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BEING MADE CRAZY, CRAZY, STAYING CRAZY or AWARE OF CRAZINESS AND SEEKING SANITY
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Key
Quotes of the Day
“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
Next:
B. GOING
CRAZY
The Ultimate Sickness: What Will Not Address the Sickness
Most of the problems of humans on this planet are centered in the mind (including the problems involving emotional intoxication and the problems involving personality disorders which are also rooted in the mind).
The
planet-wide instability and insanity of persons’ thoughts and words and actions
are evidence of the fact that The Ultimate Sickness of duality and its effects
(a sickness calling out for the treatment known as “The Ultimate Medicine”) is
in many ways a mental problem.
The non-dualist Yeshu’a (mistakenly referred to as “Jesus” by 2.38 billion who claim
to be “his followers” but who don’t even know his actual name) purportedly said
that “A dual-minded person is unstable in all ways.”
In
some cases, instability and low-level personality disorders and even mild cases
of insanity have been addressed by the non-duality teachings if the result was full
realization. The following are often observable among those who are trapped in
the Ultimate Sickness of a dualistic mind (and, thus, mental illness) and who
are swept back and forth by the tides of emotional intoxication which results
in persons being unstable, changeable, unpredictable, unsteady, inconstant,
unsettled, irrational, erratic, inconsistent, unreliable, untrustworthy and
vacillating.
Writings here distinguish between (1) the causes of instability and insanity which
the non-dual understanding can address and (2) the causes which require far
more than that understanding if persons are to be effectively treated.
Included are discussions of: instability and / or insanity induced by
duality-based splitting; instability and / or insanity induced by psychological
splitting; instability and / or insanity induced by cultural influences;
instability
and / or insanity induced by personality disorders; instability and / or
insanity induced by a failure to psychically integrate and instead to
psychically disintegrate;
instability and / or insanity induced by adults who model constant mood swings
and instability and being temperamental and inconsistent so that they are
always unpredictable; instability and / or insanity induced by fixating in “The
Parent” role or “The Child” role rather than interacting from the stance of the
mature adult;
instability
and / or insanity induced by emotional intoxication; instability and / or
insanity induced by religious / spiritual intoxication; instability and / or
insanity induced by inner causes; instability and / or insanity induced by
depression and mania;
instability and / or insanity induced by a need for full realization;
instability and / or insanity induced by chemical imbalances, physiological
factors, and biological factors; instability and / or insanity induced by a
need for Full Realization; and instability and / or insanity induced by seeking
someone or something to cause you to be happy.
A. ORIGINALLY SANE
Next:
B. GOING CRAZY
Now:
C. GOING . . . GOING . . .
Contributors to Insanity: Personality, Personality Traits and Personality Disorders
The terms used to point to the blockages are shared in several books offered here, but a few of those blockages will be discussed. The use of certain blockages manifests as a result of something that sages have warned the masses about for thousands of years, namely, personality (and the traits that accompany each assumed persona).
Again, the estimate is that 100% of the people on the planet suffer from some personality disorder to one degree or another, and most suffer from a combination of several.
(Thus,
non-duality guides for thousands of years have warned people of the ill effects
of personality and have offered a means by which persons can be free of the ill
effects of personality assumption if they are seeking and willing and ready.)
The following will catalog some of the personality traits which are blockages
and that inspire the spreading of falsehoods; also, specific examples of each
that have been heard as recently as the last week or so will be provided.
Seekers
who have come here are invited to see which of these they may have heard
recently or to see if any of their assumed personas have driven them to use any
of the following:
1. Dependence (defined as, “a state
of relying upon another for emotional or physical support, existence, or
well-being”).
[During a period, thousands of homes were burned by Texas wildfires. The
neighborhood in which this post is being written is presently inundated in
smoke. The comment heard yesterday: “All we can do now is pray to God that he
will protect us.”]
Dependence among the non-realized involves things in the relative that can be
used as a crutch and “forces” or “powers” beyond the relative that can also be
used as a crutch. After a motorcycle accident, there was a period here during
which a wheelchair and crutches had to be used.
There
came a point, though, when it was time to abandon the use of both, the doctor
warning that the desire to avoid the pain of walking independently was going to
prevent healing and would only reinforce weakness and aggravate the
already-existing muscle damage.
Some non-dual pointers are about being free, being totally independent, but as
noted in the book Overcoming the Fear of
Being Totally Independent, the last thing that the non-realized masses want
is total independence.
So
it is, but the book points out that there is a way to transition that
supposedly softer, easier way that is not actually softer or easier at all, in
the long run.
2. Grandiosity (defined as “the
desire to seem important; to be pompous or showy)
and
3. False Pride (defined as “having
an unreasonable opinion of one’s own superiority over others; inordinate
self-esteem; the reflection of this quality in disdainful or arrogant behavior”)
and
4. Manipulation (defined as “fraudulent
management for one’s advantage; to manage or influence by artful skill, often
by unfair tactics; to adapt or change to suit one’s purpose or advantage”)
and
5. Controlling (defined as “wanting
to have the power to rule, guide, or manage others; having the power to determine
the thoughts and words and actions of the masses; having the desire to direct
or regulate people, places, things; wanting to be in charge”).
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.
