A DAILY CONSIDERATION FOR YOU
F.: Since 1989, the non-dual understanding has been shared here with thousands. From the time Maharaj Realized until he took mahasamadhi, he shared the message with hundreds of thousands of seekers.
Most persons, however, will never seek, convinced not that they found the answers after an objective and arduous search but they that were given all of the answers upfront via the organized religion that they parents chose for them or via the spiritual training that their parents arranged for them.
Thus, most persons will never question, never challenge, and never ask the objective questions about the beliefs that they did not choose but that they now think are their own and now think are defining "who they are."
As a result of never seeking but believing that they already know it all instead, they remain trapped in mind-driven (but senseless and continuous) going and doing and zooming. They will likely never be open to the non-dual understanding for they do not know that the previously pure, unblocked consciousness has been blocked, adulterated, contaminated, conditioned, qualified, and made ambiguous.
Moreover, they do not know that blocked, adulterated, contaminated, conditioned, qualified, and ambiguous consciousness leaves them in a state of "dual-minded-ness" and, therefore, "unstable in all ways." Not only have they become accustomed to chaos, in many cases they have become addicted to chaos because of their otherwise boring and tiresome and monotonous existence.
Yet what was being sought by the thousands whose paths chanced to bring them here, and what were the hundreds of thousands who went to Maharaj's loft seeking there? As explained in the videos on "The Rationale" to the right of this post, earnest seekers - usually without being conscious of the fact - are seeking ...
... a "return," a return to that previously unadulterated, previously uncontaminated, previously pure, previously unconditional, previously unconditioned, previously unqualified, previously unambiguous, previously clean and previously clear tabula rasa state that existed prior to manifestation as well as during the early years of the manifestation before concepts and ideas and notions (a.k.a., "beliefs") were introduced.
Sensing that "something is missing" - that their present mode of thinking and feeling and behaving has not led to a sense of wholeness and fullness and completeness - earnest seekers are actually (subconsciously) seeking the elusive awareness of Awareness.
They are seeking an understanding of the Original Nature that was free of anything adulterated, contaminated, impure, conditional, conditioned, qualified, and ambiguous. They are seeking to return to the child No-Knowing State which was a tabula rasa state that existed prior to nonsense having been written upon the previously blank tablet. That state was a mindless, no-concept, non-dual state, the result of which was a no-dis-ease state.
But in most humans is a subconscious intimation of that which was and is and shall be, namely, the Original Nature, marked by no-knowing, by no-self-ness, by no-"one"-ness but by a sense of Oneness instead.
Non-duality is not about learning more. It is about taking out the garbage that is blocking an awareness of that original state of awareness with no aware-of-ness and an understanding of the eternal energy that was never created and that has always been.
To understand and abide as that Original Nature is to move through the relative existence with a sense of full-ness ... of complete-ness ... of peace ... of harmony. To fail to understand that is to move through the relative existence with a sense of emptiness and brokenness and chaos and disharmony.
Yet that is not the whole "story." For that, see the Ebook below entitled "WHY YOU MUST BE EMPTY IF YOU WOULD BE FULL."
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
October 10, 2013
Most persons, however, will never seek, convinced not that they found the answers after an objective and arduous search but they that were given all of the answers upfront via the organized religion that they parents chose for them or via the spiritual training that their parents arranged for them.
Thus, most persons will never question, never challenge, and never ask the objective questions about the beliefs that they did not choose but that they now think are their own and now think are defining "who they are."
As a result of never seeking but believing that they already know it all instead, they remain trapped in mind-driven (but senseless and continuous) going and doing and zooming. They will likely never be open to the non-dual understanding for they do not know that the previously pure, unblocked consciousness has been blocked, adulterated, contaminated, conditioned, qualified, and made ambiguous.
Moreover, they do not know that blocked, adulterated, contaminated, conditioned, qualified, and ambiguous consciousness leaves them in a state of "dual-minded-ness" and, therefore, "unstable in all ways." Not only have they become accustomed to chaos, in many cases they have become addicted to chaos because of their otherwise boring and tiresome and monotonous existence.
Yet what was being sought by the thousands whose paths chanced to bring them here, and what were the hundreds of thousands who went to Maharaj's loft seeking there? As explained in the videos on "The Rationale" to the right of this post, earnest seekers - usually without being conscious of the fact - are seeking ...
... a "return," a return to that previously unadulterated, previously uncontaminated, previously pure, previously unconditional, previously unconditioned, previously unqualified, previously unambiguous, previously clean and previously clear tabula rasa state that existed prior to manifestation as well as during the early years of the manifestation before concepts and ideas and notions (a.k.a., "beliefs") were introduced.
Sensing that "something is missing" - that their present mode of thinking and feeling and behaving has not led to a sense of wholeness and fullness and completeness - earnest seekers are actually (subconsciously) seeking the elusive awareness of Awareness.
They are seeking an understanding of the Original Nature that was free of anything adulterated, contaminated, impure, conditional, conditioned, qualified, and ambiguous. They are seeking to return to the child No-Knowing State which was a tabula rasa state that existed prior to nonsense having been written upon the previously blank tablet. That state was a mindless, no-concept, non-dual state, the result of which was a no-dis-ease state.
But in most humans is a subconscious intimation of that which was and is and shall be, namely, the Original Nature, marked by no-knowing, by no-self-ness, by no-"one"-ness but by a sense of Oneness instead.
Non-duality is not about learning more. It is about taking out the garbage that is blocking an awareness of that original state of awareness with no aware-of-ness and an understanding of the eternal energy that was never created and that has always been.
To understand and abide as that Original Nature is to move through the relative existence with a sense of full-ness ... of complete-ness ... of peace ... of harmony. To fail to understand that is to move through the relative existence with a sense of emptiness and brokenness and chaos and disharmony.
Yet that is not the whole "story." For that, see the Ebook below entitled "WHY YOU MUST BE EMPTY IF YOU WOULD BE FULL."
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
October 10, 2013
A DAILY CONSIDERATION FOR YOU
F.: This is offered in the introduction to the free eBook entitled "GOOD vs. EVIL?" or "IGNORANCE, STUPIDITY, and INSANITY?" (See below for your free copy):
There are billions of life-forms on the planet, but none of them abide unnaturally except for humans.
There are billions of life-forms on the planet, but none of them abide supernaturally / spiritually except for humans.
There are billions of life-forms on the planet, but none of them have to seek peace except for humans.
There are billions of life-forms on the planet, but none of them have what is called "a mind" except for humans.
There are billions of life-forms on the planet, but none of them misunderstand and misperceive except for humans.
There are billions of life-forms on the planet, but none of them work at being something different from what they are except for humans.
There are billions of life-forms on the planet, but none of them have beliefs - beliefs based in myths and superstitions and ignorance - except for humans.
Thus, there are billions of life-forms on the planet, but none of them believe in dualities and use them to judge and separate and reinforce arrogance and narcissism except for humans. Consider one of the most uncomplicated of all life-forms.
And now this can be added to that list:
There are billions of life-forms on the planet, but none of them except for humans make fundamental attribution errors.
Only the Fully Realized understand how commonplace it is among the masses to identify blame and to assign cause in ways that are always erroneous, most persons spending the entire manifestation in a manner that is marked most often by total cluelessness.
