Advaita Vedanta: RECENT INSTANCES OF THE CONSCIOUSNESS SPEAKING VIA SOME OF THE LONGER-TERM VISITORS TO THIS SITE, Part One

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FIRST, FROM A SITE VISITOR: Many of us are hurting financially. Your message is about peace and calm, but I wonder if your message has been put to the test. You know, an ‘easy for you to say’ kind of deal? Have you been hurt in a way you can identify with those of us who are hurting?

F.: That called “floyd” had been impacted, relatively speaking: retirement fund down 45%, then informed last Tuesday that an $18,000 annual contract for consulting was being cancelled, effective immediately. As far as the relative is concerned, the “putting to the test” has happened. Remember, though, hurting and pain is about the body; misery and suffering is about the body and mind and personality triad. Can I identify with those suffering? I can’t even identify with a Self, much less other "selves" or "bodies" or "minds" or "personalities," but the suffering of all persons always registers here.

Now, to today's topic: when the consciousness speaks via site “regulars,” pointers become available for seekers at various steps along the “path”:

FROM A VISITOR IN THE MIDWEST, U.S.: After working the online course, answering the four questions in The February 4^th blog was a “no-minder.”

FROM A VISITOR IN THE NORTHEAST, U.S.: It may be the clinging to a thought thread that says there is a personal aspect to Consciousness that can still bind the "Realized." An inkling that although i am not this, not this, not this...that somehow i remain over the years SOMETHING that remains now.

The "hardest," and now easiest and most freeing fact is as "That," yet beyond That, there is no burden of self/Self. No answering to "history." There is no me that "used to be." No "special girl," no "smart woman," no "hard worker” etc. Just an observer, if that, now.

Language makes it difficult to explain and indeed there is no explanation but You are making "it" as utterly clear as possible to "me." Don't laugh floyd but i used to believe that one had to be in the physical presense of the teacher to have "transmission" and now i know that indeed i am... in the very "presence" of You/Love.

FROM A VISITOR IN MUMBAI, INDIA: i am called “raj” (not to be confused with “raja” whose escalation i have followed!) Thank you for your words. They have helped me through the procedure of ridding myself of the effects of recent events. Again i have seen that realization is not an option if i want to be free of being affected by the world’s insanity and hate. It is comforting to read your words of reason and love (Love, you would say, i believe). Signed raj in Mumbai, with Love to you and all who write to the blog or only read but don’t write to the blog as is usually my custom.

FROM A VISITOR IN THE UPPER MIDWEST, U.S.: I have got a lot out of From I To The Absolute. I may not have had a direct experience but I appreciate the book's use of concrete terms to describe the path back to Yourself.

FROM A VISITOR IN SOUTH AFRICA: Dear Floyd, The hopelessness of words … often there is an impulse to write – but somehow the words are too small and inadequate ... There are often questions – and as they are framed the response from you is immediate - this infinite empty silence – that reminds me of who I am whatever the question. I am moved by this resolute, unshakeable trust for you and the teaching – as I mentioned in an early email – I have never been a joiner of groups or follower of a teacher – so the certainty of this trust – with little direct communication – is amazing and very precious.

A question / conundrum that showed up some weeks ago is: the absolute cannot be seen or experienced – yet in some subtle way I am looking for an experience – something perceivable. It dawned on me that this is completely impossible. Anything I perceive cannot be the absolute – there can be no experience.

At the same time, there is this completely mysterious emptiness of everything – the trees in the garden in the moonlight, the white rabbit, the filing cabinet, the coke can in the rubbish bin – everything – is this alive emptiness – and it is like the colour and shape or form is a veneer on this emptiness. The phrase that came to mind is that the physical objects are like an exclamation mark on infinity. When there is relaxation into this emptiness of everything, I am overwhelmed by feelings of awe, recognition relief – often accompanied by spontaneous tears.

In the relative – I have noticed a consistent kindness and gentleness in the words and actions from here – there are no strangers any longer – I recognize myself everywhere. There is complete certainty about Who I Am. There is also a fundamental stability – whether the life events are so-called “good” or “bad”. Your presence as a friend, teacher and companion is part of this stability – as it feels most accurate to be entirely silent about what is revealing itself here.

There is no dramatic peripetia – so clearly there are “steps” to be completed. I like to check in – just in case I am deluding myself or need a push or shove somewhere – I know you will pick this up and let me know. I am happy to put in place anything you think is indicated – books, emails, phone calls ... And of course to express the depth of my gratitude to you – a gratitude that is always present even if the emails are few. Love,

If you read those words as they are spoken by the consciousness but cannot relate to them, then you are invited to heed those awarenesses and contemplate them until they become Your understanding as well.

If you do not feel at one with each speck that has spoken above, and if you did not receive an awareness or recognition of some feeling that has not previously been recognized, then you are invited to continue the “journey.” More discussion tomorrow of the understanding revealed in the last e-mail cited. Please enter the silence of contemplation. (To be continued)

FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THIS TOPIC:

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CONSCIOUSNESS/AWARENESS: The Nature of Reality Beyond Self-Realization

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Click FROM THE I TO THE ABSOLUTE (A Seven-Step Journey to Realization)

and

Click THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS “PEACE OF MIND” (There Is Only Peace If You’re Out of Your Mind)

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Click LIBERATION