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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.
F.: When persons allow others to convince them to believe that the false concept of continuity is true, then they will begin to carry the same baggage that all such believers have carried for the last 5000-6000 years but which no humans carried for the millions of years prior to that:
• They will believe that they must live supernaturally or “spiritually” and will never even consider the option of living in a nisarga / natural fashion.
• As a result, they will never live freely and spontaneously (as the deer lives) but will live as sheep instead, never free and always following the crowd—a condition which will, in turn, leave them…
• …forever absorbed in efforts to please others, depriving them of contact with the natural urgings of the inner resource / the inner guru.
• They will be deprived of reason and logic, succumbing instead to being influenced by magical thinking.
• They will be inspired to “live by faith” (never understanding that the opposite of “faith” is not “a lack of faith” but is “the presence and use of critical reasoning skills”).
• The absence of critical reasoning skills will lead not only to conformity but also to being aligned with the learned-ignorance-thoughts-and-talk-and-behavior of the masses which, in turn, generates (a) the misery and suffering that entraps the masses…
• …and which also generates (b) a normalization of misery which leads to being dissociated from the misery-and-depression-producing effects of learned ignorance as well as inspiring…
• …(c) participation in the pathologicalization of both self and the masses, a pathology that is demonstrated consistently by all non-Realized persons and by the members of all modern institutions and cultures.
• They will live a life that is marked by expending effort and energy to prepare for another life, robbing them of the essence of this present relative existence and creating a focus on “later-ness” that deprives them of the joy of the “now-ness.”
• They will be pre-occupied with pleasing a god or gods, trying constantly to meet someone else's criteria regarding the “right” way to think, to feel, to talk, and to behave but forever failing, forever seeking forgiveness, forever trying again, forever failing again, ad infinitum.
• They will live with restrictions and limitations and boundaries, overly-concerned with rules and religious or spiritual laws and allowing other controlling persons with relative agendas, disguised as religious or spiritual agendas, to tell them what to do and not do.
• The result, therefore, is that they will never know real freedom at all.
To be free of a belief in body-mind-personality continuity, therefore, is a prerequisite for knowing freedom. Since there can be no joy if there is no freedom, then the knowing of joy, NOW, is also dependent upon being free of belief in the concept of continuity. So, to continue:
THE DECEIT OF BODY CONTINUITY (con’t.)
It was noted yesterday that not only is the concept of “body continuity post-manifestation” nothing more than total fiction but it was also noted that even the notion of body continuity now is false.
Consider: My daughter visited here for two nights last week. She will return on December 23rd for another two-night visit. She will not see the same body in December that she saw in November.
Skin is an ever-changing organ, totally replaced every month. What some persons take to be a body that they saw twenty-eight days ago is actually not the same body at all that they would see today. The skin the daughter saw then, she will never see again. The body she sees later this month will not be the body she saw then.
See? No continuity now, much less later.
Similarly, blood is an ever-changing and continuous stream of liquid material. No continuity.
Also, bone is a living entity, changing, growing, rebuilding. No continuity.
Energy levels are forever in a state of flux as energy comes and goes. No continuity.
Look at a set of pictures of an individual from age six to age eighteen and see the differences and know that only memories—erroneous memories—are behind any belief in continuity.
The false sense of continuity is really the crux of the matter that differentiates (1) all religious and spiritual teachings that deal with “life after” from (2) the Nisargan teacher’s message that deals with natural living (with natural beingness) now.
For those who cling to body-mind-personality identification, they will prefer organized religion or a spirituality-based program or some spirituality-based philosophy or some religion-based ideology or a religion-based cult.
Some will prefer the non-Nisargan versions of Advaita, Vedanta, Advaita Vedanta, neo-Advaita, neo-Vedanta, or psuedo-Advaita. Nisarga / natural beingness is far too simple and far too easy for the masses, and for most seekers, whose would-be-simple-existence has been made complex by a preference for the complications of doingness and religiosity and kindergarten spirituality. So it is.
Most, therefore, will be forever preoccupied with the rules and laws of some “Supreme Being(s),” with thinking and talking and behaving in the “right” way (a way that is defined by holy texts and redefined by leaders who apply their own spin and their “interpretations” of the meanings of the content of their texts), and with “eternal salvation” and attaining rewards.
Specifically, they will be engrossed in pleasing a god or gods so that they can receive rewards now, strength now, power now and rewards later; ultimately, their preoccupation will be with guaranteeing eternal reward and pleasure vs. eternal punishment and torture, and in that process they will preclude any change of knowing joy NOW. Please enter the silence of contemplation. (To be continued)
• They will believe that they must live supernaturally or “spiritually” and will never even consider the option of living in a nisarga / natural fashion.