Yet even that cluelessness is not pointed to with any sense of blame, merely with a full understanding of its cause.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
October 8, 2013
There are billions of life-forms on the planet, but none of them abide unnaturally except for humans.
There are billions of life-forms on the planet, but none of them abide supernaturally / spiritually except for humans.
There are billions of life-forms on the planet, but none of them have to seek peace except for humans.
There are billions of life-forms on the planet, but none of them have what is called "a mind" except for humans.
There are billions of life-forms on the planet, but none of them misunderstand and misperceive except for humans.
There are billions of life-forms on the planet, but none of them work at being something different from what they are except for humans.
There are billions of life-forms on the planet, but none of them have beliefs - beliefs based in myths and superstitions and ignorance - except for humans.
Thus, there are billions of life-forms on the planet, but none of them believe in dualities and use them to judge and separate and reinforce arrogance and narcissism except for humans. Consider one of the most uncomplicated of all life-forms.
And now this can be added to that list:
There are billions of life-forms on the planet, but none of them except for humans make fundamental attribution errors.
Only the Fully Realized understand how commonplace it is among the masses to identify blame and to assign cause in ways that are always erroneous, most persons spending the entire manifestation in a manner that is marked most often by total cluelessness.
Yet even that cluelessness is not pointed to with any sense of blame, merely with a full understanding of its cause.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
October 8, 2013
A DAILY CONSIDERATION FOR YOU
F.: Author Lee Child touches on another way that a fundamental attribution error can lead to something that the non-dual understanding can eliminate, namely, misery and suffering.
Acculturation and domestication, which result in the belief that certain external things and / or certain situations can make one happy and can end misery and suffering, is rooted in a fundamental attribution error.
For example, one of Child's characters is asked by an acquaintance (who is inquiring into his preference for a nomadic lifestyle):
"Why do you live like this?"
He: "Because my brain is wired backward. That what they [the ones who tried to understand even during his early years why he was "different" from the masses] missed all those years ago. They looked at the wrong part of me. I don't like what 'normal' people like. A little house with a chimney and a lawn and a picket fence? People love that stuff. They work all their lives, just to pay for it. They take thirty-year mortgages. And good for them. But I'd rather hang myself."
He continued: "... Ninety-nine of us grow up to love the campfire, and one grows up to hate it. Ninety-nine of us grow up to fear the howling wolf, and one grows up to envy it. And I'm that guy."
And as one looks at the nine basic personality types, one is able to see that 50% are Type Sixes who suffer anxiety; and one can see that a huge percentage are Type Threes who prefer form over substance and who foster a phony image; and one can also see that Type Fours seek the Authentic Self and reject the false images that are valued throughout their cultures. Yet Type Fours only make up 1/2 of 1% of the planet's population.
Seeing that, it can be understood why ...
... ninety-nine out of one hundred people grow up to love the phony dream while only one out of one hundred (or fewer) grow up to hate it. It can be seen that ninety-nine out of one hundred march to the beat of the same insane drummer while one grows up to prefer the march when it happens to the beat of a different drummer. And the Type Four is "that guy / gal."
But for those who cross the path of a Type Four that has finally Realized Fully, they too can be led along the "path" that can allow the masses to be free of their anxieties; that can allow the masses to discard their penchant for form over substance; and that can allow the masses to be free of entrapment in a bogus dream that they are taking to be real. Realization allows seekers to be free of the habit among the masses of making fundamental attribution errors.
So consider "The American Dream": first, there is no "American" but there is such a thing as "dreaming"; there is also such a thing as "dreaming while one is awake" and "dreaming while thinking that a dream is real."
There is a young woman who is presently quite miserable because she has been driven to believe that she can only be happy when several ego-states are in place. One is "The Happy Wife Who Is Married to a Wonderful Husband." Another is "The Wonderful Mother Who Is Able to Stay At Home and Raise A Child."
Because those have not happened, (that is, because of what she desires to have and what she fears she may never have), she is miserable. She has committed a fundamental attribution error, erroneously believing that: "My happiness someday will be attributed to the fact that I am a really happy wife and a really good mother with a really good child."
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
October 6, 2013
Acculturation and domestication, which result in the belief that certain external things and / or certain situations can make one happy and can end misery and suffering, is rooted in a fundamental attribution error.
For example, one of Child's characters is asked by an acquaintance (who is inquiring into his preference for a nomadic lifestyle):
"Why do you live like this?"
He: "Because my brain is wired backward. That what they [the ones who tried to understand even during his early years why he was "different" from the masses] missed all those years ago. They looked at the wrong part of me. I don't like what 'normal' people like. A little house with a chimney and a lawn and a picket fence? People love that stuff. They work all their lives, just to pay for it. They take thirty-year mortgages. And good for them. But I'd rather hang myself."
He continued: "... Ninety-nine of us grow up to love the campfire, and one grows up to hate it. Ninety-nine of us grow up to fear the howling wolf, and one grows up to envy it. And I'm that guy."
And as one looks at the nine basic personality types, one is able to see that 50% are Type Sixes who suffer anxiety; and one can see that a huge percentage are Type Threes who prefer form over substance and who foster a phony image; and one can also see that Type Fours seek the Authentic Self and reject the false images that are valued throughout their cultures. Yet Type Fours only make up 1/2 of 1% of the planet's population.
Seeing that, it can be understood why ...
... ninety-nine out of one hundred people grow up to love the phony dream while only one out of one hundred (or fewer) grow up to hate it. It can be seen that ninety-nine out of one hundred march to the beat of the same insane drummer while one grows up to prefer the march when it happens to the beat of a different drummer. And the Type Four is "that guy / gal."
But for those who cross the path of a Type Four that has finally Realized Fully, they too can be led along the "path" that can allow the masses to be free of their anxieties; that can allow the masses to discard their penchant for form over substance; and that can allow the masses to be free of entrapment in a bogus dream that they are taking to be real. Realization allows seekers to be free of the habit among the masses of making fundamental attribution errors.
So consider "The American Dream": first, there is no "American" but there is such a thing as "dreaming"; there is also such a thing as "dreaming while one is awake" and "dreaming while thinking that a dream is real."
There is a young woman who is presently quite miserable because she has been driven to believe that she can only be happy when several ego-states are in place. One is "The Happy Wife Who Is Married to a Wonderful Husband." Another is "The Wonderful Mother Who Is Able to Stay At Home and Raise A Child."
Because those have not happened, (that is, because of what she desires to have and what she fears she may never have), she is miserable. She has committed a fundamental attribution error, erroneously believing that: "My happiness someday will be attributed to the fact that I am a really happy wife and a really good mother with a really good child."
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
October 6, 2013
A DAILY CONSIDERATION FOR YOU
F.: The connections between fundamental attribution errors and the non-dual message include the following:
1. Persons (the non-Realized who are being driven by the hidden agendas of the multiple personalities / personas that they have assumed to be real) attribute the cause of their thoughts and words and actions to their own "free will" or "choices" rather than to the subconscious fears and / or desires of each persona they adopt.
2. Everything that is thought and said and done by non-Realized persons is rooted in duality, and at the heart of their dualistic beliefs is a belief (a) in self vs. others; (b) in inner vs. outer influences; and, therefore, (c) in the validity of their attributing the cause of the way they feel inside to external causes that involve the thoughts and words and actions and beliefs of "others."
