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Self-ignorance and ignorance about the known and unknown.

False Misleading Beliefs: Eternal Inner-Self and The Supreme Creator and Controller

Eternal immortal inner self subject to afterlife and judgement by the supreme creator and controller are false misleading ideas that you may have to believe as part of society.

Imaginary ideas like eternal immortal inner self, next birth, past birth, supreme power that create and control etc. have been disputed for thousands of years unlike the naturally self-evident realities of pleasure, pain, disease, old age, death, disintegration, dispersion, recycling, transformation, parent giving birth to children etc..

Ancient Ideas of Eternal Inner-Self and The Supreme Creator

The idea that earth is not flat, but round, has been proven and practically demonstrated by aviation technology and can be naturally inferred from rotundity of horizon. Even after thousands of years, we cannot validate, verify, investigate, prove, apply, demonstrate or know the reality of eternal immortal inner self or the supreme creator and controller.

Such false Ideas have been believed for thousands of years but there has been no practical demonstration or application of those ideas even till now. Also, you cannot know, verify or validate those ideas naturally. However, such ideas have been used to influence and exploit masses in the real life for wealth and power.

Why There is No Eternal Inner-Self and The Supreme Creator

If the idea of eternal immortal inner self or soul was true, then life forms would not struggle to survive and would willingly die in order to experience liberation and divine bliss of communion with the supreme creator.

No behavior or instincts of any natural life forms can demonstrate or can be mapped to existence of any supreme creator and controller. If a supreme factor created and controlled the life, then there is no need for humans or any life-form to struggle and suffer for survival against will of the supreme creator.

Then humans would instinctively give into injustice and leave it for the supreme creator to take care of justice rather than resisting it through revolutions, laws and judiciaries. Some societies believe in the reality of after life and final judgement but still expect justice and enforce laws for justice in the society.

If supreme creator and controller is true idea then, birth defects should not be remedied because it is against the will of supreme creator and controller. Effect of natural disasters should not be remedied because it is will of supreme creator and controller.

If life is created and controlled by one supreme factor, then life forms will not evolve through goal seeking behaviors. The idea of supreme creator and supreme controller is not only false and misleading but also subversive to human evolution and progress.

Ephemeral Life and Irrelevance of The Supreme Creator.

The idea of the supreme creator is irrelevant because all life forms are ephemeral. As you know, all life forms along with their body, mind and spirit undergoes death, decay, disintegration, dispersion and get eternally recycled. The cause and conditions that constitute the known and unknown are impermanent.

The feeling of being independent inner self is due to cause and conditions of life’s processes like, for example, stress and stress relief. There is no inner being or inner self that is eternally or immortality independent of life-processes. You do not exist independent of your indispensable constituent cause and conditions. Try to stop breathing and know it for yourself.

Since there is no eternal immortal independent inner self, the idea of after life and the supreme creator and control is irrelevant here or hereafter.

Also, there is no the supreme creator that creates or controls your existence. The word creation is a misnomer because there is no ultimate the supreme creator or controller.

Life and the world is neither created due to one ultimate factor nor is controlled by any one ultimate factor. Spark of life is a phenomenon arising due to cause and conditions of universe. There is no the supreme creator or controller that can ultimately create or control the world. There is no independent eternal inner soul that enter the womb to create the person.

Life and the world follow laws and exceptions, that are universal and natural, including but not limited to the law of impermanence, balance, equilibrium, change etc.. to ultimately disintegrate, disperse, transform and recycle. No element in the phenomenon of life is beyond the law of impermanence.

Even if there was a supreme power that created, controlled or bestowed, it is dead, disintegrated, dispersed and recycled by now. Hence, as classically said, “God is dead and humanity is free”.

Artificial wrong ideas like eternal immortal inner self, and supreme creator and controller are primitive ways of making sense of life and the world. It is due to your own point of view arising from desires, attachments and insecurities, that you try to make sense and give meaning to life and the world. Belief and faith is a way of thinking globally or fictionally in order to avoid stressful efforts of investigating the truth and reality.

