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The last post ended with this:
291. Yet at his first mass, the newly-elected Pope Francis warned: “If we do
not confess, if we do not pray to the Lord, we are praying to the Devil.”
To continue:
292.
And as recently as 19 May 2013, a debate over the need for exorcisms by
Catholic priests to remove evil from people continued when, according to
Italian media, “the Pope appeared to have performed an exorcism on a
wheelchair-bound young man from Mexico who believers in the practice claim was
possessed by evil,” continuing, “leading exorcists insisted that the Pope had
indeed taken on the forces of evil.”
293. Father Gabriele Amorth, the Catholic Church’s best known exorcist, claimed
that the Mexican male was “possessed by four demons” and he added, “There is
now, more than ever, a need for exorcists to combat people possessed by ‘sorcerers’
and ‘Satanists’.” So much for the scientific, factual basis of the male’s
illness. Ignorance and stupidity and insanity always displace facts and
truth.
294. Nevertheless, those are the beliefs being espoused by the hierarchy of 1.3
billion Catholics worldwide who are, in turn, allowing their nonsense-spreading
leaders to control their beliefs.
295. Again, children are not “born with evil or demons within them that must be
exorcised”; adults are not possessed by “the evil caused by Satan having
entered them”; “sorcerers” do not exist; and the fact that millions or billions
of people of one religion think and believe otherwise does not make it so.
It
only makes clear how prevalent that ignorance and stupidity and insanity can
become after exposure to ignorance-and-stupidity-and-insanity-based dogma or
teachings of any kind.
296. The concept of “evil” is one part of the dreamed-up dualistic lie of “good
vs. evil,” and what is supposedly “evil” is now being defined and determined by
the most arrogant on the planet who have assumed personas, who believe that
they are among “the good,” and who believe that all “others” who are different
from them are “evil.”
297. The advice from Maharaj to those who assume imaginary personas as real
identities and then allow imaginary and imagined things to control and drive
their thoughts and words and actions:
298. “See that you are not what you believe yourself to be” (including “a
Christian,” “a Jew,” “a Muslim,” “a Hindu,” “an exorcist,” or “a person
possessed by evil forces or demons or Satan.”)
299. If you feel that you are “losing it mentally and emotionally,” seek help
from professional, mental-healthcare providers, not from those trapped in
magical thinking, religious thinking, or supernatural thinking. If you have a
physical ailment, seek help from professionally-trained health experts, not
magical thinkers.
In
that regard, Maharaj said, “There is no other way out of misery, which you have
created for yourself through blind acceptance without investigation.”
300. One sure sign of the high level of egomania among those who are infatuated
with a false, elevated sense of their own goodness is their preoccupation with “evil
in others.”
301.
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.
302. To suggest that personality-driven, and egotism-inspired, and
ignorance-and-stupidity-and-insanity-based acts happen because certain people
are not virtuous (but are sinful and evil instead) is to oversimplify the
actual chain of causation.
303. 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.
304. As long as persons believe that dualistic pairs are valid (which the non-realized
believe) 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.”
305. 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.
306. Yet 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.
307. A questioner ask Maharaj, “Do you mean to say that between good and evil
there is no wall?” to which Maharaj replied, “There is no wall, because there
is no good and no evil.”
308. On another occasion, a questioner asked, “How is it that there is so much
evil in my world?” to which Maharaj responded, “There is no evil .... “
309. Ignorance, stupidity, insanity, and the inability to choose words or
actions are all rooted in programming, domestication, acculturation, conditioning,
brainwashing, and indoctrination:
after
the effects of those are in place in a “mind,” then whatever happens with any
person after that will be a result of being on “auto-pilot.” Any and all
ability to choose will have been relegated to the false identities that
following programming, conditioning, etc.
310. Some persons nowadays talk about someone having been “radicalized” by
someone else, but the fact is that everything about programming, domestication,
acculturation, conditioning, brainwashing, and indoctrination processes is
radical.
311. Maharaj: “Like everything mental, the so-called law of causation
contradicts itself. No thing in existence has a particular cause; the entire
universe contributes to the existence of even the smallest thing; nothing could
be as it is without the universe being what it is.”
312. How simple the solution could be. Maharaj said: “From my angle, you are
nothing. You have no identity.” End of story. End of chaos. End of what persons
mistakenly call “the results of evil.”
313. Yet because of assumed and assigned false identifications, chaos will
continue and persons will contradict their own words and intentions at every
turn.
314. Maharaj explained it this way: “You do and undo at every step. You want
peace, love, happiness, and work hard to create pain, hatred and war; you want
longevity and overeat; you want friendship and exploit.”
315. Is that not the precise description of what ignorance, stupidity, and
insanity look like in practice?
316. It is ignorance and stupidity and insanity - not “evil” - that allows
persons to say, “The way we behave is okay, but it is not okay for you to
behave that way”; to say, “Our beliefs are right so, of course, it is okay when
we act on them (even if that involves killing others), but it not okay when you
act on your beliefs (especially if that involve killing us)”;
to
say, “Our religion and what we do in the name of our religion is sacrosanct and
above the law, but your religion and what you do in the name of your religion
is not sacrosanct and is not above the law.”
317. It is ignorance and stupidity and insanity - not “evil” - that allows
persons to say, “We are the good people, and you are the evil people”; and to
say, “It is okay for us to be driven by our beliefs because they produce good,
but it not okay for you to be driven by your beliefs because they produce evil.”
318. A fellow called “Jesus” said, after he was exposed to the non-duality
teachings and began to share them, “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.
319. 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 / or a massive level of arrogance and / or confusion 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”? The
non-Realized masses are all suffering from one degree or another of Borderline
Personality Disorder and what is referred to here as “The Goldilocks Syndrome.”
320. Misery will be always be assured when trying to apply supposedly-absolute
truths to an all-relative existence.
321. 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; and on stamping out “evil.”
322. What a futile effort to set an unattainable goal, which is actually
setting oneself up for misery and suffering and pain throughout the entire
relative existence.
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.