Delusion results, and then misery and suffering follow delusion.
As a result of delusional thinking based in all-bogus beliefs, a fundamental-attribution-error generates claims such as "You are making me miserable. I can't believe I ever agreed to marry you / to live with you."
Or a fundamental-attribution-error generated a claim heard here that "You are not a Christian and I cannot be happy if I am not in a relationship with a good Christian." [And you can insert in place of "Christian" the label of "Jew," "Muslim," "Spiritual Person," "Conservative," "Seeker," "Hard-Working Provider," "One Who Believes in the Same Principles I Believe In," etc.]
Or, a fundamental-attribution-error generates the belief that "I feel like I'm dying because my Wife left me" rather than seeing clearly that it is simply the false ego-state of "The Husband" / "The Super Husband" that is coming to an end (that it, that is "dying away") because the one who was previously willing to play the co-dependent counterpart role that was required for the assumption of the false identity of "The Husband" to have been assigned and accepted by one's culture in the first place is no longer willing to keep playing the false role. [Or one can insert in place of that identity the identity of "The Former Employee," "The Formerly Rich Person," "The Former Homeowner," "The Formerly Powerful Executive," ad infinitum.]
Duality-based, fundamental, attribution errors are at the heart of the way that the non-Realized think and believe and behave and talk and feel, so they are also at the heart of the misery and suffering that come when "dual-minded persons are unstable in all ways."
October 4, 2013
1. Persons (the non-Realized who are being driven by the hidden agendas of the multiple personalities / personas that they have assumed to be real) attribute the cause of their thoughts and words and actions to their own "free will" or "choices" rather than to the subconscious fears and / or desires of each persona they adopt.
2. Everything that is thought and said and done by non-Realized persons is rooted in duality, and at the heart of their dualistic beliefs is a belief (a) in self vs. others; (b) in inner vs. outer influences; and, therefore, (c) in the validity of their attributing the cause of the way they feel inside to external causes that involve the thoughts and words and actions and beliefs of "others."
Delusion results, and then misery and suffering follow delusion.
As a result of delusional thinking based in all-bogus beliefs, a fundamental-attribution-error generates claims such as "You are making me miserable. I can't believe I ever agreed to marry you / to live with you."
Or a fundamental-attribution-error generated a claim heard here that "You are not a Christian and I cannot be happy if I am not in a relationship with a good Christian." [And you can insert in place of "Christian" the label of "Jew," "Muslim," "Spiritual Person," "Conservative," "Seeker," "Hard-Working Provider," "One Who Believes in the Same Principles I Believe In," etc.]
Duality-based, fundamental, attribution errors are at the heart of the way that the non-Realized think and believe and behave and talk and feel, so they are also at the heart of the misery and suffering that come when "dual-minded persons are unstable in all ways."
A DAILY CONSIDERATION FOR YOU
F.: Worthwhile to those seeking to grasp the non-dual understanding is a term that some social psychologists have identified as one of the key sources of "relationship problems," namely, "a fundamental attribution error."
That error involves judging others (without understanding what is driving their thoughts and words and actions); assigning blame to others for the way one feels; and misunderstanding cause (and not understanding the non-dual pointer that "the cause of all is all").
In duality, one fundamental attribution error is believing that there is an "I" that is making choices when, in fact, the agendas of multiple personalities are determining all thoughts and words and actions. Another attribution error is believing that there are "others" who are also choosing their thoughts and words and actions and allowing their thoughts and words and actions to generate "personal" offense.
Additionally, domestication and acculturation also result in persons - either consciously or, more often, unconsciously - ascribing to false identities that, in turn, each credit that ego-state's happiness to another or to attribute blame to another for the way that one feels inside. What greater duality is there than belief in inner things and outer things?
Millions of workers - including counselors, therapists, ministers, psychoanalysts, and others - pay their bills by dealing with couples who think that they are having "relationship problems." Many of those therapists will work with couples for months or years on end, allowing the two to come to an office where - occasionally - both might be interested in solving their problems;
where- more often - one is far more willing than the other; and where - also very often - one is bringing a mate with the hope of using the counselor to triangulate (to pit two-against-one) to reform the other and to change the other so that the one with the motive to triangulate can then supposedly be happy.
[The most unhappy of the two is always the one engaging in a fundamental attribution error, namely, that she or he is miserable because of another person and that he or she will be happy if the other person - or really, if all persons - would just change.]
The wisest counselors, though, only work with the couple together about 1/3 of time. Why? Because the wisest counselors know that together they will become more emotionally-intoxicated than ever as each has an audience for the couple's fighting and each has a desire to prove to a third party how right he or she is and how wrong the other is.
And the wisest counselor knows that the problems are not "couple problems" but are "individualized problems" rooted in self (or many false selves). The wisest counselor also knows that one's problems are not rooted in another's programming, conditioning, acculturation, domestication, brainwashing, and indoctrination but are rooted instead in one's own programming, conditioning, acculturation, domestication, brainwashing, and indoctrination.
Therefore, the wisest counselor will, early on, give a couple one session together to appease their appetite for exposing the flaws of the other in the presence of a witness, but the most effective method happens when there is a session together, then a session with one partner, then a session with the other partner, and then a session together to address the individual issues that were uncovered in separate sessions.
Likewise, the wisest non-duality teacher knows as well that the requirement for any seekers who want to discuss how someone else is causing their misery is to have their focus redirected to self (or to their many false selves.)
It was noted in yesterday's post that if one is dependent on any external nexus of power or esteem or a sense of well-being, then any perceived benefits of those externals will soon be lost. To allow the way one feels inside to be determined by externals is guaranteed to assure that the way one feels inside will be in a constant state of flux, generating anxiety as the constant shifting between high's and low's can only result in a chaotic state within.
The post-Realized Jesus reportedly said, "A duality-minded person is unstable in all ways," and the mind is within, not without. It is the influence of the content of the mind within that one must be free of if one would know happiness and bliss, and that has nothing to do with anything "without."
The non-dualist knows what nonsense it is to allow externals to determine the internal state. As also mentioned yesterday, with the Realized, there are no "relationship problems," "relationships" being a dualistic concept, dealing with a supposed "A" and a supposed "B." In the absence of that concept, the result is this:
With the Realized, there is no need to try to impress; there is no drive to enter into tedious and boring debates; there is no willingness to engage with any who would argue the pointers offered here; and there is no inclination to respond in lengthy and wordy responses to criticisms of any sort.
Never is there an agenda to change anyone's mind. The process offered here - if completed - will eliminate the mind (and all of the fictional concepts and bogus beliefs that are stored therein).
The Realized know that any discontentment, disapproval, restlessness, irritability, anger, misery and / or suffering are rooted in the Ultimate Sickness, and the Realized understand that the task at hand is to address one's own case of that Sickness, not the millions of cases that others are experiencing.
Sure, healing of the Sickness can happen when a Realized teacher is willing to work with seekers who are ready, but that cannot happen unless the teacher is fully well; yet it is the practice among the non-Realized to try to correct others, to blame others, and to attribute false blame and cause to others.
The "others" can include a partner; a member of another political party; people in the office; the people of other nations, etc. Yet if one takes the steps to Realized Fully, there are no others; there are no Subject-Object beliefs; there is no "A" and "B" combination / duality in a relationship. There is peace ... within.
