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NEEDLESS WORK, COUNTER-PRODUCTIVE ACCEPTANCE and THE CURSE OF HABITS
“There are three means of abidance - natural, unnatural, or supernatural - and only one of those allows for the abidance to happen in a sane, logical, realized, awakened, and no-false-beliefs manner.”
--Floyd Henderson
Being Awake and Aware and Conscious are Attributes of Freedom from the Ultimate Sickness
Many times annually since postings on this blog began in 2005, the invitation has been offered to visitors to consider taking the steps necessary to becoming fully awake, aware, and conscious.
Those three are evidence of realization and signal the presence of the ability to differentiate the true from the false.
Being awake, aware, and consciousness are all related to abiding in a state of “wokeness,” of being awake rather than sleepwalking through the relative existence.
The right-wing in the U.S. endorses being asleep, unaware, unconscious, and sleepwalking through life (all the better to be able to control your thoughts and words and actions).
As usual, the realized endorse the state of wokeness while the non-realized are not familiar at all with that state.
One wrote: “This framing of ‘woke’ is
bipartisan: it’s used as shorthand for political progressiveness by the left
and as a denigration of leftist culture by the right.” Pure and total duality.
Aja Romano explains that . . .
“Before 2014, the call to 'stay woke' was, for many people, unheard of. The idea behind it was common within Black communities at that point - the notion that staying 'woke' and alert to the deceptions of other people was a basic survival tactic.
“But in 2014, following the police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, 'stay woke' suddenly became the cautionary watchword of Black Lives Matter activists on the streets, used in a chilling and specific context: keeping watch for police brutality and unjust police tactics.”
The term has now entered into mainstream vocabulary in the U.S.
When Minneapolis police violated department policies and killed a black man named George Floyd, the term once again was being heard nationally and became associated with the protests against his murder.
From that point on, the right-wing began a hate campaign against “wokeness” which continues to this day. So what's new about that? Nothing. The masses have long been opposed to any suggestions about “equality” and “oneness.”
In the U.S. once more the far-right has drawn a line to separate themselves from those who have slipped the surly bounds of what Maharaj identified as three key symptoms of the Ultimate Sickness, namely, “ignorance, stupidity and insanity.”
In a speech presented in August of 2008, Obama discussed how many among the far-right have a propensity for dualistic thinking and the symptoms of the Ultimate Sickness. He concluded, “It’s like these guys take pride in being ignorant.”
So “woke” did not begin in the Far East. It began in the U.S. among blacks who have been oppressed for hundreds of years.
How to define it? “The term ‘woke’ is an English adjective meaning “alert to prejudice and discrimination. It originated in African-American Vernacular English and in recent years had taken on an eastern flavor as it refers to being alert to . . .
injustice in the culture here, especially in terms of racism and skin color but also in terms of discrimination based in economic deprivation and prejudice regarding sexual orientation, political orientation, gender, religious preference, (or the preference to have no religion), age, disabilities, etc.
While the realized might tout the “perks” of being awake, the leaders of the far-right are attacking those endorsing being awake and aware and conscious (those leaders understanding that the masses that have awakened are far more difficult to control).
Thus, their focus is on hot-button, divisive, dualistic cultural issues which generate emotional intoxication rather than on more relevant societal issues dealing with social justice.
Real democracy has actually never been truly popular in the U.S., but in the last five years, the Right’s discontentment with democracy has been brought out into the open.
Why have those among the extreme Right long hated democracy? Because it calls for treating everyone equally, and they hate that possibility.
Their
egotism makes it laughable that all should be treated equally when they are so
much better. Thus, white supremacy has long reigned.
The Catch-22? Many progressives who claim “woke status” are no different from the many who claim they have realized but have not. Maharaj said of them, “They believe that they are standing in bright light of the noonday sun but actually they are still standing in the darkness of the dawn.”
Recently, the governor of Florida used the occasion of his acceptance speech after having secured a huge election victory to once more attack “wokeness,” shouting that “Florida is the place where woke goes to die!”
Indeed. Any impartial witness of the behavior of the majority of the persons living there can see clearly that the masses are impervious to being awakened. That's actually another part of the national core.
The Guv has pushed three anti-woke bills through his right-wing legislature including one called the "Don’t Say Gay" bill.
Three lawsuits are pending over those bills, filed by some of the few in Florida that support students being told the truth about racism in the U.S., the scourge of slavery, the violation of people’s rights, and other issues that to this day still beg to be addressed.
To admit that the U.S. might not really be - as claimed - “the greatest nation on the planet” is a call for change of attitude among those in charge and their followers, not for the total destruction of the U.S.
Afua Hirsch moved into the non-dual realm of discussion when she pointed out that “the right-wing culture warriors might claim to support free speech but they seem to want minorities to shut up and stop complaining.”
So, the ancient Eastern pointers regarding being awake, aware and conscious have meet the African-American pointers which were first placed in print by a black writer in 1962 and now shared a common message:
To go through the existence in a state of being asleep will result in one suffering from the Ultimate Sickness and the ignorance, stupidity, and insanity which that Sickness fosters.
To go through the existence in a state of being awake, aware, consciousness and woke can result in one being freed from suffering from the Ultimate Sickness and the ignorance, stupidity, and insanity which that Sickness fosters.
The possibilities are clear: (A) Ignorance, stupidity, and insanity or (B) wisdom, sagacity, and sanity. WHO would choose “A”?
Only those with huge deficits in category “B.”
Only “those guys who take pride in being ignorant.”
Only those who do not understand but who do not understand that they do not understand.”
Consider:
“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” - Martin Luther King Jr.
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge'.” - Isaac Asimov
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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[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.
