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F.: The non-Realized are attached to the knowledge they have accumulated, are exceedingly proud of their supposed "brillance," and thus value highly the content of their "minds."
They do so with no awareness at all of the fact that for over 99% of the 14.5 million years that humans or human-like forms have walked the planet, humans had no mind;
thus, all of the alleged importance and worth and usefulness assigned to the mind is nothing more than another play in delusion and arrogance and egotism, resulting in such a false sense of mental superiority that persons are totally blind to how poorly their minds have served them all of their lives.
(Yet what quest - other than the search for what they mistake for "love" - has preoccupied the modern masses more than the quest for "peace of mind"?) A man said recently that he paid $5000.00 a few months back for a seminar where he was taught how to breathe in a way that would "still his mind." He thinks he is sane; he thinks he is brillant; but he paid a man $5,000.00 to teach him to breathe.
Yet when he arrived here, he quickly demonstrated that - rather than a mind having been stilled -instead his mind is still ... one big cesspool of nonsense and irrationality and, yes, the root of considerable insanity as well. And yes, he became most offended when he was asked what other natural, bodily functions he had paid people to teach him to do.
How many are trying to use the present, bastardized version of "meditation" and how many are seeking "samadhi" as a higher level of concentrated meditation in order to attain even a brief respite from the overactive, peace-robbing, destructive-behavior-generating "mind"?
How many have traveled the globe seeking peace? Nowadays, the "self-improvement" industry with its "come-to-our-seminar-and-learn-to (fill-in-the-blank with "breathe," "sit quietly," "still the mind," "meditate," "be at peace," ad infinitum)" is a multi-billion-dollar-per-year industry in the U.S. alone.
And none of the multiple billions of dollars being spent result in anything more than a short-term reprieve from the seekers' troublesome symptoms because the people running those scams are merely pampering the internal Sickness - just massaging the mental maladies of their clients - rather than administering the Ultimate Medicine and removing the malignancy of "the mind" itself.
So what are the actual facts surrounding the relatively-recent manifestation of the "mind" vs. humankind's multi-million-year no-mind history?
The volume of the human brain remained at its one-cup size for all but the last stage of the evolutionary process when it expanded to its present 3.5-cup size. Only with that larger size did the capacity for the brain to store and retrieve information become available, allowing a "mind" to form and to begin operating.
Thus, the point that, although most persons cannot fathom a mindless existence, the facts show that such has always been the case among humans except for the most recent years in human history. How else is that known?
Thoughts appear as "mental words," so when did language and words first manifest among homo sapiens, allowing minds to form and, soon, to begin their constant churning?
Most scholars suggest that it was only 100,000 years ago. That means that for only .0068% of the entire existence of the human species has the potential for the formation of a mind existed.
That also means that - among the trillions upon trillions of humans that have lived on planet earth - 99.9932% "had" no "mind." Not only do the facts show that mindless abidance is a possibility; the facts actually show that such mindlessness is historically the rule and not the exception.
The elemental brain, the manifested and unblocked consciousness, the sixth sense, the inner resource / the inner guru, and the intuitive abilities were all that were required for the species to propagate and thrive and survive. And it all happened mindlessly for 14.5 million years, and it can also happen that way again now.
However, such abidance requires considerable silence and minimal talking; requires minimal telling and minimal attempts to control; and requires minimal noise (noise that is presently used to try to drown out the chatter of a thousand monkeys in the heads of the non-Realized).
If persons (i.e., the non-Realized) were
** to witness the self objectively throughout the day, and were
** then to take an honest inventory of the day's talking and were
** to truly note all that was said that did not have to be said, they should be stunned into silence (though they will not be). The argument has been heard time and again, "This is not for me, because I have to use my mind and talk all day to earn a living."
The reply: "If the talking happens in the absence of 'a talker,' so it is, but that is not the case with you. If the talking happens in the absence of an agenda, so it is, but that is not the case with you.
"Protest all you want about how much you 'have to use the mind and have to talk all throughout the day,' but an objective observer could point out one instance after another where you missed one opportunity after another to just be quiet, to just stop talking for awhile (and thereby not only put the tongue on hold but also put the "mind" on hold as well).
