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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)
Monomania = “exaggerated or obsessive enthusiasm for, or preoccupation with, one thing”:
“He has an obsession with alcohol that verges on monomania”;
“She has an obsession with that football superstar that verges on monomania”;
“He has an obsession with being a ‘white victim’ that verges on monomania”;
“He has an obsession with Jews that verges on monomania”;
“He has an obsession with xenophobia and nationalistic attitudes that verges on monomania”;
“She has an obsession with her religion that verges on monomania”;
“He has an obsession with money that verges on monomania”;
“He has an obsession with sexual conquest that verges on monomania”;
“He has an obsession with being in control that verges on monomania,” etc.
Much of the mental disorder of monomania involves duality-based beliefs.
Moreover, suffering from monomania will guarantee that persons will suffer from the unchecked influence of seemingly limitless ignorance.
So it is when programming, conditioning, acculturation, domestication, indoctrination, and brainwashing trap the masses in false identities and false beliefs.
Persons pay money and spend time watching movies that deal with mind control:
Martyrs; Upstream; Beyond the Black Rainbow; The Manchurian Candidate; The Truman Show; The Matrix; Philosophy of a Knife; Borgman; Eyes Without a Face; A Serbian Film; Black Swan; Dogtooth; Scanners; Clockwork Orange; Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief; Jacob's Ladder; Dark City; Open Your Eyes; Closed Land, Red State; The Bourne Identity;v Inception; Being John Malkovich; Total Recall; etc., etc., etc.
Yet how many among the non-realized masses have the slightest clues that they have been subjected to mind control and are not making any conscious choices at all? Almost none.
If one's “choices” are actually determined by unnatural, insane programming, conditioning, etc. which control their every thought and word and deed, where is there any chance for making conscious choices? There is no chance.
You are invited to reach the third step on the “path,” to play the religious
and / or spiritual roles that must be played for a time, but then to
transition those false identities and continue along the “path” to the
no-concept, non-dual, no insanity, no-nonsense state of full realization.
Among the realized - as a result of being free of any notion of doership - nothing is believed to have been done, no person is thought to exist, so no sense of “personal benefit” or “caring about a slight” can happen.
Beingness happens, and it
happens without a “mind,” without noise, and without any sense of a personal
doer or doingness.
Among the non-realized masses, thoughts and words and doingness
dominate, all driven by the assumption of personas as identities and by the
perceived desires or fears of those personas.
To “find them out,” to uncover the false personas that are driving a non-realized person that is preoccupied at any
given moment with “getting benefits” or “caring about slights,” two Italians
phrases can be used to provide the key questions that can be asked and that can
reveal which personas are generating discontentment.
If discontent, upset, angry, offended, disappointed, or irritated, ask, Cui bono? (Who benefits?) or Chi se ne frega? (Who cares?) That is, WHO - what ego-state - thinks it can benefit (or lose) or what ego-state believes that something is such a big deal that it should care?
To find the false WHO is to find the fictional persona(s) affecting “you” as a result of the fact that multiple false identifications each have their own fear-based agenda and desire-based agenda which control and drive every thought and word and action.
Because there is no uniformity to those fears and desires, persons will be driven or “pulled” in multiple directions, resulting in a totally chaotic relative existence.
That will last for an entire relative existence for almost all humans with the few exceptions of those that realize (that is, the few that discard all the learned ignorance and beliefs they have accumulated;
reach the point of total
de-accumulation, and identify with the Void,
with the Nothingness (as in, “I am nothing” . . . identityless, conceptless, beliefless, no
selfness”).
At one retreat the
pointer was offered that every personal identification accepted as real will
soon be upgraded: “The Spouse” become “The Super Spouse”; “The Boss” becomes “The
Super Boss”; “The Teacher” become “The Super Teacher.”
Whereas “The Spouse, Boss, and Teacher” can “survive” (at least in their own “minds”)
with a spouse, an employee, and students, respectively, “The Super Spouse” must
have “A Super Spouse”; “The Super Boss” must have only “Super Employees”; and “The
Super Teacher” must have “Super Students.”
