Advaita Vedanta: HOW RELIGIOUS AND SPIRITUAL AND NON-DUAL MESSAGES HAVE BEEN WARPED BEYOND RECOGNITION

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HOW RELIGIOUS AND SPIRITUAL AND NON-DUAL MESSAGES HAVE BEEN WARPED BEYOND RECOGNITION

“There’s no such thing as peace of mind.”

--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“There’s no such thing as peace of mind. There’s only peace if you are out of your mind.”

--floyd

HAVING THE ADDICTIVE PERSONALITY DISORDER TO ONE DEGREE OR ANOTHER PROVES THAT ALL HUMANS ARE TRYING TO REACH THE ZERO CONCEPTS, NO-MIND STATE OF WHICH I SPEAK

(Yesterday)

Maharaj: “The death of the mind is the birth of wisdom.”

Some have told me, “If I give up my beliefs, I will be stupid.”

I ask, “Have there been any who told you that you are stupid, even as ‘your beliefs’ were present?” Just asking.”

Fools know not when they are being fooled or when they are behaving as fools.

The wise are beyond adopting beliefs, making way for wisdom to be conceived, to develop, and to manifest fully.”

Persons are invited to wake up enough to take an honest inventory of their relative existence. Why? In order to see accurately and clearly the actual truth of what has happened as a result of the fact that all thoughts and words and actions are being driven by the content of their minds. And what is the content of all humans’ minds? The beliefs of others.

During that honest and open inventory, the invitation is also to ask, “Why am I so defensive and so aggressive that I will fight like hell to defend not 'my beliefs' (which do not exist) but the beliefs of others which are subconsciously in charge of all that I do?

Moreover, why am I so unconcerned and so unmoved over the fact that other people implanted things inside my body and done it in a way that I have, so far, never paused for even a second to be concerned about that?

Hoards have come forth in recent years to question the safely of vaccines and many are now claiming that states have no right to block children from enrolling in their schools just because they haven’t been vaccinated.

People are doubling their time in grocery stores, taking the time to read the labels on food to find out what they could be putting into their bodies. Rock and roll, but how many of those same people have stopped long enough to investigate what has been put in their bodies by their programmers, conditioners, etc.?

And what is the result of those familial and cultural additives which have been inserted into their minds? The answer: Entire populations of people who are being driven by the ignored and thus hidden content of their obsessive minds.

So let’s look at at the obsessive mind which is at the root of every addiction on a planet where all persons have an addiction - to one degree or another - to something (which, in turn, indicates some mental illness, some personality disorder, or some neuroses and psychoses).

[Those offering professional treatment note how frequently the see a “dual diagnosis.” The obsessive mind and the Addictive Personality Disorder show up hand in hand. One of the most common dual diagnoses is alcohol or drug abuse appearing alongside the Antisocial Personality Disorder / the Sociopathic Personality Disorder / the Psychopathic Personality Disorder. But always the obsessive mind disorder is there.]

There so much talk touting “mindfulness / mind-full-ness but hardly any talk about freedom from the mind. How obsessive are the human on planet earth?

Some studies have shown that humans often have 70,000 thoughts per day (including thoughts through the day as well as in the evening and while trying to go to sleep or waiting for the pills or drugs or other “racing-mind-stoppers” to kick in).

On average, that’s about a thought per second, and often the thought can be the same one, arising over and over and over again if a job is lost or a serious illness has been diagnosed or an eviction notice has been received or one is wanting a divorce or if your property taxing board raised your taxes three-fold or the car broke down and there are no funds to cover the high repair cost.

Thoughts. Thoughts. Thoughts. Churning away every second. Such is the result of the obsessive mind. A friend is told, “This is driving me crazy!” That is a deception unless you’re talking about your obsessive mind.

So many problems are erroneously believed to be happening externally, but the problem is internal. The non-dual understanding offers a plan whereby that can be seen, understood to be the truth, and then excised.

Maharaj: “The problem is not yours - it is your mind's only. Begin by disassociating yourself from your mind. Resolutely remind yourself that you are not the mind and that its problems are not yours.”

One man said that his parents had filled his mind with religious and cultural nonsense, yet he tried always to appease them and get their approval, their “attaboy,” longed for more than life itself.

He said that he could be with a woman and enjoy the ecstasy of sex with her, but then his parents starting talking to his via his mind. What followed?

“An end to the ecstasy, to the joy, to even the slightest pleasure because they were inside my mind, passing along guilt and shame and their 'Not-a-Good-Super-Christian Son' label and the fear of eternal flames which all that triggered.”

When they both died, he said he “felt bad” but also felt he could finally be free of the BS they stored away between his ears. He could live for himself and not just for them. But what he found was this: “They were still always with me. Both were still a burden. I sometimes screamed, “Get off my back!” I felt suicidal.

“It was as if I was carrying dad on my back and he was whispering his BS into my left ear, still working at transferring his ignorant and insane belief system into my mind; mom was doing the same with my right ear.

“Before meeting you, I had never heard of any viable method for excising their stuff, for removing what they had passed on to me, for expunging and erasing and deleting and eliminating every warped, contaminated belief they taught.”

It’s explained this way:

His obsessive mind - and every obsessive mind - is a symptom of the Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder which is characterized by unwanted, intrusive thoughts, images, and / or persistent and recurrent urges.

These obsessions can cause distressing emotions like anxiety and fear and disgust and can become stuck in one's mind no matter what you do.

