[These discussions of the Asia-India-“Native American” use of Advaita pointers are in response to an e-mail regarding the May 27th HBO presentation of “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.” You may visit http://www.hbo.com/films/burymyheart/ if interested in details.]
F.: And as the pure voice of the eternal consciousness continued to speak, more was understood:
We are but one thread.
F.: And as the pure voice of the eternal consciousness continued to speak, more was understood:
We are but one thread.
Peace comes from within when oneness with the universe is realized.
It was seen that power need not be sought except for the strength required to fight the greatest enemy—self.
It was seen that when self has been eliminated, no more power or strength is required.
It came to be known that another can be disappointed if that is required in order to be free of dual-mindedness and to be true to Self.
It was seen that, to be trustworthy, one must first be faithless.
And it was understood, finally, that for Nirvana to happen once more, I need not be with Grandmother nor at Grandmother’s. It was seen that I had to BE Grandmother…had to BE that unadulterated essence that is the pure Awareness without any duality of “consciousness-of” anything. The vision came, the one described at http://www.floydhenderson.com/ , and I saw more than I can tell, and I understood more than I saw, for I was seeing the shape of all shapes living in harmony as one.
So what about “you”? To feel naturally-comfortable with the simple will automatically eliminate the complications and the separations and the anxiety and the frustration and the suffering and the misery that are generated by a complex existence. Realization makes clear that the assumption of ego-states is always accompanied by arrogance and that arrogance is always accompanied by accumulation. Realization makes clear that a simple existence is impossible when ego-states, arrogance, and accumulation are involved. Have you seen that less rather than more is a key to happiness? Have you found the joy of the simple rather than the misery of the complex? Has the peace of the quietness supplanted the chaos of noise?
Then remember the pointer offered earlier:
In sharing a description of the means by which a foundation was laid by a “Native American” grandmother for a search that would end with Full Realization and abidance as the Absolute, do not assume that you are at a disadvantage in completing the “journey” to Realization if you did not have a similar background. It is not a requirement because somewhere along the way, you, too, were exposed to a taste of Nirvana, if only for a moment.
You need but understand. Understand that the consciousness that was called “Grandmother” is the consciousness that is called “floyd” and is the consciousness that You Are. So I AM Grandmother. You Are Grandmother. Your Self IS That Which Grandmother was and is. Your Self IS “floyd.” Your Self IS That Which spoke all of the words attributed earlier to “Native Americans.” Yet all of that is temporary. You Are the Absolute, the permanent, and if you transcend even the consciousness and abide as the Absolute, then the quality of the relative existence that "Grandmother lived" is available to you…in the city, in a marriage, in the workplace…wherever. Today, it is understood that I AM Grandmother (meaning, I AM that which manifested but which abides as THAT which has not.)
Therefore, the topics for deliberation at the end of this series include:
What can you now learn from Native Americans / Grandmother / The Advaita Teachings / Your Self that would generate simplicity and peace and harmony and contentment? I saw more than I can tell, and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing the shape of all things as they must live together in harmony as one.
In what kind of environment is your relative existence unfolding? I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments.
Have you found the means by which peace happens without interruption, no matter your surrounding environment? Earth, teach me humility; Earth, teach me to forget myself.
Have you found a way to move out of the swirling storm and to step into the calm eye instead? Earth, teach me renewal—as the seed that rises in spring.
Do you understand that You Are Grandmother? We are but one.
Have you understood that to abide as Grandmother, as the pure Absolute, is the only chance for peace and harmony in this relative existence? Are you “Walking in Balance?”
So Chaska, thank you for your inquiry and the opportunity to revisit the “route to Truth” that was taken. Finally, might any Advaita lessons in non-duality be revealed in a film about an 1890 event that might be relevant today?
If you watch the film, consider taking the “Anglo-Saxon white man” to be a metaphor for non-Realized persons who dismissed as “devil talk” the non-duality words of the “Native Americans” (who can serve in the story as a metaphor for the Realized). Consider the non-Realized as those who still dismiss the Advaita Teachings as "devil talk" or (as one religious critic characterized what is shared here) "evil words coming from a New Age Agent of Satan." Considerations might include: Is there anything that might be learned today from those ancient words of Advaita that could generate harmony and unity and help eliminate the dualistic beliefs in separation and “better than” that result in war? Have the lessons of Wounded Knee been learned, or have they merely been repeated?
Mass Graves, Wounded Knee, 1890
“Above all you should understand that there can never be peace between nations until there is known that true peace which is within.” Black Elk
Mass Graves, Europe, 1940’s
“Above all you should understand that there can never be peace between nations until there is known that true peace which is within.” Black Elk
“Above all you should understand that there can never be peace between nations until there is known that true peace which is within.” Black Elk
Mass Graves, Iraq, present
“Above all you should understand that there can never be peace between nations until there is known that true peace which is within.” Black Elk
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
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