SHIFTS IN CONSCIOUSNESS, SHIFTS IN DEEDS, Part One

FROM A SITE VISITOR: Do you think that the realized should be able to tolerate any kind of environment or any kind of people? It sounds like you are saying that. I’ve been reading your writings for several months and lately, there are people I spent a lot of time with before but now I’m not spending time with them at all. I’m not realized, but even if I were, I feel certain that there are some people I just wouldn’t want to be around. Art

F.: Hello, Art. What you describe is typical when the consciousness re-purification process begins to happen. Since non-Realized persons function along a thought-word-deed continuum, it seems logical that when the content of the programmed and conditioned “mind” is allowed to fade away, then all those thoughts that it had generated will fade away. Then, the use of words will be diminished. Thus, deeds / actions cannot remain the same.

Few would question whether or not my teacher was Realized, yet he threw out many people who entered the loft where he offered satsanga (especially those showing up in garb that indicated they had added new personas while thinking they were free of all personas). He also sent packing those who only showed up to show off; thus, even Realized, there were "certain people that he didn't want to be around," but that was based in the fact that they were not ready or were not truly seeking.

Those types are sent on their way on this site as well, inspiring some to think that “floyd is all about tough love” or “floyd doesn’t even know what love is.” Those who prefer emotionally-intoxicated teachers and an emotionally-charged “life” can find both, and often do.

The fact is that the readiness is all, and a Realized teacher will determine before offering a pointer to any given seeker (a) which step the seeker is on or (b) whether or not the seeker is even ready to begin a “journey.” To begin the “journey” before the readiness has manifested can set the seeker back for years or can prevent Realization from happening at all.

That having been said, understand that among the Realized, there is no question of “tolerating” or not; however, there is an aspect to the movement along the “path” to Realization which can physically remove the body from the “company of others.” That stage has been called “the forest dweller stage” by some teachers in India or among the indigenous peoples of the “Americas.” (Maharaj tried that for a time until he was informed that he need not isolate in the wilderness but should return to Bombay, should teach, and should live naturally.)

That stage happened with this speck for a 25-month period, and it happens with many specks, yet it is certainly not a requirement. Another element of the “journey” and its outcomes is that the Realized automatically gravitate toward the silence, and even if employment continues in workplaces, there are often quiet locations that can be found. If not, one can be quiet wherever one is and not contribute to the noise. That will never be the case among those trapped in ego-states and egotism. Why?

Because the ego is infatuated with noise. Examples include the look-at-me driver of the car who forces all within several blocks to listen to his music; the non-Realized who gather regularly in buildings with loud organ music and loud choirs and who sing loudly and recite and chant words in unison; or those who attend meetings where their self-absorption can be massaged by having a captive audience to listen to their thought-generated, egotism-inspired words.

As for the Realized “being able to tolerate,” or not, notice that the movement only appears to be away from the noisy, the egotistical and the arrogant. The modified deeds/actions are not as much about intolerance or moving away from anything. The movement in actually toward something, namely a movement toward the silence, toward environs that are ego-state free, and toward places that are egotism-free because of the absence of persons who are assuming ego-states and using arrogance as an ego-defense mechanism.

Are your current deeds inspired by your own arrogance, judging others and deciding they aren’t worthy of your company? Or is the movement you reference simply happening spontaneously as You move toward the silence…toward an ego-less environment…toward humility? See the difference? Please enter into the silence of contemplation. (To be continued)
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NOISY PROSELYTIZING vs. A SILENT VIGIL, Part Two

F.: When one intends to “change or re-educate” those persons who believe that they are profiting and gaining from contact with a god, that person is far from having actually Realized. When others spend time at their workplace, trying to “engage others in some interesting discussion of these teachings,” they are far removed from having actually Realized.

To be unaware of the fact that others do not want to hear what you’re saying while claiming that you are fully aware is…self-contradictory. WHO wants to discuss something with persons who don’t want to discuss that? What ego-state is driving that behavior? The teachings do not generate a sense of separation if genuinely sought, but when offered without being sought, such separation is the relative effect. Typically, persons must run the course of all other options before they are ready for the Advaita Teachings. To try to offer the Teachings in advance of their having experienced all of the failures, inadequacies, hypocrisies, shortcomings and self-contradictions of all of their personal or religious or ideological or spiritual doings is futile and counter-productive.

