Saturday, June 24, 2006

WHAT IS THE ABSOLUTE…THE “THAT”? The Conclusion, Part A

Table of Contents

Today's Considerations
Recent Posts and Archives
Tools for Realization
Author's eBooks
Author's Paperback Books
Free eBooks
F.: An earlier post offered this pointer: “How often fictitious and religious and spiritual terms are used to mislabel the one, truth thing—THAT—which is real.” As evidence of that pointer, here’s part of an exchange over lunch last week with a man whom many call “well-educated” and “very knowledgeable” and “a man who has earned a doctor’s degree”:

The Ph.D.: “I must say I disagree with your Advaita teachings. As a Christian, I live by the words of Christ. I know there’s a God in heaven.”
F.: “The words of Christ are Advaita teachings, and Christ dismissed the concept of “heaven.” [Puzzled look.] He said, “Heaven and earth shall fade away” and “No one shall ever see heaven because it is…where?”
The Ph.D.: “Within.”
F.: “So if Christ was right and there’s no geographic heaven, where’s your God?”
The Ph.D.: “He’s within…within me.”
F.: “You say, ‘He.’ So there’s a ‘He,’ some kind of male, inside you?”
The Ph.D.: “Well, it’s not a male God inside me, per se. It’s more like…energy.”
F.: “OK. So you don’t disagree with the non-duality teachings and you actually disagree with the Christians’ dualistic beliefs about heaven and hell. We’re in agreement that conscious-energy is flowing through the body, so why take something as natural as energy and mislabel it with some supernatural term? Where’s that coming from?”
The Ph.D.: [Shrugs]

Persons internalize other persons and their beliefs when other persons have the power of influence over them...whether that influence involves parenting, money, or fear of abandonment. The doctor’s beliefs are rooted in the latter; others take on the beliefs and “values” of a boss and start mirroring that person out of economic fear. Other persons, even as adults, refuse to question even the most nonsensical of the beliefs that they adopted from their parents. Why? They were programmed from early on not to question those people, and they struggled for most of their existence to have those persons use the “good” label and not the “bad” label to describe them.

The “mind” and ego-states are mesmerized by their own content and knowledge and accumulations, but why use any words that inspire more beliefs in concepts that debilitate instead of using words to eliminate debilitating concepts? (A) Because most will never know what they do not know and will cling to what they think they know…no matter how insane their beliefs might be, and (B) because they are asleep but thinking they are awake; thus, they will verbalize their beliefs year after year after year, disseminating throughout the culture more acceptance of false beliefs. But actually the truth cannot be stated. That which is real has no name. Advaitans use “THAT” as a pointer only and to avoid inspiring a false belief in some “entity” or “thing” or “power” with an eternal form. Nothing that has any apparent form in the relative existence actually has a form, so certainly nothing will ever have any eternal, everlasting form.

Finally, there is no self or Self that is the same as anything else. What is "the same as everything else" is that lowest common denominator that all is: energy. The I AM can refer to the conscious-energy when manifested in a space, but the I AM THAT is also that same conscious-energy, merely not-manifested. Unmanifested, the consciousness is Absolutely pure; once manifested, the consciousness is soon bastardized via programming, conditioning and enculturation. Consciousness manifested is not unlike one physical property of a soybean in that it takes on the flavor of whatever it is placed next to. Thus, the purity of child ignorance is soon lost in most cases since the consciousness of a child will begin to reflect whatever consciousness it is placed next to. As a result, some persons become conscious of skin color and believe that represents a real difference. Some persons become conscious of national boundaries and believe that represents a real difference. Some persons become conscious of something as relative as sexual preferences and believe that constitutes a difference. Some persons become conscious of affiliations with organizations that have been dreamed up by controlling men and think that makes a difference. Some persons become conscious of religious identifications and believe those represent a real difference. Some persons become conscious of beliefs and assume that those held by “others” represent a real difference. And some few persons will realize What They Truly Are and realize that no dualities exist and no differences exist except as imagined because of perverse programming and warped consciousness. Please enter the silence of contemplation. [Tomorrow: The Conclusion, Part B]

Recent Posts and Archives

Tools Used by Other Seekers of Realization

WATCHING an Advaita Vedanta Retreat: Watch a Downloadable computer file version of the Four-Day Advaita Retreat (Downloadable on PC only, not Apple.)

