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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.
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3. A newer 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.)
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IN TERMS OF “REALIZATION” AS A NON-DUAL PROCESS, THE MATH AIN’T MATHING
“The math ain’t mathing.”
Taraji P. Henson
“First of all you identify something as being good or bad for yourself. Then, in an effort to acquire good or to get rid of the bad, you have invented a God. Then you worship such a God and . . . you pray to that God for something good to happen to you.”
--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
“Go
forth, unburdened with ideas and beliefs.”
--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
. . . “Go home, take charge of your father’s business, look after your parents in their old age. Marry the girl who is waiting for you; be loyal, be simple, be humble. Hide your virtue, live silently.”
--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
“ . . . Question wisely. You will find you know nothing for sure - you trust on hearsay.”
--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
“A little learning can be a dangerous thing.”
--Alexander Pope
“Anything short of total un-learning is a far-more-dangerous thing.”
--floyd
Why “Advertise” a Method or a Yoga?
In Shakespeare's London when the theaters moved across the Thames from London proper to Southwark in order to escape harassment by puritanical magistrates, flagpoles were erected atop the theater turrets for purposes of advertising:
if
people in the city saw a white flag flying atop a playhouse, they knew that a
comedy was playing there; if they saw a black flag flying, they knew that a
tragedy was playing.
In Bombay (Mumbai) in the days of Maharaj, he also “advertised” what was “being
shown” in the loft. How? The “Nisarga” in “Nisargadatta” was also like a
modern-day movie poster, “Nisarga” meaning “natural” and making clear that the
Nisarga, Natural Yoga was being offered in the loft. Infatuated with any other
yoga? Then probably best not to come in.
Here, a disclaimer is offered to any that consider seeking in the venue of this
author: “For those who have developed a preference for any non-Nisargan yoga or
who prefer Traditional Advaita Vedanta, Neo-Advaita, Neo-Vedanta, or Pseudo
Advaita: here you will only find the use of the Direct Path Method of teaching
along with the Nisarga (Natural) Yoga.”
To disclose that the Natural Yoga is used is to disclose that there is no “goal”
other than to
1. remove the ignorance that inspires attachment to religious or spiritual or
philosophical concepts and exercises and accoutrements and to
2. bring to an end all thoughts and words and deeds that support unnatural /
supernatural living, giving way to
3. living in an all-natural fashion.
The “later Maharaj” or “Pure Maharaj,” therefore, offered less and less
tolerance for those “hanging out” at the third of seven steps to Realization.
Yes,
the religious or spiritual or philosophical roles have to be played for a time,
but the longer Maharaj taught, the less tolerant he was of those fixating at a
place on the “path” that is not even the halfway point of the “journey.”
Thus, he spoke of their “kindergarten spirituality.” He noted that “there are
so many who take the dawn for the noon, a momentary experience for full realization
. . . . ”
For
all the spiritual and religious and philosophical talk in “I AM THAT,” his later
talks contained less and less of the earlier “spirituality” and “beating around the bush”; thus, he said to
two visitors, “Forget spirituality.”
He encouraged seekers to follow “their normal inclinations,” that is, to follow
their natural tendencies, to abandon all of their spiritual work and just abide
naturally - not unnaturally and not supernaturally (i.e., neither “religiously”
nor “spiritually” nor “philosophically”).
He
told visitors, “Do your normal duties” and “just give up spirituality.” And
thus the pointer that his message did evolve and even change over the decades
to the degree that he became more and more direct, wasting less time with “foundational
and preparatory pointers” that would
(a) tolerate for a time the assumption of seekers' “new and improved and good”
religious or spiritual or philosophical personas and that would sometimes
gently guide seekers beyond their obsession with the religious or spiritual or
philosophical step and instead
admonishing them, in a far more direct manner than earlier, to
(b) be free of all that drives them to live unnaturally and to
(c) abandon their efforts to live supernaturally and to
(d) get on with the process of merely living naturally.
He admitted later on that he, too, had been bogged down at the third step (where
religious and spiritual roles are played) and he made clear that he was trying
to spare seekers from the years or decades of being similarly bogged down.
He
said: “I got involved in spirituality, in the business of spirituality, [but]
finally I lost that love of the Self also. I have no more love for the Self.”
He said that “When the birth is disproved, the great noble meaning of
spirituality and the meaning of this world - everything - is disproved.” When a
visitor said, “The scriptures say that we have our karma and our sins and that
is why we are here,” Maharaj answered: “That is for the ignorant masses. One
who has realized the . . . ‘I Am,’ for him these stories are of no use.”
Again, recall that he said, “I have no faith in anything which has ever been
told, not even what has been told by the Vedas. Only my own experience.” A
seeker once asked this question: “So beyond all that talk of the varied phases
of 'the Absolute' or 'Brahman,' the question is, ‘Once that Cosmic Self’ is found, what is one to do
with it'?”
[There is no more a “Cosmic Self” than there is a “personal self.”]
Again,
one should be reminded of the dog chasing a car: once it catches up with the
car, what is it to do with it?
If seekers love their religious or spiritual or philosophical role-playing,
then “early Maharaj” is more likely to appeal to them, but religious or
spiritual or philosophical pointers will only trap seekers at a point that is
not even halfway to full realization while deluding them into believing that
they have realized fully.
If seekers would actually realize fully, then all beliefs must be abandoned, including religious or spiritual or philosophical concepts and beliefs and ideas;
additionally, all “teachings” must eventually be abandoned, and the sooner the better for those who would be totally free of delusions and distortions and ignorance and who would abide in the freedom and peace and ease and simplicity and relaxation of Nisarga, natural living.
So,
there are three ways in which the relative existence can happen: unnaturally,
supernaturally (spiritually), or naturally (meaning, in a “Nisarga” fashion).
To be continued with more on those tomorrow.
Please enter into the silence of contemplation.
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THE EXPLANATION
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.
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when it come to fulfilling orders for
paperback and hardcover books
as opposed to delivering digital books.
[NOTE: Wherever you live, you can search for the books below by title with booksellers in your country. With 40,000+ retailers distributing my paperback books, you may order from U.S. stores or you may find someone nearer to you.]
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(2) To make an arrangement for us to send in your name as a gift from you any of our books to someone you choose:
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THE EXPLANATION
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.