Creator is One of The Insignificant Cause and Conditions.

Everything arises due to dynamic interaction of it’s constituent cause and conditions.

Person cannot exist without it’s indispensable constituent cause and conditions, but person can exist without idea or feeling of being inner self or inner soul as evident through meditation.

So also, creation cannot exist without its dynamically interacting constituent cause and conditions but does exist due to multiple different constituent cause and conditions of which, the creator may be one of the insignificant factors.

Occurrence of life and the world is a random accident that seem coherent and part of grand scheme within limits of time and space due to our psychological point of view due to our desires and aversions.

Spiritual Experience Is Due To Hypnosis and Stress Relief

“Spiritual experiences” are not due to communion with the supreme creator and controller.

Ideas of eternal immortal inner soul and supreme “creator and controller” exist in your mind due to hypnosis. It is not your natural experience just as you experience the natural processes and milestones of life. Due to hypnosis, you believe in such ideas and unsuccessfully try to live according to them but cannot apply such ideas instinctively.

Ideas of eternal immortal inner self and the supreme creator are articulated, construed and spread artificially through language, mind, artificial media and falsehood. It is not a natural experience like pain, pleasure, strength weakness, old age, disease, death etc..

Spiritual experiences are due to your full realization of your peace and natural innocence through your growth, maturity, development, detachment and deep stress relief giving rise to limitless unrestricted, detached awareness, the liberated phenomenon of knowing without independent inner knower.

So called supernatural or divine or spiritual experience is nothing but realization of the natural fulfillment and natural innocence from your naturally fulfilled childhood or which was not realized due to various reasons including wrong birthing, wrong upbringing, trauma, chronic stress or amnesia.

Misleading Spiritual Beliefs

Belief and faith in wrong ideas can create unnecessary psychological burden and stress. History shows that humanity becomes hardheaded to live in sadistic and machoistic manner without sensitivity, empathy or compassion under the influence of such wrong ideas.

On the other hand, enlightened by the truth and reality that is clearly experienced, proved, applied or demonstrated, humanity has made great progress in improving themselves and the quality of their life. Faith and belief in false ideas is wrong foundation of philosophy and thought.

Faith and belief can create unconscious bias affecting decisions and actions. Ideas like eternal immortal inner self and supreme creator and controller can bias you unconsciously due to which you may devalue your present life and also negatively affect other’s lives.

So called eternal immortal inner self or soul beyond process of life or the so called supreme “Creator and Controller” beyond cause and conditions are naive ideas created by the primitive societies.

Unreal ideas like eternal immortal “Soul” and God or Super-soul as “Supreme Creator and Controller” are misleading and subversive towards your natural values like life, freedom, health, wellness, justice, right to natural richness and unity in diversity.

Belief in the existence of so called supreme “Creator” and so called “Self” or “Being” related to the supreme “Creator” is a way of convincing you to sacrifice your natural human values in service of the so-called “Chief” acting as broker of so called supreme “Creator”. That “Chief” can be society, institution, personality, or any idea etc…Through such ideas and beliefs you are groomed to submit to the so called “Chief” for exploitation.

Due to such beliefs, you may ignorantly live and act under hypnosis by some artificial “Self-Image” with attributes like class, religion, race, caste, profession etc..

Forcing process of life to fit into such artificial ideas can give rise to stress and problems of unnecessary entitlements and incorrect attitudes like “higher-than-though”, “holier-than-though”, “greater than though” or “better than though” etc.

On the other hand the universally supreme law of impermanence of life is the foundation of natural values like life, freedom, equality, justice, nature and unity in diversity.

At birth all humans are equally able because at birth all humans are helpless processes of life. Hence everyone should be treated equally because nature treats everyone equally.

Artificial Ideas Need Collective Belief

Eternal immortal “Inner-self”, “after life” and the supreme creator and controller, are fantastic ideas that are artificially created and collectively believed by human society. Self-serving institutions place such false ideas irrationally above all other ideas that truly serve life.