For those who do not want to read what is offered on this site, they simply do not click on the url ever again. Furthermore, for those whose path is crossed during the course of a day, they do not hear Advaita discussed. No one hears anything about Advaita unless they ask about Advaita. The teachings are (by tradition and by practice among the truly Realized) offered only to those who seek out the teachings and only in places where seekers find the offerings, not where unsolicited offerings are cast upon them. WHO thinks he needs to be heard? WHO is driven to talk about Advaita to those not seeking information about Advaita?

If, during the course of a day, you are trying to share, offer, or force what you think you know about Advaita (or about anything else) onto persons, co-workers, associates, etc., then there’s evidence of one or more ego-states and evidence that Realization has not happened. Each of the three who complained that their efforts are not being well-received by others are really expressing a surprise that others are not saying, “Oh my gosh! I find you fascinating. You are truly a deep thinker and wise philosopher, and at such a young age! Amazing. Please, tell me more. I must know all that you know. I shall sit at your feet and relish the nectar of your knowledge.”

The fact is, those engaged in such conduct are trying to give away something that they don’t really have in the first place. To those, this pointer is offered: consider Realizing Fully first, and after that, practice the silent vigil rather than the noisy pontification. What does that mean?

Some define a “vigil” as “a watch or observation” or “residing in a state of witnessing” or “the process of waiting and watching.” The Realized Advaitin teacher resides for the most part in a silent vigil that is not unlike that practiced by a wolf (or to use an Advaitin analogy, the tiger). The days of the Realized are usually passed most often in a witnessing mode. Should a question arrive during that period of waiting and watching, then a response can happen; otherwise, the silent vigil continues, uninterrupted.

Post-Realization, a shift was observed by some persons, some of whom then asked such questions as, "What are you doing differently?" or "What has happened to you that has made you so much more peaceful?" If Full Realization happens, you may be approached...or not; otherwise, you'll stay quiet.

If talking must happen in the process of meeting basic survival needs, talking can happen, but it happens without personal motive. If teaching happens, it happens…or not. If writing happens, it happens…or not. If some come for the sharings, they come. If none come for the sharings, none come. If some visit this site, they visit. If none visit this site, none visit. So it is.

A few minutes per morning are passed here with certain of the teachings being posted (primarily as entertainment, as part of this “dance”) and then nothing more happens in regards to Advaita unless e-mails or calls are received and answered. Satsanga is offered only when requested and/or arranged by seekers.

Each who sent an e-mail about "the problems being encountered during the effort to share" was reminded of this: in order to be awakened, persons have to be shaken. Understand that most do not want to be shaken, and unless they have asked you to shake them and wake them, then the Masters have modeled this: live in an AS IF fashion and leave people alone.

That is the suggestion being offered here as well. If you would Realize Fully, then focus on the Teachings, not on trying to spread the Teachings where the Teachings are not being sought. Please enter the silence of contemplation. (To be continued)
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NOISY PROSELYTIZING vs. A SILENT VIGIL, Part One

F.: Three e-mails have arrived in the last few weeks from young men who are having "problems at work" or "problems in personal relationships" that are stemming from their "well-meaning" efforts to share whatever degree of the Advaita Teachings they think they understand. They don't know why people aren't "at least willing to talk about" the philosophy. Pseudo-Realization will drive a newly-assumed ego-state such as "The Advaitin" or "The Realized One" to try to give something to others that they do not want.

Please note that when the process of re-purifying the corrupted consciousness begins to happen, one of two events usually follow: (1) persons in the process of Realizing become very quiet and pass even more time in solitude and careful consideration in order to allow the process to mature into Full Realization; or (2) some who suddenly perceive how they have been fooled become driven by ego to move about and tell others in face-to-face discussions/altercations about how much they have also been fools. The latter brings the process to a full stop rather than to Full Realization.

It should be understood that not only the Advaita tradition but also the absence of arrogance both preempt public proselytizing by the Realized. As pointed out to all three in e-mailed responses, though Christ shared the Advaita teachings publicly on some occasions, (a) even his own closest followers never “got it” and (b) he was killed within a matter of years of initiating those public discussions of the Advaita Teachings.

