


JR: There may be great value in promoting certain public perceptions and then preserving or protecting those ideals or delusions.
DF:
DF:
DF: Yes
JR: So, which ideal is more relevant to you, Reverend, compassion or clarity? Perhaps the ideal of compassion is used as an attractive topic of conveersation. The students want to hear about compassion. They yearn to experience it.
First, if one experiences clarity, then is compassion possible? Before one experiences clarity, then desperate need for social approval can be labeled compassion, but it is just the hell of desperately sincere perfectionist paranoia.
DF: Well wait a minute… I would consider my master to have experienced clarity….so why help another become clear….something to do? And I hear what you are saying.
JR: To the student, the master is a master. To the master, the master is no one.
If someone experiences attraction to conversing about clarity, so be it. They may act on it.
Why would there be an attraction to conversing about clarity? Why would there be an attraction to conversing about anything? Why is there attraction?
The politicians may say “we are attracted to saving the masses from confusion.” Is that sincere? Is that a pretense?
Many suffer from sincere pretense and also pretentious sincerity. Some say that the interpersonal process of offering compassion to another is attractive, like it is enjoyable and feels good. So be it.
One who is a fountain of clarity and compassion has power and is attractive to others. Why would it be attractive to someone to be attractive to others?
Maybe the politicians are planning to compensate for a deep sense of shame and wish to earn an escape from hell. Satan probably does not have that pre-occupation, but of course it might be occassionally useful to display that pre-occupation anyway. Or maybe Satan is the ultimate fool and likes to practice self-sabotage and internally-directed tortures.
“Do not worry too much about what others think of you. Respect the different ways that you can think of them.”
It is a sin to disturb the sheep. It is “missing the mark” or “missing the point.”
DF: Ok so no reason to disturb any fools…but thank god you did and yes I am learning that it is a sin…yes….let sleeping sheeps lie…got you
JR: You were not a fool. You were a rebel.
DF: Yes…a rebellious fool “without a cause” and yes he did.
JR: Right, you had already given up attachment to a particular cause. You were already beyond idealism. You just did not know what to call it.
DF: Yeah that’s true…thank you for untangling the mess.
JR: You just did not know what to do instead of worship idealism. You still had the background of paranoia.
DF: Yes…rome wasn’t built in a day and paranoia doesn’t die in a day either….I know what you mean I could or would jump around in idealism but I wasn’t completely blinded by it…or fanaticism
DF: Yes….is this somewhat unusual? And how does this happen…what caused “me” or confusion to be open to humility?
JR: Look around you, Reverend. You tell me if it is unusual for someone to be open to humility.
I said before that everyone is attracted to clarity. I also said that many find it repulsive- but that is in proportion to how attractive it is to them.
You were not attacking clarity or humility. You were attacking foolishness, which is still a form of distress, but it is the final stage of distress.
You were like a snake who was ready to shed it’s skin. I am just a piece of rough vegetation that you are using to shed the old skin.
I think that other people should not be so ashamed of themselves. I really just do not get it how they are like so ashamed, you know?
No, no, I am NOT frustrated. Listen to me for once, okay? I did not say that! I hate it when you always analyze me every time I am shouting at you like that is some kind of a big deal to you. Look, I am just saying that they SERIOUSLY need to stop being ashamed before, um, before it is TOO LATE….
I mean, what if they start to over-react? What then? Have you even THOUGHT of that? What if they start being all DRAMATIC for no GOOD reason?!?!
I mean, what are people going to THINK of them if they are ashamed about themselves the wrong way or for the wrong reason? What happened to all of the loyal perfectionists anyway?!?!
Where can I find a REAL perfectionist these days? I’ve been looking around for someone WORTHY of the title of perfectionist and I have been FORCED to conclude, despite my absolutely heroic optimism on the subject, that no one is truly DESERVING of the title of perfectionist. What a HUGE disappointment this whole idealism thing has turned out to be!
1 noticing the activity of language
2 noticing that language is not perception
3 the linguistic ritual of creating a victim (and a savior)
4 creating a path from hell to heaven
Noticing the linguistic creation of a path from hell to heaven
Gustave Doré, Depiction of Satan, the antagonist of John Milton’s Paradise Lost c. 1866 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
So, hell is a linguistic symbol to contrast with heaven. Hell is the experience of distress or disturbance or mental illness or agonizing (the activity of agonizing over what allegedly “should not be,” like a particular way of relating to language and relating to life). Heaven is the experience of simply noticing all of the various patterns of reality without obsessive craving or repulsion- with clarity, grace, and inner peace. (Of course, in heaven, one can also notice the patterns of relating called craving, rejecting, and obsessing!)
English: A stereotypical caricature of a villain (i.e. generic melodrama villain stock character, with handlebar moustache and black top-hat – typical of upper class men in some cultures). (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Further, Satan is a linguistic symbol to contrast with the Almighty, which logically cannot be opposed or defeated or intimidated or scared. The Almighty is the source of all patterns of activity, all characters and identities, and all symbolic codes.
God is no more scared of Satan than God would be scared of the letters A or Z. God notices all patterns from the first to the last, from the beginning to the end. God notices the activity of language- beginning, ending, stopping, and perhaps beginning again.
