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The next show will be recorded on the FIRST MONDAY of January at 9am AUSTRALIAN EASTERN TIME. That works out like this:

Australian Eastern: Monday 9am
California: Sunday 2pm
New York: Sunday 5pm
London: Sunday 10pm

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I’m suggesting we record on the FIRST MONDAY of each month at 9am AUSTRALIAN EASTERN TIME. That works out like this:

Australian Eastern: Monday 9am
California: Sunday 2pm
New York: Sunday 5pm
London: Sunday 10pm

How does that sound?

Anyway…. here’s ya go.

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If you’re in Second Life, you can find it here: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Liddy/91/148/21

This will be a place where we, TPN hosts and audience, can catch up to solve the world’s problems and extend the conversation that starts in the podcasts and blogs into another dimension.

I tell ya, grabbing some land and putting up a building in SL is very exciting. I’m buzzing!!

Bob first gave me a copy of this 20 years ago and I still find it to be the clearest writing on “this” that I’ve ever read. As far as I’m concerned, once you’ve heard the Xin Xin Ming, there is nothing left to ask, do or say.

According to Wikipedia:

Xinxin Ming (Xin Xin Ming) (信心銘) (Wade-Giles: Hsin Hsin Ming; Japanese: Shinjinmei (or Shinjin no Mei)) a verse attributed to the Third Chinese Chan (Zen) Patriarch Jianzhi Sengcan 僧璨(?-606) (Wade-Giles: Chien-chih Seng-ts’an; Japanese: Kanchi Sosan), is one of the earliest Chinese Chan expressions of the Buddhist mind training practice. While it has been interpreted as “faith in mind” as opposed to the more common Buddhist faiths present at the time—faith in the Buddha, in the Dharma and in the Sangha, another interpretation suggested by Ho(see below) takes Xinxin (信心) to mean the truthful mind. Still other translations include: Inscription on Trust in the Mind, Verses on the Faith Mind, and On Believing in Mind, as well as others. John McRae (1986:316 n. 64) argues that the title should be translated as “Inscription on Relying on the Mind” or “Inscription of the Perfected Mind”.

The version I’m reading is translated from the Chinese by Richard B. Clarke.

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The Great Way is not difficult

for those who have no preferences.

When love and hate are both absent

everything becomes clear and undisguised.

Make the smallest distinction, however,

and heaven and earth are set infinitely apart.

If you wish to see the truth

then hold no opinions for or against anything.

To set up what you like against what you dislike

is the disease of the mind.

When the deep meaning of things is not understood,

the mind’s essential peace is disturbed to no avail.

The Way is perfect like vast space

where nothing is lacking and nothing is in excess.

Indeed, it is due to our choosing to accept or reject

that we do not see the true nature of things.

Live neither in the entanglements of outer things,

nor in inner feelings of emptiness.

Be serene in the oneness of things and such

erroneous views will disappear by themselves.

When you try to stop activity by passivity

your very effort fills you with activity.

As long as you remain in one extreme or the other

you will never know Oneness.

Those who do not live in the single Way

fail in both activity and passivity,

assertion and denial.

To deny the reality of things

is to miss their reality;

To assert the emptiness of things

is to miss their reality.

The more you talk and think about it,

the further astray you wander from the truth.

Stop talking and thinking,

and there is nothing you will not be able to know.

To return to the root is to find meaning,

but to pursue appearances is to miss the source. icon

At the moment of inner enlightenment

there is a going beyond appearance and emptiness.

The changes that appear to occur in the empty world

we call real only because of our ignorance.

Do not search for the truth;

only cease to cherish opinions.

Do not remain in the dualistic state.

Avoid such pursuits carefully.

If there is even a trace of this and that,

of right and wrong,

the mind-essence will be lost in confusion.

Although all dualities come from the One,

do not be attached even to this One.

When the mind exists undisturbed in the Way,

nothing in the world can offend.

And when a thing can no longer offend,

it ceases to exist in the old way.

When no discriminating thoughts arise,

the old mind ceases to exist.

