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Now you can receive for $40 a downloadable computer file version of the same 7-hour satsang that seekers receive when they visit for the Advaita Retreat with Floyd. You will be guided through the seven steps from identification with the false "I" to the Absolute (and beyond).
From Ross in Colorado, U.S.A.: "The video is the best $40 I have spent in some time."
For more information or to order, click:
DVD or Downloadable computer file versions of the Four-Day Advaita Retreat
From Ross in Colorado, U.S.A.: "The video is the best $40 I have spent in some time."
For more information or to order, click:
DVD or Downloadable computer file versions of the Four-Day Advaita Retreat
Thank you once more to co-host Louise Sterling, this time for a remarkably cogent series on the prerequisite for being free and at peace, namely, being free of the effects of the abusive mind first.
F.: In that regard (and relevant to the series being concluded today), the Advaitin formulas for total peace and full awareness are as follows:
1 mind = 0 peace
100% peace = 0 mind
1 personality = 100% blindly driven
0 personality = 100% awareness
To try to reconfigure (A) an ever-in-motion mind that is preoccupied with the duality of "positive vs. negative" into a (B) "no-longer-in-motion-but-fixated-at-the-positive-extreme" kind of mind is (C) an exercise in madness that will generate even more madness. The pre-occupation itself preempts any chance for fixation.
"Try not to think negative thoughts" is tantamount to "Right now, at this very instant, try not to think of an elephant."
Only if a mind is present can assumed personas be present. The Pure Witness witnesses feelings as they rise and fall, but personas emote, so they generate motion when believed to be present. The consciousness—which I Am not—is ever in motion (and will forever generate emotional reactions and emotional intoxication) if mind-personality beliefs are accepted as real.
Every persona generates a basic desire and a basic fear. That which persons call “a positive thought” is a belief by a person that it avoided something feared or found something desired. Since neither will remain fixed, then neither will any thought labeled “positive.”
During one twenty-four period last week, there was a temperature swing that ranged from 80°F to 38°F. Some persons liked it hot while some persons liked it cold, but none of those enjoyed anything other than a brief period of whatever temperature it was that they liked.
Now, suppose a person believed that 70°F would be a truly positive temperature. Also suppose that the one seeking the positive temperature of 70°F had watched a temperature gauge as it climbed that day from 38°F to 40°F to 50°F to 60°F to 70°F and then at that point screamed, “Stop!”
That person would have had as much success trying to make the temperature of a region remain constant as any person will ever have trying to make the mind (moving from neutral to negative to positive) to remain constant...to remain constantly in the “positive” mode by yelling, “Stop!”
The relative is forever in a state of flux and motion and movement. How to move beyond such flux? Understand. Maharaj said:
The three states rotate as usual - there is waking and sleeping and waking again, but they do not happen to Me. They just happen. To Me, nothing ever happens. There is something changeless, motionless, immovable, rock-like, unassailable; a solid mass of pure being-consciousness-bliss. I am never out of it. Nothing can take Me out of it…no torture…no calamity.
Identified with the body? Then biorhythmic swings and / or physiological swings will guarantee instability. Identified with the mind? Then biorhythmic swings and / or attachment to dualities (including the duality of “positive vs. negative”) will guarantee instability. Identified with the personality? Then biorhythmic swings and / or (false) self-centered notions about desires met or desires not met will guarantee instability.
To end the "swings," Maharaj said to understand this: "Awareness becomes consciousness when it has an object. The object changes all the time. In consciousness there is movement; awareness by itself is motionless and timeless, here and now."
and
"When you stand motionless, only watching, You discover Your Self as the light behind the watcher."
and
"The body appears in your mind; your mind is the content of your consciousness; You Are the motionless witness of the river of consciousness which changes eternally without changing You in any way. [Yet] Your own changelessness is so obvious that you do not notice it."
To seek "the positive thought" is an exercise in futility; however, freedom from the fictional mind is possible, and all that is required to initiate the shift to freedom is seeing that fiction is fiction.
