August 20, 2015

A L-O-N-G LETTER FROM THE FIELD: Flowing in the Waves, Wash and Wake of Oneness Become Conscious of Itself

Hi Fred,

A longish email here…

—- First, a few words of thanks —–

When it comes to many things in life, with spirituality too, experience is what matters. Otherwise, we tend to remain in the world of concepts, as if by adding more and more morsels of learning and wisdom, that gnawing gaping hole of missing wholeness can ever be filled! One of the many foolish things we do, is that we end up converting our materialistic acquisitive path to a spiritual acquisitive path.

Your teaching in its first step is not as much a teaching as it is a direct experience of Truth. To break free from the dream. To arrive at a recognition, a knowing of that which one is.

And how refreshingly unique is that? Replace seeming years and apparently lifetimes (if one has that in their belief framework) of incremental laboring to arrive at realization through incremental acquisition of knowledge, of practices, of teachings, with an immediate, direct experience of the Truth, NOW.

The session itself requires one thing of the participant student / aspirant: Be Open. To me, being open, is being truthful, being in the experience without judgment, letting the experience lead where it does. Fortunately, I knew how to be open, and remembered to be so in the session with you, and the benefits of it flowed.

First came the conclusive proof that the “I” that seems to be here doesn’t actually exist. It was rational. Inescapable. Final.

Second came the experiential glimpses of the One. Profound.

I am deeply grateful for the wisdom activated in that Fred Davis unit! A wisdom that is not about sharing knowledge, but directly waking one up from their dream, from their stupor. A wisdom that short circuits a seemingly never-ending seeking. A wisdom that opens the gateless gate in the HERE, in the NOW, waking up the participant unit to the experiential knowing of the One, the one without an other, that is all there is.

What might one call the process that engenders this experience? Is it a technique? Not really, as I see it as part method, mostly Presence at work.

I have always felt, from past experience of Reiki as a spiritual practice, that when the practitioner is in surrender, and the recipient is open, there is NO LIMIT to what may occur in that so-called healing session.

This was my experience with you. Between the Presence in the Fred Davis unit, and the openness in this unit here, the mis-identification with the “I” dropped and a recognition of the One occurred.

From here, words fail to say much else.

What might I offer as words of advice to the sincere, yet perpetual seekers out there — there is a direct way to the experience of that which you are seeking. Look up Fred Davis’ awesome books, especially the two which can be recommended from experience: The Book of Undoing, and The Book of Unknowing. Take a peek at the generous recent videos from Fred Davis on YouTube. And if you honestly experience that resonance to what is being shared, do yourself a favor and book yourself into an Awakening session with Fred Davis. And be sure to be open, when you read his works, watch his videos, and especially in the sitting with him. The seeking will surely end.

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Fred: I am happy to share that in whatever form it is useful, with others.

Here comes the Aftermath, which is meant for your review 🙂

There is no “Sundar” here. It is two days since we sat together, and I can honestly say that there is no “Sundar” here.

There is, however, a ton of Sundar-ness here in this unit. The quirky sleeping or eating habits, the cravings, the behavioral patterns emerging from the mind-body here, are all in tact. So, it is being witnessed here, that a half-quart of ice cream was eaten right after a heavy meal last night, yet there wasn’t a Sundar eating or enjoying it.

Who or what then was driving actions, behaviors such as these?

It seems like the mind-body has a momentum of its own from the ride of the past 5 decades (this unit is 52 years old, almost). And even as the seeming driver of the unit, the “Sundar” character, is missing, gone, there is the driving, the riding all on its own.

So, logically, this means that “Sundar” was never the driver at all in the first place, isn’t it? And what was going on through this unit before Aug 17th 1pm-3pm (when we sat together), is not any different than what is going on through this unit after this time till now!! i.e. Even as a “Sundar” isn’t there, the happening is happening anyway.

In turn, this must mean that there is no volition, no real doer, no real doership EVER. The apparent presence of “Sundar” before this session seems to have added the concept that the “Sundar” was the doer. But the “apparent Sundar” was only the “apparent doer”.

This further means that with no real doer, no real doership, there is only doing. This is true before “awakening” AND after “awakening”.

The only difference is that the sense of doership disappeared with the sense of a doer, the “Sundar”.

This further means that there is only doing, or rather, experiencing – this is all that is going on. Is it not?

Experiencing implies an experiencer. Except an experiencer that is separate from the experiencing isn’t to be found. So, the experiencing, the experiencer, and the “canvas” of occurrence of the experiences are all the same. Exactly like it is in the dream of a human unit. The vivid experiences, the canvas / screen on which they occur, the experiencer, the experiencing is all the human unit.

