"MORAL HAPPENINGS" IN THE ABSENCE OF MORALITY AND DO-ERS

FROM A SITE VISITOR: So when you were out of town and said to visit the archives, I did. I read what you wrote in August that even though the Realized don’t believe in “moral vs. immoral,” most who do believe that some behavior is moral and some is immoral would conclude that the Realized live in a moral fashion (I’m putting it in my own words but I think that’s close). So if I get what you’re driving at, if I Realize and don’t believe in dualities like right-wrong, moral-immiral, etc. I’ll automatically live in a way that is moral according to people who think they know what moral is. I’m not trying to start an argument--I guess I’m too new at this to get how I could live in a moral way if I don’t learn what is moral and what is iommoral so I’m just asking you to help me see what you mean and how what you say can happen. Thanks.

F.: Thx for writing. Your paraphrasing is accurate: the Realized understand that all labeling of behavior as "moral" or "immoral" is relative and therefore reject the moral-immoral duality along with all other dualistic concepts. For example, many cultures have thought that lying is immoral, but to lie to a Nazi in 1940 about a Jew that you were hiding in a closet might be considered moral conduct by some. It’s all relative, but personas attempt to apply absolute truths to their relative existence. That is not only impossible but is also insane (insane being defined as “being out of touch with reality” in this case).

So how is it that the Realized, living in an AS IF fashion, “automatically” (that is, spontaneously) function in a manner that judgmental persons would consider “moral”? First, understand that all behavior which persons take to be "wrong" or "immoral" or "bad" is generated by body fears and desires, mind fears and desires, and personality fears and desires. In the U.S., 59% of all women killed in urban areas, and 41% of all men killed in urban areas, are killed during the breakup of a relationship. Most persons would call those killers “wrong, immoral, and bad.” But what was driving that conduct?

At some points during those relationships the body desires of one or both parties were being met. The fear of those desires no longer being met helped drive the behavior. As for “the mind,” it is that accumulation of lies that allows the corrupted consciousness to assume that the personality is real. Therefore, the "end" of the persona of “husband” or “lover” or “wife” was being perceived as an actual threat to an ego-state that was being taken as a real identity. The desire of the “husband” or “lover” or “wife” to have continuity, and the fear that the existence of those ego-states was coming to an end, generated the conduct that persons label as “wrong or immoral or bad.”

Freed from identifying with the fictional body-mind-personality, the Realized are free of the fictional desires and fictional fears that accompany belief in the fictitious body-mind-personality triad. Free of the fictional body-mind-personality identification that generates behavior that persons label as “wrong, immoral or bad,” whatever happens with the Realized happens spontaneously (or "automatically," to use your word). Whatever happens will happen without the fears and desires that inspire the harmful conduct (relatively speaking) that happens when personas are driven by their agendas to avoid what is feared and when they are driven to accumulate what is desired.

And that is why you will "automatically live in a way this is moral according to people who think they know what moral is" if you “Realize and don’t believe in dualities like right-wrong, moral-immoral, etc.” Please enter the silence of contemplation.

SUPERSTITIONS, MYTHS, RELIGIONS, RELIGIOUS PERSONS, AND OTHER DISTORTIONS AND ILLUSIONS, Part Two

F.: The pointers offered in response to an e-mail posted yesterday now continue:

8. Regarding your “spiritual work” that you think can eventually unite you and god, such a joining of “A” to “B” would require duality to be real. The unicity is real, the duality is false, so no “joining of separates” or “uniting of separates” is possible. That Which All Is Is THAT one thing only, vibrating at various frequencies when manifested and thus resulting in “varying appearances” that are wrongly perceived as “different things.”

9. As far as a new personality developing, all personality is an illusion, so how could a “new” personality develop? And how could a former personality--a formerly assumed persona that was an illusion--recycle? Such scenarios can only be dreamed up via the manifestation and corruption of previously pure consciousness.

