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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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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.
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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
“You do not need to allow yourself to be taught more; you do not need to work more and more in order to learn more and more; you do not need to add to the body of nonsense and BS which ‘they’ passed on to you via conditioning and programming. You need less of everything, not more of anything. What you need to do is subtract, not add. You need to un-learn; you need to be un-taught.”
--floyd
Ruby Bridges: “Racism is a grown-up disease. Let’s stop using our kids to spread it.”
Floyd: “The same applies to all that grown-ups add when forming the minds of
kids, including hate, racism, xenophobia, white supremacy, Christian
nationalism, beliefs about ‘different from’ and therefore ‘better-than,’ and
(per Maharaj) ‘ignorance, stupidity, and insanity’.”
“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, relatively speaking.”
--floyd
“For the supposedly realized to deny the AM-ness is just as delusional as it is for the non-realized to identify solely with the Am-ness.”
--floyd
Post-Realization, AS IF Living
Post-realization, pure wisdom and pure love manifest. It is natural for wisdom (via the pure witnessing) to witness what is happening and to recognize words and thoughts and behaviors which are evidence of nonsense and self-deception and ignorance and distortion.
That
happens even as those being driven by such thoughts and words and deeds are
sure that their thoughts are right and their beliefs are right and what they
are saying is sensible and not at all self-deceiving and not ignorant but wise
and free of any distortion at all.
It is wisdom alone that provides the ability to differentiate the true from the
false, so that happens when the consciousness detects falsehoods. Then, True
Love takes over and the consciousness - not a “teacher” and not a guru and not
a person - speaks ( and speaks from the platform of Pure Awareness).
It
is True Love, speaking in that fashion, which accounts for the sharing of these
teachings, and what is seen or heard is what inspires the various pointers
offered.
For example, some person might have been heard saying something that evidenced
such a level of narcissism and arrogance that it shocked the unblocked
consciousness into offering a pointer toward the humble truth;
or
some person might have spoken of “their lover” or “their spouse” with
unbelievably glowing words (words that showed such delusion, words that
revealed so many outlandish misperceptions, and words that exposed such a
denial of the facts before one's very eyes) that the unblocked consciousness
here will speak and try to point to the truth that is actually 180-degrees
opposite of what is being stated;
or some person might have been making statements that amounted to such a
blatant distorting of the facts and such a desire to put a spin on reality that
the consciousness spontaneously and automatically attempts to redirect the
speaker toward the truth.
(In
almost all cases, though, the hidden fears and desires of their personalities
will block persons from hearing pointers to truth that run contrary to their
motives and agendas.)
But note: as that which is rooted in Wisdom and True Love is happening
spontaneously on one front, on another front this composite unity called “floyd”
- functioning in an AS IF manner - eats and sleeps and laughs and plays and
enjoys conversation on occasion and loves the silence on occasion and delights
in sex-that-expresses-the-shared-sense-of-Oneness on occasion;
it
is also via that composite unity that a few jokes or some humorous observations
are shared in order to lighten the day of other composite unities that might be
encountered.
And that is all totally natural. It is all a part of the AS IS mode of living
that follows the completion of all three legs of “the journey.”
So,
what is to be understood at this point about AS IF living? In the glossary of
terms in the back of the book FROM THE I
TO THE ABSOLUTE, the following is offered in regards to AS IF Living:
AS IF Living: The style of living which the realized exhibit, seemingly living
like persons but without persons’ attachments, delusions, and emotional
intoxication; the manner in which the Realized “finish out” the manifestation,
meeting “responsibilities” and providing for the space while knowing full well
that “this world” is nothing more than an imagining in the distorted
perceptions of persons;
AS IF Living: a lifestyle that is unencumbered with detachment and emotional
intoxication and belief in the lies of the culture; a lifestyle free of game
playing and image perpetuation; a lifestyle unmarred by the emotions and
emotional intoxication experienced by persons;
a
lifestyle during which the realized can witness feelings rise and fall without
any emotional intoxication, without reacting, without over-reacting, and
without setting off a chain of reactions (as happens with persons);
AS IF Living: a lifestyle free of the misery that is generated by the desires /
fears of personas.
While functioning in an “AS IF fashion,” the consciousness can register
feelings but will not register emotions and emotional intoxication (such
intoxication being limited to the domain of ego-states).
Consider: Maharaj, though abiding in an AS IF fashion, might appear to have
been emotionally-intoxicated when he threw out of his loft those who showed up
as an ego-state and who were trapped in egotism and wanted to show off their
spiritual knowledge (a.k.a., learned ignorance).
He
was not emotional. That speck of consciousness knew that an arrogance-free,
ego-free environment was required for the other visitors to receive a message
about being arrogant-free and ego-free.
So, the pointers offered here are rooted in Nisarga Yoga which offers an
understanding that invites persons to be rid of their belief in the fallacious
body-mind-personality triad and to then live naturally, to take it easy, to
relax, to just BE and to forget the illusion of DOING or needing to DO or the
existence and experiences of a DO-ER.
(By the way: such pointers will appear to be very strange to those who are
trying to follow a knowledge path, a worship path, an action path, or a service
path. So it is. Those paths are available for discussion elsewhere.)
To be continued.
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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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.
