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2. 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. See the green text after today's post for the full meaning and implications of that.
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IN TERMS OF “REALIZATION” AS A NON-DUAL PROCESS, THE MATH AIN’T MATHING
“The math ain’t mathing.”
Taraji P. Henson
“You do not need to allow yourself to be taught more; you do not need to work more and more in order to learn more and more; you do not need to add to the body of nonsense and BS which ‘they’ passed on to you via conditioning and programming. You need less of everything, not more of anything. What you need to do is subtract, not add. You need to un-learn; you need to be un-taught.”
--floyd
Ruby Bridges: “Racism is a grown-up disease. Let’s stop using our kids to spread it.”
Floyd: “The same applies to all that grown-ups add
in to make up the minds of kids, including hate, racism, xenophobia, white
supremacy, Christian nationalism, beliefs about ‘different from’ and therefore
‘better-than,’ and (per Maharaj) ‘ignorance, stupidity, and insanity’.”
“Go
forth, unburdened with ideas and beliefs.”
--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
. . . “Go home, take charge of your father’s business, look after your parents in their old age. Marry the girl who is waiting for you; be loyal, be simple, be humble. Hide your virtue, live silently.”
--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
“ . . . Question wisely. You will find you know nothing for sure - you trust on hearsay.”
--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
“A little learning can be a dangerous thing.”
--Alexander Pope
“Anything short of total un-learning is a far-more-dangerous thing, relatively speaking.”
--floyd
“For the supposedly realized to deny the AM-ness is just as delusional as it is for the non-realized to identify solely with the Am-ness.”
--floyd
All deeds are directly preceded by words, and all words are preceded by thoughts. Is it any wonder that Maharaj cautioned against the careless use of language? Yet do not conclude that 50% of all actions result from thoughts and 50% from words.
Nonsensical
talk could not happen were it not for the nonsense stored in “the mind,” nonsense
which is constantly being cycled and recycled among the non-realized in the
form of warped thought after warped thought after warped thought.
Additionally, there is no need to cut off the tongue and lips and discard them
in order to put an end to the nonsense being verbalized millions of times per
day across the planet.
The requirement is to cut out the nonsensical thinking
by discarding the contents of “the mind.” When nonsense is eliminated at the
source (called “the mind”) then it cannot manifest via the mouth.
If there is no constant running of the mind, then there can be no constant
running of the mouth. Is it becoming clear why the realized spend so much time
in the silence? Is it clear that those who have to talk the most are the most
removed from Reality?
Is it clear why the truth can be known but cannot be
spoken? Is it clear, therefore, why most of what is spoken is to be ignored
because it is false?
For nonsensical words and deeds to end, persons must be rid of their belief in
the concepts and ideas that generate the thinking which leads to nonsensical
talking and nonsensical behaviors.
Yet in cultures where “freedom of speech” is
endorsed over freedom of silence - such as in most Aryan, Anglo-Saxon
cultures - then talking flourishes, talk radio flourishes, talk shows on
television flourish. And they all add to the already-widespread dissemination
of nonsense across the globe.
There is a “Vocabulary of Realization.” It is a vocabulary that is based in an
understanding of the Oneness, the unicity - the actual unity beyond the seeming
multiplicity - and Real Love.
It is a vocabulary which contains nothing intended to make anyone feel miserable but is, instead, a vocabulary that can lead to the end of suffering.
The non-dual message has become so distorted over the years that now there is as much misunderstanding around (a) realization and what a sane and sound post-realization existence looks like as there is around (b) what is taken to be real prior to realization.
Once
the results of the thought-word-deed continuum are seen clearly, then the need
to reach a no-mind-no-thought state becomes clear; and once the relative impact
of the use of (1) vile words vs. (2) post-realization words pointing toward
Love and the Oneness is understood, then the relative significance of words is
understood as well.
Again, realization for the sake of realization - or for the sake of bragging
about “being realized” or “better” or “Supreme” or “special” - is useless. If
the understandings that come via realization are not overlaid on the relative
existence (that is, if the understandings are not “applied,” even as there is
no belief in an “applier”)
and
if a natural and spontaneous manner of abiding does not end all unnatural
living and all efforts to live supernaturally and magically, then realization
has not happened and all efforts to that point has been a waste of time and
energy.