[Out of state over the weekend. To be continued later.]
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
October 3, 2013
That error involves judging others (without understanding what is driving their thoughts and words and actions); assigning blame to others for the way one feels; and misunderstanding cause (and not understanding the non-dual pointer that "the cause of all is all").
In duality, one fundamental attribution error is believing that there is an "I" that is making choices when, in fact, the agendas of multiple personalities are determining all thoughts and words and actions. Another attribution error is believing that there are "others" who are also choosing their thoughts and words and actions and allowing their thoughts and words and actions to generate "personal" offense.
Additionally, domestication and acculturation also result in persons - either consciously or, more often, unconsciously - ascribing to false identities that, in turn, each credit that ego-state's happiness to another or to attribute blame to another for the way that one feels inside. What greater duality is there than belief in inner things and outer things?
Millions of workers - including counselors, therapists, ministers, psychoanalysts, and others - pay their bills by dealing with couples who think that they are having "relationship problems." Many of those therapists will work with couples for months or years on end, allowing the two to come to an office where - occasionally - both might be interested in solving their problems;
where- more often - one is far more willing than the other; and where - also very often - one is bringing a mate with the hope of using the counselor to triangulate (to pit two-against-one) to reform the other and to change the other so that the one with the motive to triangulate can then supposedly be happy.
[The most unhappy of the two is always the one engaging in a fundamental attribution error, namely, that she or he is miserable because of another person and that he or she will be happy if the other person - or really, if all persons - would just change.]
The wisest counselors, though, only work with the couple together about 1/3 of time. Why? Because the wisest counselors know that together they will become more emotionally-intoxicated than ever as each has an audience for the couple's fighting and each has a desire to prove to a third party how right he or she is and how wrong the other is.
And the wisest counselor knows that the problems are not "couple problems" but are "individualized problems" rooted in self (or many false selves). The wisest counselor also knows that one's problems are not rooted in another's programming, conditioning, acculturation, domestication, brainwashing, and indoctrination but are rooted instead in one's own programming, conditioning, acculturation, domestication, brainwashing, and indoctrination.
Therefore, the wisest counselor will, early on, give a couple one session together to appease their appetite for exposing the flaws of the other in the presence of a witness, but the most effective method happens when there is a session together, then a session with one partner, then a session with the other partner, and then a session together to address the individual issues that were uncovered in separate sessions.
Likewise, the wisest non-duality teacher knows as well that the requirement for any seekers who want to discuss how someone else is causing their misery is to have their focus redirected to self (or to their many false selves.)
It was noted in yesterday's post that if one is dependent on any external nexus of power or esteem or a sense of well-being, then any perceived benefits of those externals will soon be lost. To allow the way one feels inside to be determined by externals is guaranteed to assure that the way one feels inside will be in a constant state of flux, generating anxiety as the constant shifting between high's and low's can only result in a chaotic state within.
The post-Realized Jesus reportedly said, "A duality-minded person is unstable in all ways," and the mind is within, not without. It is the influence of the content of the mind within that one must be free of if one would know happiness and bliss, and that has nothing to do with anything "without."
The non-dualist knows what nonsense it is to allow externals to determine the internal state. As also mentioned yesterday, with the Realized, there are no "relationship problems," "relationships" being a dualistic concept, dealing with a supposed "A" and a supposed "B." In the absence of that concept, the result is this:
With the Realized, there is no need to try to impress; there is no drive to enter into tedious and boring debates; there is no willingness to engage with any who would argue the pointers offered here; and there is no inclination to respond in lengthy and wordy responses to criticisms of any sort.
Never is there an agenda to change anyone's mind. The process offered here - if completed - will eliminate the mind (and all of the fictional concepts and bogus beliefs that are stored therein).
The Realized know that any discontentment, disapproval, restlessness, irritability, anger, misery and / or suffering are rooted in the Ultimate Sickness, and the Realized understand that the task at hand is to address one's own case of that Sickness, not the millions of cases that others are experiencing.
Sure, healing of the Sickness can happen when a Realized teacher is willing to work with seekers who are ready, but that cannot happen unless the teacher is fully well; yet it is the practice among the non-Realized to try to correct others, to blame others, and to attribute false blame and cause to others.
The "others" can include a partner; a member of another political party; people in the office; the people of other nations, etc. Yet if one takes the steps to Realized Fully, there are no others; there are no Subject-Object beliefs; there is no "A" and "B" combination / duality in a relationship. There is peace ... within.
[Out of state over the weekend. To be continued later.]
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
October 3, 2013
A DAILY CONSIDERATION FOR YOU
F.: It has been said that he who relishes the praise of the village must soon be prepared to accept the scorn of the town. If one is dependent on any external nexus of power or esteem or a sense of well-being, then any perceived benefits of those externals will soon be lost.
To allow the way one feels inside to be determined by externals is guaranteed to assure that the way one feels inside will be in a constant state of flux, generating anxiety as the constant shifting between high's and low's can only result in a chaotic state within.
Yet dependency is the abnormal norm among the non-Realized masses, as if anything they are depending on has any history of being continuously reliable; thus, there is among the masses a subconscious drive to talk, to try to impress, to form dependencies and co-dependencies, to try to astound persons with the depths of one's knowledge, and to engage with others who claim to have knowledge about things "on a higher plane" that must be learned and accepted in order to assure acceptance and to solidify dependencies.
That mindset will generate long-winded diatribes, rambling letters or emails, lengthy discussions, and tedious and boring debates about whose concepts are right or better.
Even less than was the case in that loft in Bombay / Mumbai, the case in the electronic loft here is that only a few moments are spent some mornings while sitting before a keyboard and witnessing what happens ... witnessing what comes forth that is always, ultimately, an invitation to learn nothing more, to instead know less, and to unlearn all that is the source of misery and suffering (namely, all that was acquired via programming, conditioning, acculturation, brainwashing, indoctrination, and domestication).
Moreover, there is no attachment to - or concern with - outcome here; there is no desire at all, much less a need to receive the praise of the village; and, therefore, there is no fearing or dreading the scorn of the town.
As a result of that, there is no need to try to impress; there is no drive to enter into tedious and boring debates; there is no willingness to engage with any who would argue the pointers offered here; and there is no inclination to respond in lengthy and wordy responses to criticisms of any sort.
Never is there an agenda to change anyone's mind. The process offered here - if completed - will eliminate the mind (and all of the fictional concepts and bogus beliefs that are stored therein).
When there is no personality, there are none of the fears that are generated by personalities and none of the desires that are also generated by personalities.
If emails are answered, they are answered with brevity. If calls are received, they are kept brief. Then the remainder of every day is spent primarily in the silence, seeking not, teaching not, educating not but always, instead, coming out of the silence only if it is obvious that a seeker is truly ready to hear and willing to take all of the steps required to be free of all personal identifications (which are the viruses that carry the Ultimate Sickness ... the nutrients that feed all ego-state assumption and all of the egotism that is used to try to sustain all false identities).
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
October 2, 2013
To allow the way one feels inside to be determined by externals is guaranteed to assure that the way one feels inside will be in a constant state of flux, generating anxiety as the constant shifting between high's and low's can only result in a chaotic state within.
