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Now available on DVD or downloadable computer file:
seven hours of satsang with floyd guiding seekers through all seven steps (in their exact order) to Realization. See details at the end of this post.
seven hours of satsang with floyd guiding seekers through all seven steps (in their exact order) to Realization. See details at the end of this post.
FROM SEVERAL SITE VISITORS, this question: “When will we hear from Louise again?”
THE ANSWER: Next week: October 20-23.
F.: Of course this yoga would have to be the least popular. Over six billion people on the planet are identified with—and attached to the concepts of—one of the three sky cults that evolved from the words of Abraham.
Those billions of persons have been programmed to think religiously and magically and spiritually; to talk religiously and magically and spiritually; to behave in religious and magical and spiritual ways.
They have been programmed to work in order to avoid eternal punishment and to gain eternal reward from a male god. Others before them were programmed and conditioned to seek the same from a multiplicity of female and male gods.
So chalk off six billion plus persons right there who do not want to live naturally but who think they are living supernaturally and want to keep it that way. Then, using Maharaj’s estimate, there may also be some 100,000,000 or more who are seeking...
parabrahman, brahman, pragna, peace, satyam-shivam, sundaram, premakash, gnana, chidaram, love, nirguna, nivritti, nirvana, tattva, a better world, ananda, good karma, moksha, fame, Atman, purusha, maha-sattva, security, bhoga, knowledge, samvid, paramartha, buddhi, samadhi or turiya or turiyatita, ad infinitum.
Yet how many, after being programmed for years to “go out there and make something of yourself” and believing “I’m really something!” are willing to abandon that programming and seek akash (the void)?
Who on a planet where accumulation is so popular will even consider the suggestion to seek nothing (or the Nothingness)? How many seekers want to be told that there is nothing to learn but much to un-learn? How many seeking a teacher want to hear that the way to that which they seek requires their being un-taught rather than being taught?
Who wants to hear that the medicine here will not make them better but will dissolve them instead? For the ego, there is never enough. The ego always wants more, and even as lip service is given to de-accumulation, those offering such lip service are still trying to accumulate much of what is catalogued above.
Who wants to hear what seekers hear when they show up here for satsang or for a retreat with their paralyzing fears rooted in body identification and angst about dying, only to be told:
Don’t wait for that which you dread—go ahead and die right now. Get it over with. Die the death of body identification. Let your illusions die out so you can be free now.
Who that thinks he/she knows it all, and has worked so diligently to gather so much knowledge, wants to hear that it is all learned ignorance?
The result is, therefore, that the simplest yoga of all that leads to the simplest existence of all is the most unpopular of all. The non-Realized prefer complications, not simplicity, and that is the case with many seekers as well.
In so many cases, the proper medicine for those seekers would be the medicine of dissolution and de-accumulation and de-programming, but they suffer the misfortune of finding teachers who merely re-program them, who give them more information to learn, who are all about addition rather than subtraction.
The nisarga yoga will subtract and subtract and subtract until there is no mind at all, until there are no personas, no beliefs, no concepts, no ideas, no duality, and, finally, no identity at all.
Who that wants to be something—something spiritual, something religious, something well-known, something well off financially—would find attractive that which the nisarga yoga offers? Few. Very few indeed. So it is. Please enter the silence of contemplation.
Those billions of persons have been programmed to think religiously and magically and spiritually; to talk religiously and magically and spiritually; to behave in religious and magical and spiritual ways.
They have been programmed to work in order to avoid eternal punishment and to gain eternal reward from a male god. Others before them were programmed and conditioned to seek the same from a multiplicity of female and male gods.
So chalk off six billion plus persons right there who do not want to live naturally but who think they are living supernaturally and want to keep it that way. Then, using Maharaj’s estimate, there may also be some 100,000,000 or more who are seeking...
parabrahman, brahman, pragna, peace, satyam-shivam, sundaram, premakash, gnana, chidaram, love, nirguna, nivritti, nirvana, tattva, a better world, ananda, good karma, moksha, fame, Atman, purusha, maha-sattva, security, bhoga, knowledge, samvid, paramartha, buddhi, samadhi or turiya or turiyatita, ad infinitum.
Yet how many, after being programmed for years to “go out there and make something of yourself” and believing “I’m really something!” are willing to abandon that programming and seek akash (the void)?
Who on a planet where accumulation is so popular will even consider the suggestion to seek nothing (or the Nothingness)? How many seekers want to be told that there is nothing to learn but much to un-learn? How many seeking a teacher want to hear that the way to that which they seek requires their being un-taught rather than being taught?
Who wants to hear that the medicine here will not make them better but will dissolve them instead? For the ego, there is never enough. The ego always wants more, and even as lip service is given to de-accumulation, those offering such lip service are still trying to accumulate much of what is catalogued above.
Who wants to hear what seekers hear when they show up here for satsang or for a retreat with their paralyzing fears rooted in body identification and angst about dying, only to be told:
Don’t wait for that which you dread—go ahead and die right now. Get it over with. Die the death of body identification. Let your illusions die out so you can be free now.
Who that thinks he/she knows it all, and has worked so diligently to gather so much knowledge, wants to hear that it is all learned ignorance?
The result is, therefore, that the simplest yoga of all that leads to the simplest existence of all is the most unpopular of all. The non-Realized prefer complications, not simplicity, and that is the case with many seekers as well.
In so many cases, the proper medicine for those seekers would be the medicine of dissolution and de-accumulation and de-programming, but they suffer the misfortune of finding teachers who merely re-program them, who give them more information to learn, who are all about addition rather than subtraction.
The nisarga yoga will subtract and subtract and subtract until there is no mind at all, until there are no personas, no beliefs, no concepts, no ideas, no duality, and, finally, no identity at all.
Who that wants to be something—something spiritual, something religious, something well-known, something well off financially—would find attractive that which the nisarga yoga offers? Few. Very few indeed. So it is. Please enter the silence of contemplation.
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 recommend 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.)
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 recommend 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.
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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.
SUBMITTING ADVAITA VEDANTA POETRY FOR PUBLICATION
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