If the people engaging with those who have mentally upgraded their own false
personas should fail to play out their co-dependent counter-roles in a “super”
fashion, then the one taking himself / herself to be so “super” will make
certain that those people shall pay a heavy toll for not meeting the super
standards set by the one assuming “super role status.”
Just as there is no such thing as a “Super Mirage,” there is no such thing as a
real, “super ego-state”; therefore, there can most assuredly be no “super”
version of any persona.
Frustration will be guaranteed
among those who have upgraded their false identities by use of the false
content of their “minds” and who demand that all persons dealing with them
function at a “super level” as well.
Furthermore, those upgraded versions soon inspire the formulation of
hierarchies that falsely validate and thus insanely perpetuate a sense of
separation. Ego and egotism have resulted in the military establishing a
hierarchy; in police and fire departments doing the same;
in churches and temples and
mosques doing the same, the ego-state of “Supreme Leader” evolving from the
latter, for example. Those ego-and-egotism-based beliefs will generate constant
in-fighting.
Ego-states rooted in nationalistic tendencies do the same, with one nation's
arrogant citizens proclaiming publicly that they have formed “The Greatest
Nation on Earth” while some others believe the same but keep quiet about it.
The most arrogant persons rank
all nations from “their superpower nation” at the top down to “Third World
Nations or worse” at the bottom while casting the remainder in between at
various points of their imaginary hierarchy. Those ego-and-egotism-based
beliefs will generate constant fighting and wars on an international scale.
Additionally, ego and egotism can generate two-person hierarchies in a “personal
relationship” and one person will always think he / she is “better
than” the other one.
Again, ego and egotism result
in “upgrading” and “downgrading,” in a sense of separation, in disharmony, in
chaos, in misery and in suffering.
Only an understanding of the Oneness and the None-ness allows the relative
existence to happen with spontaneity and therefore with Love, with peace, and
with harmony.
Only realization can guarantee that the relative existence will happen in a manner that is natural vs. (1) a manner that is controlled by unnatural thinking and talking and doing or (2) a manner that is dominated by the magical-form-of-thinking that supernatural beliefs generate.
In 1970, upon returning home after work, it
was noted that the door was open and the alarm was sounding. Burglars had
broken the lock on the door and had taken away everything they could carry.
During the process of moving about the home and compiling a list of the stolen
items for a police report and an insurance claim, it was not too difficult to
know exactly what was taken.
If someone else walked into
that home, they could not have the slightest clue about what had been stolen.
So it is among the non-realized: few will ever reach a point where they realize
that they have been robbed, much less understand what was taken or how to find
it now.
For millions of years, humans and / or human-like beings moved through a simple
existence. Those pre-”mind” beings functioned in the manner of the deer and the
birds and other non-human beings do today, namely, as three-part units with . .
.
an elemental, plant food body (with its elemental brain);
with a body-cum-consciousness;
and with air circulating into and out of the body.
In touch with the sixth sense
and the intuition, they moved through a complex-problem-free existence in a
simple, self-constructive, and no-thinking (but reasonable) manner.
The stage was set for complexity as the human brain evolved from a one-cup size
to a three-and-a-half-cup size and developed areas for information storage and
retrieval . . . information that might help assure the survival of the species.
For example:
Someone fell from a cliff; the consequences were noted by one who witnessed the
fall; and the next time that witness approached the edge of a cliff, stored
information regarding the results of walking off the edge were retrieved and
both the cliff edge and the consequences were avoided.
Eventually, that “mind” became filled not with survival tools but with concepts
and beliefs and lies which became destructive rather than constructive.
(Today, the brain of one suffering the consequences of a brutal hangover at 8
A.M. might send a signal that results in the words “I’ll never do that again.”
By 5 P.M., however, the “mind” sends a different message:
“You’re feeling better now, and you know that alcohol helps relieve the stress
that has built up today at work. Go have a few drinks.” The self-constructive
brain nowadays is constantly being overridden by the self-destructive “mind.”)
What had been a simple existence for millions of years is now a very complex
existence for most persons, and the main cause is the duality-based,
fiction-filled, false-belief-filled “mind.”
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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