A DAILY CONSIDERATION FOR YOU
F.: Last night there was a discussion with a man in Australia about a study which revealed that "95% to 97% of the people in 'recovery programs' around the globe never attain even five years of sobriety." The question was asked, "Why? What is missing from the most popular (twelve-step) approach being used nowadays?" And then the next question was raised: "Why are there so many that might stop drinking or drugging but are never actually restored to sanity, their delusion that they are now sane notwithstanding?"
Once again, the non-dual approach provides some answers because what is called "addiction" really is accurately explained early on to new recovery group members - but is seldom ever discussed again - with the pointer that, "You do not have a drinking problem ... you have a thinking problem."
(For those interested in more on that, see the EBook below entitled "The Twelve Steps and Advaita / Non-Duality: A 21-Day Plan for a Psychic Change").
That point could be amended to note as well:
"You do not have a relationship problem ... you have a thinking problem"
and
"You do not have a problem with people you deem to be evil ... you have a thinking problem"
and
"You do not have a with problem non-Christians (or non-Muslims or non-Hindus or non-Jews, etc.) You have a thinking problem"
and
"You do not have a problem with those onto whom you project your own defects ... you have a thinking problem."
The problems of humanity that result in the Ultimate Sickness - with its symptoms of what Maharaj called "ignorance, stupidity and insanity" - are all problems rooted in the mind; thus, the problem called "The Ultimate Sickness" is a mental problem, and the Ultimate Medicine (i.e., the non-dual understanding) can address mental problems in some cases.
It has been guessed that "99.9% of all people are addicted to something." If one would truly understand the global problem that if usually called "addiction," she or he much see that it really is all about "OF" ... not "TO."
Some speak of being addicted TO something, but it has nothing to do with "to-ness" at all because whatever the "something" might be is not the object of the attraction at all. The "something" is merely a vehicle used for escaping or for avoiding or for trying to cope.
No, addiction is actually about "of-ness" because it involves a way OF thinking (as in, "You do not have a drinking problem ... you have a thinking problem" and "the main problem centers in the mind.")
Then that way OF thinking leads to a way OF feeling and OF behaving that are actually rooted in avoiding and evading and forestalling and averting and dodging and escaping.
It is that way OF thinking that triggers the primary desire of humanity (which is a desire for control) and that triggers the secondary desire of humanity for power (in order to be able to control).
The partner in the mental / emotional "dance" that ensues is chaos, so if humans could be said to be "addicted to" anything, it is not drugs, alcohol, sex, love, shopping, work, ad infinitum. There is instead a way OF thinking that leads to an attachment to control or an attachment to chaos, and therein lies the source of one of the key problems that manifests in "relationships."
In the end, the relationship between one's Authentic Self and the false self / false identities that are assigned and adopted in cultures around the globe must be the focus, along with taking the actions necessary to be free of those phony roles as well as the subconscious influence of programming, conditioning, domestication, acculturation, brainwashing, and indoctrination.
To that end, the issue is not about learning more but is about un-learning what was taught which, in turn, resulted in thoughts and words and actions that are all now - most unnaturally - bent on self-destructive behavior.
And "self"-destruction is not about trying to destroy the Authentic Self but is about trying to be rid of all of the false selves, the false personas, which all bring with them their own "individualized," "personal" fears and desires.
Ultimately, if a full understanding is reached, then it can be seen that humanity's longing to replace a sense of fracturing and brokenness with a sense of unity and Oneness happens when the multiple selves and their agendas are allowed to dissolve and are replaced by an awareness of the Authentic Self.
The man in Sydney noted that many use substances or things in ways that they might subconsciously intend to be "transitional objects" (just as children use a "comfort object" or a "security blanket" or a pacifier as something that can provide psychological comfort temporarily).
When feeling that things in their environment are out of control (that is, chaotic), children desire control (the primary human desire); but since they have no power to control uncomfortable situations, then they try to avoid and evade and forestall and avert and dodge and escape by using a transitional object.
At the age of six, that behavior can be expected. At the age of thirty-six or forty-six or fifty-six or sixty-six, the use of transitional objects should have fallen away long ago, yet adults often use such objects and behave like six-year-olds because it is around the age of six when personality / personalities begin to develop (in an unsuccessful effort to adapt to dysfunctional situations) and then those personalities can drive thoughts and words and actions for a lifetime if Realization does not happen.
As adults, though, the earlier desire of children to have a blanket or pacifier at their beck and call is replaced by a desire for other transitional objects of comfort: for caretakers; for knowledge (a.k.a., "learned ignorance");
for power (and a Power or Powers) in order to fulfill humanity's desire to control; for a rescuing Supreme Being; for a co-dependent "other"; and for a thousand other things that are accumulated as very expensive, adult-sized transitional objects.
The psychological problems that are rooted in personality and that become personality disorders (and, in some cases, develop into neuroses or psychoses) can sometimes be addressed via the non-dual teachings / unteachings because those psychological problems are often rooted in body and mind and personality identifications.
Are you still trying to use transitional objects to provide comfort, peace, and bliss rather than completing the "journey" that can purge your brain of the fallacious content that is stored in the section called "the mind" and that drives the unnatural behaviors that block any chance to be comfortable, peaceful, and blissful?
If you complete all seven steps on "the path," then you might be able to abide in a nisarga (natural) fashion. There is a solution, and it is called "the Ultimate Medicine."
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
October 17, 2013
Once again, the non-dual approach provides some answers because what is called "addiction" really is accurately explained early on to new recovery group members - but is seldom ever discussed again - with the pointer that, "You do not have a drinking problem ... you have a thinking problem."
(For those interested in more on that, see the EBook below entitled "The Twelve Steps and Advaita / Non-Duality: A 21-Day Plan for a Psychic Change").
That point could be amended to note as well:
"You do not have a relationship problem ... you have a thinking problem"
and
"You do not have a problem with people you deem to be evil ... you have a thinking problem"
and
"You do not have a with problem non-Christians (or non-Muslims or non-Hindus or non-Jews, etc.) You have a thinking problem"
and
"You do not have a problem with those onto whom you project your own defects ... you have a thinking problem."
The problems of humanity that result in the Ultimate Sickness - with its symptoms of what Maharaj called "ignorance, stupidity and insanity" - are all problems rooted in the mind; thus, the problem called "The Ultimate Sickness" is a mental problem, and the Ultimate Medicine (i.e., the non-dual understanding) can address mental problems in some cases.
It has been guessed that "99.9% of all people are addicted to something." If one would truly understand the global problem that if usually called "addiction," she or he much see that it really is all about "OF" ... not "TO."
Some speak of being addicted TO something, but it has nothing to do with "to-ness" at all because whatever the "something" might be is not the object of the attraction at all. The "something" is merely a vehicle used for escaping or for avoiding or for trying to cope.
No, addiction is actually about "of-ness" because it involves a way OF thinking (as in, "You do not have a drinking problem ... you have a thinking problem" and "the main problem centers in the mind.")
Then that way OF thinking leads to a way OF feeling and OF behaving that are actually rooted in avoiding and evading and forestalling and averting and dodging and escaping.
It is that way OF thinking that triggers the primary desire of humanity (which is a desire for control) and that triggers the secondary desire of humanity for power (in order to be able to control).