The fact is, it is only arrogance and egotism which inspire persons to approach others without invitation and to try to share the teachings of their religion or philosophy or ideology. The truly Realized do not offer that which has not been solicited. To do so reveals an agenda, and agendas are always the product of ego-states. Post-Realization, sometimes the consciousness speaks, but sometimes it doesn't; sometimes teaching happens, but sometimes it never happens; but in no case are the Advaita teachings shared with persons who have not sought them.

These postings have never once been e-mailed like spam in an unsolicited fashion to people not seeking an understanding. Realized Advaitins do not recruit, do not seek to build memberships, and do not seek followers. The postings on this site can only find their way into a home if someone intentionally clicks on, for example, 1 of the 331,000 listings that show up when a person googles “advaita vedanta.”

While some who have stumbled across this site have been interested in nothing more than spreading their dogma or encouraging others to believe exactly what they believe, for the most part seekers of something beyond traditional dogma and fringe ideologies arrive at this page. Some energy must be expended in searching by those who “get here,” and since no advertising space is purchased in an effort to attract visitors, it is those who are seeking and searching that are dealt with via this site as opposed to any being sought out or searched for.

The words shared by that space called “Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj” (specifically those words shared nearer the end of his teaching days rather than those at the beginning in I AM THAT) advanced the Realization process for this space called “floyd.” You may rest assured that “he” did not seek “me” out. It took several decades of searching before the words spoken by that speck of consciousness were found.

Maharaj shared until the final days of the manifestation from a confined, tiny loft in a most humble dwelling in Bombay/Mumbai. He turned down offers in the millions to build an ashram. The teachings via that space were sought by others, but he sought nothing and no one. He simply made the teachings available should anyone be interested. Two sessions per day that never lasted more than ninety minutes were offered for those who found their way to that remote spot on the globe, but he never went outside that loft to share except by invitation. And even then, what he shared was geared to the level of the audience he found in the various towns or villages that he did visit on those rare occasions.

During the course of any of “floyd’s” typical days, no contact is ever initiated and no unsolicited sharing of these teachings ever happen. One man who emigrated from Bulgaria is employed in the grill in this community. For five years, some “socializing” has happened while waiting for a meal to be prepared or while enjoying an iced tea at a lakeside table, but in that entire five-year period, he has never once heard the word “advaita” or anything else that is even remotely related to the teachings. No one in this community has a clue about what is being typed onto a computer screen by "a neighbor called floyd" or about what is being discussed behind closed doors when seekers visit.

To those who have gone into organizations and tried to share some of the teachings posted here, it is suggested that you stay silent until you have Realized Fully. Then, once that happens, your current efforts to impose the teachings or to try to share what you have learned even when not invited to do so will automatically and spontaneously end, once and for all. Please enter the silence of contemplation. (To be continued)
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YOUR DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, Part Five

[NOTE: Out of town on July 3rd. “Part 6, The Conclusion” will be posted on July 4th.)

F.: In the example yesterday, a man was seen to give great value to the image of his country (and, thereby, great value to his own false self/selves) as he publicly devalued health care insurance for him and his wife. In that example, he demonstrated all three of the sources that rob persons of freedom, independence, and rationality: the child within was exposed, expressing its immature beliefs; the “mind” was exposed, illustrating how bastardized the consciousness can become; and several personas were revealed, using a body to verbalize the totally irrational beliefs and illogical concepts in which all personalities are based.

Just as it is the ventriloquist behind a dummy that drives everything that the dummy appears to be saying and doing, it was the “mind” and the false personas behind the man's words that were really doing the talking (even though the words appear to be coming from his body). If you always ignore the words of the non-Realized and see the actual source that is generating those words, several possibilities follow: (1) You will begin to ignore the nonsense that persons speak because you will know that their personas, not the people, are doing the talking. (2) You’ll also ignore the words you hear because you will detect the real message behind the words, such as:

“Speaking for my wife and me, having our nation bragged about is very important, but having decent medical care is not important at all. I am calling to declare that what is really important is not hearing about what can be improved but hearing about how this country is the greatest country on earth.”

