Sunday, December 19, 2010

NOT "DE-ACCUMULATION" BUT "DE-ACCUMULATIONS"

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Here, there is nothing that is believed, so there is no one here who wants you to believe anything, either. Here, the invitation is to be free of all that you have been programmed, conditioned, acculturated, and domesticated to believe so that you can be free, period.

Furthermore, for those who have developed a preference for any non-nisargan yoga or who prefer Traditional Advaita Vedanta, Neo-Advaita, Neo-Vedanta, or Pseudo Advaita: here you will only find the use of the Direct Path Method of teaching along with the Nisarga (Natural) Yoga, all shared in simple, everyday English.

FROM A SITE VISITOR: Hi Floyd, After years/decades of seeking from pillar to post and having my inner guide resonate to the truth pointed to by the teaching that has been forthcoming from your realization I Am ALL IN!

This evening's trash will include many things accumulated along the way(many not actively used for some time others used more recently)including prayer fan, crystals, medicine pouch, Buddhist sayings displayed in meditation hut, directional rocks used in meditation hut, numerous books on everything from the sublime to the ridiculous, essential oils, crystal necklaces, Reiki symbolism, etc., etc., etc.

Was reading "Ultimate Sickness / Ultimate Medicine" last night and realized that this opportunity requires a total commitment with no distractions and that the responsibility lies on this end of the equation. I just ordered the downloadable version of" The 7Step Retreat" to have at hand to support to the exploration / journey. The more tools available to integrate into my daily and weekly walk the better. B.

F.: It has been noted often on this site that there is nothing to gain, no knowledge being offered that should be acquired and held onto, and no teachings to be clung to; in fact, it has been noted that there is no "one" who can gain, acquire, hold onto, or cling to ... only imagined personas who believe all of those are possible.

Especially in the West, the notion of "less" is anathema (though the global economic conditions are forcing many to consider that possibility for the first time ever).

Note what is de-accumulated as seekers move along the "path" and note that the process calls not for "de-accumulation" alone but requires many "de-accumulations," plural.

DE-ACCUMULATION OF BODY IDENTIFICATION
Identification with the body alone must go. If the composite unity of elements, breath, and conscious-energy is understood, giving up that identification is simplified.

DE-ACCUMULATION OF MIND IDENTIFICATION
Persons value so highly the content of their "minds" that the invitation to abandon every concept and idea and belief is often a barricade on the "path" that ends the "journey." It is indeed quite a hurdle to be topped, especially at such an early stage of "the journey."

The question is asked of those that come here for retreats, "Is it possible that everything you have ever been told or taught or now believe is false?" Some seekers that are ready to race ahead willy-nilly will provide the answer they think this speck wants to hear, not knowing that a speck of consciousness can want nothing.

For most, that is a question that must be pondered throughout all the days of the retreat and often for days (or, in some cases, for months or years) after the consideration has been offered. Only if an unwavering conviction is reached - that, indeed, everything you have ever been told or taught or now believe is false - can the "journey" continue.

Little wonder that so few make it beyond the body identification step. But if all attachment to ideas, concepts, beliefs, values, attitudes, opinions, and knowledge (a.k.a., "learned ignorance") ends, then the next step is easy.

DE-ACCUMULATION OF FALSE IDENTITIES
Most take the abandonment of all roles, personas, personalities, ego-states, identities, and stage characters as actual identities to be the most difficult of all of the early steps at the beginning of the "path." Typically, the last identities to "go" among the seekers that do move beyond this point are "The Religious One," "The Spiritual One," "The Supreme One," and "The Seeker."

Yet if the fictional content of "the mind" is rejected in full, then once the various false personas are seen, abandoning belief in those becomes a fairly simple process. It is within any lingering vestiges of "the mind" where identities nest, and if the content of "the mind" was seen to be false, then false personas can be seen to be false rather easily.

The irony is that once all learned ignorance has been abandoned, the Advaita version of ignorance (as in, "Advaitin ignorance is bliss") is relished. That version is marked by a concept-free, duality-free, distortion-free, agenda-free, knowledge-free existence that happens spontaneously.

DE-ACCUMULATION OF RELIGIOUS AND / OR SPIRITUAL ACCOUTREMENTS
At that point, body and mind and personality identifications have all been abandoned. Only then can the purging as described in the e-mail above happen. Consider all of the "spiritual tools" listed above that were accumulated over the years. Just reading the list is tiring, so imagine the toll of actually using all of those items.

And yes, "floyd's" list was even longer before the false identity of "The Religious and Spiritual Man" was dropped. This was offered previously:

In an October of 2005 post, a site visitor was asked: Is it possible that what you (and much of humanity) seek is already within? Is it possible that you can tap into that inner resource without the aid of “holy” texts, “holy” men, candles, bells, robes, crystals, smoke, dogma, kneeling and standing and bowing, humming, singing, chanting, chanting in unison, or reciting in unison? Might you be able to find the answers you seek within yourself rather than within elaborate buildings or on “holy” land? Is it possible the truth might even be found sooner without the distraction of all those accoutrements?

So if body-mind-personality identification is de-accumulated, then all of the trappings and accoutrements that had been used previously in worship or in engaging in "spiritual exercises" will be de-accumulated spontaneously and automatically.

DE-ACCUMULATION OF ALL TOOLS, ADVAITA TOOLS INCLUDED
If the remainder of the "path" is traversed, than everything is de-accumulated and all that is left is the witnessing of the Void, identification with the Nothingness, and then, in the end, no identification even with the Nothingness.

Thus, the pointers offered here: there is nothing to gain; there is no need for additional knowledge, only the temporary requirement to use thorns to remove thorns; there is nothing to learn but much to un-learn; there is no one here to teach, but the consciousness can speak to un-teach.

DE-ACCUMULATION OF ANY AND ALL VALUE EVER ASSIGNED TO ANYTHING THOUGHT TO BE EITHER PHENOMENAL OR NOUMENAL
When all of that is understood (and then no longer assigned any bogus value), then only will You de-accumulate everything, and only after all de-accumulations have been completed can You let freedom ring.

Along the way, yes, a different "set of tools" (thorns) must be employed, but at the end of the Advaita "journey," no tools are kept and nothing is any longer accumulated for it will be seen that nothing is of value and that all the sound and fury about things thought to be either phenomenal or noumenal was just much ado about nothing.

Please enter the silence of contemplation.

For those seeking the full explanation of the topics addressed here, there are more than a dozen non-duality books available at http://www.floydhenderson.com/ .

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"The Final Understanding"

"The Ultimate Sickness, The Ultimate Medicine"

I AM THAT (vs. "This Is Who I Think I Am")

"Freedom From Shifting Between States of Happiness and Unhappiness"

"Why You Must Be Empty If You Would Be Full"

"The Myth Of Death"

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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)
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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
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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
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Received 19 August 2010 from one that just completed the entire course:

I would like to extend deepest appreciation towards you for these teachings that you have offered. It has been most valuable towards what may not have been revealed throughout this manifestation labeled "anthony." Understanding Truth and finding words for gratitude are one as is all. Thank you again for pointing "me" to THAT and the understanding that came as well. Hopeful for future "contact"! Sincerely, Anthony M. W.

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