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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.: [Please read the 5 August 2010 post first to see some of the obstacles to Realization at play and then read on to find other obstacles and the way to eliminate them all]
It is time to be very blunt. Some are playing around with these teachings and forgetting that Realization can only happen in one way: the seeker must follow, in a step-wise fashion, the specific steps that will take her / him back to the origin in the exact reverse order by which they came...
...by which they came to be so confused that they are identified with a body of elements and with a mindful of distortions and with dozens upon dozens of false identities, all of which leave them to suffer from nonsensical beliefs and from personality disorders and from varying degrees of insanity.
Seekers are also suffering as a result of the fact that they are listening to people who are tossing out thousands of pieces of advice, none of which are inviting them to follow the one, exact clear-cut "path" to Full Realization which is...
...a path that must be followed from the exact, clearly-identified beginning to the exact, clearly-defined end. Any other means will be a helter-skelter shotgun blast of pellets of advice that will fill the one, proper plan with so many holes that the seeker will most assuredly be guaranteed to fall through them along the way.
Thus, the e-mails that were to be answered shall be set aside as this review is offered, a review of why most never Realize Fully and a review of the only way that Realization can happen.
SEEKING A BODY OF KNOWLEDGE
Louise: It is hard for seekers to really “get” how the Advaitin understanding is revealed, despite the regular suggestion to abandon the mind and to take the pointers into silent consideration.
Part of the enculturation and programming that imprisons is the fixed “belief” that any understanding/approach must be first evaluated by the mind and then understood by the mind.
In this way, the Advaitin understanding is relegated to a “body of knowledge” that is evaluated and adopted partially or in total by a conditioned mind which is itself a “body of knowledge”.
Eventually, the seeker will “get” that there is no body of knowledge to evaluate and grapple with; rather, there are a series of powerful detergent-type pointers that “clean” the mind of its false and corrupted contents.
This is not a democratic exchange between intellectuals; rather it is unadulterated, undemocratic and radical annihilation of the intelligent mind and its incessant questions.
BELIEVING THAT THE BIG NAME TEACHERS AND "TOP ADVAITA WRITERS ON AMAZON" CAN GUIDE YOU TO REALIZATION
Maharaj warned the seekers that came to the loft that they would never Realize if they were driven to seek out what he called "the big name teachers." One cannot offer "unadulterated, undemocratic and radical" pointers to Truth and still be popular with the masses. Your litmus test is simple. Ask:
Is this writer's / teacher's message popular among the masses? Then that message will never lead to Realization because
1. it is impressive to the sleepwalking, lost-in-the-dream, trapped-in-distortion, multiple-personality-disorder-plagued and insanity-suffering masses; and because
2. the message is impressive to persons who live in a dream world where they dine heartily on daily meals of mind-speak and group-think and "conventional wisdom" (the grandest oxymoron of them all); and because
3. 97% of the masses claim to be members of religious organizations where they are taught the most unbelievable myth-and-superstition-based principles but unquestioningly believe them anyway; and because
4. the ones claiming to be "spiritual" are merely adopting religion-rooted beliefs and practices and using them outside formal venues in order to appear to be on some higher level than the masses who are attached to dogma; and because of this:
5. if you take the number of persons that Maharaj predicted would Realize at any given time and find the planet's population at the time he made the prediction, you will see that the number was no more than about 7000.
If his estimate (made after decades of trying to guide seekers to Realization) is even close, then only a handful of persons will ever Realize. The masses will not, just as most who visited the loft did not. So if the masses endorse a message - by buying millions of copies of a book or by paying huge sums to attend public speeches or by paying five-thousand dollars to attend a seminar in droves - then the proof is there:
that message will never be the one that leads you to Full Realization.
Some ask, "Well, Maharaj led you to Realization, and he's a big name now." First, comparatively speaking, he was not a big name teacher when he was teaching; secondly, he did not guide me to Realization. He was merely one of the two final stops on a long and winding road that, for years, failed to lead to Realization.
Some background: he was sought out when it was found that all of the big name teachers whose books I had been reading - books that did not lead to Realization - happened to have one thing in common: they had been influenced by the words of Maharaj:
Tolle, Dyer, Chopra, DeMello, Wilbur, Wilde, Balsekar, etc.
