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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.)
OTHER POSSIBLE, 180-DEGREE
OPPOSITE PERSPECTIVES
[Continued from yesterday, regarding the
woman who claimed she was blessed because God positioned her car in a way in
the intersection where a driver running through a stop light broadsided a part
of her care other than the door where she was seated]
“My assumption of
the role of ‘The Super Spiritual Woman’ is motivating magical thinking and
arrogance. Maybe there is no god that was causing others drivers to be caught
up in slow traffic in order to help me in a wreck that he knew was coming.”
“Maybe the speed of the driver who hit me was not increased by a god so that
the driver’s car would strike me on the front of my car rather than on the
driver’s door and maybe my car was not slowed down by god in order to
contribute to being hit in a ‘good’ way rather than in a ‘bad’ way.”
“Maybe if there really was an all-knowing, all-powerful god who was watching
over me, he would have prevented the wreck entirely.”
“And if my god did orchestrate everything involved with my car being damaged,
then maybe his actions weren’t quite as impressive as I thought at first glance.”
“Maybe god is not inconveniencing people all around me to make my life better,
and maybe there is no god that is so focused on me that he is controlling all
others around me for my benefit or controlling them to give me what I want.”
“Maybe what happened was not a miracle at all. Maybe it was just an accident
that happened as all accidents happen (i.e., with a variety of contributing
factors and for a number of reasons, including the fact that many people on the
roads are ‘driving in their sleep’ - a very common event among the non-realized).”
and
“Maybe, in fact, I am not constantly ‘being blessed’ as I believe, and maybe
that is an arrogant claim which shows that I believe I am blessed because I am
better than other people; that I believe I am blessed because I am pleasing god
more;
which shows that my
belief is that I am being blessed constantly because I am so ‘good’; and which
shows that if other people were more like me, they could also receive god’s
blessings as regularly as I do.”
Consider more examples to see the way that the rule can work to eliminate the
belief in lies:
3A. Belief at 8 A.M.: “I’ll never do that again!” (which is a brain-inspired
warning being made from the stupor of a morning hangover from drinking alcohol
excessively. Wise counsel from the brain indeed).
3B. Belief at 5 P.M.: “Well, I could have just have one drink. I know I need it
before I go home and face what’s waiting there” (which is a “mind”-inspired
belief that overrides the earlier constructive message from the brain and which
is a most typical “mind”-message because the blocked consciousness is hell-bent
on destroying the self - the false self).
A 180-Degree Opposite Perspective: “For me to say time and again that I will
never do a certain thing again, only to do it again and again and again, is
insane. Obviously, some other action is going to be required if I am to address
this relative existence problem.”
4. Belief: This statement of her distorted views came from a woman who is
tolerating physical abuse from a husband who characterizes his blows against
her body as “mere love taps,” from a woman who believes that she is the one who
is causing him to lash out at her time and time again:
“If he didn’t truly care, he couldn’t get so emotional, so that shows that he really does love me.”
OTHER POSSIBLE, 180-DEGREE OPPOSITE
PERSPECTIVES:
“Anyone striking anyone else is never evidence that an abuser ‘really does love’
the one being abused. Quite to the contrary, it shows that the abuser does not
care.”
“The fact that he becomes so emotional does not show that he really love me. It
shows that he is a really sick, abusive, controlling, person who thinks he owns
me because he pays my bills.”
“His raging and hitting both show that he is suffering not only from ignorance
and insanity and emotional intoxication but also from a huge case of assholism;
furthermore, if I stay and tolerate physical, mental, emotional and verbal
abuse, my own ignorance and insanity are revealed.”
Finally, if one begins to question the beliefs that are commonly-held by large
numbers of non-Realized personas among the masses, it can be seen how often
their beliefs are 180-opposite of what would be sane or logical or reasonable
or factual.
In fact, such observing and questioning and judging the irrational and ignorant
or insane thoughts and words and actions of other persons happens frequently.
Yet
seeing the irrational and ignorant or insane thoughts and words and actions of
others will avail a seeker nothing unless it triggers an objective ability
within the observer to relate to the examples being observed and critiqued and
to find his or her own false ideas and concepts and beliefs that are
unconsciously driving the seeker’s thoughts and words and actions.
Only if one witnesses the irrational and ignorant or insane thoughts and words
and actions of others - and only if such witnessing then turns the focus from “them”
to one’s own “self” (or one’s many false “selves”) - can one ever be free of
accepting as truth what is actually nothing more than a culture’s
widely-accepted lies and nonsensical ideas and distorted concepts and
bogus-but-valued beliefs.
Two Tools That Can Be Used To End Attachment To False Beliefs, Part “C”
To review:
As certain “tools” are shared that can be employed by that rare seeker that is
determined to no longer cling to any false beliefs, “The 180-Degree Rule” has
been explained. The last tool to be discussed involves the “Obliteration of the
Present Thought-Based Mode of Talking, Allowing One to Become Skilled at Using
Only The Vocabulary of Restored Sanity / Full Realization.”
Again, the full discussion of this “tool” is offered in the book “GOING CRAZY, GOING SANE,” so the
explanation here shall be limited to this more concise version explaining the
use of this tool: There is “A Vocabulary of Realization.”
The
irony is that, once Realized, the use of any vocabulary is significantly
limited. In that regard, Maharaj said to one seeker, “We are not speaking the
same language. Yours is a make-believe talk . . . . ” He informed another, “You
speak as a person, limited in time and space, reduced to the contents of a body
and a mind.”
An understanding of the thought-word-deed continuum is related to this topic as
well:
Because thoughts (i.e., the internal noise generated by the false beliefs that
make up the content of the fiction-filled “mind”) control words and because
words - in turn - control deeds, then the words used during the relative
existence exert tremendous influence over the behavior of non-realized persons.
All deeds are directly preceded by words, and all words are preceded by
thoughts.
With their understanding of the corrupted state of “the mind,” is it
any wonder that Maharaj and other sages have long cautioned against the
careless use of language and endorsed the silence instead? Yet do not conclude
that 50% of all actions result from thoughts and 50% from words.
Nonsensical talk could not happen were it not for the nonsensical beliefs that
are stored in “the mind” which are constantly cycled and recycled among the
non-realized as the ever-in-motion consciousness generates thought after
thought after thought.
Consider now the pointer behind the title of the book
mentioned earlier, “THERE’S NO SUCH
THING AS ‘PEACE OF MIND’ (There is Only Peace If You’re Out of Your Mind)”. The
point provided via that title should be even clearer now.
Additionally, several pointers that are relevant to this discussion are also
offered in “GOING CRAZY, GOING SANE,” beginning
with this: “There is no need to cut off the tongue and lips and discard them in
order to put an end to the nonsense being verbalized millions of times per day
across the planet. The requirement is to cut out the nonsensical thinking by
discarding the contents of ‘the mind’.”
When nonsense, a.k.a., “beliefs,” are eliminated at the point where they are stored ( that place called “the mind”) then false beliefs cannot be expressed via the mouth. If there is no constant running of the mind, then there can be no constant running of the mouth. Is it becoming clear why the realized, spontaneously, spend so much time in the silence?
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."
and
"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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“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.
