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TWO
TOOLS THAT CAN BE USED TO END ATTACHMENT TO FALSE BELIEFS
“My time is now. Your time is one hundred years from now.”
--Mark Houston
A man with whom I had a twenty-year companionship and with whom I had a ten-year business relationship before he took mahasamadhi in 2010 once said, “My time is now. Your time is one hundred years from now.”
I replied, “Explain.”
He replied, “Actually, your non-dual message is far more valuable than mine but the millions of people who need to hear my message are more likely to listen to me now whereas the billions who need to hear your message are not going to be capable of hearing you for many years into the future, if then.”
I didn’t disagree. I looked at the history of some of the non-dual guides who tried to share a message that was relevant to all humanity but whose audience was relatively small by comparison.
If they shared a “maverick”-type message, as did Maharaj, they often lost their audience early on. When Maharaj shifted from a Hindu religious / non-dual blend, he lost his local audience. When he shifted from a spirituality / non-dual blend, he lost many from his international audience.
By the time he offered a nearly-exclusive psychological / non-dual blend to address humankind’s real issue (namely, the fiction-and-caca-filled mind) the primary hanger-on’s were those reading I AM THAT (which he had advised seekers to stop reading).
I saw the same happen here. The more I shared the consideration to stop being religiously intoxicated and / or spiritually intoxicated and / or emotionally intoxicated, the more “seekers” headed for the door.
After working with thousands of “seekers,” I realized how attached they were to FooFoo Land language, preferring wordsmiths that use verbal communications which inspire a flight of fancy and temporarily relieve their boredom with their relative existence.
So,
to continue with the previous post which ended with this pointer:
Finally, when people prepare for a
journey, there are certain items that they take along in order to make the trip
somewhat easier. In the next chapter, some of the items that can be used on the
“journey” to becoming free of the effects of believing in false beliefs and
concepts and ideas shall be shared.
I. First, there are some specific tools which you can use which can assist you
in finding many of the commonly-held but false beliefs. Be aware of the phrases
which indicate that a falsehood is about to be stated and it becomes easier to
know when you are about to hear a false belief. In conversation, distorted
concepts and delusional statements and false beliefs are often introduced by
certain phrases:
“What I believe about that is . . . . ”
“I’ll never forget my granddad’s words of advice when he always told us that .
. . .”
“My personal view on the topic is that . . . .”
“My faith alone is all I need to know for a fact that . . . .”
“When we were growing up, my parents always told us . . . .”
“My (preacher / priest / imam / ayatollah / rabbi) has no reason to lie to us,
so when he tells us . . . .”
“I know that if millions and millions of people have believed what I believe,
we can’t all be wrong, so it’s clear to me that . . . .”
“My beliefs are supported by the writings in our holy text which tells us that .
. . .”
“Our political party’s candidate for that office tells it like it is, and he /
she said . . . .”
“No one could have made it any clearer than the spokesperson for that group who
said . . . .”
Why is any statement that follows those introductory words always a distortion,
a false belief, or an outright lie?
a. The words of those with personal agendas are rooted in personality. Personas
are false, so any words inspired by personality are false.
b. People who claim to be sharing “their beliefs” are lying at the outset, for
they have no beliefs of their own. To review: no person today has come up with
any belief. There is no such thing as “your” beliefs. All beliefs have been
adopted from persons who have expressed “their” beliefs which you take to be “your”
beliefs.
And “their” beliefs are not “their” beliefs, either. They are beliefs that were
dreamed up thousands of years ago by ignorant men, that have been handed down
over the years, and that are now accepted as truth by persons today - many of
whom are intelligent but who have been programmed and conditioned to accept as
truth the falsehoods that are being passed on by the masters of deception in
all cultures, namely, “the authority figures.”
If you want to find the major sources of the false beliefs that are to be
rejected, begin by seeing those being spread by authority figures in politics,
in religion, and in business (which were in the past three separate entities
but which have now been morphed into one mega-influential entity around the
globe).
If you really want to ferret out the distortions and misrepresentations and
fabrications and falsifications and totally-bogus beliefs that are having the
most negative impact in the relative existence and that are inspiring fighting
and disharmony - and belief in separation and duality - then look objectively
at the concepts that are being espoused by leaders and followers associated
with those three “-ism’s” / institutions.
So, the first invitation is to be aware and to be alert enough to listen for
those introductory phrases that precede the verbalization of false beliefs.
II. Next, understand that truth / facts can be known but cannot be stated.
Talking is the tool of the ego (of an ego-state or assumed but false identity).
Talking is used to fabricate an image, to display an image, and to try to
sustain an image. Because images are false, then so are any words used to
support them.
To that end, this is offered for consideration: those who have not rejected all
identities - but who have merely assumed new and “improved” and “upgraded”
identifications such as “The Religious One,” “The Spiritual Giant,” “THAT only”
and even “God” - will find such pointers as the ones offered in “II” above or
offered by “the later Maharaj” to be anathema.
Yet those who report “I am now this” or “I now know that I am that” or “I am
(whatever)” are stating something, so it cannot be Truth, and to believe that
false statements are Truth is also insane, along with believing that one is
what one is not;
along with making irrational statements that have no foundation; along with
accepting a claim as fact without ever having questioned the claim; along with
abandoning a phenomenal dream state, only to reside in a supposedly “noumenal”
dream state;
and along with having one’s head in the clouds without having one’s
feet planted firmly on the ground.
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.
What other approaches are used here alongside the dispelling of the myths about
birth and death and casting aside belief in any and all concepts, including “spirituality”
and “this world” and “meaning” and things thought to be “noble”?
What else is used to begin un-doing the confusion, the learned ignorance, the
personality disorders and the various degrees of insanity that are so common
among the masses and that trap then in their belief in - and their
dissemination of - falsehoods? Two additional “ tools”:
III. One is called “The 180-Degree Rule.”
IV. The other is called “Obliterating the Present Thought-Based Mode of Talking
and Becoming Skilled at Using Only The Vocabulary of Restored Sanity / Full
Realization.”
More on those in upcoming posts.
To be continued.
Please enter in to 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.
