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.
There is no political system or society in the world that really wants you to become who you are, because you will be governed by non-governmental forces [laughter]. Even though you might not call yourself one, you will be accused of anarchy. ...
David: Yes. Participant: I have three small questions [David laughs] about the second level of what's going on here: the Heart thing. David: Yes. Participant: Is it contagious? David: Oh, it should be totally infectious! It should be lethal! It ...
The entire Spiritual Reality is composed of Light, which is also referred to as Non-Duality. For me, those terms are interchangeable. We can argue about whether they should be interchangeable or whether there are better synonyms, but we're not ...
June, 2, 2009 There’s no sense or accrual of self-importance that goes along with becoming Awakened. You don't become more and more important and self-important to yourself. You become subtle and therefore out of the range of your immediate ...
The deeper you go into Enlightenment, into Awakening, the more subtle It becomes. Yes, It can also become fiery. It can become more fiery and activated. But the Core Awareness that is going though all of the experiences of Enlightenment, That is ...
There are two levels of Instruction that go on here: one is the mental-verbal communication, which can be misunderstood. And then there is the Transmission of the Heart-Consciousness, which cannot be misunderstood. One goes through the mind and ...
You need three kinds of faith to progress on this Path. You need faith in your Self; if you you're going to be with me as a Teacher, you need faith in the Teacher; that the Teacher is real; and the third thing you need faith in is Life, Life ...
March, 17, 2009 Moderator: A viewer in Iceland comments, "Yesterday, during meditation, my attention floated to you and at that moment I experienced a brilliant ball of White Light at my eyebrow." David: These are valid yogic experiences, ...
Liberation is something you can't describe with words. It's happening now! You can feel the force of It, It's Instructive Quality, It's Transmission-Power. And if you’re aware of what I'm talking about, you'll see that there’s a corresponding ...
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 in San Francisco comments: "The identification with body is still strong in me". David: That's because you're not paying attentio! Or you've got an idea you've clung to so stubbornly that you're not going to let me dismantle ...
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 ...