For one minute we can suggest that you have free will. If Charlie offends, don’t read his posts. Of course, there is the Advaita answer, but who cares to give that.

Bob often mentions the Biblically ascribed qualities of God: omniscience, omnipresence, and omnipotence. Couldn’t intelligence-energy be equated with omniscience (the all knowing of God) & omnipotence (the all power which is measured as energy)?

But why be concerned with words or anything else?

Bob, your response regarding the little i in i understand is quite clear, and i have a further query … can you draw a clear distinction for us on the difference between “Knowing” and “Believing”?

How does pure non-dual knowingness differ from the belief that “one has understanding?”

Thanks. love you all madly … i hear great stuff coming out now, from Cameron and Eliot as well

he’s an i doctor

Nisargadatta has suggested that all knowledge is available to the realized. Perhaps this is the bases for many questions which take the form of, “Are there extra-terrestrials and is Cameron one of them?” Clearly a reasonable question, but what does it have to do with eliminating ego suffering and why do us Bobletts expect you to reveal all? Also, does the questioner’s life change when you answer questions unrelated to the lifting of the mind’s “self”-imposed veil? Of course, these are all rhetorical questions. Cameron is most certainly an ET! Simply put, why should the infinite be compelled to answer every question and just why are you holding out on us? I’ll leave it to the questioners to examine how they are managing their self-enquiry. After all, who is it that is doing the managing…ehhh?

There are some teachers who say that there must be an “Event” and until this event occurs there may be a belief in “No me” but the believer is still subtly there. That feels true here … But at the same time there is simply an okayness about whatever is at the moment, much of the time … and that is a wonderful gift.

can you address this?

sitting quietly after listening to the advaita podcast … there is awareness … not a thing just That

and arising from That is an i - ness … entitying into apparent existence as i am then the thought i am but all-at-once-like-now it IS what i seem to be … and then IT says something is rotten in denmark - or california - or HERE

IT says i am bad … essentially a ‘bad person’ … that is what it thinks i am … an entity, separated from all that is … broken. And now bad on top of that. IT feels i don’t belong on this planet in this human race i just do not fit in anywhere … and i cannot count on anything or anyone else … IT thinks I am alone.

No one will take care of me i must do it alone if i want something done i must do it i am so irresponsible i must take responsibility o god i can’t do it i can’t do anything right IT SAYS over and over and over like a tape looping back repeating itself to make a ME

so IT thinks and IT thinks ME into apparent but it ‘feels real’ existence. Here now I Am That IT unless there is NO thought but IT cannot DO no-thought.

Dilemma? Paradox? Who the bleep knows? Not I, not IT …

bleep me i dunno

Warm Regards,
Charlie
http://www.theeternalstate.org

Porky Pigg is also an adviatian ” Blee, blee, blee “Thats” all Folks - That is all

QUESTION: Do you often see Oneness in objects? Does the appearance go back and forth? For example, the other day I was taking a test for work and started seeing the transparency in the paper, ink and words while at the same time trying (or not) to find the answers! That was fun

Great show - the clocks are the best part - ha ha ha

what can one do (or say), and how, when confronted with what clearly is a person or situation that is confrontational and where there is no compromise in sight?

also,
how about, even when the situation is not confrontational but is just simply driven by habitually deluded patterns (even ‘good’ ones) and then appears to set ‘us’ back, so to speak, into a dualistic way of thinking and behaving?
then i find my self at a loss as to what to ‘do’. and my mind either draws a blank or gets frenetic and confused.

Richard,
thanks for the response. even ‘tho you may not have been pointing at any one, i did come to see how my statements could be misconstrued.

which brings me to this point;
what any one means by what they say is uncertain even at best and sometimes not even clear to one’s own self (i.e. - mind).
so words can mostly serve, for my self at least, as ways of ’sharing’. granted all this within the apparent dream!

Charlie,
oh yes!
take me to the candy store!
‘we’ have the seeker dis-ease, but with his ‘Bobness’, ‘Cameron’ and ‘Eliot’, and their lovely guests, it can re-mind the mind of its own fleetingness and in substantiality, and meaninglessness!
but can ‘we’ avoid the seeking at all???
for me here, it’s like shooting a basket; if i think about it, i miss, completely.
but more importantly, i hardly ever say no to chocolate candy.
if we don’t call it seeking, as ‘Bob’ would probably instruct ‘us’, then it is just enjoyment of a really lively, frequently funny, experience.
oh joy! oh rapture! take ‘me’ to the candy store, please!
‘they’ do say laughter is good for the ‘body’s’ health.
as is a wee bit of chocolate.

ttfn,
Luly

p.s. - loved the last show!
Cameron, thanks for your continued efforts to get the technology working.

Giggle-spit evaporates just like concepts….

Love, Vicki

yes but! “it’s only conceptual. its only intellectual. it’s all words. the energy sets us free. where can “i” go “next” to “bask in the energy?”

Hopeless cases like this one pique a sense of angry compassion here … i just want to shout at the top of my quite loud voice Fer christ’s sake go have a brew and get laid!” In fact I said exactly that to someone not long ago.

