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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)
When cancerous polyps developed inside the body of “floyd,” a doctor excised all of them. He did not pick and choose; he did not discard some and leave some;
instead, he removed them all, including the cancerous cells, the non-cancerous cells, and the cells which were soon to be cancerous. The intent was to be totally free of cancerous growths, not partially free.
Such is the approach that must be used with all of the ideas and attitudes and beliefs and concepts that are stored in the “mind” if one would be totally free.
To
be free of being driven by the fiction-filled “mind” requires emptying it of
all of its contents.
Yet the content of the “mind” is taken by the masses to be “gospel truth.” The
mindset is, “I believe what I believe, and the reason I believe it is because
it is true.”
If beliefs from ten years ago were found to be false and thereafter discarded
and then replaced with new beliefs (new learned ignorance) then logic would
suggest that the person who found old beliefs to be lies might be more willing
to question current beliefs.
Such is never the case among
the non-realized masses. Seeing that old beliefs were lies never
inspires the masses to reassess current beliefs objectively.
Present beliefs are held not only with esteem but are jealously guarded when an invitation to reassess is offered; thus, current beliefs will be thought now to be as valid as those old thoughts were believed to be before they were seen to be lies.
Next, a
patient cannot remove his / her own polyps; similarly, the seeker
that would cleanse the “mind” of erroneous beliefs cannot find and discard
erroneous beliefs.
The earnest seeker must objectively take into consideration the pointers spoken
by the pure consciousness; otherwise, the seeker will not be the protégé of the
consciousness which speaks but will become the protégé of the charlatans that
walk the planet en masse.
Why would you choose a plan that says that you will practice judging and
psychological projection all of your life and that the way to handle that
judging and projecting is to use specific steps to reprocess the conclusions
drawn by your “mind” during judging and projecting?
Why would you agree to such a complicated, life-long process, to such an
exhausting way of moving through each and every day for the entirety of a
relative existence?
Maybe because you have never been told that if you abandon all personas as
false identities and abandon the “mind” completely, you will not judge and you
will not project and you will not have to process all day every day, and you
will then spontaneously and automatically live in a natural and free and
peaceful way?
Why would you pay thousands to attend a seminar that tells you how to get power
rather than seeing that there is no such thing as power, that power is an
arrogance-based, fear-based concept, and that it is desired by controlling
and / or frightened but totally false personas?
Why have you not looked to the deer or the bird or the fish, all of which do
quite well even without any power other than what comes naturally via the body
and the brain?
If
you studied those models, would you not see the way that you too can live a
simple, easy life rather than a life marked by the plethora of “mind”-games
that are assigned by various mentors for you to play on a daily basis?
I am no mentor; I am no model. I am only a temporarily manifested speck of
consciousness that is pointing you away from insanity and toward the only
models that can show you the way to live if you would function naturally and
spontaneously (i.e., functioning via the brain and the sixth sense in the same
fashion as those mindless, uneducated animals and birds and fish).
Why seek all of the knowledge of the East and all of the knowledge of West when
you need no more knowledge at all?
Why not see that the models of peace and bliss and freedom have no knowledge at all? Why do you value the contents of your “mind” (which is not your mind at all but is their mind, handed down to you)?
I had a fellow who came here for a three-day retreat and at one point he said, “When I was a child, I always thought my dad was a total idiot, but the older I got, the wiser he seemed to be.”
The reply: “Just a suggestion: you might want to go back to your original take regarding how unwise he was and try to recall why you reached that conclusion. There is some validity to the “out of the mouth of babes” consideration.”
[His adult attitude was that “my parents must have done something right . . . look at how my siblings and I turned out.” Therein lies the motivation for “he shifted from unwise to wise”:
egotism and arrogance and narcissism usually lead to the conclusion that “my father's loins much have been superior because I am a product of those loins and . . . look at me!” So that’s not about whether a father was wise or unwise; that is about the speaker and the self-image he is trying to set forth and maintain. “For me to be as great as I am, my parents must have done one helluva job.” Oh, indeed they did.]
The reply: “The point of this visit is for you to
find the means for you - not for me -
to look honestly and objectively at how you turned out. I’ve already taken a
peek and I’ve already seen.”]
Next, have you not yet come to
understand understood that the “mind” is the seat of all of your complex
problems and that you cannot be free of those problems until you remove the ego
/ guardian that is protecting the source of your problems?
What sources might you need to study? Start with the programming they used to influence you; then check out the conditioning they use to train you to think and talk and behave as they do; then look at the methods of domestication they used in your childhood home;
then study the methods your society used to reward
you if you accepted their efforts to acculturate you to model them and the at
the way they punished you if you rebelled against their efforts to make you
conform?
Finally, do you not
see that each belief and concept that you hold dear is one of the bars that
form the prison that is your / their “mind”? Consider:
Richard Lovelace: “Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage”
and
John Milton: “The mind . . . in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.”
Why seek the wisdom of the East or the West when you have available here the wisdom of the entire universe . . . the wisdom of oneness and the wisdom of no-one-ness?
Maharaj: “Wisdom tells me I am nothing (i.e., “no-one-ness”). Love tells me I am everything (i.e., the oneness). Between those two my life flows.”
To be continued.
Please enter into the silence of contemplation.
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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.