When thought objects vanish,

the thinking-subject vanishes:

As when the mind vanishes, objects vanish.

Things are objects because of the subject (mind):

the mind (subject) is such because of things (object).

Understand the relativity of these two

and the basic reality: the unity of emptiness.

In this Emptiness the two are indistinguishable

and each contains in itself the whole world.

If you do not discriminate between coarse and fine

you will not be tempted to prejudice and opinion.

To live in the Great Way is neither easy nor difficult.

But those with limited views are fearful and irresolute:

the faster they hurry, the slower they go.

And clinging (attachment) cannot be limited:

Even to be attached to the idea of enlightenment

is to go astray.

Just let things be in their own way

and there will be neither coming nor going.

Obey the nature of things (your own nature)

and you will walk freely and undisturbed.

When the thought is in bondage the truth is hidden

for everything is murky and unclear.

And the burdensome practice of judging

brings annoyance and weariness.

What benefit can be derived

from distinctions and separations?

If you wish to move in the One Way

do not dislike even the world of senses and ideas.

Indeed, to accept them fully

is identical with enlightenment.

The wise man strives to no goals

but the foolish man fetters himself.

There is one Dharma, not many.

Distinctions arise

from the clinging needs of the ignorant.

To seek Mind with the (discriminating) mind

is the greatest of all mistakes.

Rest and unrest derive from illusion;

with enlightenment

there is no liking and disliking.

All dualities come from ignorant inference.

They are like dreams or flowers in air -

foolish to try to grasp them.

Gain and loss, right and wrong,

such thoughts must

finally be abolished at once.

If the eye never sleeps,

all dreams will naturally cease.

If the mind makes no discriminations,

the ten thousand things are as they are,

of single essence.

To understand the mystery of this One-essence

is to be released from all entanglements.

When all things are seen equally

the timeless Self-essence is reached,

No comparisons or analogies are possible

in this causeless, relationless state.

Consider movement stationary

and the stationary in motion,

both movement and rest disappear.

When such dualities cease to exist

Oneness itself cannot exist.

To this ultimate finality

no law or description applies.

For the unified mind in accord with the way

all self-centered striving ceases.

Doubts and irresolutions vanish

and life in true faith is possible.

With a single stroke we are freed from bondage:

Nothing clings to us and we hold to nothing.

All is empty, clear, self-illuminating,

with no exertion of the mind’s power.

Here thought, feeling,

knowledge and imagination are of no value.

In this world of suchness

there is neither self nor other-than-self.

To come directly into harmony with this reality

just say when doubt rises “not two”.

In this “not two” nothing is separate,

nothing is excluded.

No matter when or where,

enlightenment means entering this truth.

And this truth is beyond extension

or diminution in time and space:

In it a single thought is ten thousand years.

Emptiness here, emptiness there,

but the infinite universe

stands always before your eyes.

Infinitely large and infinitely small;

no difference, for definitions have vanished

and no boundaries are seen.

So too with Being and non-Being.

Don’t waste time in doubts and arguments

That have nothing to do with this.

One thing, all things,

move among and intermingle without distinction.

To live in this realization

is to be without anxiety about non-perfection.

To live in this faith is the road to non-duality,

because the non-dual is one with the trusting mind.

Words!

The Way is beyond language,

for in it there is

no yesterday

no tomorrow

no today.

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The folks at Advaita.org have even set up a place for advaitans to hang out. Here’s the location:

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Nirgendwo/186/204/27

My name in SL is “Cameron Switchblade”. Come check it out, add me to your friends list, let’s hang out.

Don’t forget you can appease your advaita withdrawals by going to Bob’s website and buying his CDs and books.

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So sayeth James Brown in this clip which you should watch BEFORE you listen to this episode of the show because otherwise it won’t make much sense at all….

We don’t have any “Bob smack” for you yet, so you’ll have to put up with Steve and I rabbiting on about James Brown, Leonard Cohen, the Hsin Hsin Ming, and why Cameron thinks Advaitans are the most boring people on the planet.

