December 9th Deep Listening Event
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Practice in Every Moment of Life
To truly experience what it is to be alive, we must not only practice being fully present on the meditation cushion or on retreat, we must practice in every moment of our life. Practice not only sitting meditation, but walking meditation, driving meditation, working meditation, eating meditation. Practice presence in every moment of your life and you will know what it is like to feel fully alive and live every moment in the miraculous joy of presence.
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The Practice of Noble Silence
The Practice of Noble Silence
The Practice of Noble Silence is probably the most profound, useful, and beneficial spiritual practice there is. It begins with stopping the external doing in your life and slowly extends to stopping the internal chattering of your mind. When the mind is still and silent, a great clarity arises by itself. This is the way of True Wisdom. It is the way of Awakening.
These live Satsang videos are available every Wednesday at 7:00 pm and Saturday at noon Pacific Time on Facebook Live. They appear on the Facebook page, Satsang with Peter. There is a Zoom session after the Satsang for those who have questions or want to share their experiences. The Zoom meeting number is 983-208-8996. Some of these live Satsang videos will be posted later here on the YouTube channel as this one was. To see when new videos are posted, subscribe to The Enlightened Way YouTube channel and visit the website https://n-lightenment.com.
Three Advanced Meditation Techniques
Three Advanced Meditation Techniques
In this video I offer three advanced meditation techniques. These meditations are considered advanced and yet anyone can do them. True meditation does not begin until the experience of the meditator dissolves. Each of these practices helps free us from attachment to all thoughts, including the thought of the separate self. The great experience of freedom, peace, bliss and love shows you that you’re successful.
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The Science of Awakening
The Science of Awakening
This video is inspired by a wonderful presentation by Gary Weber who has done a great deal of scientific research into the brain and awakening. In this video we not only explore the brain and awakening, but how to turn this understanding into practices to experience awakening directly. Here is a link to Gary’s wonderful presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeNmy… For more videos like this, subscribe to The Enlightened Way YouTube Channel and visit the website https://n-lightenment.com
Your Essential Nature
Meditation Into Your Essential Nature
Whatever thoughts appear realize for just a moment that they are not appearing to you. They are not happening to you. They are not happening for you. They are not your thoughts. They are simply happening. That is all. There is no you for them to happen to or to own them. They are simply happening. They simply are.
Whatever feelings arise, notice that this is also true of all feelings. They are not happening to you or for you. They are not your feelings. There is no you for them to happen to or for. There is no you to own these feelings. They simply are.
Whatever experiences arise, notice this is just as true for them. Good or bad or neutral, they are not your experiences. They are not happening to you or for you. There is no you for them to happen to or for or to own them. In this moment they simply are.
And that’s all you can really say about you as well. You simply are, not as a person, a human, a male or female, not as a body, not as thoughts or stories of a life, not as experiences. Not as anything you can conceive of. You are non-conceptual reality, which is the only reality there is. Everything else is a just a thought, an illusion, a dream.
This is what it means to be Self Realized. This is the Self that is realized. It is not an object you can look at, analyze, describe or understand. It is the fundamental nature of reality. When you let go of the entire imagined story of you, this is what is left. Neither nothing nor something nor somebody has anything to do with it. These are just concepts. This is reality.
As long as you hold any concepts about it or anything else, you are distracted from the simplicity and unlimited infinite nature of reality. And this is what you are. This is what everything you perceive really is.
And all you can say about it is that it is. You cannot say what it is. You can only say it is. Everything else is a concept that distracts you from what is. It’s far better to say nothing at all, for that is closest to reality. But this is a start.
Let this painting be a reminder for you. If you feel drawn to it, you can copy it from this page. Prints are also available form the link below.