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In meditation

try letting go

of every thought

that arises.



Do not try and push

the thoughts away.

Rather, stop grabbing

hold of them.



Or if you already

have grabbed hold of the thought,

stop holding on to it.



Let it go on its own

and in this way

you…

This short film puts the material world, and the world of consciousness into an integrated…

The path

to spiritual awakening

really does not have to be

complicated.



You simply

with an open mind

find the practices

that you experience

a greater awakening

into bliss

and you practice them.



You should try everything;

from breathing exercises,

to mantra, to chanting

to various methods of meditation

and everything in between.



And when you find practices

that help awaken

the bliss…

The new age/self help

industry is often about

building yourself up.



Making yourself

more special

more successful,

more liked,

more confident.



And there is nothing

wrong with this.



But enlightenment

is the opposite.



Enlightenment is about

allowing the facade

to fall apart.



When you allow the idea

of who you think you are

to crumble,

then all that is left

is…

"Everything is energy.



Your thoughts are energy,

your feelings are energy,

your reactions are energy.



Every happening

is a movement of energy,

it is the play of Shakti.

So every time you try

and resist something

that is arising,

you are resisting Shakti.

You are repressing

the natural flow of bliss.



Trying to disassociate yourself

with your experience

is just another form or resistance.



To try and not…

"When we were born

we were sensitive to everything.



But as we began to feel things

like hurt, sadness, rejection,

we began to block that sensitivity.



We began to contract

and separate ourselves

from our experience.



Every experience of resisting pain

gets wound up tight in knots

and this becomes our identity.



We begin to experience

ourselves as this hard outer shell

that nothing can penetrate.



Our own…

"One way to look at meditation

is that you are letting go

of your separation with this moment.



You are letting go of the notion

that there is a you that is separate

from this moment.



And this is not a path of negation

where you deny yourself,

but rather it is acceptance.



Whatever you accept,

you move beyond.



Whatever you resist or desire

holds your focus.

Your attention remains

locked on that.



So if you are…

In meditation,

at first you see being lost

in your thinking as a habit.



But as you focus your mind

through meditation techniques

and other spiritual practices,

you come to realize

that in meditation,

you get lost in your…

When your heart awakens

no teaching makes sense.



The idea of teachings

and practice

does not make sense.



Something happened,

you are in love

and just loving

completes you.



There cannot be

a greater…

Non-doing

is at your essence.



It is not something

you can really practice

because how can you

do non-doing?



Everyone is addicted

to their thinking.

Thinking is always going.



So just like you tell a smoker

to sit somewhere and do nothing,

he will sit there and smoke,

if you sit and practice 'non-doing'…

"You do not need

to get yourself into

a certain state

or attain something.



You can simply

just be aware of yourself.



You can turn your attention

back upon yourself

and watch your own functioning.



Be aware of your experience,

be aware of the thoughts.



Just by allowing yourself

to be as you are

and watching what is here,

you begin to see the mechanics

of the mind.



You begin to see…

"The mind is always scheming.

Looking for ways to make you happy;

ways to make you feel good.



How you can avoid feeling

the things you don't want to feel

and how you can feel more

what you would like to feel.



There is nothing wrong with this,

it is the nature of the mind.



But it is also how stress is created.



Because there is what is here

in this moment

and there is how you would like

'here' to be.



If you really…

"The mind

is a non-stop chatterbox.



Always talking talking talking.

Commenting, judging, defining,

describing, knowing.



It is very important

to become aware of

the constant noise of the mind.



If you are involved with it,

then you cannot be aware of it.



If you are the one that knows,

that defines, that describes, that judges,

then you cannot be aware of it.



There has to be the willingness

to…

If you really live

deeply in spiritual practice

then this moment is intense.



Moment to moment,

life is shaking you

out of what you know;

shaking you out of everything

that is comfortable.



So much so that

all you can do is surrender

to this moment.



All you can do

is allow everything

to be as it…

It's amazing how many spiritually minded people I've met over the years who have experienced what I would call 'complicated' lives.

I do wonder sometimes if people become more spiritually aware because they have had to overcome difficulties in their lives, or,  were they born 'knowing' that they had chosen to walk a problematic path through life because their soul was already spiritually…

Here I will relate my first satori (temporary experience of enlightenment) that really put me on the path to enlightenment:

I was in college in Vermont, having a bad day.  After classes and meetings with teachers, I went back to my dorm room and sat down to meditate.  When I sat down, I just surrendered.  Not that I knew what surrender was but looking back on it, that was what I did.  I didn't practice…

You cannot enter

witness consciousness

if you are still holding on

to judgments.

It is not possible.



Because judgments

separate you from

everything else.



But I am not saying

"don't have judgments"

but rather, in meditation,

turn your attention

back on to yourself

and accept what is there.



Accept whatever thoughts are there,

whatever feelings are there,

whatever sensations are there.…

If you want to be free of anxiety

then notice and feel this:

life is happening in this moment.



You are not doing this moment,

you are not making

this moment happen.

It is here on its own.



If you really notice your experience

in this moment,

existence is happening.



And if you disagree,

if you think

you are creating yourself

to exist in this moment,

then stop existing.



Go on.



In trying…

One of the most amazing

realizations you can have

is to realize you are actively

avoiding this moment.



That at the very core of your ego

is that constant reflex

to separate oneself from this moment,

to constantly seek some sort

of mental distraction

that takes you out of feeling

this moment directly.



This repulsion is not happening at

an intellectual level.

It is happening unconsciously.



The ego…