The partner in the mental / emotional "dance" that ensues is chaos, so if humans could be said to be "addicted to" anything, it is not drugs, alcohol, sex, love, shopping, work, ad infinitum. There is instead a way OF thinking that leads to an attachment to control or an attachment to chaos, and therein lies the source of one of the key problems that manifests in "relationships."
In the end, the relationship between one's Authentic Self and the false self / false identities that are assigned and adopted in cultures around the globe must be the focus, along with taking the actions necessary to be free of those phony roles as well as the subconscious influence of programming, conditioning, domestication, acculturation, brainwashing, and indoctrination.
To that end, the issue is not about learning more but is about un-learning what was taught which, in turn, resulted in thoughts and words and actions that are all now - most unnaturally - bent on self-destructive behavior.
And "self"-destruction is not about trying to destroy the Authentic Self but is about trying to be rid of all of the false selves, the false personas, which all bring with them their own "individualized," "personal" fears and desires.
Ultimately, if a full understanding is reached, then it can be seen that humanity's longing to replace a sense of fracturing and brokenness with a sense of unity and Oneness happens when the multiple selves and their agendas are allowed to dissolve and are replaced by an awareness of the Authentic Self.
The man in Sydney noted that many use substances or things in ways that they might subconsciously intend to be "transitional objects" (just as children use a "comfort object" or a "security blanket" or a pacifier as something that can provide psychological comfort temporarily).
When feeling that things in their environment are out of control (that is, chaotic), children desire control (the primary human desire); but since they have no power to control uncomfortable situations, then they try to avoid and evade and forestall and avert and dodge and escape by using a transitional object.
At the age of six, that behavior can be expected. At the age of thirty-six or forty-six or fifty-six or sixty-six, the use of transitional objects should have fallen away long ago, yet adults often use such objects and behave like six-year-olds because it is around the age of six when personality / personalities begin to develop (in an unsuccessful effort to adapt to dysfunctional situations) and then those personalities can drive thoughts and words and actions for a lifetime if Realization does not happen.
As adults, though, the earlier desire of children to have a blanket or pacifier at their beck and call is replaced by a desire for other transitional objects of comfort: for caretakers; for knowledge (a.k.a., "learned ignorance");
for power (and a Power or Powers) in order to fulfill humanity's desire to control; for a rescuing Supreme Being; for a co-dependent "other"; and for a thousand other things that are accumulated as very expensive, adult-sized transitional objects.
The psychological problems that are rooted in personality and that become personality disorders (and, in some cases, develop into neuroses or psychoses) can sometimes be addressed via the non-dual teachings / unteachings because those psychological problems are often rooted in body and mind and personality identifications.
Are you still trying to use transitional objects to provide comfort, peace, and bliss rather than completing the "journey" that can purge your brain of the fallacious content that is stored in the section called "the mind" and that drives the unnatural behaviors that block any chance to be comfortable, peaceful, and blissful?
If you complete all seven steps on "the path," then you might be able to abide in a nisarga (natural) fashion. There is a solution, and it is called "the Ultimate Medicine."
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
October 17, 2013
A DAILY CONSIDERATION FOR YOU
F.: Yesterday it was suggested that the pointer "a dual-minded person is unstable in all ways" could be expanded to include several other pointers. The following would be valid as well:
"Anyone abiding under the auspices of a mind will be unstable in all ways"
so
"Minded persons are unstable in all ways"
and
"Anyone abiding under the auspices of a particular mindset will be unstable in all ways."
Because experience here has shown the validity of these pointers, then the following are also valid:
"Persons with a 16th century mindset are unstable in all ways"
and
"Persons with a 14th century mindset are unstable in all ways"
and
"Persons with a 1st century mindset are unstable in all ways"
and
" Persons with a 3300-year-old mindset are unstable in all ways"
and
"Persons with a 3500 to 5000-year-old mindset are unstable in all ways."
Ninety-seven percent of those among the masses all around the globe report that they believe the following: "People should let a 'holy text' (or texts) be the ultimate guide for how they live their lives."
For some, the text they use which determines their mindset is almost 1400 years old; for some, it is 1900 years old; for others, it is 3300 year old, or possibly older; and for many, their guiding texts are 3500 to 5000 years old.
Maharaj: "I have no faith in anything which has ever been told, not even what has been told by the Vedas. Only my own experience."
Here, there has never been a suggestion that - if you would Realize Fully - you must learn another language in order to read the ancient texts in the language in which they were originally written. Here, the approach has always been to heed Maharaj's words that describe the way to traverse the "path" or to complete "the journey," namely,
" . . . You should go back, reverse, to the source”
and
"Follow the same path by which you came."
The pointers offered to those willing to follow the precise steps that can shift an earnest seeker from identification with the false "I" to abiding as the Absolute - to abiding as their Original Nature - are pointers that are intended to allow persons to "un-do" the process that has left them in a state of identifying with the body, with the mind, and with multiple personalities.
That does not require the reading of a "holy book" or ancient text. Why? Because the understanding, ultimately, is tapped into via the inner guru / the inner resource, and that was accessible prior to speech and prior to language and prior to any written word.
Reading ancient texts is, in fact, counter-productive because that activity involves learning more rather than un-learning it all in order to finally be free of the influence of the fallacious content of a "mind."
Maharaj: "There is no progress"
and
"Go to zero concepts."
Maharaj made clear that he had reached a state of mindlessness, so he said:
“You are already in your true state. Because of the mind, duality comes in and therefore you are afraid."
He also taught: "That mind-language will talk only about the impressions it has collected. The knowledge 'I Am' is not a thought but observes the thoughts."
So those abiding under the influence of a text that is 1400 years old can believe that women should not be educated; that women who advocate for a woman's right to be educated should be shot; that women should be covered from head to toe and that they should be beaten if they flash an ankle in public; and that those with differing beliefs should be converted or killed.
Those abiding under the influence of texts that are 3500 to 5000 years old will continue to attend festivals at temples where the gatherers will be driven into a state of emotional-intoxication, where they will often panic, and where many die regularly in human stampedes; yet they will continue to attend such potentially-fatal events because of the religious beliefs contained in their supposedly "holy texts."
And for those abiding under the influence of a text that is 1900 years old (and that contain parts from another religion that are 3,300 year old or older), some will join the group mentioned yesterday - those who have assumed the identity of "Christian Reconstructionists" - and they will do all that they possibly can to use their political power to destroy a nation and then "reconstruct it" according to the content of their "holy text."
The result? In the U.S., (in an example of dualistic thinking that is rooted in an ancient mindset) many prominent politicians on the national level - many of whom are prominent "household names" in the States - accept the tenets of the Reconstruction movement which sets forth this belief based in the first part of their "holy text" (which is actually an ancient Jewish text):
Under the theocratic system (which they would create from the ashes of a nation that they would destroy), the list of civil crimes which will carry a death sentence shall include - to quote their leaders - the following offenses, among others:
"Homosexuality, adultery, lying about one's virginity, witchcraft, idolatry, public blasphemy, false prophesying, and bearing false witness in a capital case."
