Living into your Spiritual Process, September 17, 2010
The thought just occurred to me, where does the energy come from to live through this process of self-awakening? It does not come from discrete acts of human effort. It does not come from self-willed consciousness. You’ve got to begin to feel that genuine pulse that’s in you. It’s there. It’s not that far. And when you taste that energy or that consciousness, that silence, you start to get great confidence. You know you can do it. Even if you are at the very beginning of the path, even if the mind just comes open a little bit. When that happens, it’s really a whole new birth for you. It’s a whole new life. And so you begin to follow-up on that. You say “wait a minute, what was that remarkable thing that came over me, in that instant? It’s not characteristic of my life, but it has made a devastating mark on my personality, on my life.” And so you begin to follow-up with that kind of inquiry, that investigation that wants to go deeper into that. And that’s the life of sadhana, of living into your spiritual process. Until everything goes up into light.
David: You may go through many amazing experiences in the meantime. You may go through repeated openings of a most magnificent kind - you know, the things you read about in the lives of saints and sages; oneness opening up and timelessness, ...
If you are lucky you’ll begin to realize you are always living in That. Always, not sometimes. You’ll get rid of this idea of always and sometimes and then what’s left over is always. Always does not mean sometimes extended in time; lots of ...
Ok, so now we are in a different phase of the teaching. I hope you're with me. We've passed over the place where lions and tigers could eat us. They're gone. We're home free now. Rattlesnakes and cobras, they're history now. Now we're in the ...
Is everybody comfortable? Pretty comfortable, bodily relaxed? No distraction, no strong thoughts, just nice clear relaxation? Your mind is not gripping you anymore. Where's your mind? Where's that knot that haunts you all day? That thing that ...
But more like a mobius strip made of flesh, you know, we want to feel good inside that area. Its not enough just to be in the shape of a mobius strip, but we are feelingly involved in existence. We feelingly and consciously want to know what ...
Its just easy to offer who you are in the moment. It's very easy to begin that way, no matter what is offered. No matter what the offering is it can be made beautiful because you are consciously cooperating with who you are and no matter what ...
David: Good, very good. It's easy. Participant: I don't even have to talk. David: It's easy. Participant: This is funny, I mean, the value of this is not even placed on talking. David: So intimate. Are you in this intimacy? So intimate, ...
You can feel how beautiful it is now in here. It’s such a beautiful, exquisite feeling. It’s absolutely astounding. It’s like a sweet thing, so sweet you can’t even taste it. But I don’t say that that’s in me. I won’t even say “I am that”. I ...
So when you get a deep sense of humor about this process, in this great depth of dissolution and death and dying into it, and you also retain humor and relaxation and ease and you don’t get involved with this or that, you are home free. You are ...
David: Words are not necessary with the feminine aspect. She touches. She has this Breeze of Energy: she touches, initiates, activates. She activates the chakra system. You need Mother to do that. Father won’t get involved with that. He doesn’t ...
David: The silence therefore is like a womb from which the bliss arises. It’s not supposed to begin and end in itself. Otherwise there’s just a sense of having ended everything. There’s nothing affirmative about that. In other words, that might ...
Moderator: From a viewer in Arcata, California, “David you are beyond amazing. ‘Thank you’ seems so hollow, but THANK YOU (in large letters). David: If you are filled with this and you say “thank you” but that hollowness is there then that ...
