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MISTAKES OFTEN MADE BY SEEKERS
MISTAKING UNCONSCIOUS ACTIONS FOR CONSCIOUS CHOICES
[ Continued]
Note that in almost all cases, the source of the delusional belief that a person is making conscious decisions - when that is not the case at all - is the subconscious influence exerted by false personalities / identities on thoughts words and actions.
To emphasize, while every false identity can bring multiple driving forces to bear, every false identity has a basic fear and a basic desire.
It is usually one of those which determines what persons think and say and do and which blocks all ability to make conscious choices.
MISTAKING DEPENDENCE FOR FREEDOM AND MISTAKING BEING ASLEEP VS. BEING AWAKE
“Being awake and aware and conscious as opposed to being asleep” has long been a non-dual topic which has inspired much discussion;
however, if anyone had ever asked me in 1989 when I began sharing non-dual pointers exclusively if I could imagine any scenario by which one of the two major political parties in the U.S. would encourage persons to go through the relative existence in a sleep state vs. an awake state, I would have been in error when I answered, “No way! Surely not.”
Yet that is currently the case. While billions and trillions of human-like beings have manifested and un-manifested without having any clue that they were walking about in a sleep state, in a deep dream state, I could not have anticipated that the sleep state would be endorsed in a political party’s national platform.
The delusions which persons (the non-realized) live in - and which could be addressed by the non-dual understanding - are fixed in the “minds” of persons and are one dominant influence on their relative behavior and thought.
The effects of those delusions are so dominant that persons are walking about in their sleep, talking in their sleep, and doing what they do in their sleep while actually believing that they are fully awake and while actually believing that they are controlling their thoughts and making their own decisions and choosing to do what they do.
Could it possibly be more insane-like than for persons to be driven by unconscious and subconscious factors while being convinced that they are awake and aware and conscious and exercising free-will and choice?
Could the level of self-deception be any greater than for persons to be driven to say what they say and to do what they do without a clue about why they are doing it or why they are saying it?
Consider this example:
A child watched her mother and grandmother in the kitchen as they cut a roast in half and put it into two small pans for cooking. When the child asked her mother why they didn’t just put the roast in their big pan, her mother said:
“Because this is the way that your
grandmother always did it. Maybe it involves flavor or cook time or something,
is that right, Mom?” But the child’s grandmother answered her daughter, “Not
really. That’s just the way my mother always did it.”
So the child picked up the phone and called her great-grandmother and asked, “Why did you always cut a roast in half and put it into two little pans instead of just putting it into one big pan for cooking?”
And the great-grandmother replied, “Because we were poor back then and we couldn’t afford to buy a big pan. I always had to cut our roasts in half and put the halves into our two small pans because we didn’t own a large pot.”
So one person did something out of necessity, but then two more persons senselessly modeled that same behavior out of ignorance.
And it took an act of questioning to finally expose the
senselessness of the behavior that had been passed down, unconsciously and unquestioningly,
for generations.
But even after the child returned from the phone call and revealed to her mother and her grandmother the root of their now senseless behavior, for the rest of their lives they still continued to cut their roasts in half and to put the two parts into small pans for cooking.
Eventually, that child became an
adult, married, had children and cooked roasts. And in her kitchen one
afternoon, as she was cutting a roast in half and preparing to cook the two
pieces for their evening meal, her child asked her, “Why don’t you just put the
roast in the big pan to cook it?”
And she answered, “Well, I remember asking that question myself one time, but now I don’t remember exactly what the answer was. But I know that your great-great grandmother did it this way, and your great-grandmother did it this way, and your grandmother did it this way, so I just do it that way too.”
And
the little child said, “OK,” and when she became an adult, she did it that way,
too.
The non-dual understanding invites you to wake up and to stop doing things simply because you and your family and your friends and your culture and your “leaders” have always done things that way.
The non-dual understanding invites you
to wake up and to stop believing in concepts simply because you and your family
and your friends and your culture and your “leaders” have always believed in
those concepts.
The non-dual understanding invites you to question it all. The teachings offer a method by which you can be awakened, by which you can be enlightened, by which you can understand how you have been unconsciously driven by folklore that is thousands of years old, and how you can be free of all things that subconsciously influence you and that unconsciously drive you.
Otherwise, Personality Types Ones will forever be driven, subconsciously and unconsciously, to be perfectionists;
Personality Types Twos will forever be driven, subconsciously and unconsciously, to be helpers in an endless effort to get the love they never received during childhood;
Personality Types Threes will forever be driven, subconsciously and unconsciously, to be performers, seeking attention and applause and crowd approval;
Personality Types Fours will forever be driven, subconsciously and unconsciously, to follow a path that is different from that taken by the masses;
Personality Types Five will forever be driven, subconsciously and unconsciously, to be knowers in order to impress others with their knowledge and intelligence;
Personality Types Sixes will forever be driven, subconsciously and unconsciously, to find caretakers whom will provide the financing for their every need or desire;
Personality Types Sevens will forever be driven, subconsciously and unconsciously, to be adventurers and escapists;
Personality Types Eights will forever be driven, subconsciously and unconsciously, to have an iron fist which they can use to control everyone;
Personality Types Nines will forever be driven, subconsciously and unconsciously, to avoid anything that might disturb them, including having to work to pay their own way.
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.
