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The Advaita Show #010
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November 3, 2005The Advaita Show #011 – Who's On First
November 15, 2005The Advaita Show #010 (MP3 – 9.5MB – 27min)
Short show this week. We answer your questions and Barb tells Bob to speak up.
Here a question for you – what’s the most advaita of all songs?
– “I Am Whatever You Say I Am” by Eminem?
– “Lose Yourself” by Eminem?
– “Dream On” by Aerosmith?
– “If I’m Dreaming My Life” by David Bowie?
– “I’m One” by The Who?
– “One” by U2?
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In the arising and manifestation of creation before us, is there an impulse or choice that participates in it?
WHO wants to know??
does Bob intend to go to Europe soon or not??
Cameron here’s a question:
Popeye says . . .
“I AM WHAT I AM”
Popeye is the only Advaita cartoon character I can think of.
Do you know of any others?
Commercial plug . . .
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Another fun question for Sailor Bob 🙂
I use copyright for bob seal. Now as I know I’m THAT I AM, who’s here to own copyright?
There’s no one here to own the copyright and who is there to infringe this copyright?
Thanks for the show. I download it on dial up which takes forever, but it’s worth the wait to hear how Bob copes with your insane questions 🙂
Love Bob Seal.
Enjoying the advaita show.
Most advaita song? how about
Louis Armstrong…
WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD
(George Weiss / Bob Thiele)
I see trees of green, red roses too
I see them bloom for me and you
And I think to myself, what a wonderful world
I see skies of blue and clouds of white
The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night
And I think to myself, what a wonderful world
The colours of the rainbow, so pretty in the sky
Are also on the faces of people going by
I see friends shakin’ hands, sayin’ “How do you do?”
They’re really saying “I love you”
I hear babies cryin’, I watch them grow
They’ll learn much more than I’ll ever know
And I think to myself, what a wonderful world
Yes, I think to myself, what a wonderful world
Oh yeah
I’ve observed that it’s common for people who are into advaita
and declare that theyhave come to understand or realize
to appear to be filtering everything through a conceptual lens of
being blissful unmoved consciousness because of not really existing
as an individual. “Others” might be stuck in a supposed suffering identity
“elsewhere”, but “here” is only consciousness and some kind of special
abscence that is not the case in everyone. Comments?
Hi Cam and Bob–
Great show, very funny, and thanks for answering my questions.
Here’s 2 new questions:
1. If there’s nobody there that ever did anything, is there really no such thing as individuality?….Does Advaita dismiss the notion that we’re Divine incarnations with distinct talents, personalities, abilities and destinies?
2. Can you give better examples of what you mean when you say there’s no free will? All these years thinking I thought I had the freedom to choose, or WILL, my life in the direction I want—You’re saying I DON’T? What the heck are you guys talking about?
Keep it up!
Mark
I think Bowie has some of the best ‘advaita’ tunes to date. I refer mostly to the Hunky Dory (Quicksand in particular) album, but there are many references in many songs on many other albums.
The Who’s ‘The Seeker’ is a pretty good nondual track too.
Oh, and there’s a great track by Joseph Arthur on Our Shadows…, ‘I Am’.
I like Robbie Williams Song “feel”
with the line “My head speaks a language I don´t understand.”
:))
Hey Guys…Wonderful Show!!…Here’s an advaita tune for ya..”You Are What You Is”-Frank Zappa..Alittle Taste: I am what I am and a cow don’t make ham”……As for a name change from Sailor Bob..as if it’s too gay(not that there is anything wrong with that)…..Billy Bob would be a real hit here in the South!!..could be marketed as the One true Non-Dual NASCAR Driver..or maybe Charlie has the corner on this market already…………Now for my real serious esoteric question??..What is Vege-mite??…Keep up the great Bantor …..Happy Festivus!!…. Love Michael ..Beechgrove Tennessee
Nine Inch Nails, “Right Where it Belongs” is my vote…
its more of feel and the asking questions that fuels this song
“What if everthing around you isn’t quite as it seems? What if all of the world you think you know is an eloborate dream?…
“You can live in this illusion. You can’t choose to believe.You keep looking but you can’t find the words. Are you hiding in the trees?
