Today in Sunday Satsang, Dennis, one of the members of the Awakening Clarity Now community, shared the story of Clive Wearing and its affirmation of non-duality. In 1985, Wearing—a noted British musician—was stricken with a brain infection that left him with only a few seconds of short-term memory and virtually no long-term memory. Dennis said […]
The fundamental problem in spirituality today is that we are taught to be awake or we are told that we are not awake. Neither of these are true. We are Awakeness. Act as if you have free will, but recognize that you do not. Who could have free will if there is no one here […]
Scan the room. Take note of the objects. Imagine that the space around the objects is filled with jello. Notice the connection between the objects. Is there an empty space separating objects now? Now everything is unified. How many separate objects are there now? Just one. Or none. The witness is an important step in […]
Awakeness operates unconsciously through these units until it just can’t take it anymore, until the story becomes insufferable. Then truth (through whatever teaching) finds us. Fred seeing that there is no Fred is futile. Only when Awakeness notices there is no Fred is there awakening. It’s Awakeness’s awakening to Awakeness. Give as much attention to […]
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I, Awakeness, am awake to this moment. What does that mean? It means that in the present moment, in the midst of the present arisings, I know I am the continuous, unshakable absolute. What is it that cannot accept death: the absolute or the character? What do you actually fear? Is there anything other than […]
Notice that fear is always coupled with hope. Hope and fear are caught up in the story of time. When I am fearful, that means I am believing I am separate from the absolute and that I know what is best for this fictitious character. The spiritual journey starts with doubt but evolves into conviction, […]
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The question is not whether or not I have free will. The question is who here would have free will? The recognition that neither the character nor Awakeness is in control can be initially unnerving. Our core addiction is that we are addicted to thought. Primary thought: I am Fred. Followed by something is wrong […]
We are reflections in a mirror questioning the existence of the mirror. There is no location for No Thing. You are without location, but your sense of location is here, meaning I am This arising. There is nothing to localize: you are oneness and there is nothing outside of oneness. Whatever you are is prior […]
The one who wants to break free is the imagined character. There is no liberation, because there is no bondage. Which is closer to the truth of your experience, the thought “I am” or the felt sense of being? You don’t know who or what you are. You know that you are, and have […]
“I am” is the humming meditation behind all things. Remind yourself: If there is suffering, I am dreaming. Notice that when one worry lifts, the dream just plugs another one in its place. These units are unsatisfiable, living in an unfixable world. It’s not the content of the dream. It’s who’s experiencing it. We […]
What we are all looking for is distraction, because consciousness is a heavy burden to bear. Consciousness is constantly and unsatisfiably looking for something else. When we come to the realization that these units are unsatisfiable, we relax our grip. We begin to sit with it as it is, because that is all there […]
Notice true nature. Notice what you really are. Ask yourself, “Do I need the world?” If the answer is coming from Awakeness, the answer will always be no. Do I need this body? No. The way to turn our concern away from the content of this arising is to shift our view from the zoomed-in […]
Q: If there is only oneness, why can’t I experience swimming upstream as a salmon? A: You are experiencing it – as the salmon! A so-called spiritual experience is the character’s experience of Awakeness waking up, translated through the character. But you are always having a spiritual experience. There is only spiritual experience. […]
Hey Fred, Satsang was quite potent yesterday, to say the least. I wanted to share an experience (if you can call it that), and maybe elicit some reflections from you. It’s interesting — when I attempt to describe it, I hit a wall. It was such a non-experience — a powerful non-experience, paradoxically — that […]
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