So, when the Christian / Biblical scripture says that “God made man in his image”, this is what they are talking about. The One’s dream and the apparent human’s dream are of like quality, made nothing more than just experiencing. Is it not?

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There are other things to discuss to verify clarity, and I’ll write that soon.

I hope this form of exchange with you on these matters is alright with you.

With gratitude,

“Sundar”

6 Comments

Kathleen
August 21, 2015 @ 12:03 pm

Thanks Fred and Sundar,

So true – Fred’s magic is in being able to transmit the direct experience. But for me the intellectual understanding is also critical as context for the experience. It’s like water (experience) poured into a vessel (context). Water without the vessel just passes over, refreshes for a moment, then dissipates into memory. The vessel without water is empty and dry. Together they’re a treasure.

I also appreciate the point about being truly open, surrendering thoughts, beliefs, defenses, and letting direct perception flow through. I imagine a highly developed awakened person is in this state most of the time. I can be open discrete periods of time, and with practice these intervals lengthen. In my case, suffering is the impetus. Being “me” hurts, which makes me willing to let go and let something else flow through.

All love,

Kathleen
Sundar
August 21, 2015 @ 3:42 pm

Kathleen, thanks for the thoughtful response. Your metaphor of experience and concept/context is beautiful. Growing up as an engineer, it is all too familiar for me, the need for “understanding”. In pursuit of spiritual practice though, I learned rather quickly that for the predispositions I had for analysis, that it was important for me to “experience the experience, and later analyze the experience if really really needed” 🙂

It does take a ton of energy in mind-body to prop up and enhance and keep alive and make whole, a “separate me”. i.e. “Sundar” and “his stories” were all consuming, while not necessarily leading to the wholeness it was desperately trying to achieve. Rationally speaking, this pursuit was futile. It has the distinct sense of a dog chasing its tail, a donkey going after the carrot suspended in front of his nose from his own head. Seen from this backdrop, working with Fred was a true breakthrough.

More than a “transmission”, this session with Fred felt more like this: Fred held a mirror of Truth, and this mind-body here had no choice but to see it, and accept it. Oneness waking up Oneness to the Truth of Oneness, to paraphrase Fred 🙂

Thanks
Sundar
- Fred Davis
  August 21, 2015 @ 4:57 pm
  
  Hey, Sundar! Your comments will automatically display from now on. Kathleen is terrific!
- Kathleen
  August 22, 2015 @ 12:25 pm
  
  Sundar,
  
  So true – shoring up the separate self is exhausting! It sucks up all we’ve got to give, and then clamors for more. When we redirect that energy toward nourishing the true Self, it grows ever brighter and fills us with light.
  
  Regarding the dichotomy between intellectual understanding and direct experience, I suspect that each at its height converges into the other. The purest experience would give rise to clarity of understanding. And the clearest intellectual understanding would transport us into the holistic perception of Oneness.
Mike
August 23, 2015 @ 5:22 pm

Thanks All, in-One

The “Peace that passes understanding” finally made sense to me, Understanding is Included in Peace, but that “grasping” understanding – thinking it will make for peace or happiness – is like a video game i can’t stop playing. Or less techy, yes! like that carrot whose hope of happiness is what made for any semblance of happiness – until, well, that damned carrot still wasn’t any closer! (and so the carrot became the stick!)

I read something cool too about the gap between thinking and feeling is the same (imagined) gap between Reality and separation (from The Way of Mastery). So that dovetails for me with more fully understanding with what Fred is always reinforcing: what is done is done until “we” don’t any more. So I turn that “understanding” on my emotions now, more than what is “done” to “cause” them. So I make the affirmation that “I experience my feelings fully (without judgement)”. And I’m only able to flow into this because of Fred’s help: “who” is doing this? Am I the one trying to flow, or the Flow, and/or their unseparate combo? Am I the one understanding, or the Understanding, or the two in the Same? I like to make a shortcut now and meditate on being the Ing!

Peace!
- Fred Davis
  August 23, 2015 @ 10:14 pm
  
  Thank you, Mike.
  
  Focusing on the sense of being, i.e., The Sense of Being Meditation and then allow the sense of ourselves to fall into it (Falling Into the Sense of Being), all else may be revealed; this is the #1 most skillful practice. The other #1 most skillful practice is living in inquiry, which I will do a video on soon.

A L-O-N-G LETTER FROM THE FIELD: Flowing in the Waves, Wash and Wake of Oneness Become Conscious of Itself

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