A DAILY CONSIDERATION FOR YOU
F.: As if there were not already enough stress among humans, in the years since the global financial crisis hit and since the emergence of revelations regarding the collusion between corrupt governments and greedy banking and investment firms, the level of stress among human around the globe has increased from its formerly-already-through-the-roof levels to even higher concentrations now.
The financial (and, especially, capitalistic) hierarchies around the globe have been stretched to new lengths with greater proportions of wealth shifting to those at the top and with deeper levels of poverty (a) generating all of their subsequent negative impacts, relatively speaking and with (b) an exacerbation of the already-often-debilitating effects on those stuck in the lower echelons of the planet’s near-limitless number of hierarchies.
Anger, frustration, and the consequent sense of powerlessness that is accompanying the awareness among the masses of their inability to do little or anything at all in regards to the abuses of big business and big government have resulted in exponential increases in stress levels.
Add to that the fact that most persons are not following the proper food plan for their specific, metabolic body type, the result of which is under-nourished, under-functioning organs which adversely affect moods and which generate all sorts of, first, physical consequences and then eventually produce all sorts of mental and emotional disorders.
Then add to all of the above the fact that scientists have now derived specific equations which they have been able to use to measure the huge levels of stress that have resulted from the recent polar shift and a new “perfect storm of stressors” has resulted.
Some say, “That’s all relative, Floyd. I have nothing to do with things relative.” Maybe so, but things relative are going to have a great deal to do with you, and that will continue to be the case as long as the AM-ness continues and as long as the validity of the summative statement of non-duality (“I AM THAT; I AM”) also continues to be true.
For example, things relative happened to twenty-six people at Sandy Hook Elementary School in the U.S. after Adam Lanza awoke on the morning of December 14, 2012, killed his mother, drove to the school, killed twenty children and six adults there, and then shot himself in the head.
Some of those children prior to his arrival were likely as happy, as content, and as peaceful as anyone that has Realized Fully. Yet something completely relative happened to change all of that.
Be as Fully Realized as You can be, but the fact remains that you – the composite unity – will continue to bump up against the ignorance and stupidity and insanity that prevail in every corner of the phenomenal existence.
Can the Understanding provide a sort of “Noumenal, Teflon coating” for you that prevents the insanity of things relative and phenomenal from “sticking” to you? You bet. Yet few can abide as isolated hermits 24 / 7. Most have to venture out into their societies and most have to be exposed to the ignorance and insanity that surrounds everyone in cultures all around the globe.
If you have received the full dosage of the Ultimate Medicine, then you are no longer suffering from the symptoms of the Ultimate Sickness as you did formerly. Yet there are still billions walking the planet who are coughing up the nonsense generated by their Sickness, and the chances are high that you are going to end up around some really Sick persons and will have to deal with them to some degree.
More significantly, if you are not at the very bottom of your culture’s hierarchies, then you are in a position to help heal the stress of those on the lower levels. You have a chance to help alleviate to some degree the stress, tension, worry, anxiety, misery and suffering of those "stuck at the bottom of the totem pole."
This past week, while trying to assist a friend recovering from major surgery, the tasks prevented my hauling the garbage to the curb on Tuesday as is required for pickup. By Friday, the added accumulation was huge, and there was no doubt that the over-worked, over-stressed collectors who had worked through a rainstorm the day before and who were now dealing with a heat index of 107 degrees Fahrenheit, were already likely miserable. Seeing the waiting mound of trash was not going to lighten their workload or their disposition or their level of stress.
Hearing the large truck approaching, I walked to the curb and told the man as he stepped off the back of the truck to begin tossing the mound of garbage bags into the back, “I missed getting the bags out on Tuesday so by today all of this has acculturated. I’d like to help you load the bags.” Together, side-by-side, we tossed the bags into the truck. Before driving away, the driver got out of the truck and walked to back and extended his arm and said, “I’d like to shake your hand. Thank you very much, brother.”
I cannot describe the look of amazement and then joy that crossed the face of the loader as he climbed onto the back of the truck to ride to the next house. Someone at one of the lowest ends of the cultural and financial hierarchy had been treated with some concern and respect, and - for a short spell at least - the hierarchy in which he was trapped had been temporarily shattered.
Is that shared to tout the level of compassion here? Hardly. It is shared as one example of the type of action you might take to alleviate – if only temporarily - some of the stress-inducing effects of hierarchies on those “at the bottom.”
Another example: At National Instruments in Austin, Texas where my daughter is employed, the already-fluid hierarchy that existed in the early days at the company has been disassembled almost entirely by the current CEO. As a result, in annual Fortune 500 surveys, he is given by his employees one of the highest ratings of any boss in any company in the U.S. (and worldwide, too, where the company has offices in fifty other countries).
How has the hierarchy been dismantled? No one has a closed-in office. All work in individual cubicles that are placed so that all workers have a nature-filled window view of the forests and the lake surrounding the facilities. The CEO also works out of a cubicle, one that is no larger and no different from that used by every employee.
Gyms are available with free membership; a full-time medical team is present daily, so one who is sick is given company-provided care inside the corporate facilities; three cafeterias offer excellent, healthy meals at cost. Workers regularly receive paid leave to volunteer their time and effort for community projects, and the organization is devoted to being a model for the way that businesses can operate in a “green,” environmentally-friendly way and still make a decent profit.
The positive attitude that results from working at a company that is as employee-oriented as it is customer-and-sales-oriented has an amazing impact on attitude and production, reflected in the high ratings given to the company and to the boss in annual surveys.
The point: there is no endorsement of the concept of karma here, but if one were to have a “positive” (relative) impact on her or his environment and society, the Am-ness of that one will necessarily have to shift to something more peaceful and enjoyable, again, relatively speaking.
The next point: Are you “a boss”? Are you “at the top of a hierarchy”? Would you be willing to make some changes that can have a “positive” impact on those working for you? Would you be willing to start that process today?
SOCIETAL CHANGES AND IMPACTS
There being no beliefs here, there is certainly no belief that anyone can change “the world” (which is nothing more than an imagined illusion seated in the minds of every non-Realized person). Consider an early pointer offered by Sapolsky in the film "STRESS: PORTRAIT OF A KILLER":
Sapolsky: [Watching alpha male baboons - the dominant, male baboons on a savannah in Kenya - as they abuse those below them in their hierarchy] “You live in a place like this, you’re a baboon, and you only have to spend about three hours a day getting all your calories. And if you only have to work three hours a day, you’ve got nine hours of free time every day to devote to making someone else just miserable. [Baboons shrieking] They're not being stressed by lions chasing them all the time. They're being stressed by each other. They're being stressed by social and psychological tumult invented by their own species. They're a perfect model for westernized, stress-related disease.”
The supposedly Realized might claim: “I cannot be affected by anything relative. Those who allow others to stress them are the ones at fault, not the stressors.” (So much for sensing the unicity which allows for feelings of empathy and compassion and allows for some responsiveness to those yet suffering. How soon some forget that they were in that position at one time before having come across the path of someone who taught them to differentiate between “love” and “Love,” someone that already had an ability to feel empathy and compassion and that was willing to be responsive to that one seeking relief from misery and suffering, someone that allowed them to enjoy freedom from the effects of all of the relative nonsense that billions of persons try to handle every day.)
As long as the persons on this planet remain a largely non-Realized population – having no understanding at all of Reality – then the “reality” for those at the low levels of their cultures' hierarchies is that they will abide in the exact same fashion as Sapolsky’s baboons on the savannah:
They will deal with others who are higher up the hierarchy and who have the time and inclination “to devote to making someone else just miserable” and who behave exactly like certain domineering, male baboons that Sapolsky described as follows: some are “these scheming, back-stabbing Machiavellian bastards.” Being non-Realized, the masses will be stressed “by social and psychological tumult invented by their own species.”
Finally, you are invited to consider the final pointers from the film "STRESS: PORTRAIT OF A KILLER":
Narrator: “Who would have imagined that Robert’s baboons, roaming the cruel plains of Africa, would point us humans toward a stress-free utopia?”
Marmot: “This may sound a little fanciful, but I think what we're trying to create is a better society.” [Relative? Yes. An idealization? Maybe, but please consider anyway for a moment.] “The implication, both of the baboons and of the British Civil Servants, is: ‘How can we create a society that has the conditions that will allow people to flourish?’ And that's where this is heading: to create a society that promotes human flourishing.”
