“WHAT IS THE ONE POINTER THAT MAHARAJ OFFERED WHICH HAS HAD THE GREATEST IMPACT ON YOUR ‘JOURNEY’?”

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“WHAT IS THE ONE POINTER THAT MAHARAJ OFFERED WHICH HAS HAD THE GREATEST IMPACT ON YOUR ‘JOURNEY’?”

 I was once asked by a man participating in a non-dual “retreat” being offered in my home, “What is the one pointer that Maharaj offered which has had the greatest impact on your “journey? Can you even say?”

I replied, “Yes, I can say, and it’s a pointer which he offered in three different ways, advising:

“Give up spirituality”

and

“follow your normal inclinations”

and

“forget spirituality.”

It was while stuck at the third step (where religious and / or spiritual ego-states are assumed) that I came across those pointers.

They provided the ability to move beyond the third step, beyond role playing, beyond assuming that I was a spiritual giant and when I was going and doing and zooming in my efforts to reinforce my phony spiritual giant image.

Those pointers came when I was sick and tired from having taken on a second job of working to become more and more religious / spiritual and had eventually made those my primary job in life.

It was at that point when I was “given permission” to shift to the fourth step and become freed from those last remaining false identities and relax and take it easy and to be done with it all, once and for all.

Shortly after, I realized that Maharaj had shifted his version of the Ultimate Medicine from a religious non-dual version of the Medicine and then beyond a spiritual non-dual version of the Medicine and began offering a psychological non-dual version of the Medicine, making clear that humankind’s problem centers in the mind and in the belief systems stored therein;

and then understanding that I did not need to spend even a second more trying to find some noumenal, lofty, superior, exalted, noble, FooFoo Land identity / Identity; and that - as Maharaj said - it is enough to only find “who / what you are not.”

Done! I finished! Or as the Italians say, Ho finito! Bring on the taste not of what the Italians call il dolce di fare niente - “the sweetness of doing nothing” - but instead bring on something even simpler than “the sweetness of doing nothing,” namely, il dolce di Niente - “the sweetness of Nothing,” period.

The most significant understanding which came after decades of seeking and then ended all seeking is shown in this illustration I contrived:

As noted yesterday, the grammatical construct of the summative statement of non-duality makes clear that the I AM THAT part is not greater than the I AM - the AM-ness - part. (In fact, it is far less relevant since the post-mahasamdhi will have no one to experience or understand anything).

Thus, Maharaj’s advise to forget about THAT and focus on finding out “who / what you are not” during this relative existence, now.

If you are seeking a way to find out how to make your relative existence simpler and therefore more peaceful and less stressful, less complicated, less burdensome, less laborious, less problematic, and less demanding, then understand the non-duality message in the scales illustration above and in these three pointers:

“Give up spirituality”

and

“follow your normal inclinations”

and

“forget spirituality.”

To continue:

Yesterday’s post ended with this consideration:

Furthermore, to invite one who believes in a personal self and in a personal god to consider the possibility that their beliefs are pure fiction will usually only reinforce, not diminish, their attachment to their beliefs.

The very invitation itself - to consider a different possibility - will usually inspire persons to “dig in their heels” and stubbornly defend what they mistakenly take to be “their” beliefs (which, as noted, are really the beliefs of other persons that have merely been passed along to them . . . and passed along for generations).

Once the programming has extended beyond the age of 6 or 7 or 8, beliefs will be taken by persons to be a part of what defines them . . . that help to identify “who they are” as much as the labels that they have been assigned or that they have adopted on their own. They will cling forever to their conceptual lies, and only a small fraction will ever be free of the hold of beliefs (and thereafter realize fully).

So blind have non-realized persons been rendered by way of programming, conditioning, domestication, acculturation, brainwashing and indoctrination that even the intelligent among them cannot begin to fathom the veracity of the facts that contradict their beliefs, even when they hear them stated most clearly.

Should they happen to hear the consciousness speak to say, “Every belief you have is a lie,” most persons will close themselves off from the voice of pure consciousness and cling to the blockages that prevent the hearing and acceptance of facts.

They will refuse to so much as consider the possibility offered by the consciousness when it says, “In fact, you have no beliefs. What presently fills ‘your mind’ are ‘their’ beliefs, not ‘your beliefs,’ yet you have adopted them with such conviction and pride that you behave as if those ideas were original to you.”

Again, to tell one believing in a “personal self” that there is no such thing is to only reinforce their belief in a personal self. To tell one believing in a “personal god” that there is no such thing is to only reinforce their belief in a personal god and will incite them to enter into defensive - and often offensive - modes.

Offensive modes by those who believe in a “personal god” or “gods and goddesses?” Yes, absolutely and most assuredly. For 5000 years, Jews have been killing non-Jews and non-Jews have been killing Jews; for 2000 years, Christians have been killing Jews, Jews have been killing Christians, and Christians have been killing other Christians that belong to different denominations or religions;

For 1300 years, Muslims have been killing Jews and Christians, Christians and Jews have been killing Muslims, and Muslims have been killing Muslims that belong to different sects.