If it is known that what most take to be “floyd” is nothing more than a temporarily-functioning triad of earth elements, air, and conscious-energy, and if it is known that (at some point) the elements shall return to the universal pool of elements, that the air shall return to the universal pool of air, and that the energy shall return to the universal pool of energy,
then it can also be understood not only that (1) the triad combination, for a spell, can allow witnessing only to happen but it can also be understood that (2) none of the “parts” forming the triad can “have” anything, including “having only positive thoughts.” Earth elements cannot have positive thoughts. Air cannot have positive thoughts. And energy cannot have positive thoughts.
Know that. Know freedom.
Know “thoughts.” No freedom.
No “mind.” Know freedom.
Know Wisdom. Know that You Are nothing.
Know that You Are All. Know Love...be Love.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
F.: In that regard (and relevant to the series being concluded today), the Advaitin formulas for total peace and full awareness are as follows:
1 mind = 0 peace
100% peace = 0 mind
1 personality = 100% blindly driven
0 personality = 100% awareness
To try to reconfigure (A) an ever-in-motion mind that is preoccupied with the duality of "positive vs. negative" into a (B) "no-longer-in-motion-but-fixated-at-the-positive-extreme" kind of mind is (C) an exercise in madness that will generate even more madness. The pre-occupation itself preempts any chance for fixation.
"Try not to think negative thoughts" is tantamount to "Right now, at this very instant, try not to think of an elephant."
Only if a mind is present can assumed personas be present. The Pure Witness witnesses feelings as they rise and fall, but personas emote, so they generate motion when believed to be present. The consciousness—which I Am not—is ever in motion (and will forever generate emotional reactions and emotional intoxication) if mind-personality beliefs are accepted as real.
Every persona generates a basic desire and a basic fear. That which persons call “a positive thought” is a belief by a person that it avoided something feared or found something desired. Since neither will remain fixed, then neither will any thought labeled “positive.”
During one twenty-four period last week, there was a temperature swing that ranged from 80°F to 38°F. Some persons liked it hot while some persons liked it cold, but none of those enjoyed anything other than a brief period of whatever temperature it was that they liked.
Now, suppose a person believed that 70°F would be a truly positive temperature. Also suppose that the one seeking the positive temperature of 70°F had watched a temperature gauge as it climbed that day from 38°F to 40°F to 50°F to 60°F to 70°F and then at that point screamed, “Stop!”
That person would have had as much success trying to make the temperature of a region remain constant as any person will ever have trying to make the mind (moving from neutral to negative to positive) to remain constant...to remain constantly in the “positive” mode by yelling, “Stop!”
The relative is forever in a state of flux and motion and movement. How to move beyond such flux? Understand. Maharaj said:
The three states rotate as usual - there is waking and sleeping and waking again, but they do not happen to Me. They just happen. To Me, nothing ever happens. There is something changeless, motionless, immovable, rock-like, unassailable; a solid mass of pure being-consciousness-bliss. I am never out of it. Nothing can take Me out of it…no torture…no calamity.
Identified with the body? Then biorhythmic swings and / or physiological swings will guarantee instability. Identified with the mind? Then biorhythmic swings and / or attachment to dualities (including the duality of “positive vs. negative”) will guarantee instability. Identified with the personality? Then biorhythmic swings and / or (false) self-centered notions about desires met or desires not met will guarantee instability.
To end the "swings," Maharaj said to understand this: "Awareness becomes consciousness when it has an object. The object changes all the time. In consciousness there is movement; awareness by itself is motionless and timeless, here and now."
and
"When you stand motionless, only watching, You discover Your Self as the light behind the watcher."
and
"The body appears in your mind; your mind is the content of your consciousness; You Are the motionless witness of the river of consciousness which changes eternally without changing You in any way. [Yet] Your own changelessness is so obvious that you do not notice it."
To seek "the positive thought" is an exercise in futility; however, freedom from the fictional mind is possible, and all that is required to initiate the shift to freedom is seeing that fiction is fiction.
If it is known that what most take to be “floyd” is nothing more than a temporarily-functioning triad of earth elements, air, and conscious-energy, and if it is known that (at some point) the elements shall return to the universal pool of elements, that the air shall return to the universal pool of air, and that the energy shall return to the universal pool of energy,
then it can also be understood not only that (1) the triad combination, for a spell, can allow witnessing only to happen but it can also be understood that (2) none of the “parts” forming the triad can “have” anything, including “having only positive thoughts.” Earth elements cannot have positive thoughts. Air cannot have positive thoughts. And energy cannot have positive thoughts.
