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Participant 1: The Shakti feels especially strong to me…and the silence is there….It’s powerful. David: So, it must be that that whole happening is outside of individuality. It’s beyond knowledge. It’s in the Advaita Vedantic field, beyond [...]

David: You’re realizing that you're in maya. That’s why it’s beginning to look dreamy because you’re in a dream. Participant 1: Hmm. David: So, the first thing that happens is you come into the recognition that you’re dreaming, which is what you [...]

That’s a special phrase now, “the potency in understanding,” which is the potency of realization itself as you become conscious of it. So, you know that you know. You know that you know, not in an arrogant way but in a confident way, in the [...]

The path of enlightenment is not about anything else then knowing who and what you are, and therefore there has to be set up a prior level of confidence that gives you the strength to look into yourself so that whatever you see you can deal with [...]

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 [...]

Participant 1: When God manifests, he manifests through…, David: she P1: she manifests through physics and chemistry and the world of form. David: Really? Tell us more. Participant 2: Can I say something from the Upanishads? David: I’m ready. [...]

There is nothing personal in enlightenment. Enlightenment, we could say, is a vast emptiness, an impersonal backdrop and, certainly, does not destroy the function of the personality, or ego structure, or feelings, or bodily functioning.  But, it [...]

We all know that Consciousness is always there. If it's always there, why is a teaching needed? It's needed because it's so close and so obvious that you miss it and you have to be instructed on how to look. You have to be instructed on how to [...]

But the Bliss of yourself is so full of the nectar that you’re seeking. All it needs to do is rise in sufficient intensity so that it begins to drown the part of you that goes on functioning in separation. That separate part will begin to sip [...]

When I come here, and I come here again and again, this location and others, I’ve noticed an indefatigable energy that’s present. It’s not me. It’s not my energy. It comes with me. I find it awakening into me, through me, into everything. It’s [...]