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[MUSIC - LEE COURINGTON, "THE BEGINNING"]
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>> The world's greatestspiritual teachers from ancient
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to modern times have sharedthe view that the deepest truth
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of our being is not the propertyof one particular religion
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or spiritual tradition butcan be found within the heart
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of each person.
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The poet Rumi said,
"Where is that moon
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that never rises or sets?
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Where is that soul that isneither with nor without us?
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Don't say it is here or there.
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All creation is 'That' butfor the eyes that can see."
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[music playing]
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In the story of
the Tower of Babel,
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humanity fragmented intocountless languages, beliefs,
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cultures, and interests.
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Babel means literally
"the gate of God."
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The gate is our thinking mind,our conditioned structures.
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For those who come torealize their true nature,
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their essence beyond
name and form,
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they are initiated
into the great mystery
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of what lies beyond the gate.
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An ancient parable,
the elephant parable,
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has been used to describe howvarious traditions are actually
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all pointing to one great truth.
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A group of blind people areeach touching a different part
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of an elephant, getting
a certain impression
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of what an elephant is.
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But the person standing
at the elephant's leg
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describes the elephant
as being like a tree.
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[MUSIC - DANIEL SCHMIDT
AND VICKI HANSEN,
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"THE GAYATRI MANTRA"]
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The person at the tail saysthe elephant is like a rope.
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The elephant is
like a spear, says
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the one standing at the tusk.
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If one touches the ear, it seemsthe elephant is like a fan.
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The person touching
the side is adamant
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that the elephant
is like a wall.
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The problem is we touchour piece of the elephant,
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and we believe ourexperience is the only truth.
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We don't acknowledge
or appreciate
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that each person's experienceis a different facet
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of the same animal.
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[singing sanskrit]
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[music playing]
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The perennial philosophy
is an understanding
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that all spiritual and
religious traditions
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share a single universal truth,a mystical or transcendent
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reality upon which foundationall spiritual knowledge
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and doctrine has grown.
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Swami Vivekananda summedup the perennial teaching
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when he said, "The
end of all religions
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is the realizing
of God in the soul.
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That is the one
universal religion."
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In this film, when we
use the word "God,"
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it is simply a metaphor
for the transcendent,
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pointing to the great mysterybeyond the limited egoic mind.
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To realize one's true
self or immanent self
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is to realize one's
divine nature.
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Every soul has the potentialto manifest a new higher
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level of consciousness,
to awaken
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from its slumber and itsidentification with form.
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The writer and
visionary Aldous Huxley,
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known for his book
"Brave New World,"
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also wrote a book whichhe entitled "The Perennial
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Philosophy," in which he writesabout the one teaching that
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comes back over and
over in history, taking
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the form of the culture
in which it is realized.
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He writes, "The PerennialPhilosophy is expressed most
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succinctly in the Sanskritformula 'tat tvam asi'--
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'that Thou art'-- the Atman,or immanent eternal Self,
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is one with Brahman, theabsolute principle of all
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existence; and the lastend of every human being is
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to discover the
fact for himself,
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to find out who he
or she really is."
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[MUSIC - DEVA PREMAL, "OM RAM RAMAYA"]
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Each tradition is like afacet of a jewel reflecting
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a unique perspective of the sametruth while at the same time
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echoing and
illuminating each other.
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Whatever the language andconceptual framework used,
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all religions that reflectthe perennial teaching
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have some notion that there isa union with something greater,
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something beyond us.
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[singing sanskrit]
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It is possible to learn fromand integrate the teachings
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from one or many sources withoutidentifying a sense of self
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with them.
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It is said that all truespiritual teachings are simply
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fingers pointing to
the transcendent truth.
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If we hold on to the dogma,the teaching, for comfort,
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we will be stunted in
our spiritual evolution.
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To realize truth
beyond any concept
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is letting go of all
clinging and attachment,
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letting go of all
religious concepts.
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From the ego's perspective, thefinger pointing you to Samadhi
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is pointing straight
toward the abyss.
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Saint John of the
Cross said, "If one
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wishes to be sure of
the road they tread,
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one must close their eyesand walk in the dark."
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[singing sanskrit]
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Samadhi begins with a
leap into the unknown.
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[throat singing]
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In the ancient traditions,in order to realize Samadhi,
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it was said that one mustultimately turn consciousness
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away from all known objects,from all external phenomena,
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conditioned thoughts,
and sensations,
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toward consciousness itself,toward the inner source,
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the heart, or essence,
of one's being.
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In this film, when we
use the word "Samadhi,"
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we are pointing to
the transcendent,
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to the highest
Samadhi, which has
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been named Nirvikalpa Samadhi.
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[non-english singing]
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In Nirvikalpa Samadhi, there isa cessation of self activity,
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of all seeking and doing.
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We can only speak about whatfalls away as we approach it
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and what reappears
when we return from it.
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There is neither perception nornon-perception, neither thing
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nor no thing,
neither consciousness
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or unconsciousness.
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It is absolute, unfathomable,and inscrutable to the mind.
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[non-english singing]
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When the self
returns to activity,
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there's a not knowing,
a kind of rebirth,
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and everything
becomes new again.