Know that. Know freedom.
Know “thoughts.” No freedom.
No “mind.” Know freedom.
Know Wisdom. Know that You Are nothing.
Know that You Are All. Know Love...be Love.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
Upcoming Series:
** THE HIGHEST POWER ALWAYS OVERRULES THE HIGHER POWER
** THE ULTIMATE REALIZATION THAT CAN FREE YOU TO LIVE IN THE NISARGA WAY WITHOUT FLUCTUATION
** CONTINUITY OF BODY-MIND-PERSONALITY LATER? THERE IS NO CONTINUITY EVEN NOW!
SIX WAYS THAT SEEKERS HAVE REALIZED:
1. BY WATCHING the 4-Disk Video (DVD) Set, or the same retreat available as a downloadable file. Either will provide an entire seven-hour retreat / series of satsang sessions showing three seekers being guided through all seven steps by Floyd and can provide viewers with an “experiential,” step-by-step series of satsang meetings that will move the viewers from identification with the I to abidance as the Absolute and then to abidance as That Which Is beyond
Some seekers are already using the computer file version and the DVD sets for meetings in groups in homes, playing the retreat, pausing for discussion, etc.
To find out more or to purchase the DVD set or the downloadable computer file version of the retreat, click:
DVD or Downloadable computer file versions of the Four-Day Advaita Retreat
Option “A” is for the downloadable file version, Option “B” is used to order the DVD set for delivery inside the U.S., Option “C” for international orders.
For the download, Paypal will send me a notice that payment has been received and then I will send by e-mail the downloading instruction, password, etc.
[It is recommended that you watch the video with pen and paper in hand. Write whatever you need clarified. You'll see that there are constant reviews and you might find an answer later in the seven-hour presentation. Then, after you watch it all, there will be a common ground for discussion. Purchase of the DVD’s or the file will include the right to clarifications and answers to your specific questions via e-mail.]
2. BY READING these books in this exact order:
IT'S ALL BULLSHIT (And Why Knowing It Sets You Free)
SPIRITUAL SOBRIETY (Recovering What Religions Lost)
[Those two prepare the seeker to question it all]
THE MEDITATION GUIDES
[Provide a broad overview of the understanding]
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN I DIE?
[Begins to free the seeker of body identification and the desire for body continuity]
THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS "PEACE OF MIND" (There Is Only Peace if You're Out of Your Mind)
[Shows the seeker how to be free of the subconscious motivators of the false content of the “mind”]
LIBERATION
[Shows the seeker how to be free of the subconscious motivators of personas]
THE ESSENCE OF THE TEACHINGS
[Provides the final preparation for the seeker to be directed along the “path”]
FROM THE I TO THE ABSOLUTE (A Seven-Step Journey to Reality)
[Directs the seeker along the “path”]
CONSCIOUSNESS/AWARENESS: The Nature of Reality Beyond Self-Realization (Peace Every Day When Abiding as The Absolute)
[Allows the seeker to understand the functioning of the totality, the manifestation, and what is involved with the un-manifestation]
FROM THE ABSOLUTE TO THE NOTHINGNESS
[Provides the seeker the wisdom to understand the Noneness as well as the Oneness]
Purchase an e-Book now and begin reading it in minutes (except with e-checks that can take 7-10 days). Trusting our clients as we do, all e-Books are provided to you in printable form.
SAVE IF YOU BUY ALL ELEVEN AT ONCE:
(You may order the books one at a time or you may use the following link to acquire the entire 11-e-Book set on sale for $99 if ordered at one time with the “Buy Now” button below. For this option, there will be no download links provided; once the near-instant notice of payment is received from PayPal, your e-Books will be sent to you as e-mail attachments. All are printable for your convenience.)
