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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.
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This site now has over 1300 regular visitors from more than 58 different countries; therefore, Louise and I have added an option to the right to translate the postings into other languages. Click a flag and postings will be translated into the primary language of the nation indicated by the flag. While some translations will be far from exact, they might provide at least some degree of access to pointers not otherwise available to seekers using one of the 54 languages on the list. (Use of the back arrow will allow visitors to return to the English version.)
FROM A SITE VISITOR: Another great series by Louise. Glad she is here.
F.: And a few of her pointers will add to the central theme of this series as well, including her pointers regarding the way that personality acts as an unconscious motivator. Thanks again to Louise for another clarifying set of postings.
Now, the reminder is that it is the role of the Advaitin teacher to expose (A) the mass insanity and learned ignorance and widespread irrationality that is exhibited by the non-Realized around the globe and to (B) point the way to an insane-free, ignorance-free, irrationality-free, concept-free, identity-free, duality-free manner of abidance. To that end...
...what could shed more light on the irrational, insane, and all-too-often revolting behavior of the masses, especially over the last 5000 years, than an understanding of the "mind"-based and personality-based drivers that have caused billions and billions of humans to become dedicated to advancing the cause of universal human extinction for the most meaningless of reasons?
That same understanding can provide insight into the destructive tendencies among persons to engage in conflict on the "personal" and "local" and "state" and "national" and "international" level. And while the cause of all is all, at the root of the mass irrationality, mass ignorance (even among the intelligent) and mass brutality of the last 5000 years is...duality.
Upon a foundation of duality has been erected the bogus-but-nevertheless-cherished personas that construct various systems of bogus-but-nevertheless-cherished beliefs that now prevent "the mislead faithful" from
(a) questioning and discarding nonsense and instead inspires them to (b) accept as truth, without any questioning at all, the most absurd propositions and myth-based dogma and cultural fabrications and outlandish untruths imaginable.
The masses have been programmed and conditioned from early on to abandon the young-child's-tendency to question nonsense, so now—as adults—they accept as reality the widespread delusions that...
...perception is real, that form is substance, that the imaginary is actual, that the fake is authentic, and that what they erroneously take to be actual identities are not that at all.
[In what manner does the questioning work to move the seeker along the entire "path" to a completion of the entire "journey"? Louise explained: "Once this line of dispassionate questioning begins..., the spell or hypnotic trance of self-identity is broken not by finding answers but by questioning and eliminating all answers."]
There is nothing to learn yet there is much to unlearn, but the challenge is this: that which is to be unlearned is seldom even seen among the masses. It lies below the surface of that which is supposedly seen;
thus, most forms / spaces will come and go without ever having seen either that which is (1) below the surface but which is actually motivating thoughts, words, and deeds or that which is (2) below the surface but is the key driver of all relative fluctuating and strife and disharmony and chaos.
The subconscious agendas of their various desire-and-fear-driven personalities leave the non-Realized in a state comparable to that of an iceberg where the actual motivators of the thinking and talking and emoting and behavior of the non-Realized are below the surface and are, therefore, never seen by them.
That which is at the surface and which appears to be the driving force among the non-Realized is not at all among the influencers that are actually at play with persons who assume a false sense of personal individuality and a prideful sense of differentiation and the duality of "separate and unequal." The result?
White vs. brown vs. yellow vs. black; rich vs. poor vs. those of average means; Jew vs. Christian vs. Muslim vs. Hindu; "this nationality" vs. "that nationality." Louise just wrote: "What you think you perceive is filtered by your beliefs. When you believe you are a limited person, bound by the beliefs of body, mind and personality identification, then this is how the world appears to you – an external world populated by persons including the separate individual you think you are."
Add in that misperception of "the separate individual" which "they" think "they" are and the groundwork has been laid for the type of mass irrationality, mass ignorance and mass brutality of the last 5000 years that has followed the adoption of a "them vs. us" mentality and which prevents the understanding of the Oneness and which leaves the non-Realized without the slightest possibility of even remotely understanding Real Love.
[So revisit Louise's rhetorical question yesterday as she contrasted natural abidance with the now-typical manner of supernatural / unnatural living, referenced above as the "irrational, insane, and all-too-often revolting behavior of the masses: "Does the deer commit random acts of violence for no reason?"]
