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DO YOU CLAIM TO BE “A CHRIST FOLLOWER?” YOU’RE NOT. IN FACT, YOU’RE NOT EVEN CLOSE
Non-Duality Quotations Attributed To Yeshu’a (Yeshu’a)
Persons claiming to be “follower of Christ” cannot be his follower if they are studying and being guided by the widespread Christian doctrine as presented in their “Holy Bible” which is actually Jewish dogma (“Old Testament”) and Paul’s own corrupted version of Christianity which he wanted to be adopted (“New Testament”).
Neither the content of the Old nor the New Testament has anything to do with what Yeshu’a taught at the end except for the non-dual pointers which are mentioned occasionally.
The quotes below have all been credited to Yeshu’a. He may have said them or he may not have said them. Why not? None of the so-called “Gospels” were written by any of the disciples nor anyone else who knew Yeshu’a.
The book of “Mark” was written about 70 years after the death of Christ; “Matthew” and “Luke” around 90 years afterwards; and “John” around 100 years after.
That said, there is a stream of quotations credited to Yeshu’a which do share a common thread: they are all based in non-duality.
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1.
“When you speak of Me, speak of Me as I AM”
Mentioned earlier was the summative statement of the non-duality pointer: “I AM THAT; I AM.” The point of that statement is that
(A) temporarily, there is a body-cum-consciousness which is manifested, but
(B) neither the body will be permanent and the consciousness will not remain manifested therein and
(C) THAT which you are is permanent and can be pointed at with the word THAT.
Also in that statement is the point that the use of “THAT” and no other labels or names to point to what is permanent is reflected in one of the principles of Taoism, namely, that
(D) The name that can be named is not the eternal Name.
For Yeshu’a to refer to himself as “Me” points to the eternal “Me,” not to the temporary “me” that is the body with conscious-energy temporarily manifested therein. For him to advise all to refer to him as “I AM” is referring to that fact that the temporarily manifested consciousness is often referred to in non-dual pointers as the “I AM” or the “AM-ness” or the “IS-ness.”
2.
“Before Abraham was, I AM”
How much confusion has arisen from the uninformed Christian ministers who have
tried to explain - or explain away - that line? How many have tried to dodge
the questions about that comment completely, as happened every time that
“floyd” asked preachers about those two lines in the churches of his youth?
If “a Christian” is not familiar with the summative statement of non-duality, I
AM THAT; I AM, then she / he will have no clue that it was non-dual pointers
which were being taught by Yeshu’a.
[Most do not connect those I AM quotes with the version that Moses plagiarized
and placed in the mouth of a burning bush / god, leaving off the semi-colon in
the process. As a result, Jews and Christians alike read “I AM THAT I AM” and
conclude, “Ahhh, deep. I don’t understand it, but that is very deep.” The same
happens with “When you speak of Me, speak of Me as I AM” and “Before Abraham
was, I AM.”]
If other statements attributed to Yeshu’a were accurate, he also offered these non-duality
pointers:
3.
“No one shall ever see the kingdom of heaven - it is within.”
Non-duality asserts that there is an “inner guru” or “inner resource” that is capable of knowing truth but that is seldom tapped into because of the blockages which prevent the consciousness from seeing purely and accurately.
Those blockages are the result of programming and conditioning and acculturation and domestication and brainwashing and indoctrination. The “kingdom” is not a state “there” but is a state that is here and now . . . the state of total freedom and peace.
(To clarify, Pope John Paul II said that heaven and hell are not literally “geographic places” but are “states of mind.” More on that later.
As for the truth of some words spoken by various popes, understand that many of their words should be taken with a grain of salt.
John Paul the II, Benedict, and Francis all claimed that the Vatican knew nothing about the circumstances of the kidnapping and murder of 15-year-old Emanuela Orlandi in 1983 - whose family and ancestors had lived inside the Vatican walls for 100 years - nor about the corrupt dealings of the Vatican Bank and its Mafia customers, so . . . . )
4.
“Heaven and earth shall fade away”
Why will heaven and earth fade away, according to the non-duality pointers? Because at the point of mahasamadhi (called “death” by most) the consciousness begins to fade away, to “un-manifest” and leave the body and re-enter the field of energy from which it manifested.
Because heaven and earth are concepts that have been dreamed up and believed in during the time the consciousness have been manifested (believed in because of programming and acculturation and conditioning) then when the consciousness fades away, so will the apparatus that allowed those ideas to be believed in and stored what is called “the mind.”
5.
And if “heaven and earth shall fade away,” then the same would have to apply to hell. In fact, Yeshu’a never talked about hell. He used the term “gehanna” (to be discussed in more detail later). So much for the dualistic pair of “heaven vs. hell.” Because Yeshu’a was teaching non-duality during the three years that he returned to Jerusalem, he was also dispelling the beliefs in any and all dualities.
6.
“Cleave
a piece of wood and I am there;
lift up the stone and you will find Me there.”
The non-duality (“not two”) pointers point to the Oneness of all. Yeshu’a was saying that, “I am the wood, I am the stone, I am that which is under the stone . . . I Am all.” Scientists understand that everything in what is called “this universe” began with a single atom.
From that one, all came. Scientists also know that the only reason that things take on appearances that seem to be different is because they are vibrating at a different frequency. If one could force a human body to vibrate at the same frequency as a baby grand, then that person would take on the same appearance as a piano. That Yeshu’a likely understood; that he shared.
7.
“If you do not know yourselves, then you are in poverty and you are poverty.”
Non-duality shares that those who do not understand the pointers cannot understanding the functioning of the totality and are, therefore, “poor” in understanding, in awareness.
Non-duality also shares that the realized - those abiding in Full Realization / Awareness - understand what they are not. They also know the unicity, meaning the Oneness. The non-duality guide Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj said that “Love is knowing that You are everything” (meaning, at one with all).
Yeshu’a was saying that if persons do not know who or what they are, in terms of energy and matter that has always been and can only manifests temporarily in a human space, and if they do not know all that they are not, then their lives will not be marked by freedom and peace.
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."
teachings which become a part of the Papal Magisterium.