Yet dependency is the abnormal norm among the non-Realized masses, as if anything they are depending on has any history of being continuously reliable; thus, there is among the masses a subconscious drive to talk, to try to impress, to form dependencies and co-dependencies, to try to astound persons with the depths of one's knowledge, and to engage with others who claim to have knowledge about things "on a higher plane" that must be learned and accepted in order to assure acceptance and to solidify dependencies.
That mindset will generate long-winded diatribes, rambling letters or emails, lengthy discussions, and tedious and boring debates about whose concepts are right or better.
Even less than was the case in that loft in Bombay / Mumbai, the case in the electronic loft here is that only a few moments are spent some mornings while sitting before a keyboard and witnessing what happens ... witnessing what comes forth that is always, ultimately, an invitation to learn nothing more, to instead know less, and to unlearn all that is the source of misery and suffering (namely, all that was acquired via programming, conditioning, acculturation, brainwashing, indoctrination, and domestication).
Moreover, there is no attachment to - or concern with - outcome here; there is no desire at all, much less a need to receive the praise of the village; and, therefore, there is no fearing or dreading the scorn of the town.
As a result of that, there is no need to try to impress; there is no drive to enter into tedious and boring debates; there is no willingness to engage with any who would argue the pointers offered here; and there is no inclination to respond in lengthy and wordy responses to criticisms of any sort.
Never is there an agenda to change anyone's mind. The process offered here - if completed - will eliminate the mind (and all of the fictional concepts and bogus beliefs that are stored therein).
When there is no personality, there are none of the fears that are generated by personalities and none of the desires that are also generated by personalities.
If emails are answered, they are answered with brevity. If calls are received, they are kept brief. Then the remainder of every day is spent primarily in the silence, seeking not, teaching not, educating not but always, instead, coming out of the silence only if it is obvious that a seeker is truly ready to hear and willing to take all of the steps required to be free of all personal identifications (which are the viruses that carry the Ultimate Sickness ... the nutrients that feed all ego-state assumption and all of the egotism that is used to try to sustain all false identities).
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
October 2, 2013
A DAILY CONSIDERATION FOR YOU
F.: If "brevity is the soul of wit," then one might conclude that "extensiveness and lengthiness are the soul of dullness." In fact, verbosity and wordiness and long-windedness are actually the soul of self-ish-ness, of preoccupation with the issues dealing with one or more of the plethora of personas that the non-Realized masses (or that not-yet-Fully-Realized seekers) are still preoccupied with.
Maharaj spoke to visitors two times per day. More accurately, the pure consciousness spoke two times per day. Then, the silence prevailed.
Maharaj's neighborhood was a constant source of noise, so after the morning satsang sessions came to an end, a friend often drove M. through the countryside in order that he might enjoy without interruption the inner peace and quiet that he spoke of. At other times, he sat on the bank of a river, watching the waters flow by and, again, enjoying the uninterrupted quiet and peace.
In addition to verbosity and wordiness and long-windedness being the soul of self-ish-ness, so too is loudness and noise-making. During a visit to L.A., California, a great deal of time was spent sitting in freeway traffic with thousands of cars that were not moving at all.
One common sound heard over and over was that coming from the trunks of cars that were filled with massive speakers. The intent of the owners of those sound systems seemed to be involved far less with the reproduction of lyrics and far more with generating the highest possible decibels of bass sounds that could be heard from a block away.
Later, we were shown a posting on a website there from a man calling himself "Prince." ("Sics" will not be used in quoting his words since they would be almost as long as the post itself.) He asked this: "When I open my trunk i get so much bass i can not only hear it from 20-30ft away but feel it. The ext is amazing. When I close my trunk, its all gone and i hear nothing but rattling...the trunk that is. How can I get the loudness from when my trunk is open?"
He admits that loudness is his goal. The people who were subjecting others to the noise and loudness coming from their vehicles happened in the morning, throughout the day, and throughout the night. Again, "self-ish-ness," the implication being, "You will listen to the high-decibel noise I make and you will not have any choice in that regard. You will hear me. You will not ignore me. I will not disappear."
That is the same with those who send 4-or-5-paragraph emails and expect that someone should take the time to read their every word.
That is the same with irritated partners or spouses who go on and on about whatever it is that they think has angered them and who are willing to continue their arguing - and their noise-making - into the night.
That is the same with spoiled children that tosses a loud, screaming fit after being told, "No."
That is the same with the loud party sitting at a table in an otherwise quiet restaurant.
That is the same with those who modify the mufflers on their cars or motorcycles to make them even louder.
It has been suggested that the planet is dealing with persons who, as children, were at the pool with a parent and were readying themselves to dive into the water but wanted an audience to watch them do so. It's called "The-Look-at-me-mommy!-Look!-You're not looking!-Look-at-me mommy-Syndrome."
It is rooted in the egotism that comes with ego-state assumption and that drives persons to think that they should be focused upon and to believe that others have nothing better to do than to listen to them.
Again, Maharaj described "the supreme state" as "a state of utter stillness and silence. Whoever goes there, disappears."
It is the "Who" (the false self, the supposedly personal self) that does not want to disappear, and the way that an ego-state makes certain that it does not disappear - that it is not ignored - is to subject others to their excessively long letters or emails or to their incessant talking which they think will assure that they are being heard and not ignored (either by "mommy" or by "others").
It is the arrogance of the irritated "Super Partner" or "Super Spouse" that will drive them to rant into the night to assure that they are being seen and heard so that their assumed persona does not disappear.
It is the arrogance of irritated and spoiled children that inspires them to toss a loud, screaming fit after being told, "No," attempting to assure that they will be paid attention to and will get whatever they desire.
It is the arrogance of the loud party gathered at a table in an otherwise quiet restaurant that drives them to ignore the fact that the rest of those dining in the same room prefer quiet conversation, and it that same self-ish-ness that is the inspiration for the term "The Ugly American Abroad."
It is arrogance that drives persons to modify the mufflers on their cars or motorcycles in order to make them even louder.
The Realized do not fear the notion of "disappearing." "Disappearing" happens spontaneously and naturally when Realization happens.
To paraphrase Maharaj, since there is no desire or fear, there is perfect silence.
Personalities all have hidden agendas. The Realized, being personality-free, have no agenda and thus have no fear of disappearing, of being ignored, of not being heard, or of being quiet.
Again, " ... Brevity is the soul of wit." -- William Shakespeare
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
September 30, 2013
Maharaj spoke to visitors two times per day. More accurately, the pure consciousness spoke two times per day. Then, the silence prevailed.
Maharaj's neighborhood was a constant source of noise, so after the morning satsang sessions came to an end, a friend often drove M. through the countryside in order that he might enjoy without interruption the inner peace and quiet that he spoke of. At other times, he sat on the bank of a river, watching the waters flow by and, again, enjoying the uninterrupted quiet and peace.
In addition to verbosity and wordiness and long-windedness being the soul of self-ish-ness, so too is loudness and noise-making. During a visit to L.A., California, a great deal of time was spent sitting in freeway traffic with thousands of cars that were not moving at all.
One common sound heard over and over was that coming from the trunks of cars that were filled with massive speakers. The intent of the owners of those sound systems seemed to be involved far less with the reproduction of lyrics and far more with generating the highest possible decibels of bass sounds that could be heard from a block away.
