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2. 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. See the green text after today's post for the full meaning and implications of that.
3. A newer video ("Number Ten: Awakening Together Satsang, March 2018") has now been added in the far right column of this page, offering the opportunity to view a recent 2018 satsang session with Floyd being interviewed by Regina and Jacqueline of "The Awakening Together Group." (See the details in the blue text after this post.)
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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
Beliefs Rooted in Personality and “-ISM’S”
1. There are those who are truly seeking peace.
2. There are those who are not seeking peace because they are attached to
control and are addicted to the excitement of chaos in an effort to relieve a
dull existence of its tedium and boredom and depression and monotony.
3. In an effort to escape monotony, both chaos and dualism can seem appealing.
4. For those truly seeking peace, it cannot happen unless one is freed from
belief in and attachment to any “-ism.”
Nor can peace happen unless one is freed from belief in any false identity
or role or personality or personas because they are the prerequisite for misery
and the driving force behind all suffering.
5. The peace / “-ism” dilemma is this: attachment to “-ism’s” reinforces
attachment to “-ism”-related personas, and “-ism”-related personas reinforce
attachment to “-ism’s.”
Example #1:
“We are a helping, civilizing people when we invade nations with their
backwards populations and share our advanced culture with them,” which actually
means “we have a history of imposing our high cultural standards upon lesser
people to our economic advantage.”
To assume the role of “The Helping, Civilizing People” reinforces attachment to colonialism; colonialism reinforces the false belief that the invaders are “helping” and “civil.”
That
is not unlike the parent who says, “I am disciplining you by whipping you
because I love you” while the child is thinking, “Then just stop loving me, you
ignorant ass. Your version of ‘love’ is killing me.”
Example #2:
“We (Jews / Christians / Muslims) are the only ones whose beliefs are right”
reinforces belief in and attachment to Judaism / Protestantism or Catholicism /
Islamism. Attachment to Judaism / Protestantism or Catholicism / Islamism, in
turn, reinforces the false belief that “I am a Jew” or “I am a Christian” or “I
am a Muslim.”
Such
beliefs, in turn, support duality and a sense of “separation from” and “better-than-ment”
and “different-from-ness,” and those concepts and false identities and drivers
of attachment to “-ism’s,” in turn, have resulted in more murdering than any
other single factor in human history.
6. Attachment to “-ism’s” will always 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.
7. So, personality and “-ism’s” work hand-in-hand to support each other and to
nurture attachments and personality-assumption.
8. Personality-assumption robs persons of the ability to choose thoughts and
words and deeds and leaves persons at the mercy of the hidden agendas of
personality (which is the root of all usually-unfounded-fears and all
unmet-and-thus-frustrating desires).
9. Fears and desires generate misery and suffering and rob persons of any
chance of finding peace.
10. What can facilitate the understanding of personality and which
personalities are generating the personality-trance which traps persons in an
endless cycle of misery-producing thoughts (“mind”-chatter) and which
determines subconsciously all words and actions? The Enneagram.
The
Enneagram provides a tool that can uncover the subconscious drivers of thoughts
and words and deeds and can reveal - on an exact scale - the degree to which
each assumed personality is driving a person. Thus, the tool that can assist
seekers with seeing which personalities are driving them - and to what degree
and with what consequences - was introduced earlier.
It was noted that Ichazo used Enneagram analysis to show seekers exactly how “the
ego begins to develop, [how] there is a transition from objectivity to
subjectivity, and [how humans] fall from essence into personality.”
Ichazo saw
the Enneagram as a tool that can be used to examine specifics about the
structure of essence and particularly about the ways in which the qualities of
essence “become distorted, or contracted into states of ego.”
In developing his Enneagram theories, he drew upon the teachings regarding “the
nine divine forms”; the teachings of Plato; the teachings of Plotinus; and
teachings by early mystics who focused their studies on “the loss of the divine
forms in ego consciousness” (those forms including tolerance, humility,
sincerity, gratitude, non-attachment, courage, patience, temperance, and
discernment).
