An Advaita forum focusing on Realisation, enlightenment, non-duality, Real Love, peace, freedom, Your original nature, abiding naturally, the Oneness, the Noneness, and Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj.
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.
Co-Host LOUISE STERLING will be posting for at least the remainder of this week. Please visit the site each day this week with the assurance that the speck of consciousness called “louise” will offer considerations as relevant as all of those which she has shared in her other series.
[An invitation: Yesterday was the 1,500th posting on this site, so you are invited to visit the archives where there are one-thousand-five-hundred postings that can be accessed without charge. Use the search feature in the upper right-hand corner of this page to find other series posted by Louise as well as discussions that deal with almost any Advaitin topic which you might like to read about in more detail.]
FROM A SITE VISITOR: thanx for the terms ‘god-trance’ and ‘personality-trance’ – those really resonated – made clear what state I’ve lived in almost all of my life.
FROM ANOTHER SITE VISITOR: [Regarding a pointer offered yesterday] You owe cavemen an apology (LOL) Love the site.
[An invitation: Yesterday was the 1,500th posting on this site, so you are invited to visit the archives where there are one-thousand-five-hundred postings that can be accessed without charge. Use the search feature in the upper right-hand corner of this page to find other series posted by Louise as well as discussions that deal with almost any Advaitin topic which you might like to read about in more detail.]
FROM A SITE VISITOR: thanx for the terms ‘god-trance’ and ‘personality-trance’ – those really resonated – made clear what state I’ve lived in almost all of my life.
FROM ANOTHER SITE VISITOR: [Regarding a pointer offered yesterday] You owe cavemen an apology (LOL) Love the site.
F.: I stand corrected. Thank you.
Persons identified with the personal also identity their god or gods or “forces” or "laws" as personal, even while many claim that is not the case. If it is claimed to be some “force” or “cosmic energy” or “universe” rather than someone personal that is causing (with some particular motive) whatever events happen on this planet, then that “force” or “cosmic energy” or “universe” is still behaving in a person-like fashion.
Charting energy levels (and dualistically logging those in as “positive” or “negative”) and then intervening to bring about "a re-balancing of energy levels and types" is still a very person-like process, all claims that "floyd, you just don’t understand the complexities of karma and the way the universe works" to the contrary.
Indeed, the Realized understand the functioning of the totality, having been present for the formation not only of this universe but all universes. Yet the Realized Nisargan cares not a whit about all of that—giving the matter as much concern as would a bird or a deer or a snake or a whale.
To be trapped in the personality-trance is to assign personal traits not only to oneself but also to whatever it might be one believes is in charge of the universe. It is to assign person-like responsibility for whatever happens and thereby sets the stage for the ignorant to believe that naturally-occurring events are really supernatural events that have been set into motion by a Personal Being or Power.
[And the utter inanity and senselessness and absurdity inspired by the belief in a personal power that brings about havoc is this: if it were a human exacting the kind of death and destruction and misery and suffering and horror that persons claim some god or force or supreme power is either exacting now or supposedly exacted in the past, persons would hate that human; yet after being warped via programming and conditioning to accept the unacceptable as not only acceptable but actually "just fine," they worship and adore their god or power even though they believe it is behaving in the very same destructive and horrible fashion. Why? Because of their desires and their fears...because they themselves want power and Power and control.]
To be free of the slings and arrows of belief in anything or anyone that is personal, staying with the “I AM” is often enough. To follow that phrase with any word—a phrase which is as close as one can come to stating the temporary truth regarding a temporary condition—is to verbalize an untruth. Meaning?
Meaning, to report that “I am this, I am that, I am a religious person, I am a spiritual person, I am a supreme self, I am the infinite self,” ad infinitum, is an act of deception.
“But what about ‘I Am being'?” it has been asked. “Wouldn’t that statement be true, even though a word is following ‘I Am’?” Temporarily, yes, You Are being, but why go there?
Does the buck say to the doe, “Do you know, mate, that I am being”? Of course not. None of that “mind”-speak is natural. Why the burdensome preoccupation with all such “stuff” when You could be functioning in the natural fashion that all forms, except humans, function in throughout the manifestation?
The invitation here is to abide as Your original nature; to abide with the peace and freedom that comes when the Oneness is known via the understanding of non-duality; to know Real Love and to taste throughout the manifestation the sweetness of that nectar;
to be free of belief in all myths and superstitions and to be free of belief in all ideas and concepts (which are always based in ignorance); and then, eventually, to understand the Noneness—the Noneness of any personal self, Personal Self, personal being, Personal Being, person-like force, person-like law, person-like “cosmic something,” personal creator, personal sustainer, or personal destroyer that makes things happen.
Maharaj said:
Things happen without cause and reason and, after all, what does it matter, who is who? Your high opinion of me is your opinion only. Any moment you may change it. Why attach importance to opinions, even your own?
Like everything mental, the so-called law of causation contradicts itself. No thing in existence has a particular cause.
It is the illusion of time that makes you talk of causality. When the past and the future are seen in the timeless now, as parts of a common pattern, the idea of cause-effect loses its validity and creative freedom takes its place.
Once you create for yourself a world in time and space, governed by causality, you are bound to search for and find causes for everything. You put the question and impose an answer.
When I say a thing is without a cause, I mean it can be without a particular cause.
In fact, the cause of all is...all. Again, it is being trapped in the personality-trance that inspires persons to think that they know the single cause which they imagine to be behind every happening. Actually, as Ashley said recently, what happens just happens. There is no single cause and there is no single causer (much less any special or Supreme "Causer").
It is ego and egotism and a hidden agenda that motivates persons in a personality-trance to tell others what the cause of a particular event is, the desire being to manipulate and control persons and to fill a “mind” with nonsense so that the “mind” can be manipulated in order to manipulate behavior.
If you would be free (free of the influence of personality and manipulators and indoctrinators and controllers) then you must be free of all beliefs in (a) "the personal" and then free of all belief in (b) all other concepts and ideas about everything else. 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).
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.)
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.
