"A dual-minded person is unstable in all ways." --Yeshu'a

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A DUAL-MINDED PERSON IS UNSTABLE IN ALL WAYS.

“There is no such thing as mind. There are ideas . . . .” and “Abandon the wrong ideas, for they are false and obstruct your vision . . . .” and “The death of the mind is the birth of wisdom” and “To know that you are a prisoner of your mind - that you live in an imaginary world of your own creation - is the dawn of wisdom” and “I have no mind . . . .” 

--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj 

Consciousness is rooted in the Absolute. The brain is rooted in the elements. The "mind" is rooted in wrong programming and faulty conditioning and perverted domestication and xenophobia-based acculturation and warped indoctrination and distorted brainwashing as well as learned ignorance and lies and concepts and ideas and superstitions and falsehoods (a.k.a., “beliefs”).

---Floyd Henderson

“Realization is nothing more than a process which results in a person being freed from believing in all learned ignorance.” 

--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

"A dual-minded person is unstable in all ways."

--Yeshu'a 

Nearly two years ago, I was asked this by a site visitor named Ben:

“Does the mind need to understand or pass through certain gates of logic to proceed?”

F.: Reflecting on earlier posts in this series, the rhetorical question now is this: if you took the considerations into the quiet, did that bring any new understanding about “the mind”?

Past postings about the fallacious nature of “the mind” have covered that aberration thoroughly (and visitors can use the search feature at the top of this page to search “mind” for details) but the second question received from Ben - dealing with “the mind” and “logic” - will be addressed today.

First, it must be understood that any mentioning of “the mind” and “logic” together constitutes a duality (and, therefore, indicates the presence of a lie). The “mind” and “logic” are mutually exclusive. Why? Because of this fact:

“The mind” precludes logic; logic precludes “the mind.”

Most seekers who are trying to move beyond the insanity of this relative existence fail to find that which they are seeking because they believe that they must

(1) become logical and

(2) use the mind to find truth. With that strategy, they are destined to fail because they are only half right: they must be logical, but “the mind” will never allow logic to manifest as long as “the mind” exists.

[Some have asked, “What is 'logical,' if not that which is reasoned out via a sane mind?” What is “logical” is intuitive, sixth sense, natural living as opposed to unnatural or supernatural thinking.]

“The mind” is an accumulation of lies. “The mind” is the aggregate of false beliefs that have been amassed as a result of enculturation. “The mind” can never “find the truth” because it is the collective of all non-truth.

Failure after failure marks the futile efforts of cults, religions, ideologies, spiritual movements, spiritual programs, most philosophies, and all self-help plans . . . all of which promise “peace of mind.” Why?

Because “there is no such thing as peace of mind” (Maharaj). It is “the mind” that generates all lack of peace. As the storehouse of beliefs, it is “the mind” that promotes religious wars, spiritual debate, relational arguments, and ideological radicalism.

Even the most supposedly skilled guides of “relaxation meditation” can only offer a limited visit to the “no-mind” state for persons who will still suffer the mayhem of “the mind” during their post-meditation hours.

It is the body identification (at the first level) that the mind (at the second level) clings to. Body identification, in turn, leads to the belief that all the ego-states being assumed as identities are real;

therefore, both body identification and “the mind” must be eradicated for ego-states and emotional intoxication to end, for peace to happen, and for the realized to be able to witness without suffering (and without triggering a chain of insane reactions if peace does not happen). Those are the first two levels which must be transitioned.

Millions and trillions of seekers have been foiled in their efforts to be restored to sanity and to find truth because they thought that the key to being at peace involved discovering some unique use of “the mind” in some fashion in which it had not yet been used.

Little did they understand that “the mind” was not the tool to use to solve the problem but was, instead, the problem itself. No sought-after understanding by “the mind” will allow the “journey” to “proceed,” to use Ben’s word.

It is the elimination of “the mind” that allows the “journey” to proceed. Proceed to where? To realization . . . to being in touch with reality . . . to being restored to sanity . . . to being out of your mind (which is not your mind at all but is actually their mind).

That shocking suggestion from earlier might finally be more tolerable as protégés begin to see why it is that that the work done, the books read and the knowledge accumulated will not be useful on the journey at all and must be discarded if the load is to be lightened enough to be able to travel the entire path.

The load is “the mind.”

“The mind” is the “gate” which Ben mentioned - and it is a closed gate that can never be opened in order to allow the journey to continue. It must be eliminated instead. There is no such thing an “an open mind” or “a peaceful mind” or “a right mind”;

yet the search for that which does not even exist is the focus of cults, religions, spiritual programs, etc. No wonder so many fail! No wonder only one in a million will realize and find the bliss! Previous postings can be searched at the top of this page in order to receive the full understanding about the differences in the consciousness, the brain, and “the mind,” but the main pointer for today is this:

the brain and consciousness are vehicles to be used to facilitate completion of the “journey.” “The mind” - by way of contrast - is a hindrance. Why?

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Realizing without Dogma, Without Continuous Spiritual Practices, and without a Preoccupation with “The Nature of Reality and Things Noumenal”

Consider: Maharaj has been criticized by some who note that he was “irresolute” and “indecisive” in the version of the Ultimate Medicine which he offered over the years in order to try to address the Ultimate Sickness.

After abandoning the use of a religious / non-dual compounded version of the Medicine and a spiritual / non-dual compounded version of the Medicine, certainly the charges of being “irresolute” and “indecisive” might seem valid.

Yet of all the criticisms aimed by some at Maharaj, he never wavered in terms of what he diagnosed as the source of humankind’s problems, namely, the dualistic thinking patterns of humanity which are rooted in their dualistic beliefs.

His only “vacillations” came as he searched by experiment and experience for the most effective method of treating those duality-based problems.

The pointer “A dual-minded person is unstable in all ways” has been credited to a fellow named Yeshu'a (erroneously called “Jesus” nowadays) who offered certain non-dual teachings in his final years.

Maharaj also spoke of the instability and chaos which come with the Ultimate Sickness and with its dual-mindedness and with its “ignorance” and “insanity” which manifest as a result of ignorant and insane programming, conditioning, domestication, acculturation, brainwashing and indoctrination.

More on that tomorrow.

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.

The masses must demand that all those in charge must step down and their groups and institutions must shut down, and there's the real problem because the continuation of their crimes are enabled not as much by the people running such crime organizations as they are enabled by the masses of people who - wanting some perceived "payoff" - remain involved with them and give them money and support them and aid and abet the continued existence of those criminal enterprises and thus facilitate the ability of church criminals and political criminals and other types of criminals to continue to commit their crimes.] 

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