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 spontaneously descends into the silence of inwardness. The mind retreats to the inner self. There, it begins to taste the unborn or the innate reality of existence, pure existence.
Moderator: A southern California viewer says, "The vasanas is like the software we come with. Is there a way to destroy this or [do] we have to go though the experiences in life and exhaust them?" David: You can focus on a place where Reality is ...
Moderator: A viewer comments, "I felt as if you were speaking to me during the meditation -- in my Consciousness. David: Yes, you should look for an esoteric or invisible aspect to our relationship, one that is not demonstrated empirically. In ...
Moderator: As soon as you spoke about bhakti and Krishna, it was like a tidal wave of Shakti hit the Shore of Being. David: Lovely. Beautiful. Krishna means the "all-charming one." None of us can resist Him, even if we try. Even if we think ...
Enlightenment, really, is to be lived. It’s not a philosophy. It’s not something that you can adopt theoretically in your life. It’s something that is discovered through deep meditation, the cultivation of a profound aloneness, over many years, ...
Sahaja samadhi is a Self-Sustaining Condition. It does not need to be tended. It does not need to be even realized -- or re-realized. It’s eternally Self-Realizing -- and it has no locale. It’s not about the “Inner Self.” It has nothing to do ...
All the faith that you harness will be through your own experience. The deep faith and trust and perseverance you show in continuing to come here, entering into this Relationship -- all that is based on your own Self-recognition. It’s the ...
Enlightenment is a State of Being not a state of the mind and yet it’s only through the mind that that State of Being can dawn. It’s a transcendental state of perception that is revealed to the mind as long as is necessary for the mind to be ...
When you hear the words of the Realized speak about Self-Realization, it sounds easy, as though it's the most obvious and undeniable of all Realities. It's more obvious even than the perception of the world. But on its own level the mind ...
Guest: I have a comment. David: Speak up so that people can hear you. Guest: I don’t find that there are words to it, it just seems easier. David: Just easier… Guest: Easier to be… David: Easier to be… that’s important than just easier, that ...
Wow, the energy’s very beautiful. We’re really through the storm and we’re in the Sunshine. Now see, what I just said was not lifted from any scripture obviously. But it was something that came out of my sense of ongoing Satisfaction in ...
Moderator: A Southern California viewer comments “there was energy and then everything became still and there was deep silence and peace. I didn’t feel like coming out of it.” Moderator: A Hawaiian viewer says “I have experienced akin to pulling ...
Moderator: A viewer says “was there something that you wanted to say about the energetic dimension a few moments ago?” David: Yes, I said it, that there is an energetic frequency that accompanies high Realization, deep spiritual Realization. ...