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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”
(continued)
With the few remaining seekers who used the non-duality teachings to uncover the root of all disharmony and emotional instability and chaos, early teachers discussed the way that everyone developed a primary “point of view” from the list of nine possibilities.
It
was seen by some that it is those “views” or “passions” or “primary personality
traits” that mark and mar the human condition. The patterns of thoughts and
words and behaviors associated with the passions now align with the nine
personality types of the Enneagram.
What might be called - for the sake of discussion only - “human character” (as
exhibited among the realized) will spring forth from conscious-awareness of the
essence and the authentic and Love, so the realized will behave in what most
might call “the way of love” without having even a single belief about “love
vs. hate.”
In
fact, the realized are functioning in the non-dualistic, no-concept, no-belief,
no-identity manner of True Love that manifests alongside the understanding of
the unicity.
In contrast to what can manifest during the AM-ness (1) if there exists a
conscious-awareness of the essence and the authentic and Love or if (2) persons
are instead blindly driven by their dominate and secondary personality types
will be ruled by unconscious but habitual responses as well as the hidden
agendas of their personality / personalities.
It can be seen, therefore, that attachment to personality is not only fueled by “-ism’s” but also reinforced by the ideas and beliefs and concepts that are at the root of all “-ism’s.”
As long as thoughts and words and deeds are being driven
subconsciously by the hidden agendas of false identities and by belief in the
concepts that are promulgated by “-ism’s,” then every aspect of one’s relative
existence will be tarnished by the insanity of belief in “-ism”-based dualities
and will be spoiled by the personality-induced trance that leaves them unawake,
unconscious, and unaware.
In that condition, persons will claim that they “really do, most assuredly,
have free will” when in fact they are thinking and talking and walking about in
their sleep while feeling certain that they are awake. Where in that scenario
is there even the slightest chance for “free will” to be exerted?
Maharaj: “In Hinduism, the very idea of ‘free will’ is non-existent, so there
is no word for it. Will is commitment, fixation, bondage.”
Maharaj taught, therefore, that the purpose of the teachings is to free persons
from their fixations and bondage; is to eliminate mind-driven chaos; is to put
to an end once and for all personality-driven instability; is to free persons
from the “-ism”-driven volatility that marks their existence.
He
taught that the aim of the teachings is to eradicate culture-based ignorance
and personality disorders and “stupidity” and “insanity” and “to liberate man
from the thraldom of chaos and the burden of sorrow.”
How offensive his words were (and are) to those trapped in ego-states and
egotism. How in error they assumed his pointers to be when he reported that
they had no free will at all.
How deluded the non-realized are, then, when they believe that they are abiding under the auspices of free will.
With
that belief in place, they give themselves “credit” for the “good” things they
accomplish via their “free will” or they blame themselves for the “bad” things
that happen when they “do not hold their free will” in check.
Or, depending on their programming and conditioning, they will speak of other
types of “will” that have been conjured up by their “religious leaders” or “spiritual
guides” and which are even more magical and are of a totally fictitious
character, namely, “God’s will” or “the will of the universe.”
The fact is, nothing is unfolding according to the will of any god or goddess. All is energy-matter, and neither can be created nor destroyed; thus, there is no creator at all to exert his / her will.
Nor is anything unfolding under the
supervision of “the universe.” Nothing is happening per the auspices of some “plan”
or “divine plan.”
To study history and to see mankind’s penchant for meanness and cruelty and
ignorance and insanity is evidence enough to confirm that if there were someone
or Someone planning what is happening on this planet, that plan could never be
rightly classified as “divine.”
It could only be classified as “a very mean and cruel and ignorant and insane plan.” The fact is, instead, that persons are driven by the unconscious fears and desires of their personalities; are driven by the concepts that are promulgated and broadcast by their “-ism’s”;
are
driven by the residual effects of trauma that are stored at a cellular level
throughout their bodies; are driven by the learned ignorance that they
accumulated via programming, conditioning, domestication, acculturation, brainwashing and indoctrination;
and are driven by the personality disorders that mark and mar their relative
existence.
All sorts of processes are going on that determine thoughts and words and that
subconsciously drive actions, processes which persons haven’t the slightest
awareness of:
Maharaj: “A tremendously complex work is going on all the time in your brain
and body. Are you conscious of it? Not at all.”
Moreover, all thoughts and words and deeds that are driven by the sick “minds”
of the non-realized which - from the age of two years and onward are
contaminated with the germs of the Ultimate Sickness - leave persons in a
prison while believing that they are free.
The
prison is located between their ears, and each bar of the prison is a
personality-based fear, a personality-based desire, or an “-ism”-based” concept
or belief that is totally false but that is wholeheartedly believed to be true.
What - other than ignorance and insanity - would convince a person in prison
that he or she is free or has the “free will” to choose? Again, to be “driven”
in a car is to be in the passenger seat, the back seat, or the trunk (boot) but
is to be precluded from being behind the steering wheel and freely choosing
where one is going to go, how one is going to go, when one is going to go, etc.
“Free will” and “being driven” cannot co-exist. To be driven by entrapment in a
personality trance - and to allow “-ism-based” concepts and beliefs to
determine thoughts and words and deeds - is to block any chance for free will
to manifest.
What
- other than ignorance and insanity - would prevent persons from seeing that,
according to Maharaj, they “are using things and people for purposes alien to
them” and are playing “havoc with the world and yourself.”
Such is the way it is when personalities and “-ism’s” are in charge: they rob
persons of free will, of the ability to consciously choose, of the ability to
behave in a sane manner. And that is why all available tools (including the
Enneagram) are employed here to allow seekers to identity the personality types
that are driving them and to thereby have a chance to be free.
Only with the completion of the third step on the “path” from identification
with the false “I” to understanding the Absolute can seekers move on to the
total freedom that comes with the post-belief, post-concept, post-persona,
post-personality assumption, post-full realization manner of abiding from the
position of being fully awake, fully aware, and fully conscious.
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.
