A DAILY CONSIDERATION FOR YOU
F.: [From yesterday]
Yet as was the case here when there was “the supposed, imagined experiencer of many things positive and many things negative,” those who would be free (of ignorance and stupidity and insanity) must first – for a time – “experience” the full, ill effects of duality to reach the stability and sanity and peace that the non-dual understanding can bring.
The non-Realized, during their relative existence, must first “experience” their weakness to “experience” strength; must “experience” their insanity to reach sanity; must “experience” hopelessness in order to experience “hope,” and must “experience” their no-ability-to-choose state in order to reach a point where they can make conscious choices, even in the absence of a “maker of choices” and in the presence of mere Witnessing that allow for the full awareness of all.
1. EXPERIENCING INSANITY
“First,” it might be asked, “how can insanity be experienced if there is no experiencer?” Recall that Maharaj did indeed advise some, “ … the fact is that the three - experiencer, experiencing, experience - are not. In witnessing, in awareness, Self-consciousness, the sense of being this or that, is not. Unidentified being remains.” So?
So consider pain vs. misery and suffering. Pain is of the body; misery and suffering are of the mind.
A body can certainly register pain, yet a body cannot experience pain if consciousness is suspended. Under the effects of anesthesia, a doctor can cut open a chest, remove a heart, insert another one, and all the while the body does not experience / register pain at all. The experiencing of pain comes after consciousness is restored; therefore, it is not the body that is experiencing pain but it is the consciousness that is conscious of (that is “experiencing”) pain instead.
Similarly, there is no “one” to experience misery and suffering. Feeling miserable over a perceived “loss”? That’s the mind’s misperception, thinking there was someone who had something to begin with that was later lost. There was not.
“The Wife” is a concept. There is no one to “have” a wife, so there is no one to "lose" a wife. Same with the fictional “Husband” that cultures dream up in order to control people. [If that one non-dual pointer were understood in the U.S., then 50% of all murders annually would cease. The same is the case all around the globe.]
Second example: Grandmother once explained that the Cherokee language had no words that could express such concepts as “ownership,” “own,” “my” or “mine”; therefore, she explained, there was obviously no word for “loss.”
Imagine how much angst and sturm und drang (that is, “storm and stress” or, most revealing, the literal meaning, “storm and yearning”) would never occur if the duality of “loss vs. gain” were eliminated.
So when the suggestion is offered that “one must experience his or her insanity to reach sanity,” that really means that steps must be taken to unblock the blocked consciousness so that the consciousness can witness the evidence of insanity when it occurs.
Thus, what lay persons call “experiencing” – believing that there really is some “one” that can be “The Experiencer” – the Realized for the sake of discussion call “witnessing.” There are two levels of witnessing: subject-object witnessing” and “Pure Witnessing.” The Realized witness via the latter.
Of course, among the non-Realized, that cannot happen. All is witnessed by the masses in a subject-object mode only. So the case is among the masses that most will never realize what they do not realize, will never understand what they do not understand, and will never know that they actually understand nothing factually and instead are attached to delusions and false beliefs.
So it is the mind that believes duality is real, and it is the blocked consciousness that seemingly experiences the effects of believing in duality. That is why the main problem among the masses does truly center in the mind.
Yet how can the insane ever witness their insanity? Usually, being conscious of one’s insanity manifests in small “blips” that are soon ignored, denied, accepted, or “spun out of existence,” depending on the dominant personality type:
Type Ones deny that they are not perfect.
Type Twos never consider that they might be anything other than perfectly lovable.
Type Threes might see a relative flaw, but within minutes or seconds, they “put a spin on” the facts, reject the awareness of a flaw, and then return to their usual self-concept: that they are – like Ones - perfect.
Type Fours – when not in touch with their Authentic Self - will escape the truth.
Type Fives and Sixes and Sevens and Nines avoid the truth.
And Type Eights can see their sociopathic tendencies and relative flaws but could not care less about them. (When I have provided Eights with evidence of their sociopathic nature, most actually laughed and said, "Yep, that me. Ha.")
[Is it possible that the more aware one becomes of the effects of personality, the more obvious it becomes why the masters have always advised to be rid of personality and personal identities and the subconscious desires and fears of personas that drive thoughts and words and actions?]