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We are left with theperfume of the divine, which
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lingers longer as one
evolves on the path.
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[non-english singing]
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There are numerous types
of Samadhi described
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in the ancient traditions,and language has created
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much confusion over the years.
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We are choosing to
use the word "Samadhi"
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to point to the
transcendent union,
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but we could have used aword from another tradition
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just as easily.
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Samadhi is an ancient Sanskritterm common to the Vedic,
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Yogic, and Samkhya
traditions of India
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and has permeated manyother spiritual traditions.
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Samadhi is the eighth limb ofPatanjali's eight limbs of yoga
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and the eighth part of theBuddha's Noble Eightfold Path.
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The Buddha used
the word "nirvana,"
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the cessation of vana, or thecessation of self activity.
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Patanjali described
yoga, or Samadhi,
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as "chitta vritti
nirodha," the Sanskrit
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meaning "cessation of thewhirlpool, or spiral, of mind."
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It is a disentangling
of consciousness
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from the entire matrix,
or creatrix, of mind.
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[music playing]
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Samadhi does not
signify any concept,
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because to realize it
requires a dropping
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of the conceptual mind.
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Different religions
have used various words
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to describe the divine union.
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In fact, the word "religion"itself means something similar.
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In Latin, "religare" meansto rebind or reconnect.
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It's a similar meaning to theword yoga, which means to yoke,
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to unite the worldly
with the transcendent.
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In Islam, it is reflected inthe ancient Arabic meaning
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of the word "Islam" itself,which means submission
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or supplication to God.
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It signifies a total
humbling or surrender
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of the self structure.
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Christian mystics such asSaint Francis of Assisi,
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Saint Teresa of vila, andSaint John of the Cross describe
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a divine union with God,the kingdom of God within.
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In the Gospel of Thomas,Christ said, "The kingdom
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is not here or there.
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Rather, the kingdom
of the Father
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is spread out upon the Earth,and men do not see it."
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The works of the Greekphilosophers Plato, Plotinus,
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Parmenides, and
Heraclitus, when seen
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through the lens of
the perennial teaching,
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point towards the same wisdom.
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Plotinus teaches that thegreatest human endeavor
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is to guide the human soultowards the supreme state
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of perfection and
union with the One.
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The Lakota medicine
and holy man Black Elk
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said, "The first peace,which is the most important,
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is that which comes
within the souls of men
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when they realize theirrelationship, their oneness
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with the universe
and all its powers,
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and when they realize thatat the center of the universe
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dwells Great Spirit andthat this center is really
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everywhere.
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It is within each of us."
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[non-english singing]
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[music playing]
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On the path to awakening,unless we are in Samadhi,
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there are always two polarities,two doorways one can enter,
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two dimensions--
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one towards pure
consciousness, the other
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towards the phenomenal world--
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the upward current
toward the absolute
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and the downward
current toward maya
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and all that is manifested,both seen and unseen.
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The relationship between
relative and absolute
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could be summed up in
the following quote
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by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj--
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"Wisdom is knowing I am nothing.
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Love is knowing I am everything.
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And between the
two, my life moves."
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What is born of this union isa new divine consciousness.
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Something is born out of
the marriage, or union,
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of these polarities
or the collapse
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of dualistic identification.
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Yet, what is born is not athing, and it was never born.
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Consciousness flowers,
creating something new,
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creating what you couldcall a perennial trinity.
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God the Father,
the transcendent,
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unknowable, and
changeless is united
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with the Divine Feminine, whichis everything that changes.
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This union brings about analchemical transformation,
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a kind of death and birth.
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In the Vedic teachings,
the divine union
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is represented by two
fundamental forces--
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Shiva and Shakti.
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The names and faces
of the various gods
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change throughout history, buttheir fundamental attributes
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remain.
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What is born out of this unionis a new divine consciousness,
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a new way of being inthe world, two polarities
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inseparably one,
a universal energy
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that is without center,
free of limitation.
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It is pure love.
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There is nothing to
be gained or lost,
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because it is utterlyempty but absolutely full.
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[music playing]
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Whether it is the mysteryschools of Mesopotamia,
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the spiritual traditions ofthe Babylonians and Assyrians,
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religions of ancient Egypt,Nubian and Kemetic cultures
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of ancient Africa, theshamanic and native traditions
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around the world, themysticism of ancient Greece,
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the Gnostics, the nondualists,the Buddhists, the Taoists,
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Jews, Zoroastrians, Jains,
Muslims, or Christians,
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one finds that
their common link is
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their highest spiritual insightshave allowed their adherence
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to realize Samadhi.
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The actual word
Samadhi means something
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like to realize the samenessor oneness in all things.
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It means union.
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It is uniting all
aspects of yourself.
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But do not mistakeintellectual understanding
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for the actual
realization of Samadhi.
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It is your stillness,
your emptiness
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that unites all levels
of the spiral of life.
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[music playing]
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It is through the ancientteaching of Samadhi
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that humanity can
begin to understand
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the common source
of all religions
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and come into alignment onceagain with the spiral of life,
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Great Spirit,
Dhamma, or the Tao.
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The spiral is the bridge thatextends from the microcosm
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to the macrocosm.
