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Francis Lucille

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Where does the need to create this illusion come from? - Francis Answers - 29

Only the absolute understanding of what we are allows for relaxing to take place. Francis Answers - 30

How is it possible to experience consciousness without objects? - Francis Answers -23

How to change others - Francis Answers -33

Why does awareness cease during sleep? - Francis Answers - 34

You said in your Advaita Channel answer no. 19 “Maya is the power of the Self that creates the world and the individual minds.” How do we know that? - Francis Answers - 36

What is the mind? - Francis Answers - 37

What feels the sense " I AM" if there is no me? - Francis Answers - 39

Why am I not aware of sensations/thoughts in other body minds if there is only one awareness? - Francis Answers -40

Does the mind create? - Francis Answers - 42

There is nothing you can do to awaken so just go to the movies or something - Francis Answers - 43

Do you address this issue of working “on” the gross body in parallel with the understanding in the intellect? - Francis Answers - 44

I have been having the experience of being separate from my thoughts during meditation - Francis Answers - 45

Is enlightenment always brutal and full of fear? - Francis Answers - 46

What can be done? - Francis Answers - 47

We are that which is its own cause - Francis Answers - 49

One Truth, many ways - Francis Answers - 50

Let’s face it: we have to face our fear - Francis Answers - 51

Is Consciousness conscious of itself prior to the birth of the body and after its death? - Francis Answers - 53

I cannot grasp the concept that the mind is contained within me - Francis Answers - 54

How can thinking approach Truth? - Francis Answers - 55

The “I AM” that is felt so easily and effortlessly, is that what the seeker is looking for? - Francis Answers - 56

Can we change the waking dream? - Francis Answers - 57

Does the universal consciousness bear any of the marks that we think of as the illusory, egoic self? - Francis Answers - 58

Is the mind an obstacle to liberation? - Francis Answers - 59

Is there awareness in the absence of perceptions? - Francis Answers - 60

How do we get the superimposition of the personal perceiver to cease? - Francis Answers - 61

Seeing seeing seeing. Guided meditation-1

My basic experience of life seems to differ from that implicit in the typical nondual understanding of things - Francis Answers - 62

How do we get the superimposition of the personal perceiver to cease? - Francis Answers - 63

While paying a visit to the King, don’t cut corners. Travel first class! - Francis Answers - 64

The open secret - Francis Answers - 65

I have been doing self-inquiry but I am not free - Francis Answers - 66

Why do we have negative thoughts about others? - Francis Answers - 68

How do I get through the times in my day when I have to deal with insensitive & completely ignorant people? - Francis Answers - 69

If I am aware of consciousness, doesn’t that make it an object? - Francis Answers - 71

Spiritual Commuters - Guided Meditation - 2

Is thinking an obstacle to Self realization? - Francis Comments - 1

Now my life is the song I sing. Title: Alleluia. - Francis Answers - 72

We cannot speak the truth without living the truth. - Francis Answers - 73

Why are we not aware of other’s thoughts, feelings, etc. or can see “the world” from a different perspective? - Francis Answers - 74

“Why is there ignorance?” - Francis Answers - 75

Is there something going on apart from awareness? - Francis Answers - 76

Losing my head, finding my heart - Francis Answers - 77

Has the goal been reached? - Francis Answers - 78

You are the sweetness in all things - Guided meditation - 3

Never forget the goal - Francis Answers - 79

If a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it, does it make a sound? - Francis Answers - 81

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I would very much like to experience more joy and aliveness while inhabiting this body - Francis Answers - 84

Should we focus on an unpleasant feeling or on that which experiences it? Francis Answers - 85

What is the right practice? - Francis Answers - 86

Why are minds personal and different from each other? - Francis Answers - 87

God in the quad - Francis Answers - 88

Advaita and reincarnation - Francis Answers - 90

Could one possibly inspire his fellow man to share the same vision of Oness? - Francis Answers - 91

Question on a “shift” in perception - Francis Answers -92

On dissatisfaction - Francis Answers - 93

What are your views about the year 2012 & catastrophic events to happen for planet earth? - Francis Answers - 94

Spiritual teachers are not jealous wives or husbands - or at least they shouldn’t be. - Francis Answers - 95

The Next Thought is God’s Thought - Guided Meditation -4

Francis Lucille on Jean Klein

It seemed like every answer that you were giving to others questions were speaking directly to what I was experiencing - Francis Answers - 96

What is your core teaching? - Francis Answers - 97

Parmenides - On Reality (fragments of a poem)