Artificial ideas can neither exist without the artificial human society nor without collective human belief in them, unlike the fundamental natural realities of pleasure, pain, disease, old age or death which are naturally experienced and known by all life forms.

Eternally immortal inner self or the “Supreme Creator and Controller” are corrupt ideas irrelevant to life but invented for misleading humanity just like idea of “invisible clothes”.

Whereas, the impermanence of life is the foundational reality of value of life and of the principle of equal regard for all life-forms and the classic principle, “treat others in a way you would like yourself to be treated”.

Self-Ignorance And Myth of Eternal Inner Self

Bee on leafSelf-delineation and self-conception giving rise to self is self-ignorance.

Self can be in many forms, for example, self-conception, self-ideation, self-identification in form of name, gender, relation, class, caste, race, religion, nationality, feeling of being inner self, etc. Self is stress of hypnosis due to association with known and unknown giving rise to self-ignorance.

Self-ignorantly, you may believe that you are eternal immortal inner self independent of constituent cause and conditions.

Inner-Self Is Stress

Life and actions according to self is rigid and in conflict with the reality. Inner-Self is stress arising due to association with known and unknown ideas about self.

Through association with known and unknown ideas about self, you get hypnotized and attached. You get hypnotized and attached to self-conceptions like race, gender, religion, caste, class, beliefs, ideas etc.

An infant just born has no notion or sense of self till a certain age. Infant is a natural and nature is original. The notion and sense of self is developed later in life during growth in order to interact with the environment. Self is acutely conjured for meeting the demands of environment in order to survive and flourish but should disappear when not necessary.

However, due to wrong upbringing and unhealthy conditions, the sense or notion of self can become chronic and severe. Self is a rigidity and stress that is necessary to deal with life and society.

During meditation, by relaxing your body and calming your mind, you will know that the hallucination of being inner self is due to stress and activities in mind. Through meditation you will be free from hypnosis due to self-image.

Fully aware, you can exist without inner being or inner self as well as self-image. You are not inner being or inner self or inner soul or inner spirit. Self-image is the result of self-conception based on unnecessary artificial ideas about yourself.

You Are Phenomenon of Awareness.

Nature and natural richness is original. Naturally you are the result of dynamic interaction of your indispensable constituent cause and conditions, including but not limited to your ancestors, your body, your processes of life, actions and effects of those actions, without which you cannot continue to exist in any way.

You are awareness, phenomenon of knowing arising due to your constituent cause and conditions without independent inner self. You become your actions and you continue in the effect of your actions. This is commonsense and as obvious as truth of earth, nature, pain, disease, old age and death. However, some cultures may ridiculously believe that life enters the womb rather than birthing from women.

Society Enforces Ideas of Eternal Inner Self

This hallucination of being an inner self, may seem real due to stress in the process of life and due to hypnosis by premature formation of “Self-Image” and self-conception.

You are prematurely or chronically hypnotized due to association with self-conception through artificial ideas and beliefs about who you are. This self-delineation divides you and gives rise to stress in form of inner-being or inner-self.

Society imposes eternal immortality to this feeling of being inner self. You get prematurely and chronically hypnotized by this idea of being independent eternal immortal inner self with after life or next birth.

Eternal reality of inner self” or inner being” or “Ego” or inner soul or inner spirit” etc.., independent of the process of life and actions, is a naive primitive idea sustained artificially by institutions of society and passed down from one generation to the next through cultural and customary beliefs.

For right or wrong reasons, society delineates self through its tangible and intangible institutions and instill you with different beliefs about existence of inner being or inner self independent of the process of life and actions.

At an early age, society imposes you with artificial ideas like class, caste, religion, race, nationality and unproven ideas like past life, next life, soul, ghosts, after life, rebirth, reincarnation, supreme Creator and controller etc.

If you are brought up in such society, the idea of distinct inner self or inner being may seem real, and you may live and act through self-ignorance according to your self-delineation.

