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BEING
MADE CRAZY, CRAZY, STAYING CRAZY or AWARE OF CRAZINESS AND SEEKING SANITY
“Insanity is universal. Sanity is rare. Yet there is hope because the moment we perceive our insanity, we are on the way to sanity.”
--Sri
Nisargadatta Maharaj
“This is the function of the Guru - to make us see the madness of our daily living.”
--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
“Be empty of all mental content, of all imagination and effort, and the very absence of obstacles will cause reality [and Reality] to rush in.”
--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
ORIGINALLY SANE
(Continued)
A contented child can enjoy a natural scene outside a window and can just . . . be. It need not do anything in order to try to feel better. It need not hum, pray, chant, knell, genuflect, nor “contribute”; nor does it need to meditate, power nap, burn this, nor smell that - all of which will preempt any chance at all of abiding in a nisarga (natural) fashion.
A
child in such a pre-programming, pre-conditioning, pre-acculturation,
pre-domestication, pre-brainwashing, pre-indoctrination condition needs only
the simple movement of the breath. The contented child which is still “in an ignorance state” need not
seek knowledge in order to make a “better” life.
It needs nothing more because it can merely witness as a result of having no
concepts, no “mind,” no assumed identities, and no perceived needs (which are
always based in the ego-states of persons in the child’s culture).
Because the child in ignorance or in a no-knowledge state will have no concepts and no “mind,” it cannot be “driven out of its mind” by persons.
That debilitating action only
begins to happen when adults decide that the child must leave the child
no-knowing stage and must start learning and knowing “right from wrong” and “good
from bad” and the plethora of other dualistic concepts that will be taught.
It will leave behind the contentment of the child ignorance stage when adults
decide that punishments and rewards must be used to condition the child to
behave as adults want the child to behave.
Expectations will be defined,
demands will be made, and then the child living with the restrictions of that
newly-gained knowledge will know tremendous frustration.
The ability to witness impartially will be lost, dualistic concepts will be
learned, the dual-minded child (and later that adult) will be unstable in all
ways, and the peace that comes from existing in a concept-free manner will end.
The “journey”
to realization is conducted by following in reverse order the route that
resulted in the shifting of the consciousness from its pure, Absolute nature to
its contaminated or blocked-off state. To shift beyond
(a) the duality of body identification, mind identification, and religious and
/ or spiritual role identification and
(b) into the witness state
requires a movement into the child ignorance stage, into the child no-knowing
stage. One who is not free of all concepts is not free at all, and one who is
not free at all can - obviously - never know the joy of independence.
Such independence and joy can only manifest when the effects of programming, conditioning, acculturation, domestication, indoctrination and brainwashing have been eliminated.
If those effects are not eliminated? One joins the 99% of the masses who are infected with the Ultimate Sickness and who are carriers of a host of Penultimate Sicknesses, spreading chaos-and-instability generating “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity” (per Maharaj);
spreading falsehoods, distortions and delusions; spreading neuroses and psychoses; spreading arguing and fighting; spreading wars; spreading famine; ad infinitum.
“Defining Insanity”
“Insanity” is defined as “extreme foolishness and / or irrationality; a state of serious mental illness; or, a state of total madness.” At best, passing on nonsense is foolish, the mildest form of insanity according to the definition. Yet even more severe cases of insanity can be addressed by the teachings offered here.
Then consider another definition of insanity: “the inability to tell the true from the false,” that is, the inability to differentiate between the true and the false.
[NOTE: Some people intentionally lie. That does not mean they are insane. Some people pass on the lies that they were told without ever checking to see if what they were told - and what they are telling - is true or false. That form of prevarication might evidence ignorance more than insanity, except when what persons are passing on is totally nonsensical.]
Finally, it is insane to allow proven liars and myth tellers to determine your beliefs. If fact checkers confirmed that a politician who held a political office for four years told 30573 lies, why would humans believe him when he tells a 30574th lie? Only because his lies reinforce those humans’ false beliefs.
And why would persons believe a mate or lover of suitor who says, “I vow that we will be a family forever” or “I could never get bored when I’m with you” or “Together we will always have trust because our promises of honesty and love will be our strength” or “I’ll stand by you forever” or “I’ll always be there for you”?
Because they (a) want to believe those promises or (b) they are naïve and have no ability to see the red flags which their family members and friends have pointed out to them or (c) because their religion has people being married to state vows which talk about “holding from this day forward ‘till death do us part.”
Long-term visitors to this site are aware that the Second Law of Thermodynamics is often referenced. In the simplest terms, that law states that all which comes together will come apart. That applies to elemental bodies, houses, bridges, buildings, “relationships,” political systems, religions and their gods / goddesses, etc.
RELIGION AND THE SECOND LAW
If you say, “I don’t believe your God exists,” the members of the three religions founded by Abraham (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) and believing his “only one God idea” will criticize you for being “a headed-to-hell atheist.”
If you say, “I don’t believe Zeus or Jupiter exists,” the members of the three religions founded by Abraham will say, “Spot on. You got that right.”
If a Roman or Greek citizen living during the time of the transition from B.C. to A.D. were to say, “I don’t believe Zeus or Jupiter exists,” then they could be put to death. Nowadays? No problem.
It’s all about timing and whether one is abiding in one of earth’s “Dark Age, anti-woke cycles” or in one of earth’s “Enlightened or woke cycles.”
Estimates are that 500 million to 750 million people presently living on planet earth do not believe in any god. They likely will not be killed, though some of them might be.
Thus, widely-held belief systems also come and go. Old ones might be abandoned. As for present-day ones? Not so much.
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.
