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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.
FROM A SITE VISITOR: i seem to have this understanding and then something happens and i try to analysis why. You told me i'm a Type Five Analyst so i know this is about personality, but even after knowing there is no creation and therefore no creator, things have gone so well recently my MIND starts up and tries to convince me that there is some god or power or something involved. Help!
F.: Yes, the "mind" is doing again what the "mind" does if you don't reject it once and for all; otherwise, the "I've-got-it-no-wait-I-don't-have-it-no-wait-I-do-have-it" fluctuations will continue.
Maharaj, explaining why persons seem to grasp the understanding and then seemingly “lose” it, said: “You are so used to the support of concepts that when your concepts leave you, although it is your true state, you get frightened and try to cling to them again.”
He could also have added, "You become so arrogant that you try to cling to your concepts again." You believe that "things have gone so well recently" because of something that you have done, something that was "good" or "right."
You want to analyze recent events and find what the doing is all about so you can keep doing it and keep receiving the rewards by making sure that "things keep going as well" as they have recently. So much for the "no do-er" teachings you have been offered.
The egotism that is accompanying the ego-state that you have assumed is convincing you that you have become so effective with clients that you are attracting more and more people who are showing up for your services. Maybe that's the case, relatively speaking.
But a few months ago, you were complaining that people were "dropping out" and "not keeping their appointments," so fear set in as several ego-states felt threatened. What role was being played then by that "god or power or something"?
If you want to accept the praise of the village, then be prepared to hear the scorn of the town. That is the way it is when the ever-in-motion consciousness is blocked and remains attached to duality. Like the "good"? Then be ready for the "bad."
If you are going to give "some god or power or something" credit when "things are going so well," then give the same "god or power or something" the blame when "things are not going so well." But you did not do that. When things were not "going so well," you blamed yourself, again analyzing what you were doing "wrong" and what you needed to change and do "right" to build a steady clientele.
If you're going to remain attached to the relative and take relative experiences to be "real," then you will forever be trapped in the instability that you are complaining about in your email.
You have spent a lifetime either blaming yourself for things that had nothing to do with you or taking credit for things that had nothing to do with you. Consider: how many steps or events are involved before a client shows up at your door? A thousand? Two thousand?
How far down must they be beaten before they seek help and eventually cross your path? Since you do not know them before they call on you, how could any of the thousand or two thousand happenings that had to happen have had anything to do with you at all? That should make clear not only the insanity and arrogance of taking blame but also the insanity and arrogance of taking credit.
Of course none of the thousands of events in the lives of those persons had anything to do with you. But for now, the "mind" you mention is shifting into the positive side of duality: you are "being blessed," as evidenced by the perception that "things are going so well."
Then "The Analyst" personality is triggered - along with "The Good Boy" whose early programming included the admonition that you should "praise God from whom all blessings flow" - and "The Analyst" believes that he should figure out what he has done that has led to "The Good Boy's" having received such blessings.
Why? So that you can guarantee they continue. So you can have control. So you can assure that "things go well" and can assure that things never go badly. What nonsense.
Maharaj said, "You have some experiences and you try to benefit from them, but remember that whatever is going to be of use to you ultimately is going to harm you. Wherever there is use, there is also dis-use in this world of duality. Whatever you like is going to create harm for you. Whatever you like most is, in the end, going to be most harmful for you."
If you take credit or blame for happenings over which neither you nor any "god or force or something" has control (rather than merely witnessing whatever is happening), then you will be "harmed" to the degree that you will be blocking the clear seeing of reality, you will be blocking the manifestation of true freedom, and that, in turn, will block unwavering peace from manifesting.
You will ensure that your life flows not like the gently-moving waters of a calm stream but races instead full speed ahead, up and down, around and around, like a jerky roller coaster ride.
Maharaj said: "There is no sense of purpose in my doing anything. Things happens as they happen - not because I make them happen, but it is because I am that they happen."
The cause of all is all - including all of the thousands of happenings that must happen that end with someone arriving at the front door of your office. For you to think otherwise - be that thinking about "some god or force" or anything else - is a result of the egotism that comes with your having upgraded some persona and giving yourself credit, or...
the thinking will be based in self-scorn for not performing as well as you should to ensure that steady streams of paying clients are waiting in line at your door. Either you understand that things happen as they happen or you will take undue credit or give undue credit; you will give undue blame or you will assume undue blame.
In either case, you can kiss freedom and peace and sanity and stability goodbye.
F.: Yes, the "mind" is doing again what the "mind" does if you don't reject it once and for all; otherwise, the "I've-got-it-no-wait-I-don't-have-it-no-wait-I-do-have-it" fluctuations will continue.
