can only be assumed to be real by an
ego-state in error.
When the voice of that speck of re-purified consciousness
called “Maharaj” became elevated, it appeared to the unknowing that “he” was
displaying some “point of view” or “strong opinion” as “he” tossed persons from
his loft.
But those who were being forced to leave were being forced to leave by a speck
of pure consciousness that only speaks to the willing and able and ready.
Such re-purified specks will function as the guardian of the rights of seekers who are willing and able and ready. Why? Because the natural function of the re-purified consciousness is to remove all obstacles to clear seeing.
Such
spiritually-arrogant persons as those cast from the loft are merely one more
blockage or obstacle that will hinder the seeing of truth and that will,
therefore, be cast out automatically and spontaneously by the pure
consciousness.
Thus it was that persons were required to vacate the loft if they came to
display their spiritual superiority in a way that was interfering with the
opportunity of those who had come to seek, sincerely, the understanding;
however, there was no “strong opinion” or “emotion” or “point of view” involved
because there was no “one” to have an opinion and because there was no “experiencer”
to experience any emotion.
Similarly, there is no WHO here and there is no “one” here that could “experience”
any “strong opinion” or emotion. There is a speck here - just as the case was
with that speck called “Maharaj” - that will on occasion provide evidence of
the Ultimate Sickness when it is heard or displayed in order for seekers to
begin to develop the ability to differentiate the true from the false on their
own.
To that end, all are invited to the Peace, the Love, the Light.
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"
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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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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”
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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.