Yet "the noisy non-Realizeds" especially love to brag about their "freedom of speech" whereas the Realized enjoy "freedom from speech." Always-arrogant, non-Realized persons love to show off their minds and the accumulations therein; among the Realized, the consciousness speaks in a post-accumulation mode.
Were all false personas to be discarded - that is, all of the personas which are sustained by the delusions of the mind and which are driven by their personalized agendas - then the amount of talking engaged in throughout the day would be drastically reduced (and drastically reducing in turn the exercising of the "mind" that keeps it well-conditioned and ready to use).
"Brevity is the soul of wit," the Advaitin poet said. Droning on and on is the soul of ignorance, and all droning happens as a result of "the mind" and the bogus ego-states that are stored therein.
For those on the outward "path" that truly seek the perfect peace of extended periods of silence, it is available - maybe incrementally at first - but available. Yet the degree of peace that manifests is in direct proportion to the degree of "mind" that dissolves.
If it becomes the consciousness only that speaks, imagine the huge quantities of tripe and drivel that would no longer be spoken and that would no longer be heard. Extended periods of silence can allow the mind to begin to diminish ... to at least begin the atrophying process.
Yet how many sitting in the silence hear "the mind" even more? That is the point in the title of the book "There's No Such Thing as 'Peace of Mind' (There Is Only Peace If You're Out of Your Mind)." So, what must happen?
Have you ever listened to friends or relatives, followed a piece of advice received from them, and then seen that their advice ended up leading you into a situation that was a total catastrophe?
Would you listen to them again, or, in the future, would you give absolutely no value at all to anything they come up with? If sanity is being restored, you would give no value at all to what they come up with. If arrogance prevails, you will give value to them because they are YOUR friends and relatives, by damn.
Easy enough for the arrogant to see the insanity of "others"; almost impossible for them to see their own. If you were to see how the "mind" has been coming up with ideas and advice that have led to one catastrophe after another, you would stop listening to it ... you would stop giving value to anything it comes up with ... you would give no value to that mind at all.
That will seldom happen, though. When arrogance prevails, the attitude is, "I will give value to my ideas and concepts and beliefs because they are in MY mind."
Yet denial and dissociation are the tools of the mind that convince the arrogant that they have lead "a pretty successful, life, a dang good life in fact, thank you very much." Denial and dissociation will convince a non-Realized, sleepwalking person that "my mind has served me extremely well, thank you very much."
The suggestion: you might want to get a second opinion about that claim from an objective, impartial observer that has no attachment to your fiction-filled, denial-using, illusory "mind." How offensive, yes?
"Yes, very offensive indeed. I am a barren woman, and how dare you talk about my son that way."
"Yes, very offensive indeed. I am a blind man, and how dare you tell me that I cannot see."
So it is among the masses: they can find talk about a mirage to be offensive.
Tomorrow, a continuation of the explication of when the illusion of the "mind" can end and how the illusion of the "mind" can end.
They do so with no awareness at all of the fact that for over 99% of the 14.5 million years that humans or human-like forms have walked the planet, humans had no mind;
thus, all of the alleged importance and worth and usefulness assigned to the mind is nothing more than another play in delusion and arrogance and egotism, resulting in such a false sense of mental superiority that persons are totally blind to how poorly their minds have served them all of their lives.
(Yet what quest - other than the search for what they mistake for "love" - has preoccupied the modern masses more than the quest for "peace of mind"?) A man said recently that he paid $5000.00 a few months back for a seminar where he was taught how to breathe in a way that would "still his mind." He thinks he is sane; he thinks he is brillant; but he paid a man $5,000.00 to teach him to breathe.
Yet when he arrived here, he quickly demonstrated that - rather than a mind having been stilled -instead his mind is still ... one big cesspool of nonsense and irrationality and, yes, the root of considerable insanity as well. And yes, he became most offended when he was asked what other natural, bodily functions he had paid people to teach him to do.