Note the "us vs. them" mentality; the "right vs. wrong" mentality; the "moral vs. immoral" mentality. Those dualities are at the heart of the content of most "holy texts," and the fact is that most "followers" never read their supposedly holy texts but accept whatever a religious leader tells them is in the holy text as well as how the content should be interpreted.
Is it clear that the typical state of humanity is marked by the bogus content stored in the minds of persons, content which is rooted in texts with ancient messages of duality? Is it clear that in most cases when many speak of non-duality, they are inserting duality to add popular appeal to their messages (hence, Maharaj's admonition to stay away from "big name teachers")?
Is it clear that when persons buy into the duality that permeates their holy texts, they will be unstable in all ways and will, therefore, believe that "homosexuals should be stoned to death"; that "adulterers should be killed";
that "to claim to be a virgin when one is not should be punishable by death"; that practicing witchcraft is a capital crime; that giving false prophesies (as opposed to true prophesies?) is a capital offense; and that lying in a capital case demands the liar be killed?
If one would understand the obsession that many assuming the role of a politician / a religious reformer / a deconstructionist have with the female body and with controlling what women can and cannot do with their own bodies, one must understand the mindset of those who have adopted an ideology that is rooted in ancient texts which, by the way, did not lose their relevance thousands of years ago. Actually, they never had any truth-or-fact-based relevance in the first place.
The invitation: follow the only "path" that involves knowing less and that encourages un-learning all rather than learning even more; then, find the source of Truth and Understanding within and thereafter be free of what Maharaj called "ignorance, stupidity and insanity" ... most of which is rooted in ancient texts and in books written nowadays about the content of ancient texts.
Otherwise, one will be unstable in all ways, driven by the myth-and-superstition-based nonsense that was dreamed up and written down by ignorant men thousands of years ago and that leaves you incapable of making any conscious choices on Your own.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
October 16, 2013
"Anyone abiding under the auspices of a mind will be unstable in all ways"
so
"Minded persons are unstable in all ways"
and
"Anyone abiding under the auspices of a particular mindset will be unstable in all ways."
Because experience here has shown the validity of these pointers, then the following are also valid:
"Persons with a 16th century mindset are unstable in all ways"
and
"Persons with a 14th century mindset are unstable in all ways"
and
"Persons with a 1st century mindset are unstable in all ways"
and
" Persons with a 3300-year-old mindset are unstable in all ways"
and
"Persons with a 3500 to 5000-year-old mindset are unstable in all ways."
Ninety-seven percent of those among the masses all around the globe report that they believe the following: "People should let a 'holy text' (or texts) be the ultimate guide for how they live their lives."
For some, the text they use which determines their mindset is almost 1400 years old; for some, it is 1900 years old; for others, it is 3300 year old, or possibly older; and for many, their guiding texts are 3500 to 5000 years old.
Maharaj: "I have no faith in anything which has ever been told, not even what has been told by the Vedas. Only my own experience."
Here, there has never been a suggestion that - if you would Realize Fully - you must learn another language in order to read the ancient texts in the language in which they were originally written. Here, the approach has always been to heed Maharaj's words that describe the way to traverse the "path" or to complete "the journey," namely,
" . . . You should go back, reverse, to the source”
and
"Follow the same path by which you came."
The pointers offered to those willing to follow the precise steps that can shift an earnest seeker from identification with the false "I" to abiding as the Absolute - to abiding as their Original Nature - are pointers that are intended to allow persons to "un-do" the process that has left them in a state of identifying with the body, with the mind, and with multiple personalities.
That does not require the reading of a "holy book" or ancient text. Why? Because the understanding, ultimately, is tapped into via the inner guru / the inner resource, and that was accessible prior to speech and prior to language and prior to any written word.
Reading ancient texts is, in fact, counter-productive because that activity involves learning more rather than un-learning it all in order to finally be free of the influence of the fallacious content of a "mind."
Maharaj: "There is no progress"
and
"Go to zero concepts."
Maharaj made clear that he had reached a state of mindlessness, so he said:
“You are already in your true state. Because of the mind, duality comes in and therefore you are afraid."
He also taught: "That mind-language will talk only about the impressions it has collected. The knowledge 'I Am' is not a thought but observes the thoughts."
So those abiding under the influence of a text that is 1400 years old can believe that women should not be educated; that women who advocate for a woman's right to be educated should be shot; that women should be covered from head to toe and that they should be beaten if they flash an ankle in public; and that those with differing beliefs should be converted or killed.
Those abiding under the influence of texts that are 3500 to 5000 years old will continue to attend festivals at temples where the gatherers will be driven into a state of emotional-intoxication, where they will often panic, and where many die regularly in human stampedes; yet they will continue to attend such potentially-fatal events because of the religious beliefs contained in their supposedly "holy texts."
And for those abiding under the influence of a text that is 1900 years old (and that contain parts from another religion that are 3,300 year old or older), some will join the group mentioned yesterday - those who have assumed the identity of "Christian Reconstructionists" - and they will do all that they possibly can to use their political power to destroy a nation and then "reconstruct it" according to the content of their "holy text."
The result? In the U.S., (in an example of dualistic thinking that is rooted in an ancient mindset) many prominent politicians on the national level - many of whom are prominent "household names" in the States - accept the tenets of the Reconstruction movement which sets forth this belief based in the first part of their "holy text" (which is actually an ancient Jewish text):
Under the theocratic system (which they would create from the ashes of a nation that they would destroy), the list of civil crimes which will carry a death sentence shall include - to quote their leaders - the following offenses, among others:
"Homosexuality, adultery, lying about one's virginity, witchcraft, idolatry, public blasphemy, false prophesying, and bearing false witness in a capital case."
Note the "us vs. them" mentality; the "right vs. wrong" mentality; the "moral vs. immoral" mentality. Those dualities are at the heart of the content of most "holy texts," and the fact is that most "followers" never read their supposedly holy texts but accept whatever a religious leader tells them is in the holy text as well as how the content should be interpreted.
Is it clear that the typical state of humanity is marked by the bogus content stored in the minds of persons, content which is rooted in texts with ancient messages of duality? Is it clear that in most cases when many speak of non-duality, they are inserting duality to add popular appeal to their messages (hence, Maharaj's admonition to stay away from "big name teachers")?
Is it clear that when persons buy into the duality that permeates their holy texts, they will be unstable in all ways and will, therefore, believe that "homosexuals should be stoned to death"; that "adulterers should be killed";
that "to claim to be a virgin when one is not should be punishable by death"; that practicing witchcraft is a capital crime; that giving false prophesies (as opposed to true prophesies?) is a capital offense; and that lying in a capital case demands the liar be killed?
If one would understand the obsession that many assuming the role of a politician / a religious reformer / a deconstructionist have with the female body and with controlling what women can and cannot do with their own bodies, one must understand the mindset of those who have adopted an ideology that is rooted in ancient texts which, by the way, did not lose their relevance thousands of years ago. Actually, they never had any truth-or-fact-based relevance in the first place.
The invitation: follow the only "path" that involves knowing less and that encourages un-learning all rather than learning even more; then, find the source of Truth and Understanding within and thereafter be free of what Maharaj called "ignorance, stupidity and insanity" ... most of which is rooted in ancient texts and in books written nowadays about the content of ancient texts.
