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BEING MADE CRAZY, CRAZY, STAYING CRAZY or AWARE OF CRAZINESS AND SEEKING SANITY
UPCOMING SERIES
(Begins Wednesday 12 June 2024)
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 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.
Meaning? Meaning that
the non-dual understanding is unique when compared to the agenda of all
religions, spiritual movements, ideologies, philosophies, etc.: it involves
subtraction, not addition. It involves un-learning, not learning more. It
involves de-accumulation, not more accumulation.
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
ORIGINALLY SANE
GOING CRAZY
GOING . . . GOING . . .
GONE
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
“Mouth-Noise, Mind-Language, + Unnatural, Supernatural, and Magical Thoughts and Words”
(con’t.)
The
invitation: With the use of words, practice impeccability, exactness, and
accuracy. Begin to purge your self / selves of what Maharaj called the use of “mind-language”
when he said:
“ . . . Mind-language will talk only about the impressions it has collected.
The knowledge ‘I Am’ is not a thought but observes the thoughts.”
By reaching on “the path” the two witnessing stages, the dualistic words and
the dualistic thoughts that drive separatist deeds can be seen, and the seeing
- the objective witnessing of nonsense - might lead to: a completion of the
entire seven-step “journey” to Reality;
to
a purging of cultural corruptions; and to replacing the use of mind-language
with the use of a vocabulary that might be referred to as “The Vocabulary of
Reality” or “The Vocabulary of Sanity and Non-Delusion.”
The purification process is complete when the “mind” is eliminated (which
happens when the last belief in any concept or ideas ends.) “Surely” there can
be no complete end to the “mind.” I have to think of things.”
To those, the pointers are (A) again, note that Maharaj said that even “I AM”
is not a thought, and (B) just as one driving along a dry, hot highway need not
eliminate a mirage in the road ahead to continue with one’s journey (but needs
only to see that it is a mirage and then ignore it), one need do nothing more
to eliminate the “mind’s” influence than to see that all of its content is also
nothing more than a mirage that is to be ignored.
As with the weather forecaster - and with his listeners who never question his
dualistic assessments and his telling them if they are going to have a “good”
day or a “bad” day - believing that only a sunny day can be a “nice day” can
corrupt your perception of the next rainy day and negatively shape your mood.
From that, see then how such dualistic distortions can shape an entire “world”
view.
Dissenters say: “But some of my concepts are about things that are beautiful.”
Then it would follow that some others are not beautiful or that some are even “ugly.”
Welcome to the artificial “world” of duality.
Remember, Maharaj taught that all concepts take rise in you and you took rise
from the dirt. Wherefore “pride” in the content of the “mind”? And if
abandonment of unwarranted pride in the content of one’s “mind” happens, then
abandonment of unwarranted pride in one’s words must, and will, necessarily
follow.
Next, if you become aware of the vocabulary of non-realization and stop using it, then you will simultaneously be freed from being controlled and influenced by those who do use the vocabulary of the non-realized . . . and that is the way that the Ultimate Sickness was contracted to begin with, was it not?
Those who would control the masses plant nonsensical thoughts in the “minds” of
persons and inspire them to speak nonsensical words - selected from “The
Vocabulary of ‘Mind-Language’” - in order (consciously or unconsciously) to
program and condition and domesticate and acculturate others.
Short of full realization, programming and conditioning and domestication and
acculturation and brainwashing and indoctrination continue throughout a person’s
entire relative existence, aggravating the personality disorders which are
already manifest and that are already leading to psychic deterioration and to
one level or another of insanity.
Persons will eventually become even more unstable (i.e., will suffer from
varying degrees or forms of insanity) as the “The Vocabulary of ‘Mind-Language’”
uses emotional constructs and mental implantations to drive the naive and
susceptible masses into far deeper levels of emotional intoxication and mental
illness.
Yet
addressing the “mind” issues alone will not restored one to sanity. These
teachings in the early stages warn against body-mind-personality
identification, so not only must identification with the body and with the
fallacious content of the “mind” be addressed but also, this must happen: the
assumption of personalities / personas as identification must end if the use of
the language of insanity is to end and if sanity is to be restored.
When roles are assumed, mind-speak must follow. Personality-driven words will
be spoken in an effort to support identity. When ego-states go, silence comes.
The deer make little noise, having nothing to prove, having no mind-language
with which to think, and, therefore, having no vocabulary with which to engage
in mind-speak.
That
is what nisarga functioning looks like. Become awake to - and aware and
conscious of - the vocabulary being used each day to see if one or more
personas might be inspiring your thoughts . . . and therefore your words. To
that end, you are invited to witness your self / selves as talk happens
throughout the day, then ask:
Was everything that was said really necessary? What was the motive behind the
words spoken? What are you trying to prove? Why do talking and impressing often
have more appeal than the quiet? WHO feels the need to speak, to be “loved,” to
be admired, to be respected, or more often, just to be heard?
“You Do Not Have To ‘Check Out’ of the Relative and Abide ‘There’ In Order To Be Free of the Use of the Vocabulary of Non-Realization (Which Reinforces The Non-Realized State)”
Realization
and nisarga-style living are not about ignoring relative happenings and “requirements”
of the Is-ness; are not about relocating to a new “mental residence” in the
ether (that is psychosis and shifts one into even deeper levels of insanity);
and are not about denying the Am-ness for the period of manifestation.
Nisarga living happens when Reality is overlaid on the beingness; when all
ego-states and magical / supernatural thinking ends; when there comes an end to
believing that a relationship with a mirage can be real and can be empowering;
and when all that happens unfolds in a mode of living that is as sane and
logical and reasonable and natural as that of the deer.
If
magical / supernatural thinking ends, then magical / supernatural speaking will
end, yet that cannot happen unless one discards all of the nonsense that one
has been taught and which has been stored in a “mind” and which - from there -
inspires insane talk and insane behaviors.
The realized non-dualist understands that questioning it all is required if
programmed, conditioned, domesticated, indoctrinated, acculturated and brainwashed persons are ever
to be free of their belief in - and attachment to - falsehoods and nonsense.
And only if belief in - and attachment to - falsehoods and nonsense finally
ends can the restoration of sanity begin, marked thereafter by an end to the
use of the language of non-realization . . . an end to the use of the language
of insanity.
Functioning spontaneously is a marker of realization, so questioning must begin
to happen spontaneously as well, for those who would be free of the
insanity-reinforcing language of duality. How many have heard someone spout
some nonsense about a god causing tornadoes or earthquakes or floods in order
to “to send a message to people,” only to see the listeners nod in agreement?
How many heard that mother talking about “the Hand of God” that pushed her
daughter to the bank of a raging river so she could be saved and merely nodded
in agreement? For those that would be freed from “The Dream / Nightmare of the
Planet” - and for those that would finally leave the stage of “The Theater of
the Lie” once and for all, then as soon as something is heard or “seen,” it
must be questioned.
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.