The result: most will never actually “experience” / Witness the evidence of insanity that they are displaying, so most will never be free of insanity. At best, a glimpse might happen that leads one to say “I can’t believe I was so stupid as to fall for that”;
later, a few might transition beyond the miasma generated by their ego-states’ egotism and declare, “You know, I have a pattern showing up here that is making kind of clear that something is wrong with me”;
fewer still might reach the point where they are able to confess, “You know, I think that I must be going crazy”;
and even fewer might reach the point where they admit, “I am full-blown nuts. My life sucks, big time. I am going to have to do something.”
But that “something” usually turns out to be more of what they have been doing all along. Been religious? “I’ve got to be even more religious.” Been spiritual: “I have got to increase the time spent doing my spiritual exercises and meditation and getting close to ‘The Power’ or to ‘God’.”
Been drinking or drugging? Then subconsciously the drive is to drink or drug more. Been working or shopping or eating or losing yourself in relationships based in sex alone? Then subconsciously the drive is to work more or shop more or eat more or have even more sex.
How willing are such types to admit that their self-destructive conduct is insane? Little. “Up yours! I don’t have a problem! In fact, you are the one with a problem.” Indeed.
In other words, the non-Realized masses seldom “get out the box” they were placed in, so in spite of the fact that what they have done has not worked, they conclude that (1) they need even more of what is not working and that (2) their problem is rooted in the quantity of what they are doing rather than in the absent quality (the legitimacy or effectiveness) of what they are doing.
The seven-step process is a process that begins to tip the scales from insanity to sanity. The farther along the “path” one moves, the more that false beliefs can be seen to be false and the more that Truth can be seen to be the Truth.
Eventually, one might transition the insanity of not being able to differentiate true from false; if that happens, then sanity can be restored as the effects of programming, conditioning, acculturation, domestication, brainwashing, and indoctrination are undone.
Only after actually “experiencing” (witnessing) the insanity of duality and making the connection between duality on the one hand and chaos and the absence of peace on the other, then only can the stability and peacefulness of the non-dual understanding actually manifest.
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
17 January 2014
Yet as was the case here when there was “the supposed, imagined experiencer of many things positive and many things negative,” those who would be free (of ignorance and stupidity and insanity) must first – for a time – “experience” the full, ill effects of duality to reach the stability and sanity and peace that the non-dual understanding can bring.
The non-Realized, during their relative existence, must first “experience” their weakness to “experience” strength; must “experience” their insanity to reach sanity; must “experience” hopelessness in order to experience “hope,” and must “experience” their no-ability-to-choose state in order to reach a point where they can make conscious choices, even in the absence of a “maker of choices” and in the presence of mere Witnessing that allow for the full awareness of all.
1. EXPERIENCING INSANITY
“First,” it might be asked, “how can insanity be experienced if there is no experiencer?” Recall that Maharaj did indeed advise some, “ … the fact is that the three - experiencer, experiencing, experience - are not. In witnessing, in awareness, Self-consciousness, the sense of being this or that, is not. Unidentified being remains.” So?
So consider pain vs. misery and suffering. Pain is of the body; misery and suffering are of the mind.
A body can certainly register pain, yet a body cannot experience pain if consciousness is suspended. Under the effects of anesthesia, a doctor can cut open a chest, remove a heart, insert another one, and all the while the body does not experience / register pain at all. The experiencing of pain comes after consciousness is restored; therefore, it is not the body that is experiencing pain but it is the consciousness that is conscious of (that is “experiencing”) pain instead.
Similarly, there is no “one” to experience misery and suffering. Feeling miserable over a perceived “loss”? That’s the mind’s misperception, thinking there was someone who had something to begin with that was later lost. There was not.
“The Wife” is a concept. There is no one to “have” a wife, so there is no one to "lose" a wife. Same with the fictional “Husband” that cultures dream up in order to control people. [If that one non-dual pointer were understood in the U.S., then 50% of all murders annually would cease. The same is the case all around the globe.]
Second example: Grandmother once explained that the Cherokee language had no words that could express such concepts as “ownership,” “own,” “my” or “mine”; therefore, she explained, there was obviously no word for “loss.”
Imagine how much angst and sturm und drang (that is, “storm and stress” or, most revealing, the literal meaning, “storm and yearning”) would never occur if the duality of “loss vs. gain” were eliminated.
So when the suggestion is offered that “one must experience his or her insanity to reach sanity,” that really means that steps must be taken to unblock the blocked consciousness so that the consciousness can witness the evidence of insanity when it occurs.
Thus, what lay persons call “experiencing” – believing that there really is some “one” that can be “The Experiencer” – the Realized for the sake of discussion call “witnessing.” There are two levels of witnessing: subject-object witnessing” and “Pure Witnessing.” The Realized witness via the latter.