So the occasion that you would call “death” cannot happen since no birth happened. That “no-birth and no death principle” quite naturally prevents any reincarnation from happening. All that is going to happen is that the elements forming the space that you take yourself to be will rejoin the universal pool of elements, the spirit/breath shall rejoin the universal pool of air, and the energy-consciousness shall merge with the universal pool of energy. Portions of those elements may recycle with other elements into another form, or they may not. Quantities of that breath/air may recycle again through a plant or an animal or something else with a nervous system, or it may not. Quantities of that energy may recycle again into a plant or animal or something else with a nervous system, or it may not.

You, however, will likely remained trapped in your current false personality of “The Religious One” or “The Knowing One” since those ego-states are both entered into with the accompanying programming to “never question” and to “believe what you’re told.” Such is the bondage of the corrupted consciousness and such is the bondage of personality. Thus, believing what they have been told by “others” (from without), most persons will never realize what they have always known all along (within) but that has been blocked from awareness.

For those who are willing to question and to move along the seven-step path toward Realization, the consciousness can knows itself…can know the I-Amness. If it understands the Is-ness, then subsequently the re-purified consciousness is able to understand all else. The understanding of the functioning of the totality happens. Because you have accepted a false identity as real, you cannot know anything other than that which is false. Thus, all other beliefs held by that which is false must likewise be false. In that closed loop, your corrupted consciousness will likely remained corrupted and will therefore be closed off from knowing the unutterable truth that can nevertheless be known. So it is as persons walk about in the dream of the planet, playing their roles in The Drama of the Lie, and being directed throughout their play by the corrupted consciousness. Please enter the silence of contemplation.

SUPERSTITIONS, MYTHS, RELIGIONS, RELIGIOUS PERSONS, AND OTHER DISTORTIONS AND ILLUSIONS, Part One

FROM A SITE VISITOR: I take it that you do not understand rebirth and the cycles of reincarnation. The same spirit is reborn into a new body, but a new personality develops. Through successive lives, life becomes a school. As lessons are learned, free will is used in more positive ways. Spiritual work throughout the cycles can lead to enlightenment which allows one to escape the cycles. That is the goal of the Realization you are trying to discuss. At that point, you become one with God and experience eternal bliss.

F.: Where to begin in responding to the excess of self-indulgence and learned ignorance that is revealed in the content of your mail? Modern beliefs are rooted in ancient myths that support the lies of duality. The lies of duality have generated that sense of separation that persons experience by fostering such beliefs as “Our god is the right one and yours is the wrong one”; “God is actually a male God" (so He has a penis and testicles?); “There are many Gods, and some have multiple arms or heads”; "My God can make it rain if I need rain"; "My God will protect our army as it attacks your army"; "My God loves unconditionally but He got so angry that He destroyed the entire population of the earth except for one family"; and even, “We worship the same God, but our denomination’s practices are right but your denomination’s practices are wrong.” As with all persons—always trapped in their beliefs that are based in myths and superstitions—you are trapped in similar bondage by dualistic, contradictory dogma and beliefs.

A series of pointers will be offered which are nothing more than suggested considerations for you:

1. What need could exist to understand rebirth once it is understood that no birth has ever happened?

2. Reincarnation literally means “to become flesh again.” That Which You Truly Are is not flesh and never has been and never will be. The form which you take yourself to be came about as a result of two persons eating plant food—or eating something that had eaten plants—and then engaging in an act of friction that may or may not have been marked by a sensation of pleasure for both parties. That act led to your current discontented state.

3. The word “spirit” in English was derived from the Latin word “spiritus” which means "breath." Breath cannot be reborn. It can cycle, and it does, moving in and out of the space that you take yourself to be. At the time of what you think is “death,” the breath will be released and will blend into the universal pool of air. The elements that you take yourself to be will blend into the universal pool of elements (as in, “ashes to ashes” and “dust to dust”).

4. As for life being a “school,” clarity is far more likely to happen if you were to unlearn what you have learned rather than trying to learn more.

5. Free will is an illusion. Persons are trapped, as you are, in their programming, conditioning, and enculturation. Currently, you have no more free will than did Pavlov’s dogs. You are quoting what persons have told you, but you have not accessed that which You have always known but which you've lost contact with as a result of programming and conditioning.

