I AM THAT vs. “This Is Who I Think I Am”

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I AM THAT vs. “This Is Who I Think I Am”

“We believe in so many things on hearsay. We believe in distant lands and people, in heavens and hells, in gods and goddesses, because we were told. Similarly, we were told about ourselves, our parents, name, position, duties and so on. We never cared to verify.”

---Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj 

(Continued)

If you believe that you are being upset by anyone or anything in this relative existence, then you would also have to believe that the film in the projection booth that is rolling past the light can affect the screen.

Why would you believe that? And why, therefore, would you believe that anything you are seeing or hearing can affect you?

It is as if you were a screen. What does the film rolling along in this false “world” have to do with you? How could the mirages of what you take to be “this world” possibly be thought to have the ability to affect you?

If you understand these pointers, then is it not obvious that whatever happens around a physical plant food body is just a play happening before your eyes, just something being viewed (and always viewed inaccurately by those not fully realized)?

If you are driving through a desert and see a mirage ahead, do you believe it is some real that you can see and touch if you get close enough or do you understand that it is just an optical illusion, a fantasy? So it is with all that is supposedly viewed during the relative existence.

Recall what Louise shared a few days ago: It dawned on me that with the manifestation of consciousness via this form, there was simply the “view”. Louise who sees through two eyes, through the senses, etc, is complete hearsay - added on after the fact, painted like a veneer on this pre-existing view.

It’s just “a view,” and a view is never as perceived by the non-realized.

Louise’s take on a desert mirage: A child might view a mirage in the desert and take it be real, take it to be “something,” but the wise know that it is only an image, only a misperceived “view.”

If you would move through the relative in a sane, realistic, rational manner - the only manner that can allow Real Love and peace to happen - then you must understand that the “view” is never real and what you hear is never real.

That which can be accessed via the inner guru is what is Real. You are invited to access it beginning now and throughout the remainder of the relative existence.

From a visitor who heard these pointers:

Your words struck a deep chord as I have been fiddling about with the relative not being what it appears. Sometimes I find this character absurd. I mean who spends hours looking at a wall wondering whether or not it is real.

The reply: Well, even if the wall is taken to be real, as long as it is understood that it is not what it appears to be, then the movement is toward truth. On occasion the steel girder is mentioned as an example:

a steel beam looks real (and can be said to be real as far as the relative is concerned), but only the use of an electron microscope would allow either a wall or a piece of iron to be seen as the swirling mass of subatomic particles that are “behind” the (not real) appearance.

More to the point of being at peace is not to see the wall or the girder as what they really are but to see that . . .

26. Persons are not at all what they appear to be.

It's not the swirling subatomic particles that are at the heart of these understandings. If one would stop living under the influence of false concepts and a warped “mind” and the blocked consciousness, then it must be understood . . .

. . . either there is

(1) a vehicle / form / space transporting about a speck of pure consciousness

. . . or there is

(2) a vehicle / form / space transporting about a blocked, contaminated speck of consciousness.

(The chance that the latter is the case is about 98.5-out-of-100, if Maharaj's estimate of the number who will never realize was accurate.)

In the U.S., automobiles must pass an emissions standards test, and if a car is putting out excessive pollutants, then the owner will not be given the inspection sticker required to operate the vehicle.

All polluters would have to stay home and not pollute and not expose others to their pollution. Would that were the case with those spreading the most pervasive forms of pollution and contamination across the globe, namely:

the contaminants of false concepts that warp or block the pure consciousness and leave people in the misery of the darkness of ignorance, being subconsciously and unconsciously driven by all of the nonsensical thoughts and words and deeds and assumed personas that accompany the contamination of programming and conditioning and acculturation and domestication and brainwashing and indoctrination.

Yet in the U.S., and all across the globe, persons can move about and put out unlimited quantities of dualistic “mind”-pollution as they move about and spread their lies about an afterlife; about a birth principle; about a heaven and hell;

about what love is while having no clue at all about what Real Love is; about what is right and what is wrong; about a creator god or a sustainer god or a destroyer god (or all three rolled into one), ad infinitum.

Cars must have a catalytic converter which will reduce the levels of toxicity being emitted from the engines of those vehicles, yet there is no catalytic converter required for the minds and the mouths of specks of ignorance that are moving about via plant food bodies.

They spread the toxicity of their concepts in order to try to gain “power” which they can then use in order to try to control people. They spread the venom of their alarmist ideas that are presented as a call-to-arms to those whom they would have rise up and stamp out any persons who do not think as they think and who do not behave as they behave.

They spread the poisons of fear and desire, and fear among the masses will lead the masses to obey without question while desires will inspire the masses to accumulate  . . . to accumulate more ideas, more outlandish beliefs, more ideology or dogma, more . . . poison.

