The right understanding is that you are in this unborn reality all the time, and I’m inviting you to recognize it with both precision and depth to such an extent that you can declare, “I am that.” But, there must be grace and gracefulness in your recognition, appreciation and detachment so you don’t get caught in the machinations of the mind as you’re realizing and therefore let that disturb your natural process of awakening.
Stay intent on what’s happening or unfolding in you now, and begin to notice that innocently, not because I’m telling you to. I’m nobody. I have nothing. I’m just this mouthpiece up here. I’m a hologram, but a hologram that can be very useful to you even though I’m appearing here along with your body-mind. Our body-minds are all together in this room, all holograms. We’re getting to that core which is non-holographic, simple Being, simple Consciousness.
Moderator: From a participant in Sweden, “Hello David, some Advaita teachers say that the ignorant state we live in daily life is a dream state. What does this mean? And if this is so, how can we wake up from this dream?” David: It’s not a ...
When desire is full it also quietens, it becomes spontaneously silenced. The self becomes silenced. The process of desire, though, is not extinguished through any temporary or partial or even absolute realization of the transcendental reality of ...
The principle of my teaching is when you care for something you bring your attention to it, and the process of caring for something is itself the transformation. That produces the transformation without too many steps involved. So, if there’s ...
Moderator: A very long commentary and questions from a participant in San Francisco: “Remaining aware during waking, sleep and deep sleep is held as one factor of abiding and true awakening. What is your orientation towards such matters? Do they ...
Moderator: A question from a participant in Thailand: “Is devotion and focused sadhana necessary for awakening, or is skaktipat enough?” David: This would depend on your definition of enlightenment. If you define enlightenment as simply an ...
Moderator: From Fairfield, Iowa, “You counsel to be open to the Shakti. That opening is self-evident as it turns on like a current. What do you have in telling to be open to you?” David: First, just to clarify, I don’t counsel. I only speak ...
For some yearning is like a river that carries them into the Divine State. For other people, it’s penetrating that yearning into stillness and that itself becomes the door, the path and the door. So, whichever your path is you need to just trust ...
Now the energy’s getting very high. Are you aware of this? Good. You feel this happening? It’s just happening. That quietness is a cauldron of energy highly active. People think of quietness as the opposite of active, right? There's activity and ...
David: We need to prep your understanding, so that it carries the knowledge I am That, not I am not That, not I am not worthy of That, but I am That already; not to be taken casually or flippantly into your consciousness, not to take that I am That...
Recorded on: 28.08.2009
Participant: So, it's relatively easy to be in this space and feel the Energy -- but how to be in the world and still feel like you're in the Energy? David: We take steps very slowly here, just one step at a time. By the time this Energy...
I always try to remember that if a discourse or monologue is to be really ecstatic, it must be projected from a place of no-message, no-concept, no-theme. The very urge to speak is eradicated; it's not present. That way, the mind can float in ...