Thus the pointers earlier regarding words. If full realization has happened,
then the answer to, “So why do words matter?” is clear:
Words
that do not deal with Peace and Love and the Oneness indicate that thoughts are
present, and the presence of thoughts are a deeper problem, relatively
speaking, indicating the presence of a “mind” and mind-supported personas which
generate thoughts and which eliminate any possibility of knowing the peace of “Presence
Only.”
To hear words from a person (as opposed to when the consciousness speaks) is to
know that thoughts were present first, and thoughts only originate from
ego-states which are supported by the falsehood-filled “mind.”
When
the consciousness speaks, it speaks words of Love - words revealing an
understanding of Real Love, of the Oneness - never words of hate or words that reveal
a sense of separation or belief in subjects and objects.
Words that express anything else indicate that Love is not understood, indicate
that the Oneness is not understood, and indicate that a mind is supporting the
lies that some thought-generating, words-generating, egotism-supported persona
is inspiring.
So why do words matter? Why does an x-ray revealing the presence of lung cancer matter? Why does blood in the urine matter? Why does a pain in the chest matter?
As far as the Absolute is concerned, none of those matter at
at all. But does the summative statement “I AM THAT; I AM” suggest that the
AM-ness - and the relative things that happen during the AM-ness - should be
ignored? Quite to the contrary.
The fact is that those signs mentioned above reveal that a relative problem
exists, within. The same applies when vile and mean and peace-breaking words
are spoken. They reveal a relative problem, within, and if the relative
problems within need not be addressed, then the sharing of non-dual pointers might
as well cease immediately.
As long as the AM-ness is on-going, all of that matters, relatively speaking.
The x-ray and blood and pain referenced above reveal sickness - reveal an
internal cancer or growth or organ malfunction - and all of those are calling out
for treatment.
The evidence is showing that, relatively speaking, there are
some things inside that need to be excised or addressed.
Words which reveal the presence of anything other than True Love and an
understanding of the Oneness are also indicators of sickness within . . . of
the Ultimate Sickness within. They are calling out for the Ultimate Medicine,
though the infirmed seldom realize that they are infirmed.
Thus, the number of persons that will ever complete the entire “path,” realize fully, overlay Reality on the relative, and abide in a sane and sound and logical and Loving and Caring fashion is an infinitesimal number. So it is, but so it need not be.
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
[NOTE: A Ruby Bridges quote was added above today. Some might not know her name but many remember her from Norman Rockwell’s painting (entitled “The Problem We All Live With”).
That day she became the first black child to enroll in a previously whites only Louisiana school. On that same day the parents of 500 white students gathered outside screaming obscenities at Ruby and throwing objects at her.
(By 1970, Louisiana was still refusing to integrate its schools in violation of federal law. In January of 1970, a new effort was made to force compliance and Louisiana history was repeated: the high school in that state where I was employed was integrated on the first day of the second semester.
When the bell rang to mark the beginning of the school day, I watched as every white student in my class stood and walked out. Most joined their parents waiting outside to stage a protest parade through the streets of the subdivision where the school was located.
Several passed by my desk on their way out and said, “Sorry. This is not about you.” I replied, “Indeed, it is not.”)
In Ruby’s case, the protesting parents outside the school then followed her inside and all 500 white students were withdrawn; also, the entire faculty of white teachers refused to teach as long as Ruby was enrolled.
Barbara Henry from Boston, Massachusetts (a racist stronghold then and now) volunteered to teach Ruby. Ruby would be the only student in the classroom.
One white woman threatened to poison Ruby and another showed her a black baby doll in a coffin. Ruby was only allowed to eat food brought from her home.
During a period in the presidency of Barack Obama, “The Problem We All Live With” was on display in the White House and Obama arranged for her to visit him to view the painting on display there. He told her during that visit that if it were not for her, he might not have be standing there in the White House.
Today, Ruby is an American civil rights activist whose message is the essence of non-duality. The painting is on display in the Norman Rockwell Museum. Her book Dear Ruby, Hear Our Hearts can be purchased through most booksellers with the proceeds going to her foundation which is spreading the non-dual message.]
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"No one shall ever see 'the kingdom of heaven.' It is within"
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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.