Nothing stops the accumulation and stockpiling and safeguarding of such pollutants other than realization. The most common scenario, however, is that the pollution enters the minds of those hearing such contamination and becomes the perceived (but false) “reality” among the masses.

The pollution of lies and concepts and insanity has spread across the planet, and there is nothing to hold it in check save the pointers offered via non-duality and de-accumulation. 

These understandings alone invite seekers to see that they need not learn more but need instead to know and believe far less of the knowledge (learned ignorance) that has already been accumulated.

The pollution has caused widespread (mental and emotional) sickness, and only the ultimate medicine can address the illness now. So why is the mental pollution so popular, so willingly accepted?

And why, of all of the self-help gurus out there, and of all of the various superstars of enlightenment out there, and of all the masters in a long line of specks that manifested and unmanifested, why is it that this nisarga yoga has always attracted the fewest number of devotees?

Simply because the planet is a place where accumulation is touted, where collecting and hoarding are the widely-accepted measure of “success,” and where the non-realized are driven by the concept of addition rather than subtraction.

On a planet with masses programmed thusly - where the mass “mind”-set loves the concept of addition - how many are ever going to be attracted to the negation discussed here?

To be continued.

Please enter into the silence of contemplation.

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Here, with those who are still driven to talk about "god," the "Son of god," the "Holy Spirit," "Buddha," "Krishna," etc., etc., etc., the invitation to them is to view those as verbs, not nouns.

THE EXPLANATION

If looked at as nouns, they point to illusions and are, therefore, a total waste of time to even discuss; if looked at as verbs which are resulting in certain sane but rare behaviors among humanity, then they are worthy of some attention during the relative existence.

Meaning? There are members of certain groups who say things such as "My concept of god in the past was of a weak god, an absentee god, A Santa Claus-type god, a mean, punishing, vindictive god, etc. Today, I am in close contact with a loving and caring god whom I worship and praise and glorify and give thanks to."

The reply to that usually goes like this: "If you are in contact with a god that wants to be worshipped and praised and glorified, then you're dealing with someone like yourself - a narcissist - and hanging out with narcissists will never bring an end to your narcissism (that narcissism evidenced by the fact that you think you are "godly").

Next, in the phrase 'loving and caring god,' any supposed god that truly had her or his act together would tell you that the totally irrelevant part of that phrase is 'god' and that the only part that is relevant is the "loving and caring" part.

"That is, a non-narcissistic their god / their goddess would say, "I care not an iota about being worshipped and praised and glorified by you or anyone else. How arrogant and insecure and needy would I have to be to want that? Forget the man-made, dreamed up noun 'god' and focus on the 'god as a verb' understanding and then go forth and let loving and caring be verbs - not adjectives - and let them generate the act of love and the act of caring and let those actions manifest through you." 

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"

--Yeshu'a (Jesus)

and 

"Heaven and earth shall fade away."

--Yeshu'a (Jesus)

and 

"Heaven and hell are not geographic places

but are states of mind, nothing more than

concepts dreamed up by men."

--Pope John Paul II 

"There is no hell."

--Pope Francis, the current pope

in an interview with journalist Eugenio Scalfari,

a writer used by the Pope to issue off the record

teachings which become a part of the Papal Magisterium.

[That said, would that the popes who have shown the courage to reject a core concept of their dogma - namely, "hell" - would find the additional courage required to question the very existence of their institution in light of the centuries-long cover-up of their history of raping children and in light of the mental and emotional and psychological scarring of billions of their members past and present.

And that need for courage also applies as questions need to be asked about why so many other sky cults are still being supported and allowed to continue to exist as well. When certain types of programming and conditioning have been shown to blind the masses, they should end. Will they? Not likely. Why?

Because what the masses think and say and do is most influenced by the international crime families which hold sway over the masses as criminals conduct their planet-wide operations. What are the major international crime families and which are the most influential and have the largest memberships?

The Mafia / La Cosa Nostra; the Catholic Church (with it 1.2 billion followers) whose Vatican Bank worked for decades with the Mafia while laundering mob earnings (for a 15% all-profit charge by the Bank); Protestant and Evangelical Churches (with over 1.2 billion followers) like the one I was raised in where the youth director molested and sexually assaulted young girls; big business which has long created environments in which people have been abused; powerful political bodies like the U.S. Congress, etc., etc., etc.)

With all of those crime families, neither the followers nor the leadership ever voluntarily step down or shut down their criminal activities. Be they gangs, organized crime families, religions, big business, politicians, etc., they all want control and they all want power and they all want money, and nothing internal will interfere with the driving forces at play.

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