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[Walter Driscoll asked to interview me in order to preserve on video some of the latest modifications and evolutions in the versions of the message offered here since 1989. He would label the discussion, "Unlearning with Floyd Henderson."
Please note: For those who have a problem hearing what is being shared, the video offers a fairly accurate set of closed captions which some listeners might want to activate.
The interview is available for viewing by clicking on video "NUMBER THIRTEEN" in the column to the right.]
1. [See the offer in gold text following this post for details on how you can watch a retreat on video which includes a detailed discussion of all seven of the steps on the path as used by Maharaj]
2. Here, with those who are still driven to talk about "god," the "Son of god," the "Holy Spirit," "Buddha," "Krishna," etc., etc., etc., the invitation to them is to view those as verbs, not nouns. See the green text after today's post for the full meaning and implications of that.
3. A new video ("Number Ten: Awakening Together Satsang, March 2018") has now been added in the far right column of this page, offering the opportunity to view a recent 2018 satsang session with Floyd being interviewed by Regina and Jacqueline of "The Awakening Together Group." (See the details in the blue text after this post.)
4. Some prefer paperback books even if they have to wait a day or so to receive it and have to pay more for a printed book and its shipment. Now, 10 paperback books by Henderson are in print and available in two anthologies through Barnes and Noble, Amazon, and over 40,000+ booksellers around the globe including in the Americas, Germany, India, Italy, Poland, Russia, China, Spain, Brazil and South Korea. See the end of this post in red text for details.
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A KEY FEAR AMONG THE NON-REALIZED MASSES: THE FEAR OF TOTAL FREEDOM
“ . . . You are afraid of freedom!”
-Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
“The suggestion that persons move about during the relative existence even if they are in a sleep state is not complicated. It happens to approximately eight billion humans every twenty-four hours as they dream that they are saying something or doing something even though they are totally asleep. The more complicated issue is that 50% of the people in the U.S. are opposed to people being awake, awoken, or ‘woke’ as they move about during the relative existence. The U.S. and the nearly 200 other countries on the planet are inhabited by somnambulists, and those who are asleep generally prefer to remain asleep.”
--Floyd Henderson
CEREMONIES DRIVE UNNATURAL AND SUPERNATURAL THOUGHTS AND WORDS AND ACTIONS
ANNOUNCEMENTS
[Walter Driscoll asked to interview me in order to preserve on video some of the latest modifications and evolutions in the versions of the message offered here since 1989. He would label the discussion, "Unlearning with Floyd Henderson."
Please note: For those who have a problem hearing what is being shared, the video offers a fairly accurate set of closed captions which some listeners might want to activate.
The interview is available for viewing by clicking on video "NUMBER THIRTEEN" in the column to the right.]
1. [See the offer in gold text following this post for details on how you can watch a retreat on video which includes a detailed discussion of all seven of the steps on the path as used by Maharaj]
2. Here, with those who are still driven to talk about "god," the "Son of god," the "Holy Spirit," "Buddha," "Krishna," etc., etc., etc., the invitation to them is to view those as verbs, not nouns. See the green text after today's post for the full meaning and implications of that.
3. A new video ("Number Ten: Awakening Together Satsang, March 2018") has now been added in the far right column of this page, offering the opportunity to view a recent 2018 satsang session with Floyd being interviewed by Regina and Jacqueline of "The Awakening Together Group." (See the details in the blue text after this post.)
4. Some prefer paperback books even if they have to wait a day or so to receive it and have to pay more for a printed book and its shipment. Now, 10 paperback books by Henderson are in print and available in two anthologies through Barnes and Noble, Amazon, and over 40,000+ booksellers around the globe including in the Americas, Germany, India, Italy, Poland, Russia, China, Spain, Brazil and South Korea. See the end of this post in red text for details.
5. Would you like to have us send to someone as a gift from you a copy of any ebook in our inventory? See the offer in purple text at the end of this post.
6. Or, you may purchase a Floyd Henderson Shopify Gift Card here for someone and offer recommendations for the books in Floyd's store which might be of assistance to them.
7. You may click here to visit Floyd's bookstore which offers both digital books and paperback books which deal with non-duality, non-duality-based fictional adventures, recovery, and financial budgeting.
A KEY FEAR AMONG THE NON-REALIZED MASSES: THE FEAR OF TOTAL FREEDOM
“ . . . You are afraid of freedom!”
-Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
“The suggestion that persons move about during the relative existence even if they are in a sleep state is not complicated. It happens to approximately eight billion humans every twenty-four hours as they dream that they are saying something or doing something even though they are totally asleep. The more complicated issue is that 50% of the people in the U.S. are opposed to people being awake, awoken, or ‘woke’ as they move about during the relative existence. The U.S. and the nearly 200 other countries on the planet are inhabited by somnambulists, and those who are asleep generally prefer to remain asleep.”
--Floyd Henderson
(Continued from yesterday)
Yesterday’s post ended with a reference to a discussion with
a seeker in Australia one night during a standing
“Saturday-night-here-Sunday-morning-there-Skype-conference.” It was shown that
the illusory need for more and more money can end when de-accumulation begins.
Yet the move need not always be literal. One night, an Australian participating
in the aforementioned group session via the internet spoke of a remote island
on which he wants to buy a cabin to use for his retirement someday.
It was asked, “How many years until retirement?” The
reply: “Twenty.” The response: “You need not wait twenty years to ‘move’ to the
place of perfect peace. It is within a few steps of where you think you are
right now.”
Yet few will ever understand the steps in the “journey” from identification
with the false “I” to returning to abidance as “The No-Learned Ignorance,
No-Stupidity, No Insanity Child Stage.”
