FREEDOM FROM SHIFTING BETWEEN STATES OF HAPPINESS AND UNHAPPINESS

 

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FREEDOM FROM SHIFTING BETWEEN STATES OF HAPPINESS AND UNHAPPINESS

“A dual-minded person is unstable in all ways.”

-Yeshu’a

“Self-identification with the body-mind is the poison that brings bondage.”

--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“The dissolution of personality is followed always by a sense of great relief, as if a heavy burden has fallen off.”

--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Realization is but the opposite of ignorance.”

--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Addressing “The Big Four”: The Sources of Instability and Being Unstable Mentally

(Continued)

Another visitor asked, “Why should anyone accuse religion of spreading duality?”

[The reply]: That inquiry about duality and religion will be addressed since duality is also at the heart of the shifts and instability witnessed among the non-realized: happy vs. unhappy; OK vs. not OK; orderly vs. chaotic, etc.

(Note the way that all dualities foster a sense of separation and arrogance. The first of any binary pair is given preferred status by the non-realized: “us vs. them”; “Christian vs. Jew”; “American vs. others.” Even if ego-generating nonsense such as public declarations like “We are the greatest nation on earth” were not verbalized, believing that the message implied by any dualistic pair is true will automatically foster a “better-than” and “different-from” mindset.)

But to explicate the role that religions play (and have always played) in dreaming up dualities and then supporting them is not “blaming religion” as you have charged. It is explaining. Duality has become big business across the globe nowadays, so trace its history from “then” to “now” to see the role that religion has played:

The earliest persons living in darkness and in ignorance (joined by the earliest self-appointed priest, medicine man, or shaman) were the manufacturers of dualistic, supernatural explanations for naturally-occurring happenings.

From the past to the present, non-realized persons believe duality-based statements if delivered by a supposedly “holy person,” statements such as “An angry God - vs. a happy God destroyed those people and their homes” or “Their bad karma vs. the presence of good karma - caused Hurricane Katrina to devastate New Orleans, Louisiana,” etc.)

Organized religion evolved and became the guardian of duality (teaching binary concepts such as good-bad, right-wrong, heaven-hell, punishment-reward, us-them, ad infinitum).

Today, the continuum of duality - and thus ignorance - flows thusly:

Churches and temples and mosques and synagogues are now the distribution centers of duality.

Those who are sleepwalking onthe planet, believing with “faith” whatever they hear without any sane or sound inquiry, are the buyers of duality.

And now, governments and businesses and religions and many philosophies are the users of duality, using dualistic proclamations in order to control and manipulate the programmed masses to do whatever non-realized leaders want.

Next, note that here, the third step from identification with the false “I” to abidance as the Absolute is the religious or spiritual step. There is no claim here that religious or spiritual “works” or involvement must be avoided (though that would shorten the “path”) but the step usually happens; however, it must also be transitioned if full realization is to happen.

From another visitor: “But doesn’t ‘abidance as the Absolute’ prevent feeling?”

F.: That question has been addressed thoroughly in the writings over the years as the difference in emotions and feelings has been defined and clarified. The short version is as follows in regards to the “witnessing of feelings” vs. the “experiencing of emotions”:

It is only the latter (emotions) - generated by the assumption of ego-states as identities - which will lead to emotional intoxication and “actions” and “reactions” and misperceptions of shifting between the perceived duality of “happy vs. sad.” Feelings, by contrast, can happen; however, the realized merely witness them as they rise and as they fall. The do not shift the realized from an uninterrupted state of happiness into either a momentary or extended lapse into unhappiness.

That said, never has any realized teacher suggested that feelings must be repressed if AS IF living is to happen. If tears flow, they flow. If laughter happens, it happens.

If seemingly incredible pleasure happens, it happens. Understanding I AM THAT does bring the I AM-ness to an immediate end. The understanding can, however, bring stability.

What does not continue post-realization is the emotional intoxication which is generated by deception-based memories.

It is realization which results in freedom from instability when the dualistic roots of emotional reactions are seen, when the belief in illusions can be discarded, and when events inspired by delusions and emotional intoxication are transitioned with the abandonment of false identities that think they have been interfered with or hurt or threatened or harmed.

Since ego-states are not real, they will always generate a sense of insecurity in the “mind” that is assuming one or more roles as true identities. Persons are driven to think thoughts, say words, and take actions that preserve their images;

however, those images and false identities have no more substance or life-expectancy than any mirage that has ever appeared temporarily in a desert. Misery will accompany the belief in such illusions, and any sense of peace will be destroyed if an ego-state is assumed or if a former ego-state is recalled from “memory.”

Thus, the peace that happened for a period as described by Louise will always be interrupted when the “mind” remembers some “past” ego-state that no longer exists or some “current” ego-state that is not receiving what it thinks it needs or desires at the moment.

The “husband” that has “lost his wife” might be miserable during this “season,” but if that event had been preceded by the understanding that “I am not ‘husband,’ but husbanding can happen . . . or not,” then the current misery would not have manifested (and would not continue to manifest).

Full realization can result in an end to misery-producing co-dependencies and can provide a means by which persons can be free of the instability generated by self-deceiving memories and by belief in dualistic falsehoods.

Maharaj: “Realization is but the opposite of ignorance.”

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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