** THE HIGHEST POWER ALWAYS OVERRULES THE HIGHER POWER
** THE ULTIMATE REALIZATION THAT CAN FREE YOU TO LIVE IN THE NISARGA WAY WITHOUT FLUCTUATION
** CONTINUITY OF BODY-MIND-PERSONALITY LATER? THERE IS NO CONTINUITY EVEN NOW!
SIX WAYS THAT SEEKERS HAVE REALIZED:
1. BY WATCHING the 4-Disk Video (DVD) Set, or the same retreat available as a downloadable file. Either will provide an entire seven-hour retreat / series of satsang sessions showing three seekers being guided through all seven steps by Floyd and can provide viewers with an “experiential,” step-by-step series of satsang meetings that will move the viewers from identification with the I to abidance as the Absolute and then to abidance as That Which Is beyond
Some seekers are already using the computer file version and the DVD sets for meetings in groups in homes, playing the retreat, pausing for discussion, etc.
To find out more or to purchase the DVD set or the downloadable computer file version of the retreat, click:
DVD or Downloadable computer file versions of the Four-Day Advaita Retreat
Option “A” is for the downloadable file version, Option “B” is used to order the DVD set for delivery inside the U.S., Option “C” for international orders.
For the download, Paypal will send me a notice that payment has been received and then I will send by e-mail the downloading instruction, password, etc.
[It is recommended that you watch the video with pen and paper in hand. Write whatever you need clarified. You'll see that there are constant reviews and you might find an answer later in the seven-hour presentation. Then, after you watch it all, there will be a common ground for discussion. Purchase of the DVD’s or the file will include the right to clarifications and answers to your specific questions via e-mail.]
2. BY READING these books in this exact order:
IT'S ALL BULLSHIT (And Why Knowing It Sets You Free)
SPIRITUAL SOBRIETY (Recovering What Religions Lost)
[Those two prepare the seeker to question it all]
THE MEDITATION GUIDES
[Provide a broad overview of the understanding]
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN I DIE?
[Begins to free the seeker of body identification and the desire for body continuity]
THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS "PEACE OF MIND" (There Is Only Peace if You're Out of Your Mind)
[Shows the seeker how to be free of the subconscious motivators of the false content of the “mind”]
LIBERATION
[Shows the seeker how to be free of the subconscious motivators of personas]
THE ESSENCE OF THE TEACHINGS
[Provides the final preparation for the seeker to be directed along the “path”]
FROM THE I TO THE ABSOLUTE (A Seven-Step Journey to Reality)
[Directs the seeker along the “path”]
CONSCIOUSNESS/AWARENESS: The Nature of Reality Beyond Self-Realization (Peace Every Day When Abiding as The Absolute)
[Allows the seeker to understand the functioning of the totality, the manifestation, and what is involved with the un-manifestation]
FROM THE ABSOLUTE TO THE NOTHINGNESS
[Provides the seeker the wisdom to understand the Noneness as well as the Oneness]
Purchase an e-Book now and begin reading it in minutes (except with e-checks that can take 7-10 days). Trusting our clients as we do, all e-Books are provided to you in printable form.
SAVE IF YOU BUY ALL ELEVEN AT ONCE:
(You may order the books one at a time or you may use the following link to acquire the entire 11-e-Book set on sale for $99 if ordered at one time with the “Buy Now” button below. For this option, there will be no download links provided; once the near-instant notice of payment is received from PayPal, your e-Books will be sent to you as e-mail attachments. All are printable for your convenience.)
You may visit The Official Website of Floyd Henderson for information on each book.
3. BY 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
4. BY ATTENDING an Advaitin retreat for satsang with floyd and being guided through all seven steps. For details of the retreats offered, please visit the retreat information site.
5. BY ARRANGING satsang by telephone in the U.S. or by Skype internationally:
Use the Contact link for details or for information on making arrangements for a session
6. BY ARRANGING for floyd to travel to your location and meet with you or your group. Use the contact link above to discuss details.
3. BY 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
4. BY ATTENDING an Advaitin retreat for satsang with floyd and being guided through all seven steps. For details of the retreats offered, please visit the retreat information site.
5. BY ARRANGING satsang by telephone in the U.S. or by Skype internationally:
Use the Contact link for details or for information on making arrangements for a session
6. BY ARRANGING for floyd to travel to your location and meet with you or your group. Use the contact link above to discuss details.