Sapolsky: “So what can baboons teach the average person? Don't bite somebody because you're having a bad day. Don't displace on them in any sort of matter. Another one of the things that baboons teach us is this: if they're able, in one generation, to transform what are supposed to be textbook social systems that are sort of engraved in stone, we don't have any excuse when we say there's certain inevitabilities about human social systems.”
Narrator: “And so the haunting question that endures from Robert's life work is this: ‘Are we brave enough to learn from a baboon? The Keekorok troop didn't just survive without stress, they thrived. Can we?’”
“SOLO” CHANGES AND IMPACTS
So, are you adverse to such relative or idealized pointers? Then look to the specific changes and impacts that can evolve from your own completion of the “journey” to Full Realization.
Maharaj said: “Wisdom is knowing that I am nothing. Love is knowing that I am everything.”
Were one to truly know that “all is One,” then how could one still buy into hierarchy-based distinctions? How could one believe in the concepts of “different-from-ment” and “better-than-ment”? How could one take any action that supports and maintains any hierarchy that promotes and reinforces a sense of separation and stress?
One cannot. Post-Realization, there is time for peace, for quiet, and for silence, but there is no time for “making someone else just miserable.”
And there can also be time set aside to share via the non-dual message a means by which persons can reach an understanding which can, in turn, allow seekers to become free of misery and suffering. That is why these posts have been offered most mornings - without charge - since the summer of 2005.
That is why, once the understanding freed Andy Gugar, Jr., that he has carried this message and has provided - without charge – certain books that contain the message that led to his attaining the Full Understanding that, in turn, led to Full Freedom.
Thus, from this author and from Andy Gugar, Jr., the invitation is to follow the “path” to its end, to complete the entire three-leg “journey,” to then abide for the remainder of the manifestation in a Nisargan (natural) fashion, and to abide in a spontaneous mode that allows for the manifestation of joy that only the IS-ness can allow for throughout the remainder of the relative existence.
Peace, Unity, Light and Love.
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
22 August 2014
COMING SOON:
A new eBook, the third that is provided compliments of Andy Gugar, Jr., made available by him without charge to all visitors to this site.
THE CONCLUSION
F.: As if there were not already enough stress among humans, in the years since the global financial crisis hit and since the emergence of revelations regarding the collusion between corrupt governments and greedy banking and investment firms, the level of stress among human around the globe has increased from its formerly-already-through-the-roof levels to even higher concentrations now.
The financial (and, especially, capitalistic) hierarchies around the globe have been stretched to new lengths with greater proportions of wealth shifting to those at the top and with deeper levels of poverty (a) generating all of their subsequent negative impacts, relatively speaking and with (b) an exacerbation of the already-often-debilitating effects on those stuck in the lower echelons of the planet’s near-limitless number of hierarchies.
Anger, frustration, and the consequent sense of powerlessness that is accompanying the awareness among the masses of their inability to do little or anything at all in regards to the abuses of big business and big government have resulted in exponential increases in stress levels.
Add to that the fact that most persons are not following the proper food plan for their specific, metabolic body type, the result of which is under-nourished, under-functioning organs which adversely affect moods and which generate all sorts of, first, physical consequences and then eventually produce all sorts of mental and emotional disorders.
Then add to all of the above the fact that scientists have now derived specific equations which they have been able to use to measure the huge levels of stress that have resulted from the recent polar shift and a new “perfect storm of stressors” has resulted.
Some say, “That’s all relative, Floyd. I have nothing to do with things relative.” Maybe so, but things relative are going to have a great deal to do with you, and that will continue to be the case as long as the AM-ness continues and as long as the validity of the summative statement of non-duality (“I AM THAT; I AM”) also continues to be true.
For example, things relative happened to twenty-six people at Sandy Hook Elementary School in the U.S. after Adam Lanza awoke on the morning of December 14, 2012, killed his mother, drove to the school, killed twenty children and six adults there, and then shot himself in the head.
Some of those children prior to his arrival were likely as happy, as content, and as peaceful as anyone that has Realized Fully. Yet something completely relative happened to change all of that.
Be as Fully Realized as You can be, but the fact remains that you – the composite unity – will continue to bump up against the ignorance and stupidity and insanity that prevail in every corner of the phenomenal existence.
Can the Understanding provide a sort of “Noumenal, Teflon coating” for you that prevents the insanity of things relative and phenomenal from “sticking” to you? You bet. Yet few can abide as isolated hermits 24 / 7. Most have to venture out into their societies and most have to be exposed to the ignorance and insanity that surrounds everyone in cultures all around the globe.
If you have received the full dosage of the Ultimate Medicine, then you are no longer suffering from the symptoms of the Ultimate Sickness as you did formerly. Yet there are still billions walking the planet who are coughing up the nonsense generated by their Sickness, and the chances are high that you are going to end up around some really Sick persons and will have to deal with them to some degree.
More significantly, if you are not at the very bottom of your culture’s hierarchies, then you are in a position to help heal the stress of those on the lower levels. You have a chance to help alleviate to some degree the stress, tension, worry, anxiety, misery and suffering of those "stuck at the bottom of the totem pole."
This past week, while trying to assist a friend recovering from major surgery, the tasks prevented my hauling the garbage to the curb on Tuesday as is required for pickup. By Friday, the added accumulation was huge, and there was no doubt that the over-worked, over-stressed collectors who had worked through a rainstorm the day before and who were now dealing with a heat index of 107 degrees Fahrenheit, were already likely miserable. Seeing the waiting mound of trash was not going to lighten their workload or their disposition or their level of stress.
Hearing the large truck approaching, I walked to the curb and told the man as he stepped off the back of the truck to begin tossing the mound of garbage bags into the back, “I missed getting the bags out on Tuesday so by today all of this has acculturated. I’d like to help you load the bags.” Together, side-by-side, we tossed the bags into the truck. Before driving away, the driver got out of the truck and walked to back and extended his arm and said, “I’d like to shake your hand. Thank you very much, brother.”
I cannot describe the look of amazement and then joy that crossed the face of the loader as he climbed onto the back of the truck to ride to the next house. Someone at one of the lowest ends of the cultural and financial hierarchy had been treated with some concern and respect, and - for a short spell at least - the hierarchy in which he was trapped had been temporarily shattered.
Is that shared to tout the level of compassion here? Hardly. It is shared as one example of the type of action you might take to alleviate – if only temporarily - some of the stress-inducing effects of hierarchies on those “at the bottom.”
Another example: At National Instruments in Austin, Texas where my daughter is employed, the already-fluid hierarchy that existed in the early days at the company has been disassembled almost entirely by the current CEO. As a result, in annual Fortune 500 surveys, he is given by his employees one of the highest ratings of any boss in any company in the U.S. (and worldwide, too, where the company has offices in fifty other countries).
How has the hierarchy been dismantled? No one has a closed-in office. All work in individual cubicles that are placed so that all workers have a nature-filled window view of the forests and the lake surrounding the facilities. The CEO also works out of a cubicle, one that is no larger and no different from that used by every employee.
Gyms are available with free membership; a full-time medical team is present daily, so one who is sick is given company-provided care inside the corporate facilities; three cafeterias offer excellent, healthy meals at cost. Workers regularly receive paid leave to volunteer their time and effort for community projects, and the organization is devoted to being a model for the way that businesses can operate in a “green,” environmentally-friendly way and still make a decent profit.
The positive attitude that results from working at a company that is as employee-oriented as it is customer-and-sales-oriented has an amazing impact on attitude and production, reflected in the high ratings given to the company and to the boss in annual surveys.
The point: there is no endorsement of the concept of karma here, but if one were to have a “positive” (relative) impact on her or his environment and society, the Am-ness of that one will necessarily have to shift to something more peaceful and enjoyable, again, relatively speaking.
The next point: Are you “a boss”? Are you “at the top of a hierarchy”? Would you be willing to make some changes that can have a “positive” impact on those working for you? Would you be willing to start that process today?
SOCIETAL CHANGES AND IMPACTS
There being no beliefs here, there is certainly no belief that anyone can change “the world” (which is nothing more than an imagined illusion seated in the minds of every non-Realized person). Consider an early pointer offered by Sapolsky in the film "STRESS: PORTRAIT OF A KILLER":
Sapolsky: [Watching alpha male baboons - the dominant, male baboons on a savannah in Kenya - as they abuse those below them in their hierarchy] “You live in a place like this, you’re a baboon, and you only have to spend about three hours a day getting all your calories. And if you only have to work three hours a day, you’ve got nine hours of free time every day to devote to making someone else just miserable. [Baboons shrieking] They're not being stressed by lions chasing them all the time. They're being stressed by each other. They're being stressed by social and psychological tumult invented by their own species. They're a perfect model for westernized, stress-related disease.”