Later, we were shown a posting on a website there from a man calling himself "Prince." ("Sics" will not be used in quoting his words since they would be almost as long as the post itself.) He asked this: "When I open my trunk i get so much bass i can not only hear it from 20-30ft away but feel it. The ext is amazing. When I close my trunk, its all gone and i hear nothing but rattling...the trunk that is. How can I get the loudness from when my trunk is open?"
He admits that loudness is his goal. The people who were subjecting others to the noise and loudness coming from their vehicles happened in the morning, throughout the day, and throughout the night. Again, "self-ish-ness," the implication being, "You will listen to the high-decibel noise I make and you will not have any choice in that regard. You will hear me. You will not ignore me. I will not disappear."
That is the same with those who send 4-or-5-paragraph emails and expect that someone should take the time to read their every word.
That is the same with irritated partners or spouses who go on and on about whatever it is that they think has angered them and who are willing to continue their arguing - and their noise-making - into the night.
That is the same with spoiled children that tosses a loud, screaming fit after being told, "No."
That is the same with the loud party sitting at a table in an otherwise quiet restaurant.
That is the same with those who modify the mufflers on their cars or motorcycles to make them even louder.
It has been suggested that the planet is dealing with persons who, as children, were at the pool with a parent and were readying themselves to dive into the water but wanted an audience to watch them do so. It's called "The-Look-at-me-mommy!-Look!-You're not looking!-Look-at-me mommy-Syndrome."
It is rooted in the egotism that comes with ego-state assumption and that drives persons to think that they should be focused upon and to believe that others have nothing better to do than to listen to them.
Again, Maharaj described "the supreme state" as "a state of utter stillness and silence. Whoever goes there, disappears."
It is the "Who" (the false self, the supposedly personal self) that does not want to disappear, and the way that an ego-state makes certain that it does not disappear - that it is not ignored - is to subject others to their excessively long letters or emails or to their incessant talking which they think will assure that they are being heard and not ignored (either by "mommy" or by "others").
It is the arrogance of the irritated "Super Partner" or "Super Spouse" that will drive them to rant into the night to assure that they are being seen and heard so that their assumed persona does not disappear.
It is the arrogance of irritated and spoiled children that inspires them to toss a loud, screaming fit after being told, "No," attempting to assure that they will be paid attention to and will get whatever they desire.
It is the arrogance of the loud party gathered at a table in an otherwise quiet restaurant that drives them to ignore the fact that the rest of those dining in the same room prefer quiet conversation, and it that same self-ish-ness that is the inspiration for the term "The Ugly American Abroad."
It is arrogance that drives persons to modify the mufflers on their cars or motorcycles in order to make them even louder.
The Realized do not fear the notion of "disappearing." "Disappearing" happens spontaneously and naturally when Realization happens.
To paraphrase Maharaj, since there is no desire or fear, there is perfect silence.
Personalities all have hidden agendas. The Realized, being personality-free, have no agenda and thus have no fear of disappearing, of being ignored, of not being heard, or of being quiet.
Again, " ... Brevity is the soul of wit." -- William Shakespeare
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
September 30, 2013
A DAILY CONSIDERATION FOR YOU
F.: Maharaj: " ... You must have moments of complete inner peace and quiet, when your mind is absolutely still. If you miss it, you miss the entire thing. If you do not, the silence of the mind will dissolve and absorb all else"
and
"No particular thought can be mind's natural state, only silence. Not the idea of silence, but silence itself. When the mind is in its natural state, it reverts to silence spontaneously after every experience, or, rather, every experience happens against the background of silence"
and
"Your hope lies in keeping silent in your mind and quiet in your heart. Realized people are very quiet. You must realize yourself as the immovable behind and beyond the movable, the silent witness of all that happens."
The variety of emails received here are telling:
Some contain a one-line question. (Those are read and usually answered.)
Some contain a few sentences. They might be glanced at to see if their emails contain a question. (No question? No further reading.)
Some are from those whose paths have crossed this one and have Realized. Now, we are engaged together in the dance, dancing lightly. They write what they write, and what they write is read.
The rest are essays - long, extensive treatises - either focusing on the writer's present personal issues or on their present personal state or on their present desire to escape boredom by setting up daily contact or on their present belief that they really have realized many things that they want me to know they know. In those cases, this response in inserted into their emails in a cut-and-paste fashion and returned to the senders:
I regularly receive many hundreds of emails a week, so here is the first "assignment" I give to seekers who want to communicate but who need to develop an appreciation for both the silence and for brevity in speech. You'll need to revise your latest email before I can read it, making it as concise as possible. I limit those whom I begin this work with to five-sentence emails. Let's see how you can do with that task, eliminating all "extras" and getting to the heart of the subject when communicating.
Of the nine basic personality types, Type Two's are the most long-winded. With their agenda to make people like (or, preferably, love) them, they believe (on a subconscious level, of course) that they must talk to impress, to win over, to hook.
Ones are driven to talk because they want to reform others and the entire world.
Eights are driven to talk because they want to give orders and control and dominate.
Threes are driven to talk because they want to garner admiration.
Sixes are driven to talk because they want to convince people to care for them.
Sevens are driven to talk because they are anxious, as are Sixes, and simply are not at peace enough to be able to sit still and to sit quietly.
Nines are often quiet because they are avoiders who go along to get along.
Fives are often quiet because they are avoiders of the highest level, preferring to be alone while reading or studying and gathering knowledge.
Fours are quiet for one of two reasons: if not Realized, they isolate; if Realized, they relish the peace and silence; however, Type Fours only make up about 1.5% of the planet's population. The result: this is a very noisy planet with about 98.5% of the humans who abide on this globe being driven to talk and talk and talk.
Know any who love their "recovery group discussion meetings"? Why? It's called "a captive audience."
Know a teacher who prefers the lecture method over all other approaches? Why? It's called "a captive audience."
Have a mate or friend who simply has to be talking if you are in the room? Why? It's called "a captive audience."
Maharaj: "Peace and silence, silence and peace - this is the way beyond"
and
" ... Moments of inner quiet will burn out all obstacles without fail. Don't doubt its efficacy. Try it. Silence is the main factor. In peace and silence you grow. In peace and silence, the skin of the 'I' dissolves and the inner and the outer become one"
and
The Realized poet William Shakespeare: " ... Brevity is the soul of wit."
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
and
"No particular thought can be mind's natural state, only silence. Not the idea of silence, but silence itself. When the mind is in its natural state, it reverts to silence spontaneously after every experience, or, rather, every experience happens against the background of silence"
and
"Your hope lies in keeping silent in your mind and quiet in your heart. Realized people are very quiet. You must realize yourself as the immovable behind and beyond the movable, the silent witness of all that happens."
The variety of emails received here are telling:
Some contain a one-line question. (Those are read and usually answered.)
Some contain a few sentences. They might be glanced at to see if their emails contain a question. (No question? No further reading.)
Some are from those whose paths have crossed this one and have Realized. Now, we are engaged together in the dance, dancing lightly. They write what they write, and what they write is read.