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From your DNA to the
inner Lotus of energy
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that extends through the chakrasto the spiral arms of galaxies,
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every level of soul isexpressed through the spiral
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as ever-evolving branches,
living, exploring.
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True Samadhi is
realizing the emptiness
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of all levels of self,
all sheaths of the soul.
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The spiral is the
endless play of duality
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and the cycle of life and death.
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At times, we forget ourconnection to the source.
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The lens we look
through is very small.
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And we identify with beinga limited creature creeping
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upon the Earth only to onceagain complete the journey back
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to the source, to thecenter that is everywhere.
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Chuang Tzu said, "When thereis no more separation between
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'this' and 'that,' it is calledthe still-point of the Tao.
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At the still-point inthe center of the spiral,
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one can see the
infinite in all things."
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The ancient mantra
"om mani padme hum"
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has a poetic meaning--
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one awakens, or realizes,the jewel within the Lotus.
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Your true nature awakens withinthe soul, within the world,
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as the world.
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Using the hermetic principle"as above, so below;
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as below, so above,"
we can use analogies
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to begin to understand therelationship between mind
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and stillness,
relative and absolute.
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A way to begin to graspthe non-conceptual nature
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of Samadhi is to use theanalogy of the black hole.
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A black hole is traditionallydescribed as a region of space
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with a massive gravitational
field so powerful
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that no light or
matter can escape.
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New theories postulate thatall objects, from the tiniest
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microscopic particles to
macrocosmic formations
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like galaxies, have a blackhole or mysterious singularity
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at their center.
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In this analogy,
we're going to use
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this new definition
of a black hole
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as the center that
is everywhere.
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In Zen, there are
many poems and koans
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that bring us face to facewith the gateless gate.
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One must pass the gatelessgate to realize Samadhi.
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An event horizon is a boundaryin space-time beyond which
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events cannot effect
an outside observer,
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which means that whatever ishappening beyond the event
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horizon is unknowable to you.
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You could say that the eventhorizon of a black hole
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is analogous to
the gateless gate.
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It is the threshold betweenthe self and no self.
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There is no "me" thatpasses the event horizon.
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In the center of a black hole isthe one-dimensional singularity
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containing the mass
of billions of suns
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in an unimaginably small space,effectively an infinite mass,
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literally a universe insomething infinitesimally
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smaller than a grain of sand.
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The singularity is
something unfathomable,
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beyond time and space.
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According to physics,
movement is impossible.
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The existence of
things is impossible.
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Whatever it is,
it does not belong
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to the world of perception.
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Yet, it cannot be describedas merely stillness.
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It is beyond stillness
and movement.
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When you realize the centerthat is everywhere and nowhere,
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duality breaks down--
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form and emptiness,
time and the timeless.
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One could call it
a dynamic stillness
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or a pregnant emptiness
within the center
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of absolute darkness.
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The Taoist teacher Lao Tzusaid, "Darkness within darkness.
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The gateway to all
understanding."
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The writer and comparativemythologist Joseph Campbell
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describes a recurring
symbol, part
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of the perennial philosophywhich he calls the axis mundi,
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the central point, or
the highest mountain,
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the pole around
which all revolves,
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the point where stillnessand movement are together.
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From this center, a
mighty flowering tree
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is realized, a Bodhi treethat joins all worlds.
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Just as a sun gets sucked intoa black hole, when you approach
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the Great Reality, your lifestarts to revolve around it,
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and you begin to disappear.
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[throat singing]
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As you approach
the immanent self,
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it can be terrifying
to the ego structure.
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The guardians of
the gate are there
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to test those on their journey.
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One must be willing toface one's greatest fears
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and at the same timeaccept one's inherent power
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to bring light to the
unconscious terrors
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and the hidden beauty within.
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If your mind is not moved,if there is no self reacting,
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then all phenomenaproduced by the unconscious
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arises and passes away.
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This is the point in
the spiritual journey
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where faith is most needed.
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What do we mean by faith?
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Faith is not the same as belief.
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Belief is accepting somethingon the level of mind
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to bring comfort and assurance.
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Belief is the mind's wayof labeling or controlling
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experience.
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Faith is actually the opposite.
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Faith is staying in
the place of complete
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not knowing, accepting whateverarises from the unconscious.
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Faith is surrendering tothe pull of the singularity,
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to the dissolving, or
dismantling, of the self
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in order to pass
the gateless gate.
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The evolution and
structure of a galaxy
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is closely tied to the
scale of its black hole,
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just as your evolution
is tied to the presence
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of the immanent self,
the singularity that
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is your true nature.
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We can't see the black hole,but we can know about it
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by the way things
move around it,
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by how it interacts
with physical reality.
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In the same way, we cannotsee our true nature.
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The immanent self
is not a thing.
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But we can observe
enlightened action.
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As the Zen master Suzuki said,"There are, strictly speaking,
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no enlightened people.
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There is only
enlightened activity."
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We can't see it, just asthe eye cannot see itself.
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We can't see it
because it is that
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by which seeing is possible.
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Like the black hole,Samadhi is not nothingness,
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and neither is it a thing.
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It is the collapse of theduality of thing and no thing.
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There is no gate to
enter the Great Reality.
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But there are infinite paths.
