THE DUALITY OF PURITANISM VS. WILDNESS WHICH LEADS HUMANS TO BE “UNSTABLE IN ALL WAYS

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THE DUALITY OF PURITANISM VS. WILDNESS WHICH LEADS HUMANS TO BE “UNSTABLE IN ALL WAYS”

“All illness begins in the mind.”

--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Why might seekers need - if they would realize - to understand what is present in the mind which leads to the Ultimate Sickness? And why might they need - if they would realize - to understand how to be rid of that which is within which leads to the Ultimate Sickness?

And why might they need - if they would realize - to understand what must happen in order to be rid of the source of the Sickness?

Consider: When I had evidence of internal bleeding and other side effects as well, I visited many doctors before finding one that was able to provide me a proper diagnosis and offer a treatment plan that could remove the source of my sickness and that could prevent it from recurring.

So it is with the Ultimate Sickness. Seekers often must visit many counselors or therapists or non-dual guides before finding one that is able to provide them with a proper diagnosis and offer a treatment plan that can remove the source of their Sickness and that could prevent it from recurring and taking hold again.

I also had many provide what they called a solution without having accurately diagnosed the cause of my sickness.

The “Big Name Teachers” (whom Maharaj warned his visitors to avoid like the plague) will seldom provide an accurate diagnosis because they either cannot diagnosis the Sickness properly or they know that people will not continue to pay them millions for their feel-good message if they instead offer the truth, if those Teachers even know the truth which certainly appears not to be the case.

So what are the causes of the Sickness? Beliefs, especially beliefs regarding false personal identifications; distortions and delusions; the fear-and-desire-driven agendas of ego-states; the functioning of the id-ego-superego triad; an attachment to the BS which has been taught and which is now stored in the mind-parts of the brain; and the presence of dual-mindedness.

All of that is the diagnosis part of the process to realize. Then comes the treatment plan.

Thus, yesterday’s post included this:

If the problem of humankind centers in the mind, then the question is, “How to end the mind, the entire contents of which can all be summarized with the term, ‘one’s beliefs’?”

[First, note that there is no such thing as “your beliefs.” There are only “their beliefs” which were passed down to you and which were accepted as truth with blind faith and no questioning.]

Next: the treatment plan: Abandon all beliefs. If you have no beliefs, you will have no mind. And if you have no mind then there can be no stone walls. And if there are no stone walls? Then there will be freedom from three key symptoms / causes of the Sickness which Maharaj identified as “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity.”

As has been noted here, each belief, each assumed persona, and each scrap of learned ignorance which is all stored in the mind . . . each of those becomes one of the many bars which are used to form the prison of the mind.

Want to be freed from prison? Cut away the bars of beliefs; the bars of identifications (or some “Special Identification”); and the bars of taught and learned ignorance.

You might begin with a question I've asked seekers several decades: “Is it possible that everything you have ever been told and taught and have ever read and have ever heard is . . . false?”

It you cannot answer that question objectively and affirm that it might be fact, then you cannot begin the “journey” to healing at all.

As it turned out, both the bleeding and the other symptoms which were causing my problem were found to involve three types of polyps in my colon. A few were cancerous. A few were benign. Others were deemed to be “pre-cancerous” with abnormalities which made it likely that they would become cancerous.

The treatment plan which the doctor described at first glance seemed rather extreme. The suggestion that you be rid of the mind and abide under the auspices of the brain might, at first glance, seem rather extreme as well. The suggestion that you give up all of their beliefs and abide under the auspices of the brain might, at first glance, seem rather extreme as well.

Yet what is more extreme than allowing mirages and images and lies to control your every thought and word and action while convincing you that you have been making conscious choices all along, which you have not.

Consider the message implied on the cover of this book, remembering that red is the color used for alerts and warnings:

Why would a four-year-old refuse to consider the fact that there is no Santa? Because the child is in a transactional relationship with Santa: 

“If I’m good, I get gifts (rewards) forever.” The last thing that children want to do is admit they have been lied to by their parents, relatives, culture, school, Christian religious leaders, etc., etc., etc., especially when such an admission might cut off their supply of gifts.

The same is happening with a 69-year-old Catholic woman whom I challenged recently to break her ties with an institution that is protecting pedophiles that are in charge of churches around the globe and have a centuries-old history of sexually-molesting children.