You tend to accept the idea of reality of distinct inner self or inner being independent of conditions of life, if it is given to you by someone whom you trust, like or depend on, for example, parents. You tend to believe just because everyone believes and not because you know.

Inner “Self” is an Artificial Idea and Belief

Independent reality and existence of inner self beyond the process of life are concepts artificially created by society. You never try to fully investigate the reality of these concepts through right means or methods. You believe without trying to know their truth.

Eternal reality of immortal inner being or inner self is an idea not as naturally evident as reality of pain, old age, disease and death whether it is believed or not. Ideas of eternal immortal independent inner self need institutionalized collective human belief in order for such beliefs to exist in society.

You get hypnotized by many such artificial ideas due to your early life vulnerability, your dependence and trust on your care takers, lack of exposure to contrary alternative ideas and the artificial conditions conducive for hypnosis by such ideas. After you grow up, you forget that you are susceptible to hypnosis, and you continue to live under hypnosis by such ideas.

You are ephemeral. You eventually disintegrate, disperse and get endlessly recycled. You are neither eternal nor immortal. You are empty. Know this in deep meditation just as you consciously know pain and pleasure, youth and old age, birth and death.

Deconstructing Faith and Belief Over Knowledge and Experience

Deconstructing faith and belief is possible by living through seamless clarity of awareness, knowing correctly in the right context without associating with the known or unknown.

Faith or belief in ideas is not knowledge. You know and understand your experience through your natural or artificial faculties of knowing. You do not need faculties of knowing for faith and belief. For example, you do not need microscope to believe in the idea that supreme creator creates epidemics. You need no personal experience in order to have faith or belief in ideas.

Experience should give rise to understanding. Understanding should arise from experience. Experience first, then understand. To understand experiences correctly, you need a detached seamlessly clear awareness, the matured phenomenon of knowing correctly in the right context.

Difference Between Faith, Belief and Knowledge

Faith is trust in the unknown, for example God, or faith in astrologers or faith in ones own destiny. Due to faith in the unknown, you may not focus on what is the reality of cause and conditions. As a result, faith can eventually disappoint you if it does not fulfill your expectations.

Belief is to live and act upon an idea assuming that it is true. You may believe in the ideas of supreme creator and spend time and efforts to pleas the “supreme creator” for happiness rather than know to improve the cause and conditions for your happiness.

Knowledge is something that you know through experience, validation and verification through various means including but not limited to your physical sense organs, psychological sense organs like mind, memories, emotions or through science and technology. Knowledge is established to be true through evidence, application, demonstration or at least personal experience.

Right Knowledge Deconstructs Faith and Beliefs

Ideas are artificially created by humans for some practical reason. Ideas are psychological point of views in some context and they do not represent the complete reality. Ideas can eventually become outdated, irrelevant or useless.

You have faith and belief in the ideas. Faith and belief are not knowledge or experience of reality like knowledge and experience of pain, disease, old age and death which are true whether you believe them or not. To have faith and belief in ideas without knowledge and experiences is to deceive yourself knowingly.

You have faith and belief does not necessarily mean that you know, or you have the experience. Having faith or believing is not equivalent to knowing the truth or reality.

Knowledge on the other hand is to know the truth established through personal experience, experimentation, validation, verification, application or demonstration.

When you know, you need not believe. However, the knowledge has to be correct in the right context. Faith and belief established through knowing miracle without knowing the constituent cause and conditions of miracle is not correct knowledge. In order to know correctly, you need seamless clarity of awareness without associating with the know through faith or beliefs.

Rigidity and Burden Due to Faith and Belief

Faith and Beliefs are ideas or assumptions accepted to be true or untrue. Faith and belief can create unconscious bias affecting your decisions and actions.

Rigid Life and Actions Due to Faith and Belief

Due to faith and beliefs, you may live and act in a very rigid manner in order to confirm with your unreal faith and belief rather than live and act harmoniously with the reality of cause and conditions.

