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TWO TOOLS THAT CAN BE USED TO END ATTACHMENT TO FALSE BELIEFS
To review:
As certain “tools” are shared that can be employed by that rare seeker that is determined to no longer cling to any false beliefs, “The 180-Degree Rule” has been explained.
The
last tool to be discussed involves the “Obliteration of the Present
Thought-Based Mode of Talking, Allowing One to Become Skilled at Using Only The
Vocabulary of Restored Sanity / Full Realization.”
Again, the full discussion of this “tool” is offered in the book GOING CRAZY,
GOING SANE, so the explanation here shall be limited to this more concise
version explaining the use of this tool: There is “A Vocabulary of Realization.”
The
irony is that, once realized, the use of any vocabulary is significantly
limited. In that regard, Maharaj said to one seeker, “We are not speaking the
same language. Yours is a make-believe talk . . . . ” He informed another, “You
speak as a person, limited in time and space, reduced to the contents of a body
and a mind.”
An understanding of the thought-word-deed continuum is related to this topic as
well:
Because thoughts (i.e., the internal noise generated by the false beliefs that
make up the content of the fiction-filled “mind”) control words and because words
- in turn - control deeds, then the words used during the relative existence
exert tremendous influence over the behavior of non-realized persons.
All deeds are directly preceded by words, and all words are preceded by thoughts. With their understanding of the corrupted state of “the mind,” is it any wonder that Maharaj and other sages have long cautioned against the careless use of language and endorsed the silence instead?
Yet
do not conclude that 50% of all actions result from thoughts and 50% from words.
Nonsensical talk could not happen were it not for the nonsensical beliefs that
are stored in “the mind” which are constantly cycled and recycled among the
non-Realized as the ever-in-motion consciousness generates thought after
thought after thought.
Consider
now the pointer behind the title of the book mentioned earlier, THERE’S NO SUCH
THING AS ‘PEACE OF MIND’ (There is Only Peace If You’re Out of Your Mind).” The
point provided via that title should be even clearer now.
Additionally, several pointers that are relevant to this discussion are also
offered in “GOING CRAZY, GOING SANE,” beginning with this: “There is no need to
cut off the tongue and lips and discard them in order to put an end to the
nonsense being verbalized millions of times per day across the planet.
The requirement is to cut out the nonsensical thinking by discarding the contents of ‘the mind’.” When nonsense, a.k.a., “beliefs,” are eliminated at the point where they are stored (that place called “the mind”) then false beliefs cannot be expressed via the mouth.
If
there is no constant running of the mind, then there can be no constant running
of the mouth. Is it becoming clear why the Realized, spontaneously, spend so
much time in the silence?
Is it clear that those who are driven to talk the most are the most removed
from Reality and reality? Is it clear why the truth can be known but cannot be
spoken?
Is it clear, therefore, why all that is verbalized by those among the non-realized masses is to be ignored, just as you would ignore a mirage in the desert and for the same reason, namely, because it is false?
For nonsensical words and deeds to end, persons must be rid of their belief in the concepts and ideas that generate the thinking which leads to nonsensical talking and nonsensical behaviors. Yet in cultures where “freedom of speech” is valued far more than freedom from silence - such as in the U.S. - then talking flourishes, talk radio flourishes, talk shows on television flourish.
And
they all add to the already-widespread dissemination of nonsense and falsehoods
that are unquestioningly accepted around the globe as being true.
In the “war on nonsense,” one suggestion to those taking the steps to realization
and to freedom from beliefs is this: simultaneously become conscious of words
that are spoken while sleepwalking or while trying to awaken.
By
that means, there can be launched a two-fold assault on babble and claptrap - attacking
the base of nonsense (“the mind”) as well as the nonsense being spoken by
persons who are out on patrol each day and spreading foolishness in a verbal
fashion as they go.
Maharaj invited seekers to be precise and exact with word choice. That can only
happen when one stops talking in his / her sleep and is conscious of what is
being said.
Again,
Grandmother and her fellow Cherokees and others among the so-called “indigenous
peoples of the Americas” taught that “Truth is nothing more than the space
between exhalation and inhalation.” Do you understand why some Advaitin
teachers offer the pointer that “silence speaks”?
And again,
(A) Truth cannot be stated, so only in the silence can the Truth be known;
(B) only in the silence can the inner resource / inner guru be heard; and
(C) only in the space between exhalation and inhalation can Truth be realized.
One of the most basic ways to begin the shift to total freedom from believing
false beliefs is to stop the nourishment of them where they are planted (in “the
mind”) by forming the new habit of not expressing those beliefs in words. Why?
Because the expression and repetition of false beliefs is an act that only reinforces - and gives even more bogus credibility to - all false beliefs. Any method that can interrupt the thought-word-deed continuum can be compared to a disruption in the supply line in the “battle” between the truth and false beliefs.
To
remain in the “silence” is to put an end to the use of the words that allow
senseless thoughts to generate senseless actions.
Regarding that “battle,” Maharaj said:
“Was there ever a world without troubles? Your being as a person depends on
violence to others. Your very body is a battlefield, full of the dead and
dying. Existence implies violence.”
He said: “You want peace, love, happiness and work hard to create pain, hatred
and war.”
To that end, he was asked:
Questioner: “Can I avoid this protracted battle with my mind?”
Maharaj:
“Yes, you can. Just live your life as it comes, but alertly, watchfully,
allowing everything to happen as it happens, doing the natural things the
natural way, suffering, rejoicing -- as life brings. This also is a way.”
And later:
Maharaj: “It is only a question of incompletion. He who could not complete his
Yoga for some reason is called failed in Yoga. Such failure is only temporary,
for there can be no defeat in Yoga. This battle is always won, for it is a
battle between the true and the false. The false has no chance.”
“Yet it is the false that presently dominates the masses and the planet. If
senseless actions can be prevented, then the addiction to chaos might lose its
lustre.”
“And if the upgrading of senseless words and senseless actions fade, then senseless thoughts that are given so much status in most cultures might also begin to ‘die on the vine’ - that is, “in the mind.”
More on that tomorrow.
Please enter 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.
