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“I am offering you exactly what you need - awakening. You are not hungry and you need no bread. You need cessation, relinquishing, disentanglement. What you believe you need is not what you need. Your real need I know, not you. You need to return to the state in which I am - your natural state.”
--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
(Continued from yesterday)
The additional invitation is to consider this as well: the consciousness, once conditioned, can be said to be “blocked” or can be described by some as being “impure and corrupted and distorted and adulterated.”
The blocked or corrupted consciousness is the knower of concepts, the thinker of thoughts, the accepter of lies as truth, the emoter of emotions, the experiencer of pain and suffering, the accepter of ideas rooted in myths, and the believer of false beliefs. If not yet fully realized, what might free you of the effects of having been conditioned and programmed?
Some have read pointers on the
subject, such as these, and then taken them into the silence and considered
them.
Some require a guide that is willing to “tell it like it is.” Some require a
diagnosis of the real problem (which centers in the “mind,” which drives insane
thoughts and words and actions, and which results in being dominated by the
symptoms of the Ultimate Sickness).
Some require a realized guide -
a “specialist in internal medicine” - capable of diagnosing the problem,
willing to tell you directly what the problem is, willing to tell you
specifically what must be done to address the problem, and who knows exactly
how to administer the Ultimate Medicine that is required to treat the Ultimate,
Internal Sickness.
Forget trying to reach a temporary “no-mind” state. The problem requires a
permanent removal of the seat of the Sickness. You are invited on this site to
take the steps which lead to a permanent state of “no-minded-ness,” even
as the consciousness remains manifested.
You are invited to consider
what this exchange with one visitor might reveal to you:
Visitor: “I see that most people resist having their ideas and concepts and
beliefs being smashed to pieces.”
F.: As have you in the past, yes? That is because WHO they think they are is
also an idea . . . a concept . . . a belief, so the smashing of their ideas and
concepts and beliefs is taken to be a personal smashing . . . a personal attack.
Also, because they have never been without beliefs since the early days of programming, they do not believe that there can be a belief-less guide or a “No-Belief-er.”
As is the case with all non-realized
persons, they form an opinion about an experience that they have never had, and
then that opinion is also stored away as another belief.
Visitor: I want to cast aside all concepts, I’m ready! What do I do?
F.: That statement is usually just another false belief that might manifest for
a time but that never evolves into a permanent condition of freedom from
beliefs, but on the chance that there might be some degree of sincerity and
some degree of readiness, the suggestion is to begin by seeing the sources of
your beliefs and concepts.
One pointer shared on occasion illustrates how a variety of sources ingrain
false beliefs in persons who then refuse to question any of those beliefs: a
woman who had visited and shared in several exchanges decided that she was
going to “fire me” because of certain pointers that challenged the validity of
her conceptualized God.
She claimed, “Floyd, millions
of people cannot be wrong.” The response was something along the lines of, “You’re
right. It is billions and trillions that have been wrong.”
So, find the source of your beliefs. What about the concepts that you take to
be “yours” (though they are really “theirs”)? Where did you get those concepts?
Did you hear them repeated so often and so many times by so many parents, teachers,
preachers, rabbis, imams, politicians, your culture’s leaders - or by the
members of some group - that you unconsciously gave credibility to their
beliefs, based in nothing more than the overwhelming number of people you’ve
heard perpetuating those concepts?
Maharaj’s estimate of the small number of persons among the masses who will
ever seek - and the smaller number of seekers who will ever realize -
guarantees that you will
a. find that billions around the globe regularly repeat and affirm the unquestioned
beliefs that are held dear by the masses and guarantees that you will
b. hear very few that come to realize that those widely-held beliefs are all
false.
The next questions to the visitor included these:
1. “How many of your beliefs have you truly considered, objectively, as to
their viability?”
2. “How many have you subjected to the close scrutiny of impartial inquiry?”
Among seekers, there are “the wet charcoal” types. Try as the teacher might,
seekers of that type are never going to “catch fire” and burn away all of their
distorted concepts and ideas and beliefs. There is another type of seeker
called, for the sake of discussion, “the dry charcoal” type.
With considerable effort and study and contemplation, as more and more nonsense is seen to be nonsense, they might transition into the final “gunpowder” stage. Once there, an awareness of the magnitude of the numbers of lies accepted as truth “by faith alone” can come into consciousness.
Suddenly, analyzing each separate concept
ends as the broader awareness explodes into consciousness and blows away all
beliefs, marked by a quiet period of deeper-than-ever-before understanding.
Some few are more likely than others to be willing to challenge the “authorities”
and to challenge the validity of the teachings imposed by authority figures,
and - as the sages have long noted - personality is at the root. Among the nine
basis personality types, 50% are Type Six Loyalists who will never question
authority.
All personality types are all driven by fears and desires, and the desire of “The
Loyalists” is to align with authority (and with “the-powers-that-be” on earth
and with a Power or Powers from other worlds) in order to be taken care of both
now and “forevermore”;
thus, one-half of the persons on the planet will never
even consider the invitation here to question their beliefs. The Type Four -
which is the most likely to challenge authority, even early on - is the type
most often interested in finding that which is “the Authentic”; however, Type Fours only
make up 1/2 of 1% of the planet’s 8-billion-person population.
Maharaj was a Type Four, and this author displayed Type Four traits at a very
early age. In the case of “floyd,” it was described this way in 2007: There was
a nagging suspicion during those early years in “Sunday School” that the tales
being told were nonsense.
The same assessment applied to words being spoken
from the pulpit; thus, the asking of questions - the questioning of “their”
teachings - was automatic and included the following:
There was a talking snake?
There is a god that makes women suffer menstrual pain on a monthly basis
because of the sin of the first woman?
A man was swallowed by a whale but survived for days inside the whale’s stomach
until it was disgorged?
People walked for forty years in a desert on a journey that others during that
era completed in a little over a month?
They got water from rocks struck by a magic rod?
Food rained from the sky?
A virgin was impregnated miraculously by a spirit after being contacted by
angel-emissaries from God and agreeing to the arrangement whereby sperm would
be implanted without human contact?
The “Loving Father” killed everyone on the planet except for the members of one
family?
He loves me but He will burn me in hell if I’m not good?
Then it was discovered that the tale told by Moses (or by someone who was not
really Moses at all) was stolen . . . that it had been around for 500 years as
part of the dogma of an ancient pagan religion, complete with the magic rod and
freed slaves and water from rocks and food from the sky.
It was seen that words “I AM THAT I AM,” supposedly spoken by a burning bush,
were plagiarized from a Far Eastern philosophy.
It was learned that Christianity was not the first religion founded on the
basis of a virgin birth but was the 23rd. Seeking and researching led to the
debunking of one magical tale after another.
It was seen that the god of
Abraham was a product of rolling all of the ancient pagan gods of creation and
sustenance and destruction into one, resulting in an all-in-one “Creator-Sustainer-Destroyer”
God.
Then, just as the religious tales were debunked, more seeking and finding
revealed more and more bogus tales that had no factual foundation but were rooted
in ancient myths and superstitions.
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.
