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DO NOT SEEK EITHER TRUTH OR LIES
(continued)
Recall from yesterday that this pointer was offered when making the point that “seeking the truth is useless”:
Those speaking about truth come in two varieties of BS-er’s: (1) those who know they are outright lying and (2) those who are lying but believe that they are speaking the truth (their version being that which they were taught by liars).
Earlier,
these pointers and considerations were offered in regards to the concept of “seeking
the truth”:
1. Expect to come across a lot of liars. A lot. Regarding one U.S. politician
who is talking more than any other politician in the entire country: “The way
to tell if he is lying is to watch his lips closely. If they are moving, he is
lying.”
The same applies to all who are discussing truth and urging their followers to dedicate themselves to finding it.
Next,
turn the focus to “yourself”:
2. “How often are your lips moving nowadays?” vs. “How often are you enjoying
the silence and thereby allowing others around you to do the same?”
Next, understand this:
3. There is only one prevaricator that you need to concern yourself with: that
one is “you” (the false ego-states assumed).
This has been shared on occasion:
Grandmother and the others among her tribe of Cherokees taught that “Truth is
nothing more than the space between exhalation and inhalation.”
In
other words, you will never hear “truth spoken.”
Do you understand why some “non-dualists” offer the pointer that “silence speaks”?
Again,
(A) Truth cannot be stated, so only in the silence can the truth be known to
you or to anyone;
(B) only in the silence can the silent inner resource / inner guru be heard;
and
(C) only in the space between exhalation and inhalation can truth be realized.
Yet all of the blockages to being able to differentiate the true from the false
must be revealed to a seeker by a realized one before anything in the silence
can be understood.
Moving Closer to Freedom from Belief
Pointers
from other works by the author can now be shared to review some of the
considerations offered herein which are to be grasped if freedom from belief in
falsehoods (and the effects of such beliefs) is ever to manifest:
From Overcoming the Fear of Being
Totally Independent:
“Accept
that you cannot handpick right ideas and wrong ideas. Let them all go. That
belief-free state is freedom.”
From The Essence of the Teachings:
“
. . . Trying to meet the expectations and demands of others’ beliefs is
blocking you from a peaceful existence.”
and
“Once persons ‘see’ that they are not a body that was born, once they ‘see’
that they are not defined by their thoughts, once they ‘see’ that they are not
the spiritual or religious roles they have played, then the de-accumulation of
beliefs and concepts and ideas can lead to . . .
the peace of Child Ignorance (that is, the No-Knowing State);
to witnessing objectively;
to understanding the beingness and the non-beingness;
and to being in touch with Reality and reality. From there, the doing stops and
the being begins.”
and
“ ‘Thinking’ (which is generated from an illusory mind that is nothing more
than the storehouse of lies, myths and concepts) will disappear to the degree
that attachment to, and belief in, lies and myths and concepts disappear.”
Yet few will ever commit to being totally independent. Few will ever begin the
movement toward total independence by first abandoning identification with the
body. Fewer still will complete the entire “journey” to Reality and
know true freedom and absolute independence;
instead,
most will fight to the end in defense of nonsensical, magical beliefs that were
usually dreamed up by uneducated, ignorant men during ancient times. What about
you? How free do you want to be? How soon do you want that freedom?
If you are not totally free of all of the beliefs that “they” have passed on to
you, then you are as if in a play, playing a role, and believing that the role
and the play are both real. Why would you believe such?
Because “your mind” has become the playwright, the author of every scene, and that is inspiring you to play the roles which seem to provide a “personal payoff.”
Nothing said here is to be accepted and held on to as a “new belief.” Everything that is said here is to be used to be rid of another false belief until all ideas and emotional intoxication and beliefs are gone and nothing remains but the unstated understanding.
Only
then can the constant churning and re-churning of the false beliefs of the
corrupted “mind” finally cease.
If you are not totally free of all of the beliefs that “they” have passed on to
you, then “your mind” is obscuring the consciousness because that “mind” is so
marred with its belief in lies and superstitions and all of its so-called “knowledge”
(that is, its accumulation of learned ignorance), that it leaves you insane to
the degree that you don’t know what you are not and to the degree that you
believe the lies and dreams of the planet.
If you are not totally free of all of the beliefs that “they” have passed on to
you, then “they” (including untold generations of non-realized persons) still
control you. You are being controlled by “others”;
controlled
by persons from many generations ago whom you never met; controlled by those
you have met but who are no longer present even though their influence still
controls you; and controlled by those still present physically but also still
present psychically.
“They” decided that you needed their “knowledge,” which is really nothing other
than the accumulation of their learned ignorance (including “their” ideas and
beliefs that were rooted in superstitious and mythical explanations for what
they could not explain factually or scientifically).
In
transferring those false beliefs to you, they created a “mind” - a repository of
ideas and beliefs and non-truths. It contains (1) what was put into their “minds”
- which they also never questioned even once - and (2) what was then passed
along faithfully and dutifully and, unfortunately, to you. Nothing in it came
from you.
If you are not totally free of all of the beliefs that “they” have passed on to
you, then the fact remains that generations of “them” dreamed it all up, that “they”
forced you to accept their concepts as a child, that you internalized their
beliefs into a “mind,” and that you now allow their fiction to define what you
mistakenly take to be “your” beliefs, your values and your “mind.”
Next,
you are invited to review once again this exchange that was shared earlier and
see if its implication might now be more palatable:
In response to, “Floyd, millions of people who believe in Him can’t be wrong!”
the response was, “Indeed, your notion is accurate; in truth, it is not
millions who have been deluded in their beliefs. It is trillions upon
trillions.”
For
adults to be able to witness without judgment, without thoughts, and without
beliefs based in duality requires a shift “back” to that prior state of Child
Ignorance (or the Child-No-Knowing State) by casting aside all of the nonsense
which has been accumulated as a result of learning and conditioning and
programming and domestication and acculturation.
Finally, when people prepare for a journey, there are certain items that they
take along in order to make the trip somewhat easier.
In the next post, some of the items which can be used on the “journey” to becoming free of the effects of believing in false beliefs and concepts and ideas shall be shared.
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.