Is awakening possible while taking medication? - Francis Answers - 98

The Bridge Between Time and Eternity - Guided Meditation - 5

God’s Giggle - Francis Answers - 99

A paradox evaporates - Francis Answers - 100

Spiritual sandpaper - Francis Answers - 101

Something has forever existed - Francis Answers - 102

Simultaneity and awareness - Francis Answers - 103

The unalloyed ease of being - Francis Answers - 104

Can seeking be dangerous, can it come close to madness? - Francis Answers -105

A couple of nights ago, I woke up in a panic - Francis Answers - 106

Are other people real? - Francis Answers - 107

Awareness is temporary - Francis Answers - 108

When I’m looking for God I’m deader than I am if I WANT something. Francis Answers -109

What happens to appearence when the perceiver falls back into itself as the unmanifest? - Francis Answers - 110

Is the empirical world made of mind or of matter? - Francis Answers - 111

God is back, in a sense - Francis Answers - 112

How do I get what you have got? - Francis Answers - 113

If we are consciousness and the rest is illusion, what is the point of continuing on in body? - Francis Answers - 114

Is the ego, as far as you are concerned, a totally empty concept? - Francis Answers - 116

On thought control - Francis Answers - 118

Is the tendency for human society to be idea imperialistic justified? - Francis Answers - 119

Can you reveal the way to go deeper? - Francis Answers - 120

Through the self-realization process, does the conditioned mind eventually cease to manifest? - Francis Answers -121

A follow up on Question 111 - Francis Answers - 122

More remarks on Question 116 - Francis stands corrected - 124

Is there something beyond, or prior to, Consciousness? - Francis Answers - 125

Hello, Francis. I am stuck - Francis Answers - 126

Two a priori statements - Francis answers - 127

More remarks on Question 116 - Francis asks a question - 128

How can we be more present to Life? - Francis Answers - 129

Do you know something about the Universe? - Francis Answers - 130

What made you to preach this ancient vedic Advaita? - Francis Answers - 131

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There is lack of trust - Francis Answers - 133

Passivity and non-duality - Francis Answers - 135

Are Atman and Brahman the same? - Francis Answers - 136

A question on no-Self, Bernadette Roberts, Advaita, Buddhism - Francis Answers - 138

On food addiction - Francis Answers - 139

How does one slip past dualism, at last? - Francis Answers - 140

Isn´t the “I Am”, even when it´s not identified with any object, subtle or gross, physical or mental, the last trick to overcome? - Francis Answers - 141

What happens when we die? - Francis Answers - 142

Is ignorance of our true nature a personal choice? - Francis Answers - 143

When I’m looking to find myself I can’t find anything. - Francis Answers - 144

What is true earnestness? - Francis Answers - 145

A question on spiritual escape - Francis Answers - 146

All there is is consciousness - Francis Answers - 147

On Love and Death - Francis Answers - 148

All things in the universe are expressions of Brahman, including consciousness - Francis Answers - 149

Does the individual have any choice about enlightenment? - Francis Answers - 150

What is this receptacle inside which everything happens? -Francis Answers - 151

Is there a limit to the patience and forbearance of a spiritual teacher? - Francis Answers - 152

Do objects have an independent existence of their own? - Francis Answers - 153

Do we really have no control over anything? - Francis Answers - 154

What defines spontaneous action? - Francis Answers - 155

Holding on to the sense of I AM - Francis Answers - 156

Two kinds of seeking - Francis Answers -157

Do I have any choice but to live in a way that is unhealty for my body and mind? - Francis Answers - 158

What do I do when I am not motivated to seek Truth? - Francis Answers - 159

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Is intellectual knowledge necessary to experience our true nature? - Francis Answers - 161

Does one retain a personality after enlightenment? - Francis Answers - 162

In what way can one go beyond the empty state? - Francis Answers - 163

Is it true that there is no one to whom anger occurs? - Francis Answers - 164

What is the difference between a corpse and a living person? - Francis Answers - 165

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Death and liberation - Francis Answers - 167

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What is the role played by beauty in relation to love, transcendence, God? - Francis Answers - 168

Is mentation the product of ignorance? - Francis Answers - 169

If consciousness is non-dual, why the game of make-believe? - Francis Answers - 170

What makes one qualified/ready to guide others on the Direct Path? - Francis Answers - 169

What is the difference between the waking state and the dream state?- Francis Answers - 171

Do we owe something to our parents? - Francis Answers - 172

How will I ever know what is the right path? - Francis Answers - 173

A follow up on Video Answer 33 on Vegetarianism

Guided meditation - The Silence of the Heart -Ottawa, 2000

On Politics - Francis Answers - 176

Is it enlightenment? - Francis Answers - 177

Reply to a comment on Video Answer 66

How does “being it” fully flower into the experience of Ultimate Reality? - Francis Answers - 179

Follow up on Q.179 - Francis Answers - 180

Francis Answers - 181 - On the dark night of the soul

Francis Answers - 182 - How can w be sure not to fall again into ignorance?

