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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hence, the Normal or Natural Has Been Replaced by the Abnormal, by the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
Two Tools Which Can
Assist with the Restoration to Sanity
(con’t.)
Next,
recall the findings offered earlier from the research into the naturalness of
touching and showing affection. If you agree with what the research revealed,
and if you are now bent on being free of every trance of acculturation-based
insanity and unnaturalness, then it seems that the logical conclusions must be
as follows:
if you were raised in one of the cold and aloof cultures as discussed earlier -
cultures in which people report that “we do not hug and we do not say ‘I love
you’“ and cultures where persons normalize that behavior and accept it without
question - then this question must be asked:
would you choose to continue to accept that cultural messaging and that culture’s
programming and conditioning and domestication if the effect of the messaging
is that you - either consciously or unconsciously - cannot show affection and
love and cannot accept appropriate touching and cannot offer appropriate
touching, even after the research proves that showing affection and love - as
well as touching appropriately and gently and kindly - is natural and normal
and that the opposite is unnatural and abnormal and psychologically
detrimental?
[As always with the non-dual understanding, authenticity is the key. If one is
using false “love” or affection in order to manipulate and “gain,” the end
result will not be what one expects. The old, “Be careful what you wish for
rule” will apply.]
The point is this: expressing Love and touching appropriately are natural and
normal and sane throughout the animal kingdom and among humans as well. If you
would accept the Nisarga invitation to abide naturally and normally and sanely,
then you must look objectively at your rating on “The Warmth and Loving Scale”
and determine if there are traits that are not supporting that which is natural
and normal and sane.
In order to be normal and sane, then all of the sources and manifestations of
personality must be understood. Then, they must be recognized as blockages to
the natural and normal and sane expression of Love and affection;
then there must also be an admission that - for whatever reason - the ability
to express Love comfortably and to show affection comfortably and to touch
appropriately have been blocked in you;
and then after that, having seen the relative impact of those blockages on you
and on those that could benefit (psychologically and otherwise) from such a
display of affection and appropriate touching, is there any sane alternative
other than to seek whatever must be sought in order to discard once and for all
the obstructions within you that are hindering the manifestation of the natural
and normal and sane ability to know Love and to show Love?
“Two Tools That Can Assist with the Restoration to Sanity: ‘The Vocabulary of Realization’“
Earlier, reference was made to two tools that can be used to restore sanity, clarity, clear-seeing, and proper perspective as well as free persons from accepting as true everything heard around the planet on a daily basis that is actually false. The first, “The 180-Degree Rule,” has been explained.
The other tool is used to “Obliterate the Present Thought-Based Mode of Talking
and to Allow One to Become Skilled at Using Only The Vocabulary of Restored
Sanity / Full Realization.”
There is “A Vocabulary of Realization.” The irony is that, once realized, the
use of any vocabulary is significantly limited.
One man, Russ, wrote to say: “I guess the ‘search’ began because of problems I’m
having at home and at work. Recently at the age of 42 I started to see that
some people who have said that I have always been my own worst enemy were
right.
Some
time back I read something you’d written on your blog about being ‘self-defeating’
or something like that and for some reason, that really jumped off the page at
me and smacked me right between the eyes.
“I have a history of expressing my opinion even when my wife or boss or friends
or family do not want to hear it. I have always been confrontational and have
always thought I was ‘winning,’ but I see now that I have really been ‘self-defeating’
all my life.
“About a month ago, I began reading every available book that you’ve written.
Like others that have been mentioned, I arrogantly began with “The Advanced
Seeker’s Series.” Rather egotistical, I see now, but that lead me to reading
all of your other books.
“What all of that reading has done is put me into the silence that you write
about but that I could never ever imagine myself trying. After thirty books or
so, and after weeks of silence (which it seems my wife and boss both like)
something happened. It was like the reading in the silence formed a new habit: being
silent or becoming accustomed to the silence for the first time in my life.
“I will not brag now and say that I am ‘fully realized” to use your term, but
something has happened that has shut me up and allowed me to be content with
not having to talk all the time. And as I said, the wife and boss are both
probably more content than I am since I have shut up!
“When my wife and I talk now, it is not about her spending too much money, what’s
wrong with the way she runs the house, or how she need to change the way she is
raising our two children.
“When we talk now, there is something genuine. Today you listed some traits which
keep from showing love or affection or whatever. Never had I ever looked at
myself honestly, and even if I had, I would not have found those traits.
“But seeing them in black and white (or red), I saw that almost all of them
applied to me and the way I’ve been for decades. Then you ended the blog with a
comment about Love and showing Love.
“I don’t say I have that down either, but my wife said that for the first time
in years, she if feeling like maybe I do care about her and love her, but what
she likes most is that I have ‘calmed down,’ she said.
“Anyway, those words of yours also jumped off the screen and slapped me in the
head and I knew I had to write to say thank you. I am so glad I found your site
and your books, and I think my wife and boss are glad too. :-) PS The silence
really is nice. Russ.”
So to the earlier point about “the use of any vocabulary being significantly
limited” post-realization. There is no conscious decision that “I am going to
be quieter.” As with de-accumulation, it just happens.
But
when talking does happen, it happens in a very different fashion because the
vocabulary of realization is employed. A discussion of the shift in the way
that communication happens post-realization can also answer the following
question that was asked:
“You mentioned to my friend a vocabulary of realization and an non-dual-style
vocabulary of sanity and non-delusion. Explain, please.” Consider some of the
changes that happen spontaneously post-realization. For example, when the realized
use the word “I,” that word no longer has anything at all to do with the first
person, singular, nominative case, personal pronoun.
“I” only refers to the pure, unblocked consciousness that speaks. The pronoun
never has anything to do anymore with the composite unity of the circulating
air, the elemental plant-food body, or the conscious-energy that is temporarily
manifested therein.
Another change is this: no fully realized non-dualist would make any claim
about being either “fully realized” or being “a mom-dualist.” That is all “early-on-the-’path’
talk,” and some latitude is required in order for any communication to take
place between seeker and teacher during the early stages. [Later, it is even
realized that there are neither seekers nor guides / teachers.]
Exceptions can especially be the case when dealing with those in the West who
have very little exposure to even the most basic terminology required for the
transmission of the teachings, including words and phrases such as “false self,”
“the Absolute as opposed to the relative,” “de-accumulation,” etc., all of
which are alien to those programmed in cultures of accumulation.
To
even speak to such persons of “a false self” or of “de-accumulation” is
typically greeted with all the enthusiasm surrounding a case of influenza.
And that is part of the reason that, here, the teachings are offered in simple
language. Yet even among Easterners, many misunderstand the most basic
teachings.
Maharaj said to a seeker, “We are not speaking the same language. Yours is a make-believe talk . . . . ” Maharaj also said seeker, “You speak as a person, limited in time and space, reduced to the contents of a body and a mind.”
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.