She could not even consider taking that action. She is in a transactional relationship with the molesters and her god, both of whom she believes will give her gifts now along with eternal gifts forever, just like a naïve four-year-old believes.

See what the wise non-dual guides have long been up against when they suggest to seekers that they give up the false beliefs which they are so attached to because of their selfish, gotta-get mentality?

Others are invited to consider if there might be some validity in the message hidden herein: BELIEFS.

To be continued.

Please enter into the silence of contemplation.

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Here, with those who are still driven to talk about "god," the "Son of god," the "Holy Spirit," "Buddha," "Krishna," etc., etc., etc., the invitation to them is to view those as verbs, not nouns.

THE EXPLANATION

If looked at as nouns, they point to illusions and are, therefore, a total waste of time to even discuss; if looked at as verbs which are resulting in certain sane but rare behaviors among humanity, then they are worthy of some attention during the relative existence.

Meaning? There are members of certain groups who say things such as "My concept of god in the past was of a weak god, an absentee god, A Santa Claus-type god, a mean, punishing, vindictive god, etc. Today, I am in close contact with a loving and caring god whom I worship and praise and glorify and give thanks to."

The reply to that usually goes like this: "If you are in contact with a god that wants to be worshipped and praised and glorified, then you're dealing with someone like yourself - a narcissist - and hanging out with narcissists will never bring an end to your narcissism (that narcissism evidenced by the fact that you think you are "godly").

Next, in the phrase 'loving and caring god,' any supposed god that truly had her or his act together would tell you that the totally irrelevant part of that phrase is 'god' and that the only part that is relevant is the "loving and caring" part.

"That is, a non-narcissistic their god / their goddess would say, "I care not an iota about being worshipped and praised and glorified by you or anyone else. How arrogant and insecure and needy would I have to be to want that? Forget the man-made, dreamed up noun 'god' and focus on the 'god as a verb' understanding and then go forth and let loving and caring be verbs - not adjectives - and let them generate the act of love and the act of caring and let those actions manifest through you." 

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"

--Yeshu'a (Jesus)

and 

"Heaven and earth shall fade away."

--Yeshu'a (Jesus)

and 

"Heaven and hell are not geographic places

but are states of mind, nothing more than

concepts dreamed up by men."

--Pope John Paul II 

"There is no hell."

--Pope Francis, the current pope

in an interview with journalist Eugenio Scalfari,

a writer used by the Pope to issue off the record

teachings which become a part of the Papal Magisterium.

[That said, would that the popes who have shown the courage to reject a core concept of their dogma - namely, "hell" - would find the additional courage required to question the very existence of their institution in light of the centuries-long cover-up of their history of raping children and in light of the mental and emotional and psychological scarring of billions of their members past and present.

And that need for courage also applies as questions need to be asked about why so many other sky cults are still being supported and allowed to continue to exist as well. When certain types of programming and conditioning have been shown to blind the masses, they should end. Will they? Not likely. Why?

Because what the masses think and say and do is most influenced by the international crime families which hold sway over the masses as criminals conduct their planet-wide operations. What are the major international crime families and which are the most influential and have the largest memberships?

The Mafia / La Cosa Nostra; the Catholic Church (with it 1.2 billion followers) whose Vatican Bank worked for decades with the Mafia while laundering mob earnings (for a 15% all-profit charge by the Bank); Protestant and Evangelical Churches (with over 1.2 billion followers) like the one I was raised in where the youth director molested and sexually assaulted young girls; big business which has long created environments in which people have been abused; powerful political bodies like the U.S. Congress, etc., etc., etc.)

With all of those crime families, neither the followers nor the leadership ever voluntarily step down or shut down their criminal activities. Be they gangs, organized crime families, religions, big business, politicians, etc., they all want control and they all want power and they all want money, and nothing internal will interfere with the driving forces at play.

The masses must demand that all those in charge must step down and their groups and institutions must shut down, and there's the real problem because the continuation of their crimes are enabled not as much by the people running such crime organizations as they are enabled by the masses of people who - wanting some perceived "payoff" - remain involved with them and give them money and support them and aid and abet the continued existence of those criminal enterprises and thus facilitate the ability of church criminals and political criminals and other types of criminals to continue to commit their crimes.] 

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