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The paths, the dharmas,are like an endless spiral
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with no beginning and no end.
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No one can pass
the gateless gate.
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No one's mind has ever figuredout how, and none ever will.
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No one can pass
the gateless gate.
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So be no one.
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Samadhi is the pathless
path, the golden key.
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It is the end of ouridentification with the self
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structures that separateour inner and outer worlds.
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There are many
developmental models
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which describe the layers,or levels, of self structure.
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We will use an example
which is very ancient.
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In the "Upanishads," the sheathswhich cover the atman, or soul,
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are called koshas.
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Each kosha is like a mirror,a layer of the self structure,
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a veil, or level, of
maya which distracts us
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from realizing our true nature,if we are identified with it.
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Most people see the
reflections and believe
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that that is who they are.
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One mirror reflects the animallayer, the physical body.
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Another mirror
reflects your mind--
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your thoughts, yourinstincts and perceptions.
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Another, your inner
energy, or prana,
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which you can observe
when you turn inward.
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Another mirror
reflects on the level
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of the imaginal, which is thehigher mind, or wisdom, layer.
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And there are layers oftranscendental, or nondual,
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bliss that are experiencedas one approaches Samadhi.
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There are potentially countlessmirrors, or aspects of self,
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that one can differentiate, andthey are constantly changing.
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Most people have yet to discoverthe pranic, higher mind,
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and nondual bliss layers.
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They don't even know they exist.
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These layers are informing yourlife, but you do not see them.
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The hidden mirrorsactually inform our lives
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more than the ones
that are visible.
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They are unseen,because, for most people,
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they are not fullyilluminated by consciousness.
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Like Indra's net of jewels, themirrors all reflect each other,
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and the reflections reflect
every other reflection
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infinitely.
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A change on one
level simultaneously
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affects all levels.
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Some of these mirrors maybe left in the shadows
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unless we are fortunate enoughto have a competent guide
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to help us shine
light upon them.
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The truth is we don't
know what we don't know.
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Now, imagine that you
shatter all the mirrors.
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[music changes]
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There's nothing reflectingyou back to yourself.
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Where are you?
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When the mind becomes still,the mirrors cease to reflect.
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There is no more
subject and object.
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But do not mistake
the primordial state
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for nothingness or oblivion.
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The immanent self
is not something,
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but neither is it nothing.
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This source is not a thing.
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It is emptiness, or
stillness, itself.
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It is an emptiness that isthe source of all things.
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Form is realized as
exactly emptiness.
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Emptiness is realized
as exactly form.
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This source is the
great womb of creation
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pregnant with all possibilities.
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Samadhi is the awakening ofimpersonal consciousness.
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Just as when you are havinga dream, upon awakening,
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you realize that
everything in the dream
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was just in your mind.
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Upon realizing
Samadhi, it is realized
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that everything in this worldis happening within levels
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upon levels of energy
and consciousness.
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It is all mirrors withinmirrors, dreams within dreams.
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The you that you thinkyou are is both the dream
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and the dreamer.
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Whatever we say in
this film, let it go.
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Don't capture it with the mind.
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The soul is dreaming,dreaming the dream of you.
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The dream is everything
that is changing.
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But it is possible to
realize the changeless.
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This realization cannot beunderstood with the limited
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individual mind.
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When we return from
Nirvikalpa Samadhi,
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the mirrors begin
to reflect again,
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and it is realized thatthe world you now think you
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are living in is actually you.
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Not the limited you, which isonly a temporary reflection,
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but you are aware
of your true nature
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as the source of all that is.
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This dawning of higher wisdom--
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the embryo, prajna, or gnosis--
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is what is born out of Samadhi.
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According to the Book of
Job, Chokhma, or wisdom,
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comes from nothingness.
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This point of wisdom is
both infinitely small
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and yet encompasses
the whole of being.
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But it remainsincomprehensible until it
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is given shape and form in thepalace of mirrors called Binah,
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the womb carved out by higher
wisdom which gives shape
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to the embryonic spirit of God.
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[MUSIC - INDIAJIVA, "ABWOON D'BASHMAYA, THE LORD'S PRAYER"]
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[singing aramaic]
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[music playing]
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The existence of the mirrors,or the mind's existence,
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is not a problem.
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On the contrary, the error, oraberration, of human perception
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is that we identify
ourselves with it.
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This illusion, that we arethe limited self, is maya.
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The yogic teachings say
that to realize Samadhi,
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one must observe the meditationobject until it disappears--
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until you disappear
into it or it into you.
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Although the language in
the various traditions
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is dissimilar, at
their root, they all
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point towards a cessationof self-identification and
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self-centered activity.
501
00:44:03,510 --> 00:44:06,774
The Buddha always taught
in negative terms.
502
00:44:06,905 --> 00:44:09,124
He taught to
investigate directly
503
00:44:09,255 --> 00:44:12,650
into the working of
the self structure.
504
00:44:12,780 --> 00:44:16,262
He didn't say whatSamadhi was except that it
505
00:44:16,392 --> 00:44:20,353
was the end of suffering.
506
00:44:20,483 --> 00:44:25,010
In Advaita Vedanta, there isa term, "neti neti," which
507
00:44:25,140 --> 00:44:28,840
means "not this, not that."