Therein
lies the core Advaita message: when trapped in “an ego-state / personality
consciousness” as opposed to being free as a result of awareness of the essence
and authenticity, then tolerance, humility, sincerity, gratitude,
non-attachment, courage, patience, temperance, and discernment will never
manifest during the AM-ness.
The opposites of the “divine forms,” in the course of their travels from Greece
to Egypt over the course of a century, became distorted and reduced by religion
to “seven deadly sins” which pointed at the means by which “the divine forms”
became distorted into the so-called “sins” of anger, pride, envy, avarice,
gluttony, lust, and sloth.
Ichazo’s
non-dual message that was delivered with a focus on personality and “personality-driven
defects” also drew from the teachings of the Kabbala, but his key contribution
as far as Advaitins are concerned was in discovering how these “divine forms”
and their corresponding distortions connected with the already-existing
Enneagram symbol and with human thinking, feeling, and instinct.
With that understanding, he showed how a person loses both awareness and the
sense of pure presence, falling away from essence into the trance of the
personality; how the loss of awareness becomes a person’s ego-fixation;
how the loss of contact with essence and authenticity eliminates tolerance, humility, sincerity, gratitude, non-attachment, courage, patience, temperance, and discernment; and how the loss of contact with the essence and with authenticity sets the stage for persons to be driven by their “characteristic passion” (or “passions” or “personality traits”), including wrath and resentment and anger;
pride;
deceit; melancholia and jealousy and envy; greed and avarice; panic and
cowardice; conceit and gluttony; lust; and indifference or laziness.
The link with the Advaita message is this: when one loses contact with the
essence and with authenticity and falls into a personality trance, then the combined
effects of (1) that loss of contact with the essence and with authenticity and
(2) the subsequent identification with body and mind and personality become so
acute that the person’s ego-states become preoccupied with recreating the
contact.
It is - at least in some cases - that “acute” search for contact with one’s
Original (Pure) Nature that drives persons to assume the role of “The Seeker.”
That would be fine except for the fact that - without a realized guide or
without being in touch with the inner guru - then the search unfolds in a
totally futile and self-defeating way.
The
masses are engaged in that blind search for their essence and for an awareness
of what is authentic, but blocked from seeing clearly by the sources of
ambiguity and duality (rooted in programming, domestication, conditioning,
acculturation, brainwashing, indoctrination and their personality trance), they know not what they seek;
in most cases, their seeking ends at the third step where they assume the false
identity of “The Religious One” or “The Spiritual One” or “The Realized One”
and where their search becomes focus of seeking control and power);
furthermore,
the odds are slim that they will ever cross paths with a fully realized guide
that can reveal to them exactly what “that / That” is which they are “missing”
and thus seeking; therefore, they will usually seek blindly or will be misled
by their “leaders” or “big name teachers” - all of whom are equally blind.
So it is, but so it need not be for those that have come this way and that
accept what the Enneagram and the Advaitin teachings combined can reveal. It was noted earlier that “-ism’s” support
personality and personality supports belief in (and attachment to) “-ism’s.”
Another example: Sinclair Lewis on one “-ism”: “When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross.”
Were Lewis in the U.S. nowadays, he could point to candidates in 2012 who would be the President of the United States and who are suggesting that women impregnated during a rape or as the result of an act of incest should not have the right to abort but should “make the best of a bad situation”;
that
homosexual acts - which are banned by state law in many states - should be
declared illegal by national law as well;
that birth control should be banned because it is inspiring “unacceptable
sexual activities”; and that some persons have the right to marry but that the
constitution should be amended to deny others the right to marry.
In those cases, note the combination of “flag and the cross / Catholicism”; the cross / Catholicism and flag. Fascism manifesting precisely as predicted. Such is the toll of belief in the arrogance-based concepts perpetuated by “-ism’s” and the blind acceptance of the desires of “-ism”-based personality / personalities.
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."
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"Heaven and hell are not geographic places
"There is no hell."
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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.