Here’s the James Brown BMW commercial I talk about:

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Thinker, philosopher UG Krishnamurti dead.

Sunday, March 25, 2007

BANGALORE: Thinker and philosopher UG Krishnamurti has died at Vallecrossia in Italy aged 89.

Krishnamurti, lovingly called UG by his friends and admirers, had slipped and injured himself seven weeks ago and was bedridden, his friends said.

UG’s longtime friends filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt, Larry and Susan Morris and a few other friends were by his side when he died two days ago.

Krishnamurti, who had moved to Italy in January, suffered from “cardio spasm” for many years which became quite severe in the last days of his life.

As per his advice, no rituals or funeral rites were conducted, and he did not leave instructions on how to dispose of his body, his friend and admirer AP Frank Noronha said.

The cremation was carried out by Mahesh Bhatt on Friday.

UG is survived by two daughters and a son.

You can read more about UG on Wikipedia. I love these stories:

From 1947 to 1953, U.G. regularly attended talks given by Jiddu Krishnamurti in Madras, finally beginning a direct dialogue with J. Krishnamurti in 1953. U.G. describes one of their meetings as follows:

“We really didn’t get along well. Whenever we met we locked horns over some issue or other. For instance, I never shared his concern for the world, or his belief that his teaching would profoundly affect the thoughts and actions of mankind for the next five hundred years–a fantasy of the Theosophist occultists. In one of our meetings I told Krishnamurti, ‘I am not called upon to save the world.’ He asked, ‘The house is on fire–what will you do?’ ‘Pour more gasoline on it and maybe something will rise from the ashes,’ I remarked. Krishnamurti said, ‘You are absolutely impossible.’ Then I said, ‘You are still a Theosophist. You have never freed yourself from the World Teacher role. There is a story in the Avadhuta Gita which talks of the avadhut who stopped at a wayside inn and was asked by the innkeeper, “What is your teaching?” He replied, “There is no teacher, no teaching and no one taught.” And then he walked away. You too repeat these phrases and yet you are so concerned with preserving your teaching for posterity in its pristine purity.’”

— (Krishnamurti, U.G.; Arms, Rodney, Ed. [Third Edition, 2001]. Mystique of Enlightenment. Part One. from [2])

Their dialogues continued, but finally came to a halt. U.G. describes the final discussion as follows:

“Again I asked him if there was anything behind the abstractions he was throwing at me, ‘Come clean for once.’ Then he said with great force, ‘You have no way of knowing it!’ Then I said, ‘If I have no way of knowing it and you have no way of communicating it, what the hell have we been doing! I have wasted seven years listening to you. You can give your precious time to somebody else. I am leaving for New York tomorrow.’”

— (Krishnamurti, U.G.; Arms, Rodney, Ed. [Third Edition, 2001]. Mystique of Enlightenment. Part One. from [3])

After the break with J .Krishnamurti, U.G. went to the United States seeking medical treatment for his son, and stayed there for 5 years.

Which reminds me… Bob doesn’t have a profile on Wikipedia. How about we submit one?

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“What Did It”

An acquaintance told me
that the great sage
Nisargadatta Maharaj
once offered him a cigarette,
“Thank you, sir, but I don’t smoke.”
“Don’t smoke?” said the master,
“What’s life for?”

If you are a fan of Cohen’s songs or poetry, I highly recommend the book. Many of the poems in this collection were written during his ten year retreat at the Zen Center on Mount Baldy. They focus mostly on zen studies and erotic relationships, two subjects which always go together in my mind.

“Screw enlightenment, brother Cameron - will this advaita schtick get a Qantas stewardess grabbing me by the back of my head and screaming my name over and over in an aircraft lavatory at 35,000 feet?” (and if you don’t know what I’m talking about, read this.)

Well Steve and I try to answer that question today. For Mark’s benefit. We also tackle Bob’s smack, “The Secret”, our new book “Advaita For Dummies” and James Brown’s corpse. Strap yourselves in.

