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.
Participant: During meditation I felt…, all the time I feel I’m ever in this position, and especially here, where everything, but also the physical sensations merge into Bliss. I can feel the wind and it’s really soft, and it’s love. During ...
Moderator: A first-time participant in Palm Desert, California asks if there is such a thing as free will. David: I don’t know. What do you think? Moderator: Response. “Once I’m dead there will only be one story of my body.” David: Right, once ...
Orley: “From a Participant in Peru: ‘Emotions like sadness, which comes with identification with a certain story, are very difficult for me. I’d like to just rest from everything. Could you please talk about how to deal with them?’” David: See ...
Morning Webcast Participant: Since the intensive in Larkspur, I’ve gained some sense of the value of the presence of my Being, that for the best of my efforts in surrender I had not yet known. It’s shifting everything in my life. Gone is the ...
Orley: From a participant in Sedona, Arizona: “I feel as if I am missing something. My perception seems to be so mundane and basic, and I feel as if there is this subtle level of experience that I am not yet tapped into. What is the ultimate ...
Northern CA Participant 1: Hello David, is it delusional to think I can get rid of my anger? I have a bad temper that comes up from time to time, even following blissful and joyful meditations. David: It cannot be disposed of but it can be ...
David: I think you’ll find things kind of cycle in here. Things will get calm for a while and then everything gets revved up again. You’ll go in and out of these divine cycles in which the Ultimate Reality communicates different aspects of ...
Northern CA Moderator: A question from a person in the United Kingdom, “Is having a heart connection essential between the teacher and student to make progress?” David: May I ask what you mean by progress? Moderator: Going deeper into myself, ...
Moderator: “Thanks, David. These energies I feel largely in the arms, legs and head, with limited sensations within the trunk of the body. Should I be applying attention or intention to these areas or should I just let everything be?” David: Let ...
Moderator: Namaste, David. How can I trust that the Shakti will come true and show me my path in a time when I feel I am feeling I have no purpose and no direction in life? David: The best way to garner trust is through direct experience. The ...
David: First, I’d like to thank SAND for the gracious invitation and opportunity to be with all of you. Each person’s sadhana or journey to realization is a painstakingly unique event. Your realization cannot be substituted for by anyone else’s ...
Moderator: David, a viewer in Atlanta asks, “Does pure awareness have likes and dislikes? Or is that just a mind/body phenomenon?” David: The latter. Pure Consciousness has the essence of light in it, the essence of feeling and it has ...