Maharaj, explaining why persons seem to grasp the understanding and then seemingly “lose” it, said: “You are so used to the support of concepts that when your concepts leave you, although it is your true state, you get frightened and try to cling to them again.”
He could also have added, "You become so arrogant that you try to cling to your concepts again." You believe that "things have gone so well recently" because of something that you have done, something that was "good" or "right."
You want to analyze recent events and find what the doing is all about so you can keep doing it and keep receiving the rewards by making sure that "things keep going as well" as they have recently. So much for the "no do-er" teachings you have been offered.
The egotism that is accompanying the ego-state that you have assumed is convincing you that you have become so effective with clients that you are attracting more and more people who are showing up for your services. Maybe that's the case, relatively speaking.
But a few months ago, you were complaining that people were "dropping out" and "not keeping their appointments," so fear set in as several ego-states felt threatened. What role was being played then by that "god or power or something"?
If you want to accept the praise of the village, then be prepared to hear the scorn of the town. That is the way it is when the ever-in-motion consciousness is blocked and remains attached to duality. Like the "good"? Then be ready for the "bad."
If you are going to give "some god or power or something" credit when "things are going so well," then give the same "god or power or something" the blame when "things are not going so well." But you did not do that. When things were not "going so well," you blamed yourself, again analyzing what you were doing "wrong" and what you needed to change and do "right" to build a steady clientele.
If you're going to remain attached to the relative and take relative experiences to be "real," then you will forever be trapped in the instability that you are complaining about in your email.
You have spent a lifetime either blaming yourself for things that had nothing to do with you or taking credit for things that had nothing to do with you. Consider: how many steps or events are involved before a client shows up at your door? A thousand? Two thousand?
How far down must they be beaten before they seek help and eventually cross your path? Since you do not know them before they call on you, how could any of the thousand or two thousand happenings that had to happen have had anything to do with you at all? That should make clear not only the insanity and arrogance of taking blame but also the insanity and arrogance of taking credit.
Of course none of the thousands of events in the lives of those persons had anything to do with you. But for now, the "mind" you mention is shifting into the positive side of duality: you are "being blessed," as evidenced by the perception that "things are going so well."
Then "The Analyst" personality is triggered - along with "The Good Boy" whose early programming included the admonition that you should "praise God from whom all blessings flow" - and "The Analyst" believes that he should figure out what he has done that has led to "The Good Boy's" having received such blessings.
Why? So that you can guarantee they continue. So you can have control. So you can assure that "things go well" and can assure that things never go badly. What nonsense.
Maharaj said, "You have some experiences and you try to benefit from them, but remember that whatever is going to be of use to you ultimately is going to harm you. Wherever there is use, there is also dis-use in this world of duality. Whatever you like is going to create harm for you. Whatever you like most is, in the end, going to be most harmful for you."
If you take credit or blame for happenings over which neither you nor any "god or force or something" has control (rather than merely witnessing whatever is happening), then you will be "harmed" to the degree that you will be blocking the clear seeing of reality, you will be blocking the manifestation of true freedom, and that, in turn, will block unwavering peace from manifesting.
You will ensure that your life flows not like the gently-moving waters of a calm stream but races instead full speed ahead, up and down, around and around, like a jerky roller coaster ride.
Maharaj said: "There is no sense of purpose in my doing anything. Things happens as they happen - not because I make them happen, but it is because I am that they happen."
The cause of all is all - including all of the thousands of happenings that must happen that end with someone arriving at the front door of your office. For you to think otherwise - be that thinking about "some god or force" or anything else - is a result of the egotism that comes with your having upgraded some persona and giving yourself credit, or...
the thinking will be based in self-scorn for not performing as well as you should to ensure that steady streams of paying clients are waiting in line at your door. Either you understand that things happen as they happen or you will take undue credit or give undue credit; you will give undue blame or you will assume undue blame.
In either case, you can kiss freedom and peace and sanity and stability goodbye.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
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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)
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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]
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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]
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I would like to extend deepest appreciation towards you for these teachings that you have offered. It has been most valuable towards what may not have been revealed throughout this manifestation labeled "anthony." Understanding Truth and finding words for gratitude are one as is all. Thank you again for pointing "me" to THAT and the understanding that came as well. Hopeful for future "contact"! Sincerely, Anthony M. W.
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Received 19 August 2010 from one that just completed the entire course:
I would like to extend deepest appreciation towards you for these teachings that you have offered. It has been most valuable towards what may not have been revealed throughout this manifestation labeled "anthony." Understanding Truth and finding words for gratitude are one as is all. Thank you again for pointing "me" to THAT and the understanding that came as well. Hopeful for future "contact"! Sincerely, Anthony M. W.
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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