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NEEDLESS WORK, COUNTER-PRODUCTIVE ACCEPTANCE and THE CURSE OF HABITS
Consider:
People ask: “Why do you stay with him and keep putting up with his abuse?”
A wife: “I don’t know. I guess it’s easier than going out and starting over on my own.”
A curious questioner: “So why are you still a Catholic after you and your wife use birth control and after you found out your priest was caught molesting children and had been doing the same thing at his five previous churches?”
Answer: “I don’t know”
or
“Nothing can ever make me give up my faith and my religion”
or
“It’s just what we do in my family.”
“So your answer is either (1) you don’t know why you do the things or (2) you’re doing what you do because you selfishly believe that some possible eternal payoff for you later on is more important than protecting children now or (3) you’re a blind creature of habit because of your programming, conditioning, etc.? Really?”
A fellow seeker asked: “So once you’ve seen now that you’re trapped in religious or spiritual workaholism, why do you keep working and working and working at trying to get closer to some god (or at being more spiritual or even become ‘a spiritual giant’)?”
Many species are said to be “creatures of habit.” The deer that spend hours a day foraging typically follow the same path so much so that they leave a trail which hunters can use to set up a deer stand and wait for the deer to come along that path and then ambush the deer with high powered rifles.
When I lived adjacent to a harbor where a heron hung out during the day, I could predict exactly where it would be in the morning, around noon, and in the evening before it flew across the lake to its nesting area.
Waitresses often greet some guests with the question, “Want the usual?”
But the most rigid creatures of habits, human, do what they do because they billions of non-realized humans typically operating unconsciously, are being driven subconsciously, and are walking about all day long while asleep.
A habit is defined as “a settled or regular tendency or practice, especially one that is either difficult or impossible for a human to abandon.”
Some brag that they are “able to chew gum and walk at the same time.” They do not brag that “I can walk and sleep at the same time” or “I can drive and sleep at the same time” or “I can go through an entire day while sleeping from beginning to end.”
Why not? Because they are unawake, unaware, and unconscious so they do not even know that they are doing the above.
Habits can involve thoughts or words or actions, and they all come about as a result of the programming, conditioning, domestication, acculturation, indoctrination, brainwashing and nonsensical teachings which humans are exposed to from early on to the end of the manifestation.
Thus, the abused will often stay with their abuser rather than abandon their dependency and codependency and go get a life and find some basic safety.
The religious will stay in their “places of worship” after dozens of signs are screaming, “Get the hell out of there. Quit giving money to the richest institution on the planet, money they use to cover up the scandal that has been going on for centuries.
“Besides, you never consciously chose to join that religion . . . your parents took you there as a child and you were punished if you questioned what they taught you and eventually they broke your will to rebel against what you recognized early on to be total BS. The result? You’ve stayed there ever since and now you put out the same BS. Wake up, dammit!”
Why can’t persons relax and take it easy? Mostly because they won’t wake up to reality, much less to Reality. They will continue to go and do and zoom and will never take it easy and will never stop wasting energy and expending so much effort to make a second job out of seeking whatever they are seeking, be it “Mr. or Ms. Goodbar,” some supposedly eternal reward, or reinforcement for their false personal identifications.
A few cultures throughout history have preferred the silence and the peace and have avoided the constant going and doing and zooming which marks almost all cultures. By contrast, in the go-do-zoom cultures, work is ennobled, money is ennobled, and accumulation is ennobled.
And if some try to escape the workaholism, the worship of money, and the devotion to accumulating more and more and more, most will find that they are bored and fall right back into the same old personality-driven thinking and talking and doing.
Maharaj: “You are so used to the support of concepts that when your concepts leave you, although it is your true state, you get frightened and try to cling to them again.”
So fear is one of the key drivers of those abiding under the subconscious influence of habits, and that can include the fear of boredom, of independence over dependency, of disappointing parents (even if they were - or remain - abusive and controlling) and of . . . a sense of void.
Yet the void is the that which they should be seeking, not continued dependence on an abuser; not continued support from child molesters and money grubbers; and not seeking to have one’s ego-states massaged by fellow fanatics.
At one time, it was believed that there are no voids in the universe, but it is now understood that “cosmic voids” - which are vast spaces between filaments - are the largest-scale structures in the universe.
Those contain very few or no galaxies at all. Such voids are believed to have been formed by baryon acoustic oscillations during the Big Bang and the collapsing of mass followed by implosions of the compressed baryonic matter.
The case is a bit different on planet earth. This is an oversimplification, but basically, on earth, spaces happen but voids do not, as such.
For example, if you raise a fist into the air, the fist displaces the air that was in that space. If you lower your arm, then air rushes in to fill the space. See? Fist or air it does not matter. There’s no void either way.
Most
people cannot stand a perceived void in their lives. Twenty years of abuse from
an asshole spouse? Finally left? What’s next? Find a replacement and set up the
same kind of life that existed before, of course. The end up with one who is essentially the same spouse with a different name.
Habits. Dependency. Codependency? Go here every Sunday. Go there ever morning for breakfast so the waitress knows what your usual is.
What could a void in one’s rotten, relative existence life offer? If freedom from learned ignorance and the insane effects of programming, conditioning, etc. were to happen, then the void, the nothingness, could manifest and the restless, ever-churning mind could stop and peace (or maybe even contentment) could also manifest.
When free of spiritual workaholism, persons may feel as if a void has occurred. So what fills that? In the absence of supernatural, spiritual living, natural living moves in. In the absence of unnatural living, natural living moves in there, too.
What else can move in when abiding naturally? More peace, more calmness, less chaos, less learned ignorance and more freedom from ignorance.
And that is why Maharaj made clear that non-dual pointers alone were not enough. Persons that are seeking true freedom and peace are called on to understand the Nisargan (Natural) Yoga as well. More on that tomorrow.
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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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.”
Order a PAPERBACK copy of The Blissful Abidance Series
from Amazon by clicking here.
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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.