Furthermore, it will always be those unseen, below-the-surface drivers that lead to pain and misery and suffering and instability and chaos and a false sense of apartheid and apartness and separation and disintegration throughout the relative existence of the non-Realized.
How much more powerful are the unseen forces than the seen forces when it comes to the types of thinking and talking and emoting and behaving that are evidenced by the non-Realized?
Consider that the supposedly-"unsinkable" Titanic was not sunk by the part of the iceberg that was visible to those witnessing on a subject-object basis. It was the unseen part, the much larger part below the surface, that sent the Titanic, and over 1500 persons on board, to the floor of the Atlantic. The same applies to persons.
If you were to pretend that your relative existence to date has been a ship called the "H.M.S. My Life" that has been sailing across the ocean of relativity, would an objective, impartial observer compare the "H.M.S. My Life" to a quiet sailboat moving slowly across a lake with a mirror-like surface of stillness...
...or to a ship that has been helplessly tossed about at times while at other times moved along with some degree of smoothness that happened more by accident than design? Or, would the only possible conclusion that could be drawn, if Pure Witnessing were to happen, be this: the "H.M.S. My Life" has been nothing more than "The Titanic Redux":
F.: And a few of her pointers will add to the central theme of this series as well, including her pointers regarding the way that personality acts as an unconscious motivator. Thanks again to Louise for another clarifying set of postings.
Now, the reminder is that it is the role of the Advaitin teacher to expose (A) the mass insanity and learned ignorance and widespread irrationality that is exhibited by the non-Realized around the globe and to (B) point the way to an insane-free, ignorance-free, irrationality-free, concept-free, identity-free, duality-free manner of abidance. To that end...
...what could shed more light on the irrational, insane, and all-too-often revolting behavior of the masses, especially over the last 5000 years, than an understanding of the "mind"-based and personality-based drivers that have caused billions and billions of humans to become dedicated to advancing the cause of universal human extinction for the most meaningless of reasons?
That same understanding can provide insight into the destructive tendencies among persons to engage in conflict on the "personal" and "local" and "state" and "national" and "international" level. And while the cause of all is all, at the root of the mass irrationality, mass ignorance (even among the intelligent) and mass brutality of the last 5000 years is...duality.
Upon a foundation of duality has been erected the bogus-but-nevertheless-cherished personas that construct various systems of bogus-but-nevertheless-cherished beliefs that now prevent "the mislead faithful" from
(a) questioning and discarding nonsense and instead inspires them to (b) accept as truth, without any questioning at all, the most absurd propositions and myth-based dogma and cultural fabrications and outlandish untruths imaginable.
The masses have been programmed and conditioned from early on to abandon the young-child's-tendency to question nonsense, so now—as adults—they accept as reality the widespread delusions that...
...perception is real, that form is substance, that the imaginary is actual, that the fake is authentic, and that what they erroneously take to be actual identities are not that at all.
[In what manner does the questioning work to move the seeker along the entire "path" to a completion of the entire "journey"? Louise explained: "Once this line of dispassionate questioning begins..., the spell or hypnotic trance of self-identity is broken not by finding answers but by questioning and eliminating all answers."]
There is nothing to learn yet there is much to unlearn, but the challenge is this: that which is to be unlearned is seldom even seen among the masses. It lies below the surface of that which is supposedly seen;
thus, most forms / spaces will come and go without ever having seen either that which is (1) below the surface but which is actually motivating thoughts, words, and deeds or that which is (2) below the surface but is the key driver of all relative fluctuating and strife and disharmony and chaos.
The subconscious agendas of their various desire-and-fear-driven personalities leave the non-Realized in a state comparable to that of an iceberg where the actual motivators of the thinking and talking and emoting and behavior of the non-Realized are below the surface and are, therefore, never seen by them.
That which is at the surface and which appears to be the driving force among the non-Realized is not at all among the influencers that are actually at play with persons who assume a false sense of personal individuality and a prideful sense of differentiation and the duality of "separate and unequal." The result?
White vs. brown vs. yellow vs. black; rich vs. poor vs. those of average means; Jew vs. Christian vs. Muslim vs. Hindu; "this nationality" vs. "that nationality." Louise just wrote: "What you think you perceive is filtered by your beliefs. When you believe you are a limited person, bound by the beliefs of body, mind and personality identification, then this is how the world appears to you – an external world populated by persons including the separate individual you think you are."
