August 2005

Wayne Liquorman will be giving Advaita Talks in Boulder, Colorado and Sedona, Arizona in the coming weeks. (Details below)

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MESSAGE FROM WAYNE

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Hello my loves,

I am often asked, "Does everything happen as part of the functioning of Totality or is effort required by the spiritual aspirant?"

Effort by the spiritual aspirant may well be required as part of the functioning of Totality!

As always we must look deeply into the source of the effort. Does the spiritual aspirant have the capacity to author the effort? Or is the spiritual aspirant's actions and ultimately the spiritual aspirant himself part of a larger functioning?

These are the essential questions raised by this Advaita Teaching. But the Teaching does not truly value the answers. It is the investigation itself which is the heart of the Teaching.

It is for this reason that pure Advaita is without doctrine or precepts. The Teaching is humble. It makes no claim on the Truth. It is simply a collection of pointers, encouraging an investigation that ultimately ends in Nothing...the Nothing which we all truly ARE.

With much love,
Wayne

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UPCOMING EVENTS

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WITH RAMESH BALSEKAR

Daily Talks in His Home: 9AM Sindhula, N. Gamadia Rd. #10, Bombay, India (Helpful info for people planning to visit Ramesh can be found in the Ramesh Balsekar section of the advaita.org website) 

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EVENTS WITH WAYNE LIQUORMAN

Boulder, CO Aug. 19-21 

Contact: Richard W. Lazzara

Phone: 303 447 9606 

Email: shankar@shankar-gallery.com 

Sedona, AZ Sept. 2-4 

Contact: Karen

Phone: 928-284-0777 

Email: angelgirl@sedona.net 

Lisbon, Portugal Sept. 23-25 

Portuguese enquiries to Tarik Praca 

Email: tarikyoga@yahoo.com 

English enquiries to Grant Bardsley

Email: bardsley1@sapo.pt

Southern France Residential Retreat

Sept. 30 - Oct. 2

Contact: Philippe de Henning 

Email: phde_h@yahoo.fr or phdeh@tele2.fr

Amsterdam Oct. 7-9 

Contact Ronald 31-020-646-2160

Email: ronald.valk@wanadoo.nl

New York City Nov. 11-13 

Contact: Daniel djhnd@nyc.rr.com

Contact: Jim Phone: 718-543-4189

Further details are available on the advaita.org website

Or go to the following URL:

http://advaita.org/aftalks.html

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Talks in Wayne's Home

927B Sixth St., Hermosa Beach, CA 

(Check website for times or call 310-376-9636 for a recorded announcement)

These talks are broadcast LIVE over the Internet. Live broadcasts can be accessed free from the advaita.org website thanks to the continuing support of the members.

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THE ADVAITA PRESS STORE

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NEW BOOK BY RAMESH!

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Nuggets of Wisdom by Ramesh S. Balsekar

This coat-pocket size volume picks up where Ramesh's previous book, The One In The Mirror, leaves off. It contains close to 200 brief "nuggets" written by Ramesh on a wide variety of topics: ego, enlightenment, seeking, mind, concepts, virtue, the nature of the sage, to name but a few.

Soft cover, 186 pages $11

To order go to the following URL:

http://advaita.org/store/index.htm

Then click Latest Releases

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NEW ON DVD 

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I AM THAT I AM - The Teachings of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

This DVD is loaded with some fantastic footage of Nisargadatta Maharaj (see if you can pick out the young Ramesh S. Balsekar in some of the scenes). The narrator, Dr. Stephen Wolinsky, offers an excellent overview of the essence of Maharaj's Teaching. Viewers familiar with Advaita may find Dr. Wolinsky's "experiential meditations" to be a bit basic but these may prove useful to those new to the subject.

Running time: 2.5 hours

Available in NTSC (North American Format) only $30

To order, go to the following URL:

http://advaita.org/store/index.htm

Then click Latest Releases

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The Kovalam Seminar - DVDs

In November 2002, Ramesh gave ten talks in Kovalam Beach, Kerala, India. Permission was given to film the entire Kovalam retreat. This ten DVD set is professionally crafted and captures the mood and substance of Ramesh Balsekar's Kovalam, India retreat. All Ramesh's talks, including questions from participants and answers are documented.

Ten DVD set (Select NTSC or PAL) $240

To order, go to the following URL:

http://advaita.org/store/index.htm

or go to www.advaita.org, click on Advaita Press Store, then Latest Releases, and you will find this item, as well as videos about Ramana Maharshi, books and a video about Nisargadatta Maharaj as well as DVD's of both Wayne and Ramesh.

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BECOME A MEMBER AND SUPPORT THE TEACHING

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If you have not yet joined the Advaita Fellowship but would like to become a member, go to the following URL::

http://216.86.195.102/members/register.asp

Or visit the advaita.org website and click BECOME A MEMBER

Members, via their TAX DEDUCTIBLE monthly donations, help to make the Fellowship financially viable and ensure the continued free presentations of the Teaching via the web site, webcasts, newsletters and free Talks in Wayne's home.

In thanks to the members for their support they receive unlimited access to the Fellowships online archives. These archives contain hundreds of streaming videos of Ramesh and Wayne as well as transcripts of many of Wayne's Talks. New ones are being added constantly.

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A LIVING GEM FROM RAMESH (previously unpublished)

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Affective fixation on the personality of a Guru or Master can be a serious obstacle to what the Master himself may be trying to achieve because the Master himself becomes the jailer holding the disciple in bondage, unwittingly though it might be.

A true Guru like Nisargadatta Maharaj makes it repeatedly clear that treating the teaching as from one individual (however exalted) to another individual would be a complete mistake. It is as Consciousness speaking to Consciousness that the true Guru speaks.

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POEM

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Not the Usual Caring

My fears
your eyes

my faults
your eyes

my misery
your eyes

my failure
your eyes

Some watching
doesn't reflect the usual caring -
tending to open wounds -

but never leaving you
dries the blood

Gary