Otherwise, one will be unstable in all ways, driven by the myth-and-superstition-based nonsense that was dreamed up and written down by ignorant men thousands of years ago and that leaves you incapable of making any conscious choices on Your own.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
October 16, 2013
A DAILY CONSIDERATION FOR YOU
The book "From the I to the Absolute (A Seven Step Journey to Reality)" contains the transcripts of the last satsang session that was recorded. This pointer from that book was shared in one of the earliest posts on this site in 2005:
"It has been found that one must either find a working philosophy or be doomed to adopt 'their' ideology instead, and my experience shows that nothing is more destructive than buying into 'their' ideology."
For the sake of accuracy, one could substitute the term "an understanding" for "a working philosophy," but the point remains: ideologies and their dogma and those who are driven by blind faith and ignorance and stupidity and insanity perpetuate duality.
Duality, in turn, perpetuates the desire to control and the desire for power.
And the desire to control and the desire for power, in turn, perpetuate chaos; hence, "a dual-minded person / couple / politician / religious or spiritual fanatic / population / nation / planet is unstable in all ways."
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
October 15, 2013
F.: A Middle Eastern man named Yeshu'a (known to many today as "Jesus") was programmed and conditioned within the organized religion that his parents exposed him to. As a result, he lived for a while as most among the masses do nowadays, perfectly qualified for membership in Parrots Anonymous ... spouting in a garbage-in / garbage-out fashion whatever they hear. In the case of Yeshu'a, what he heard came from the mouths and holy text of his religious leaders.
Yet eventually, he began to search for truth beyond the boundaries of organized religion. Two billion persons today who claim to have assumed the identity of "Christ Followers" do not follow him at all, for what he modeled was this:
If you were raised with exposure to organized religion, leave that and seek beyond its confines.
There is no historical record of what happened with him from the age of 8 to the age of 30; however, when the historical record picks up again and covers him around the ages of 31 to 33, he is sharing non-dual pointers.
[ For more on that - if interested - see the EBook below entitled "The Non-Duality Pointers of Yeshu'a ("Jesus the Christ") .]
The historical record offers certain specific comments that he supposedly said, non-verifiable and of questionable validity at times because the accredited statements are often contradictory, yet many of those comments are valid non-dual pointers nevertheless, including this:
"A dual-minded person is unstable in all ways."
That is an accurate enough pointer that could be expanded to include:
"Dual-minded persons in a 'relationship' will be unstable in all ways"
and
"Dual-minded owners of a business will be unstable in all ways"
and
"Dual-minded citizens of a nation will be unstable in all ways"
and
"Dual-minded 'leaders' of a nation will be unstable in all ways"
and
"Dual-minded, xenophobic 'Super Patriots' (with their actual agenda being rooted in their 'Super Religious' identities) will be unstable in all ways"
and
"Dual-minded citizens of a nation, or nations in conflict, will be unstable in all ways."
Abraham Lincoln, speaking of the U.S. in the mid-1800's, observed in a non-dual fashion that "a house divided against itself cannot stand," a non-dual message that adumbrated a pointer also offered by the Advaitin Yeshu'a many centuries earlier.
An even earlier example of a case where a national house was divided against itself has been offered here in the past while discussing what happened when a city-state known as Florence (Italy) had a formerly-united populace that became divided 50 / 50 along religious and social and political lines.
Those differing political and social and religious-based beliefs split Florence right down the middle after the monk Girolamo "The Bonfires of the Vanities" Savonarola entered the city of Florence. With a hidden agenda to overthrown the government and create a theocracy in its place, he attacked the ruling Medicis as "humanists" and "non-Christians" and chastised them for supporting science.
Like a current counterpart in the U.S., Savonarola was a demagogue of the highest order, able to incite half of the population with emotionally-intoxicating, evangelical-preacher-like-rhetoric while spreading ignorance and fanaticism. Eventually, he was able to foster enough discontentment that the city-state became split 50 / 50 by the divisiveness of their political and social and religious-based, dualistic concepts.
He inspired a puritanical fervor, declaring passionately that Florence would become "the world center of Christianity" and "more powerful, more glorious than ever" once Christians gained total control of the city-state. During the four years that he was the religious / political ruler of Florence, the city-state sank into utter chaos as he converted it from a self-governed, independent state into a theocracy.
Post-Savonarola's influence, fifty percent of the population longed to return to being a self-governing, independent state; fifty percent preferred his plan: to live in a theocracy - a religious state where God is considered the head of the government and where a human ruler is deemed to be God's spokesperson on earth. Rather than a written constitution serving as a guide, scriptures deemed to be "holy" are the written guide for a theocratic nation.
As in the days of Lincoln, the U.S. is again providing an example for the entire planet, illustrating by opposing forces - totally trapped in dual-mindedness - are playing out in a real time drama and in their Theater of the Lie exactly what it looks like when duality runs amuck with a present populace that is once again divided 50 / 50 along religious, social, political (and yes, racial) lines.
The 1860's version of a dual-minded "United" States is alive and active, the divisiveness never really having ended in many parts of the nation.
Today, what is happening in the States provides an example for all seekers of the non-dual understanding of what happens when dual-mindedness prevails. In the U.S., the trappings of duality in national politics is at play with demagoguery and hyperbole and histrionics and ignorance and stupidity and insanity (Maharaj) and duality-inspired destruction having becomes exceedingly popular among the fifty present or more who prefer those.
Like Girolamo Savonarola entering Florence with his hidden agenda to build a bonfire to destroy the government and then build a Christian nation from the ashes, there is in the U.S. a cabal of certain Savonarola-types who are disguising their similar, hidden agenda (namely, to "burn down what is" in order to "build from the ashes" a Christian nation that will abide by the rules set out in what is called "The Old Testament" even more than by the guidance that the Advaitin Yeshu'a might have offered in what is called "The New Testament.")
As was the case with Savonarola, the agendas of these persons are not as much political as they are religious, and that fervor has been shown on this site repeatedly to be the most prolific generator of dualistic concepts and beliefs in the history of the planet. Now, in a total duality-based manner, those who attack "the evil of Islamic theocracies over there" would establish a Christian theocracy here.
Their zeal to build a Biblical-based government is all-consuming, inspiring their full-blown monomania. While they call themselves "Patriots," they are allied with a movement of people who have assumed the identity of "Christian Reconstructionists" who - like Savonarola - want to "burn what is" so that what they want can be built "from the ground up." They would destroy and then reconstruct the nation in the manner they prefer.
As far as the non-dual understanding is concerned, Florence in the last 1500's, the U.S. in the mid 1800's, and the U.S. currently can provide examples of what happens when "dual-minded persons become unstable in all ways" and then seek power and control in order to assure that their dualistic beliefs are forced upon an entire population.
Of course, the histories of most nations provide similar examples: the U.K. when Henry VIII broke from the Catholic Church and formed a state religion that to this day functions alongside the government; South Africa under apartheid; other African nations that have been torn by regional wars;
the present-day theocracies that are at war with all who do not belong to their particular religion and sect; and a history of other religious wars that are rooted in the opposing agendas of Judaism, Christianity, Islam and other religions that would have a "faith-based, God-fearing government" in order to guarantee that their nations have a "faith-based, God-fearing populace."