Few will come to understand that freedom and peace are
right here, right now or that the only movement required is the movement /
non-movement along a path / non-path (except for the direct path offered here).
It was explained that some might know the physical address where they can go
for satsang / retreats with whatever “floyd” is assumed to be but that very few
know where Floyd - “the Real Floyd” - “lives.”
That place is typically
cave-like (remote and quiet) but even there is not where the abidance of this
speck of conscious-energy is happening.
The freedom that precedes peace can happen “now” and “here,” not “later” and “there.”
It comes when “The Goldilocks Syndrome” has been transitioned, where there is a
position of neutrality and no dualistic judgments are being drawn about things
being “too hard vs. too soft” or “too hot vs. too cold.”
It comes when the equally-as-delusional-notion that “something
is just right and will always remain that way” is transcended.
Only the Absolute is a non-moving target. All else will be in constant flux,
and the “joy” of things perceived to be “just right” will give way to the
misery of those same things soon perceived to be “all wrong.”
Here’s the way Louise put it recently after returning to “the
cave” after a holiday:
“Today, walking in the garden to find fresh herbs, there is simply gratitude
for this preference-free view. You expressed this so clearly recently when you
said, ‘Do you not see that hope generates hopelessness and that the relative
existence would unfold more pleasantly is you allowed what happens to happen
spontaneously without complicating things with your wishes and desires and
hopes and, yes, fears as well?’
“A recent visit to Bazley was full of contrasts: the idyllic, silent beauty of the natural setting, but sharing a house with three children, two adults and DSTV.
“Within the home, there was a higher level of background noise, personal ego demands, and busyness than I am used to in the cave. Would it be possible to grasp the understanding within the busyness and noise? Unlikely.
“With the withdrawal from all that is extraneous, the movement away from the phantasmagoria of the relative, there is simply resting in silence. In this silence, the winds of preference or non-preference are subtle, and more easily discerned and observed. This is the forest dweller stage I guess.
“Here this stage involved working, parenting and caring for the body’s needs, yet almost all other activities dropped away. In this environment of simplicity and silence, preference for or against could drop away, and the vast spaciousness of neutrality enjoyed.
“Once neutrality is tasted, it is not easily forgotten. This view becomes permanent. Then it is possible to be in the ego-led noise of society without being pulled into preference or non-preference.
“Although, the movement will always be away from the noise to the gentle, silent, peacefulness modelled by the petite buck that come to graze and drink at the bottom of the Bazley garden each morning and evening.”
The reply: And that is what the relative existence looks like when the Absolute is laid over it; and that is what the unassailable peace looks like when the movement to freedom happens;
and that is what it looks like to be neither pro-life nor pro-death but “preference-free,” not unlike the naturally-abiding, spontaneously-living deer.
To expand on the connection between being “preference-free”
and being totally free, consider the state of four men whose cases have been
witnessed over the last month:
One is near suicidal because the woman he was living with left him when she
discovered that he was grooming another woman in the wings to move in if the
present live-in left. Why take such action?
“Because,” he said, “he does not want to be alone.” (His
persona’s preference for “company in prison” rather than being “alone but free”
- free of the misery of personality entrapment - is driving his suffering.)
A second is miserable because his wife “used him and took his money before
leaving with a man even richer than he.” And even after finding out that she
had been involved in an ongoing relationship with the other man during the
marriage, and even after she admitted that she never cared a whit about him,
the husband is miserable because he wants her to come back, noting that “she is
gorgeous.”
(His personas have a preference for a particular, outward appearance
and how he thinks he was perceived when she was on his arm.)
The circumstances with the other two men are similar, also being “preference-bound”
rather than “preference-free,” also being driven by the fear-and-desire-based
agendas of the personas which they want to maintain.
Those examples reveal further blockages to total freedom:
A. personality, for it is personality that is the source of all “preferences,” “desires,”
“wishes,” and “hopes.” To be driven by preferences is to be driven by personas,
roles, false identities, personality, ego-states, stage characters . . . call it
what you will; and,
B. the prevailing delusion among the non-Realized, namely, if something which
is a part of the relative existence, and which is thought to be “good,” and
which, therefore, has been desired ...
if whatever that is happens to manifest (be that a relationship, a job, a
house, whatever), then the delusion is that it can be permanently set, can be
enduring, and will be unending.
What shift must happen in order for
(1) freedom from the disappointment and misery and frustration of finding time
and again that what is desired or “gained” will never be permanently set, will
never be enduring, and will never be unending; and
(2) what do the teachings here offer that allow a fixation in the bliss of THAT
to happen, even as the AM-ness continues?
Tomorrow, we’ll see the response to those questions as offered by Louise in Cape Town, S.A.
To be continued.
Please enter into the silence of contemplation.
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"From the I to the Absolute (A Seven-Step Journey to Reality");
"Consciousness / Awareness: The Nature of Reality Beyond SELF-Realization (Peace Every Day When Abiding As the Absolute)";
"From the Absolute to the Nothingness";
and
"The Final Understanding."
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This anthology (438 pages) contains the six books that make up what has been called The Blissful Abidance Series for those seeking to live blissfully and happily for the remainder of the manifestation, including:
“What BLISS is and what BLISS is not”
“There’s No Such Thing As Peace of Mind (There’s Only Peace If You’re ‘Out of Your Mind’)”
“Liberation (Attaining Freedom from Personality via Realization)”
“Freedom from Shifting Between States of Happiness and Unhappiness”
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Yeshu'a (Jesus) and Pope John Paul II and Pope Francis were spot on:
"No one shall ever see 'the kingdom of heaven.' It is within"
and
"Heaven and earth shall fade away."
and
"Heaven and hell are not geographic places
"There is no hell."
teachings which become a part of the Papal Magisterium.