Now you’re hiding in your dreams.”
“What if all the world’s inside of your head Just creations of your own?
The devils and your gods all the living and the dead,
And you’re really all alone.
And you really oughta know”
“And if you look at your reflection
Is that all you want to be?
What if you could look right through the cracks
would you find yourself…
Would you find yourself
Find yourself afraid to see?”
goes very well with the music, its a slow paced, hair-raising song…take a listen
Hi, Bob, and Cameron…
good for a giggle?
jump in if you like
cheers,
charlie
gilbert writes,
Tony and Bob are ONE? No tony and Bob are appearances in Your essence.
In the drama you bet on a winner……car races or horse…no diff.
An each way bet is probably all ‘you’ can manage since there is no total trust in your own essence in being THAT.
(cheap shots are easy, matey… i thought you were cleaner than that)
Tony admitted to you that he is a fraud. I agree.
(This a mis-iterpretation of something i said to you, g. What Tony was saying was in response to MY saying “i ajm a fake’ was ‘me too. any me is a fake, a story. All so called individuals are fakes. ALL. Icluding you, me, bob, tony and every ‘person’ your web site links to. ALL.)
He has said to someone I know, that Bob only has an intellectual understanding. That is outrageous and totally deluded. It shows that Tony is just a ‘game’ happening, a Jester! So one can only laugh at him.
(I discussed this with Tony. We talked about the fact that in direct experience sitting with Bob, clearly Bob is THAT ONENESS… but his students may be expressing only an intellectual understanding. But why is this so mportant to ‘gilbert? Apparently James wrote quite a nasty not to Tony after Tony declined tonendorse his book. Nuff said…)
So, where does that judgment come from?
(THAT is the first intelligent thing i have read yet in this flaming post. Who is this gilbert who sees these differences!?)
As far as I am concerned, tony is out of the picture. He is a stand up comic.
I have lost all interest in non dual jargon.
I may not respond to emails on this much longer.
It seems that I am sliding back into pure life and am leaving seekers to their imagined plight.
Living contact in ordinary life is IT.
All this conceptual tossing and turning is useless or just distracting for those who are close to disolution. Then again everyone IS THAT. So it is all about Nothing.
Who knows that……the One who Knows that is silent.
The noisy one is just an appearance.
No need to reply….
love – glbert
(he seems to want the last word! ‘s ok … we love ya, g.)
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Posted by Charlie Hayes to ~ the eternal is aliveness ~ at 11/10/2005 03:52:32 PM
A question for Bob … Recently i read this … “The pain of loneliness … The tender sensing of shallowness and phoniness … Is this realization … calling itself.” (~Guy Smith, writing in “This is Unimaginable and Unavoidable.”)
This hits me right in the gut … because it describes what is so for me. Knowing that this ‘me’ is no more than a phantom leaves me empty, with nothing but this loneliness and a sense of my phoniness. And an unfortunate conviction, like a primal pre-conceptual knowing, that “the penny has not dropped.”
Any comments, Bob? As always, all my love to you and Barbara, and thanks to Cameron for a great way to share the unsharable!
charlie
good answers folks! Reminded me of some great songs not on my ipod! Like the Zappa track! Gotta go get that!
What is Vegemite??
Vegemite dates back to 1922 when the Fred Walker Company, which became Kraft Walker Foods in 1926 and Kraft Foods Limited in 1950, hired a young chemist to develop a spread from one of the richest known natural sources of the vitamin B group – Brewers Yeast.
Following months of laboratory tests, Dr. Cyril P Callister, who became the nation’s leading food technologist of the 1920s and 30s developed a tasty spreadable paste.
