Be Still
This is the only real spiritual practice.
Be still.
If you think you are being still or you experience stillness, stillness has not yet been reached because there is still a you who experiences or is aware of stillness.
This you is the obstacle between you and stillness.
In reality, there has never been a you, a self. There is only ever stillness. You may call it God or the Self. It does not matter. It has no name. Names only appear in the dream of a self.
People think that meditation or mantra or devotion are spiritual practices, but these are only practices of the ego, for there is still someone, the ego, doing the practices. These are practices of a dream, in a dream, for a dream self. As long as there is a doer, an experiencer, a perceiver, a self doing spiritual practices, it will only ever be a dream, and no progress toward awakening will be possible.
The very idea of practice is an illusion. There has only ever been the perfect bliss of Stillness, God, or Self. There is no one to practice, and nothing to practice, nor anything to practice for, just as there is no path. All of this is a dream distracting us from the One Reality that is always here.
So, just be still.
Let the dream of you go.
Don’t ask how to be still, as if there were a method to reach stillness.
Stillness is always here.
You are not. You are just a dream.
Let the dream of you go, and you will realize stillness alone is always here.
Be still.
That is all.
Be still.
Aware of Awareness Practice
This is one of the most powerful and effective inquiry and meditation practices. I shared this during the Monday Satsang and Transmission.
Awakening and the Movie Screen
The analogy of the movie screen is a beautiful description of our True Self, untouched by appearances of form and separation.
The Greatest Gift
Happy Holidays
This is my Christmas gift to you.
The greatest gift in the universe is available to you. The distractions of the world and our thoughts make us forget. This video is a reminder of what is always most important.
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Silent Transmissions happen every Monday at 3:30 Pacific Time. All information and Zoom link are available on the website.
What Is Samadhi?
There is a lot of confusion and misunderstanding about Samadhi. This is natural as it cannot be translated into words, but in this video, I do my best to describe my experience of Samadhi. Hopefully, some of the flavor of Samadhi will come through. When we think of Samadhi as being “special”, “mystical”, or something that only certain spiritually advanced people can experience, we are creating a concept about Samadhi that blocks our direct experience of it. In this video, I try to remove this common obstacle. The only way to really understand Samadhi is the direct experience of Samadhi. Hopefully, this video will make that a little easier.
Please let me know if you have any questions. You can find more videos like this on The Enlightened Way YouTube channel.
The Four Stages of Awakening
The Four Stages of the Zen Circle explains the process of awakening in the clearest way I have seen. It is a process of progressively letting go of attachments to illusion. Often people, including spiritual teachers, become stuck in one of the stages and believe that is the end of the process. Hopefully, this simple video will clear up any confusion that seems to be so common today.
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