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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”
(Part Two)
“Only that person will visit this place whose virtue and sin have come to an end.”
--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
What
(other than colossal egotism, self-satisfied arrogance, and total blindness)
could convince people that the lone basis of all things considered to be “evil
in the world” involves a single-dimension, totally-simple cause, namely, not
worshipping the right god (i.e., their god) and being led instead by the god of
darkness or by those nebulous “forces of evil in the universe.”
The result of entrapment in such dual-mindedness is that “a dual-minded person
[will be] unstable in all ways.” Not “evil in all ways” but unstable in all
ways. Totally unstable. Mentally and emotionally unstable.
And it is mental and emotional instability - combined with
false-identity-assumption and the massive levels of egotism and arrogance that
accompany the acceptance of ego-states as real identities - which will get
theatergoers shot while watching a movie; that will get children slaughtered in
an elementary school;
that will get people at a marathon killed or maimed; that will allow people to
invade a continent and to kill 150,000,000 in order to set up “a godly nation
that will shine its light on all world”; that will allow government leaders and
their citizens to believe that they have the right to drop bombs on other
nations, ad infinitum.
And again all of that, in turn, can only happen as a result of the two-fold
scourge of the planet and the two-fold scourge of the relative existence,
namely:
(1)beliefs
and
(2) “Believers.”
All
fighting and shooting and bombing and war on the planet is rooted in insane
minds that are driven by the differing beliefs which are stored therein and which
are highly valued by non-realized persons who are all driven by the bogus
content of their minds.
Often, those beliefs are even deemed to be sacred by “The Believers” who soon
upgrade that false identity to “The Super Believers” and “The Proud Believers”
and “The Right Believers” who must battle with “The Wrong Believers” or “The
Infidels” or “The Sinners” or “The Evil Ones.”
Furthermore, all among the non-realized would impose those beliefs on others,
and, because of that, nearly half of the persons in the U.S. still hold
colonialism in high esteem:
“It has always been the white man’s burden. We must bring civilization to the
uncivilized, and we must bring home their natural resources because they do not
know how to make proper use of them.” And in “Christian” nations, the added
belief is that “we must go to the four corners of the earth and baptize every
living person in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.”
In the U.S., the claim is that “we are not ‘nation-builders’“ yet the military
forces of the nation are constantly being used around the planet in an effort
to re-build nations “in our own image.”
A
presidential candidate said, “I do not think our armed forces should be used
for nation building,” but then as president, that is exactly what he used the
armed forces for. Then a dualistic “us vs. them” claim was made: “THEY hate US
for our freedoms.”
Really? Or for taking theirs while using the “good” motives of colonialistic
ambitions as justification? How easy it is for a nation to dismiss its
attackers as people who are “evil” after the nation has gone about the globe
trying to impose on “others” its beliefs about what the right economic system
is and about what the right political governing system is: “You should be
capitalists, like us. You should be a democracy, like us.”
What are some of the tools used for years in an effort to impose those beliefs
on “others”? Clandestine activities, invasions, bombings, and the continuous,
on-going occupation of lands all around the globe.
Now,
what are some of the tools used by “others” to impose their beliefs instead?
Clandestine activities and bombings. And the difference in the members of two
groups is actually . . . nil. There is no difference in their core beliefs.
The members of both group are sure that they are fighting for what is “good”
even as the members of both groups also believe that those they are fighting
are “evil.” See ? Beliefs. Believers. Projection. Seeing in “others” what one
cannot see in self.
To ignore a history of global abuses and to reduce the reason “they don’t like
us” to a single cause (namely, that they are “evil”) is the height of both
arrogance and ignorance as well.
So the arrogance of insanity kicks in when some strike back and their striking
back is blamed on a single cause: “They are evil.” And what do those “evil”
people want?
They want to impose their religious beliefs on “others,” and with
every member of every religion, the belief is that there can be no greater “good”
for people, for the planet, and for the world than having their beliefs shared
with - or imposed upon - “others.”
And the same applies beyond religious beliefs and includes political beliefs,
economic beliefs, and every other kind of belief: “Our beliefs are good, yours
are not; our way is the right way; your way is the wrong way.”
As noted earlier, when the ground rules you set include a belief that you must
go around the globe and baptize everyone and make them Christians, where is any
justification for criticizing those who want to go around the globe and make
everyone a member of their religion?
What
is good for the goose is good for the gander, and only the ignorant and insane
and arrogant believe that they have the right to do whatever they want while
believing that others do not have the right to do whatever they want.
Instead of admitting the insanity of such illogical and unreasonable hypocrisy,
the non-realized (via the use of the psychological projection discussed
earlier) hate in others what they hate in themselves.
Then,
they begin to assign a single, ideological cause for why “they” are wrong while
using an ideologically-based justification for why “we” are right.
Is it any wonder that persons around the globe can no longer distinguish
reality from appearance and cannot differentiate true from false? Is it any
wonder that the ignorant identify “evil” as the cause of anything that happens
that they do not approve of, even as they identify as “good” their motive for
doing the very same thing?
Earlier, this was shared:
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
think they know - for a fact - exactly what is “good” and exactly what is “bad”?
And
what (other than colossal egotism, self-satisfied arrogance, and total
blindness) could convince people that the lone basis of all things considered
to be “evil in the world” involves a single-dimension, totally simple cause,
namely, not worshipping the right god (i.e., their god) and being led instead
by the god of darkness or those nebulous “forces of evil in the universe.”
Maharaj said, to the contrary, that “things happen without [any single] cause
and reason . . . , “ and to believe that everything that happens as a result of
the machinations of the highly complicated and totally distorted “minds” of
persons can be boiled down to a single cause is also insane and / or
ignorant.
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.