How many are trying to use the present, bastardized version of "meditation" and how many are seeking "samadhi" as a higher level of concentrated meditation in order to attain even a brief respite from the overactive, peace-robbing, destructive-behavior-generating "mind"?
How many have traveled the globe seeking peace? Nowadays, the "self-improvement" industry with its "come-to-our-seminar-and-learn-to (fill-in-the-blank with "breathe," "sit quietly," "still the mind," "meditate," "be at peace," ad infinitum)" is a multi-billion-dollar-per-year industry in the U.S. alone.
And none of the multiple billions of dollars being spent result in anything more than a short-term reprieve from the seekers' troublesome symptoms because the people running those scams are merely pampering the internal Sickness - just massaging the mental maladies of their clients - rather than administering the Ultimate Medicine and removing the malignancy of "the mind" itself.
So what are the actual facts surrounding the relatively-recent manifestation of the "mind" vs. humankind's multi-million-year no-mind history?
The volume of the human brain remained at its one-cup size for all but the last stage of the evolutionary process when it expanded to its present 3.5-cup size. Only with that larger size did the capacity for the brain to store and retrieve information become available, allowing a "mind" to form and to begin operating.
Thus, the point that, although most persons cannot fathom a mindless existence, the facts show that such has always been the case among humans except for the most recent years in human history. How else is that known?
Thoughts appear as "mental words," so when did language and words first manifest among homo sapiens, allowing minds to form and, soon, to begin their constant churning?
Most scholars suggest that it was only 100,000 years ago. That means that for only .0068% of the entire existence of the human species has the potential for the formation of a mind existed.
That also means that - among the trillions upon trillions of humans that have lived on planet earth - 99.9932% "had" no "mind." Not only do the facts show that mindless abidance is a possibility; the facts actually show that such mindlessness is historically the rule and not the exception.
The elemental brain, the manifested and unblocked consciousness, the sixth sense, the inner resource / the inner guru, and the intuitive abilities were all that were required for the species to propagate and thrive and survive. And it all happened mindlessly for 14.5 million years, and it can also happen that way again now.
However, such abidance requires considerable silence and minimal talking; requires minimal telling and minimal attempts to control; and requires minimal noise (noise that is presently used to try to drown out the chatter of a thousand monkeys in the heads of the non-Realized).
If persons (i.e., the non-Realized) were
** to witness the self objectively throughout the day, and were
** then to take an honest inventory of the day's talking and were
** to truly note all that was said that did not have to be said, they should be stunned into silence (though they will not be). The argument has been heard time and again, "This is not for me, because I have to use my mind and talk all day to earn a living."
The reply: "If the talking happens in the absence of 'a talker,' so it is, but that is not the case with you. If the talking happens in the absence of an agenda, so it is, but that is not the case with you.
"Protest all you want about how much you 'have to use the mind and have to talk all throughout the day,' but an objective observer could point out one instance after another where you missed one opportunity after another to just be quiet, to just stop talking for awhile (and thereby not only put the tongue on hold but also put the "mind" on hold as well).
Yet "the noisy non-Realizeds" especially love to brag about their "freedom of speech" whereas the Realized enjoy "freedom from speech." Always-arrogant, non-Realized persons love to show off their minds and the accumulations therein; among the Realized, the consciousness speaks in a post-accumulation mode.
Were all false personas to be discarded - that is, all of the personas which are sustained by the delusions of the mind and which are driven by their personalized agendas - then the amount of talking engaged in throughout the day would be drastically reduced (and drastically reducing in turn the exercising of the "mind" that keeps it well-conditioned and ready to use).
"Brevity is the soul of wit," the Advaitin poet said. Droning on and on is the soul of ignorance, and all droning happens as a result of "the mind" and the bogus ego-states that are stored therein.
For those on the outward "path" that truly seek the perfect peace of extended periods of silence, it is available - maybe incrementally at first - but available. Yet the degree of peace that manifests is in direct proportion to the degree of "mind" that dissolves.