ENROLLING in the Online Advaita Classes For information, visit Information on the Advaita Classes on the Internet To enroll visit Enroll in the Advaita Internet Course

ATTENDING an Advaitin retreat with Floyd and being guided through all seven steps. For details of the retreats offered, please visit the retreat information site.

ARRANGING a one-hour session via Skype or telephone with Floyd. (Skype is a free service.) Click the button to pay and you will be contacted to arrange a date and time for the call.

Five Free eBooks

Compliments of Andy Gugar, Jr.,
the following eBooks are available without charge for you or for friends:

I.
"GOOD vs. EVIL?" or "IGNORANCE, STUPIDITY, and INSANITY?"

The content of this eBook deals with one of the most common but erroneous beliefs that the non-Realized masses cling to and which they will fight about (and even kill over), namely, that there is a planet-wide duel going on between “the forces of good and evil” in the universe.

Either (1) the ancient view is spot on: that the "ills of the planet" are rooted in evil people, in people not being religious enough or spiritual enough, and are caused solely by bad morality; or, (2) the "ills of the planet" are rooted in ignorance, stupidity and insanity and "being good" or "being moral" does not put an end to ignorance, does not eliminate stupidity, and does not treat insanity in any way.

II.
"THE VISION"

Comments regarding the free eBook entitled “THE VISION”:

“My thanks to you and Andy.” – Andrew “Mac” McMaster

“Thanks so much for the book! And, by the way, it is brilliant and the most effective pointing that you have done. It has served to help clear the remaining blockages.” – Stan Cross

“Greatly appreciate having “THE VISION” added to my Henderson resource library that is situated on the right side of my bed for easy access! Eternally grateful for what was received and what was given.” – Robert Rigby

“‘THE VISION’ is such a well-written, condensed version of the Nisarga Yoga approach to understanding and enjoying Reality that I feel it can serve as a must-read ‘meditation guide’ for all earnest seekers.” – Andy Gugar, Jr.

III.
"Sapolsky, Maharaj, and the Non-Dual Teachings"

Dr. Robert Maurice Sapolsky is an American neuroendocrinologist; a professor of biology, neuroscience, and neurosurgery at Stanford University; a researcher; an author; and a Research Associate at the National Museums of Kenya.

There is much that a non-dualist or Advaitin or Nisargan can relate to by comparing and contrasting what Sapolsky reveals about the way certain troops of baboons live in Africa with the way that humans abide all around the globe.

This 152-page eBook catalogues the common, non-dual message shared by Sapolsky and Maharaj and reveals the ways that Sapolsky’s scientific research supports the non-dual pointers offered by Maharaj.

IV.
Seeking

In “PART ONE” it will be seen that most persons on the planet are not seeking, and most will never seek, but for those who are seeking, most will face several obstacles:

In “PART TWO” of this book, it will be seen why many criticized Maharaj for “changing his message in his later talks.” It will be seen that the changes were not about changing the message per se as much as about changing his methodology as he experimented with one version of the Ultimate Medicine after another in order to try to find an effective means for addressing the Ultimate Sickness.

He tried a religious version of the Medicine, a Spiritual version of the Medicine, and finally settled on a version which addressed to Sickness at its core . . . at the mental and emotional level.

V.
"THE MOST DANGEROUS BELIEF OF ALL"

“Dangerous” is a term that can only apply during the relative existence, but of those who do commit suicide, for example, how many shoot themselves in the foot over and over until they “bleed out”? None. They shoot themselves in the head. Why? In order to try to stop the noise - to try to stop the chatter of a thousand monkeys – to stop the noisy mind which is the area that stores the ideas, notions, concepts, mind-stuff, etc. which drives them into the depths of insanity.

And what are those ideas, notions, concepts, etc. called, collectively? "Their beliefs." The irony? They are not their beliefs at all. They are the beliefs of “others” that were set in place via programming, conditioning, etc. and which persons then think are their own.

And what are those beliefs rooted in, and what reinforces those beliefs and convinces persons that they are sacred and worth fighting over and even sometimes worth dying for? Blind faith.

This 337-page eBook discusses those issues in detail.

To read any or all of the free eBooks, please double-click the "FREEBIES" link at the top of this page