None of that could ever even be conceived except for the fact that dual-minded persons assume false roles that then drive their every thought and word and deed (rendering them unstable in all ways after having assumed the roles of "Super Political Leaders," "Super Proud Xenophobes," "Super Religious Knowers," "Super Patriots" and - most arrogantly and delusionally and divisively - "Those Who Believe That They Are Living in 'The Greatest Nation on Earth'.") All dualistic, arrogance-based, hierarchy-inspiring, separatist nonsense.
And that brings the discussion to the point offered here on a regular basis: when duality manifests and brings ego and egotism with it, the two main addictions of humanity are triggered and reinforced and activated as well:
1. the primary addiction of humanity is to a concept called "control";
2. the secondary addiction of humanity is to a concept called "power" (and "Power").
The secondary addiction is nothing more than a tool that the dual-minded masses would use in order to be able to fulfill their primary addiction to control. The rub?
The rub with that was well-expressed in the message posted on a huge red-and-white sign I read in 1983. It was posted on the side of a bridge where Damrak Street and the Damrak Canal end near the train station in Amsterdam. It read:
"Power" and "control" are concepts based in duality and are, therefore, non-existent. What does exist, however, are the relative effects of the actions of persons who are driven by their desire for power and control and by the agendas of their personalities and assumed ego-states, especially when those agendas are rooted in ideology.
Yet eventually, he began to search for truth beyond the boundaries of organized religion. Two billion persons today who claim to have assumed the identity of "Christ Followers" do not follow him at all, for what he modeled was this:
If you were raised with exposure to organized religion, leave that and seek beyond its confines.
There is no historical record of what happened with him from the age of 8 to the age of 30; however, when the historical record picks up again and covers him around the ages of 31 to 33, he is sharing non-dual pointers.
[ For more on that - if interested - see the EBook below entitled "The Non-Duality Pointers of Yeshu'a ("Jesus the Christ") .]
The historical record offers certain specific comments that he supposedly said, non-verifiable and of questionable validity at times because the accredited statements are often contradictory, yet many of those comments are valid non-dual pointers nevertheless, including this:
"A dual-minded person is unstable in all ways."
That is an accurate enough pointer that could be expanded to include:
"Dual-minded persons in a 'relationship' will be unstable in all ways"
and
"Dual-minded owners of a business will be unstable in all ways"
and
"Dual-minded citizens of a nation will be unstable in all ways"
and
"Dual-minded 'leaders' of a nation will be unstable in all ways"
and
"Dual-minded, xenophobic 'Super Patriots' (with their actual agenda being rooted in their 'Super Religious' identities) will be unstable in all ways"
and
"Dual-minded citizens of a nation, or nations in conflict, will be unstable in all ways."
Abraham Lincoln, speaking of the U.S. in the mid-1800's, observed in a non-dual fashion that "a house divided against itself cannot stand," a non-dual message that adumbrated a pointer also offered by the Advaitin Yeshu'a many centuries earlier.
An even earlier example of a case where a national house was divided against itself has been offered here in the past while discussing what happened when a city-state known as Florence (Italy) had a formerly-united populace that became divided 50 / 50 along religious and social and political lines.
Those differing political and social and religious-based beliefs split Florence right down the middle after the monk Girolamo "The Bonfires of the Vanities" Savonarola entered the city of Florence. With a hidden agenda to overthrown the government and create a theocracy in its place, he attacked the ruling Medicis as "humanists" and "non-Christians" and chastised them for supporting science.
Like a current counterpart in the U.S., Savonarola was a demagogue of the highest order, able to incite half of the population with emotionally-intoxicating, evangelical-preacher-like-rhetoric while spreading ignorance and fanaticism. Eventually, he was able to foster enough discontentment that the city-state became split 50 / 50 by the divisiveness of their political and social and religious-based, dualistic concepts.
He inspired a puritanical fervor, declaring passionately that Florence would become "the world center of Christianity" and "more powerful, more glorious than ever" once Christians gained total control of the city-state. During the four years that he was the religious / political ruler of Florence, the city-state sank into utter chaos as he converted it from a self-governed, independent state into a theocracy.
Post-Savonarola's influence, fifty percent of the population longed to return to being a self-governing, independent state; fifty percent preferred his plan: to live in a theocracy - a religious state where God is considered the head of the government and where a human ruler is deemed to be God's spokesperson on earth. Rather than a written constitution serving as a guide, scriptures deemed to be "holy" are the written guide for a theocratic nation.
As in the days of Lincoln, the U.S. is again providing an example for the entire planet, illustrating by opposing forces - totally trapped in dual-mindedness - are playing out in a real time drama and in their Theater of the Lie exactly what it looks like when duality runs amuck with a present populace that is once again divided 50 / 50 along religious, social, political (and yes, racial) lines.
The 1860's version of a dual-minded "United" States is alive and active, the divisiveness never really having ended in many parts of the nation.
Today, what is happening in the States provides an example for all seekers of the non-dual understanding of what happens when dual-mindedness prevails. In the U.S., the trappings of duality in national politics is at play with demagoguery and hyperbole and histrionics and ignorance and stupidity and insanity (Maharaj) and duality-inspired destruction having becomes exceedingly popular among the fifty present or more who prefer those.
Like Girolamo Savonarola entering Florence with his hidden agenda to build a bonfire to destroy the government and then build a Christian nation from the ashes, there is in the U.S. a cabal of certain Savonarola-types who are disguising their similar, hidden agenda (namely, to "burn down what is" in order to "build from the ashes" a Christian nation that will abide by the rules set out in what is called "The Old Testament" even more than by the guidance that the Advaitin Yeshu'a might have offered in what is called "The New Testament.")
As was the case with Savonarola, the agendas of these persons are not as much political as they are religious, and that fervor has been shown on this site repeatedly to be the most prolific generator of dualistic concepts and beliefs in the history of the planet. Now, in a total duality-based manner, those who attack "the evil of Islamic theocracies over there" would establish a Christian theocracy here.
Their zeal to build a Biblical-based government is all-consuming, inspiring their full-blown monomania. While they call themselves "Patriots," they are allied with a movement of people who have assumed the identity of "Christian Reconstructionists" who - like Savonarola - want to "burn what is" so that what they want can be built "from the ground up." They would destroy and then reconstruct the nation in the manner they prefer.
As far as the non-dual understanding is concerned, Florence in the last 1500's, the U.S. in the mid 1800's, and the U.S. currently can provide examples of what happens when "dual-minded persons become unstable in all ways" and then seek power and control in order to assure that their dualistic beliefs are forced upon an entire population.
Of course, the histories of most nations provide similar examples: the U.K. when Henry VIII broke from the Catholic Church and formed a state religion that to this day functions alongside the government; South Africa under apartheid; other African nations that have been torn by regional wars;
the present-day theocracies that are at war with all who do not belong to their particular religion and sect; and a history of other religious wars that are rooted in the opposing agendas of Judaism, Christianity, Islam and other religions that would have a "faith-based, God-fearing government" in order to guarantee that their nations have a "faith-based, God-fearing populace."