If it becomes the consciousness only that speaks, imagine the huge quantities of tripe and drivel that would no longer be spoken and that would no longer be heard. Extended periods of silence can allow the mind to begin to diminish ... to at least begin the atrophying process.
Yet how many sitting in the silence hear "the mind" even more? That is the point in the title of the book "There's No Such Thing as 'Peace of Mind' (There Is Only Peace If You're Out of Your Mind)." So, what must happen?
Have you ever listened to friends or relatives, followed a piece of advice received from them, and then seen that their advice ended up leading you into a situation that was a total catastrophe?
Would you listen to them again, or, in the future, would you give absolutely no value at all to anything they come up with? If sanity is being restored, you would give no value at all to what they come up with. If arrogance prevails, you will give value to them because they are YOUR friends and relatives, by damn.
Easy enough for the arrogant to see the insanity of "others"; almost impossible for them to see their own. If you were to see how the "mind" has been coming up with ideas and advice that have led to one catastrophe after another, you would stop listening to it ... you would stop giving value to anything it comes up with ... you would give no value to that mind at all.
That will seldom happen, though. When arrogance prevails, the attitude is, "I will give value to my ideas and concepts and beliefs because they are in MY mind."
Yet denial and dissociation are the tools of the mind that convince the arrogant that they have lead "a pretty successful, life, a dang good life in fact, thank you very much." Denial and dissociation will convince a non-Realized, sleepwalking person that "my mind has served me extremely well, thank you very much."
The suggestion: you might want to get a second opinion about that claim from an objective, impartial observer that has no attachment to your fiction-filled, denial-using, illusory "mind." How offensive, yes?
"Yes, very offensive indeed. I am a barren woman, and how dare you talk about my son that way."
"Yes, very offensive indeed. I am a blind man, and how dare you tell me that I cannot see."
So it is among the masses: they can find talk about a mirage to be offensive.
Tomorrow, a continuation of the explication of when the illusion of the "mind" can end and how the illusion of the "mind" can end.
Please enter the silence of contemplation. (To be continued)
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I AM THAT (vs. "This Is Who I Think I Am")
Freedom From Shifting Between States of Happiness and Unhappiness
Why You Must Be Empty If You Would Be Full
The Myth Of Death
What BLISS Is and What BLISS Is Not
When Reality Is Overlaid Upon the Relative
There Is Nothing That Is Personal (Including You and Including God)
Overcoming the Fear of Being Totally Independent
Also available now:
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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.
NOTE: When you order this package, you receive three additional ebooks free: CASTING LIGHT ON THE DARK SIDE OF RELATIONSHIPS, FINDING REAL LOVE IN AN UNREAL WORLD and THE TWICE-STOLEN NECKLACE MURDERS (offering the Advaita teachings in a fictional novel format)
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3. BY ENROLLING in the Online Advaita Classes
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.
Presently, Skype sessions are being conducted with parties in Australia; The Netherlands; New Jersey, U.S.A.; London, England; Italy; and India.
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
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.
Presently, Skype sessions are being conducted with parties in Australia; The Netherlands; New Jersey, U.S.A.; London, England; Italy; and India.
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.
The Twice-Stolen Necklace Murders offers the non-duality message by way of a mystery-adventure novel, discussing the movement from pain to healing to awakening to peace.
From Dr. R.F. Maley, Ph.D, Professor Emeritus and former Head of the Department of Psychology, University of Houston: "Floyd Henderson's book, The Twice-Stolen Necklace Murders, is a fun read and an interesting mystery, but perhaps more importantly it serves as a vehicle for blending Eastern Philosophy and Native American Spirituality to make an intellectually challenging novel. The book's insights into both relationships and authoritarian conditioning of people in our society make it a must read, tracing the roots of narcissistic, sociopathic and psychopathic behaviors to the very core of the culture. This truly witty and politically-incorrect study of the aggressive nature of 'the American character' offers not only a diagnosis but also a treatment plan, making the book an excellent supplemental reading in courses such as psychology, anthropology, philosophy, sociology and counseling."
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The Sequel to The Twice-Stolen Necklace Murders:
THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF WARS
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