The rest are essays - long, extensive treatises - either focusing on the writer's present personal issues or on their present personal state or on their present desire to escape boredom by setting up daily contact or on their present belief that they really have realized many things that they want me to know they know. In those cases, this response in inserted into their emails in a cut-and-paste fashion and returned to the senders:
I regularly receive many hundreds of emails a week, so here is the first "assignment" I give to seekers who want to communicate but who need to develop an appreciation for both the silence and for brevity in speech. You'll need to revise your latest email before I can read it, making it as concise as possible. I limit those whom I begin this work with to five-sentence emails. Let's see how you can do with that task, eliminating all "extras" and getting to the heart of the subject when communicating.
Of the nine basic personality types, Type Two's are the most long-winded. With their agenda to make people like (or, preferably, love) them, they believe (on a subconscious level, of course) that they must talk to impress, to win over, to hook.
Ones are driven to talk because they want to reform others and the entire world.
Eights are driven to talk because they want to give orders and control and dominate.
Threes are driven to talk because they want to garner admiration.
Sixes are driven to talk because they want to convince people to care for them.
Sevens are driven to talk because they are anxious, as are Sixes, and simply are not at peace enough to be able to sit still and to sit quietly.
Nines are often quiet because they are avoiders who go along to get along.
Fives are often quiet because they are avoiders of the highest level, preferring to be alone while reading or studying and gathering knowledge.
Fours are quiet for one of two reasons: if not Realized, they isolate; if Realized, they relish the peace and silence; however, Type Fours only make up about 1.5% of the planet's population. The result: this is a very noisy planet with about 98.5% of the humans who abide on this globe being driven to talk and talk and talk.
Know any who love their "recovery group discussion meetings"? Why? It's called "a captive audience."
Know a teacher who prefers the lecture method over all other approaches? Why? It's called "a captive audience."
Have a mate or friend who simply has to be talking if you are in the room? Why? It's called "a captive audience."
Maharaj: "Peace and silence, silence and peace - this is the way beyond"
and
" ... Moments of inner quiet will burn out all obstacles without fail. Don't doubt its efficacy. Try it. Silence is the main factor. In peace and silence you grow. In peace and silence, the skin of the 'I' dissolves and the inner and the outer become one"
and
The Realized poet William Shakespeare: " ... Brevity is the soul of wit."
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
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Therefore, another movement or shift is happening here spontaneously after reflecting on the more than two decades since the teachings were first offered here and looking at the results of Maharaj sharing pointers in his loft and looking at the results of "Floyd" sharing pointers in this electronic loft: Looking objectively at his results, Maharaj's satsang method of sharing - in the end and by his own admission (only "one out of 10,000,000") - did not produce the intended outcome.
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SHIFTING THE FOCUS FROM THAT WHICH DOES NOT WORK TO THAT WHICH DOES, Part One
A "movement" or "shift" happened here that added another parallel to the many parallels in terms of the phenomenal "experiences" and the noumenal revelations that "Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj" and "Floyd" share in common. (Many visitors over the years have said that they also shared the same parallels with "Maharaj" and "Floyd" as well.)
In the case of "Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj" and "Floyd":
1. both grew up in very poor families 2. both moved to populated areas to seek employment opportunities 3. both exhibited business skills that led to their opening and operating many businesses and to their having a large number of employees working for them 4. both succeeded financially 5. both became attached to accumulating; 6. both married and had a family 7. both were initially religious 8. both moved away from organized religion and became interested in "spiritual" matters, finding and following the teachings of a big name teacher (or, in "Floyd's" case, many big name teachers) 9. both had highly religious wives who were quite displeased with the shift away from religion and toward "spirituality" 10. both began to feel empty in spite of all of their "spiritual seeking" and in spite of all of their accumulated "spiritual knowledge";
1. both grew up in very poor families 2. both moved to populated areas to seek employment opportunities 3. both exhibited business skills that led to their opening and operating many businesses and to their having a large number of employees working for them 4. both succeeded financially 5. both became attached to accumulating; 6. both married and had a family 7. both were initially religious 8. both moved away from organized religion and became interested in "spiritual" matters, finding and following the teachings of a big name teacher (or, in "Floyd's" case, many big name teachers) 9. both had highly religious wives who were quite displeased with the shift away from religion and toward "spirituality" 10. both began to feel empty in spite of all of their "spiritual seeking" and in spite of all of their accumulated "spiritual knowledge";
11. both began to de-accumulate after both saw that they could survive quite well on a fraction of the income they had been making
12. both had wives who were unhappy when the de-accumulation stage was entered and both had wives who became unhappy about their husbands' focus on non-duality and who blamed their unhappiness on no longer having a religious husband
(The facts be known, in both cases the unhappiness involved the fact that their husbands were no longer interested in - or willing - to work 80+ hours per week and that their husbands were no longer interested in accumulating wealth and possessions and providing the rich lifestyle to which their wives had grown accustomed)
13. both eventually came to see that the religious and spiritual states were also ego-states, and both saw that there are far more steps on the "path" to complete after reaching the religious and spiritual steps and after playing those roles which are the third of seven steps on the entire "path" 14. both "lost" their wives (one via "death," the other through divorce); 15. both accelerated their seeking; 16. both entered into the "forest dweller stage" 17. both Realized 18. both began to de-accumulate even more
19. both began sharing the teachings 20. for years, both answered questions in whatever order those questions were received, though both said that the movement from identification with the false "I" / "I's" involved an exact, step-wise manner of moving along a "path" that involved "going back" in the same (but reverse order) of the way they "came in" - that is, the way that the manifestation happened and the way that the consciousness was blocked through seven stages that resulted in their becoming identified solely with their false personas, with the content of the "mind," and eventually, with the body. But the most significant awareness that finally came to both after years of offering satsang and after having answered thousands and thousands of questions was this: After years of "Maharaj" offering satsang in his loft, and after years of "Floyd" offering satsang in meeting halls and in his home and via what one site visitor called "Floyd's electronic loft," this fact became obvious to both: "Maharaj" came to see in the 1970's and into 1980 and 1981 that his approach was not working and "Floyd" finally came to see the same.
13. both eventually came to see that the religious and spiritual states were also ego-states, and both saw that there are far more steps on the "path" to complete after reaching the religious and spiritual steps and after playing those roles which are the third of seven steps on the entire "path" 14. both "lost" their wives (one via "death," the other through divorce); 15. both accelerated their seeking; 16. both entered into the "forest dweller stage" 17. both Realized 18. both began to de-accumulate even more
19. both began sharing the teachings 20. for years, both answered questions in whatever order those questions were received, though both said that the movement from identification with the false "I" / "I's" involved an exact, step-wise manner of moving along a "path" that involved "going back" in the same (but reverse order) of the way they "came in" - that is, the way that the manifestation happened and the way that the consciousness was blocked through seven stages that resulted in their becoming identified solely with their false personas, with the content of the "mind," and eventually, with the body. But the most significant awareness that finally came to both after years of offering satsang and after having answered thousands and thousands of questions was this: After years of "Maharaj" offering satsang in his loft, and after years of "Floyd" offering satsang in meeting halls and in his home and via what one site visitor called "Floyd's electronic loft," this fact became obvious to both: "Maharaj" came to see in the 1970's and into 1980 and 1981 that his approach was not working and "Floyd" finally came to see the same.