Yet it would be seen eventually that each had taken a piece of M.'s teachings, had modified a not-so-popular message, had added ingredients to the recipe that would cause what they were serving up to have more appeal to the tastes of the masses, and then began offering Maharaj Lite to the masses who can only take pointers to the Truth in small, yummy servings.
After finding out that all of those authors had referenced Maharaj at one point or another, "floyd" asked, "Who is this 'Maharaj' they all have in common? If they all have this 'Maharaj' in common, why not find the teachings of that one instead of messing around with a little piece here and a snippet there?"
Thus, the "journey" led to the teachings that were delivered in an humble loft, not in an expensive ashram and not in expensive venues around the globe. "So," you might ask, "that is how you finally Realized? You read and contemplated the teachings of Maharaj and that did it?"
No, that did not do it, either. Maharaj did not guide me to Realization, yet he provided the transportation by which I drove to the end of the "path," to the end of the "journey," to the end of seeking, to the end of...everything.
Now that Maharaj is joining the ranks of some of the big name teachers, let it be said: "He is another of the well-known teachers that was unable to guide me single-handedly to the final Realization, and, by his own admission, was unable to guide more than a handful of visitors to Realization."
What is the obstacle with the traditional methods and with the typical satsang sessions both then and nowadays? If you read I AM THAT, you are reading a series of exchanges that were offered in no step-wise order; that in spite of the fact that Maharaj even said:
“Follow the same path by which you came.”
Yet the non-Realized have no clue at all about the path "by which they came" - the path by which they came to be lost in the dream, lost in personality, lost in false identifications, lost in dogma, lost in insanity, lost in ignorance, lost in believing the lies thought to be truth by the masses, lost in awe of the famous and the big name teachers.
And that describes "floyd" exactly when he began reading the transcripts of talks conducted by Maharaj with visitors. This "I" was lost in the dream, lost in personality, lost in false identifications, lost in dogma, lost in insanity, lost in ignorance, lost in believing the lies thought to be truth by the masses, lost in awe of the famous and the big name teachers.
Then, this line was read: “Follow the same path by which you came."
"Eureka! Finally, I have been given the proper course to follow! Now, let me just find the passage in this book where he explains the path, step-by-step, by which I came and by which I shall then 'go'."
Five readings of I AM THAT later, the "path" was no clearer than before. Why? The transcripts do not offer the required pointers and directions in any step-wise order. [NOTE: The same applies to the postings on this site as well. No one will Realize by reading these posting in the order in which they are posted. The pointers offered to seekers are determined by where on the "path" their questions reveal them to be. Replies are "custom-fit," depending on whether one is at the "wet charcoal stage," the "dry charcoal stage," or the "gunpowder stage."]
In I AM THAT, one day a pointer is given to a seeker at the third level, trapped in a religious or spiritual role. The pointer was intended to move the seeker beyond an assumed religious or spiritual role to the fourth level. Then, the next reading might be a set of pointers offered to one that has not reached the third step and might implicitly, or even outright, endorse a religious or spiritual concept.
One seeming contradiction after another was read without the understanding that the pointers were all being offered in a level-appropriate manner, but since the seekers were not showing up "in order," the talks did not provide the proper order in which the steps were to be taken.
Might that typical satsang formula have worked for some over the millennia? Not well, evidently, because even Maharaj admitted that almost all who came to the loft never "got it." Again, in spite of the fact that hundreds and hundreds of thousands came to him, and in spite of the fact that millions had visited with the available teachers in total, he guessed that only 7000 or so on the planet were ever Realized at any given time. Most do not truly want what one Hispanic acquaintance calls "the whole Advaita enchilada."
So what role did the teachings of Maharaj play along "floyd's" long and winding road? What role might those teachings play for you? Why will so few ever Realize? How were all of the obstacles removed here if not by Maharaj, and why will all of the obstacles never be removed for most persons among the masses?
What was the key that finally catapulted "floyd" beyond the final hurdle? What are the other obstacles being faced by seekers and what are the solutions? Why did the happenings yesterday make clear that it is time to stop and to go back to the basics in these discussions? All of that tomorrow.
Please enter the silence of contemplation. (To be continued)
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IT'S ALL BULLSHIT (And Why Knowing It Sets You Free)
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THE MEDITATION GUIDES
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WHAT HAPPENS WHEN I DIE?
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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
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THE ESSENCE OF THE TEACHINGS
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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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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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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:
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