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FREEDOM FROM BELIEFS (Believers, Non-Believers, and “No-Belief-ers”)
“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.)
Two Tools That Can Be Used To End Attachment To False Beliefs, Part “A”
This pointer was offered earlier:
Finally, when people prepare for a journey, there are certain items that they
take along in order to make the trip somewhat easier. In the next chapter, some
of the items that can be used on the “journey” to becoming free of the effects
of believing in false beliefs and concepts and ideas shall be shared.
I. First, there are some specific tools that you can use which can assist you
in finding many of the commonly-held but false beliefs. Be aware of the phrases
which indicate that a falsehood is about to be stated and it becomes easier to
know when you are about to hear a false belief.
In conversation, distorted
concepts and delusional statements and false beliefs are often introduced by
certain phrases:
“What I believe about that is . . . . ”
“I’ll never forget my granddad’s words of advice when he always told us that .
. . . ”
“My personal view on the topic is that . . . . ”
“My faith alone is all I need to know for a fact that . . . . ”
“When we were growing up, my parents always told us . . . . ”
“My (preacher / priest / imam / ayatollah / rabbi) has no reason to lie to us,
so when he tells us . . . . ”
“I know that if millions and millions of people have believed what I believe,
we can’t all be wrong, so it’s clear to me that . . . . ”
“My beliefs are supported by the writings in our holy text which tells us that .
. . . ”
“Our political party’s candidate for that office tells it like it is, and he /
she said . . . . ”
“No one could have made it any clearer than the spokesperson for that group who
said . . . . ”
and
“I know that is true because my guru always said . . . . ”
Why is any statement that follows those introductory words always a distortion,
a false belief, or an outright lie?
a. The words of those with personal agendas are rooted in personality. Personas
are false, so any words inspired by personality are false.
b. People who claim to be sharing “their beliefs” are lying at the outset, for
they have no beliefs of their own. To review: no person today has come up with
any belief. There is no such thing as “your” beliefs. All beliefs have been
adopted from persons who have expressed “their” beliefs which you take to be “your”
beliefs.
And “their” beliefs are not “their” beliefs, either. They are beliefs that were
dreamed up thousands of years ago by ignorant men, that have been handed down
over the years, and that are now accepted as truth by persons today - many of
whom are intelligent but who have been programmed and conditioned to accept as
truth the falsehoods that are being passed on by the masters of deception in
all cultures, namely, “the authority figures.”
If you want to find the major sources of the false beliefs that are to be
rejected, begin by seeing those being spread by authority figures in politics,
in religion, and in business (which were in the past three separate entities
but which have now been morphed into one mega-influential entity around the
globe).
If you really want to ferret out the distortions and misrepresentations and
fabrications and falsifications and totally-bogus beliefs that are having the
most negative impact in the relative existence and that are inspiring fighting
and disharmony - and belief in separation and duality - then look objectively
at the concepts that are being espoused by leaders and followers associated
with those three “-ism’s” / institutions.
So, the first invitation is to be aware and to be alert enough to listen for
those introductory phrases that precede the verbalization of false beliefs.
II. Next, understand that the Truth can be known but cannot be stated. Talking
is the tool of the ego (of an ego-state or assumed but false identity). Talking
is used to fabricate an image, to display an image, and to try to sustain an
image. Because images are false, then so are any words used to support them.
To that end, this is offered for consideration: those who have not rejected all
identities - but who have merely assumed new and “improved” and “upgraded”
identifications such as “The Religious One,” “The Spiritual Giant,” “THAT only”
and even “God” - will find such pointers as the ones offered in “II” above or
offered by “the later Maharaj” to be anathema.
Yet those who report “I am now this” or “I now know that I am that” or “I am
(whatever)” are stating something, so it cannot be truth, and to believe that
false statements are true is also insane, along with believing that one is
what one is not;
along with making irrational statements that have no foundation; along with
accepting a claim as fact without ever having questioned the claim; along with
abandoning a phenomenal dream state, only to reside in a supposedly “noumenal”
dream state; and along with having one’s head in the clouds without having one’s
feet planted firmly on the ground.
Those persons fail to understand that they are actually seeing no more of the light with their heads in the clouds than the persons planted on the ground who
also cannot see the sun because of the clouds.
What other approaches are used here alongside the dispelling of the myths about
birth and death and casting aside belief in any and all concepts, including “spirituality”
and “this world” and “meaning” and things thought to be “noble”?
What else is used to begin un-doing the confusion, the learned ignorance, the
personality disorders and the various degrees of insanity that are so common
among the masses and that trap then in their belief in - and their dissemination
of - falsehoods? Two additional “ tools”:
III. One is called “The 180-Degree Rule.”
IV. The other is called “Obliterating the Present Thought-Based Mode of Talking
and Becoming Skilled at Using Only The Vocabulary of Restored Sanity / Full Realization.”
Two Tools That Can Be Used to End Attachment to False Beliefs, Part “B”
What else is used to begin un-doing the confusion, the learned ignorance, the personality disorders and the various degrees of insanity that are so common among the masses and that trap then in their belief in - and their dissemination of - lies? Two additional “ tools”:
III. One is called “The
180-Degree Rule.” IV. The other is called “Obliterating the Present
Thought-Based Mode of Talking and Becoming Skilled at Using Only The Vocabulary
of Restored Sanity / Full Realization.”
(Because both methods are relevant here, a brief explanation will be offered,
but the full and detailed discussion of both methods is available in the book “GOING
CRAZY, GOING SANE.”)
THE 180-DEGREE RULE
Seekers who are beginning the process of questioning beliefs are invited to use
“The 180-Degree Rule.” The invitation is to take any belief and then find a
180-degree opposite perspective and see if that opposite view might be the
logical or reasonable or rationale or factual or sane perspective.
Actual examples where the method has been used with seekers include the
following:
1. Belief: “I’m going into work this morning, gather up my belongings, and then
before walking out, I’m going to tell the boss he can take this job and shove
it.”
An Opposite Perspective That Was Found: “Maybe it is wiser to find another job
before quitting the one that is presently paying my bills.”
2. Belief: “This morning God saved my life. Traffic was moving a little slower
than usual so when I reached the intersection that I pass through every morning
on the way to work, a man ran a red light but hit me in the front side of the
car. If I’d been two seconds sooner, his car would have hit me broadside and
killed me. It’s a miracle.”
An Opposite Perspective Which Was Offered:
If there had really been a God watching over you, He could have moved you through the intersection five seconds sooner or five seconds later and then you would not have been hit at all.”
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
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THE EXPLANATION
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"No one shall ever see 'the kingdom of heaven.' It is within"
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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”
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.
