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BEING FREE OF THE CONSTANTLY-CHURNING, PEACE-DESTROYING MIND
“There's no such thing as peace of mind.”
--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
“There's no such thing as peace of mind. There's only peace if you are out of your mind.”
--Floyd
Consider:
Liberation = being free of beliefs in any and all identifications, including those assigned and / or assumed.
Realization is = the process which allow one to enter into a state of being free of belief in any and all learned ignorance.
Enlightenment = the state or condition one abides in post-liberation, post-realization.
Enlightened = the result of having been liberated and having realized. It is a state which is reachable and by which one that is willing and ready to become aware of all of the nonsense that has been taught results in one being driven by magical thinking.
That freed state does not require learning more. It requires unlearning all.
For example: “I have a family member who is sick and dying. I’m not the kind to sit on my ass and do nothing if a loved one is sick and dying. I get off my ass and I intervene and more or less take control and bring healing by going to my church and having my priest give me communion and then buying a $1 votive candle or the large $5 candle and then light it and let it burn all day. Yeah. That’s the ticket! I really believe that will help!”
Now that is some major magical thinking.
The point Maharaj made: “There is no such thing as peace of mind.” It’s impossible. Yeshu’a said: “A dual-minded person is unstable in all ways.”
A book written here is entitled, There’s No Such Thing As Peace Of Mind . . . There Is Only Peace If You Are Out Of Your Mind.
Out Of Your Mind = no longer abiding under the influence and control of the fictional, nonsensical content stored in humans’ minds via programming, conditioning, acculturation, domestication, brainwashing, and indoctrination.
Why did Maharaj try and then abandon two prior versions of the Ultimate Medicine before settling on a third?
Because he found that the religious version did not work because the Ultimate Sickness is not a too-little-dogma illness
and
Because he found that the spiritual version did not work because the Ultimate Sickness is not a product of a spiritual malady.
It's a mind sickness, so his third version offers a psychological approach to treatment.
A man in AA who came for satsang said, “I don’t have a drinking problem. I have a thinking problem.” I agreed, “Spot on.”
Those with the Ultimate Sickness could admit the same, were they aware (which they are not) that they are suffering from a thinking disease.
But when I asked, “So how are you going to address your thinking problem?”
“I am going to learn as much as my group is willing to teach me.”
“WRANK! WRANK! WRANK! ALARM SQUAWKING!! So close, yet oh so far.”
No. The key is to stop thinking. But how?
Recall first this constant pattern among non-realized humans:
thoughts👉words👉actions.
So how to stop thinking? Understand that all thinking - all thoughts - require the presence of a mind which serves as a storehouse of beliefs which persons think are their own beliefs without seeing that the beliefs they have were all transplanted from other warped minds.
There is no such thing as your beliefs; there are only their beliefs, the beliefs of others which were taught and which now must be unlearned.
To eliminate all beliefs will chock off the presence of the fictional-filled mind and allow for humans to return to a condition by which their words and actions are being generated by what’s happening in the natural, non-mind part of the brain rather than by what’s going on in the unnatural and / or supposedly “supernatural” parts of the brain.
So, no beliefs, no thoughts. No thoughts, no thinking. No thinking, then (per Maharaj) no ignorant, no stupid, and no insane thoughts. No ignorant, no stupid, and no insane thoughts, no ignorant, no stupid, and no insane words. No ignorant, no stupid, and no insane words, then no ignorant, no stupid, and no insane actions.
Through his “elimination of the mind” process, he became able to make clear exactly what all seekers should be trying to model and what most seekers could be capable of. But first, see what he did not about the mind and the brain and then what did he say about the mind:
WHAT MAHARAJ DID NOT SAY:
He did not say: “All illness begins in the brain.”
He did not say: “Your confusion is . . . in your brain.”
He did not say: “Whatever is conceived by the brain must be false, for it is bound to be relative and limited.”
He did not say: “Distrust your brain, and go beyond.”
FURTHERMORE, HE DID NOT SAY:
He did not say: “There is no chaos in the world except the chaos which your brain creates.”
He did not say: “ . . . The brain obscures and distorts.”
He did not say: “It is the brain that creates illusion.”
He did not say: “There is no such thing as peace of brain. Brain means disturbance. Restlessness itself is brain.”
He did not say: “Don't rely on your brain for liberation. It is the brain that brought you into bondage. Go beyond it altogether.”
NOR DID HE SAY:
He did not say: “Beyond the brain there is no suffering.”
He did not say: “Stop making use of your brain and see what happens.”
He did not say: “Learn to separate yourself from the image and the mirror. Keep on remembering: I am neither the brain nor its ideas.”
He did not say: “There is no such thing as brain. There are ideas . . . .”
He did not say: “Abandon the wrong ideas, for they are false and obstruct your vision . . . .”
He did not say: “The death of the brain is the birth of wisdom.”
ADDITIONALLY, HE DID NOT SAY:
He did not say: “To know that you are a prisoner of your brain - that you live in an imaginary world of your own creation - is the dawn of wisdom.”
He did not say: “I have no brain . . . .”
He did not say: “Reach a state of zero-concepts.”
He did not say: “As to my brain, I have no such thing. There is consciousness in which everything happens.”
He did not say: “I am double dead: not only am I dead to my body, but to my brain, too.”
He did not say: “I find I have lost the brain irretrievably.”
So what did Maharaj have to say about the mind specifically?
WHAT HE DID SAY:
“All illness begins in the mind.”
“Your confusion is . . . in your mind.”
“Whatever is conceived by the mind must be false, for it is bound to be relative and limited.”
“Distrust your mind, and go beyond.”
“There is no chaos in the world except the chaos which your mind creates.”
“ . . . The mind obscures and distorts.”
“It is the mind that creates illusion.”
“There is no such thing as peace of mind. Mind means disturbance. Restlessness itself is mind.”
“Don't rely on your mind for liberation. It is the mind that brought you into bondage. Go beyond it altogether.”
“Beyond the mind there is no suffering.”
So if the problem centers in the mind, and since a sick mind - obviously - cannot heal a sick mind, then what is the solution, per Maharaj?
“Stop making use of your mind and see what happens.”
[Again, understand that, in fact, there is no such thing as “your mind.” There is only “their mind” which they passed down to you, the content of which you have unquestioningly accepted as true, based in blind - and totally unjustified - faith alone.]
What else did he said about the mind?
“Learn to separate yourself from the image and the mirror. Keep on remembering: I am neither the mind nor its ideas.”
“There is no such thing as mind. There are [bogus] ideas . . . .”
“Abandon wrong ideas, for they are false and obstruct your vision . . . .”
“The death of the mind is the birth of wisdom.”
“To know that you are a prisoner of your mind - that you live in an imaginary world of your own creation - is the dawn of wisdom.”
“I have no mind . . . .”
Want to be free of the mind? Maharaj advised, then . . .
“Reach a state of zero-concepts.”
“As to my mind, I have no such thing. There is consciousness in which everything happens.”
“I am double dead: not only am I dead to my body, but to my mind, too.”
“I find I have lost the mind irretrievably.
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.
