Where does the need to create this illusion come from? - Francis Answers - 29
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
What is the mind? - Francis Answers - 37
What feels the sense " I AM" if there is no me? - Francis Answers - 39
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
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
I cannot grasp the concept that the mind is contained within me - Francis Answers - 54
How can thinking approach Truth? - Francis Answers - 55
Can we change the waking dream? - Francis Answers - 57
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
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
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 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
Follow up to answer 81 - Francis Answers - 82
Follow up to answer 77 - Francis Answers - 83
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
The Next Thought is God’s Thought - Guided Meditation -4
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
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
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
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
Follow up on Q. 131 - Francis Answers - 132
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
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
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
What do I do when I am not motivated to seek Truth? - Francis Answers - 159
Follow up on Q. 159 - Francis Answers - 160
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
A follow up on Q. 165 - Francis Answers - 166
Death and liberation - Francis Answers - 167
Follow up on Q.167 - Francis Answers - 168
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 - 192 - What is a glimpse of Truth?
Francis Answers - 195 - I cannot find a real I
Francis Answers - 196 - How to practice self-inquiry.
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 - 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?
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 - 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 - 225 - Where do thoughts originate?
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 - 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 - 242 - Do you think that experience was awareness during dreaming-deep sleep?
Francis Answers - 244 - On Love, relationships, and jealousy
Francis Answers - 245 - On knowing God
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