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TOOLS WHICH CAN BE USED TO END ATTACHMENT TO FALSE BELIEFS
Questions
have been raised over the years regarding certain pointers shared earlier
regarding “one’s head being in the clouds” and about “transcending spiritual
and / or religious roles” and “man-fabricated religious and spiritual
knowledge.”
Also challenged are the pointer that it is an insane belief that drives some
seekers to “abandon a phenomenal dream state, only to reside in a supposedly ‘noumenal’
dream state” where they have their heads “in the clouds without having one’s
feet planted firmly on the ground”
and
the pointer that “those persons fail to understand that they are actually
seeing no more of the light with their heads in the clouds than the persons
planted on the ground who also cannot see the sun because of the clouds.”
The challenges were coming from one who believes many false beliefs, including
the false belief that he “has become spiritual.” He does not know that he
cannot “become spiritual,” cannot “become better,” and, actually, cannot “become”
anything.
“To become” is “to change or grow or develop into something specific and
different; to enhance or improve; to be upgraded; to be better than before; to
change for the better”; or, conversely, “to worsen or to get worse” or “to be
downgraded” or “to deteriorate,” as in:
1. “She became a much better person after she joined that group.”
2. “He became more religious - even spiritual - after he married her and
settled down.”
3. “He was raised the right way by good parents, but he sure did deteriorate
later one - really went downhill.”
4. “That one lucked out and found a super spouse” or “that one had a streak of
bad luck and ended up with three really rotten spouses in a row.”
5. Or, as the defensive visitor who was mentioned above believes, “I have
become spiritual and now I see the light; as a result of understanding
non-duality, I have become a far better person than I was before”
and
6. “If you do not think Advaita Vedanta is all about becoming spiritual, then
you do not know what you are talking about.”
Here, it is made clear that along “the path,” “religious and / or spiritual
roles” (or “religious-like or spiritual-like” roles) will be assumed and played
at the third of seven steps.
Typically, heads must enter the clouds in an effort to try to see things noumenal,
in order to break - to some degree at least - the attachment only to things
phenomenal and to be motivated to seek the light.
Yet
the fact remains, one cannot see any more light with his head in the clouds
than a person standing on the ground, gazing skyward on a cloudy day, and also
having the light blocked from view.
The problem with the assumption of those roles is that seekers typically fixate
at that point - at the level that Maharaj called “kindergarten spirituality.”
In describing their circumstance, Krishna was not especially “kind” when discussing the ego / ego-state that is assumed at that level, suggesting that those who do not understand that Reality is beyond both beingness and non-beingness are “fools.”
Thus,
such supposed beingness, including “being spiritual,” is a trap if one does not
eventually “transcend spiritual and / or religious roles” and if one does not
transcend “man-fabricated religious and spiritual knowledge” (which are two
pointers from the book “Freedom From Beliefs” which were also challenged by the
visitor quoted above.)
Maharaj also made clear that those who do not transition their religious and /
or spiritual role-assumption and role-playing are also just fooling themselves
with their prideful but false belief about having realized and are allowing “others”
to fool them as well. As a result, he said, they will never reach the fullness
of the light:
“There are so many who take the dawn for the noon, a momentary experience for
full realization, and destroy even the little they gain by excess of pride.”
Indeed, how foolish one is to believe that he or she is being bathed in the
full light of the noontime sun though actually standing in the dimness of dawn.
And how foolish one is to believe that she or he can “become something different” from that which they truly are, were, and shall forever be. More on that later.
That which believes it can “become” something else, can become “better” (or “worse”), or can become “spiritual” is an ego-state (a false role, a bogus identity, an assumed personality / persona).
When the consciousness (as a result of programming, conditioning, domestication, acculturation, brainwashing and indoctrination) is blocked from seeing truth and Reality, then the counterfeit body-mind-personality triad is believed to be real and can thereafter generate a near-infinite number of beliefs that are taken to be true but that are not.
In
fact, the only “triad” that non-duality recognizes as being presently based in
fact is the air-elements-energy triad, and even that triad forms what is nothing
more than a temporary grouping; therefore, the air-elements-energy triad is not
that which is uniquely Real either.
If it is understand that the triad is merely a “composite unity” that is
temporary, then it should become clear that the oxygen being circulated through
a space or from cannot become something other than oxygen;
and if it is understood that the elements forming the temporary space cannot become something other than elements; and if it is understood that the energy manifested in that space (specifically, the conscious-energy) cannot become something other than the type of energy that it is; and if all of that is understood,
then
it
can also be understood that neither air nor elements nor energy can “become
spiritual,” can “become better,” can “become worse,” or can become anything
that is different from what they already are.
In fact, the entire notion of “becoming” - the very belief that one can “become”
something else - is just one more belief that is based in learned ignorance and
- often - in the egotism that always manifests alongside the assumption of an
ego-state.
Thus
it can be asked: can H2O “become” a cube or a lake or a river or a waterfall or
vapor or ice or snow or sleet or steam or a puddle or a stream, or are those
also nothing more than “man-fabricated concepts” which erroneously suggest that
an “A” can become a “B” or which suggest that something can become something
else that is totally different from what it really is?
That which is real is unchangeable, fixed, constant, consistent, unalterable,
immutable, and absolute. That which believes it is changeable, variable, and
alterable is the blocked consciousness, blocked from seeing facts and Reality
and Truth, blocked by the accumulated and bogus contents of a “mind” which
leads persons to assume that they are that which they are not.
That which believes it can change or grow or develop into something that is different from what it actually already is is a speck of consciousness that has been fooled. That which believes it can become enhanced or improved or made better or made worse or ungraded or downgraded is a speck of conscious-energy that has been fooled.
And
all such beliefs are rooted in the duality of either (1) an egotism-based
notion of being “very good” or even “great” or (2) a guilt-and-shame-based
notion of being “bad” or “unworthy.”
Either way, all such notions and beliefs are outgrowths of a fiction-filled “mind”
that is plagued with psychological distortions which were set in place by
faulty programming, warped conditioning, perverted domestication, arrogance-based
acculturation, judgment-endorsing brainwashing, and combat-endorsing indoctrination.
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.
