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In issue #3746, Gloria
included an article by Francis Lucille, however
YahooGroups deleted it for some reason. I'm not sure what article
Gloria had intended to post (we editors work very
independently!), but in this issue I'm including one that
was just posted to Chris Hebard's outstanding
site, http://stillnessspeaks.com.
Francis Lucille
was teaching way before the online nonduality scene, which has
ushered in a people's nonduality. He was a strong influence on
Rupert Spira and Greg Goode. At the link below you'll
find another link to an entire chapter from Francis's book Eternity
Now, a classic that has been overshadowed by newer books
emerging over the last ten years.
http://www.stillnessspeaks.com/ssblog/francis_lucille_eternity_now/
Francis Lucille:
Welcoming the Totality
Now, enjoy this
meditation on "Welcoming the Totality"
Welcome the totality of
it, the sensations in your body, the sound of my voice and the
birds, your thoughts. All of that is at a zero distance from you.
All of that is in you.
Even if you create the
thought that there is someone who is separate from that as the
observer or the perceiver, this thought itself is one more
appearance from which you are not separate.
Recognize the immediacy
of all appearances as a fact. The separation comes after the
fact, as an interpretation of the fact. Separation can exist only
between two perceived objects, between a chair and a table, for
instance. But how can we talk about separation between something
that we perceive and something that we don’t perceive?
Between something that is perceived and that which perceives? In
order to see, to establish such a separation, we should be able
to perceive the perceiver, to see it as separate from the
perceived. And that is not possible.
Ask yourself, “In my
experience, do I stand separate from that which I perceive?”
Your experience is the only point of reference in deciding this
question. We are not talking about philosophy here but about
perception, how we perceive the body and the world, our life
itself. It may sound theoretical but it isn’t. It is only
practical. Practicality demands that we eliminate anything that
has no purpose, no meaning and which is a waste of energy. Any
activity, thought or feeling based upon the illusion of
separation is such an unnecessary burden. And that is especially
true of the way we perceive the body and of the way we perceive
the world.
We can perceive the body
and the world free from any psychological interference, free from
the superimposition of a ‘me,’ from fear and desire,
from like and dislike. See just the facts, the facts of the
world, of the body, of the mind as they arise.
See also the tendency of
fixation of the attention either in some form of thought running
in circles or some form of bodily sensation, a localization of
the body. The mind always wants to have something, some object to
chew on. The restlessness of the mind has to be completely seen.
That which triggers this
activism is often a sense of lack, a compulsion. We have to
welcome it completely at the feeling level. The way to welcome it
is to give it the space and the time it needs to unload its
psychological content. We can meet those fixations in the body
with total indifference. The last thing we want to do is to try
to eliminate them, to work on them, to interfere with them.
The peace of our true
being doesn’t get revealed by the elimination of objects,
but rather through our overlooking of the objects, through this
dispassionate welcoming. The object being contemplated with this
indifference liberates the awareness, makes it available to
itself.
That which is perceived
is part of the mind and we don’t share it with others. That
which we share is not perceived. It is the perfume.
It is the perfume of the
seer knowing itself, of seeing knowing seeing, of seeing seeing
seeing. When we are among truth lovers and when seeing seeing
seeing----in other words, seeing that sees itself----takes place,
we all feel pulled inside by this seeing in which there is
nothing to be seen.
It is very mysterious how
this silence propagates. It comes from the inside.
http://www.stillnessspeaks.com/ssblog/francis_lucille_eternity_now/