None of that could ever even be conceived except for the fact that dual-minded persons assume false roles that then drive their every thought and word and deed (rendering them unstable in all ways after having assumed the roles of "Super Political Leaders," "Super Proud Xenophobes," "Super Religious Knowers," "Super Patriots" and - most arrogantly and delusionally and divisively - "Those Who Believe That They Are Living in 'The Greatest Nation on Earth'.") All dualistic, arrogance-based, hierarchy-inspiring, separatist nonsense.
And that brings the discussion to the point offered here on a regular basis: when duality manifests and brings ego and egotism with it, the two main addictions of humanity are triggered and reinforced and activated as well:
1. the primary addiction of humanity is to a concept called "control";
2. the secondary addiction of humanity is to a concept called "power" (and "Power").
The secondary addiction is nothing more than a tool that the dual-minded masses would use in order to be able to fulfill their primary addiction to control. The rub?
The rub with that was well-expressed in the message posted on a huge red-and-white sign I read in 1983. It was posted on the side of a bridge where Damrak Street and the Damrak Canal end near the train station in Amsterdam. It read:
"Power" and "control" are concepts based in duality and are, therefore, non-existent. What does exist, however, are the relative effects of the actions of persons who are driven by their desire for power and control and by the agendas of their personalities and assumed ego-states, especially when those agendas are rooted in ideology.
The book "From the I to the Absolute (A Seven Step Journey to Reality)" contains the transcripts of the last satsang session that was recorded. This pointer from that book was shared in one of the earliest posts on this site in 2005:
"It has been found that one must either find a working philosophy or be doomed to adopt 'their' ideology instead, and my experience shows that nothing is more destructive than buying into 'their' ideology."
For the sake of accuracy, one could substitute the term "an understanding" for "a working philosophy," but the point remains: ideologies and their dogma and those who are driven by blind faith and ignorance and stupidity and insanity perpetuate duality.
Duality, in turn, perpetuates the desire to control and the desire for power.
And the desire to control and the desire for power, in turn, perpetuate chaos; hence, "a dual-minded person / couple / politician / religious or spiritual fanatic / population / nation / planet is unstable in all ways."
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
October 15, 2013
A DAILY CONSIDERATION FOR YOU
F.: [Continued from earlier] And to the list of "fundamental attribution errors that are made by the non-Realized masses" can be added a fundamental attribution error that is made by those who think that they are not among the non-Realized masses, namely,
"I attribute the fact that I am different from most (and, yes, if I were totally honest, that makes me a bit better than most) is the fact that I am pure. And my purity is the result of many things:
"For one, I am a vegan / I am a vegetarian" (which in many cases actually means, "I am a carb addict and I eat no meat but instead I eat foods such as pasta, potatoes, macaroni and cheese, etc., but no meat").
[The following has been shared on this site before when vegetarian-proud types write to demand that I encourage people to avoid meat and to eat vegetables only:
There are three body types among humans on the planet, divided roughly into 1/3 with sympathetic-dominant body types, 1/3 with a parasympathetic-dominate body types, and the other third with bodies that are called a balanced type.
The organs in the bodies of the thirty-three percent with a sympathetic-dominant body type can function quite well on a vegetables-only food plan. The organs of the third of all humans on the planet who have a parasympathetic-dominate body type function best with a food plan that includes high meat consumption. Only the one-third with body types that are called balanced types can function well with a food plan that includes a balance of both meat and vegetables.
The irony: in the U.S., the government recommends that "all should have a balanced diet daily, containing meat and vegetables," setting 2/3's of the population up for organ dysfunction if they heed that advice.]
A few months ago, a woman who considers herself to be super spiritual - having studied Eastern philosophies for years, having visited an ashram annually, having eaten vegetables only, and having abstained from sex for years - was rushed to the hospital with multiple organ failure. She told the physician, "I should not be here. I never eat meat, I don't have sex, I do my spiritual exercises every day. This makes no sense."
The reply: "It makes complete sense if you eat no meat but have a parasympathetic-dominate or balanced body type. Let's address the physical issues and then I'll arrange for you to meet with my nutrition specialist."
That meeting never happened, of course. The woman's spiritual persona has resulted in a complete over-riding of the natural tendency of the consciousness to extend itself by doing nothing that is self-destructive (an act that only happens among one specific life-form out of the billions that exist on this planet, namely, humans).
Yet her problems were not confined to improper-food-plan-induced organ dysfunction because, for years, she has also been plagued by GI problems, by a lack of energy, by a general malaise, and by depression (all a result of her spiritual persona that reinforces the misguided beliefs that she has about "foods that will allow her to be spiritual" vs. "foods that would rob her of her spiritual purity").
Moreover, the most basic understanding of what happens in the GI tract with any foods that are consumed would dispel any notions about one type of food assuring that the inside of the body is "as pure as the driven snow" while other foods make the body impure. Here, with no delusions about there being "purity" of any fashion, the food plan followed is one that is fine-tuned for a parasympathetic-dominate body type.
Yes, food with chemical additives are avoided. Yes, foods that are genetically-altered are avoided. And yes, that which is natural is sought out (even as there exists the full understanding that the entire food supply on the planet has been bastardized to one degree or another, depending on country and region).
As for the woman's abstinence, it does not make her pure. It merely makes her - by her own admission - "frustrated" and "dissatisfied" and "longing" and "unfulfilled" and "exasperated."
As for all of the years of rising two hours earlier than necessary to do "her spiritual readings" and "spiritual exercises" and "meditation" and "yoga," the fact is that by the time she works her way through traffic jams to reach her job site, she is again frustrated and angry and most unhappy.
Is there ever any effort here to try to persuade visitors to "eat this but don't eat that"? Is there ever any effort here to try to persuade visitors to "have more sex"? Is there ever any effort here to try to persuade visitors to "stop spending thousands of dollars annually going to ashrams and listening to talks in a language that you do not even understand"? No, no, and no.
Is there an invitation here to abandon things unnatural and to abandon things erroneously deemed to be "supernatural" and to abide in a nisarga (natural) fashion? Yes. So it is when the Direct Path Method is combined with the Nisarga Yoga.
Are there ever any emotions or feelings about those who do not accept the invitation? Never.
Eating veggies only? There's a 1/3 chance you're following the proper food plan for your body type. Going to ashrams annually? Rock and roll. Giving up two hours of sleep each day in order to reinforce a false spiritual persona? Rock and roll. Abstaining? Rock and roll (or don't rock and roll, as the case might be).
In spite of all the efforts of those who believe they are being bathed by the full light of the noonday sun though they are actually standing in the semi-darkness of dawn, they are not different-from, better-than, or purer-than "others who are less enlightened." In fact, there is no such thing as "pure vs. impure." That is just one more dualistic pair that is bought into by the non-Realized and by the not-Fully-Realized.
Moreover, the type of self-delusion among the not-Fully-Realized is no different from the self-delusion of the not-Realized-at-all because all delusion (and ignorance) is rooted in fundamental attribution errors.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
October 12, 2013
"I attribute the fact that I am different from most (and, yes, if I were totally honest, that makes me a bit better than most) is the fact that I am pure. And my purity is the result of many things:
"For one, I am a vegan / I am a vegetarian" (which in many cases actually means, "I am a carb addict and I eat no meat but instead I eat foods such as pasta, potatoes, macaroni and cheese, etc., but no meat").
