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FREEDOM FROM BELIEFS
From “Give Peace A Chance”:
“This-ism, that-ism, is-m, is-m, is-m”
by
John Lennon and Yoko Ono
False Beliefs Rooted in “-ISM’S”
(There are more than a thousand new visitors that have visited this site since the “-ism’s” were last discussed. The blockages which the “-ism’s” generate set in place erroneous beliefs which are considerable and which deserve the attention given to them for centuries among the wise.)
The blockages which are set in place by belief in (and attachment to) “-ism’s” have been discussed - though not necessarily using the label of “-ism” - by all realized guides since these understandings were first offered.
(That has not, however, stopped some nowadays from distorting the teachings by adding all sorts of “-ism’s” to non-duality pointers and promoting more ideas and concepts and beliefs rather than guiding seekers to a “state” of freedom that comes when all ideas and concepts and beliefs are purged from the fiction-filled “mind.”)
Moreover, before going any
further into a discussion of the subject, understand that here, there are no
teachings. There are instances where the consciousness speaks in order for “un-teaching”
(and thus “un-learning”) to happen.
Persons who have been programmed with learned ignorance do not need “more
programming,” “re-programming,” “the program,” “this program” or “that program.”
Their Ultimate Sickness requires the Ultimate Medicine which de-programs and
that leads to de-accumulation (including de-accumulation of all ideas and
concepts and beliefs as well as attachment to all sorts of “-ism’s”).
When cancerous cells are found in a body, the intent of the treatment plan for
that illness is for the body to eventually be completely rid of all of the
cancerous cells, not to add more cancerous cells or to add a different set of
new cancerous cells to replace an old set of cancerous cells. So it is with
ideas and concepts and beliefs and attachment to “-ism’s” that make up the
content of the “mind.”
Billions on the planet report that they are affiliated with one religion or
another, and millions more are claiming that they “are not religious but are
spiritual.” In all of those cases, those persons have assumed the role of “believers.”
They are taught ideas and
concepts and beliefs that they are required to accept by fact-free,
inquiry-free faith if they are to avoid the ominous threat of eternal
punishment and to be rewarded not only “now” but also “forevermore.”
Some others have assumed the role of “non-believers,” meaning those who have
looked at the ideas and concepts and beliefs (a) being taught by so-called “faith-based
institutions” or “spiritual groups” and (b) being disseminated by “believers.”
The “non-believers” have rejected those beliefs after objective questioning and
impartial examination.
By contrast, the fully realized - abiding as the no-concept, no-belief,
no-identity, non-dual reality - cannot be said to be either “believers” or “non-believers.”
For the sake of discussion only, they can be pointed to with the label “no-belief-ers”
(though, of course, they accept no labels of any kind at all).
Sages throughout the ages - as
well as any truly realized guides that are offering pointers nowadays - have
invited seekers to realize first and foremost that they have no mind of their
own at all.
The “mind” is an accumulation of all of the ideas and concepts and beliefs and “-ism’s”
that have been dreamed up, accumulated, and then passed on from one generation
to the next . . . in some cases for centuries and in some cases for thousands
of years.
A child that exits a
plant-food body in which plant food elements formed its body - and is said to
have been “born” - has a brain; however, the child does not initially have
anything stored in that part of the brain which will later store and retrieve
information and which will be called “a mind.”
(As noted here, the brain is rooted in the elements; the “mind” is rooted in
the faulty programming and conditioning and domestication and acculturation and
brainwashing and indoctrination to which the child will be subjected.)
Eventually, that “mind” will be filled with ideas and concepts and beliefs that
are not the child’s ideas and concepts and beliefs but are the ideas and
concepts and beliefs of the child’s programmers, conditioners, domesticators
and acculturators;
thus, any talk about “my mind”
or “your mind” is flawed, for every “mind” today is actually “their mind” to
the degree that “they” have passed along the content of “their minds” to fill a
new generation of “minds” with ideas and concepts and beliefs and “-ism’s” that
can be traced back to ancient myths and superstitions and non-facts and
nonsense.
Follow the chain of the transmission of learned ignorance back to “their minds”
and see that those were also not really “their minds” but were the “minds” of
those who came before them.
The earliest teachers were
those who dreamed up all sorts of ignorance-based “-ism’s” and ideas and
concepts and beliefs and passed those along to their followers, who passed
those along to their offspring and to their followers, who passed those along
to their offspring and to their followers, over and over and over, from “then”
to “now.”
Today, there are thousands of “-ism’s” that are (1) the breeding ground of
future misery and suffering; that are (2) the petri dishes where the bacteria
flourish that will eventually cause the “The Ultimate Sickness”;
and that are (3) the nesting
grounds for the continuation and proliferation and dissemination of the “-ism’s”
that nurture duality; distortion; illusion; delusion; learned ignorance;
varying degrees of psychic unhealthiness as a result of personality disorders;
a variety of neuroses; an assortment of psychoses and full-blown insanity; and
the resulting inability to be in touch with reality or Reality either one.