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This is an experiment I guess. It’s pretty long - 91 minutes. And the fidelity isn’t great. But it’s Bob in his natural habitat. Let me know if you’d like to hear more shows like this.

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If you don’t know who he is, here’s a few links for you.

Douglas Harding’s biography

Links to his books.

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Mark Hallett, a researcher with the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, said, “Free will does exist, but it’s a perception, not a power or a driving force. People experience free will. They have the sense they are free.

“The more you scrutinize it, the more you realize you don’t have it,” he said.

That is hardly a new thought. The German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer said, as Einstein paraphrased it, that “a human can very well do what he wants, but cannot will what he wants.”

From a NYT article entitled “Free Will: Now You Have It, Now You Don’t” which I came across via Scott Adams’ blog.

St John Of The Cross

Emmet Fox

Thomas Merton - link

Scott Adams of The Dilbert Blog and his post on free will
The Economist’s recent article on Free Will

John Dobson’s article on Science and Advaita

I’ll apologize in advance for the poor sound quality on this show. I think I moved away from the microphone a couple of times to read stuff on the screen and it caused problems. Well I WOULD apologize, except I don’t have free will so… nothing I could do about it I guess. :-)

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Want to come on the show? Now you can. Here’s how it’s going to work.

Step 1. I will post up the future schedule (a few weeks in advance) to a Google Calendar. You can view it here.

Step 2. If you want to come on any particular episode, look to the associated post up on the Advaita Forum. A link to the forum will be in each calendar entry so it should be pretty straightforward.

Step 3. Reply to the forum post for the episode you want to join, with your name, Skype ID and the topic you’d like to discuss.

Step 4. When it comes time to record the show, we’ll hook you in via Skype!

Hopefully that isn’t too hard to follow. Hit me up here with any questions.

Well it’s been six weeks, but Steve and Cam are back to talk about nothing, this time over Skype. I’d love to tell ya that there are some real gems of wisdom in this podcast, but I’d be lyin’. It’s just the appearance of two guys talking.

For the next show, if you want to ask some questions, we’d be happy to not answer them for you. As you know, we don’t claim to know anything. Except that “truthiness” is the best idea ever and that Spinoza was probably right.

Step 1. I will post up the future schedule (a few weeks in advance) to a Google Calendar. You can view it here.

Step 2. If you want to come on any particular episode, look to the associated post up on the Advaita Forum. A link to the forum will be in each calendar entry so it should be pretty straightforward.

Step 3. Reply to the forum post for the episode you want to join, with your name, Skype ID and the topic you’d like to discuss.

Step 4. When it comes time to record the show, we’ll hook you in via Skype!

Hopefully that isn’t too hard to follow. Hit me up here with any questions.

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We’re back! Well kinda sorta. I’m hanging out in Carmel, California with my peep Steve Witt (who was on the show back in January) and he WON’T SHUT UP ABOUT ADVAITA so I thought I might as well turn the microphone on and record some of it. We’ve been laughing so hard about the whole thing it’s been a lot of fun. So there is no Bob on this show, no Eliot, nobody who is enlightened, nobody who has “the understanding”, nobody at all in fact. Just a couple of dudes, sitting drinking tequila, having a laugh.

I’m going to be in San Fran for the next few weeks. Any of you in that general area who want to catch up for a coffee let me know! You can reach me on my email or my US cell 310 9900666. I also need a sofa to sleep on! :-)

Cam

Anyway… I hope you enjoy the show.

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Well it was fun while it lasted but I think the general consensus today was that this show has run dry. There’s nothing left to say. No questions left to ask. No new answers left to give you. Nothing new to say that Bob hasn’t said ad infinitum over the last 27 shows. So thanks for tuning in over the last 6 months and for playing The Advaita Game ™.

Let me summarize what we have learned from his Bobness…
Find out who is asking the question and the questions will disappear.

You are already that which you seek.

Thank you and goodnight.

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Short and to the point today. Bob was on a caffeine high, came out of the gates swinging, and I wanted to preserve the moment, so I pulled the plug early on. I think this is the best show we’ve done and suggest you listen to it over and over.

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