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Lucille points to timeless essence, awareness, as the real substance of our world and body, offering a direct way to end fear and suffering.<ref name="TAW" />
Lucille points to timeless essence, awareness, as the real substance of our world and body, offering a direct way to end fear and suffering.<ref name="TAW" />
His teaching is through the direct path. The direct path takes this ultimate goal as a starting point.
His teaching is through the direct path. The direct path takes this ultimate goal as a starting point.
Direct Path Teachers challenge the traditional belief that long periods of [[sadhana]] are needed by anyone seeking truth, since we are already realized.
Direct Path Teachers challenge the traditional belief that long periods of [[sadhana]](Practices) are needed by anyone seeking truth, since we are already realized.
They say, why wait until the end of the purification process? The mind has no power to prevent one from recognizing their true nature, unless one postpones in order to prevent this realization.
They say, why wait until the end of the purification process? The mind has no power to prevent one from recognizing their true nature, unless one postpones in order to prevent this realization.
{{cquote|I believe there is still in you, a person waiting for an event called enlightenment at the end of a purification process. See the absurdity of this. It is the same game of rejecting the now.<ref name="DennisWaite">{{cite book|first=Dennis|last=Waite|title=The Book of One: The Spiritual Path of Advaita|isbn=1903816416|pages=201}}</ref>}}
{{cquote|I believe there is still in you, a person waiting for an event called enlightenment at the end of a purification process. See the absurdity of this. It is the same game of rejecting the now.<ref name="DennisWaite">{{cite book|first=Dennis|last=Waite|title=The Book of One: The Spiritual Path of Advaita|isbn=1903816416|pages=201}}</ref>}}

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Francis Lucille
Born1944 (age 79–80)
France
EducationEcole Polytechnique
Known forSpiritual teacher and author
WebsiteFrancisLucille.com


Francis Lucille (born 1944 in France) is a spiritual teacher and author currently residing in California.[1] He has been holding dialogues and meditation sessions throughout the world, helping people to abide in their own natural state. Francis gently guides through words and a powerful silence.[2]


Early life

After graduating from the École Polytechnique, Paris, in 1966, he worked as a mathematician and physicist.[1]

Teachings

Lucille points to timeless essence, awareness, as the real substance of our world and body, offering a direct way to end fear and suffering.[1] His teaching is through the direct path. The direct path takes this ultimate goal as a starting point. Direct Path Teachers challenge the traditional belief that long periods of sadhana(Practices) are needed by anyone seeking truth, since we are already realized. They say, why wait until the end of the purification process? The mind has no power to prevent one from recognizing their true nature, unless one postpones in order to prevent this realization.


In contrast, a gradual path is one that proceeds through progressively deeper stages of understanding. As the understanding deepens and is enriched by an expanding awareness of daily experience, an individual progresses towards the ultimate goal, establishing oneself in the understanding of absolute being.

Francis's teachings center on one topic: awareness - our true nature - the Absolute.[4] He traces this to ancient teachings of nonduality, the common ground of Advaita Vedanta, Zen, Taoism and Sufism, the same common ground which is at the core of the message left behind by the founders of all great religions.

Stanley Sobottka, Emeritus Professor of Physics, University of Virginia, considers him to be an excellent teacher, citing the clarity of his answers to questions.[5]


Below is an excerpt of talk given by Francis at a conference hosted by Inner directions (non profit Organization),in 2003.[6]

Bibliography

  • Francis Lucille; Eternity Now[5];ISBN 978-1-882874-00-2
  • Truth Love and Beauty; ISBN 978-1-882874-02-6
  • Perfume of Silence; ISBN 978-1-882874-01-9
  • jetzt (German); ISBN 3-933496-18-?
  • Eeuwigheid NU (Dutch); Samsara Publications; ISBN 90-77228-13-6
  • Le Sens Des Choses (French); ISBN 978-2-86316-147-0

Articles in Journals

Journal-- "SELF ENQUIRY" Published by Ramana Maharshi Foundation UK, affiliated with Sri Ramanasraman, Tiruvanmalai, India.

  1. The invitation from the Now; Page 36-40; Spring 1997
  2. Our Shared Presence; Page 28-31; Summer 1997
  3. Free from Support ; Page 44-47; Winter 1997
  4. Our Natural Sate ; Page 56-59; Spring 1998
  5. Leaving the Center Empty.; Page 50-52; Winter 1998
  6. What is it that I love the Most; Page 102,104; Spring 1999

Journal[7] --Enneagram[8]

  1. Lucille, Francis, A Conversation with Jack Labanauskas, Part 1, Jan. ’02, Issue #79, pg. 1[9]
  2. Lucille, Francis (interview) – Labanauskas & McKean Jan. ‘02, Feb. ’02, Nov. ‘02
  3. Love, anything that develops it is good (Lucille interview) – EM Nov. ‘02
  4. Manipulation, what we do when we don’t seek truth (Lucille interview) – EM Nov. ‘02
  5. Motivation to change, not necessarily from disgust with ego (Lucille interview) – Labanauskas Nov. ‘02
  6. Mystics, may have inborn desire for Truth that is never impeded (Lucille interview) – Labanauskas Nov. ‘02
  7. Non-dual nature, revelation of (inset in Lucille interview) – Lucille Jan. ‘02
  8. Openness, lack of (what causes unhappiness) (Lucille interview) – EM Nov. ‘02
  9. Ordinary happiness, is an experience of our true nature (Lucille interview) – EM Nov. ‘02
  10. Pain, not the same thing as suffering (Lucille interview) – EM Nov. ‘02
  11. Personality, as a collective of distinctive features (Lucille interview) – Labanauskas Jan. ‘02
  12. Personality, is not the source of our problems (Lucille interview) – Labanauskas Jan. ‘02
  13. Personality, not the problem (ignorance is) (Lucille interview) – Labanauskas Jan. ‘02
  14. Positive pull of truth dispels interest in objects (Lucille interview) – EM Nov. ‘02
  15. Purification (detoxification) of the self, takes time (Lucille interview) – EM Nov. ‘02

Articles and references in books

  1. Spira, Rupert, Transparency of Things, Non Duality Press, ISBN 9780955829055
  2. Baran, Josh (2008). The Tao of Now. Charlottesville, VA: Hampton Roads. p. 102. ISBN 9781571745842.
  3. Marvelly, Paula (2002). The teachers of one. London: Watkins. pp. 61–71. ISBN 1842930281.

References

  1. ^ a b c Lumiere, Lynn Marie; Lumiere-Wins, John. The Awakening West: Conversations with Today's New Western Spiritual Leaders. pp. 29–39. ISBN 9781592330102.
  2. ^ a b "Inner Directions (Non Profit Organization) Conference, 2003" (PDF). p. 44.
  3. ^ a b Waite, Dennis. The Book of One: The Spiritual Path of Advaita. p. 201. ISBN 1903816416.
  4. ^ http://www.francislucille.com
  5. ^ a b Sobottka, Stanley. "A course in consciousness" (PDF). Consciousness. p. 178. {{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help)
  6. ^ http://www.innerdirections.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=IDF&Product_Code=TAP-41030&Category_Code=
  7. ^ http://www.ennea.org/articles/EM_subject_index.pdf
  8. ^ http://www.ennea.org/what.html
  9. ^ http://www.ennea.org/articles/EM_author_index.pdf



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