6. For “spiritual work” to happen, a do-er would have to be present. There is no “one” to do spiritual work.

7. As far as escaping the cycles, that which might or might not cycle is the conscious-energy, but it cannot cycle into the same space since the elements that formed a space and then returned to the universal pool of elements cannot be extracted exclusively from the pool to re-form a specific space that took form earlier. Moreover, since the elements that form the space which you take yourself to be are not even the same elements that formed that space yesterday, how can you possibly think eternal continuity could happen if even daily continuity does not happen?

A drop of water can fall into the ocean and later be pulled into the cycle of “ocean to evaporation to cloud to rain to a rain droplet to ocean again.” Or, a drop of water might fall into the ocean and simply remain in that vast pool of water instead of being pulled into another cycle. So it is with conscious-energy. But no body or "mind" or personality will experience continuity; no quantity of energy can remain as a singular quantity; no volume of breath can exist as a contained unit of air; no elements can exist as a singular unit with continuity; and no quantity of energy can function as a singular “bundle of energy” that can move about the universe, manifesting time and again. Please enter the silence of contemplation. [To be continued]

SEEKING THE REAL THROUGH USE OF THE FALSE

FROM A SITE VISITOR: You say that this is easy, but it is very difficult to grasp. My body and mind have existed for 30 years. How can they be discounted? And of cource I want eternal life. How can that be discounted? Why should it be discounted? Brian

F.: Hello Brian. The AS IF living that is happening is easy; what is difficult is living a relative existence in bondage…in the bondage of identifying with a body and with a “mind” and with multiple identities. Living free is easy; thinking that you are limited and time-bound but desiring eternal continuity of a body-mind-personality is difficult to the degree that wanting the impossible and working to attain the impossible is insane.

Your difficulty in trying to Realize, but not being able to, begins with the fact that you are trying to use your body and “mind” to find truth and eternal life. You will never see truth, however, unless your entire way of seeing is drastically altered. And your entire way of seeing cannot be drastically altered as long as you are trying to use that which is time-bound and limited to comprehend that which is beyond time and limits.

How warped is the thinking that can look at the first picture ever taken of a combination of elements called “Brian,” that can look at a recent picture of a combination of elements called “Brian, age 30,” and then conclude that those are the same set of elements? How warped is the thinking that a combination of elements that has had no continuity in this “realm” could have continuity in “some other realm”? And why should that desire for continuity be discounted?

No declaratives that you “should” discount that desire have been offered. Pointers have been offered that misery and depression and anxiety are rooted in fears and desires. Most persons will cling to both. To cling to fears and desires is to perpetuate misery, depression, and anxiety. What happens with these pointers as they are exposed to that corrupted consciousness that takes itself to be “Brian” and “Brian’s body” and “Brian’s mind”? Typically, with most persons, nothing will happen with the pointers. Typically, it is the pointers that are “discounted” as the bastardized consciousness prefers its lies.

Finally, no “mind” has existed for the “30 years” that you mention. The elements associated with the space called “Brian” have included a brain for 30 years, but a “mind” only seemed to form as the manifest consciousness began to be warped via programming and conditioning and enculturation. In fact, there is no “mind.” There is an accumulation of memories regarding concepts and beliefs and attitudes and ideas and dogma and lies, and that accumulation is called “the mind.” Why discount that accumulation which so many persons are so proud of? Again, that suggestion is not offered.

Instead, the invitation is to see a mirage for the mirage that it is, not to “discount”—or increase—the value of a mirage. In touch with Reality, neither discounting nor increasing happens. “Life” is a mirage. “Eternal life” is upgrading that mirage. To believe that the body and mind and personality can exist forever in a paradise is an upgrade of the mirage. To believe that a body and mind and personality can be cast into eternal flames and suffer unlimited pain forever is downgrading the mirage. It is the corrupted consciousness that is involved in discounting (and upgrading), not the pointers on this site.

Therefore, there is no need to either discount the body or “the mind” or personal desires and fears or to try to increase the body or “the mind” or personal desires and fears. If one would be free of the corrupted consciousness, however, then all belief in illusions and lies and distortions must be cast aside. Most consider the familiar more comfortable than the unfamiliar, so most will cling to their beliefs about such lies as “my body,” “my mind,” “my desires” and “my fears.” So it is. Please enter the silence of contemplation.