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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’.”
--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’”
How humans function (or more accurately, do not function):
THOUGHTS DETERMINE WORDS
WORDS THEN DETERMINE ACTIONS
If
the ignorance and insanity stored in the “mind” is cast aside, then ignorant
and insane thoughts cannot lead to ignorant or insane words; and if ignorant
and insane words are not spoken, then ignorant and insane deeds, obviously,
cannot follow.
The seeker at that point will have used the tool to reverse out the relative
messes that were being generated via the thought-word-deed continuum and can
thereby begin earnestly the “journey” to being fully restored to sanity.
Only when insane thoughts end as a result of a total “mind”-flush can peace
come. (Thus the book, There’s No Such
Thing As “Peace of Mind” (There Is Only Peace if You’re Out of Your Mind).
So, you are invited to consider other examples of the way that the use of “The
180-Degree Rule” can assist in the restoration of sanity if it is applied to
every deed and then eventually to every word - before the word is even spoken -
and eventually to every thought.
Consider more examples, then, of the way that the rule can work to eliminate
the belief in lies:
IDEA: From the stupor of one morning hangover after another, the brain can
inspire the mouth to say, “I’ll never do that again!” Wise counsel from the
brain indeed.
But by 5 P.M., the “mind” says, “Well, you could have just have one drink. You
know you need it before you go home and face what’s waiting there.” Overriding
the constructive messages from the brain, the “mind” is hell-bent on destroying
the self.
180-DEGREES OPPOSITE: “For me to say time and again that I will never do
anything again, only to do it again and again and again, is insane. Obviously,
some other action is going to be required if I am to address this relative
existence problem.”
BELIEF [Recall this from an earlier discussion]: A woman tolerating a husband
who characterizes his blows against her body as “mere love taps” believes that
she is the one who causes him to lash out at her, expressing the distorted view
that “if he didn’t truly care, he couldn’t get so emotional, so that shows that
he really does love me.”
180-DEGREES OPPOSITE: Anyone striking anyone else is never evidence that an
abuser “truly cares.” Quite to the contrary, it shows that the abuser does not
care. The fact that he becomes so emotional does not show that he really love
me. It shows that he is a really sick, abusive, controlling, person who thinks
he owns me because he pays my bills and whose rages and hitting both show that
he is suffering not only from ignorance and insanity and emotional intoxication
but also from a huge case of assholism; furthermore, if I stay and tolerate
physical, mental, emotional and verbal abuse, my own ignorance and insanity are
revealed.”
CONCEPT: “As President of the U.S., I am telling you that it is in the name of
justice that we are going to use the entire might of the U.S. Armed Forces to
shock and awe the citizenry of another country and make them pay for our having
been attacked.”
BELIEF: “Yes, we Americans must support our leader and our troops who are going
to bring about justice and who are also going to protect us and our country.”
180-DEGREES OPPOSITE: “Our leaders and most of the citizens of the U.S. have a
200-year history of re-labeling our invasions and our onslaughts against the
people of other nations (onslaughts which always involve our troops bombarding
and murdering and, yes, even raping before killing) as ‘justice’.”
[Warning: To those playing the role of “The Super Patriot”: you will likely
want to skip the next example of the widespread and widely-held distortion
among the general populace of militaristic nations]
IDEA: “We support our troops. They are fighting ‘them’ - ‘over there’ - so we
do not have to fight them ‘here.’ The brave men and women in uniform are the
finest citizens in our country. There are none who are their equal. They are
our best, our bravest, our most loyal, our finest.”
180-DEGREE OPPOSITE: Blind loyalty is another form of ignorance, be it blind
loyalty to a creed, blind loyalty to a nation, blind loyalty to a text deemed
to be ‘holy,’ blind loyalty to one’s dogma, or blind loyalty to leaders with
their hidden agendas. Mafia hit men / mafia soldiers who are also loyal to
their commander-in-chief / godfathers take money to kill whomever their
commander-in-chief / godfather tells them to kill, even though the hit men do
not know the people they are going to kill and even though the people they are
going to kill have done nothing to the hit men, and never will. If I am logical
and reasonable and sane, I must accept nothing based on blind loyalty and blind
faith in the words of others. I must ask, “Are our nation’s trained, professional
hit men ‘the finest’ and ‘the bravest,’ killing people from great distances?
Are they really ‘our finest citizens,’ going around the globe and following
their leaders’ orders to kill other people? Are they really ‘our best,’ or are
they merely trained, professional killers who are no different from organized
crimes’ hit men? Are they ‘our best’ merely because their blind loyalty allows
them to kill whomever they are told to kill, without question?”
Relatedly:
BELIEF: “We live in the greatest country on earth.”
180-DEGREE OPPOSITE: It makes no sense to express the
ego-and-egotism-based-belief that our country is “the greatest.” What is my
basis for drawing that conclusion? I have not visited every other nation so
that I can now speak from my own experience. I see now that I am merely talking
in my sleep, repeating the chauvinistic, xenophobic propaganda that I have
heard all my life and that I now see is nothing more than a collection of
misinformation and outright falsehoods that generate racism, intolerance,
arrogance, and our national sense of superiority that drives us to rationalize
whatever we do to the people of other nations around the globe.”
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.