[The following has been shared on this site before when vegetarian-proud types write to demand that I encourage people to avoid meat and to eat vegetables only:
There are three body types among humans on the planet, divided roughly into 1/3 with sympathetic-dominant body types, 1/3 with a parasympathetic-dominate body types, and the other third with bodies that are called a balanced type.
The organs in the bodies of the thirty-three percent with a sympathetic-dominant body type can function quite well on a vegetables-only food plan. The organs of the third of all humans on the planet who have a parasympathetic-dominate body type function best with a food plan that includes high meat consumption. Only the one-third with body types that are called balanced types can function well with a food plan that includes a balance of both meat and vegetables.
The irony: in the U.S., the government recommends that "all should have a balanced diet daily, containing meat and vegetables," setting 2/3's of the population up for organ dysfunction if they heed that advice.]
A few months ago, a woman who considers herself to be super spiritual - having studied Eastern philosophies for years, having visited an ashram annually, having eaten vegetables only, and having abstained from sex for years - was rushed to the hospital with multiple organ failure. She told the physician, "I should not be here. I never eat meat, I don't have sex, I do my spiritual exercises every day. This makes no sense."
The reply: "It makes complete sense if you eat no meat but have a parasympathetic-dominate or balanced body type. Let's address the physical issues and then I'll arrange for you to meet with my nutrition specialist."
That meeting never happened, of course. The woman's spiritual persona has resulted in a complete over-riding of the natural tendency of the consciousness to extend itself by doing nothing that is self-destructive (an act that only happens among one specific life-form out of the billions that exist on this planet, namely, humans).
Yet her problems were not confined to improper-food-plan-induced organ dysfunction because, for years, she has also been plagued by GI problems, by a lack of energy, by a general malaise, and by depression (all a result of her spiritual persona that reinforces the misguided beliefs that she has about "foods that will allow her to be spiritual" vs. "foods that would rob her of her spiritual purity").
Moreover, the most basic understanding of what happens in the GI tract with any foods that are consumed would dispel any notions about one type of food assuring that the inside of the body is "as pure as the driven snow" while other foods make the body impure. Here, with no delusions about there being "purity" of any fashion, the food plan followed is one that is fine-tuned for a parasympathetic-dominate body type.
Yes, food with chemical additives are avoided. Yes, foods that are genetically-altered are avoided. And yes, that which is natural is sought out (even as there exists the full understanding that the entire food supply on the planet has been bastardized to one degree or another, depending on country and region).
As for the woman's abstinence, it does not make her pure. It merely makes her - by her own admission - "frustrated" and "dissatisfied" and "longing" and "unfulfilled" and "exasperated."
As for all of the years of rising two hours earlier than necessary to do "her spiritual readings" and "spiritual exercises" and "meditation" and "yoga," the fact is that by the time she works her way through traffic jams to reach her job site, she is again frustrated and angry and most unhappy.
Is there ever any effort here to try to persuade visitors to "eat this but don't eat that"? Is there ever any effort here to try to persuade visitors to "have more sex"? Is there ever any effort here to try to persuade visitors to "stop spending thousands of dollars annually going to ashrams and listening to talks in a language that you do not even understand"? No, no, and no.
Is there an invitation here to abandon things unnatural and to abandon things erroneously deemed to be "supernatural" and to abide in a nisarga (natural) fashion? Yes. So it is when the Direct Path Method is combined with the Nisarga Yoga.
Are there ever any emotions or feelings about those who do not accept the invitation? Never.
Eating veggies only? There's a 1/3 chance you're following the proper food plan for your body type. Going to ashrams annually? Rock and roll. Giving up two hours of sleep each day in order to reinforce a false spiritual persona? Rock and roll. Abstaining? Rock and roll (or don't rock and roll, as the case might be).
In spite of all the efforts of those who believe they are being bathed by the full light of the noonday sun though they are actually standing in the semi-darkness of dawn, they are not different-from, better-than, or purer-than "others who are less enlightened." In fact, there is no such thing as "pure vs. impure." That is just one more dualistic pair that is bought into by the non-Realized and by the not-Fully-Realized.
Moreover, the type of self-delusion among the not-Fully-Realized is no different from the self-delusion of the not-Realized-at-all because all delusion (and ignorance) is rooted in fundamental attribution errors.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
October 12, 2013
A DAILY CONSIDERATION FOR YOU
F.: [Continued from yesterday] And other fundamental attribution errors that the non-dual understanding could address also exist:
"I can attribute the way I feel to what others think about me or say about me."
"The fact that we are angry because the teacher criticized our child has nothing to do with whatever you are calling "The Super Mom' and 'The Super Dad.' We know that the anger is based in the fact that the teacher was completely wrong about our child."
"You are wrong. Just because I said I quit four jobs in three months 'because I will not be disrespected' is not rooted at all in arrogance and egotism and conceit and has nothing to do with what you are calling 'The One Who Automatically Deserves Respect Though It Has Never Been Earned'."
"You are wrong. I am not absorbed with talking every week on what we call 'the speaker circuit' because I am always seeking a captive audience. I attribute my frequent speaking to the fact that I am just the kind of guy who loves to help people."
"You are wrong. I am not holding a political office in the national government because I am what some are calling 'A Narcissistic Power Freak.' I attribute the making of this sacrifice to the fact that I am a patriot who loves my country and who wants to reform it and make it better."
"I do not think I am better than others. I can attribute my effort - to trying to encourage everyone I can to join my religion - to the fact that I know that if they will just believe what I believe, it will make their lives better."
"I am not leaving my spouse because I think I am better or because I believe that I am always right or because I am playing the role of what you are calling 'The Super Spouse.' I am leaving because I simply deserve so much better."
"The fact that I prayed to God every day for a year that He would kill my husband does not make me 'The Sociopath.' I just attribute that action to the fact that my husband infuriated me all of the time."
"We attribute the belief that America deserves continuous blessings from God because of the fact that this nation was founded as 'A Shining City On A Hill' to serve as a beacon that all of the other people of the world can follow in order to also be great."
"I am not cold and seriously flawed. I attribute the fact that I don't hug my children or tell them that I love them to this: it's just not the way people in our culture act."
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
October 11, 2013
"I can attribute the way I feel to what others think about me or say about me."
"The fact that we are angry because the teacher criticized our child has nothing to do with whatever you are calling "The Super Mom' and 'The Super Dad.' We know that the anger is based in the fact that the teacher was completely wrong about our child."
"You are wrong. Just because I said I quit four jobs in three months 'because I will not be disrespected' is not rooted at all in arrogance and egotism and conceit and has nothing to do with what you are calling 'The One Who Automatically Deserves Respect Though It Has Never Been Earned'."
"You are wrong. I am not absorbed with talking every week on what we call 'the speaker circuit' because I am always seeking a captive audience. I attribute my frequent speaking to the fact that I am just the kind of guy who loves to help people."
"You are wrong. I am not holding a political office in the national government because I am what some are calling 'A Narcissistic Power Freak.' I attribute the making of this sacrifice to the fact that I am a patriot who loves my country and who wants to reform it and make it better."
"I do not think I am better than others. I can attribute my effort - to trying to encourage everyone I can to join my religion - to the fact that I know that if they will just believe what I believe, it will make their lives better."
