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AS IF LIVING: A PEACE-FACILITATING MANNER OF ABIDANCE
To review:
Nothing more has happened in the entire history of humankind and the “non-dual journey” than this:
the personalization of bliss (to the degree that “bliss” is an undisturbed vibration which was subsequently manifested and eventually personalized) manifested. It can now only be de-personalized via full realization and awareness.
“Full realization” per Maharaj, is nothing more than the result of rejecting all belief in the learned ignorance which a person was taught; thereafter, one can abide in an AS IF fashion.
What does “the AS IF fashion” refer to? That term point to the fact that - if realized fully - one will abide as if some things in the relative existence are meaningful while understanding that - actually - they are not.
Thus realized, one can acquire a set of saleable skills and get a job but understand that should that job be “lost,” other jobs can likely be found;
meanwhile, if one has a job, one can rise in the morning, prepare for a day’s work, complete the tasks assigned, and then finish up after a day’s work as if all of that is significant and meaningful while understanding that it is all just part of the relative games which persons play.
The fully realized understand that “meaning” and “purpose” are myths.
Also meanwhile, persons might be involved in “personal relationships” which can generate scores of false identities (such as “significant other,” “partner,” “mate,” “fiancé” or fiancée,” “wife,” husband, “mother,” “father,” etc., etc., etc, all of which will generate unwarranted fears and more often than not unmet desires and - therefore - much mind-based suffering and misery).
And some will become acculturated and conditioned to allow the religion of their parents to become “their religion” and then allow the most powerful influence in their lives to be that religion’s dogma and that religions leaders, again negating any opportunity to abide in the freedom of the AS IF style.
They will not be able to abide in an AS IF fashion because the rigidity or guilt or anxiety generated by their religion’s teachings are likely to dominate their thoughts and words and actions throughout their entire relative existence.
As a result, they will never realize (that is, they will never be freed of the effects of believing the nonsensical and foolish and ignorant and insane beliefs which they were taught).
Consider by way of illustration the roots of the Catholics” “Fish Friday” concept. In the right-wing, religion-controlled city where I went to school for twelve years, I knew that every Friday, we would be served some really crappy fish sticks.
They tasted old and sometimes even rotten, and many non-Catholic children in the schools went hungry because we could not stomach the Catholics’ fish.
But because the Catholic students had to eat fish on Fridays, so did every other person, and that was pretty much the case in every state in the U.S. “What??!” I asked. “Why?!!” I asked.
Eventually, after centuries, it seemed that a change - a respite from one of dogma’s more ignorant teachings - was possibly coming. In early 1966, Pope Paul VI urged at the Second Vatican Council that that the Church’s rules on fasting and abstinence be relaxed, including the concept of “Fish Friday.”
In the U.S., Catholic bishops declared that “Meatless Fridays” “would end in late 1966 except during Lent Fridays and on Ash Wednesday.”
Yet many Catholics, programmed and conditioned for so long by the church, refused to break the habit. Those rigid, unbending, inflexible members of the church continued to observe Meatless Fridays and continued to force their beliefs and practices on an entire nation and an entire planet.
And to this day, there are some rigid types - whether totally ignorant persons or educated or intellectual persons - still want to force others to adopt their religious rules and practices, including those around fasting and abstinence.
Take one doctor for example. A friend recently told me that her daughter’s medical doctor husband has returned to the severity and stiffness of the Catholicism-dominated days of his childhood.
She said the plans were the daughter and her family would come into town on Friday for a visit and have a dinner with her. The daughters” two children loved my friend’s meat-containing Asian salad and asked that she serve that.
She agreed. Then, she got a call from her daughter explaining that they would not be seeing her on Friday but would eat dinner with her on Saturday because her husband had returned to the observance of Fish Friday and Meatless Fridays (this in the year 2023).
He is the same husband who, along with the daughter, also did not want any more children and told his wife after the birth of their second child to start taking birth control pills.
Later, when his wife developed severe problems as a result of the pill’s side effects, he refused to be snipped, convinced that she was going to go to hell for using birth control - which he wanted her to do - but that he was not going to be sent to hell because he succumbed to her pressure to be snipped and was practicing birth control himself (as if he were not already doing that with her being on the pill.)
Some of his typical statements made along with those of his same ilk:
“You take the pill and stay sick.”
“You are all to eat fish on Friday because I do.”
“You all need to become Catholics because Catholicism is the only true religion and all who die without being Catholics are going to hell.”
“Women do not have the right to choose to have an abortion, even if their doctor has told them that they were guaranteed to die during childbirth or even if they were impregnated during an incestuous rape.”
And so much for the political right-wing party which he is a member of. He and his fellow congregants protest that “they will not tolerate having their rights impeded by government” even as they want their religion to be able to impede the rights of all who do adhere to their belief system.
Talk about the bullshit of refusing to realize and to abandon rigid, nonsensical beliefs. And this is a doctor with a high IQ. So much for intelligence and learning being a preventive of the Ultimate Sickness and its symptoms of “ignorance and stupidity and insanity”).
And so much for religions supposedly “bringing people together” and allowing “peace to manifest on earth.” Again, to use one of Maharaj’s favorite words: “Bullshit.”
Once abidance as a body or mind or persona is transitioned, once abidance as “a self” or “a Self” is transitioned, once abidance as the re-purified consciousness is transitioned, then abidance as the Absolute can happen.
Then, for the remainder of the manifestation, AS IF living can happen. Recall these pointer as well which explain the way that AS IF Living happens:
You are, but there are no “thoughts,” no “mind,” and no false sense of separation.
There is no sense of confinement.
There is no fighting with others who believe that you are not as “good” as them, their being convinced of your lower status by their ego-state-driven agendas and the egotism which supports the continuation of their false, ignorant beliefs.
There will no longer be the constant chatter of a thousand monkeys inside one’s head.
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.