508
00:44:28,970 --> 00:44:32,104
People on the path
to self-realization
509
00:44:32,234 --> 00:44:36,543
inquire into their true nature,or the nature of brahman,
510
00:44:36,674 --> 00:44:38,806
by first discovering
what they are not.
511
00:44:43,419 --> 00:44:48,207
Similarly, in Christianity,Saint Teresa of vila described
512
00:44:48,337 --> 00:44:52,167
an approach to prayerbased on the negative path,
513
00:44:52,298 --> 00:44:58,173
or via negativa, a prayer ofquiet, surrender, and union,
514
00:44:58,304 --> 00:45:00,785
which is the only way to
approach the absolute.
515
00:45:04,310 --> 00:45:07,705
Through this gradualprocess of stripping away,
516
00:45:07,835 --> 00:45:11,012
one drops anything
that is not permanent,
517
00:45:11,143 --> 00:45:14,929
anything that is changing--
518
00:45:15,060 --> 00:45:19,891
the mind, the ego construct,and all phenomena,
519
00:45:20,021 --> 00:45:23,155
including the hidden
layers of self.
520
00:45:23,285 --> 00:45:26,680
The unconscious mustbecome transparent in order
521
00:45:26,811 --> 00:45:30,336
to reflect the one source.
522
00:45:30,466 --> 00:45:33,600
If there is some deep knowing
or some self operating
523
00:45:33,731 --> 00:45:36,951
in the unconscious,
then our lives
524
00:45:37,082 --> 00:45:40,563
remain locked into alabyrinth of hidden patterns
525
00:45:40,694 --> 00:45:42,696
that comprise the
undiscovered self.
526
00:45:49,311 --> 00:45:53,751
When all layers of self
are revealed as empty,
527
00:45:53,881 --> 00:45:58,799
then one becomes free from theself, free from all concepts.
528
00:45:58,930 --> 00:46:01,976
[music playing]
529
00:46:06,198 --> 00:46:08,635
A turning point
in your evolution
530
00:46:08,766 --> 00:46:11,507
is when you realize you
don't know who you are.
531
00:46:13,858 --> 00:46:15,076
[MUSIC - DANIEL
SCHMIDT, "GATE GATE,
532
00:46:15,207 --> 00:46:16,643
THE HEART SUTRA
DEEP VOICE CHANT"]
533
00:46:16,774 --> 00:46:19,472
Who experiences the breath?
534
00:46:19,602 --> 00:46:22,257
Who experiences the taste?
535
00:46:22,388 --> 00:46:31,571
Who experiences the chant,the ritual, the dance,
536
00:46:31,701 --> 00:46:34,269
the mountain?
537
00:46:34,400 --> 00:46:36,402
Witness the witness.
538
00:46:36,532 --> 00:46:37,446
Observe the observer.
539
00:46:41,102 --> 00:46:43,626
At first, when you
observe the observer,
540
00:46:43,757 --> 00:46:47,021
you will only see
the false self.
541
00:46:47,152 --> 00:46:50,590
But if you are persistent,it will give way.
542
00:46:50,720 --> 00:46:53,593
[singing sanskrit]
543
00:46:55,508 --> 00:47:02,558
Inquire directly into who orwhat experiences unblinkingly,
544
00:47:02,689 --> 00:47:08,042
piercingly, penetratingly, withthe full force of your being.
545
00:47:11,437 --> 00:47:14,614
[singing sanskrit]
546
00:47:40,945 --> 00:47:44,122
[music playing]
547
00:47:48,604 --> 00:47:52,521
There is no self that awakens.
548
00:47:52,652 --> 00:47:56,830
There is no you that awakens.
549
00:47:56,961 --> 00:47:59,964
What you are awakening
from is the illusion
550
00:48:00,094 --> 00:48:06,013
of the separate self, fromthe dream of a limited you.
551
00:48:06,144 --> 00:48:09,234
To talk about it is meaningless.
552
00:48:09,364 --> 00:48:12,890
There must be an actual
cessation of the self
553
00:48:13,020 --> 00:48:16,110
to realize directly what it is.
554
00:48:16,241 --> 00:48:19,592
And once it is realized,
there is nothing
555
00:48:19,722 --> 00:48:22,943
that can be said about it.
556
00:48:23,074 --> 00:48:27,730
As soon as you say something,you are back in the mind.
557
00:48:27,861 --> 00:48:30,516
I have already said too much.
558
00:48:30,646 --> 00:48:33,867
[music playing]
559
00:48:40,613 --> 00:48:44,399
We normally have threestates of consciousness--
560
00:48:44,530 --> 00:48:48,577
waking, dreaming,
and deep sleep.
561
00:48:48,708 --> 00:48:53,365
Samadhi is sometimes referred toas the fourth state, the ground
562
00:48:53,495 --> 00:48:58,196
state of consciousness, aprimordial awakeness that
563
00:48:58,326 --> 00:49:02,156
can become presentcontinuously and in parallel
564
00:49:02,287 --> 00:49:05,943
with the other
consciousness states.
565
00:49:06,073 --> 00:49:08,162
In Vedanta, this
is called turiya.
