Because of the subtle nature of darshan and spiritual transmission you might not always recognize that it’s happening. It may just fall on you silently. Yet later on, at a time perhaps, when you are not suspecting, the presence of that consciousness will make itself known to you. You’ll realize that your life has been touched by something deep and that you are different. You are something entirely different. You begin to intuit that liberation is occurring. The “me” is being transformed or dissolved. You can say it’s being transformed into Being or you can say it’s just being dissolved or lightened. There are many descriptions we can use but they all point to the same thing, that fundamentally at the very core of all your perception, there is a felt sensation of identity and it is deep in that region where awakening happens. That’s the place of consciousness.
If you are lucky you’ll begin to realize you are always living in That. Always, not sometimes. You’ll get rid of this idea of always and sometimes and then what’s left over is always. Always does not mean sometimes extended in time; lots of ...
Participant: So the mind can partake of the Bliss of the Awakening and feel satisfaction from that, as long as it's not trying to co-opt the experience, we'll call it an experience. But if it does try to get involved with it, it's going to be ...
Ok, so now we are in a different phase of the teaching. I hope you're with me. We've passed over the place where lions and tigers could eat us. They're gone. We're home free now. Rattlesnakes and cobras, they're history now. Now we're in the ...
Now you can feel the Shakti. The Shakti’s beginning to really move now. Because wherever Shiva is, she's not far behind. So if That alone is, she hears that there’s a place where only That is, she won't waste too much time in getting there. In ...
Is everybody comfortable? Pretty comfortable, bodily relaxed? No distraction, no strong thoughts, just nice clear relaxation? Your mind is not gripping you anymore. Where's your mind? Where's that knot that haunts you all day? That thing that ...
Moderator: A viewer in the United Kingdom, Manchester. How can I move from oneness to self-realization? David: You never from oneness, Oneness is self-realization. If by oneness, though, you mean a episodic or temporary state of ...
But more like a mobius strip made of flesh, you know, we want to feel good inside that area. Its not enough just to be in the shape of a mobius strip, but we are feelingly involved in existence. We feelingly and consciously want to know what ...
Its just easy to offer who you are in the moment. It's very easy to begin that way, no matter what is offered. No matter what the offering is it can be made beautiful because you are consciously cooperating with who you are and no matter what ...
You're already that mobius strip where the inside is on the outside and yet it's all one. Inside and outside, there is a natural continuum going on, all the time. It's not like you become free just when you know the inside. When you know the ...
David: Good, very good. It's easy. Participant: I don't even have to talk. David: It's easy. Participant: This is funny, I mean, the value of this is not even placed on talking. David: So intimate. Are you in this intimacy? So intimate, ...
I can’t give it to you. I’d like to, don’t get me wrong. I’d like to just free everybody by looking at them, because I want to be in this state with you all the time. I want to be in this state with everybody. But it requires your participation ...
You can feel how beautiful it is now in here. It’s such a beautiful, exquisite feeling. It’s absolutely astounding. It’s like a sweet thing, so sweet you can’t even taste it. But I don’t say that that’s in me. I won’t even say “I am that”. I ...