Of course, among the non-Realized, that cannot happen. All is witnessed by the masses in a subject-object mode only. So the case is among the masses that most will never realize what they do not realize, will never understand what they do not understand, and will never know that they actually understand nothing factually and instead are attached to delusions and false beliefs.
So it is the mind that believes duality is real, and it is the blocked consciousness that seemingly experiences the effects of believing in duality. That is why the main problem among the masses does truly center in the mind.
Yet how can the insane ever witness their insanity? Usually, being conscious of one’s insanity manifests in small “blips” that are soon ignored, denied, accepted, or “spun out of existence,” depending on the dominant personality type:
Type Ones deny that they are not perfect.
Type Twos never consider that they might be anything other than perfectly lovable.
Type Threes might see a relative flaw, but within minutes or seconds, they “put a spin on” the facts, reject the awareness of a flaw, and then return to their usual self-concept: that they are – like Ones - perfect.
Type Fours – when not in touch with their Authentic Self - will escape the truth.
Type Fives and Sixes and Sevens and Nines avoid the truth.
And Type Eights can see their sociopathic tendencies and relative flaws but could not care less about them. (When I have provided Eights with evidence of their sociopathic nature, most actually laughed and said, "Yep, that me. Ha.")
[Is it possible that the more aware one becomes of the effects of personality, the more obvious it becomes why the masters have always advised to be rid of personality and personal identities and the subconscious desires and fears of personas that drive thoughts and words and actions?]
The result: most will never actually “experience” / Witness the evidence of insanity that they are displaying, so most will never be free of insanity. At best, a glimpse might happen that leads one to say “I can’t believe I was so stupid as to fall for that”;
later, a few might transition beyond the miasma generated by their ego-states’ egotism and declare, “You know, I have a pattern showing up here that is making kind of clear that something is wrong with me”;
fewer still might reach the point where they are able to confess, “You know, I think that I must be going crazy”;
and even fewer might reach the point where they admit, “I am full-blown nuts. My life sucks, big time. I am going to have to do something.”
But that “something” usually turns out to be more of what they have been doing all along. Been religious? “I’ve got to be even more religious.” Been spiritual: “I have got to increase the time spent doing my spiritual exercises and meditation and getting close to ‘The Power’ or to ‘God’.”
Been drinking or drugging? Then subconsciously the drive is to drink or drug more. Been working or shopping or eating or losing yourself in relationships based in sex alone? Then subconsciously the drive is to work more or shop more or eat more or have even more sex.
How willing are such types to admit that their self-destructive conduct is insane? Little. “Up yours! I don’t have a problem! In fact, you are the one with a problem.” Indeed.
In other words, the non-Realized masses seldom “get out the box” they were placed in, so in spite of the fact that what they have done has not worked, they conclude that (1) they need even more of what is not working and that (2) their problem is rooted in the quantity of what they are doing rather than in the absent quality (the legitimacy or effectiveness) of what they are doing.
The seven-step process is a process that begins to tip the scales from insanity to sanity. The farther along the “path” one moves, the more that false beliefs can be seen to be false and the more that Truth can be seen to be the Truth.
Eventually, one might transition the insanity of not being able to differentiate true from false; if that happens, then sanity can be restored as the effects of programming, conditioning, acculturation, domestication, brainwashing, and indoctrination are undone.
Only after actually “experiencing” (witnessing) the insanity of duality and making the connection between duality on the one hand and chaos and the absence of peace on the other, then only can the stability and peacefulness of the non-dual understanding actually manifest.
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
17 January 2014
A DAILY CONSIDERATION FOR YOU
F.: Consideration of the words “experiencing” and “experience” provide an opportunity for understanding a non-dual pointer which – like so many – appear at first glance to be contradictory but are actually paradoxical; that is, they might seem to be two, totally opposite points that seem impossible to reconcile but are nevertheless actually true or possible.
For example, Maharaj said, “I have no faith in anything which has ever been told, not even what has been told by the Vedas. Only my own experience.”
How can one reconcile the fact that he spoke on that occasion of his “own experience” while teaching on other occasions that there is no experiencer, that there is no “one” to experience anything?
How can the consciousness during this series speak of “experiencing hopelessness” or “experiencing powerlessness” or “experiencing insanity” while understanding full well that there is no “one” who can experience anything?