Enough already. quit seeking. you ARE that. Now shut the freak UP.

Maybe it’s really about “Shut up and die already?”

Please O enlightened master Sri Sri Sri Swami Bobbananda - Ji (jeez-O-flip and jeezzus h christ on a freakin crutch) … Please point out forcefully how it’s all BULLSHIT and there is NO enlightenment to be HAD!

ENOUGH ALREADY.

I love you, Bob. And Cameron and Gilbert and everyone on line … And I know you love me. That is all I give two shits about any more.

The Advaita show is a genuine candystore of mindless treats … keep it going y’all

charlie … aka the madman across the water

PS … Vicki, I am NOT gonna clean up your keyboard.

With love,
R.

variety is not only the spice of life, it is inevitable!
ttfn
Luly

“Advaita! No thanks I’ve already got ONE!”

BTW: Thanks for the site link Cameron.
Have put a few advaita links on the blog.
The Advait Show is placed right after his Bobness!

Non-duality cartoons:
http://advaitatoons.blogspot.com/

love
Bob Seal

Keep up the laughter therapy, boyz and gullz. I have giggle spit on my keyboard.

Much love,
Vicki Woodyard
http://www.bobwoodyard.com

can you be more specific about Laya’ s organic experiences please.

Dr. Lud’o Sobotka

the belief in a separate self and it’s life story appears real as does the suffering,
and even if it’s not really happening , it’s a bummer of a “not really happening”
why does the illusion seem to win out and prevail so ?

thanks
Gareth

Mike from San Francisco

Bob, In his post James Braha invited you to revisit him. Is it possible you might return to the U.S.A.?

Also Bob: What is the highest teaching please?

Non-duality is unity. Criticizing Gilbert or anyone seems divisive and incongruent with oneness. Like the old t.v. show “Barney Miller” where 2 men were arrested for having a fistfight over which one’s meditation technique was better.

Best wishes,
R.

Glad to know I’m not a robot afterall! Thanks for that!

I wonder if I could request something of you laughing gurus….Please keep using those metaphors to bring home the teachings! I love the Advaita lingo bingo but it doesn’t help me understand the lessons quite as effectively as your metaphors do. You know, the “phone booth” example, the “holding you breath” example. Those were great.

Thanks for the laughs.

But yes you’re right. For those who want to read this and more stories about Bodhidharma, I just found this site:
http://www.kwanumzen.com/primarypoint/v05n2-1988-spring-dssn-kongansmindtomindconnection.html

Bodhidharma did not tell his student to chop off his arm , ding dong!
His so called student offered his arm to Bodhidharma to show how much love for the truth he had. He was willing to give an arm or a leg, ar ar.

Love the “four more years!” in the Nixon voice.

The holding your breath routine did seem as though you guys were smokin a joint, haha!

cheers
Brian

Cam, where did you get the idea that ‘chicks’ aren’t ‘into’ Advaita?
Laya, like Amei, was terrific and clear as a bell.

something Eliot said in this last show, about “a carrot that’s been foisted on us” is really key!
the carrot is our distraction or apparent addiction to thought and activity.
it seems that when we feel there is no entertaining activity, whether in the form of our ’senses’ or in the form of thought, the apparent ‘I’ gets bored.
so ‘I’ seeks to ‘fill’ in the ’space’ with some ‘thing’, in any form.

also the notion of “robot” is really much like what the ‘I’ of identification is, a computer with programming downloaded, moving along automatically.
undeniably, being simply is, without definitions and parameters.

and yet, within This Being, all apparent experience is, Being includes Everythang!

so … Freedom is all there is …
and although it is true that there is no independent ‘I’ or “you”, the Advaita show goes on and questions go on, and apparent realization goes on, etc.
therefore, it seems that This Realization, which the advaita show is addressing, can seem to be ‘arrived at’ by verbal explanations. sometimes amusingly so!

and so here is an aside to Gilbert,
Lighten Up!
laughter can loosen the egoic grip on identity.
apparent variety is. why question it or fight it?

Advaita is not about self-improvement, or being serious, or any other concept ‘you’, ‘I’, or anyone, may have. some times serious appears, some times not!
c’est la vie!!!
and, vive la différence!

Luly

a few questions:1) what does one do with boredom???

2)in “THE ILLUSION” what role do the other galaxies and millions of stars play. Sure seems a waste of manifestation. why is that part of the illusion there???

3)Wei wu wei says “It is the dreamer of each dream that must awaken, the dreamer of the identified dream,whose dream figures disappear. He is the identified dreamer, not the impersonal dreamer of the total cosmos.”
this is like the ‘concept’ of soul/supersoul; atma/paramatma; nisargadatta’s
I-am-ness vs THAT. We see this concept of the ultimate reality bottled into an individual body-mind being. Is this the ‘part’ of the ‘whole’ that is conscious and identified with this world. my question is does a part of this impersonal that exist in each dreamed being as a ’soul’? does one need to identify with this before discovering the ultimate, i.e is it a pre-requisite or a diving board to reach “THAT”?

THANKS

RAVI