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FREEDOM FROM BELIEFS (Believers, Non-Believers, and “No-Belief-ers”)
Two Other Major Sources of False Beliefs, Part “A”
[Considerations for Re-Consideration in Light of New Pointers]
“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.)
The
discussion of false beliefs - and being free of them - will shift its focus to
the two sources that presently result in more distortion and illusion and
deception (and self-deception) than any others.
The first source is rooted in one’s “personal” beliefs (which are still rooted
in “their beliefs” but which reproduce even more
deception-and-self-deception-based beliefs). Those “personal” beliefs and their
effects will be discussed in a later chapter.
The second source was alluded to at the end of the last chapter which ended
with these three pointers:
1. The “journey” aims to put you fully in touch with reality and You fully in touch
with You. Again, to be out of touch with reality is to be insane.
2. This “journey” is about getting in touch with reality in order to be free of
the bondage of the illusions and falsehoods of a “mind” exposed to years of
enculturation, and it is at the fourth of the seven steps on the “path” that
all beliefs finally fall away.
3. To fixate at the third step (where religious and / or spiritual roles will
be assumed and played for a time) is to be forever trapped in believing false
beliefs. And that is insane. The invitation is to complete the entire “journey”
and then enjoy the remainder of the manifestation in a manner that is totally
free.
Of all of the “-ism’s” that generate beliefs, none can compare with the number
of beliefs and concepts and dualities spawned during the last 5000 years by
these (and other) “-ism’s,” some of which were catalogued in an earlier
chapter:
Judaism; Protestantism / Catholicism / Jesuitism / Anglicism; Islamism;
Mormonism; Buddhism; Hinduism; Talmudism; Jainism; Sikhism; Shintoism; Taoism;
baptism; clericalism; congregationalism; cultism; Deism; creationism; theism;
montheism; polytheism; exorcism; dogmatism; druidism; fundamentalism; paganism;
predestinarianism;
proselytism; puritanism; revivalism; spiritualism; supernaturalism; evangelism;
televangelism; messianism; monasticism; moralism; mullahism; mysticism;
moralism; occultism; salvationism; separatism; symbolism; and ritualism.
Is “non-duality” not included because of the author’s prejudice? No. It is
excluded from the list because its penultimate message is to be free of all
beliefs in order to receive the full dose of the Ultimate Medicine that can
purge the “mind” of a seeker of all beliefs and ideas and concepts and
distortions and deceptions.
It is excluded because . . .
A. it alone invites un-learning all rather than learning more;
B. because it alone offers, if properly shared, un-teachings rather than
teachings; and
C. because it alone uses thorns to remove thorns, after which all thorns are
tossed.
If the Direct Path Method is used in conjunction with the Nisarga Yoga, then it
alone invites seekers to abandon belief in all that has been taught and to
thereafter abide naturally rather than unnaturally or “supernaturally.”
Among religions and philosophies, there is no other means that can produce the
necessary brain-flush save completion of the entire Advaita “journey” which can
lead to the dissolution of all of the contamination that is “the mind.”
That is why, ultimately, non-duality is the “teaching” intended to become the
non-teaching by way of un-teaching. All others methods and “-ism’s” require
that their teachings or dogma be learned and be believed in unwaveringly ...
with no questioning at all and with resolute and steadfast (and blind) faith alone.
How to be free if that is the basic programming and conditioning to which one
has been exposed from early on, as is the case with (until a recent significant
drop) the 97% of the planet’s population who report that they are affiliated
with one of the “-ism’s” in the list above or with another similar “-ism” not
on the list?
Please review the invitation here to find the answer:
the seeker of (a) freedom from belief in lies and (b) the Truth should see by
now that there is no such thing as “your mind.” Though plant food bodies do not
initially contain a “mind,” they do come with a brain.
As with all “life-forms” on the planet, that and the intuitive inner resource
is all that is needed for the body / elements to function naturally. To the
detriment of all, persons’ cultures - which are attached to “more-ness” rather
than “less-ness” - decided that was not enough.