• As a result, they will never live freely and spontaneously (as the deer lives) but will live as sheep instead, never free and always following the crowd—a condition which will, in turn, leave them…
• …forever absorbed in efforts to please others, depriving them of contact with the natural urgings of the inner resource / the inner guru.
• They will be deprived of reason and logic, succumbing instead to being influenced by magical thinking.
• They will be inspired to “live by faith” (never understanding that the opposite of “faith” is not “a lack of faith” but is “the presence and use of critical reasoning skills”).
• The absence of critical reasoning skills will lead not only to conformity but also to being aligned with the learned-ignorance-thoughts-and-talk-and-behavior of the masses which, in turn, generates (a) the misery and suffering that entraps the masses…
• …and which also generates (b) a normalization of misery which leads to being dissociated from the misery-and-depression-producing effects of learned ignorance as well as inspiring…
• …(c) participation in the pathologicalization of both self and the masses, a pathology that is demonstrated consistently by all non-Realized persons and by the members of all modern institutions and cultures.
• They will live a life that is marked by expending effort and energy to prepare for another life, robbing them of the essence of this present relative existence and creating a focus on “later-ness” that deprives them of the joy of the “now-ness.”
• They will be pre-occupied with pleasing a god or gods, trying constantly to meet someone else's criteria regarding the “right” way to think, to feel, to talk, and to behave but forever failing, forever seeking forgiveness, forever trying again, forever failing again, ad infinitum.
• They will live with restrictions and limitations and boundaries, overly-concerned with rules and religious or spiritual laws and allowing other controlling persons with relative agendas, disguised as religious or spiritual agendas, to tell them what to do and not do.
• The result, therefore, is that they will never know real freedom at all.
To be free of a belief in body-mind-personality continuity, therefore, is a prerequisite for knowing freedom. Since there can be no joy if there is no freedom, then the knowing of joy, NOW, is also dependent upon being free of belief in the concept of continuity. So, to continue:
THE DECEIT OF BODY CONTINUITY (con’t.)
It was noted yesterday that not only is the concept of “body continuity post-manifestation” nothing more than total fiction but it was also noted that even the notion of body continuity now is false.
Consider: My daughter visited here for two nights last week. She will return on December 23rd for another two-night visit. She will not see the same body in December that she saw in November.
Skin is an ever-changing organ, totally replaced every month. What some persons take to be a body that they saw twenty-eight days ago is actually not the same body at all that they would see today. The skin the daughter saw then, she will never see again. The body she sees later this month will not be the body she saw then.
See? No continuity now, much less later.
Similarly, blood is an ever-changing and continuous stream of liquid material. No continuity.
Also, bone is a living entity, changing, growing, rebuilding. No continuity.
Energy levels are forever in a state of flux as energy comes and goes. No continuity.
Look at a set of pictures of an individual from age six to age eighteen and see the differences and know that only memories—erroneous memories—are behind any belief in continuity.
The false sense of continuity is really the crux of the matter that differentiates (1) all religious and spiritual teachings that deal with “life after” from (2) the Nisargan teacher’s message that deals with natural living (with natural beingness) now.
For those who cling to body-mind-personality identification, they will prefer organized religion or a spirituality-based program or some spirituality-based philosophy or some religion-based ideology or a religion-based cult.
Some will prefer the non-Nisargan versions of Advaita, Vedanta, Advaita Vedanta, neo-Advaita, neo-Vedanta, or psuedo-Advaita. Nisarga / natural beingness is far too simple and far too easy for the masses, and for most seekers, whose would-be-simple-existence has been made complex by a preference for the complications of doingness and religiosity and kindergarten spirituality. So it is.
Most, therefore, will be forever preoccupied with the rules and laws of some “Supreme Being(s),” with thinking and talking and behaving in the “right” way (a way that is defined by holy texts and redefined by leaders who apply their own spin and their “interpretations” of the meanings of the content of their texts), and with “eternal salvation” and attaining rewards.
Specifically, they will be engrossed in pleasing a god or gods so that they can receive rewards now, strength now, power now and rewards later; ultimately, their preoccupation will be with guaranteeing eternal reward and pleasure vs. eternal punishment and torture, and in that process they will preclude any change of knowing joy NOW. Please enter the silence of contemplation. (To be continued)
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).
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DVD or Downloadable computer file versions of the Four-Day Advaita Retreat
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.)
For more information or to order, click:
DVD or Downloadable computer file versions of the Four-Day Advaita Retreat
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.
