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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
This information was released to the media on July 18, 2023:
Top medical researchers are sounding the alarm that an estimated 795,000 American patients continue to die or become permanently disabled each year because they are being diagnosed with the wrong conditions.
As discussed earlier, what happened over eighty years ago in the U.S. with an author who understood the roots of the Addictive Personality Disorder (namely, “the typically-distorted human mind”) is what is happening today with non-dualists and Nisargans who understand the roots of all of the personality disorders plaguing human minds which are a key component of the Ultimate Sickness.
Moreover, the number “795,000” may indeed well be alarming to many, but most on the planet have no clue that in one case, billions are being misdiagnosed annually. That case? The case of billions who are suffering and in misery from the effects of the Ultimate Sickness.
How can that be? Simple. Billions will abide and then
take mahasamadhi without ever having so much as heard of the Ultimate Sickness,
much less seek some version of the Ultimate Medicine which might treat that
Sickness.
That author who understood the cause of a particular sickness was ignored and
shouted down by the voices of certain ignorant persons with whom he was
dealing. The same happens nowadays as well when one comes forth that
understands the cause of the Ultimate Sickness;
therefore, that author’s experience provides a framework for a discussion of
non-duality (and the challenges faced by those that would share non-dual
pointers) because it mirrors exactly what happens when
(a) non-duality guided with an understanding of the functioning of the
totality
cross paths with
(b) the non-realized masses who reject facts as being false and accept myths
and superstitions as truth.
It was seen yesterday that the author of the most widely-read book dealing with
the treatment of alcoholism caved in to pressure; that he abandoned his
original thesis that addiction is a mental, emotional and physical problem and
not “a moral problem”;
and that he was coerced into claiming that becoming spiritual is the cure. Seven of the “Twelve Step treatment plan” which they are usually exposed to on a daily basis refer to a male God.
The argument of the opponents of his thesis claimed that the Addictive
Personality Disorder was caused by “bad morals.” And though the author did
assert that more about alcoholism was sure to be revealed over the coming years
and decades, what has been revealed in the subsequent eighty+ years is still
being ignored by those using his book and program.
When my daughter needed to undergo a surgical procedure to remove her tonsils, she
rejected the first doctor she spoke to and then discussed what she found out
about the second doctor, whom she did choose.
Following two consultations with
him, after completing the research she did into his skills, after reading the
reviews of him that were available, and after talking with some of his former
patients, she made an informed decision.
She did not say, “The reason I chose him is because he has ignored all of the
modern research and because he refuses to acknowledge any and all of the advances
in medical techniques which have come about over the last eight decades and
because he uses the same method that doctors used in the 1930’s” and which were
based in beliefs which have been handed down from 5,000 years ago.
She would have to be insane to choose a treatment method that ignores all that
has been learned over an eight-decade period which can address her illness more
effectively, wouldn’t she?
That could only happen if the first persons she
sought help from were non-professionals who nevertheless promised her that they
had the very best treatment available for what ailed her and if she then took
their word about that without investigating any other possibilities.
Indeed, research has shown that the Addictive Personality Disorder does indeed
have mental, emotional and physical components, yet eighty-four years worth of revealing
research and understanding are constantly ignored and cast aside as the readers
of that author’s book - and the program in which they claim membership - still
claim on a daily basis that their disorder is a moral one that can only be cured
by spiritual means.
Even the non-dual understanding was distorted for hundreds of years and that distorting
continues to this day because few realize that it is not about being spiritual
or other-worldly but is about restoring logic and reason and wisdom;
the absence of logic and reason and wisdom among the
masses is only seen when judging “others” but is seldom realized to be the
reality of those who are doing the judging and failing to see the lack of logic
and reason and wisdom in their own case.
The author under discussion knew, just as the non-dual Nisargan knows, that the
main problem (not only in regards to that disorder but also in regards to
almost all of the problems on the planet) centers in the mind; thus, anyone
with the slightest touch of common sense would understand this:
physical problems are addressed by dealing with the physical issues involved;
mental problems are addressed by dealing with the mental issues involved; and
emotional problems are dealt with by dealing with the emotional problems
involved.
Moreover, any reasonable human would admit that if there is an all-knowing,
all-powerful, all-caring God who is in the business of repairing minds (or
anything else that is messed up) then any reasonable human should also realize
that any all-knowing and all-powerful and all-caring God would not allow minds
(or anything else) to be messed up in the first place.
Since minds are messed up to an astounding degree, how do those endorsing
a spiritual cure for all of the planet’s ills reconcile the fact that the power
they are recommending to fix the planet’s ills does not use “his / her / their”
supposedly available and unlimited power to prevent
the ills before they manifest in the first place?
Not really an impressive way to supervise, control, and operate a universe or a
planet, is it?
Of course, their answer is, “God loves us so much that he / she / they give us
free will” (as if “because I loved her so much” I would have given my three-year-old
daughter the right to exercise her free will when she wanted to play in the
street rather than making her play in the yard).
Understanding the insanity of such a belief sets the stage for the sharing of
another non-dual, Nisargan pointer: the realized understand that - when one is
abiding under the influence of personality - there is no such thing as “free
will” and that there is no such thing as “choice.”
How could there be when every thought and word and action is determined by the
subconscious agendas of each personality that has been adopted as any identity,
even as each personality hides its agenda from the one being driven by multiple
personalities?
The next non-dual pointer: seekers are seeking many different things and - as
with those in the program above who are suffering from the Addictive
Personality Disorder - many of those seekers share in common the belief that a
spiritual cure or solution is required for whatever ails them.
Any sane and sound human, however, would know this: the fact is that in no case
can a spiritual cure address a physical ailment, a mental ailment, or an
emotional ailment, the belief by some that they have the power to heal anyone
and everyone and themselves via prayer notwithstanding.
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.