How many “-ism’s” can you name that you have been attached to at one time or
another? Can you see that those “-ism’s” planted within the “mind” certain
beliefs and ideas and concepts that have since proved to be totally false?
If not, would you at least be willing to look at the “-ism’s” that have influenced your thoughts and words and deeds and reevaluate their effects on your relative existence? If so, then the invitation is to make a list of the “-ism’s” that you were subjected to or that you adopted and then assess objectively the effects.
So, the dysfunctionalism to which every child is exposed during its earliest years (and onward) triggers the assumption of what will become the child’s basic personality type as well as the adoption of other personalities that it will internalize or disintegrate to.
The basic type is typically set firmly in place by the age of six, and once
personality types are firmly in place, then the assurance of developing
personality disorders is also in place.
Next, misunderstanding and learned ignorance will bring about an attachment to
personality (i.e., false selves, false identities, the assumption of abiding in
imaginary states-of-being-”this” and imaginary states-of-being-”that”).
The
personalities which are assumed are rooted in (and reinforced by) attachment to
“-ism’s,” and those “-ism’s” are the repositories of the counterfeit concepts
and false ideas and bogus beliefs that will join with personality to drive
thoughts and words and actions.
Both personality styles and “-ism’s” will be taught via programming,
conditioning, accumulation, and domestication; then, they will support each
other, usually for the remainder of one’s entire relative existence because so
few will ever realize and be free of the influence of personalities and “-ism’s.”
It has been noted that the Enneagram test (along with a thorough explanation of
what is revealed via the test results by one versed in the use of that
instrument) can uncover for a seeker exactly which personalities are driving
her or his thoughts, words, deeds, fears and desires. In almost all cases, that
must be understood to be completely free of being driven by personality.
Moreover, persons must see which “-ism’s” they have been attached to and
controlled by if they are ever to be free of the influences of the counterfeit
concepts and false ideas and bogus beliefs which every “-ism” erroneously
disseminates as “truth” and “fact” and “right” and “best.”
No other source has
dreamed up more - and spread more - false, duality-based beliefs and ideas and
concepts over the last 5,000 years than the source that dreamed up the
dualities that are dominant even today: “right vs. wrong”; “good vs. bad”; “moral
vs. immoral”; “reward vs. punishment now”; “reward vs. punishment forever”; ad
infinitum.
The “-ism’s” in that group include:
Judaism; Protestantism / Catholicism / Jesuitism / Anglicism; Islamism;
Mormonism; Buddhism; Hinduism; Talmudism; Jainism; Sikhism; Shintoism; Taoism;
baptism; clericalism; congregationalism; cultism; Deism; creationism; theism;
montheism; polytheism; exorcism; dogmatism; druidism; fundamentalism; paganism;
predestinarianism; proselytism; puritanism; revivalism; spiritualism;
supernaturalism; evangelism; televangelism; messianism; monasticism; moralism;
mullahism; mysticism; moralism; occultism; salvationism; separatism; symbolism;
ritualism; and many more.
Those “-ism’s” account for much of the false sense of separation and “different-from-ness”
and “better-than-ment” because billions of the nearly 8 billion persons on
the planet claim affiliation with either an organized, duality-based religion
or with some duality-based “spiritual movement” or some duality-based “spiritual
program” or with some duality-based “religious-oriented or-spiritually-oriented
philosophy.”
Alignment with any of those “-ism’s” (which give lip-service to “unity” and “love”
but which inspire behaviors that expose an underlying sense of pride and
superiority that results in a belief in “different-from-ment” and “better-than-ment”
. . . along with the resultant, duality-based sense that “we are the ones who
are most right and the rest are mostly wrong”) generates arrogance that also
supports these “-ism’s”: alienism; anthropocentrism; anthropomorphism and
separatism.
As the programmed and acculturated child develops into a programmed and
acculturated adult, then the cultural and social “-ism’s” begin to exert their
influence in developing more personalities and more attachments and more
beliefs and more driving forces, including,
relativism; charlatanism; activism; ostracism; materialism; traditionalism;
vigilantism; dysfunctionalism; opportunism; barbarism; tribalism;
biculturalism; multiculturalism; traditionalism; sexism; individualism;
institutionalism; intellectualism; irrationalism;
ceremonialism; racism; multiracism; colonialism; regionalism; territorialism; more ritualism; sensationalism; conceptualism; conformism; constitutionalism; credentialism; exceptionalism; exclusivism; scapegoatism; reformism; and, of course, dualism.
To be continued.
Please enter into the silence of contemplation.
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"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."
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