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THERE ARE NO PERSONS WHO ARE RIGHT AND MORAL AND GOOD AND
VIRTUOUS AND THERE ARE NO PERSONS WHO ARE WRONG, IMMORAL, EVIL, AND SINFUL
“Only that person will visit this place whose virtue and sin have come to an end.”
--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
To suggest that ego-state / personality-driven acts and that egotism-inspired
acts and that ignorance-and-stupidity-and-insanity-based acts are really acts
that happen because certain people are not virtuous (but are sinful and evil
instead) is to oversimplify the actual chain of causation.
It is the use of such religious and ideological and spiritual-based judgments
and assessments that prevent the masses from ever understanding what is
actually at play behind any and all acts of fighting and violence and bombing
and mass murder and war.
Consider the xenophobic-based arrogance that allows a population to be appalled
that persons would set off bombs and kill or injure citizens of the U.S.
without those same U.S. citizens being appalled in the least . . .
. . . when their nation in the last four decades has
invaded and shot and bombed millions of citizens in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia,
Grenada (Grenada?! Yes, Grenada), Honduras, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan and
many other places all around the globe.
Now, there are many in the U.S. who will justify every one of those violent
acts. And there are just as many who justify the attacks on U.S. embassies
around the globe, the first attack on the World Trade Center, the 9-11 attacks,
the Boston Marathon bombing, ad infinitum. So who is “right”?
See, the problem with duality-based beliefs is that they all deal with relative
issues while trying to impose some absolute truths upon them. The result: what
Maharaj called “stupidity and insanity.”
How insane is it to conclude that the difference in
bombings that are okay vs. bombings that are not okay is this: when we bomb, it
is fine - totally excusable, really - but when we are bombed, bombing is
appalling, horrendous, inexcusable, and atrocious?
How insane is it to conclude that when we bomb, bombing is a wonderful thing,
but when we are bombed, bombing is disgusting, scandalous, horrifying,
shocking?
Yet such nonsensical, irrational thinking is what results
when persons are driven by their duality-based beliefs involving “us vs. them,”
“right vs. wrong,” “moral vs. immoral,” “good vs. evil,” and “virtuous vs.
sinful.”
The arrogance of ego and egotism and entitlement assures that those using the
dualistic pairs above to describe “others” as opposed to “us” is that the ones
judging and labeling will also be convinced that “we” are the ones who are
right and moral and good and virtuous while “they” - those “others” - are
wrong, immoral, evil, and sinful.
The realized accept neither of those sets of labels. Again, that is why Maharaj
said, “Only that person will visit this place whose virtue and sin have come to
an end.”
And that is why the case is that the only ones welcomed
into the house here are either (a) those whose dualistic beliefs about virtue
and sin have come to an end, or (b) those who are seeking the means by which
their dualistic beliefs about virtue and sin can come to an end.
As long as persons believe that dualistic pairs have any validity at all (as do
the non-realized) then they will believe that all people are, absolutely, in
either “the right and moral and good and virtuous group” or in “the wrong, immoral,
evil, and sinful group”;
additionally, all non-realized persons will believe that
they are in the first group, and the activists who think they are in “the right
group” will be driven to strike out at those “others” who are believed to be in
“the wrong group.”
One preliminary report claims that the surviving Tsarnaev brother said that it
was “their [Islamic] faith” that drove them to target people in Boston,
Massachusetts.
The brothers did not know a single one of the people killed or injured by their
bombs. The people were not considered to be “personal enemies” (except to the
extent that anyone assuming a personal identity will always feel that there are
some “others” who are interfering with or threatening their personal
identification and who must be confronted and eliminated).
The Brothers Tsarnaev used those people as a means to an end, namely, to
advance the agendas of their assumed ego-states, including “The Ones Who Follow
the Right Faith” and “The Ones Who Must Strike Out At Those Who Do Not Adhere
to the Teachings of the Right Faith.”
Is there a belief that one religion has cornered the market on radicalism and
bombing and murder? If that false belief is held, be reminded that it was a
group of self-professed Christians - including a president named Bush and his
advisers - who were so radical that they started a war with bombings and murder
. . . a war that was later seen to have been entered into as a result of
personal agendas an oil interests.
And recall that 3,000 were killed in the initial attack that
was used to justify that war in which over 100,000 were killed in retaliation.
Now there’s a ratio that only an arrogant, insane, war-like nation can
love.
See, among the realized, there is no preference for any conceptualized,
personalized “us” over “them”; for some “me” vs. “another or others”; for
Christians over Muslims; for Muslims over Christians; for sin over virtue; for
virtue over sin.
All of that is concept-based, nonsense-based, dualistic
ignorance and insanity which supports a sense of different-from-ment and
better-than-ment which, in turn, provides justification for conflict and chaos
and shootings and bombings and murder and war.
Do you see how personality-driven insanity works? Do you see why non-duality
teachers for ages have warned about the relative consequences of personality
identification?
The facts: there are no persons who are either right and moral and good and
virtuous and there are no persons who are wrong, immoral, evil, and sinful.
Why? Because there are no persons at all.
There are elemental plant food bodies which are circulating air and that are - for the most part - handicapped by the fact that the consciousness which is manifested temporarily in that body-cum-consciousness has been blocked by programming and conditioning and acculturation and domestication and brainwashing and indoctrination.
That results in the formation of a “mind” that becomes -
as noted - nothing more than a compost heap of nonsense and ignorance and
stupidity and insanity.
Furthermore, there are no nonsensical persons or ignorant persons or stupid
persons or insane persons. There is just nonsense and ignorance and stupidity
and insanity and elemental plant food bodies that are burdened with - and
driven by - “minds” that are packed to overflowing with nonsense and ignorance
and stupidity and insanity.
There is only an elemental plant food body that is circulating air and that has
the conscious-energy within that is capable of witnessing as long as that
energy is manifest. The problem: witnessing can happen in two very different
ways: either as (1) subject-object, dualistic witnessing or as (2) non-dual
Pure Witnessing.
Maharaj: “As you watch your mind, you discover the watcher. When you stand
motionless, only watching, you discover the light behind the watcher.”
He continued, “That source alone is. Go back to that source and abide there.”
His advice: “To deal with things, knowledge of things is needed. To deal with
people, you need insight, sympathy. To deal with yourself, you need nothing. Be
what you are - conscious being -and don’t stray away from yourself.”
Again, “Only that person will visit this place whose virtue and sin have come to an end.”
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.