In an imaginative approach, Walker turned to the Australian public to officially name his spread. He conducted a national trade-name competition offering an attractive 50 pound prize pool for the finalists. How the 50 pounds was distributed or who was the winning contestant has unfortunately been lost in history, but it was Walker’s daughter who chose the winning name out of the hundreds of entries.
That winning name was Vegemite and in 1923 Vegemite first graced grocers’ shelves. It was described as “Delicious on sandwiches and toast, and improves the flavour of soups, stews and gravies”. However, it took 14 long years of perseverance from Walker before Vegemite finally gained acceptance and recognition with the Australian people.
And we were all brought up eating it. The factory is about five minutes away from my house. I drive past it every night when I go to pick up the kids from school. The smell always makes me hungry. 🙂
Thank you Cameron (and Bob). As “thank-you” for great show, you are doing, I send you link to good (but sad) joke about yogis, lost in a crowd (click here: http://www.papaji.cz/joke.htm ).
Did you know, that each nation has its wonderfull TV shows, books ( the most enlightened cartoon character of all time problably is Nikolai Nosov’s Dunno – THE ADVENTURES OF DUNNO AND HIS FRIENDS http://home.freeuk.com/russica2/books/nez/book.html ) and even songs? Unfortunatelly, i like mostly songs without words, like this one here, with tablas, violin, tanpura.. http://www.papaji.cz/vtip/fontain.mp3 . It is performed by czech musicians.
I hope noone will blame me for issuing it here – i will remove the song from that link in two or three weeks..
So now it comes to questions:
about illegality – when you got arrested for something, or when you have to pay f.e. for piracy and lawbreaking music, software rights.. if you do something, like smoke and distribute marihuana, steal something, harm someone, kill.. (and eat (animal)..) is it then only happening to you as well? Are you innocent in it? Who cares about your reasons? So, can you talk little bit about crime, violence, stupidity, law and innocence of something, that stays innocent and pure even while arrested or concerned..
There were times, when you could spend years in concentration camp and the word did not changed much from that time. When can it happen again, if time is only mental concept?
Love for Bob
Michal
After much delay, I just recently got Bob’s book, “What’s wrong with right now.”
This book is dynamite. If you have Nisargadatta’s book “I Am That”,
you must have Bob’s book as well, even more so — even more direct and simple,
from a native English speaker. Although both books go up in Flames.
Cameron, Bob — what an expression you are!
Most advaita of all songs?
well it is a stupid question cameron , none is, all are 🙂
Here is what came later:
Tubular Bells, Mike Oldfield.
Ah this is a really interesting thread so I post again.
I watched the CSI TV Series lately. They have this nice Song from The Who as a title melody, going “tell me, who are you ?”.
hehe
One CSI episode is called “assume nothing”.
Now tell me about Advaita, guys 🙂
Anybody know the Doors song going “Your lost, little girl. Tell me, who are you ?”:
Or the Pink Floyd track going “Hello, is there anybody in there. Just nodd if you can hear me, is there anybody home ?”
Gotta put some of those songs on my MP3 stick I guess.
sng? the whole opera
“Tommy” by the Who
inspired byb Meher Bana
“freedom tastes of reality”
it was an opening for me …
its all story arising
bobbing along
you said you need a name for Bob”
How about Bobba Notananda?
love u guys
i need a sprel cheqer
Dear Bob,
I would like to just give up, but it seems I am not programmed for this activity.
Prolonged reflection upon the state of this organism suggests that strong identification with the body is part of the pattern. There even appears to be no choice about this desire to give up…
The mind-body organism appears to be in a real quandary: any advice?
P.S. There is a curiosity about why these questions keep coming up…
[Now that you are globally syndicated Cameron, do you think you could spring for a second mike?]
Cheers,
Jason
The most advaita of all songs — I have to nominate “Across the Universe” by the Beatles, with that stunning verse:
“Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns it calls me on and on across the universe.”
Ken
Jason, I *would* get a second mic, but Bob keeps reminding me that “there is only one”, so it seems superfluous. 🙂
About the one-without-a-second mic, you two blokes are profound indeed.