“They” decided you most of all needed a set of belief systems, and “their”
belief systems were implanted in a section of the brain that can store and
retrieve information and that is now called “the mind.”
“They” decided you needed their “knowledge,” which is really nothing other than
their learned ignorance (including “their” ideas and beliefs that were rooted
in superstitious and mythical explanations that were, and remain, totally
devoid of any factual or scientific evidence).
In pumping those bogus beliefs into you, they generated what each person calls “my
mind” - a repository of ideas and beliefs and non-truths.
Those contents were
transferred to persons without their ever having an opportunity to question any
of it at all (with the exception of about 1/2 of 1% of all cases . . . those
cases involving the types whose experiences by the age of six inspire them to
question all so-called “authorities” and all that they say and do).
Among all others, their societies’ beliefs are passed along and accepted
faithfully and dutifully. The stage was set for a most unfortunate play to be
played out on a daily basis around the globe in “The Theater of Lie” that the
relative existence is.
What each seeker must see to move along the “path” and complete the “journey”
to full realization (that is, to freedom from body-mind-personality
identification, to freedom from all role-playing, to freedom from deceiving and
being deceived, to freedom from being driven unconsciously by the false beliefs
of “others,”
to freedom from believing in that which is
false, and to an ability to see the Truth that can be known but not spoken and
to an understanding of the functioning of the totality) what must be seen by
each seeker is that nothing in “the mind” came from you - and most certainly
did not come from You.
It was “they,” not you, who dreamed it all up. (What you have dreamed up will
be, as noted earlier, discussed in a later chapter). “They” forced you to
accept their concepts and beliefs as a child; as a result, you internalized
their beliefs into a “mind” and - if you have not realized fully - you now
allow their fiction to define your beliefs, your “values,” your “mind,” and “you.”
That,
in turn, unconsciously drives every thought and word and deed, rendering you
unable to consciously choose anything (the concept of “free will” under such
circumstances being another completely counterfeit notion).
In fact, most of the (dualistic) beliefs in the “mind” of the non-realized
person are the beliefs of the earliest, self-appointed “religious or tribal or
spiritual leaders” who dreamed up those beliefs, adopted them, and then passed
them on. And all those values were based in duality, in terms of what those
persons decided was “right or wrong” and “good or bad.”
The
invitation here: cast aside ideas and concepts and beliefs and attitudes and
allow the brain to function in conjunction with the inner resource. Tap into
the intuitive sixth-sense. Sense the fourth dimension beyond the three
dimensions of a body’s height, width and depth.
Abandon any notion that a “mind” and its contents are real or that you “have a
mind” that is “yours.” You do not. It is “theirs,” has always been “theirs,”
and shall always be “theirs” if you do not abandon it and then realize;
otherwise,
those persons can still reach forward—from millennia ago or from days ago—and
control you via the compilation of that mass of learned ignorance and
contamination called “your mind.”
Religions want to “cleanse” your mind. Spiritual movements want to “purify”
your mind or “heal” your mind. Many professionals want to “straighten out the
thinking” of your mind. Many groups want to move you from “wrong thinking” to “right
thinking.” Some want to guide you to your “right mind.” Some want to teach you
to “halt the constant movement” of your mind.
None of those have a clue that they have missed the point - and the facts -
completely: nothing needs to be done or can be done to your “mind” and nothing
needs to happen or can happen to benefit your “mind.” The mind is illusion. One
may as well go to a desert and try to benefit and improve or cleanse or purify
or straighten out a mirage.
How
can anyone cleanse a mirage, purify a mirage, heal a mirage, straighten out a
mirage, make a mirage that is wrong into a mirage that is right, or stop
mirages? It is impossible. The mind will dissolve if you see that everything
stored in it is baseless . . . without accurate foundation and without any
semblance of truth.
Then the brain, the sixth-sense, the inner guru, and the intuition will move
you through this relative existence, and you will live the remainder of it in a
natural fashion rather than in an unnatural fashion or in a supernatural
fashion that is dominated by magical thinking that results from a
wrongly-programmed and conditioned “mind.”
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");
"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."
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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)”
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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.