Well, first, there are “level-appropriate” pointers. Secondly, those who are trapped in their dualistic beliefs and perceptions are seemingly dealing with the dualities of hopelessness vs. perceived hope, powerlessness vs. perceived power, and insanity vs. perceived sanity. Such types are being addressed at the point “where they are” rather than in terms of “where the one offering non-dual pointers is inviting them to eventually be.”
When “floyd” was lost in the dream and living on the stage of the Theater of the Lie, he was trapped in a multiplicity of ego-states that inspired the use of the ego-defense mechanism of egotism; therefore, there were times when he would have been certain that he was “experiencing slights” that were of the “you’re killing me” variety.
As freedom from more and more ego-states began to manifest, then slights took on more of the character of "stings." Nowadays (in the absence of any identity or any sense of personhood) the case is this:
those who write here to express their disagreement with certain pointers – using the most scathing words and expressing their most scornful thoughts – can no longer trigger any sense of “you’re killing me”; nor can they elicit any ego-state sense of “Ouch! That hurt … that was quite a sting.”
The perception of such types have evolved from “some kind of killer” to “a stinger” to “a gnat.”
Yes, if a gnat in in one’s face and trying to fly up a nostril, then one spontaneously tries to wave it away.
So it is when “neo-Advaitin’s who do not know they are neo-Advaitins” write to complain about pointers offered here that they do not even know are Direct Path / Nisarga pointers;
so it is when “Vedantins or neo-Vedantins who do not know they are Vedantins or neo-Vedantins” write to complain about pointers offered here that they do not even know are Direct Path / Nisarga pointers; and
so it is when “Christians who do not know their beliefs are based more in the dogma of ancient Judaism than in the final teachings of the one they call ‘Jesus Christ’” write to complain about pointers offered here that they do not even know are adumbrating his final teachings.
With such types, there is merely a wave. Whoosh. “Shoo, gnat.”
[The wave nowadays involves less of a wave and more of a striking of a delete key, but you get the point.]
The same happens when the path here crosses with the path of those whom Maharaj described as “ignorant, stupid, and insane”: “Shoo, gnat.”
A year or so ago, a man in India wrote to claim that he “was Fully Enlightened from the moment of his birth” and “for the 26+ years he has lived since.” He also reported that he was “not unlike a Dalai Lama who is an emanation of Buddha” and that he was “like the present Dalai Lama because I also choose my parents and my place of birth and my time of birth.”
“Shoo, gnat.” Delete. See? No "You are not even slightly enlightened." No, "You were not born." No, "There has never been any emanation from Buddha." No "'The Dalai Lama' is just another false identity, just another mere ego-state."
At the point of self-identification, there are those who believe in hopelessness and hope, powerlessness and power, and insanity vs. perceived sanity, so they are addressed at that point.
Because “they” remain unaware of “their own” condition, it would not suffice to tell them that there is actually no "one" to experience anything around those conditions. They cannot fast forward straight to the understanding that there is only the Pure Witness / the True Self that witnesses whatever is happening.
As was the case here when there was believed to be “an experiencer of many things positive and many things negative,” those who would be free (of ignorance and stupidity and insanity) must first – for a time – seemingly “experience” the full, ill effects of duality to reach the stability and sanity and peace that the non-dual understanding can bring. So …
during their relative existence, they must first experience their weakness to experience "strength"; must experience their insanity to reach a state of sanity; must experience hopelessness in order to experience "hope"; and must experience their "no-ability-to-choose state" in order to reach a point where they can make conscious choices, even in the absence of a “maker of choices” and then in the presence of mere Witnessing that allow for a full awareness of all.
After actually experiencing duality and making the connection between duality on the one hand and chaos and the absence of peace on the other, then only can the stability and peacefulness of the non-dual understanding actually manifest.
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
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For example, Maharaj said, “I have no faith in anything which has ever been told, not even what has been told by the Vedas. Only my own experience.”
How can one reconcile the fact that he spoke on that occasion of his “own experience” while teaching on other occasions that there is no experiencer, that there is no “one” to experience anything?
How can the consciousness during this series speak of “experiencing hopelessness” or “experiencing powerlessness” or “experiencing insanity” while understanding full well that there is no “one” who can experience anything?
Well, first, there are “level-appropriate” pointers. Secondly, those who are trapped in their dualistic beliefs and perceptions are seemingly dealing with the dualities of hopelessness vs. perceived hope, powerlessness vs. perceived power, and insanity vs. perceived sanity. Such types are being addressed at the point “where they are” rather than in terms of “where the one offering non-dual pointers is inviting them to eventually be.”