The supposedly Realized might claim: “I cannot be affected by anything relative. Those who allow others to stress them are the ones at fault, not the stressors.” (So much for sensing the unicity which allows for feelings of empathy and compassion and allows for some responsiveness to those yet suffering. How soon some forget that they were in that position at one time before having come across the path of someone who taught them to differentiate between “love” and “Love,” someone that already had an ability to feel empathy and compassion and that was willing to be responsive to that one seeking relief from misery and suffering, someone that allowed them to enjoy freedom from the effects of all of the relative nonsense that billions of persons try to handle every day.)
As long as the persons on this planet remain a largely non-Realized population – having no understanding at all of Reality – then the “reality” for those at the low levels of their cultures' hierarchies is that they will abide in the exact same fashion as Sapolsky’s baboons on the savannah:
They will deal with others who are higher up the hierarchy and who have the time and inclination “to devote to making someone else just miserable” and who behave exactly like certain domineering, male baboons that Sapolsky described as follows: some are “these scheming, back-stabbing Machiavellian bastards.” Being non-Realized, the masses will be stressed “by social and psychological tumult invented by their own species.”
Finally, you are invited to consider the final pointers from the film "STRESS: PORTRAIT OF A KILLER":
Narrator: “Who would have imagined that Robert’s baboons, roaming the cruel plains of Africa, would point us humans toward a stress-free utopia?”
Marmot: “This may sound a little fanciful, but I think what we're trying to create is a better society.” [Relative? Yes. An idealization? Maybe, but please consider anyway for a moment.] “The implication, both of the baboons and of the British Civil Servants, is: ‘How can we create a society that has the conditions that will allow people to flourish?’ And that's where this is heading: to create a society that promotes human flourishing.”
Sapolsky: “So what can baboons teach the average person? Don't bite somebody because you're having a bad day. Don't displace on them in any sort of matter. Another one of the things that baboons teach us is this: if they're able, in one generation, to transform what are supposed to be textbook social systems that are sort of engraved in stone, we don't have any excuse when we say there's certain inevitabilities about human social systems.”
Narrator: “And so the haunting question that endures from Robert's life work is this: ‘Are we brave enough to learn from a baboon? The Keekorok troop didn't just survive without stress, they thrived. Can we?’”
“SOLO” CHANGES AND IMPACTS
So, are you adverse to such relative or idealized pointers? Then look to the specific changes and impacts that can evolve from your own completion of the “journey” to Full Realization.
Maharaj said: “Wisdom is knowing that I am nothing. Love is knowing that I am everything.”
Were one to truly know that “all is One,” then how could one still buy into hierarchy-based distinctions? How could one believe in the concepts of “different-from-ment” and “better-than-ment”? How could one take any action that supports and maintains any hierarchy that promotes and reinforces a sense of separation and stress?
One cannot. Post-Realization, there is time for peace, for quiet, and for silence, but there is no time for “making someone else just miserable.”
And there can also be time set aside to share via the non-dual message a means by which persons can reach an understanding which can, in turn, allow seekers to become free of misery and suffering. That is why these posts have been offered most mornings - without charge - since the summer of 2005.
That is why, once the understanding freed Andy Gugar, Jr., that he has carried this message and has provided - without charge – certain books that contain the message that led to his attaining the Full Understanding that, in turn, led to Full Freedom.
Thus, from this author and from Andy Gugar, Jr., the invitation is to follow the “path” to its end, to complete the entire three-leg “journey,” to then abide for the remainder of the manifestation in a Nisargan (natural) fashion, and to abide in a spontaneous mode that allows for the manifestation of joy that only the IS-ness can allow for throughout the remainder of the relative existence.
Peace, Unity, Light and Love.
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
22 August 2014
A DAILY CONSIDERATION FOR YOU
F.: From yesterday:
Sapolsky, and Maharaj in his own way as well, showed . . .
that only one species on the planet (namely, humans) suffer from “social and psychological tumult”;
that the tumult “has been invented by their own species”;
that the tumult is aggravated by the near-limitless hierarchies that manifest globally;
that the tumult is rooted in a psychological source (being generated by the warped, belief-filled minds of humans); and
that the tumult results in stress and discontentment and chaos and the instability that always accompanies dual-mindedness.
Both Maharaj (via the Understanding that came via conscious contact with the “inner guru” or the “inner resource”) and Sapolsky (via the understanding that came through the non-duality-supporting scientific research which Maharaj foretold) came to see that the problems of humanity are rooted in the “psychological tumult” that comes after entering into a “psychological state.”
The Ultimate Medicine for the treatment of the resultant Ultimate (and Psychological) Sickness - characterized by the “psychological tumult” that is generated after entering into a “psychological state” or states - must, therefore, involve . . .
(A) the elimination of the psychological states (the assumed ego-states / personas / personalities)
and
(B) the elimination of the mind (where the personalities are blooming and thriving as a result of being fertilized by the mental caca in the psychological cesspit there). That elimination must happen if one is ever to be Well.
Maharaj would agree fully with the conclusions proven by Sapolsky’s research: the relative existence of almost all of humankind really is marked and marred by the “psychological tumult” that comes after entering into a “psychological state.”
Therefore, the main problem of humanity is neither a “too-little-dogma-tumult” or a “spiritual-malady-tumult.” It is a psychological tumult (which can be seen by any objective observer to be manifesting all around the globe in “religious / spiritual tumult”); yet the root of the planet’s ever-expanding “religious / spiritual tumult” is also evidence of the “psychological problems” of the fanatics involved in that form of tumult. The main problem is still psychological.
The solution? To eliminate any psychological problem, the mind must go, and the mind goes by eliminating all of the ideas and concepts and perceptions and misperceptions which have been accumulated and which are now stored there, an accumulation which can be summarized in one word: “beliefs.”
Discard every last belief and the mind ends. The content of the mind and the stress it induces are – as Sapolsky notes – merely an invention, invented long ago by members of the human species and now spread in the form of a global, mental / psychological pandemic to almost every human everywhere.
Be done with the bogus mind and what remains? The elemental brain remains, and through use of that instead of the “mind,” humans can abide as naturally and normally as every other species on the planet (none of which are being controlled by the ignorant-and-insane thoughts churned out constantly - without pause or interruption - by the “ever-active-minds” of the non-Realized masses.)
In that regard, these considerations were shared earlier today with a seeker in the NE section of the U.S. who just completed the online course and who is well along the way toward his goal of purging all of the content of the mind, though not yet there 100% of the way. So, why some continued churning?
Maharaj said: “You are so used to the support of concepts that when your concepts leave you, although it is your true state, you get frightened and try to cling to them again.”
Of course fear is one product generated by personality / personas. The other is desire. And the primary desires of all personalities / personas / ego-states are (1) a desire for continuity and (2) a desire to secretly control your every thought and word and action while allowing you to continue to think - and then continue to believe erroneously - that you are making conscious choices rather than being driven by the unconscious, hidden agendas of personalities.
Again, the task is always to find your REAL motive, which most never will. Which personality is lingering? Which is still at play? WHO is getting strokes or WHOSE ego is being made to feel good by any particular action? In other words, when the mind starts its deal, ask: "WHO cares? Which personality is wanting me to pay attention to whatever its thinking about?" If the persona is false, its agenda is false, but the relative consequences will be quite real. Yet seldom will people ever find their true agendas.
So when your mind starts rolling next time, find out which personas have an agenda, what the assumed and perceived and anticipated and desired “payoff” is for whatever you're doing or occupying yourself with, and then see if you can start finding "your" real motives - that is, your personas' motives - that are behind everything you do.
The end game is to be rid of the mind. The strategy: understand that the mind is nothing but an accumulation of erroneous, nonsense-based beliefs; you'll be rid of it by reaching a point where you have no beliefs at all, because that is all that the mind chatter which is still arising on occasion is about.
Lingering beliefs inspire thoughts, thoughts inspire words, and words drive action. The no-action, peaceful, and quiet state can only come . . .
in the absence of beliefs, thoughts, words, and actions and . . .
in the absence of belief in a do-er and . . .
in the absence of the doingness that typifies the go-do-zoom style of the non-Realized masses.