Add in that misperception of "the separate individual" which "they" think "they" are and the groundwork has been laid for the type of mass irrationality, mass ignorance and mass brutality of the last 5000 years that has followed the adoption of a "them vs. us" mentality and which prevents the understanding of the Oneness and which leaves the non-Realized without the slightest possibility of even remotely understanding Real Love.
[So revisit Louise's rhetorical question yesterday as she contrasted natural abidance with the now-typical manner of supernatural / unnatural living, referenced above as the "irrational, insane, and all-too-often revolting behavior of the masses: "Does the deer commit random acts of violence for no reason?"]
Furthermore, it will always be those unseen, below-the-surface drivers that lead to pain and misery and suffering and instability and chaos and a false sense of apartheid and apartness and separation and disintegration throughout the relative existence of the non-Realized.
How much more powerful are the unseen forces than the seen forces when it comes to the types of thinking and talking and emoting and behaving that are evidenced by the non-Realized?
Consider that the supposedly-"unsinkable" Titanic was not sunk by the part of the iceberg that was visible to those witnessing on a subject-object basis. It was the unseen part, the much larger part below the surface, that sent the Titanic, and over 1500 persons on board, to the floor of the Atlantic. The same applies to persons.
If you were to pretend that your relative existence to date has been a ship called the "H.M.S. My Life" that has been sailing across the ocean of relativity, would an objective, impartial observer compare the "H.M.S. My Life" to a quiet sailboat moving slowly across a lake with a mirror-like surface of stillness...
...or to a ship that has been helplessly tossed about at times while at other times moved along with some degree of smoothness that happened more by accident than design? Or, would the only possible conclusion that could be drawn, if Pure Witnessing were to happen, be this: the "H.M.S. My Life" has been nothing more than "The Titanic Redux":
Yet Louise offered a pointer that bears repeating here:
L.: "...There is no suggestion to fix or improve any personas, as is the bread and butter of the personal development movement. Since the personas represent the false self, the invitation is to watch with keen observation, and simply witness the false personas, with the knowledge that this is not who you are. When they are seen directly as phantom roles born out of adaptive behaviour and conditioning, they lose their power, and like whisps of smoke, they dissipate."
Similarly, the Advaita teachings would not suggest that the only way to have prevented the sinking of the Titanic would have been to "fix" it; instead, what was missing was "keen observation" and "simple witnessing." The fog had not "dissipated" so there was no "direct seeing" of the obstacle in the path.
How effortless the "journey" becomes when accurate seeing replaces the far-more-common condition among the masses who are being driven blindly. Yet the prevailing modus operandi is this:
the natural BS detector in youth—which allows for (1) an "out-of-the-mouth-of -babes" manner of accurately characterizing nonsense as nonsense and allows for (2) the rebellious but justified challenging of irrational comments when heard—becomes disengaged post-programming, post-conditioning, post-acculturation, and post-domestication.
What follows, then, is the "out-of-the-mouth-of-sleepwalking-adults" manner of thinking and talking and emoting that prevails around the globe and that perpetuates belief in the myths and dogma and delusions that mark and mar the relative existence when that which is nisarga (natural) is displaced by that which is unnatural and that which is erroneously thought to be supernatural.
How effortless the "journey" becomes when accurate seeing replaces the far-more-common condition among the masses who are being driven blindly. Yet the prevailing modus operandi is this:
the natural BS detector in youth—which allows for (1) an "out-of-the-mouth-of -babes" manner of accurately characterizing nonsense as nonsense and allows for (2) the rebellious but justified challenging of irrational comments when heard—becomes disengaged post-programming, post-conditioning, post-acculturation, and post-domestication.
What follows, then, is the "out-of-the-mouth-of-sleepwalking-adults" manner of thinking and talking and emoting that prevails around the globe and that perpetuates belief in the myths and dogma and delusions that mark and mar the relative existence when that which is nisarga (natural) is displaced by that which is unnatural and that which is erroneously thought to be supernatural.
Please enter the silence of contemplation. (To be continued)
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[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]
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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.)
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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.
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