566
00:49:12,340 --> 00:49:16,214
Other terms for turiyaare Christ consciousness,
567
00:49:16,344 --> 00:49:23,569
Krishna consciousness, Buddhanature, or Sahaja Samadhi.
568
00:49:23,699 --> 00:49:26,528
In Sahaja Samadhi,
the immanent self
569
00:49:26,659 --> 00:49:29,749
stays present along
with the full use
570
00:49:29,879 --> 00:49:33,057
of all human functions.
571
00:49:33,187 --> 00:49:36,277
The stillness is unmovingat the center of the spiral
572
00:49:36,408 --> 00:49:39,454
of changing phenomenon.
573
00:49:39,585 --> 00:49:44,372
Thoughts, feelings, sensations,and energy revolve around it
574
00:49:44,503 --> 00:49:46,809
at the circumference.
575
00:49:46,940 --> 00:49:50,726
But the degree of
stillness, or I am-ness,
576
00:49:50,857 --> 00:49:55,122
remains during outer activity,exactly as in meditation.
577
00:49:58,647 --> 00:50:02,477
It is possible that the immanentself will remain present,
578
00:50:02,608 --> 00:50:08,875
even during deep sleep, thatyour awareness of "I am"
579
00:50:09,006 --> 00:50:13,227
does not come and go, even asstates of consciousness change.
580
00:50:20,974 --> 00:50:22,193
This is yogic sleep.
581
00:50:25,457 --> 00:50:28,329
In the Song of Songs,
or the Song of Solomon,
582
00:50:28,460 --> 00:50:32,899
from the Hebrew Bible, orOld Testament, it reads,
583
00:50:33,030 --> 00:50:37,512
"I sleep, but my heart waketh."
584
00:50:37,643 --> 00:50:42,735
This realization of the eternalimpersonal consciousness
585
00:50:42,865 --> 00:50:46,826
is reflected in the wordsof Christ when he said.
586
00:50:46,956 --> 00:50:50,047
"Before Abraham was, I am."
587
00:50:57,489 --> 00:51:01,710
One consciousness that shinesthrough countless faces,
588
00:51:01,841 --> 00:51:02,276
countless forms.
589
00:51:17,378 --> 00:51:20,338
At first, it's like a
fragile flame borne out
590
00:51:20,468 --> 00:51:23,167
of the polarities within you--
591
00:51:23,297 --> 00:51:26,344
masculine penetrating
consciousness
592
00:51:26,474 --> 00:51:31,000
with a surrender, oropening, of feminine energy.
593
00:51:31,131 --> 00:51:34,482
It is delicate and easily lost.
594
00:51:34,613 --> 00:51:37,920
And one must take great careto protect it and keep it alive
595
00:51:38,051 --> 00:51:38,921
until it is mature.
596
00:51:44,840 --> 00:51:49,541
Samadhi is simultaneously atimeless state of consciousness
597
00:51:49,671 --> 00:51:54,459
and a stage in an unfoldingdevelopment process, something
598
00:51:54,589 --> 00:51:56,287
organic and growing in time.
599
00:52:05,861 --> 00:52:12,041
As one spends more and moretime in Samadhi, in the now,
600
00:52:12,172 --> 00:52:16,655
in the timeless, one takesmore and more direction
601
00:52:16,785 --> 00:52:22,008
from the heart,
the soul, or atman
602
00:52:22,139 --> 00:52:23,836
and less from the
conditioned structure.
603
00:52:29,972 --> 00:52:33,585
This is how one becomesfree of the lower mind, free
604
00:52:33,715 --> 00:52:34,890
of pathological thinking.
605
00:52:39,504 --> 00:52:42,202
The inner wiring changes.
606
00:52:42,333 --> 00:52:44,770
Energy no longer
flows unconsciously
607
00:52:44,900 --> 00:52:49,253
in the old conditioned
structures,
608
00:52:49,383 --> 00:52:53,213
which is another way of sayingone is no longer identified
609
00:52:53,344 --> 00:52:56,260
with the self structure,with the outer world of form.
610
00:53:11,579 --> 00:53:15,714
To realize Samadhirequires an effort so great
611
00:53:15,844 --> 00:53:20,284
that it becomes a total
surrender of one's self
612
00:53:20,414 --> 00:53:24,113
and a surrender so
encompassing that it
613
00:53:24,244 --> 00:53:28,422
is a complete effort of one'sbeing, all of one's energy.
614
00:53:32,339 --> 00:53:37,692
It is a balance of effortand surrender, yin and yang,
615
00:53:37,823 --> 00:53:39,390
a sort of effortless effort.
616
00:53:44,699 --> 00:53:48,137
[music playing]
617
00:53:48,268 --> 00:53:54,622
The Indian mystic and yogiParamahamsa Ramakrishna said,
618
00:53:54,753 --> 00:53:57,930
"Do not seek illuminationunless you seek it
619
00:53:58,060 --> 00:54:02,674
as one whose hair is
on fire seeks a pond."
620
00:54:02,804 --> 00:54:04,415
You seek it with
your whole being.
