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FREEDOM FROM BELIEFS
All illness begins in the mind.”
--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Why is it that the peace and harmony and happiness that Maharaj referenced cannot manifest if there is a “mind” (which he reported he no longer had after realization).
Consider the implication of the title of the book, “There’s No Such
Thing As ‘Peace of Mind’ (There Is Only Peace If You’re Out Of Your Mind)”.
That is, there can only be peace and harmony and happiness if you are out from
under the influence of what is taken to be “your mind” when, in fact, there is
no such thing as “your mind.”
What there is among the not-fully-realized is “their mind” (“their” referring
to all persons who have taught you any belief or idea or concept that is
presently stored in the section of the brain called “the mind”); thus, it is
the content of “their mind” which has been passed down and transferred and is
always taken in error to be “your mind.”
Why is it “their mind”? Because whatever is in it, you did not put there. “They” put it there. Who are “they”?
The members of your family of
origin, relatives, friends, teachers, religious and / or spiritual influencers,
political leaders, and all who were in positions of “authority” during your
childhood and who exposed you to their ideas and concepts and beliefs which you
have adopted as “your own.”
And the adoption of ideas and concepts and beliefs continues even now, into adulthood,
for all that are not realized. The “mind” has been filled with fiction; with
beliefs that are based not at all in fact; with beliefs that have never been
questioned;
and with beliefs that have been accepted with no evidence at all but
have been accepted on “blind faith” alone. Among the masses, the contents of
the “mind” are now held in such esteem that people are willing to fight for
those beliefs or - in some cases - even willing to die in a fight over those
beliefs.
How has the “mind” evolved from its original purpose of storing
survival-related, retrievable data to its present state of storing distorting,
deluding, misleading, fooling, peace-robbing, harmony-destroying,
happiness-blocking beliefs which in many cases amount to nothing but nonsense?
The “mind” is a part of the brain where information can be stored and retrieved, originally used as a “constructive” tool for survival; now, it is a destructive force that drives nonsensical behaviors that are based in nonsensical thoughts generated by the “mind.”
What types of information are stored there? Ideas, concepts and
beliefs, beliefs that were set in place by programming and conditioning and
domestication and acculturation and brainwashing and indoctrination.
The “mind” is a storehouse of illusions because it is an area now used for
storing an entire network of belief systems which are generated from the
dreamed up “-ism’s” that are valued by cultures and societies but that are
based in non-facts rather than facts.
It is the area of the brain that accepts beliefs such as “I am this” and “I am that,” and the false personas that are mistakenly believed to identify who you are.’’
They will subconsciously drive thoughts and words and deeds, removing
all ability to choose and resulting in the non-realized masses being driven by
agendas that are stored in the fictitious “mind.”
Moreover, the persons being driven have no clue at all about what the hidden
agendas are and how they block any opportunity to be awake, aware, conscious,
sane, reasonable, rational, and to be in charge of what they say, what they do,
and how they traverse the relative existence.
And all the while, they are convinced that their beliefs give their relative
existence some worth and value and purpose and meaning and direction and power
and control.
To see the actual effects of one’s beliefs, to be able to look back objectively
and to realize that every destructive and insane act was based in one or more
beliefs, is to ease the transition away from belief-based ignorance and
belief-based insanity and to pave the way for being free of living under the
influence of “their” ideas and concepts and beliefs which have been driving
“you” in ways that have not proven to be to your benefit at all - relatively
speaking.
The transcendent (re-purified) consciousness gives no credibility to concepts
or ideas or attitudes (i.e., beliefs). It understands the unicity; conversely,
the conceptual consciousness erroneously accepts beliefs and takes the
perceived multiplicity to be real.
The transcendent consciousness, being free of delusion and illusion, allows for the abidance as the Absolute.
Then, even the concepts offered by Advaitins will have been
transcended. Years and years of the accumulated mental and emotional and
spiritual garbage of the culture can be tossed . . . and tossed without
concern, without dread, without any sense of loss. Later, it will be realized
that it wasn’t even tossed because there is no “tosser.”
The garbage actually just faded away after its value was finally questioned and
seen to be worthless as a result of its senseless content. Yet note how much
the ego-defense mechanism of arrogance (which protects the illusory “I”) hates
any suggestion that would devalue all of the knowledge - all of the learned
ignorance - that has been accumulated throughout a relative existence and
stored in what is called a “mind.”
The content of all of the books offered by the author provide pointers that -
in the end - are nothing more than thorns that can be used to remove thorns,
scalpels that can excise the cancerous, Ultimate Sickness within the “mind”
wherein the main problem is centered.
Value the conceptualized content of “your mind” and you will be
attracted to the contents of “their contaminated mind” and you will then attach
firmly to all of the bastardized content of “their minds.”
A house cannot begin to be refreshed until one takes out ALL of the garbage,
and the space which houses the consciousness cannot be refreshed - that is,
restored to sanity - unless all of the garbage in the “mind” is removed. And
only if all of the garbage is removed can peace and harmony and happiness
manifest and fill that newly-re-purified space.
Such is the sane course of action regarding garbage. Only the arrogance
of ego-states, which are revealed via the talk generated by conceptualized
consciousness, would inspire efforts to try to give value and meaning to the
garbage of cultures and dogma and movements and “-ism’s.”
The consideration is that you let fade away all of the garbage—all of the
concepts and beliefs and learned ignorance—and be free of the effects of the
concepts-and-beliefs-laden consciousness; then you’ll merely witness the AS IF
living as it happens, without attachment.
Yet that AS IF living can happen only after the body and “mind” and the
last of any assumed roles all fade away. Therein lies the challenge since the
body and “mind” and personality are the very illusions that take the
consciousness and “the mind” to be so worthwhile.
So what must a seeker be alert to as he / she listens for the re-purified
consciousness to speak? Each must develop a detector that can differentiate
between (a) that which emanates from the transcendent consciousness as opposed
to (b) what is heard when the concept-and-belief burdened consciousness engages
in “mind-speak.”
The sages have shared for thousands of years that what is real cannot be named, so that which is named cannot be real, and nothing is more steeped in the duality of conceptual consciousness than what one has named “my beliefs.”
In the absence of blocked consciousness, there could not be any “Believer” vs.
“Non-Believer” duality, and there could be no notion among “Believers” that
they are better than and smarter than and holier than “Non-Believers.”
There could be no impressions and no misperceived memories and no “mind” and attachment to “doing things a certain way because they have always been done”;
there could be no learned ignorance and there could be is no mental
intoxication or emotional intoxication or spiritual intoxication. There could
be nothing unnatural and there could be nothing considered “supernatural.”
There could be no assumed personas so there could be neither ego nor egotism.
There would be no thinking, so there would most assuredly be no magical
thinking of the type that assigns “supernatural cause” to naturally-occurring
events. There could be no attachment to chaos or to trying to control.
What could be, instead, is peace and harmony and happiness or contentment and stability.
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.
