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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
A. ORIGINALLY SANE
B. GOING CRAZY
C. GOING . . . GOING . . .
D. GONE
Transitioning Body
Identification
Years ago, the daughter called “Ashley” saw this body as it helped her relocate to Houston after being transferred from her employer’s Austin office.
That night she saw this body
again when she invited it to a Houston restaurant for a meal. Yet the body she
saw that night was not the same body she saw a month ago. In the previous 28 days,
the skin cells covering the body had all cycled in and cycled out. The stomach
lining had been replaced in a matter of days.
Some of the elements which had come together a month before (after plant cells
were consumed and after they had converted into other types of “human” cells -
including skin cells) had already come apart in the intervening month. The body
that was seen at dinner was not the same body that was seen a month ago.
So much for the rumors
regarding continuity of the body-mind-personality triad, rumors that have been
spread around the globe for thousands of years from pulpits and lecterns or
from special rugs or from “holy” platforms or from bimahs and bemas and
minbars.
The triad focused on here is the triad of “the composite unity,” which refers
to an elemental, plant food body + the air / breath that cycles throughout
that space + the temporarily-manifested conscious-energy / consciousness.
There is no continuity to the
form resulting from temporarily-combined elements, as shown in the discussion
of skin cells; there is obviously no continuity of the air within the body,
different quantities of oxygen coming and going; and there is not even any
continuity of the specks of conscious-energy that also come and go. All is
cycling.
(If only one quantity of conscious-energy were to have manifested in this body-cum-consciousness and then remained
in the body ever after, then there would have been no need to eat each day in
order to replenish that coming and going supply of conscious-energy.)
To understand that plant food cells transform into a variety of different types
of cells in a human form is to be able to understand that there is no human
birth and to understand that
a. via the consumption of plants or
b. the consumption of something that ate plants, then
c. cells merely transformed and then cycled and, via an act of friction, were
d. transferred from a male body to a female body and that alone
e. made it possible for an impregnation to happen.
After that, the mother continued to eat food and cells continued to transform
and a body formed within a body, spontaneously. Nine months later, cycled cells
that had come together appeared in a new combination as the
body-within-the-body emerged. But nothing was created.
What already existed merely cycled; thus, there was no birth. Furthermore, if there was nothing born, then there is nothing that can die, and additionally, if there was nothing that was born, there is nothing that can be re-born. Not even once, much less time after time.
Science has proved that - in the
broadest terms - there is energy and there is matter and neither energy nor
matter can be created nor destroyed; hence, there are no creators and there is
no Creator or Creator-God and there is no Destroyer-God.
If nothing was created, then there was no Creator involved with the spontaneous
process of cycling. If there was nothing created, and hence no “Creator,” then
there is also no Creator that decides it is “your time to die” or decides that “your
time is up” or decides that “a child had to die because I needed another sweet
angel in heaven” or to decide to send you (or your imaginary soul) to heaven or hell for all eternity.
That’s all BS and nothing
more. And if there was no third-party Creator involved in the cycling, then
there were no parents-as-creators, either.
Parents can be as proud of the product of the earth and the product of their
loins as they want, but the humbling reality is that they “created” nothing. They
were merely vessels used to recycle all that is involved with elements coming
together temporarily.
One male and one female only
did two things: (1) they ate food and (2) they shared a sex act which ended
with at least one of them having enjoyed an orgasm.
That should end any notions about “creation”; that should end the belief that
something noble happened when only eating and fornicating were involved; and
that should bring to an end any belief in “The Parenthood Myth” as well.
When Maharaj was asked to explain this, he held up his cigarette lighter,
another “elemental thing” that circulated oxygen. He asked, “Can this die?”
Neither the cigarette lighter nor a person can die. A “person” is merely an
assumed identity, dreamed up by cultures and stored in the fiction-filled “mind”
as a real identity.
Next, Maharaj explained the cycling of the three components of “the composite
unity” thusly:
“If you make a flame, it is full of life and fire. When the vital breath quits
the body, this quality of ‘I-am-ness’ also disappears.
“That is where the air becomes manifest, it merges with the universal air. The ‘I-am-ness,’
this consciousness, also merges with the universal consciousness. In that
state, there is no knowingness and the body becomes one with the five elements.
Where is the death? When the flame is extinguished, would you call it ‘death’?”
When elements come together, nothing is being “created.” Yes, a different form
might appear temporarily, but the elements have existed forever. New elements
are not created with a pregnancy. The same, always-existing elements merely
combined temporarily in a different formation or arrangement.
Thus, billions will continue to be amazed and proud that they “made a baby”
when in fact nothing happened except this: some elements simply came together.
Billions will also continue to be amazed when elemental things put together by humans do not stay together. So it is in the realm of ignorant programming, ignorant conditioning, ignorant domesticating, and ignorant acculturating and ignorance brainwashing and ignorant indoctrination.
One of the first things that a child who is a few years past its manifestation is going to hear is . . . a lie: “There is a Santa Claus / Sinterklass / Der Weihnachtsmann / Heilige Nikolaus / Christkind / Père Noël / Dedt Moroz / Noel Baba / Father Christmas Babbo Natale and La Befana / Święty Mikołaj / サンタさん or Santa-san / Kriss Kringle / Shaka Santa etc., etc., etc.”
Moreover, most of what it will hear for the remainder of the manifestation will be a lie.
Maharaj: “After the information given to you by the mother, that you are a boy or girl, all your further acquisitions are by hearsay.”
It is not insane for a child to hear a lie and believe it. It is insane when an adult has been robbed of its ability to differentiate the true from the false.
Maharaj: “Be alert. Question, observe, investigate . . . .”
and
“When a number of people are asleep, each dreams his own dream. Only on awakening the question of many different dreams arises and dissolves when they are all seen as dreams, as something imagined”
and
Maharaj: “When you are concerned with truth, with reality, you must question everything, your very life.”
For those with even the slightest understanding of the science that Maharaj recommended that seekers should understand, there can be no misunderstandings, no surprises, and no notions about how some “Power” or “The Universe” works in mysterious ways.
There will be an understanding of the functioning of the totality, and then all will merely be witnessed as it happens, and witnessed accurately; then, there can be an end to sleepwalking and sleep-talking, and there can be an end to accepting as truth - with unquestioning faith - the false tales that are told by others.
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.