"I am not leaving my spouse because I think I am better or because I believe that I am always right or because I am playing the role of what you are calling 'The Super Spouse.' I am leaving because I simply deserve so much better."
"The fact that I prayed to God every day for a year that He would kill my husband does not make me 'The Sociopath.' I just attribute that action to the fact that my husband infuriated me all of the time."
"We attribute the belief that America deserves continuous blessings from God because of the fact that this nation was founded as 'A Shining City On A Hill' to serve as a beacon that all of the other people of the world can follow in order to also be great."
"I am not cold and seriously flawed. I attribute the fact that I don't hug my children or tell them that I love them to this: it's just not the way people in our culture act."
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
October 11, 2013
A DAILY CONSIDERATION FOR YOU
F.: Consider other fundamental attribution errors that the non-dual understanding could address:
"I can attribute my body as being a part of what identifies me."
"I can attribute my mind as being a part of what identifies me."
"I can attribute my personality (personalities?) as being a part of what identifies me."
"I can attribute my beliefs as being a part of what identifies me."
"I can attribute my job as being a part of what identifies me."
"I can attribute my role as a spouse / lover as being a part of what identifies me."
"I can attribute my religion as being a part of what identifies me."
"I can attribute my spirituality as being a part of what identifies me."
"I can attribute my membership in a 12-Step program as being a part of what identifies me."
"I can attribute my membership at the country club as being a part of what identifies me."
"I can attribute my registration as a member of one particular political party as being a part of what identifies me."
"I can attribute my role of parent as being a part of what identifies me."
"I can attribute my being a good neighbor as being a part of what identifies me."
"I can attribute my being a wonderful employer as being a part of what identifies me."
"I can attribute my being a really nice person as being a part of what identifies me."
"I can attribute my helpfulness as being a part of what identifies me."
"I can attribute my storehouse of knowledge as being a part of what identifies me."
"I can attribute my loyality to my caretakers as being a part of what identifies me."
"I can attribute my popularity at parties as being a part of what identifies me."
"I can attribute my ability to offer rousing speeches that stir up strong emotional reactions in people as a part of what identifies me."
Ad infinitum.
Maharaj:
" . . . The only fact that you are sure of is that you are. The 'I am' is certain. The 'i am this' is not"
and
"To know What You Are, you must first investigate and know what you are not"
and
"Discover all that you are not - body, feelings, thoughts, time, space, this or that. Nothing, concrete or abstract, which you perceive can be You. The very act of perceiving shows that you are not what you perceive"
and
"The clearer you understand that on the level of the mind you can be described in negative terms only, the quicker will you come to the end of your search ...."
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
October 10, 2013
"I can attribute my body as being a part of what identifies me."
"I can attribute my mind as being a part of what identifies me."
"I can attribute my personality (personalities?) as being a part of what identifies me."
"I can attribute my beliefs as being a part of what identifies me."
"I can attribute my job as being a part of what identifies me."
"I can attribute my role as a spouse / lover as being a part of what identifies me."
"I can attribute my religion as being a part of what identifies me."
"I can attribute my spirituality as being a part of what identifies me."
"I can attribute my membership in a 12-Step program as being a part of what identifies me."
"I can attribute my membership at the country club as being a part of what identifies me."
"I can attribute my registration as a member of one particular political party as being a part of what identifies me."
"I can attribute my role of parent as being a part of what identifies me."
"I can attribute my being a good neighbor as being a part of what identifies me."
"I can attribute my being a wonderful employer as being a part of what identifies me."
"I can attribute my being a really nice person as being a part of what identifies me."
"I can attribute my helpfulness as being a part of what identifies me."
"I can attribute my storehouse of knowledge as being a part of what identifies me."
"I can attribute my loyality to my caretakers as being a part of what identifies me."
"I can attribute my popularity at parties as being a part of what identifies me."
"I can attribute my ability to offer rousing speeches that stir up strong emotional reactions in people as a part of what identifies me."
Ad infinitum.
Maharaj:
" . . . The only fact that you are sure of is that you are. The 'I am' is certain. The 'i am this' is not"
and
"To know What You Are, you must first investigate and know what you are not"
and
"Discover all that you are not - body, feelings, thoughts, time, space, this or that. Nothing, concrete or abstract, which you perceive can be You. The very act of perceiving shows that you are not what you perceive"
and
"The clearer you understand that on the level of the mind you can be described in negative terms only, the quicker will you come to the end of your search ...."
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
October 10, 2013
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."
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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."
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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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CASTING LIGHT ON THE DARK SIDE OF RELATIONSHIPS
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OVERCOMING THE FEAR OF BEING TOTALLY INDEPENDENT
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THE NON-DUALITY POINTERS OFFERED BY YESHU'A ("JESUS THE CHRIST")
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE THE ADVAITIN
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WHEN ONLY THREE HOURS OF MANIFESTATION REMAIN (THE "FINAL" TALKS OF FLOYD HENDERSON)
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I AM THAT (vs. "This Is Who I Think I Am")
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QUOTATIONS AND POINTERS DEALING WITH NON-DUALITY, ADVAITA, NISARGA YOGA, AND MORE
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DANCING LIGHTLY
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THE PATH TO FREEDOM VS. THE PATH TO MISERY
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THERE IS NOTHING THAT IS PERSONAL (INCLUDING YOU AND INCLUDING GOD)
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LIBERATION (ATTAINING FREEDOM FROM PERSONALITY VIA REALIZATION)
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WHY YOU MUST BE EMPTY IF YOU WOULD BE FULL
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FREEDOM FROM BELIEFS (Believers, Non-Believers, and "No-Belief-ers")
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WHEN REALITY IS OVERLAID ON THE RELATIVE
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THE RELATIVE RESULTS OF RETURNING TO "THE CHILD IGNORANCE STAGE" OR "THE CHILD NO-KNOWING STATE"
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WHAT BLISS IS AND WHAT BLISS IS NOT
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THE TWICE-STOLEN NECKLACE MURDERS
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THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF WARS
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LESSONS IN NON-DUALITY FROM TRAVELS IN SOUTH AFRICA
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A SERIES OF ESSAYS DISCUSSING THE FIRST STEP ON THE SEVEN-STEP PATH TO REALIZATION
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A SERIES OF ESSAYS DISCUSSING THE SECOND STEP ON THE SEVEN-STEP PATH TO REALIZATION
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A SERIES OF ESSAYS DISCUSSING THE THIRD STEP ON THE SEVEN-STEP PATH TO REALIZATION
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A SERIES OF ESSAYS DISCUSSING THE FOURTH STEP ON THE SEVEN-STEP PATH TO REALIZATION
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A SERIES OF ESSAYS DISCUSSING THE FIFTH STEP ON THE SEVEN-STEP PATH TO REALIZATION
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A SERIES OF ESSAYS DISCUSSING THE SIXTH STEP ON THE SEVEN-STEP PATH TO REALIZATION
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A SERIES OF ESSAYS DISCUSSING THE SEVENTH STEP ON THE SEVEN-STEP PATH TO REALIZATION
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SPIRITUAL SOBRIETY (RECOVERING WHAT RELIGIONS LOST)
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IT'S ALL BULLSHIT (AND WHY KNOWING IT SETS YOU FREE)
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