621
00:54:07,418 --> 00:54:10,334
During one's ego
transcending practice,
622
00:54:10,464 --> 00:54:14,381
it takes great courage,vigilance, and perseverance
623
00:54:14,512 --> 00:54:20,779
to keep the embryo
alive, to not fall back
624
00:54:20,909 --> 00:54:23,738
into the patterns of the world.
625
00:54:23,869 --> 00:54:27,481
It takes a willingness togo against the current,
626
00:54:27,612 --> 00:54:31,268
against the inexorable
crush of the matrix
627
00:54:31,398 --> 00:54:35,054
and the grinding
wheels of samsara.
628
00:54:35,184 --> 00:54:39,450
Every breath, every
thought, every action
629
00:54:39,580 --> 00:54:43,105
must be for
realizing the source.
630
00:54:43,236 --> 00:54:48,285
Samadhi is not realized byeffort nor is it effortless.
631
00:54:48,415 --> 00:54:51,505
Let go of effort and non-effort.
632
00:54:51,636 --> 00:54:56,336
It's a duality that
only exists in the mind.
633
00:54:56,467 --> 00:54:59,078
The actual
realization of Samadhi
634
00:54:59,208 --> 00:55:03,212
is so simple, so
undifferentiated that it
635
00:55:03,343 --> 00:55:05,998
is always misconstrued
through language,
636
00:55:06,128 --> 00:55:09,480
which is inherently dualistic.
637
00:55:09,610 --> 00:55:12,570
There is only one
primordial consciousness
638
00:55:12,700 --> 00:55:15,703
that awakens as
the world, but it
639
00:55:15,834 --> 00:55:18,271
has been obscured by
many layers of mind.
640
00:55:21,056 --> 00:55:25,626
Like the sun hidden behind theclouds, as each layer of mind
641
00:55:25,757 --> 00:55:28,586
is dropped, one's
essence is revealed.
642
00:55:33,895 --> 00:55:36,071
As each layer of
mind is dropped,
643
00:55:36,202 --> 00:55:39,423
people call it a
different Samadhi.
644
00:55:39,553 --> 00:55:41,599
They give names to
different experiences
645
00:55:41,729 --> 00:55:43,252
or different types of phenomena.
646
00:55:55,874 --> 00:55:59,486
But Samadhi is so simple thatwhen you are told what it is
647
00:55:59,617 --> 00:56:02,663
and how to realize it, yourmind will always miss it.
648
00:56:05,884 --> 00:56:11,498
Actually, Samadhi is
not simple or difficult.
649
00:56:11,629 --> 00:56:15,633
It is only the mind
that makes it so.
650
00:56:15,763 --> 00:56:19,027
When there is no mind,
there is no problem,
651
00:56:19,158 --> 00:56:24,990
because the mind is what needsto stop before it is realized.
652
00:56:25,120 --> 00:56:26,687
It is not a happening at all.
653
00:56:37,481 --> 00:56:40,484
The most concise
teaching of Samadhi
654
00:56:40,614 --> 00:56:43,704
is perhaps found
in this phrase--
655
00:56:43,835 --> 00:56:47,273
"Be still and know."
656
00:56:47,404 --> 00:56:50,581
[music playing]
657
00:56:59,851 --> 00:57:04,595
How can we use words andimages to convey stillness?
658
00:57:04,725 --> 00:57:09,991
How can we convey
silence by making noise?
659
00:57:10,122 --> 00:57:11,950
Rather than talking
about Samadhi
660
00:57:12,080 --> 00:57:15,910
as an intellectual
concept, this film
661
00:57:16,041 --> 00:57:22,526
is a radical call to inaction,a call to meditation,
662
00:57:22,656 --> 00:57:25,529
inner silence, and inner prayer.
663
00:57:25,659 --> 00:57:27,748
[throat singing]
664
00:57:27,879 --> 00:57:28,880
A call to stop--
665
00:57:29,010 --> 00:57:32,144
[music stops]
666
00:57:39,368 --> 00:57:43,503
--stop everything that is drivenby the pathological egoic mind.
667
00:57:46,985 --> 00:57:48,116
Be still and know.
668
00:57:55,689 --> 00:58:00,825
No one can tell you what willemerge from the stillness.
669
00:58:00,955 --> 00:58:03,480
It is a call to act from
the spiritual heart.
670
00:58:12,227 --> 00:58:15,404
[music playing]
671
00:58:22,803 --> 00:58:26,633
It's like remembering
something ancient.
672
00:58:26,764 --> 00:58:31,246
The soul wakes up
and remembers itself.
673
00:58:31,377 --> 00:58:33,945
It has been a
sleeping passenger,
674
00:58:34,075 --> 00:58:37,992
but now the emptinessawakens and realizes itself
675
00:58:38,123 --> 00:58:38,993
as all things.
676
00:58:45,434 --> 00:58:50,091
You can't imagine what Samadhiis with the limited egoic mind,
677
00:58:50,222 --> 00:58:55,140
just as you can't describe toa blind person what color is.
678
00:58:55,270 --> 00:58:57,011
Your mind can't know.
679
00:58:57,142 --> 00:58:58,578
It can't manufacture it.
680
00:59:02,582 --> 00:59:06,194
To realize Samadhi is to
see in a different way--
681
00:59:06,325 --> 00:59:10,590
not to see separate things,but to recognize the seer.