You do not need more of anything except more absence of.
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
21 August 2014
F.: From yesterday:
Sapolsky, and Maharaj in his own way as well, showed . . .
that only one species on the planet (namely, humans) suffer from “social and psychological tumult”;
that the tumult “has been invented by their own species”;
that the tumult is aggravated by the near-limitless hierarchies that manifest globally;
that the tumult is rooted in a psychological source (being generated by the warped, belief-filled minds of humans); and
that the tumult results in stress and discontentment and chaos and the instability that always accompanies dual-mindedness.
Both Maharaj (via the Understanding that came via conscious contact with the “inner guru” or the “inner resource”) and Sapolsky (via the understanding that came through the non-duality-supporting scientific research which Maharaj foretold) came to see that the problems of humanity are rooted in the “psychological tumult” that comes after entering into a “psychological state.”
The Ultimate Medicine for the treatment of the resultant Ultimate (and Psychological) Sickness - characterized by the “psychological tumult” that is generated after entering into a “psychological state” or states - must, therefore, involve . . .
(A) the elimination of the psychological states (the assumed ego-states / personas / personalities)
and
(B) the elimination of the mind (where the personalities are blooming and thriving as a result of being fertilized by the mental caca in the psychological cesspit there). That elimination must happen if one is ever to be Well.
Maharaj would agree fully with the conclusions proven by Sapolsky’s research: the relative existence of almost all of humankind really is marked and marred by the “psychological tumult” that comes after entering into a “psychological state.”
Therefore, the main problem of humanity is neither a “too-little-dogma-tumult” or a “spiritual-malady-tumult.” It is a psychological tumult (which can be seen by any objective observer to be manifesting all around the globe in “religious / spiritual tumult”); yet the root of the planet’s ever-expanding “religious / spiritual tumult” is also evidence of the “psychological problems” of the fanatics involved in that form of tumult. The main problem is still psychological.
The solution? To eliminate any psychological problem, the mind must go, and the mind goes by eliminating all of the ideas and concepts and perceptions and misperceptions which have been accumulated and which are now stored there, an accumulation which can be summarized in one word: “beliefs.”
Discard every last belief and the mind ends. The content of the mind and the stress it induces are – as Sapolsky notes – merely an invention, invented long ago by members of the human species and now spread in the form of a global, mental / psychological pandemic to almost every human everywhere.
Be done with the bogus mind and what remains? The elemental brain remains, and through use of that instead of the “mind,” humans can abide as naturally and normally as every other species on the planet (none of which are being controlled by the ignorant-and-insane thoughts churned out constantly - without pause or interruption - by the “ever-active-minds” of the non-Realized masses.)
In that regard, these considerations were shared earlier today with a seeker in the NE section of the U.S. who just completed the online course and who is well along the way toward his goal of purging all of the content of the mind, though not yet there 100% of the way. So, why some continued churning?
Maharaj said: “You are so used to the support of concepts that when your concepts leave you, although it is your true state, you get frightened and try to cling to them again.”
Of course fear is one product generated by personality / personas. The other is desire. And the primary desires of all personalities / personas / ego-states are (1) a desire for continuity and (2) a desire to secretly control your every thought and word and action while allowing you to continue to think - and then continue to believe erroneously - that you are making conscious choices rather than being driven by the unconscious, hidden agendas of personalities.
Again, the task is always to find your REAL motive, which most never will. Which personality is lingering? Which is still at play? WHO is getting strokes or WHOSE ego is being made to feel good by any particular action? In other words, when the mind starts its deal, ask: "WHO cares? Which personality is wanting me to pay attention to whatever its thinking about?" If the persona is false, its agenda is false, but the relative consequences will be quite real. Yet seldom will people ever find their true agendas.
So when your mind starts rolling next time, find out which personas have an agenda, what the assumed and perceived and anticipated and desired “payoff” is for whatever you're doing or occupying yourself with, and then see if you can start finding "your" real motives - that is, your personas' motives - that are behind everything you do.
The end game is to be rid of the mind. The strategy: understand that the mind is nothing but an accumulation of erroneous, nonsense-based beliefs; you'll be rid of it by reaching a point where you have no beliefs at all, because that is all that the mind chatter which is still arising on occasion is about.
Lingering beliefs inspire thoughts, thoughts inspire words, and words drive action. The no-action, peaceful, and quiet state can only come . . .
in the absence of beliefs, thoughts, words, and actions and . . .
in the absence of belief in a do-er and . . .
in the absence of the doingness that typifies the go-do-zoom style of the non-Realized masses.
You do not need more of anything except more absence of.
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
21 August 2014
A DAILY CONSIDERATION FOR YOU
F.: Sapolsky (and Maharaj in his own way as well) showed . . .
that only one species on the planet (namely, humans) suffer from “social and psychological tumult”;
that the tumult “has been invented by their own species”;
that the tumult is aggravated by the near-limitless number of hierarchies that have been invented by persons on a global basis;
that the tumult is rooted in a psychological source (being generated by the warped, belief-filled minds of humans); and
that the tumult results in stress and discontentment and chaos and the instability that always accompanies dual-mindedness.
As a result of a species having invented the duality-based tumult that is now manifesting on a planet-wide basis, the effect is that the Ultimate Sickness has been spread around the globe and is now infecting all non-Realized persons. How many are suffering from that Sickness which Maharaj said is marked by “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity”?
His estimate was first that only 1 in 100,000 would ever Realize and then be free of the Sickness and its symptoms; later, the guess became 1 in 1,000,000; and after working for years with so many seekers and seeing how few of them got the Full Understanding, he modified the guess to 1 in 10,000,000.
No matter whether he missed the actual number by 10% or even by 50%, the number of those suffering from the Ultimate Sickness is staggering. It includes almost all humans. And the result of that mental pandemic can be seen via daily newscasts showing:
persons fighting in the streets; police shooting unarmed persons when other means of subduing them are, more often than not, available; a border agent in the U.S. shooting an unarmed youth in the back eight times for throwing rocks but still working without so much as a reprimand; persons beheading other persons; men and children proudly holding up in their hands the heads of persons who were just beheaded; male populations regularly raping the women in what some think is “the Land of Realization”; persons entering schools and perforating the bodies of young children with multiple, high-damage bullets that are being shot from often legally-purchased, high-capacity-clip, automatic-fire weapons; spouses beating spouses; spouses killing spouses; wars; civil wars; wars fought over oil and other energy sources; ad infinitum.
[The root cause? For more on that subject, you can request a free copy of the eBook below - made available through the generosity of Andy Gugar, Jr. - entitled, "GOOD vs. EVIL?" or "Ignorance, Stupidity, and Insanity?"]
The number of humans deemed to be “dying by natural causes” are minimal when compared to those who are “dying” as a result of the warped minds of millions and millions of non-Realized persons all around the globe who are driven to behave in pathological and sociopathic ways by one thing only (their beliefs) which are all stored in one place (their minds).
Note that the term “beliefs” is really just a summative, encompassing, “catch-all” word which includes all of the concepts and ideas and notions and thoughts and perceptions and impressions and views and convictions and faith-based convictions and principles and creeds and doctrines and credos and opinions that work hand-in-hand with assigned and / or assumed personalities / personas to determine and control every thought and every word and every action taken by every non-Realized person on the planet, all of whom are trapped in the “social and psychological tumult” that has been “invented by their own species.”
Now that, dear visitors, is what insanity-in-action looks like; that is what the foolishness which Krishna spoke of looks like; that is what irrationality and senselessness and absurdity and folly and craziness and madness and lunacy and personality disorders and neurosis and psychosis look like in action. To use the vernacular, that is nuts, and global nuttiness is now the abnormal normal on a planet where minds have been pumped chock full of dogma and ideology and philosophies and spiritual principles and belief systems and canons and codes and tenets and policies and rules and guidelines and directives, all of which are handed down from on high from those at a higher level to those at lower levels on one of the most dualistic of all humanity's inventions: hierarchies, (especially those invented by big business, big religion, and big government).
So, what can happen to free you from the chaos and instability? Maharaj said: “You are not in the world. The world is in you,” meaning, “in your mind.” Your task, should you find the willingness to address the real issue: get it out. Get “the world” out, that is, get out anything and everything that anyone has taught you. Get it all out of your mind.