Francis Answers - 183 - Can we see the impersonal via reasonableness?

On the various stages of realization - Francis Answers - 184

Francis Answers - 185 - How to practice self-inquiry/self-abidance?

Francis Answers - 186 - On predestination

Francis Answers - 187 - Is there evidence of a limited consciousness?

Francis Answers - 188 - What is the next step to being your student?

Francis Answers - 190 - Inquiry and “Primary I”

Francis Answers - 191 - Should one give up all desire except the desire for liberation and strive for it?

Francis Answers - 192 - What is a glimpse of Truth?

Francis Answers - 193 - Should I mind my own business or keep trying changing the views of narrow minded people?

Francis Answers - 195 - I cannot find a real I

Francis Answers - 196 - How to practice self-inquiry.

Francis Answers - 197 - What has to happen for the knowing-presence that I am to recognize itself as everything?

Francis Answers - 198 - What is God to the non-dualist?

Francis Answers - 199 - On free will

Francis Answers - 200 - What is the best practice?

Francis Answers - 201 - If consciousness is universal, how is it that my emotions and thoughts are personal to me, and yours to you?

Francis Answers - 202 - If there is only Oneness, and separateness is illusory, how can the illusion of separation exist within the Oneness?

Francis Answers - 203 - Is a guru necessary?

Francis Answers - 204 - I would like to receive a new name from my guru.?

Francis Answers - 205 - Should I identify with awareness?

Francis Answers - 206 - On focusing on the Heart

Francis Answers - 207 - Can a jnani fall back into ignorance?

Francis Answers - 208 - When you see A hurting B, what are you going to do?

Francis Answers - 209 - About the sense object, the arts, and the search for truth

Francis Answers - 210 - I have screwed up my grades. What should I do?

A poem by Thayumanavar

Francis Answers - 211 - The Direct Path doesn’t work for me

Francis Answers - 212 - Follow up on answer 211 (The Direct Path doesn’t work for me)

Francis Answers - 213 - Why did the fly come back?

Francis Answers - 214 - Does psychological suffering completely disappear with self realization?

Francis Answers - 215 - On heaven and hell

Francis Answers - 216 - On the blank state

Francis Answers - 217 - On the blank state, again

Francis Answers - 218 - How do you work with a student who does not live near to you?

Francis Answers - 219 - What is impersonal desire?

Francis Answers - 220 - On the causal body

Francis Answers - 221 - I was a pupil many years ago of John Levy, we did no Yoga or meditation but worked in a group, have you anything like this?

Francis Answers - 222 - How can one even know that one is in the absolute state?

Francis Answers - 223 - What is the difference between you and me?

Francis Answers - 224 - When you die if you are not aware of the Greater Self, what then does your consciousness experience?

Francis Answers - 225 - Where do thoughts originate?

Francis Answers - 226 - Is consciousness different than our ego or do we die to a greater consciousness?

Francis Answers - 227 - Follow up on Q. 222

Francis Answers - 228 - what am I to do Francis?

Francis Answers - 229 - Could you help me understand consciousness?

Francis Answers - 231- I am afraid of loosing my normal functioning abilities.

Francis Answers - 232- IWhy did you choose the Advaitic approach?

Francis Answers - 233- How does consciousness perceive itself?

Francis Answers - 234 - Is a sage awake during deep sleep?

Francis Answers - 235 - IsWould it be possible for one to be a sage, yet to act in ways that violate notions of justice and moral conduct?

Francis Answers - 236 - I want some advice about living practically.

Francis Answers - 237 - Who is talking? Who is hearing?

Francis Answers - 238 - On doubts and beliefs

Francis Answers - 239 - On God

Francis Answers - 240 - Is this body real?

Francis Answers - 241 - Is it your experience that awareness can only ever perceive one object at a time?

Francis Answers - 242 - Do you think that experience was awareness during dreaming-deep sleep?

Francis Answers - 243 - What is the difference between a dis-quite mind and a mind free to indulge in every thought that arises?

Francis Answers - 244 - On Love, relationships, and jealousy

Francis Answers - 245 - On knowing God

Guided Meditation - Ottawa, April 30, 2003

Francis answers - 246 - Where is Consciousness when the body-mind is asleep and not dreaming, and where is Consciousness with regard to the human corpse?

Francis Answers - 247 - Could you explain how it is possible to be established in the Self and at the same time live and act in this everyday world without an ego

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Francis answers - 249 - How do we know it was not an event in my brain that stopped the sense of being a separate entity?

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