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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.)
Freedom from All Beliefs: Clearing Away the Final Vestiges
In an earlier post, mention was made of ducks, squirrels, deer, bears, birds, fish, and persons (“persons” being a term that points to all of the “human spaces or forms” with ideas and concepts and beliefs that drive them to accept multiple false identities as being real).
Of the millions and millions in those groups that move about planet earth, and of the trillions and trillions that have ever lived on the planet, only the members of one group have developed (that is, regressed) in ways that . . .
drive them to
assume that they are “different,” that they are “better than all other spaces
and forms,” and that they have control and “dominion” over all of the other
spaces and forms in other groups.
Some members of that group of “persons” or “human spaces or forms” also assume
that they should have control and dominion over all of the “other persons” or “other
human spaces or forms” in their group.
Of the millions and millions in those groups that move about planet earth, and of the trillions and trillions that have ever lived on the planet, all have an elemental brain but only the members of one group have developed (that is, regressed) in ways that have also resulted in a “mind” filled with ideas and concepts and beliefs.
And of the millions and millions in those groups that move about planet earth, and of the trillions and trillions that have ever lived on the planet, only the members of the group with “minds” have mental problems that drive them to fight others who believe different ideas and concepts and beliefs;
who have mental problems that drive them to inflict pain on themselves or others; who have mental problems that drive them to continue to engage in behaviors that have been proved to be harmful to their elemental bodies;
who have mental
problems that drive them to cut or shoot themselves or others; and who have
mental problems and such arrogance that they feel entitled to engage in
controlling and invasion and colonialism and enslavement and genocide.
Only the members of the group with “minds” have mental problems of such
severity that they actually believe that they are the roles they play; that
they really believe they can be something that they are not; and that they
truly believe it when other persons tell them that they are either “good” or “bad”
(although the criteria for such labeling varies from culture to culture);
have such mental
problems that they really believe that they are “different from” others; that
they actually think that they are “better than” or “worse than” others; and
that they should abandon the roles that their cultures tell them are “bad roles”
and that they should assume and play the roles that their cultures tell them
are “good roles” to assume.
Only the members of the group with “minds” have such severe mental and
emotional and “personal” (personality) problems that they think they must spend
years - or even a lifetime - of searching and seeking and working to “improve”
or “enhance” themselves.
As evidence of how
many are trying to “improve” or “enhance” themselves, consider some of the
titles of the bestseller books that are being marketed by those types whom
Maharaj pointed to with the term “big name teachers” when he warned his followers
to be wary of the concepts and beliefs that the teachers with mass appeal offer
and which are the most popular among the non-realized masses:
Change Your Thoughts - Change Your Life; Your Ultimate Calling; Incredible
You!; 10 Secrets for Success; Advancing Your Spirit; Ageless Body, Timeless
Mind; The Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire; The Seven Spiritual Laws of
Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams; How to Know God.
Maharaj’s take on all that? He taught that at the core of all human misery and
suffering is personality, ego-state adoption, and egotism. So much for an “Incredible
You,” especially when his teachings were intended to end an exaggerated sense
of self, a reduced sense of self, and - eventually - all sense of self.
He said, “I have no mind” (so he had no thoughts to change); “success” is a
persona-based concept, he taught, as is “power,” as is “A Power,” and as is “power
now.” To that end he said:
“The nearer you get to the truth, the more you lose interest in worldly
affairs. Such a one will not have any interest in the world, but will act like
an ordinary person.”
He made clear that the body is a temporary form and that the “mind” is finite
as well, not “ageless.”
As for “fulfilling desires,” he taught that all misery and suffering are rooted
in personal fears or in trying to fulfill personal desires.
Contrary to “fulfilling dreams,” he made clear that dreams are something to be
rid of after seeing they are not the Real.
As for “spiritual advancement,” he said:
“There is no progress”
and
“There is no question of elevating to a higher level. Here it is only a
question of understanding.”
As for “spiritual laws,” he said:
“Whatever spiritual things you aspire to know are all happening in this
objective world, in the illusion. All this is happening in the objective world.
All is dishonesty. There is no truth in this fraud.”
As for being “called” to some “ultimate calling” and as for “knowing the caller”
or “knowing God,” he said:
“First of all you identify something as being good or bad for yourself. Then,
in an effort to acquire good or to get rid of the bad, you have invented a God.
Then you worship such a God and . . . you pray to that God for something good
to happen to you.”
All such concepts and ideas adopted by persons run counter to the no-belief,
non-dual, no-identity, no-concept, no-idea, natural abidance and normalcy that
mark the relative existence of all forms on the planet except for persons.
One has never seen
a deer trying to improve or enhance itself. That which believes it can change
or grow or develop into something that is different from THAT which it actually already is is nothing more than a speck of consciousness that has been fooled.
That which believes it can become enhanced or improved or made better or made
worse or ungraded or downgraded is a speck of conscious-energy that has been
fooled. Maharaj said, “Only that person will visit this place whose virtue and
sin have [both] come to an end.”
All concepts and
beliefs such as those referenced above are rooted in the duality of either (1)
an egotism-based notion of being “very good” or even “great” or (in true
narcissistic fashion) “incredible”; or (2) a guilt-and-shame-based notion of
being “bad” or “unworthy.”
Moreover, it is only the members of the group with “minds” that buy into
dualistic beliefs, ego-states as identities, egotism, a false sense of
greatness, and the arrogance-generating delusion of many members of that group
that they are part of “an exclusive and superior group or race or species.”
Also, it is only
the members of the group with “minds” that buy into “self-destruction” and “destruction
of others” as a result of first buying into guilt and the notion of being “bad”
or “unworthy” or, conversely, “exceptional.”
Is it any wonder that Maharaj invited those trapped in the delusion of
body-mind-personality identification (and those being driven by their false
ideas and concepts and beliefs) to abandon all of the learned ignorance that is
inspiring them to live unnaturally or inspiring them to try to live “supernaturally”?
Is it any wonder that Maharaj spent decades inviting persons to abandon all beliefs and to then abide naturally instead, as do ducks, squirrels, deer, bears, birds, fish, and all other “spaces-or-forms-cum-temporarily-manifested-consciousness” with the lone exception of “persons”?
To be continued.
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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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(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.