682
00:59:16,161 --> 00:59:20,818
Saint Francis of Assisi said,"What you are looking for
683
00:59:20,948 --> 00:59:21,732
is what is looking."
684
00:59:24,778 --> 00:59:29,000
Once you have seen themoon, you can recognize it
685
00:59:29,130 --> 00:59:32,873
in every reflection.
686
00:59:33,004 --> 00:59:36,398
The true self has
always been there.
687
00:59:36,529 --> 00:59:38,618
It is in everything.
688
00:59:38,749 --> 00:59:40,577
But you have not
realized its presence.
689
00:59:44,189 --> 00:59:49,324
When you learn to recognizeand abide as the true self
690
00:59:49,455 --> 00:59:54,634
beyond the mind and senses, itis possible to experience awe
691
00:59:54,765 --> 00:59:55,766
at the most mundane.
692
00:59:58,682 --> 00:59:59,857
We become awe.
693
01:00:09,518 --> 01:00:12,652
Do not try to be
free of desires,
694
01:00:12,783 --> 01:00:17,962
because wanting to be freeof desires is a desire.
695
01:00:18,092 --> 01:00:21,487
You can't try to be still,because your very effort is
696
01:00:21,618 --> 01:00:22,227
movement.
697
01:00:26,840 --> 01:00:30,322
Realize the stillness thatis always already present.
698
01:00:33,194 --> 01:00:35,719
Be the stillness and know.
699
01:00:39,592 --> 01:00:41,725
When all preferences
are dropped,
700
01:00:41,855 --> 01:00:44,292
the source will be revealed.
701
01:00:44,423 --> 01:00:47,948
But do not cling
even to the source.
702
01:00:48,079 --> 01:00:52,910
The Great Reality, Tao,
is not one, not two.
703
01:00:56,217 --> 01:01:00,918
Ramana Maharshi said,
"The self is only one.
704
01:01:01,048 --> 01:01:05,139
If it is limited, it is the ego.
705
01:01:05,270 --> 01:01:08,969
If unlimited, it is infiniteand the Great Reality."
706
01:01:16,150 --> 01:01:20,981
If you believe what is beingsaid, you've missed it.
707
01:01:21,112 --> 01:01:25,203
If you disbelieve,
you've also missed it.
708
01:01:25,333 --> 01:01:29,555
Belief and disbelief operateon the level of mind.
709
01:01:29,686 --> 01:01:31,905
They require a knowing.
710
01:01:32,036 --> 01:01:35,430
But if you enter into
your own investigation,
711
01:01:35,561 --> 01:01:38,912
examining all of theaspects of your own being,
712
01:01:39,043 --> 01:01:41,872
finding out who is
doing the investigating,
713
01:01:42,002 --> 01:01:44,831
if you're willing to
live by the principle
714
01:01:44,962 --> 01:01:48,922
"not my will but
higher will be done,"
715
01:01:49,053 --> 01:01:52,709
if you're willing totravel beyond all knowing,
716
01:01:52,839 --> 01:01:57,496
then you may realize what I'veattempted to point towards.
717
01:01:57,626 --> 01:02:01,500
Only then will you taste foryourself the profound mystery
718
01:02:01,630 --> 01:02:03,458
and beauty of simply existing.
719
01:02:09,073 --> 01:02:12,772
There is another
possibility for life.
720
01:02:12,903 --> 01:02:16,950
There is something
sacred, unfathomable
721
01:02:17,081 --> 01:02:21,389
that can be discovered in thestill depths of your being,
722
01:02:21,520 --> 01:02:27,569
beyond concepts, beyond dogmas,beyond conditioned activity
723
01:02:27,700 --> 01:02:28,745
and all preferences.
724
01:02:33,706 --> 01:02:37,188
It is not acquired by
techniques, rituals,
725
01:02:37,318 --> 01:02:39,538
or practices.
726
01:02:39,668 --> 01:02:42,410
There is no "how" to get it.
727
01:02:42,541 --> 01:02:43,847
There's no system.
728
01:02:43,977 --> 01:02:45,674
There's no way to The Way.
729
01:02:53,421 --> 01:02:57,512
As they say in Zen, it isdiscovering your original face
730
01:02:57,643 --> 01:03:00,428
before you were born.
731
01:03:00,559 --> 01:03:02,517
It is not about adding
more to yourself.
732
01:03:05,912 --> 01:03:09,133
It is becoming a
light unto oneself,
733
01:03:09,263 --> 01:03:12,223
a light that dispels the
illusion of the self.
734
01:03:17,271 --> 01:03:21,188
Life will always
remain unfulfilled
735
01:03:21,319 --> 01:03:25,105
and the heart will
always remain restless
736
01:03:25,236 --> 01:03:31,111
until it comes to rest in thatmystery beyond name and form.
737
01:03:31,242 --> 01:03:34,332
[music playing]
738
01:03:54,178 --> 01:03:56,789
[MUSIC - DANIEL SCHMIDT
AND VICKI HANSEN,
739
01:03:56,920 --> 01:04:05,015
"OM SHREEM LAKSHMI"]
740
01:04:05,145 --> 01:04:09,541
[singing sanskrit]
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