When “floyd” was lost in the dream and living on the stage of the Theater of the Lie, he was trapped in a multiplicity of ego-states that inspired the use of the ego-defense mechanism of egotism; therefore, there were times when he would have been certain that he was “experiencing slights” that were of the “you’re killing me” variety.
As freedom from more and more ego-states began to manifest, then slights took on more of the character of "stings." Nowadays (in the absence of any identity or any sense of personhood) the case is this:
those who write here to express their disagreement with certain pointers – using the most scathing words and expressing their most scornful thoughts – can no longer trigger any sense of “you’re killing me”; nor can they elicit any ego-state sense of “Ouch! That hurt … that was quite a sting.”
The perception of such types have evolved from “some kind of killer” to “a stinger” to “a gnat.”
Yes, if a gnat in in one’s face and trying to fly up a nostril, then one spontaneously tries to wave it away.
So it is when “neo-Advaitin’s who do not know they are neo-Advaitins” write to complain about pointers offered here that they do not even know are Direct Path / Nisarga pointers;
so it is when “Vedantins or neo-Vedantins who do not know they are Vedantins or neo-Vedantins” write to complain about pointers offered here that they do not even know are Direct Path / Nisarga pointers; and
so it is when “Christians who do not know their beliefs are based more in the dogma of ancient Judaism than in the final teachings of the one they call ‘Jesus Christ’” write to complain about pointers offered here that they do not even know are adumbrating his final teachings.
With such types, there is merely a wave. Whoosh. “Shoo, gnat.”
[The wave nowadays involves less of a wave and more of a striking of a delete key, but you get the point.]
The same happens when the path here crosses with the path of those whom Maharaj described as “ignorant, stupid, and insane”: “Shoo, gnat.”
A year or so ago, a man in India wrote to claim that he “was Fully Enlightened from the moment of his birth” and “for the 26+ years he has lived since.” He also reported that he was “not unlike a Dalai Lama who is an emanation of Buddha” and that he was “like the present Dalai Lama because I also choose my parents and my place of birth and my time of birth.”
“Shoo, gnat.” Delete. See? No "You are not even slightly enlightened." No, "You were not born." No, "There has never been any emanation from Buddha." No "'The Dalai Lama' is just another false identity, just another mere ego-state."
At the point of self-identification, there are those who believe in hopelessness and hope, powerlessness and power, and insanity vs. perceived sanity, so they are addressed at that point.
Because “they” remain unaware of “their own” condition, it would not suffice to tell them that there is actually no "one" to experience anything around those conditions. They cannot fast forward straight to the understanding that there is only the Pure Witness / the True Self that witnesses whatever is happening.
As was the case here when there was believed to be “an experiencer of many things positive and many things negative,” those who would be free (of ignorance and stupidity and insanity) must first – for a time – seemingly “experience” the full, ill effects of duality to reach the stability and sanity and peace that the non-dual understanding can bring. So …
during their relative existence, they must first experience their weakness to experience "strength"; must experience their insanity to reach a state of sanity; must experience hopelessness in order to experience "hope"; and must experience their "no-ability-to-choose state" in order to reach a point where they can make conscious choices, even in the absence of a “maker of choices” and then in the presence of mere Witnessing that allow for a full awareness of all.
After actually experiencing duality and making the connection between duality on the one hand and chaos and the absence of peace on the other, then only can the stability and peacefulness of the non-dual understanding actually manifest.
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
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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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Anthology of four books
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WHY NISARGA YOGA IN ADDITION TO THE ADVAITA TEACHINGS?
A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE via the Non-Duality Teachings and the Nisarga Yoga
YOUR ORIGINAL NATURE
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THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS "PEACE OF MIND" (THERE IS ONLY PEACE IF YOU'RE OUT OF YOUR MIND)
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"WHAT HAPPENS WHEN I DIE?"
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THE ESSENCE OF THE TEACHINGS: THE SIMPLICITY OF REALIZATION
FINDING REAL LOVE IN AN UNREAL WORLD
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A SERIES OF ESSAYS DISCUSSING THE FIRST STEP ON THE SEVEN-STEP PATH TO REALIZATION
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SPIRITUAL SOBRIETY (RECOVERING WHAT RELIGIONS LOST)
IT'S ALL BULLSHIT (AND WHY KNOWING IT SETS YOU FREE)