As if the obsessive part of the mental disorder were not enough to try to deal with, obsessing will lead to the compulsive part, to destructive behaviors which are done to try to relieve the distress caused by one’s obsessions.

How many persons put beliefs into your mind? Are you aware that each one of those people is on your back and in your mind? You carry them about, everywhere you go, and you allow them to unconsciously determine what you think (obsess, obsess, obsess) and what you do (compulsive behaviors, compulsive behaviors, compulsive behaviors).

The irony? The non-realized masses believe that what they take to be their “own beliefs” gives them power, direction, control, influence, strength, abilities, etc.

In fact, those beliefs, which are the beliefs of others and which you were taught, rob you of all of the above as well as freedom and the ability to be awake enough to make conscious choices rather than being asleep and allowing the choices of others to dominate you and control you and restrict you and generate a thought a second in what you take to be “your mind” but which is really “their mind.”

So again I ask, “Why exactly would the suggestion to be rid of the mind - their mind - and then abide under the auspices of the brain feel so threatening?”

And “why exactly would you allow that consideration to trigger an ‘I’m ready to fight you, Floyd’ reaction?”

Every human was originally mindless when the human brain was its original one cup size before evolving into its present 3-1/2 cup size, at which point the mind parts took over total control - blindly and unquestioningly - of each human’s thoughts and words and actions.

How insane, and how insane to go into fight mode when a plan is offered to free one of imposed insanity.

Oh wait. That’s right. What could cause that reaction? I remember now. The ego-defense mechanism of egotism. “How dare you, Maharaj! How dare you, Floyd! YOU are the ones that are crazy! Not me.”

Thus is the typical perspective.

To be continued.

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Here, with those who are still driven to talk about "god," the "Son of god," the "Holy Spirit," "Buddha," "Krishna," etc., etc., etc., the invitation to them is to view those as verbs, not nouns.

THE EXPLANATION

If looked at as nouns, they point to illusions and are, therefore, a total waste of time to even discuss; if looked at as verbs which are resulting in certain sane but rare behaviors among humanity, then they are worthy of some attention during the relative existence.

Meaning? There are members of certain groups who say things such as "My concept of god in the past was of a weak god, an absentee god, A Santa Claus-type god, a mean, punishing, vindictive god, etc. Today, I am in close contact with a loving and caring god whom I worship and praise and glorify and give thanks to."

The reply to that usually goes like this: "If you are in contact with a god that wants to be worshipped and praised and glorified, then you're dealing with someone like yourself - a narcissist - and hanging out with narcissists will never bring an end to your narcissism (that narcissism evidenced by the fact that you think you are "godly").

Next, in the phrase 'loving and caring god,' any supposed god that truly had her or his act together would tell you that the totally irrelevant part of that phrase is 'god' and that the only part that is relevant is the "loving and caring" part.

"That is, a non-narcissistic their god / their goddess would say, "I care not an iota about being worshipped and praised and glorified by you or anyone else. How arrogant and insecure and needy would I have to be to want that? Forget the man-made, dreamed up noun 'god' and focus on the 'god as a verb' understanding and then go forth and let loving and caring be verbs - not adjectives - and let them generate the act of love and the act of caring and let those actions manifest through you."

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"

--Yeshu'a (Jesus)

and

"Heaven and earth shall fade away."

--Yeshu'a (Jesus)

and

"Heaven and hell are not geographic places

but are states of mind, nothing more than

concepts dreamed up by men."

--Pope John Paul II

"There is no hell."

--Pope Francis, the current pope

in an interview with journalist Eugenio Scalfari,

a writer used by the Pope to issue off the record

teachings which become a part of the Papal Magisterium.

[That said, would that the popes who have shown the courage to reject a core concept of their dogma - namely, "hell" - would find the additional courage required to question the very existence of their institution in light of the centuries-long cover-up of their history of raping children and in light of the mental and emotional and psychological scarring of billions of their members past and present.

And that need for courage also applies as questions need to be asked about why so many other sky cults are still being supported and allowed to continue to exist as well. When certain types of programming and conditioning have been shown to blind the masses, they should end. Will they? Not likely. Why?

Because what the masses think and say and do is most influenced by the international crime families which hold sway over the masses as criminals conduct their planet-wide operations. What are the major international crime families and which are the most influential and have the largest memberships?

The Mafia / La Cosa Nostra; the Catholic Church (with it 1.2 billion followers) whose Vatican Bank worked for decades with the Mafia while laundering mob earnings (for a 15% all-profit charge by the Bank); Protestant and Evangelical Churches (with over 1.2 billion followers) like the one I was raised in where the youth director molested and sexually assaulted young girls; big business which has long created environments in which people have been abused; powerful political bodies like the U.S. Congress, etc., etc., etc.)

With all of those crime families, neither the followers nor the leadership ever voluntarily step down or shut down their criminal activities. Be they gangs, organized crime families, religions, big business, politicians, etc., they all want control and they all want power and they all want money, and nothing internal will interfere with the driving forces at play.

The masses must demand that all those in charge must step down and their groups and institutions must shut down, and there's the real problem because the continuation of their crimes are enabled not as much by the people running such crime organizations as they are enabled by the masses of people who - wanting some perceived "payoff" - remain involved with them and give them money and support them and aid and abet the continued existence of those criminal enterprises and thus facilitate the ability of church criminals and political criminals and other types of criminals to continue to commit their crimes.]

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