IT IS THE HEIGHT OF ARROGANCE AND THE HEIGHT OF DUAL-MINDEDNESS FOR ANYONE TO BELIEVE THAT SHE OR HE CAN UNEQUIVOCALLY IDENTIFY WHAT IS “DEFINITELY GOOD” AND WHAT IS “DEFINITELY BAD”

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IT IS THE HEIGHT OF ARROGANCE AND THE HEIGHT OF DUAL-MINDEDNESS FOR ANYONE TO BELIEVE THAT SHE OR HE CAN UNEQUIVOCALLY IDENTIFY WHAT IS “DEFINITELY GOOD” AND WHAT IS “DEFINITELY BAD”

“Only that person will visit this place whose virtue and sin have come to an end.”

--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Earlier, this was shared: a fellow named “Yeshu’a” (but mistakenly called “Jesus”) said after he was exposed to the non-dual understanding and began to share it: 

“A dual-minded person is unstable in all ways.” Not, “A dual-minded person is evil in all ways”? No. Unstable. Mentally and emotionally unstable. 

It is estimated for mid-year 2023 that the Christian population of the planet is 2,604,381,000. So to those 2,604,381,000 people, the one whom you refer to as . . .

your “Savior” “Redeemer,” “Bread of Life,” “Lord,” “Son of the Living God,” and “Only Begotten Son” just told you in his own words that if you buy into the dual-minded belief that you can definitely identify what is good and what is bad that . . .

you are unstable in all ways; that . . .

you are unsound mentally; and that . . .

you are unhinged emotionally.

Have you ever considered how unstable those are who are trapped in the dualistic thinking - and, therefore, in the dual-mindedness - which dominates the entire existence of persons whose every thought is driven by an ideology and a massive level of arrogance which combine to inspire an endless obsession with constantly judging who is “right” and who is “wrong”; who is “good” and who is “evil”; and what is “good” and what is “bad”? 

How assured their misery will be when trying to apply supposedly-absolute truths to an all-relative existence. Suffering and resentment and anger and discontentment will most certainly dominate the existence of those who are bent on reforming the world; on changing people; 

on stamping out “evil”; on desiring to improve themselves (their “selves”) and all “others”; on working to live “the right way” (as determined by whom?); on trying to force all people to improve; and on forcing all “others” to think exactly the way that they think rather than enjoying the peace that only comes with a no-thinking existence; in other words, on being perfect and demanding that all others be perfect as well (again, as determined by whom?) 

What a futile effort to pin one’s happiness on hitting a target . . . dead center . . . every day . . . all day long when, not only would a relative target be in constant motion but when the fact is that a target that can be hit dead center every time does not even exist. 

To set an unattainable goal is to set oneself up for misery and suffering and pain throughout the entire relative existence, and to desire to control the minds and the behavior of every human on the planet (in fact, of any human on the planet) is a goal that is both unattainable and unbelievably arrogant and extraordinarily insane.
 
To travel for days and weeks and months and years to reach a city that does not existence would be insane. Similarly, to be driven to reach an unreachable goal is another form of insanity. 

Moreover, to believe that - in an existence where all things are relative - that one can know, absolutely, what is always “right” and what is always “wrong”; that one can know what is definitely “good” and what is definitely “bad”;

and that one can know who is most certainly “good” and who is most certainly “evil” is not only one of the greatest forms of arrogance but is also one of the greatest forms of insanity. 

No one can know what is “good” and what is “bad” for no one is able to see into the future and know absolutely and definitely and certainly what the results of any given happening will be in ten or twenty or fifty or a hundred years.

Such dual-mindedness, such “good” vs. “bad” or “good” vs. “evil” nonsense, was illustrated this way a little over five years ago: 

Tom and Jim met in a nearby mall: 

Tom: Hey Jim. Long time no see. 
Jim: It’s been a while, hasn’t it? 
Tom: Fall of 2002, I think, at the state championship game when Jim Jr. played. Did he go on to play college ball? 
Jim: Yeah. He got a full scholarship to the University of Texas. 
Tom: Well that’s good. 
Jim: No, that was bad because the pressure was too much for him . . . football . . . studies . . . constant concern on campus about terrorism attacks or gun shootings . . .  and then he broke a leg in a game. 
Tom: Awww, that’s too bad. 
Jim: Actually, he thought it was good. The time required to heal gave him time to think about what he wanted to do with his life. 
Tom: Well then, that was a good thing.
Jim: Well, we thought it was bad. During that time he decided he wanted to join the military and fight for his country. He said that was his calling and wanted to make a career of the army. The leg healed perfectly and they took him. 
Tom: Well, that’s a good thing . . . at least he found a direction for his life, and he followed his heart. 
Jim: Well, my wife and I think it was a bad thing . . . they sent him home a month ago. 
Tom: Well, that sounds like a good thing to me.
Jim: Not really. He was in a flag-draped coffin.
Tom: Oh my gosh, Jim! That’s horrible! 

No one in a realm of relatives can correctly say with certainty that “this is good, but that is bad” or “this is bad, but that is good.

Persons are trapped in ignorance because of their dualistic perspectives and because of their supposed “need” to classify everything as “positive or negative,” as “good or bad,” as “black or white” as “good or evil” with no possible chance of any gray areas existing at all.

Religious persons have been heard for nearly seventy of my seventy-five years, explaining exactly what will get me a reward and exactly what will get me punishment, though their criteria vary by denomination or sect;

judgmental persons have been heard as they share what they are sure is moral and what they are sure is immoral; politicians have informed the nation that “this country” or “that country” was evil, only to start a war, end a war, and then become their trading partners and allies decades later;

spiritual persons have assured me over the last several decades that they could teach me some spiritual disciplines that - if practiced on a daily basis - would guarantee a “good” life.

Persons talk about “good weather” and complain about “bad weather”; about getting a “good job” but later about leaving that “bad job”; about finding “a good man” or “a good woman,” only to leave after finding they had “married some kind of wicked devil”; about finding “a great lover” who would later be re-labeled as “a sex maniac” instead; 

about a man with “a great work ethic” who would later be re-classified as “a workaholic”; about a “really cool woman” who would later be labeled as “an emotionally-unavailable witch”; about “True Believers” vs. “Infidels”; and about “good people” vs. “evil people.”

In an existence in which everything is relative, in which change is the only constant, and in which there are no absolutes, what (other than colossal egotism, self-satisfied arrogance, and total blindness) would make persons believe so arrogantly and judgmentally that they know for a fact exactly what is “good” and exactly what is “bad”?

I’ve noted for about 70 of my 75 years that people who believe themselves to be “godly” often take the next step and believe that they are God or act as if they are.

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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