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Francis Lucille (born 1944 in France) is a spiritual teacher and author currently residing in California. 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.

Early life
After graduating from the École Polytechnique, Paris, in 1966, he worked as a mathematician and physicist.

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. 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. 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. 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.

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. 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.

You are that here and now and for ever, whatever may come up in the future can only be illusion. That which is real does not come and go. It will not arise in the future. It is now and for ever..

Below is an excerpt of talk given by Francis at a conference hosted by Inner directions (non profit Organization),in 2003. Our fear of death can be eliminated when ignorance is eliminated. It's our choice to choose ignorance. The two-pronged approach to eliminating evil: by getting rid of the fear of death on one hand, and the other, by eliminating ignorance. If we eliminate ignorance within ourselves, then that is the best contribution we can make to the world. We choose ignorance; we choose to be infatuated with the belief that we are a separate individual. To be more precise, this consciousness which is hearing these words at this moment, and this funny sound, is personal rather than universal. That's a deliberate choice; we make a choice for which we have no valid evidence or no facts that substantiate it. So it's just a simple infatuation with a concept. Our attachment to it, our belief that it is true without any evidence whatsoever, is ignorance. And, from that apparently very inconspicuous thought and belief, the victory of misery grows out of this tiny seed..

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 --Enneagram
 * 1) Lucille, Francis, A Conversation with Jack Labanauskas, Part 1, Jan. ’02, Issue #79, pg. 1
 * 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