Your association with faith and beliefs gives rise to self and eclipses seamless clarity of awareness, the phenomenon of knowing correctly in the right context. Faith and beliefs are artificial, giving rise to artificial self in form of self-ideation, self-identification, self-conception, self-image, inner self etc.

Due to association with self, you live and act in a rigid manner according to self rather than live and act harmoniously with the reality of cause and conditions.

Psychological Burden of Faith and Belief

Consciously you have faith and belief but deep inside you are ignorant. Faith and Beliefs contribute to your stress of ignorance rather than the wisdom of not knowing. Faith and belief add to psychological burden that is unnecessary while keeping you off-guard about truth and reality.

Faith and beliefs can wrongly influence the process of life and actions without your knowledge. For example, due to early life belief in god and his judgement, you may continue to live in fear and anxiety but not know the source of it. Such early life beliefs can influence the processes of life and growth at young age and impact physical and mental health in later life just like a poorly developed lamb due to constant fear of a tiger.

Early life beliefs can be forgotten but continue to stress the involuntary process of life. It is like accidently believing rope to be a snake and getting stressed over it or accidently believing rope and snake and remain gullible only to meet an accident unknowingly.

You are carrying many such forgotten faiths and beliefs that stress the process of your life by adding to your psychological burden. Reality of eternal immortal inner Self or inner Being is one of such beliefs affecting the process of your life and your actions.

Such beliefs can create unconscious bias due to which you may devalue present life. “Supreme Creator and Controller” as “God” or “Super-soul” is one of your faiths. Such faith can create unconscious bias which can negatively affect your sense of accountability, transparency, responsibility and social justice.

Why Do You Believe or Have Faith?

Many of your faiths and beliefs are not your conscious choice. You have faiths passed down to you in the early life before you knew to question. You may believe in ideas due to desires or lack of options.

In early life, since childhood, you get ideas and you believe in them through hypnosis, without your knowledge or expressed consent. For example, religious and cultural beliefs.

Most of the time you dwell in mind, living in a trance, neither fully asleep nor fully awake, neither fully relaxed nor fully alert.

In such a trans, especially during childhood before maturity and psychological independence, you are highly suggestible and vulnerable to hypnosis, you are also highly impressionable and vulnerable to conditioning due to delicate nervous system. The foundation of your life is laid on your habits, beliefs and attitudes formed during early life through your experiences and upbringing.

Early-life beliefs become part of your physiological and psychological conditioning. Your life gets controlled by your early life beliefs. Due to early life belief, you suffer from “bottle gives milk” syndrome.

You believe in the ideas if you like, depend, or trust the source of those ideas, for example parents, friends, teachers, charismatic personalities etc. You believe because everyone believes and not because you know.

You also adopt beliefs based on your experiences if you are too lazy to examine their truth and reality. For example, if you never saw cow giving milk, you may believe that dairy gives milk if you are too lazy to investigate the truth of this beliefs.

Belief is due to lack of knowledge and experience. You may believe without knowing. You may believe without empirical evidence obtained through right means and methods including experimentation, validation and verification based on understanding of empirical evidence.

Beliefs are not the universal reality or absolute truth. Nothing should be accepted as true without investigating into it by yourself on basis of experimentation, application, demonstration or empirical evidence or experience.

Rather than belief or leap of faith, have trust and leap of confidence based on experience, knowledge and understanding.

Knowing (or not knowing) Through Seamless Clarity of Awareness

By being aware you know correctly in the right context as it is without associating with the known or unknow and without giving rise to self through association with faith or belief. You get seamless clarity of awareness by living life with a beginner’s mind like an original explorer without any preconceived faiths or beliefs in ideas.

By being aware without associating with the known, you know and understand your experiences correctly in the right context through all the natural and artificial means. Such seamless clarity of awareness, the phenomenon of knowing as it is without activities in the mind or reacting to the known is necessary to learn living without faiths or beliefs.

Right practice of meditation, that is not based on faith or belief, can help you to cultivate that seamless clarity of awareness necessary to deconstruct faith and live life authentically with a beginner’s mind like an original explorer.