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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.”
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“DO NOT SEARCH FOR THE ANSWER TO ‘WHO AM I?’ IT IS ENOUGH TO UNDERSTAND ‘WHO / WHAT YOU ARE NOT’.”
(Excerpts from a satsang session conducted in 2004)
THE FOURTH DEGREE SHIFT - MOVEMENT TOWARD REALITY:
The Child Ignorance State
or
The Child No-Knowing State
[Continued from September 24th post]
Q.: “Whoa!”
F.: [Pauses] “Yes?”
Q.: “I just got a glimpse . . . like, the big picture.”
F.: “Meaning?”
Q.: “I mean the cyclings. I've lived by that timeline you mentioned - beginning, middle, end, judgment, heaven or hell. But you dropped a few hints that registered . . . the ‘movement,’ if you will, from the Absolute to body identity.”
F.: “Actually, I’ve dropped those hints all along. You evidently just weren’t ready to hear. Ha.” [Laughter]
Q.: “Well, I’m seeing it - the 'order,' so to speak - from awareness to the sleepwalking we talked about.”
F.: “You've seen only a portion at most, but for now that's sufficient. Remember Maharaj’s warning, though - don’t mistake the dawn for noon. As for this method, it works for some and not at all for others.
I can offer only what led to realization here: a vision, reading the words of a sage, sitting in focused meditation on his words, understanding the vision and the levels that had separated me from understanding the source, and finally understanding I AM THAT permanent source while simultaneously being the I AM temporarily.
For others of you, you might pass a few hours in here and in meditation and find you need to go to the next guide. So it is. There's no competition I know of, and no single way.
I told you that I tried many, many non-dual guides and books and satsangs, etc. and was exposed to a variety of approaches offering their ‘one single supposed truth’ - but I didn't 'get it,' as you say. [Laughter] Then, my vision and the words of Maharaj came together."
Q.: "Whatever. All I can say for now is that things I never understood before are becoming clearer."
F.: "We'll see. [To the group] If you walk into a forest and become lost, backtrack. Follow your steps back to the point of entry. The most direct way out of a mess is to follow in reverse the steps you took getting into the mess.
Otherwise, you'll wander in the forest forever. You cycled step-by-step from the Absolute to body identification. We’re backtracking. We’re following the steps back to what we really are, leaving behind body identity, mind identity, personalities, the ignorant programming and conditioning . . . all of it.”
Q.: “I’m seeing it.”
F.: “Then let’s continue. Maharaj said: “. . . You should go back, reverse, to the source” and “Follow the same path by which you came.” You’ve touched the truth of the journey. We’re ‘going back,’ so to speak. We’re cycling ‘home.’ the next step: if all that you’ve learned is the problem at this stage, then the solution at this stage is to unlearn it all."
Q.2: "It’s difficult - I’ve always been taught that knowledge is the key."
F.: "Ha. I hope you're finding that your knowledge, far from being a 'key,' is actually the very thing that locked the door of your mind and shuttered all the windows that need opening for you to see."
Q.: [Nods in acknowledgment]
F.: "It's useless to try to use your mind and its knowledge to seek outside yourself for the truth, which is within. It is that very mind - the programmed and conditioned mind - that has prevented the understanding.”
Q. 2: “Here’s the piece I don’t get about the no-mind of child ignorance: if there’s no mind, how am I supposed to ever have peace of mind?”
F.: “Let me see if you understand what you’re really asking for. You want a mind that is always at perfect peace, but consciousness is energy and is therefore in constant motion if manifested. So you are saying that you want your consciousness to be unmanifested - that is, you want to die, right now! Ha.” [Laughter]
To be continued.
Please enter into the silence of contemplation.
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Walter Driscoll and Floyd Henderson
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