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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
E. GOING SANE
“When someone says to me, ‘So-and-so is driving me crazy’ then I ask, ‘Well, if that is the case, why do you keep giving that person the keys?’”
--floyd
“One catalyst to the current planet-wide spreading of insanity is the normalization of craziness: ‘My fiancé has a standing arrangement with his buddies - every Friday night they go out to all-nude strip clubs. Once we marry, I’m going to put a stop to that’.”
[In non-dual terms, that is called “talking in your sleep” and “displaying one’s ignorance and / or insanity.”]
--floyd
“Love is not blind. It’s color blind. It prevents people from seeing red flags.”
--floyd
“Two Tools That Can Assist with the Restoration to Sanity: ‘The 180-Degree Rule’“
Recall this quote from yesterday: “When someone says to me, ‘So-and-so is driving me crazy’ then I ask, ‘Well, if that is the case, why do you keep giving that person the keys?’”
Actually, with a shift in perspective, persons can realize that no one is presently “driving them crazy.” That was done from early on via the use of insane programming, conditioning, domestication, acculturation, indoctrination and brainwashing.
After having been “driven crazy” by way of the programming, conditioning, etc. which is disseminated by dysfunctional families, by self-serving and arrogant and greedy institutions, and by totally dysfunctional cultures, most will never touch their own insanity
Even though
(A) most can see the insanity of others around them - shouting “Look at that
idiot!” in traffic; complaining about “my stupid, crazy boss” to spouses or
friends or relatives; and complaining to friends and relatives about this
report or that report on television involving locals in the news who are deemed
“crazy” as well as national and international politicians in the news who are
deemed “crazy” -
(B) most persons will never be able to see their own insanity.
That is why here, the approach is to begin by exposing the ignorance and
insanity of one’s programming and conditioning and domestication and
acculturation that is disseminated by dysfunctional families, institutions, and
cultures;
to invite seekers to question all that they have previously accepted
unquestioningly; to invite seekers to see that they are not who or what they
think they are; and to invite them to see that their skills in the areas of
logic and reason and rationality are lacking.
Eventually, if seekers can move beyond pointing out the ignorance and insanity
of “others,” then they might begin to see their own. When that begins to
happen, “The 180-Degree Rule” is offered as a tool that can assist some seekers
in seeing not only how warped the widely-held beliefs and ideas and concepts in
their cultures are but also how equally warped are all of their own bogus
beliefs and ideas and concepts that are stored in their own “minds.”
As with “the journey” that requires seekers to go back, to follow the
distorting “path” in the exact reverse order by which they came to be so far
removed from Self and logic and reason and sanity, so too must seekers back out
of their insanity the same way they were led into that state.
The way “they” lead persons into insanity and then inspire them to stay in
their insane states is to set up the thought-to word-to deed pattern of
functioning in the relative. The example of that pattern which has been offered
in the past deals with the case of several white supremacists in Jasper, Texas
who killed a black man.
The whites first had the thought “I am different from black people and I am
better than black people.” Then they began organizing meetings in Jasper where
whites stood before other whites and used words to express orally their hatred for
blacks.
Thoughts lead to words, and words led to the deed of three men kidnapping the
black man James Byrd, taking him to a remote, country road, placing a chain
around his neck, attaching it to the back of their truck, and pulling him along
the road until he was decapitated.
Thought . . . word . . . deed. That is the current modus operandi of non-realized
humans. They think; then they talk and talk and talk about what they are
thinking and believing, showing off their supposed knowledge; showing how wise
they supposedly are;
showing
how different they think they are from “lesser” people; showing how much better
they supposedly are from others; and pushing their beliefs on others. After
such talking, they eventually act on those words. Their thoughts drive their
words and their words drive their behavior.
And because their thoughts are based in ignorance at best - and insanity at the
extreme - then their words and their behaviors can be nothing other than
ignorant and insane as well. The part of the brain called “the mind,” which
served the species well for thousands of years, has now turned on its hosts and
is devouring them from within.
Where the untapped inner guru could be leading to constructive behavior
(relatively speaking) the tapped “mind” is doing the opposite. The use of “The
180-Degree Rule” has enabled some to reverse out of their illogical and insane
behavior. How?
It is far easier for persons to see their obtuse behaviors than to hear their
own obtuse words when they are being spoken while asleep and while being spewed
forth while under the influence of their desire-and-fear-based personalities.
It is also far easier for persons
to see their deeds, and
to hear their words, and (if looked at objectively)
to see that both are often illogical and / or insane
than it is for persons to see the machinations of their fiction-filled “minds”
and the learned ignorance and illogical beliefs and nonsensical concepts and
distorted ideas that are stored therein.
Too, the ego(s) - the false identities / personalities - stored therein are far
too protective of themselves than to drop their guard and to accept the truth
that would allow belief in those false identities to end and that would free
persons from their proud attachment to their beliefs and that would allow all
of their bogus ideas and concepts to be purged.
But, if persons can use the 180-Degree tool to see that their actions are often
driven by ignorance and insanity - an admission that can come only if the
self-defeating patterns of their behaviors are finally seen objectively - then
those same persons might wake up to what they are saying and stop talking in
their sleep.
Moreover, if they stop talking in their sleep, then they might also eventually
be awake enough to complete an objective, teacher-guided self inventory
(looking at all of the false selves that are stored in the mind and that are
working hand-in-hand with the bogus concepts and ideas and concepts stored in
their “minds” to generate chaos and disharmony);
then they might finally be able to look objectively at the content of the “mind”
and allow a guide to - eventually - lead them away from their attachment to the
content of the “mind” and then finally lead them to the freedom that comes when
no longer abiding under the influence of the lies therein.
To be continued.
Please enter into the silence of contemplation.
A talk and Q&A session on Walter Driscoll's non-dual site provided an opportunity to see some totally artificial ego-states fighting for their (imagined) lives.
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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.