Santa is just a character created through language by God. Satan is just a character created through language by God. Any victim (any labeling of victimization as in vilifying of a particular activity in the past) is also “incidental,” not fundamental. Is that clear?
Pick a time in the past. Pick a memory of an event. Perhaps someone said to you that “you should not have drank so much water” or “you should have drank more water.” We could label that the activity of condemnation or vilification.
Maybe there is someone blamed- like the labeling of you as being at fault because you drank the wrong amount of water instead of doing whatever you allegedly should have done. That is a valid construction in language, right?
Maybe you should have drank more water or less water. “Should” automatically creates the possibility of vilification or condemnation (“should not”). Notice what vilifying and condemning are. They are activities in language. They are methods of directing attention and perception, right?
God forgives all things. Why? God forgives all things because God created language and it was only through language that God created the condemning or vilifying of particular patterns, particular qualities, and particular characteristics or characters or identities.
How does God forgive? By ceasing the activity in language of condemning and vilifying, God can easily forgive anything.
Consider the ancient teaching that in order to be forgiven, one must forgive (as in cease condemning). Notice condemning. Notice the reality of what condemning is as a way of relating in language.
Many victims condemn what terrifies them. A villain condemns in order to terrify (to forbid, to intimidate, to make a threat).
God is the source of the all heroes, villains, and victims. Every victim is a form of God, and so is every villain and savior. What other source could there be besides the Almighty?
So, an ancient teaching directs attention toward the activity of the condemning of a particular behavior as villainous (vile, evil) and further we can notice the activity of vilifying a specific person as inherently a villain. Notice also that either the behavior or the person can be emphasized, but not both at once.
We can forgive the person (so as to stop vilifying them) without condoning any particular past sequence of events. We can stop relating to that particular past as “what should not have happened” (a shameful incident), and stop shaming someone for victimizing us.
Shaming them maintains the identity of victim. If you seek heaven, you must cease from shaming others. Forgive them. Stop perpetuating your shame. Stop victimizing yourself through vilifying them.
Or, continue to vilify them and continue to experience the identity of ashamed victim. You could continue your linguistic ritual of chanting this mantra: “I am not a villain or a savior, but a victim.” Or, you could notice that all of that is just a pattern of activity of language.
Two people can even argue over who is the most vile, as they partner together in a ritual of mutual condemnation and vilification. They can have a competition for who is the bigger victim (by most sincerely accusing the other of being the bigger villain).
Vilification of another is victimizing them, but also relating to one’s self as a victim. “They unjustly accused me!” Yes, they made you their victim by vilifying you (“unjustly!”), just like you vilified them (“unjustly!”), resulting in their complaints that you were victimizing them (“unjustly!”). That ritual requires at least two sincere (naive) participants.
So, how can one continue that ritual alone? Easy! Just keep vilifying someone else and relating to your past as if it is victimizing you now.
Note that the ritual of practicing the identity of a victim is an entirely valid ritual to practice. It has it’s function and value. God created it for a reason.
Once the reason is clear and makes sense to you, then the ritual is no longer an obsession to practice constantly, but just an option. Use it when it is relevant. When it is not relevant, do not use it. When something else is relevant, do something else.
However, if it is relevant to practice being a victim, then certainly keep practicing it as long as that is the top priority. Get very skilled at being a victim. Become an expert victim.
Condemn. Vilify. Withdraw. Notice. Forgive.
Next, go to hell (obsess over what should not be, how I do not deserve this stuff that should not be happened, how someone else is to blame for my experience of having something else besides what should be happening instead). Then, once you have practiced hell so much that you are an expert at being a victim in hell, then go to heaven.
Once you know how to create hell and then you suddenly stop creating hell and instead create heaven, then hell is no longer a problem. It is just an option.
Hell is just a ritual in language. When it is relevant, practice that ritual. When it is not relevant, do not practice that ritual. When something else is relevant, do something else.
Releasing Emotional Tension
I mean: it’s just horrible how I was to me. Plus, I totally blame myself for blaming myself.
That’s right. Everything was perfect until that one thing happened… and you know the thing that I am talking about- or at least you should. Anyway, as I was saying… before anything happened to me, then obviously nothing bad had ever happened to me because
nothing at all had happened to me.
All I am saying is that my life is hell. I’m perfect. My life, though… it’s hell. If it wasn’t for how amazing I am, I probably would not
have even survived this long, you know, with my life happening to me like that.
Soon (Bridge to Heaven)
CLICK HERE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTOUaqubjHo
My words are lawas long as you obey themMy name is Godbut you can call me SatanI tell you what should beI train you in the art of hatingI may say it’s all for youbut maybe I am makingout like a banditas in pirateas in bankingcartel empire monopolymafia syndicate racketeeringpolitician drama mythologyone party media propaganda machineIt’s not crazy talkunless you don’t know the codeCan you speak Jabberwock?If not, then don’t interpret it as brokenMy dog only hears noisewhen you speak in fluent LatinLetters are just shapesuntil you learn the whole alphabetI know the secretyou have been trained does not existBut I can’t tell youTill you stop resisting and just listento the soundsbefore you make them in to wordswhat do they meanis it gibberish, brilliant, or absurd
Well you won’t know until you get itand you won’t get it till you wakeup to the power of the language in the brain
Philip said, “Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us.”
9Jesus answered: “Don’t you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? 10Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you are not just my own. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work…. You will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you.”