Now, not a day passes without a report of how many Muslims killed other Muslims of a different sect, how many Christian soldiers killed how many Muslims, how many Muslims blew up how many Christians, how many Muslims were killed by Jews, and how many Jews were killed by Muslims, ad infinitum.

With religions being the number one source and distributor of duality-based beliefs / lies, and with the murderous intentions of the religious being to wipe out each other, they are actually doing more to stamp out dualistic beliefs than all of the non-dual guides that have ever been, are, or shall be, combined.

The evidence of the results of their beliefs could not be clearer, but rather than saying, “Hey, maybe it’s not that ‘they’ are wrong . . . maybe the fact is that we are all in error,” instead, lines are drawn and opposite sides are taken as persons align against other persons once their beliefs generate a false sense of separation and a false belief in “our rightness vs. their wrongness”;

after their beliefs foster erroneous, dualistic conclusions about “right beliefs vs. wrong beliefs”; and after their beliefs drive them to defend “the proper dogma supported by my god vs. the ‘improper’ dogma supported by their god.” 

The same roots - erroneous beliefs - are the basis of every fight, including those in “relationships,” between cities, between states, between nations, etc.

To be continued.

Please enter into the silence of contemplation.

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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.

THE EXPLANATION

If looked at as nouns, they point to illusions and are, therefore, a total waste of time to even discuss; if looked at as verbs which are resulting in certain sane but rare behaviors among humanity, then they are worthy of some attention during the relative existence.

Meaning? There are members of certain groups who say things such as "My concept of god in the past was of a weak god, an absentee god, A Santa Claus-type god, a mean, punishing, vindictive god, etc. Today, I am in close contact with a loving and caring god whom I worship and praise and glorify and give thanks to."

The reply to that usually goes like this: "If you are in contact with a god that wants to be worshipped and praised and glorified, then you're dealing with someone like yourself - a narcissist - and hanging out with narcissists will never bring an end to your narcissism (that narcissism evidenced by the fact that you think you are "godly").

Next, in the phrase 'loving and caring god,' any supposed god that truly had her or his act together would tell you that the totally irrelevant part of that phrase is 'god' and that the only part that is relevant is the "loving and caring" part.

"That is, a non-narcissistic their god / their goddess would say, "I care not an iota about being worshipped and praised and glorified by you or anyone else. How arrogant and insecure and needy would I have to be to want that? Forget the man-made, dreamed up noun 'god' and focus on the 'god as a verb' understanding and then go forth and let loving and caring be verbs - not adjectives - and let them generate the act of love and the act of caring and let those actions manifest through you." 

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"

--Yeshu'a (Jesus)

and 

"Heaven and earth shall fade away."

--Yeshu'a (Jesus)

and 

"Heaven and hell are not geographic places

but are states of mind, nothing more than

concepts dreamed up by men."

--Pope John Paul II 

"There is no hell."

--Pope Francis, the current pope

in an interview with journalist Eugenio Scalfari,

a writer used by the Pope to issue off the record

teachings which become a part of the Papal Magisterium.

[That said, would that the popes who have shown the courage to reject a core concept of their dogma - namely, "hell" - would find the additional courage required to question the very existence of their institution in light of the centuries-long cover-up of their history of raping children and in light of the mental and emotional and psychological scarring of billions of their members past and present.

And that need for courage also applies as questions need to be asked about why so many other sky cults are still being supported and allowed to continue to exist as well. When certain types of programming and conditioning have been shown to blind the masses, they should end. Will they? Not likely. Why?

Because what the masses think and say and do is most influenced by the international crime families which hold sway over the masses as criminals conduct their planet-wide operations. What are the major international crime families and which are the most influential and have the largest memberships?

The Mafia / La Cosa Nostra; the Catholic Church (with it 1.2 billion followers) whose Vatican Bank worked for decades with the Mafia while laundering mob earnings (for a 15% all-profit charge by the Bank); Protestant and Evangelical Churches (with over 1.2 billion followers) like the one I was raised in where the youth director molested and sexually assaulted young girls; big business which has long created environments in which people have been abused; powerful political bodies like the U.S. Congress, etc., etc., etc.)

With all of those crime families, neither the followers nor the leadership ever voluntarily step down or shut down their criminal activities. Be they gangs, organized crime families, religions, big business, politicians, etc., they all want control and they all want power and they all want money, and nothing internal will interfere with the driving forces at play.

The masses must demand that all those in charge must step down and their groups and institutions must shut down, and there's the real problem because the continuation of their crimes are enabled not as much by the people running such crime organizations as they are enabled by the masses of people who - wanting some perceived "payoff" - remain involved with them and give them money and support them and aid and abet the continued existence of those criminal enterprises and thus facilitate the ability of church criminals and political criminals and other types of criminals to continue to commit their crimes.] 

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