Arjuna and I=THAT

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Pete wrote:

>

> P: The above is just conceptual cosmetic surgery. Any identity

> is in the realm of mind and conceptuality. You just got a new

> face, rather a new mask. The dreamer knowing himself dreaming,

> is an important step, but the alarm clock hasn't rung yet. Or

> so it seems.

>

> Pete

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It was only when I started to think about what Pete wote did an alarm

clock ring. Thanks to Pete, something that has been bugging me about

Arjuna in the Bhagavad Gita fell into perfect place.

 

Why on earth would Krishna tell Arjuna that it was his duty to more

or less kill his relatives? This was an unfathomable mind-blower

ever since I originally read it over three years ago.

Pete: eternally thanks.

 

The answer came to me when I tried to understand Pete's "cosmetic

surgery":

 

The alternatives of I=That=YOU:

1- Krishna, Buddha, Christ, Ramana, Papaji, Nisargadatta …. did not

know what they were talking about because not only are we all

different but we are so different that we need original sin so that

without religions we have to go to their hell. (I lived with this for

over 50 years because it was the Pope's favorite. )

 

2: The saints are right – we are all one and the same – but my mind

is deceiving me because it has to think it is different from other

minds and their "real" bodies.

 

3. My mind cannot be smart enough to think it is just a dream.

 

4. My mind is too stupid to figure out that it is just a dream.

 

5: Life cannot be a dream because our bodies bleed and break – in the

exact same way they would in a nightmare that cannot be what it is: a

dream.

 

6: I'm a Manchurian Candidate who has been hypnotized by the CIA to

use this I=THAT=YOU to infiltrate non-dualistic groups so that I can

either kill their leaders or turn them over to be tortured and/or

killed for all sorts of dualistic cults that need Jews, Arabs or

G.W.B's born-again-christians to be dualistic.

 

More than anything else – this kind of thinking (which my mind has

been doing for over 50 years) reminds me adamantly why I can no

longer take my mind and its thoughts very seriously. And then there

is my mind-blower: if there is no Doer then why should I care if

some covert-organization, like the CIA, has programmed my body-mind

to commit all sorts of atrocities and sins, like a suicide-bomber.

 

This mind-blower needs some thinking: what kind of psychopath would

it take not to care if he was programmed to kill like a Manchurian

Candidate – to kill like Arjuna had to kill his relatives? The

answer: if the psychopath, Arjuna, was aware that there was no Doer.

 

Because there is no Doer – life has to be a dream that is like a

movie – the movie is already made our mind and its body is just

going through the motions – thus there is no Doer. And because there

is no Doer the worst thing that can happen is that I will die to wake

up and the best thing that can happen is that I laugh at death.

 

Thanks to people like Pete, every day that goes by makes it easier

and easier to laugh at death.

Thanks Pete

Semmi