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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hence, the Normal or Natural Has Been Replaced by the Abnormal, by the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
“A Review Of The Thought-Word-Deed Continuum”
Recall that because thoughts (the content of the mind) control words and
because words - in turn - control deeds, then the words used during the
relative existence exert tremendous influence over behavior among non-realized
persons. For example, review the example offered earlier in light of what you
the reader have likely come to understand by this point:
Remember the case of certain racist men living in Jasper, Texas in the late 1990’s who were members of a white supremacist group, all of whom had the thought that they were better than non-whites? They often verbalized their belief, speaking words of hatred and arrogance.
Eventually,
their deed followed: three of those men kidnapped a black man and took him to
an isolated area nearby. There, they beat him, chained him to a pickup truck,
and dragged him behind the vehicle for two miles. In the process of killing him
in that manner, they tore off his head, his neck and his right arm.
THEIR THOUGHT: Whites are better than blacks.
THEIR WORDS: “We are better than black people. They are inferior to us.”
THEIR DEED: The murder of a black man.
All deeds are directly preceded by words, and all words are preceded by
thoughts. Is it any wonder that Maharaj cautioned against the careless use of
language? Yet do not conclude that 50% of all actions result from thoughts and
50% from words.
Nonsensical
talk could not happen were it not for the nonsense stored in “the mind” that is
constantly cycled and recycled among the non-realized as the ever-in-motion
consciousness generates thought after thought after thought.
Consider now the pointer behind the title of the book, “THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS ‘PEACE OF MIND’ (There is Only Peace If You’re
Out of Your Mind).” That should have an even deeper meaning by this point
in the book.
Additionally,
there is no need to cut off the tongue and lips and discard them in order to
put an end to the nonsense being verbalized millions of times per day across
the planet. The requirement is to cut out the nonsensical thinking by
discarding the contents of “the mind.”
When nonsense is eliminated at the source (called “the mind”) then it cannot
manifest via the mouth. If there is no constant running of the mind, then there
can be no constant running of the mouth. Is it becoming clear why the realized,
spontaneously, spend so much time in the silence? Is it clear that those who
have to talk the most are the most removed from Reality?
Is
it clear why the truth can be known but cannot be spoken? Is it clear,
therefore, why most of what is spoken is to be ignored because it is false?
For nonsensical words and deeds to end, persons must be rid of their belief in
the concepts and ideas that generate the thinking which leads to nonsensical
talking and nonsensical behaviors.
Yet
in cultures where “freedom of speech” is valued far more than freedom from
silence - such as in the U.S. - then talking flourishes, talk radio flourishes,
talk shows on television flourish. And they all add to the already-widespread
dissemination of nonsense and falsehoods that are unquestioningly accepted
across the globe as being true.
In the “war on nonsense,” one suggestion to those taking the steps to realization
is this: simultaneously become consciousness of words if they are spoken while
sleepwalking or while trying to awaken.
By
that means, there can be launched a two-fold assault on babble and claptrap - attacking
the base of nonsense (“the mind”) as well as the nonsense being spoken by
persons who are out on patrol each day and spreading foolishness in a verbal
fashion as they go.
Maharaj invited seekers to be precise and exact with word choice. That can only
happen when one stops talking in his / her sleep and is conscious of what is
being said.
“A Vocabulary of Realization” is in one sense, therefore, an exclusive
vocabulary rather than an all-inclusive vocabulary. It is a vocabulary this is
limited to the use of non-dualistic words and terms.
The fully realized non-dualist, for example, will not speak of something being “good”
or being “bad”; nor will there be talk of one thing or person being “better
than another”; nor will there be any speaking about “ownership,” about “gain or
loss,” or about “possessions” as implied with terms such as “my wife” or “my
husband.”
[Exceptions can happen when communicating with a seeker not yet fully realized and
not yet familiar with “The Vocabulary of Realization,” but in the end, all will
be made clear if the seeker travels the entire “path” with a realized guide.]
So, to the questioner who asked about “a vocabulary of realization” and “an
Advaita-style vocabulary of sanity and non-delusion,” that is the beginning of
the answer. More will be explained in the next chapter.
“Regarding The Vocabulary Of Recovery / Realization: Your Responsibility . . . Considering Word Choice When Selecting A Guide”
Before
progressing any farther into the discussion of understanding “The Vocabulary of
Realization,” it should be noted that each seeker has a responsibility to
understand this first:
No one can give away what he / she does not have. As “The Vocabulary of
Recovery and Restoration to Sanity” is discussed, know that the seeker must be
awake to that vocabulary - at least some degree - in order to determine if full
realization has come to the one who would teach you.
On a planet where the vocabulary of non-realization and duality is taught early
on and then reinforced throughout one’s relative existence, consider how
difficult the task is to be able to differentiate between the vocabulary of
non-realization and “The Vocabulary of Realization.”
As mentioned earlier, some words are never used by the fully realized non-dualist with the exception mentioned . . .
when pointers are being offered to a seeker that is in an early stage of the “journey.”
The
guide will, for a period, “meet” persons at whatever place on the “path” they
might be. It has also been noted here that there is no suggestion to seekers
that there is only one, “best” way to present the teachings. As noted here, there
are a variety of “teaching methods” available, there are a variety of yogas,
and there are a variety of approaches.
That which is offered by one guide and that might “work” for one seeker might
not work for another at all. Those who read the books available here and who
still do not “get it” might very well find the truth being sought by studying
with a different guide. Continuing the search is never discouraged.
That
said, consider if you will: no matter the method or yoga or approach employed
by the wide variety of guides out there nowadays, all of them should have in
common - and all should employ - nothing other than “The Vocabulary of the
Fully Realized.”
Yet see the “catch”: the seeker needs some basic understanding of “The
Vocabulary of Realization” in order to differentiate between the guide that is
abiding as the original nature vs. the one who is still attached only to the
trappings of the relative existence.
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.