See what is in your mind and then see that you will best be served, relatively speaking, by getting it out. All of it, right down to the last, final, remaining belief. Take the steps necessary to remove the ignorance, the insanity, the foolishness, the irrationality, the senselessness, the absurdities, the folly, the craziness, the madness, the lunacy, the personality disorders, the neuroses, and the psychoses.
“How do I begin? What is the first step?” some ask.
The reply: “You do not begin with the first step. You begin with the pre-step. The pre-step is to see the presence of - and to admit the presence of - the ignorance, the insanity, the foolishness, the irrationality, the senselessness, the absurdities, the folly, the craziness, the madness, the lunacy, the personality disorders, the neuroses, and the psychoses.
Only if that is recognized might one then be willing to complete all seven steps on the “path” from belief in (and attachment to) a false “I” that believes in the also false body and mind and personality identifications which drive all of the insane thoughts and words and actions of all among the non-Realized masses and among not-Fully-Realized seekers and among those who think that they have Realized but are actually engaging in what Maharaj called “kindergarten-level spirituality” and who are actually “standing in the dull light of dawn while mistakenly believing that they are being bathed in the full light of the noonday sun.”
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
20 August 2014
F.: Sapolsky (and Maharaj in his own way as well) showed . . .
that only one species on the planet (namely, humans) suffer from “social and psychological tumult”;
that the tumult “has been invented by their own species”;
that the tumult is aggravated by the near-limitless number of hierarchies that have been invented by persons on a global basis;
that the tumult is rooted in a psychological source (being generated by the warped, belief-filled minds of humans); and
that the tumult results in stress and discontentment and chaos and the instability that always accompanies dual-mindedness.
As a result of a species having invented the duality-based tumult that is now manifesting on a planet-wide basis, the effect is that the Ultimate Sickness has been spread around the globe and is now infecting all non-Realized persons. How many are suffering from that Sickness which Maharaj said is marked by “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity”?
His estimate was first that only 1 in 100,000 would ever Realize and then be free of the Sickness and its symptoms; later, the guess became 1 in 1,000,000; and after working for years with so many seekers and seeing how few of them got the Full Understanding, he modified the guess to 1 in 10,000,000.
No matter whether he missed the actual number by 10% or even by 50%, the number of those suffering from the Ultimate Sickness is staggering. It includes almost all humans. And the result of that mental pandemic can be seen via daily newscasts showing:
persons fighting in the streets; police shooting unarmed persons when other means of subduing them are, more often than not, available; a border agent in the U.S. shooting an unarmed youth in the back eight times for throwing rocks but still working without so much as a reprimand; persons beheading other persons; men and children proudly holding up in their hands the heads of persons who were just beheaded; male populations regularly raping the women in what some think is “the Land of Realization”; persons entering schools and perforating the bodies of young children with multiple, high-damage bullets that are being shot from often legally-purchased, high-capacity-clip, automatic-fire weapons; spouses beating spouses; spouses killing spouses; wars; civil wars; wars fought over oil and other energy sources; ad infinitum.
[The root cause? For more on that subject, you can request a free copy of the eBook below - made available through the generosity of Andy Gugar, Jr. - entitled, "GOOD vs. EVIL?" or "Ignorance, Stupidity, and Insanity?"]
The number of humans deemed to be “dying by natural causes” are minimal when compared to those who are “dying” as a result of the warped minds of millions and millions of non-Realized persons all around the globe who are driven to behave in pathological and sociopathic ways by one thing only (their beliefs) which are all stored in one place (their minds).
Note that the term “beliefs” is really just a summative, encompassing, “catch-all” word which includes all of the concepts and ideas and notions and thoughts and perceptions and impressions and views and convictions and faith-based convictions and principles and creeds and doctrines and credos and opinions that work hand-in-hand with assigned and / or assumed personalities / personas to determine and control every thought and every word and every action taken by every non-Realized person on the planet, all of whom are trapped in the “social and psychological tumult” that has been “invented by their own species.”
Now that, dear visitors, is what insanity-in-action looks like; that is what the foolishness which Krishna spoke of looks like; that is what irrationality and senselessness and absurdity and folly and craziness and madness and lunacy and personality disorders and neurosis and psychosis look like in action. To use the vernacular, that is nuts, and global nuttiness is now the abnormal normal on a planet where minds have been pumped chock full of dogma and ideology and philosophies and spiritual principles and belief systems and canons and codes and tenets and policies and rules and guidelines and directives, all of which are handed down from on high from those at a higher level to those at lower levels on one of the most dualistic of all humanity's inventions: hierarchies, (especially those invented by big business, big religion, and big government).
So, what can happen to free you from the chaos and instability? Maharaj said: “You are not in the world. The world is in you,” meaning, “in your mind.” Your task, should you find the willingness to address the real issue: get it out. Get “the world” out, that is, get out anything and everything that anyone has taught you. Get it all out of your mind.
See what is in your mind and then see that you will best be served, relatively speaking, by getting it out. All of it, right down to the last, final, remaining belief. Take the steps necessary to remove the ignorance, the insanity, the foolishness, the irrationality, the senselessness, the absurdities, the folly, the craziness, the madness, the lunacy, the personality disorders, the neuroses, and the psychoses.
“How do I begin? What is the first step?” some ask.
The reply: “You do not begin with the first step. You begin with the pre-step. The pre-step is to see the presence of - and to admit the presence of - the ignorance, the insanity, the foolishness, the irrationality, the senselessness, the absurdities, the folly, the craziness, the madness, the lunacy, the personality disorders, the neuroses, and the psychoses.
Only if that is recognized might one then be willing to complete all seven steps on the “path” from belief in (and attachment to) a false “I” that believes in the also false body and mind and personality identifications which drive all of the insane thoughts and words and actions of all among the non-Realized masses and among not-Fully-Realized seekers and among those who think that they have Realized but are actually engaging in what Maharaj called “kindergarten-level spirituality” and who are actually “standing in the dull light of dawn while mistakenly believing that they are being bathed in the full light of the noonday sun.”
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
20 August 2014
A DAILY CONSIDERATION FOR YOU
F.: Sapolsky watched a zebra in the savannah that made a run for its life, that won the race, that was quickly free of the stress that the run generated, and that was back to grazing within minutes.
By contrast, talks have happened here with hundreds and hundreds of men who had thought they were also fighting for their lives when their respective wives said that they were leaving, unaware that they were actually fighting to preserve an illusion. They did not return to a normal, stress-free state within minutes. They first cried and begged and pleaded. In many cases when their sobbing and weeping and pleading did not get them what they wanted, the men then instantly shifted to raging and threatening.
They were not quickly free from the stress and the fear and the anger that a sense of abandonment generated. They did not go back to behaving normally in a matter of minutes. Some who are twenty and thirty years past the event have still not gone back to behaving normally.
All such persons are trapped in what Sapolsky called “psychological states,” so they are still being stressed years later by what he called the “social and psychological tumult invented by their own species.”
Maharaj’s advice: “Don't be afraid of a world you yourself have created” or invented. (Of course, you did not invent “the world” of your distorted perception as much as it has been invented for you over a period of thousands of years by men and some women who have dreamed up all of the ignorance-and-insanity-based-but-fictional concepts and beliefs that have been passed down to you and which now form the distortion and illusion which you take to be “the world.”)
Only one species on the planet has invented “social and psychological tumult,” the social tumult rooted in acculturation and domestication and the psychological tumult rooted in programming, conditioning, brainwashing, and indoctrination. And those are the roots of the Ultimate Sickness.
If that it understood, then it can be seen how the opinion of one critic of Maharaj’s shift in focus amounted to the scattering of BS when the detractor – who was stuck at the third of seven steps and has assumed the role of “The Spiritual Giant” and “The Judge” - concluded: "The later books of Maharaj do not enjoy the same clarity as 'I Am That'. It seems that he himself got complicated or rather evolved himself or declined as happens to many teachers.”
So why did Majaraj advise seekers to stop reading “I AM THAT” with its occasional glimpses of the Nisargan truth but with an excess of religion-and-spirituality-based pointers that he came to see were a diversion from what is actually required to address the Ultimate Sickness? That happened because he eventually saw the real problem and because he saw the real cure. [The full details of his shift are available in the eBook below that discusses in detail “Maharaj’s Evolution.”]
Moreover, if it is understood that the roots of the Sickness are human-generated “social and psychological tumult,” then it should be clear why Maharaj’s message “evolved” and why his focus shifted from to a religion-based message to a spirituality-based message to a psychology-based message as he came to realize that the Ultimate Sickness is not treated by pouring on more dogma or by adding on more spirituality but by taking away, removing that which was put into the mind which is the real root of the Ultimate Sickness.
