Whenever you take something strain is involved; as in reaching for something and taking it and pulling toward you. That same principal applies to meditation. If your individuality meditates, their will be a resistance, a strain, or a friction within it — then it’s distasteful. But when meditation is a happening, when it is received as a gift, or as a spontaneous flowering, then no distaste can attach to that.
So meditation, in the sense of reception, or receptivity is a gift. When you have this full appreciation that you flower in meditation, spontaneously, as opposed to produce meditation, effort-fully, then you are beginning to relax in to the sahaja or the naturalness of Being.
A group of enlightened beings is very precious, a gathering of human beings who are awakened. The reason is that, solitarily one enlightened person will just exist in that ocean of quietness. But when you put a group together, it starts to stir ...
Participant: You ready for another question? David: I'm ready. Participant: Uh, all right. Ah, some people experience Kundalini and are awakening, and are thrown into infinite Bliss. And other people experience Kundalini awakening and they are ...
It’s bliss. Once you become deeply vulnerable to this feeling of Being, you can begin to awaken into it immediately. Even if you are a spiritual novice and even if you don’t have any sadhana behind you. That is even if you haven’t really done ...
What is the purpose of a teacher? What is the purpose of an awakened teacher? The teacher is simply magnifying what is already occurring in your life. The teacher does not add any outer element into your existence that isn't already latently ...
David:It's all I'm talking about is myself, hopefully yourself. Hopefully, you don't see me as any kind of an authority with power. Power in what I say or power in what I claim. Hopefully, you don't go there. I stay out of that arena. It's ...
And it's very important to understand the word spontaneous, to understand, to know, to feel what goes on here, when we're together. It's all about consciousness. It's about awakening into, feeling into, breathing into, consciousness and ...
Because of the subtle nature of darshan and spiritual transmission you might not always recognize that it’s happening. It may just fall on you silently. Yet later on, at a time perhaps, when you are not suspecting, the presence of that ...
Moderator: A viewer in Bangkok has a couple of questions. “The more we find this place, the more unfolding, the faster we evolve into the one.” David: I’m hesitant to say faster. Faster is an idea projected by the relative mind that is feeling a ...
It’s from the view point of deep meditative expansion that you can say, I am everything or everything is consciousness. It’s something that supersedes the ability of the waking state. The mind can never create that experience. But just by ...
Real meditation always happens effortlessly. You just slide into it. You can try to manipulate the conditions prior to that experience, that spontaneous meditation, but the preparation does not actually create it. It happens when the mind ...
So what does it mean to inhabit the measureless? What is that? It's to become that. How do you become that? Through grace. Through the grace of a living master. Through the grace of a living teacher who has spontaneously and through grace, come ...