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KEY SERIES HIGHLIGHTS / REVIEW
170. Why is full realization so rare a condition? The last thing that a mind can accept is that it is wrong . . . that it is the problem. The mind is forever looking outside itself to find the cause of discontentment and pain and misery and suffering, blaming “others” and everything but the actual source: the mind itself.
171. To abide under the influence of personality is to live in a trance.
172. If one realizes that he / she is among the billions who are walking about
in a trance because they are being driven subconsciously by the hidden agendas
of their personalities that determine and control their every thought and word
and action, then one can understand why the sages have long advised seekers to
be rid of body and mind and personality identification.
173. What if Maharaj’s pointer is spot on, and what if there is a chain of
causation that includes inestimable, almost-always-hidden factors, none of
which are “evil”? In that case, there are some actual, concrete, tangible,
specific steps that can be taken - relatively speaking - that can sometimes
address the ignorance-and-insanity-based issues that the masses mistake as
issues rooted in “evil.”
174. So what do those issues involve? Some of the elements in the chain of
causation that generate what persons label as “evil doings” or “wicked people”
include ignorance, stupidity, and insanity as well as personality assumption,
personality defects, and personality-defects-gone-wild, leading to psychic
disintegration and full-blown neuroses and psychoses.
175. Non-duality is about addressing some levels of insanity and freeing
seekers of the effects.
176. While non-duality dismisses the validity of all dualistic pairings
including “good vs. evil,” it also ignores many of the typical definitions of “insanity.”
177. Instead, at the root of duality-based insanity is unchecked arrogance;
belief in hierarchies and a desire to rise in whichever ones are deemed
significant; a lack of awareness of the Oneness;
a belief in the concepts of “two-ness” and “multiplicity” which in turn support a “me vs. others” mentality; unconstrained attachment to ego and egotism; and a level of preoccupation with self and self-ish-ness and self-centeredness.
178. The dysfunctionalism and ignorance and stupidity and insanity that drive
adults to take a child’s blank tablet and to write on it the most insane and
dualistic and nonsensical beliefs and ideas and concepts and notions and
thoughts and opinions and judgments and views and perspectives, year after year
after year, is the author of the resulting ignorance and stupidity and insanity
that generate such widespread pain and misery and suffering all around the
globe.
Why do they do that? Because crazy cannot spot crazy, though it can most
assuredly pass itself on. The Ultimate Medicine is available, but those who do
not have a clue that they are Ultimately Sick will never seek that
Medicine.
179. In the “evil” vs. “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity” debate, several
basic pointers of non-duality must be understood to draw a fact-based
conclusion about what is happening on the planet and why:
180. There is no real “person.” That’s short for “persona,” and personas are
all false. That which is taken to be a person is actually a triad consisting of
(1) an elemental plant food body, circulating (2) air and housing
temporarily-manifested (3) conscious-energy within the space.
181. Can the elements be a person or be evil? No. Can the air be a person or be
evil? No. Can the conscious-energy be a person or be evil? No.
182. Can the consciousness be blocked from seeing Truth and therefore believe
that which is false as a result of programming, conditioning, domestication,
acculturation, brainwashing, and indoctrination? Yes.
183. Can the blocked consciousness then accumulate beliefs? Yes.
184. Can the accumulated beliefs include the belief that one actually is a
person and that assumed and assigned personas are actual identities? Yes.
185. Can assumed personas or ego-states emote? That is, can their hidden
desires and hidden fears generate emoting and emotional intoxication? Yes.
186. Can the emotion of fear manifest as subsets of fear that include anger,
hatred, loathing, revulsion, and disgust? Yes.
187. Are those rooted in ignorance? Yes. Can they inspire stupid and / or
insane behaviors? Yes.
188. Is there a person that could be deemed an ignorant person, a stupid
person, or an insane person? No. Consider the parts of the triad that are
mistaken for persons and then determine:
189. Can the elements be ignorant elements, stupid elements, or insane
elements? No. Can the air be ignorant air, stupid air, or insane air? No. Can
the conscious-energy be ignorant energy, stupid energy, or insane energy? No.
Can that energy be blocked or warped? Yes.
190. The point: only personas / ego-states can emote and be driven by emotional
intoxication which generates fear, anger, hatred, loathing, revulsion, and
disgust. What is called “the True Self” refers to the pure universal
consciousness which - if manifested - can only witness.
191. So ego-states emote; the pure universal consciousness witnesses. The so-called “Real Self” during the AM-ness is, in fact, nothing more than the temporarily-manifested consciousness that, if pure (that is, if not blocked and warped) is not “a witness” but is merely witnessing. Note: The term “the True Self” implies the deceit of personage which is the case with all versions of “self” and “Self.”
192. Because the pure universal consciousness is manifested for a finite period
of time, there is no Eternal Self or Infinite Self or Endless Self. What is
forever is energy / matter. The elements are forever, the air is forever, and
energy is forever. But no triad is forever, and no self or Self is, much less
is “forever.”
193. The irony is that all of the chaos of the planet is a result of mirages,
of the near-limitless false identities that can be assumed or assigned and that
are taken to be real.
194. Once taken to be real, they will drive all thoughts and words and actions.
It is not evil that is driving thoughts and words and actions; it is delusion,
distortion, the inability to differentiate true from false, the ability to
believe that false identities are real, and the belief that the agendas of
false identities are significant and must be acted upon.
195. Hence, the Boston bombers, one of whom left a note written with a marker
on the interior wall of the boat where he was hiding. The content proclaimed,
among other things, that the bombings were retribution for U.S. actions in Iraq
and Afghanistan; that the Boston victims were “collateral damage,” using the
same term first used by the U.S. to describe “the innocent bystanders who
happen to die when terrorists are being killed”;
the note also said that “when you attack one Muslim, you attack all Muslims”;
the note included the words “Fuck America”; the note said that his brother was
a martyr who was, therefore, with Allah in paradise and that he would soon be
joining him there; and the note explained that the attack was payback for hits
on Muslims.
196. None of those beliefs could be believed - and none of the actions that
evolved from those beliefs could have happened - without the bombers having
first assumed and / or been assigned many false personas / false
identifications.
197. Their false identities included: “Members of the Right Religion”; “Worshippers
of Allah and Mohammed”; “The Ones Who Are Following the One True Faith”; “The
Avengers of Wrongs Against Muslims”;
“Muslims As Opposed to All Others”; “The Two Who Recognize the Oneness of All Muslims But Not the Oneness of All, Period”; “The One From ‘That’ Country And Not From ‘This’ Country”;
and “The Ones Guaranteed To Be With Allah Forever If We Die Killing Members of Other Religions.”
[Note: before members of others religions - such as Christianity - become arrogant and prideful and defensive and judgmental about Muslims, note that Christians have killed far more people in their two-thousand-year history than the members of all other religions combined.]
198. That which the “brothers were” - actually elemental plant food bodies
circulating air and housing blocked and warped conscious-energy - could not be
evil; instead, they were specks of blocked and warped consciousness that were
driven by their assumed and assigned personas, mere mirages that nevertheless
behaved insanely as a result of the programming and conditioning and
acculturation and domestication and brainwashing and indoctrination that made
the blocked and warped consciousness believe the lie that their assumed and
assigned identities were real and that their personas’ agendas had to be
met.
To be continued.
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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.