That is why Maharaj warned seekers that he would give them nothing but would, instead, take everything away and why he said, “There is no progress.”
He said, “From my angle, you are nothing. You have no identity.”
Moreover, he explained that all spiritual exercises had been abandoned: “I am stabilized. There is no going into samadhi or coming down from samadhi. That is over.”
So many persons claim that they "want freedom," yet they make a second job out of life, doing all of their religious activities and having all of their so-called spiritual experiences after doing all of their spiritual exercises.
What did Maharaj model (just as Jesus modeled by leaving organized religion behind)? Both by example showed that religious activities and spiritual exercises are merely two more things that are accumulated along the way that must eventually go the way of all other accumulations.
Additionally, what of the talk by persons that they have had “religious experiences”? What of the talk by persons that they have had “spiritual experiences”? Really? Maharaj said: “Whatever you have tried to understand during your spiritual search will prove false.”
Too, “religious experiences” and “spiritual experiences” would supposedly be experienced by . . . whom? Maharaj said: Once you Realize, “Both experience and experiencer will disappear."
So, recall from yesterday: All psychological states (including religious and spiritual states) are really only “apparent states,” not real at all, yet the effects they generate are, relatively speaking, quite real.
Next, recall that Sapolsky showed that stress manifests with all non-humans that suffer a physiological threat. In those cases, the sense of stress passes quickly so its effects on the elemental plant food body are limited.
Stress also manifests with all humans that suffer a physiological threat and often that sense of stress might also pass fairly quickly (though unresolved trauma and unprocessed, undiscarded “memories” which remain are a major liability for millions of humans, relatively speaking).
However, stress also manifests with all non-Realized-humans when they “experience” a psychological, merely-perceived-but-not-real threat, and that sense of stress seldom passes quickly; therefore, its effects on the elemental plant food body are long-term and, relatively speaking, highly detrimental physically, mentally, and emotionally.
Sapolsky and Maharaj were both spot on: the main problem with humanity - and the main cause of the Ultimate Sickness - centers in the mind. Maharaj’s advice in that regard: “It is the mind that tells you that the mind is there. Don't be deceived. All the endless arguments about the mind are produced by the mind itself, for its own protection, continuation and expansion.”
The solution: “Remove [the mind’s] distortions and impurities” and then "go to zero concepts." He explained further: “The mind cannot go beyond itself by itself. It must explode.”
If one reaches a no-belief, no-mind state of zero concepts and reaches a point where there is no longer a single statement that can begin with "I believe . . . ," then one has reached the no-mind state that Maharaj reached and that he invited seekers to reach as well.
Otherwise, this will be the case: “Mind means disturbance; restlessness itself is mind.”
But this is what is possible: “When the mind is quiet it reflects Reality. When it is motionless through and through, it dissolves and only Reality remains.”
How to be free of the mind? Maharaj advised: “[If you] understand your own mind, its hold on you will snap. The mind misunderstands; misunderstanding is its very nature. Right understanding is the only remedy.”
Again, it is the Ultimate Medicine that has on occasion cured the Ultimate Sickness which is a mind-and-ignorance-and-insanity-based illness, not a too-little-dogma illness and not a spiritual malady. Realization is the process by which the Understanding comes and by which humans can be freed from abiding under the auspices of the mind and the auspices of body and mind and personality identification. Yet how can one be freed if one does not know what is imprisoning her or him? One cannot.
As long as persons buy into the nonsense that “the evil in the world and in their lives” can be cured by more dogma, then they will remain sick and will only become even sicker. As long as persons buy into the nonsense that their bodies and minds can be healed “if they will just become more spiritual,” then they will remain sick and only become even sicker.
If one would abide as sensibly as all other living things on the planet and would avoid being stressed as a result of dreamed-up fears and false “needs” and the frustration of the usually-unmet-desires of “psychological states,” then one must understand what truly made him or her sick and what can truly make her or him well.
Anything else that is bought into is comparable to “the cure all, snake oil” which con men sold in the Old West days in the U.S. and which con men and women and the Big Name Teachers (who Maharaj warned about) are still selling today all around the globe. Theirs is merely a newer version, a religious or spiritual or philosophical or ideological version of the snake oil that was sold in bygone days.
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
19 August 2014
F.: Sapolsky watched a zebra in the savannah that made a run for its life, that won the race, that was quickly free of the stress that the run generated, and that was back to grazing within minutes.
By contrast, talks have happened here with hundreds and hundreds of men who had thought they were also fighting for their lives when their respective wives said that they were leaving, unaware that they were actually fighting to preserve an illusion. They did not return to a normal, stress-free state within minutes. They first cried and begged and pleaded. In many cases when their sobbing and weeping and pleading did not get them what they wanted, the men then instantly shifted to raging and threatening.
They were not quickly free from the stress and the fear and the anger that a sense of abandonment generated. They did not go back to behaving normally in a matter of minutes. Some who are twenty and thirty years past the event have still not gone back to behaving normally.
All such persons are trapped in what Sapolsky called “psychological states,” so they are still being stressed years later by what he called the “social and psychological tumult invented by their own species.”
Maharaj’s advice: “Don't be afraid of a world you yourself have created” or invented. (Of course, you did not invent “the world” of your distorted perception as much as it has been invented for you over a period of thousands of years by men and some women who have dreamed up all of the ignorance-and-insanity-based-but-fictional concepts and beliefs that have been passed down to you and which now form the distortion and illusion which you take to be “the world.”)
Only one species on the planet has invented “social and psychological tumult,” the social tumult rooted in acculturation and domestication and the psychological tumult rooted in programming, conditioning, brainwashing, and indoctrination. And those are the roots of the Ultimate Sickness.
If that it understood, then it can be seen how the opinion of one critic of Maharaj’s shift in focus amounted to the scattering of BS when the detractor – who was stuck at the third of seven steps and has assumed the role of “The Spiritual Giant” and “The Judge” - concluded: "The later books of Maharaj do not enjoy the same clarity as 'I Am That'. It seems that he himself got complicated or rather evolved himself or declined as happens to many teachers.”
So why did Majaraj advise seekers to stop reading “I AM THAT” with its occasional glimpses of the Nisargan truth but with an excess of religion-and-spirituality-based pointers that he came to see were a diversion from what is actually required to address the Ultimate Sickness? That happened because he eventually saw the real problem and because he saw the real cure. [The full details of his shift are available in the eBook below that discusses in detail “Maharaj’s Evolution.”]
Moreover, if it is understood that the roots of the Sickness are human-generated “social and psychological tumult,” then it should be clear why Maharaj’s message “evolved” and why his focus shifted from to a religion-based message to a spirituality-based message to a psychology-based message as he came to realize that the Ultimate Sickness is not treated by pouring on more dogma or by adding on more spirituality but by taking away, removing that which was put into the mind which is the real root of the Ultimate Sickness.
That is why Maharaj warned seekers that he would give them nothing but would, instead, take everything away and why he said, “There is no progress.”
He said, “From my angle, you are nothing. You have no identity.”
Moreover, he explained that all spiritual exercises had been abandoned: “I am stabilized. There is no going into samadhi or coming down from samadhi. That is over.”
So many persons claim that they "want freedom," yet they make a second job out of life, doing all of their religious activities and having all of their so-called spiritual experiences after doing all of their spiritual exercises.
What did Maharaj model (just as Jesus modeled by leaving organized religion behind)? Both by example showed that religious activities and spiritual exercises are merely two more things that are accumulated along the way that must eventually go the way of all other accumulations.
Additionally, what of the talk by persons that they have had “religious experiences”? What of the talk by persons that they have had “spiritual experiences”? Really? Maharaj said: “Whatever you have tried to understand during your spiritual search will prove false.”
Too, “religious experiences” and “spiritual experiences” would supposedly be experienced by . . . whom? Maharaj said: Once you Realize, “Both experience and experiencer will disappear."
So, recall from yesterday: All psychological states (including religious and spiritual states) are really only “apparent states,” not real at all, yet the effects they generate are, relatively speaking, quite real.
Next, recall that Sapolsky showed that stress manifests with all non-humans that suffer a physiological threat. In those cases, the sense of stress passes quickly so its effects on the elemental plant food body are limited.