(3) It will become obvious that persons who are trapped in their false identities and personality/personalities live out their relative existence in a state of ignorance or weariness or denial or stupidity or, very often, in a state of one emergency after another. Seeing that, the relative-existence argument for Realization will become clear. (4) You will start ignoring nonsense when you hear it, recognizing which ego-state is functioning as the ventriloquist behind the dummy. (5) You will stop allowing others to rob you of your independence by allowing their words to control how you feel and by allowing them to use their words to trigger emotional responses from your ego-states/personas. You will have discarded the child within, you will have discarded the “mind,” and you will no longer take any of your former false identities to be real.

(6) Having seen how all of the noise that persons put out is rooted in what is false, you will give no value to their ego-generated talking and will arrange to enjoy the silence instead. (7) You will see why so many persons in the West will be celebrating “freedom of speech” this week, but you will understand why the Realized, to the contrary, will be enjoying the freedom of silence. (8) Arrogance based in religion or race or nationality will disappear, once You Realize Fully.

How prevalent is that nationalistic arrogance in the only nation on earth where leaders habitually boast in national broadcasts that theirs is "the greatest country on the planet?" Quite prevalent. In a session last month where many of the males in a group were stalled at the third step on the “journey” to Realization because they wanted to cling to the ego-state of “The Proud American,” this tact was tried:

It was shown how words can be generated from “The Internalized Parent,” from the level of “The Child,” or from the level of “The Mature Adult.” Then, they were asked to write on a piece of paper whether it was Parent, Child or Adult that was behind each of the following statements: (1) “My daddy is stronger than your daddy”; (2) “My daddy can beat up your daddy”; and (3) “The United States is the greatest country on earth.” Thirty of the men agreed that in the first case it was “The Child” that was speaking. All thirty also agreed that in the second example it was “The Child” that would come up with that comment.

However, when it came to the third example, twenty-six of the thirty in the group said that it was “The Adult” that claimed his country was the greatest. When asked why they would think that, most answered, “Because it’s expressing a fact. It’s the truth.” When they were asked, by show of hands, to indicate how many had ever lived in another country, no hands were raised. When it was asked, by a show of hands, how many had spent any time in another country, visiting and coming to know what that country and its citizens were really like, no hands were raised.

That is the power of programming and conditioning. Educated people, claiming to be seeking truth, were so blinded by years of conditioning and programming that they could not detect an obvious lie. Their arrogance and their assumed ego-state of “The Proud American” would not allow them to see that the childish, persona-based belief expressed in statement #3 was generated by the same childish, persona-based beliefs as expressed in statements #1 and #2. This week, as they appear to be celebrating their belief that their country is the greatest, they will actually be reinforcing their belief that they are the greatest. They will also be reinforcing their dualistic sense of separation and "better than."

The author of The Long Goodbye wrote, “There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.” With all deference to the relative problems that are generated by self, the most deadly trap was not set by you, it was not set by the man in yesterday's example, and it was not set by those people trapped in a nationalistic ego-state.

The trap was set by programmers and conditioners (including parents, relatives, teachers, preachers, priests, ayatollahs, rabbis, politicians, entertainers, friends, partners, panderers in the media, etc.). The pointer here is that you need not wait for those programmers to come and to release you from their trap. They will not. If given the opportunity, they will try to reinforce the hold of their trap. They will try to reinforce the concepts they used during your original programming, if you are willing to listen to their words which are generated by their child within, by their warped “minds,” and by their ego-states.

Consider the influence that programmers can wield over the masses, and then see the influence that they have had over you: by appealing to nationalistic pride, individual arrogance, or religious/spiritual fervor, a handful of leaders can arrange the establishment of “colonies”; can bring about an Inquisition that killed hundreds of thousands; can bring about an American Indian Holocaust that killed millions; can inspire a Jewish Holocaust that eventually cost 55,000,000 lives in a world war; can manipulate populations to endorse the invasion of other countries; can continue to destroy “personal relationships"; can trigger regional conflicts; and can perpetuate the cycle of world wars that mark the relative existence. Please enter the silence of contemplation. (The Conclusion, July 4th)
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