Post by stardustpilgrim on Jan 26, 2018 16:44:56 GMT -5
Yes, precisely. This is a conversation I've tried to have with ZD several times (have given numerous examples). His CC tells him everything is all right, everything is perfect. ~Looking down~ everything might be perfect, but thousands and even millions of people live s*t**y lives (most recent example, the 13 children held captive by their parents, I don't think everything was perfect with them. Another recent example, the gymnastics doctor who molested over 150 girls, explain that ZD). Most people are driven by unconscious forces, within themselves. This makes for conflict, interior war even. So bogus belief is not really bogus belief. Bogus beliefs have an 'iron clad' basis in the neural structure, not easily overcome, not imaginary in the sense that ZD uses the word, whatsoever.
Many people do what "needs to be done", in the service of a warped psychology, and what they do almost inevitably leads them further into the morass.
Creatures rise; creatures vanish;
I alone am real, Arjuna,
looking out, amused, from deep
within the eyes of every creature.
I am the object of all knowledge,
father of the world, it's mother,
source of all things, of impure and
pure, of holiness and horror.......
I am the Self, Arjuna, seated
in the heart of every creature.
I am the origin, the middle,
and the end that all must come to......
All your thoughts, all your actions,
all your fears and disappointments,
offer them to me, clear-hearted;
know them all as passing visions....
Even murderers and rapists,
tyrants, the most cruel fanatics,
ultimately know redemption
through my love, if they surrender
to my harsh but healing graces.
Passing through excruciating
transformations, they find freedom
and their hearts find peace within them.
I am always with all beings;
I abandon no one. And
however great your inner darkness,
you are never separate from me.
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The intellect takes us far from the truth,
but in silence the truth can be apprehended.
From the book of Psalms are these words:
"God's universe is perfect, awing the mind.
God's truth is subtle, baffling the intellect.
God's law is complete, quickening the breath.
Gos'd compassion is fathomless, refreshing the soul.
God's justice is absolute, lighting up the eyes.
God's love is radiant, rejoicing the heart....."
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One final passage from the Upanishads:
"Two birds, one of them mortal, the other immortal,
live in the same tree. The first one pecks at the fruit,
sweet or bitter; the second looks on without eating.
Thus the personal self pecks at the fruit of the world,
bewildered by suffering, always hungry for more.
But when he meets the True Self, the resplendent God,
the source of all creation, all his cravings are stilled.
Perceiving Self in all creatures, he forgets himself
in the service of all; good and evil both vanish;
delighting in Self, playing like a child with Self,
he does whatever is called for, whatever the result.
Self is everywhere, shining forth from all beings,
vaster than the vast, subtler than the most subtle,
unreachable, yet nearer than breath, than heartbeat.
Eye cannot see it, ear cannot hear it nor tongue
utter it; only in deep absorption can the mind,
grown pure and silent, merge with the formless truth.
He who finds it is free; he has found himself;
he has solved the great riddle; his heart forever is at peace.
Whole, he enters the whole. His personal self
returns to its radiant, intimate, deathless source.
Yes, I get all that. But that does not change the pain of the 150+ girls and the 13 children multiplied by millions. ....and of people like Robin Williams. He hanged himself in the manner he did, not so he could change his mind, but to show he wouldn't change his mind. And I just learned that Robert Oppenhimer could read Sanskrit...