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BEING MADE CRAZY, CRAZY, STAYING CRAZY or AWARE OF CRAZINESS AND SEEKING SANITY
UPCOMING SERIES:
If you were suffering
from a sickness, would you accept treatment from a doctor that does not (1) complete
a diagnosis and (2) identify cause prior to formulating a treatment plan?
Of course not, so why
tolerate having the Ultimate Sickness treated by a guide that does not identify
cause prior to formulating a treatment plan?
A narcissistic
know-it-all showed up in Maharaj’s loft and started spouting the same-old same-old to try to impress his
captive audience with the supposedly “profound” depth and breadth of his
knowledge of all things non-dual.
Eventually, Maharaj
stopped the man’s monologue and explained that he did not give a tinker’s damn
about the man parroting gurus or guides or writers; instead, Maharaj said that
he only wants to hear about a seeker’s own experiences and from one who shares only
what he or she has come to perceive and understand.
In the next series, we
will begin with finding the actual cause of the Sickness which only a non-dual
guides try to address and then formulate a treatment plan which will differ entirely from the plans which have
failed humankind for thousands of years.
As with Covid-19,
researchers and manufacturers of treatment and / or preventive measures were
and are constantly having to change their treatment plans because of mutations.
The same applies with humankind: the problems of humans - be they physical or psychological
- require treatment from a guide that is constantly studying the innumerable mutations
of the Sickness in order to update and modify and improve the version of the
Ultimate Medicine being used to address all aspects of the Ultimate Sickness.
All prescribed
prescriptions stored in your medicine cabinet have an expiration date. So
should the Ultimate Medicine used for addressing the Ultimate Sickness.
Genes mutate. The
result is physical / body problems. Understandings also mutate. The result is
mental / mind problems.
The Effects of
Mutations And Variants - in Humankind, in the Non-Dual Message, in Religious
Texts, in Spiritual Messaging, in Forms of Government, in Economic Systems, in
Tribalism, in the Human Brain, in sicknesses and the Ultimate Sickness, ad infinitum. Everything is Mutated;
hence, the Normal or Natural Has Been Replaced by the Abnormal, by the
Unnatural, by the Supernatural by Magical and Warped Thinking, by Language, and
by the Resulting Warped, Detrimental Behavior.]
Now, to continue:
“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
[Continued from yesterday]:
To
test his theory, Harlow created two fake mothers for his baby monkeys - one
made of wire and the other made of cloth and warmed from within by a light
bulb. Both “mothers” were given a face, and a “breast” in the form of a bottle
from which the babies could feed.
Both fulfilled the basic biological need of their “children” by feeding them,
but only the cloth mother was made with comfort in mind. The monkeys showed
very little interest in the wire mothers but developed strong attachments to
the cloth mothers - clinging to them tightly and becoming distressed when they
were removed.
Even if two mothers were provided - a wire one with milk and a cloth one
without - the monkeys would prefer the latter. The conclusion was that comfort
was much more important to the babies than other variables such as feeding.
Next, when Harlow separated baby monkeys from their new cloth mothers, even for
long periods, the importance of the relationship was never forgotten. As soon
as their surrogate mothers were returned, the monkeys immediately rushed to
them and once again began to cling desperately to them.
The babies that were given cloth mothers also grew to be more psychologically
stable than those that had only wire mothers. This was demonstrated when they
were put into dangerous and strange situations, such as having noisy toy-robots
put into the cages with them.
Those
with cloth mothers to cling to during the ordeal showed a much greater level of
bravery, and much less negative emotion, than those that had no “surrogate
comfort mother” present. The level of psychological security given by these
immobile mother figures was found to be very high.
Monkeys that had been raised alone, with no such cloth surrogate, showed no
emotional response when one was initially introduced to their cages (although
in time, they too were seen to develop a strong attachment).
Long-term observation showed that the level of affection displayed in babies
raised by a surrogate mother was very similar to that between a human mother
and baby if the mother was warm and affectionate and caring with her child.
Both
types grew to be more psychologically and physically healthy than those that
were denied any type of mother, even though all of the basic biological needs
were taken care of in all of the subjects.
The research showed that appropriate touching and being touched appropriately -
and enjoying the ensuing comfort - are natural and commonplace, the rule rather
than the exception in the animal kingdom. Such expressions of “love” or Love
are displayed consistently in nature by animals.
What about among the non-realized masses - abiding in their unnatural and
supernatural and non-natural fashion? Not so much nowadays. If that is to
change, then the incongruity between giving lip service only to caring and “loving,”
vs. providing actual evidence of such caring and “loving,” must be eliminated.
To look objectively at one’s own actions and to see that talk of “love” and /
or Love is really just talk and nothing more is the first step toward
(A) shifting away from the coldness and aloofness and callousness that has come
because of conditioning and programming and domestication and acculturation and
brainwashing and indoctrination; and to
(B) shifting and then being less like a wire mother or father or spouse or
partner and more like a warm and comforting cloth mother or father or spouse or
partner
as well being the first step to
(1) reaching a point where the sociopathic tendency to withhold is transcended,
to
(2) reaching a point where “the shield” is lowered and barriers are broken
down, to
(3) reaching the state of Full Realization where the understanding makes clear
the difference in Real Love and what the masses call “love,” to
(4) reaching a point where the Oneness is understood and then allowed to
determine all actions in the relative existence, and to
(5) reaching a point when one can touch gently and be touched gently - without
motive or agenda - and thereby answering the call of Nature to function in that
natural way as opposed to the unnatural way that the masses around the globe
are now behaving.
The non-duality sharings here are also based in Nisarga Yoga (“nisarga” referring to “the natural state” or to “the innate disposition,” as opposed to “a taught / learned disposition”). Regarding that, Frydman offered the following: “The Nisarga Yoga, the ‘natural’ Yoga of Maharaj, is disconcertingly simple.”
He
said that a seeker “ . . . must recognize and penetrate” her / his “own being,
not as being this or that . . . but just timeless being.” He added, “To delve
into the sense of ‘I’ - so real and vital - in order to reach its source is the
core of the Nisarga Yoga.”
Some take those statements to mean that the post-realization abidance is
supposed to happen in some esoteric - and, in the minds of some - in an even
mysterious and metaphysical manner, dissociated from all things relative . . . no
longer abiding “here” but abiding “there” instead.
Again, as explained by Frydman: “Not being continuous, the sense of ‘I’ must
have a source from which it flows and to which it returns. Prior to manifestation
there was no sense of “I” or “being” or anything else. During the
manifestation, the “I” sense comes; post-manifestation, once more there is no
sense of “I” or “being” or anything else.
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.
