Water Cannot Wet It, Fire Cannot Burn It, August 28, 2009
The Universe has Its own pace: It’s very slow and lightning fast at the same time. So in the end it doesn’t matter whether you do a little or you do a lot. Running fast, you won’t be able to overtake It. The hottest fire won’t burn It — It’s just beyond the edge of that fire. In that pinpoint essence of Consciousness, you can dump the whole ocean and It won’t get wet; It stays dry. Water cannot wet It and fire cannot burn It.
Even though attention appears to be bound, it can and does still carry the total force of Liberated Consciousness - because its root is in There. It's rooted completely in that Unmanifest Being. The nature of that transformation from bound ...
And each time we come here, it's just like this. We start off anew. We start off with innocence, a kind of freshness in spirit that allows us to wander freely in our own awareness, in our own consciousness. The key word is wander. You don't have ...
August, 28, 2008 Devotion can't be practiced! You cannot rehearse, and then perfect it, because the very nature of devotion is the pure immediacy of instantaneous feeling. It's the Bliss of Total Feeling: saturating and then radiating, ...
The mood of meditation is the mood of sublimity itself. This sublime feeling can be described as the inner being falling into itself, the inner being bowing down to Itself, surrendering into Itself, so that for a short moment there is no other, ...
You know, it's all about just being able to bear this Bliss of Being and Consciousness. To live in that unbearable-ness of Being - to just live in It, to just allow yourself to get to the point where you'll be able to live in It and allow It to ...
If you dig deep enough into the mind, you will strike on its Source, just as when you dig into the ground you get beyond the superficial soil, you get beyond the rocks, you get beyond the various layers of earth. At some point you hit water. ...
We're not used to that. We're used to being told, God is somewhere else, that Ultimate Energy is somewhere else. It's in heaven or It's in…, I don't know where heaven would be. When you look up all you see are more planets and…,. I don't know ...
Moderator: A comment from an internet participant, David: "It feels like to me as if the best practice while we are with you is simply creating the space within for the transmission to circulate and move". David: Just be as you are. Don't even ...
As one is becoming Enlightened, there is someone who is enjoying that process. One is becoming: expanded, intoxicated, exhilarated. One is also being thrust into the unknown, beyond knowledge and experience. As one is immersed continuously and ...
Whenever you take something strain is involved; as in reaching for something and taking it and pulling toward you. That same principal applies to meditation. If your individuality meditates, their will be a resistance, a strain, or a friction ...
One characteristic of opening into Consciousness, in regards to my own Teaching, is the usherance into Bliss; some form of Blissful-Intoxication. And that can be in the form of Silence, Energy (or Kundalini Shakti), or in terms of Love: very ...
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 ...