But inside genuineness and caring, caring about yourself, caring about the world, caring about others, just caring, you find the ability to surrender. Caring is surrender. There’s no distinction between the two. If you don’t care, if you are out of the emotion of caring and caringness and doing something else, you’ve failed, and you’re going to keep on failing. So, how do you remember care? You remember how delicate it is to suffer. You remember how easily suffering can replace genuineness, and therefore you don’t guard against it. You don’t guard against suffering, building a wall with the four noble truths and the eight fold path or the eight limbs of Patanjali, and so on and so forth. You don’t build up walls of strategies to attack this problem you think you have. You begin to melt into your own heart where the dissolution of the self, the entire structure of it, happens through Grace. And then instantly you begin to feel the Bliss, which is the intoxicating fragrance of release. Bliss in the spiritual sense is not waking state happiness. And that Bliss begins to flood and take over your mind. You can feel its presence in the body as Shakti. You can feel Bliss as Absolute clarity in the non-dual. Bliss connotes all of these flavors, and there ensues liberation.
Moderator: From a viewer in San Clemente, “Recently, the Shakti has been very tangible, as I hoped it would be, when I first met you. Thanks for that. But that isn’t it either, is it?” David: No, that’s it. The Shakti is the Absolute. The Shakti ...
David: There’s a certain kind of identity that is constructed around activity, a certain feeling. When the wave is rising out of the ocean, it forgets its connection with the ocean. It’s only when it goes back in, that it realizes what it is, ...
Moderator: A viewer in Sidney said, “David, thank you so much for reflecting to me who I really am today. I have been caught in maya, so thank you for the support here, deepest gratitude.” David: We’re all caught in maya as long as we are ...
David: Samadhi is reality itself. It's not merely a personal state of Consciousness. It cannot be reduced to a trance state or some kind of fixed absorption in Consciousness. Certainly, that describes one aspect of samadhi having to do with ...
David: Every person who’s going to evolve into realization of the Self will have to go through the oscillations of waking up and falling asleep. I’m telling you what it’s caused by, an ongoing, persistent measurement performed by that individual ...
David: Do you understand that it’s the I-sense that disappears in these great experiences? Participant 1: Yes, gets out of the way. David: So, that’s the balancing act, is to accept that. To be without the I, and then come back to the I, because ...
Participant 1: I'm going to try again at what I started with. I’m not asking advice, but more asking for you to share some of your direct experience. I just sat a fifty-four-day silent retreat, and I experienced the entire cosmos inside, and ...
David: One of the things I thought I’d mention today, which occurred to me as I was driving here, that the only real strength in the mind, when we talk about the mind’s strength, having a strong mind, is in its absorption in Being. That’s its ...
David: Namaste. Nature is organized and run by a single activating power. Not just a circuitry of power and channels through which power conducts and transmits, but a central agency of power that is self-implicit. In other words, the Energy does ...
Participant 1: At the start of the meditation, my heart area and my solar plexus got very warm. It was very Blissful. David: You are feeling the self-activating, naturally transmissive Bliss of the Self, the way it affects the body, in terms of ...
David: If you actually know you’re going beyond your mind, you’re going beyond your senses, you’re coming to the core of Consciousness, and you also know that you tend to return back into what seems to be an ignorant state, don’t complain ...