Stress also manifests with all humans that suffer a physiological threat and often that sense of stress might also pass fairly quickly (though unresolved trauma and unprocessed, undiscarded “memories” which remain are a major liability for millions of humans, relatively speaking).
However, stress also manifests with all non-Realized-humans when they “experience” a psychological, merely-perceived-but-not-real threat, and that sense of stress seldom passes quickly; therefore, its effects on the elemental plant food body are long-term and, relatively speaking, highly detrimental physically, mentally, and emotionally.
Sapolsky and Maharaj were both spot on: the main problem with humanity - and the main cause of the Ultimate Sickness - centers in the mind. Maharaj’s advice in that regard: “It is the mind that tells you that the mind is there. Don't be deceived. All the endless arguments about the mind are produced by the mind itself, for its own protection, continuation and expansion.”
The solution: “Remove [the mind’s] distortions and impurities” and then "go to zero concepts." He explained further: “The mind cannot go beyond itself by itself. It must explode.”
If one reaches a no-belief, no-mind state of zero concepts and reaches a point where there is no longer a single statement that can begin with "I believe . . . ," then one has reached the no-mind state that Maharaj reached and that he invited seekers to reach as well.
Otherwise, this will be the case: “Mind means disturbance; restlessness itself is mind.”
But this is what is possible: “When the mind is quiet it reflects Reality. When it is motionless through and through, it dissolves and only Reality remains.”
How to be free of the mind? Maharaj advised: “[If you] understand your own mind, its hold on you will snap. The mind misunderstands; misunderstanding is its very nature. Right understanding is the only remedy.”
Again, it is the Ultimate Medicine that has on occasion cured the Ultimate Sickness which is a mind-and-ignorance-and-insanity-based illness, not a too-little-dogma illness and not a spiritual malady. Realization is the process by which the Understanding comes and by which humans can be freed from abiding under the auspices of the mind and the auspices of body and mind and personality identification. Yet how can one be freed if one does not know what is imprisoning her or him? One cannot.
As long as persons buy into the nonsense that “the evil in the world and in their lives” can be cured by more dogma, then they will remain sick and will only become even sicker. As long as persons buy into the nonsense that their bodies and minds can be healed “if they will just become more spiritual,” then they will remain sick and only become even sicker.
If one would abide as sensibly as all other living things on the planet and would avoid being stressed as a result of dreamed-up fears and false “needs” and the frustration of the usually-unmet-desires of “psychological states,” then one must understand what truly made him or her sick and what can truly make her or him well.
Anything else that is bought into is comparable to “the cure all, snake oil” which con men sold in the Old West days in the U.S. and which con men and women and the Big Name Teachers (who Maharaj warned about) are still selling today all around the globe. Theirs is merely a newer version, a religious or spiritual or philosophical or ideological version of the snake oil that was sold in bygone days.
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
19 August 2014
A DAILY CONSIDERATION FOR YOU
F.: Non-human stress is always generated by physiological stress.
Sapolsky shows that almost all human stress is generated via the mind after persons assume what he called “psychological states,” noting that “they're being stressed by social and psychological tumult invented by their own species.”
Maharaj called those “personalities” or “false identities,” nothing more than “invented” and dreamed up roles / personas / stage characters / facades / images / selves / guises / fronts / etc.
All psychological states are really only “apparent states,” not real at all . . . no more real than anything and everything misperceived by the non-Realized as being real. It is impossible for the non-Realized to see what is real, much less what is Real.
They think they know what “a brick” is. Were they to look at that brick with the aid of an electron microscope and see a whirling quantity of subatomic particles of energy, they might begin to get an insight into how everything they have supposedly perceived now forms one large body of misperceptions.
As shared earlier, humans today are suffering from stress that is brought on by a psychological threat – a threat that is imagined to be real by an assumed ego-state but that is most unreal. With humans, it all begins internally when one or more ego-states – which are total mirages - feel threatened but, nevertheless, trigger the same kind of response that is experienced by a zebra on the savannah that is running for its life from an attacker.
To be free of the enormous stress that persons today are suffering from, they must first be freed from the machinations of the mind and the nonsense with which it has been filled.
Maharaj, regarding “personalities” or “false identities,” pointed out that the assumption of “psychological states” always involves an “I” and an “am” followed by something (which guarantees that whatever follows is false).
“I am a human.” Are you now? “I am both a human and THAT.” Are you now? “I am a spiritual creature having a human experience.” Are you now? “I am a spouse, so thrilled that I have the spouse I have.” Are you now? “I am a Realized Advaitin.” Are you now?
“I am a composite unity.” That’s a step in the right direction, toward the Understanding, but are you, really? Yet that is only one point along the “path,” only one stage that is passed through until one moves beyond any and all concepts about “being this” and “being that” and “being a human” and “being religious” and “being spiritual” (both of the latter being believed at the third of seven steps on the “path” to Realization) and “being THAT” and "being anything" and “being something” and "being Something" and “being something special” and “being something that is different from” and “being something that is better than.”
In the eBook below entitled The Final Understanding, the “stages” or “series of shifts” along the way are delineated exactly because some seem contradictory to others. At some point, they are, or at least they are paradoxical. They have been offered in the step-wise fashion required for the shifts to occur (each movement to the next understanding predicated on previous shifts that must happen in as exact an order as the seven steps to Realization).
Understand first that these stages lay out the shifts involved in the movement from the no perception, no you, no-perceiver state to the misperceiving state to the perception state to the clarity and understanding state to the Final understanding state. The stages - and the ever-continuing cycles - unfold in this manner, beginning with conscious-energy (a.k.a., awareness that is not aware of) in a field of energy and as it is in the state prior to the manifestation of consciousness:
[At this point, a few will seek and a few will begin to understand]
The I Am-ness allowed for only the most limited degrees of understanding, necessarily based as the beingness is in a sense of something existing that could have multiple identities (or one "Super Identity"). Because of programming, conditioning, acculturation domestication, brainwashing, and indoctrination, it is not possible to leap from "I am" to "Void-ness." Shifting by stages is required until the limited knows that which is limitless.
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
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Sapolsky shows that almost all human stress is generated via the mind after persons assume what he called “psychological states,” noting that “they're being stressed by social and psychological tumult invented by their own species.”
Maharaj called those “personalities” or “false identities,” nothing more than “invented” and dreamed up roles / personas / stage characters / facades / images / selves / guises / fronts / etc.
All psychological states are really only “apparent states,” not real at all . . . no more real than anything and everything misperceived by the non-Realized as being real. It is impossible for the non-Realized to see what is real, much less what is Real.
They think they know what “a brick” is. Were they to look at that brick with the aid of an electron microscope and see a whirling quantity of subatomic particles of energy, they might begin to get an insight into how everything they have supposedly perceived now forms one large body of misperceptions.
As shared earlier, humans today are suffering from stress that is brought on by a psychological threat – a threat that is imagined to be real by an assumed ego-state but that is most unreal. With humans, it all begins internally when one or more ego-states – which are total mirages - feel threatened but, nevertheless, trigger the same kind of response that is experienced by a zebra on the savannah that is running for its life from an attacker.
To be free of the enormous stress that persons today are suffering from, they must first be freed from the machinations of the mind and the nonsense with which it has been filled.
Maharaj, regarding “personalities” or “false identities,” pointed out that the assumption of “psychological states” always involves an “I” and an “am” followed by something (which guarantees that whatever follows is false).
“I am a human.” Are you now? “I am both a human and THAT.” Are you now? “I am a spiritual creature having a human experience.” Are you now? “I am a spouse, so thrilled that I have the spouse I have.” Are you now? “I am a Realized Advaitin.” Are you now?
“I am a composite unity.” That’s a step in the right direction, toward the Understanding, but are you, really? Yet that is only one point along the “path,” only one stage that is passed through until one moves beyond any and all concepts about “being this” and “being that” and “being a human” and “being religious” and “being spiritual” (both of the latter being believed at the third of seven steps on the “path” to Realization) and “being THAT” and "being anything" and “being something” and "being Something" and “being something special” and “being something that is different from” and “being something that is better than.”
In the eBook below entitled The Final Understanding, the “stages” or “series of shifts” along the way are delineated exactly because some seem contradictory to others. At some point, they are, or at least they are paradoxical. They have been offered in the step-wise fashion required for the shifts to occur (each movement to the next understanding predicated on previous shifts that must happen in as exact an order as the seven steps to Realization).
