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(Believers, Non-Believers, and “No-Belief-ers”)
(The Problem, the Invitation to Seekers, and “The Opportunity” For Readers and Seekers)
That which you are is what you are, is all that you have ever been, and is all that you can or shall ever be. To compare: a duck cannot become a squirrel; a deer cannot become a bear; and a bird cannot become a fish;
moreover, no duck has ever mistaken itself for a squirrel; no deer has ever mistaken itself for a bear; and no bird has ever mistaken itself for a fish.
In addition, a duck does not think it is a duck; a squirrel has no belief that it is a squirrel; a deer does not believe that it is a deer; a bear does not believe that it is a bear;
a bird does not think it is a bird; and a fish does not think it is a fish. No duck has ever told another duck, “You are a duck,” much less “You are a squirrel.”
Even if that could happen, it would be insane, yes? But consider what belief-driven persons do every day that is just that insane.
Even more to the point, a duck is not really a duck; a squirrel is not actually a squirrel; a deer is not really a deer; a bear is not truly a bear; a bird is not a bird at all; and a fish is not actually a fish.
In each of those cases, it knows IT IS, period, but in none of those cases does it believe that it is what any person has ever said that it is. And that fact is a fact in every case on the planet, except with persons.
Persons do believe that they are what they are not; persons do not stop with the “I AM” and the “I AM” only; no person stops with simply knowing IT IS;
to the contrary, persons do believe that they can be something (in fact, many things) that they are not, and they do believe that they can become something that they are not.
And that is the case with almost all persons on the planet, so few are the instances of full realization in which case one realizes (1) all that she / his is not and then realizes (2) that which one truly is.
Instead, most throughout the course of the relative existence assume hundreds of personas as actual identities, and each persona that is assumed has its own basic fear and its own basic desire, along with a plethora of accompanying fears and desires.
One suggestion is that each persona can be driven by at least seven fears and /
or desires, so accept as actual identities twenty personas assigned by your
family and friends and culture, and assume another twenty that you adopt on
your own, and those forty persons (x 7) will have 280 “voices” that are forever
talking in order to (a) defend themselves against perceived fears and / or in
order to (b) try to manipulate “others” or to negotiate with “others” in order
to (c) have their desires met and their fears alleviated.
Is it any wonder, then, that persons soon feel as if they are being pulled in a
hundred (or two-hundred, or two-hundred-and-eighty) different directions at
once?
Is it any wonder that persons do not feel at one with Self? Is it any wonder
that persons feel torn? Is it any wonder that persons are fractious and cannot
focus? Is it any wonder that human psyches are fractured and disintegrated?
Is
it any wonder that persons can reach a point where they feel that, if anyone
puts any more pressure on them at all, they will shatter into a million (or at
least 280) pieces?
Next, is it not truly strange that persons believe in the “not-Self” (and in
all of the false selves that are assigned or adopted) but have no clue at all
about what truly is? After having adopted so many ego-states as
identities - and after egotism manifests time and again as an ego-defense
mechanism that is there to “protect and defend” each of the false egos - is it
any wonder that the wisdom shared by sages has long pointed to pride and
arrogance and ego and egotism and narcissism as the bane of humanity?
Is it possible to see why Maharaj targeted the adoption of religious and
spiritual roles - and targeted religious and spiritual arrogance - right
alongside all other personas that are adopted by those among the non-realized
masses?
Is it any wonder that personality-assumption / persona-adoption has long been the target of pointers which invite persons to stop believing that they are what they are not and to stop believing that they can become something that they cannot become?
In fact, believing that one is what one is not, and
believing that one can be or become something that one is not, is all part of
the “Dream / Nightmare of the Planet.” Consider:
A man can be lying on his back in bed in the middle of the night but dreaming
that he is upright and running because he is being chased by another man with a
knife. The man who is dreaming will be certain that every part of his dream is
real.
He can be so convinced that what he is dreaming is real that he can start making throaty sounds that develop into louder moanings and can eventually end up screaming at the top of his voice.
When does peace come? When someone who was also asleep next to him awakens and then begins to try to also awaken the one in the dream / nightmare state. When does peace come to the dreamer? Only when he awakens.
The task of the
guide offering non-dual pointers, (who was also asleep for a time) is to try to awaken the
one in the dream / nightmare and to allow the earnest seeker to see that what
has been disturbing him or her is all just a dream, or nightmare, and nothing
more.
The nightmare for some is “I am bad . . . really evil . . . truly worthless . . . so
very rotten to the core that I should die.” The nightmare for others is, “I am
so different and such an outcast, and I am so hopelessly miserable and without
any prospects for happiness, that I might as will kill myself.”
The nightmare for others is “I am being bullied because I cannot fit in. I might as well hang myself” or “I am being bullied, so I might as well kill those people who are harassing me and then maybe even kill myself.”
Conversely, the dream for some is “I am now so righteous, so religious or
spiritual, so wonderful, so much better than I was, and so much better than
most others that everyone should be like me. I am now able to rescue or save
them or - if they refuse what I offer - able to judge and condemn them.”
The invitation from the truly realized sage? Harken. Awake. Stop believing in the
dream. Stop living the nightmare that you are experiencing because you are
asleep.
Stop believing that you are something that you are not. Stop believing that you can become something other than that which you are. Stop following “I am” with any word at all.
(“ISM’S,” Part “A”)
From “Give Peace A Chance:
“This-ism, that-ism, is-m, is-m, is-m”
by
John Lennon and Yoko Ono
The blockages which are set in place by belief in (and attachment to) “-ism’s” have been discussed - though not necessarily using the label of “-ism” - by all realized teachers since these teachings were first offered.
(That has not, however, stopped some nowadays from distorting the teachings by adding all sorts of “-ism’s” to non-duality pointers and promoting more ideas and concepts and beliefs rather than guiding seekers to a “state” of freedom that comes when all ideas and concepts and beliefs are purged from the fiction-filled “mind.”)
Moreover,
before going any further into a discussion of the subject, understand that
here, there are no teachings. There are instances where the consciousness
speaks in order for “un-teaching” (and thus “un-learning”) to happen.
Persons who have been programmed with learned ignorance do not need “more
programming,” “re-programming,” “the program,” “this program” or “that program.”
Their Ultimate Sickness requires the Ultimate Medicine that de-programs and
that leads to de-accumulation (including de-accumulation of all ideas and
concepts and beliefs as well as attachment to all sorts of “-ism’s”).
When cancerous cells are found in a body, the intent of the treatment plan for
that illness is for the body to eventually be completely rid of all of the
cancerous cells, not to add more cancerous cells or to add a different set of
new cancerous cells to replace an old set of cancerous cells.
So it is with ideas and concepts and beliefs and attachment to “-ism’s” that make up the content of the “mind.”
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"
and
"Heaven and earth shall fade away."
and
"Heaven and hell are not geographic places
"There is no hell."
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If you prefer PAPERBACK copies
(collected in two anthologies).
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when it come to fulfilling orders for
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as opposed to delivering digital books.
[NOTE: Wherever you live, you can search for the books below by title with booksellers in your country. With 40,000+ retailers distributing my paperback books, you may order from U.S. stores or you may find someone nearer to you.]
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.
