The Heart of My Teaching: Come into the Sun of the Self, April 4, 2004
What is the purpose of a teacher? What is the purpose of an awakened teacher? The teacher is simply magnifying what is already occurring in your life. The teacher does not add any outer element into your existence that isn’t already latently present. He or she cannot create something within you. Again, this is that innocence that does not allow for the functioning of duality. What the teacher does is like what the sun does to plants. It comes out and in the presence of that warmth and light, the plant goes into foliation. It goes into growth, spontaneous growth, that is not pre-programmed by the sun. The sun just shines. The plant absorbs this cosmic energy and it begins to move in its own pre-destined direction. So, there’s such a great influx of energy and consciousness when we sit together. It’s going to activate something in you spontaneously, just the way the sun will a plant or a flower or a living thing. All living things need the sun. So, we’re coming into the sun of the Self, the sun of pure consciousness. The sun of life, the sun of Being.
As you may have heard me say on other occasions, that both knowledge and experience of Consciousness are necessary for enlightenment. It’s also wise to add that the underlying assumption about reality is one of non-necessity. Here, non-necessity ...
David: Yes. Participant: It’s awesome to dive into another depth…, and a lot of Current. David: And a lot of Current, very good. Participant: Yes, definitely a lot of “awake-ness”. David: Wakefulness? Participant: Wakefulness. I kind of lose my ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
David: So, to bring forth a birth of the human being back into the divine essence of reality itself, I want to keep stressing that Sat-Chit-Ananda is not just a human attainment, according to the way I’ve come to understand things. It’s actually ...
I always try to remember that if a discourse or monologue is to be really ecstatic, it must be projected from a place of no-message, no-concept, no-theme. The very urge to speak is eradicated; it's not present. That way, the mind can float in ...