21. Both saw that many who heard the teachings are not going to understand (Maharaj reporting that "only 1 in 100,000 are going to 'get' this" understanding)
22. both soon saw that even more than expected of those who heard the teachings were not going to understand (Maharaj modifying his "guesstimate" and reporting that "only 1 in 1,000,000 are going to 'get' this" understanding)
23. eventually both saw that even far more than expected of those who heard the teachings were not going to understand (Maharaj eventually concluding that "only 1 in 10,000,000 are going to 'get' this" understanding). And the failings were not the fault of seekers.
A "one -in-ten-million" estimate is proof that satsang was not working for most seekers, and the evidence here lately is proof of the same.
Both "Maharaj" and "Floyd" invited seekers to focus on the exact, step-wise "path." Yes, during satsang, "Maharaj" sometimes alluded to the steps while discussing them in no particular order - but he never once laid out the steps in the exact order in which they had to be completed. That was not his teachings style or approach.
Therefore, another movement or shift is happening here spontaneously after reflecting on the more than two decades since the teachings were first offered here and looking at the results of Maharaj sharing pointers in his loft and looking at the results of "Floyd" sharing pointers in this electronic loft: Looking objectively at his results, Maharaj's satsang method of sharing - in the end and by his own admission (only "one out of 10,000,000") - did not produce the intended outcome.
Looking objectively at the results here when using an "electronic loft" satsang method of sharing has not produced the intended outcome nearly as often as any of the three "face-to-face" methods used with seekers by which they have been led through the seven steps in order.
Here, the body is growing older, of course. Mahasamadhi could be taken today, or it could be taken in twenty years.
Obviously, that cannot be known. But the decision here has been made that whatever amount of the relative existence remains shall be spent in sharing the teachings in the ways that have been seen over the last 20+ years to be the most effective methods.
Looking back over the list of those that have truly received the understanding, it is seen that Robert R. read all of the books, then took the online Advaita course and then completed some face-to-face Skype sessions to receive the final clarifications required. It was seen that Mac read all of the books, completed the online course, and then attended a retreat where he was guided through the seven steps. Mac said that the online course work inspired him to attend the retreat in order to be able to receive the final "pieces." It was seen that Andy Gugar, Jr. read all of the books, then came here for a retreat and was taken through the seven steps in order, and then returned once more for the final clarifications required. After reviewing the shifts that happened with him after attending two retreats, he reaffirmed this past week his commitment to helping spread the non-duality, nisarga understanding as presented here. As a result of seeing what has "worked" during the last 20+ years of sharing the non-duality understanding - and seeing what had not "worked" as well - changes will be made.
SHIFTING THE FOCUS FROM THAT WHICH DOES NOT WORK TO THAT WHICH DOES, Part Two
Looking back over the list of those that have truly received the understanding, it is seen that Robert R. read all of the books, then took the online Advaita course and then completed some face-to-face Skype sessions to receive the final clarifications required. It was seen that Mac read all of the books, completed the online course, and then attended a retreat where he was guided through the seven steps. Mac said that the online course work inspired him to attend the retreat in order to be able to receive the final "pieces." It was seen that Andy Gugar, Jr. read all of the books, then came here for a retreat and was taken through the seven steps in order, and then returned once more for the final clarifications required. After reviewing the shifts that happened with him after attending two retreats, he reaffirmed this past week his commitment to helping spread the non-duality, nisarga understanding as presented here. As a result of seeing what has "worked" during the last 20+ years of sharing the non-duality understanding - and seeing what had not "worked" as well - changes will be made.
SHIFTING THE FOCUS FROM THAT WHICH DOES NOT WORK TO THAT WHICH DOES, Part Two
In "Part One," examples were given of seekers that were led to Realization not by satsang but by following the various protocols outlined farther down this page which provide the understanding in the step-wise, orderly, required fashion which moves seekers along a "path" that is as prescribed by Maharaj ... "going back" in the "reverse order" by which the consciousness manifested and became blocked.
However, conversations with some that just read the majority of the books have revealed that they certainly seem to have grasped the understanding and Realized as well.
As a result of seeing what has "worked" during the last 20+ years of sharing the non-duality understanding - and seeing what has "not worked" as well - changes are being made.
There are seven specific steps that happen when awareness-energy is "pulled" into a cycle of manifestation. When that energy manifests as conscious-energy, that formerly pure and unadulterated energy becomes "corrupted" (or "blocked" from seeing clearly) via programming, conditioning, domestication, acculturation, and brainwashing. Soon, there is a belief in the not-Real as a result of seven degrees of separation from an understanding of the Real.
Using the method that was also employed by his contemporaries - a method which focused on offering non-duality pointers via satsang - Maharaj addressed questions in the order in which they were received. He might receive a question from a seeker at the third step and his reply would include what amounted to an invitation to move to the fourth step. The next question might come from a seeker at the first step, and the reply would include an invitation to move to the second step.
The information offered to the second seeker would seemingly contradict what was offered to the first seeker, so visitors who have come here for decades have asked questions which showed how confused they were by the fact that Maharaj's statements to each visitor in his loft were "level-appropriate" yet were provided in no precise order, resulting in what seemed to be an inconsistent message.
So the process overall was confusing in that
seekers were told to follow the "path back" in the same way that they "came in," except in reverse order,
but
pointers were not given in a specific, step-wise order at all.
Maharaj did recognize the seven steps that are taught here, but by offering the teachings in an order that was dictated by the order in which questions were received from seekers who were at different steps on the "path," the result was this:
a pointer about moving beyond the fourth step might be followed by a pointer about moving beyond the first step, and that pointer might be followed by a pointer about how to move beyond the sixth step.
The same was done on this site for seven years. The result is a collection of 1,800 or so essays discussing almost every non-duality topic that can be discussed, and the search button on the top right side of this page will now allow seekers with a question about a specific topic to find an explanation. That method, however, will never provide the manner in which the seven steps on the "path" must be transmitted and received in order to Realize Fully.
An objective study of the history here of more than twenty years of offering non-duality pointers reveals this: seekers that were given pointers in the exact order in which they needed to receive them were the ones that Realized.
They read the books, then they completed the online course and / or completed seven Skype or telephone sessions or came here for a retreat (or watched the downloadable DVD version of an actual retreat, available below).
Some found that which they were seeking by reading the author's book that deal with non-duality subject matter. Via all of those venues, the steps are taught in their proper order.
The essays available on this site will remain for those interested in searching for a discussion of a particular non-duality topic without charge, but the focus here until mahasamadhi is taken is going to be on offering the teachings in the step-wise fashion that has been seen to work.
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WHY NISARGA YOGA IN ADDITION TO THE ADVAITA TEACHINGS?
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A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE via the Non-Duality Teachings and the Nisarga Yoga
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[Please note: When the Direct Path Teaching Method is offered in conjunction with the Nisarga Yoga, something unique results when compared to what happens via the approach used by religions, spiritual movements, philosophies, ideologies, etc.:
rather than inviting seekers to learn more, the invitation here is to unlearn all; rather than offerings teachings, what is offered are unteachings; rather than offering to provide seekers more of anything, seekers will find that the process will take away everything. And via that process, the bliss of Your Original Nature will manifest and remain until mahasamadhi is taken.
To that end, the content of this book will seem radical to the seekers of more, but for those truly ready to be totally free and totally independent - and for those who are truly ready to abandon efforts to accumulate and to de-accumulate instead - the pointers in this book might be relevant.]
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