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: “Does one need a teacher to be self-realized?” David: No. This question like the previous one though requires clarification. If you understand the teacher in a strictly objective sense as a separate person, then your view about the ...
David: This idea of a static realization that never changes is more the by-product of wrong use of language than anything else because you can’t conceptualize permanence. Permanence is just the opposite of transient. If someone says, “I am ...
“Socrates, I certainly used to hear, even before meeting you, that you never do anything else than exist in a state of perplexity yourself and put others in a state of perplexity. And now you seem to me to be bewitching me and drugging me and ...
David: Quite frankly, I didn’t even want to come here tonight, but now I’m very interested all of a sudden because I too am being instructed in that. In other words, the teaching is arising for all involved. Not that I’m receiving the teaching, ...
Participant 1: You’re one of only two teachers I’ve ever heard say that with enlightenment the ego is not destroyed. David: There are two reasons that could give rise to a person or a teacher saying that there is no destruction of the ego. ...
David: When we talk about things like Divine Oneness there’s a particular context in which that needs to be understood. And not many people realize this because they usually think of Divine Oneness as an experience, as just an experience, like ...
David: In spite of there being many people here this evening, we have a highly individualized relationship. Each person is invited into a spectacularly intimate connection with the primordial origin of Consciousness, the primordial Consciousness ...
David: There's great energy present, really ripping. That Shakti is here, that very potent communication of fire, energy, intensity, fullness. May you be activated by that. May you be activated in that. Where that is, the absolute is also. It ...
David: You can't think about something that's beyond thought. Even a person who’s fully enlightened if they come out and speak it’s all dualistic. There’s nothing sublime about it. It’s very odd. Let’s see if a discussion can create itself with ...
David: This illumination you have is not just about spiritual things, it’s about how humans function, how the way you’re going to function in your naturalness. When this Bliss really takes hold, wow! You’re in for a real amusement park ride. ...
Participant 1: Can you say that third aspect, the more mature aspect is also where perception…. David: There’s only the Self. There’s only the Self, and it’s not anywhere now. It’s in and it’s out. It’s up and it’s down. And it’s not in and it’s ...
David: The particularity of her experience is asserting itself and the ability to distinguish the different textures or fabrics within experience. Now, isn’t this, or would this not be, if we phrase this in terms of a question, an ironic ...