Understand first that these stages lay out the shifts involved in the movement from the no perception, no you, no-perceiver state to the misperceiving state to the perception state to the clarity and understanding state to the Final understanding state. The stages - and the ever-continuing cycles - unfold in this manner, beginning with conscious-energy (a.k.a., awareness that is not aware of) in a field of energy and as it is in the state prior to the manifestation of consciousness:
I.
The no-you state, the you-are-not state, the no-beingness and no non-beingness state
The no-you state, the you-are-not state, the no-beingness and no non-beingness state
II.
The manifested consciousness state, the "I am" state
The manifested consciousness state, the "I am" state
III.
The "I am this" and "I am that" state
The "I am this" and "I am that" state
[At this point, a few will seek and a few will begin to understand]
IV.
The "I am present but no longer believe that I am limited to the formerly-assumed 'this' or a 'that' " state
The "I am present but no longer believe that I am limited to the formerly-assumed 'this' or a 'that' " state
V.
Though I do not believe that I am "this" or "that," I do believe that I am Something - and even "Something Special" - that shall be forever (So all beliefs have not yet been discarded)
Though I do not believe that I am "this" or "that," I do believe that I am Something - and even "Something Special" - that shall be forever (So all beliefs have not yet been discarded)
VI.
"I am Presence" (That understanding allows for at least some distance to manifest between the "I" and the notions of "materiality and physicality")
"I am Presence" (That understanding allows for at least some distance to manifest between the "I" and the notions of "materiality and physicality")
VII.
"Presence is" (That understanding takes the "I" out of the picture completely)
"Presence is" (That understanding takes the "I" out of the picture completely)
VIII.
"No presence is" (That removes from the picture the concepts of the limited "Is-ness," the "Am-ness," the "Beingness," and even the "Non-Beingness")
"No presence is" (That removes from the picture the concepts of the limited "Is-ness," the "Am-ness," the "Beingness," and even the "Non-Beingness")
IX.
"I am nothing" (The "wisdom manifested" state as the pointer "Wisdom is knowing that I am nothing" is understood)
"I am nothing" (The "wisdom manifested" state as the pointer "Wisdom is knowing that I am nothing" is understood)
X.
"There is no one to be wise, to know, to understand" state
"There is no one to be wise, to know, to understand" state
XI.
The "Neti-neti" state
The "Neti-neti" state
XII.
The "I am the Absolute Awareness with no aware-of-ness" state
The "I am the Absolute Awareness with no aware-of-ness" state
XIII.
The "Rather than, 'I am nothing,' the Nothingness is" state
The "Rather than, 'I am nothing,' the Nothingness is" state
XIV.
Then, the "nothing is" state, including nothing and no one to believe, conceptualize, learn, perceive, know, understand, do, or assume anything (At this point, Reality has been overlaid upon the relative and abidance can happen in the deer-like mode with the limitless freedom of nothingness: no concepts, no beliefs, no duality)
Then, the "nothing is" state, including nothing and no one to believe, conceptualize, learn, perceive, know, understand, do, or assume anything (At this point, Reality has been overlaid upon the relative and abidance can happen in the deer-like mode with the limitless freedom of nothingness: no concepts, no beliefs, no duality)
XV.
The Unmanifestation stage
The Unmanifestation stage
XVI.
The cycle is complete with there once again being the no-you state, the you-are-not state, the no-beingness state, the no non-beingness state
The cycle is complete with there once again being the no-you state, the you-are-not state, the no-beingness state, the no non-beingness state
The I Am-ness allowed for only the most limited degrees of understanding, necessarily based as the beingness is in a sense of something existing that could have multiple identities (or one "Super Identity"). Because of programming, conditioning, acculturation domestication, brainwashing, and indoctrination, it is not possible to leap from "I am" to "Void-ness." Shifting by stages is required until the limited knows that which is limitless.
That is the process by which an Understanding comes and by which humans can abide as sensibly as all other living things on the planet, possibly feeling stress for a few minutes if a real, physiological threat is faced but never being stressed at all by the dreamed-up fears and false “needs” and usually-unmet-desires of “psychological states.”
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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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THE FINAL FIFTEEN TOPICS DISCUSSED BY SRI NISARGADATTA MAHARAJ
A TWELVE-STEP JOURNEY TO SELF-TRANSFORMATION
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A GUIDE FOR WORKING THE STEPS (IN THE MANNER USED BY THE FOUNDERS)
THE TWELVE STEPS AND ADVAITA / NON-DUALITY: A 21-DAY PLAN FOR A PSYCHIC CHANGE
SELF-TRANSFORMATION MEDITATION GUIDE (VOLUME ONE)
SELF-TRANSFORMATION MEDITATION GUIDE (VOLUME TWO)
WHY NISARGA YOGA IN ADDITION TO THE ADVAITA TEACHINGS?
A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE via the Non-Duality Teachings and the Nisarga Yoga
YOUR ORIGINAL NATURE
GOING CRAZY / GOING SANE
INSTABILITY / INSANITY: WHAT THE ADVAITA TEACHINGS CAN (AND CANNOT) ADDRESS
THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS "PEACE OF MIND" (THERE IS ONLY PEACE IF YOU'RE OUT OF YOUR MIND)
FREEDOM FROM SHIFTING BETWEEN STATES OF HAPPINESS AND UNHAPPINESS
THE ULTIMATE SICKNESS / THE ULTIMATE MEDICINE
PROGRAMMING, CONDITIONING, DOMESTICATION, AND ACCULTURATION (THE SOURCES OF THE ULTIMATE SICKNESS & THE NON-DUALITY TREATMENT)
"WHAT HAPPENS WHEN I DIE?"
THE MYTH OF "DEATH"
THE ESSENCE OF THE TEACHINGS: THE SIMPLICITY OF REALIZATION
FINDING REAL LOVE IN AN UNREAL WORLD
CASTING LIGHT ON THE DARK SIDE OF RELATIONSHIPS
OVERCOMING THE FEAR OF BEING TOTALLY INDEPENDENT
THE NON-DUALITY POINTERS OFFERED BY YESHU'A ("JESUS THE CHRIST")
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE THE ADVAITIN
WHEN ONLY THREE HOURS OF MANIFESTATION REMAIN (THE "FINAL" TALKS OF FLOYD HENDERSON)
I AM THAT (vs. "This Is Who I Think I Am")
QUOTATIONS AND POINTERS DEALING WITH NON-DUALITY, ADVAITA, NISARGA YOGA, AND MORE
DANCING LIGHTLY
THE PATH TO FREEDOM VS. THE PATH TO MISERY
THERE IS NOTHING THAT IS PERSONAL (INCLUDING YOU AND INCLUDING GOD)
LIBERATION (ATTAINING FREEDOM FROM PERSONALITY VIA REALIZATION)
WHY YOU MUST BE EMPTY IF YOU WOULD BE FULL
FREEDOM FROM BELIEFS (Believers, Non-Believers, and "No-Belief-ers")
WHEN REALITY IS OVERLAID ON THE RELATIVE
THE RELATIVE RESULTS OF RETURNING TO "THE CHILD IGNORANCE STAGE" OR "THE CHILD NO-KNOWING STATE"
WHAT BLISS IS AND WHAT BLISS IS NOT
THE TWICE-STOLEN NECKLACE MURDERS
THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF WARS
LESSONS IN NON-DUALITY FROM TRAVELS IN SOUTH AFRICA
A SERIES OF ESSAYS DISCUSSING THE FIRST STEP ON THE SEVEN-STEP PATH TO REALIZATION
A SERIES OF ESSAYS DISCUSSING THE SECOND STEP ON THE SEVEN-STEP PATH TO REALIZATION
A SERIES OF ESSAYS DISCUSSING THE THIRD STEP ON THE SEVEN-STEP PATH TO REALIZATION
A SERIES OF ESSAYS DISCUSSING THE FOURTH STEP ON THE SEVEN-STEP PATH TO REALIZATION
A SERIES OF ESSAYS DISCUSSING THE FIFTH STEP ON THE SEVEN-STEP PATH TO REALIZATION
A SERIES OF ESSAYS DISCUSSING THE SIXTH STEP ON THE SEVEN-STEP PATH TO REALIZATION
A SERIES OF ESSAYS DISCUSSING THE SEVENTH STEP ON THE SEVEN-STEP PATH TO REALIZATION
SPIRITUAL SOBRIETY (RECOVERING WHAT RELIGIONS LOST)
IT'S ALL BULLSHIT (AND WHY KNOWING IT SETS YOU FREE)
