0:00:09.010,0:00:10.710 What we are going to describe 0:00:10.716,0:00:12.973 has been called ‘The Secret Of Secrets’, 0:00:12.980,0:00:16.949 the esoteric wisdom that leads to samadhi. 0:00:17.589,0:00:21.189 Samadhi is the goal of all spirituality, 0:00:21.420,0:00:24.450 its union with the source. 0:00:24.880,0:00:27.760 the truth of who or what you are. 0:00:27.960,0:00:30.596 The truth that transcends the limited mind, 0:00:30.596,0:00:33.860 cannot be seen by means of the limited mind. 0:00:34.040,0:00:36.899 The still point cannot be reached 0:00:36.899,0:00:40.200 by means of movement. If you want to 0:00:40.200,0:00:42.660 realize the still point beyond thinking, 0:00:42.660,0:00:47.490 let go of all interest in thoughts and sensations, 0:00:47.760,0:00:51.050 all preferences, all phenomena 0:00:51.170,0:00:54.080 generated by the mind and senses, 0:00:54.290,0:00:58.310 and rest in naked awareness. 0:01:20.520,0:01:23.159 There are two fundamental dimensions 0:01:23.159,0:01:26.400 to existence in this moment. 0:01:26.400,0:01:29.520 There's that which is changing 0:01:29.520,0:01:32.040 and that which is unchanging. 0:01:32.040,0:01:34.860 Thoughts and sensations are a field 0:01:34.860,0:01:37.460 of constantly changing phenomena. 0:01:39.659,0:01:42.960 What is unchanging is the awareness 0:01:42.960,0:01:45.130 of that field of change. 0:01:49.140,0:01:51.299 We are usually so caught up in the field 0:01:51.299,0:01:55.079 of change, fixated on its objects, that we 0:01:55.079,0:01:57.720 ignored the dimension of awareness. 0:01:57.720,0:02:00.659 So we start our investigation by 0:02:00.659,0:02:04.259 becoming aware of awareness, 0:02:04.259,0:02:07.750 being conscious of Consciousness. 0:02:43.800,0:02:46.140 The challenge with resting in awareness 0:02:46.140,0:02:49.080 for long periods of time, is that 0:02:49.080,0:02:51.060 most people have not cultivated 0:02:51.060,0:02:53.940 the concentration and equanimity 0:02:53.940,0:02:56.040 to stay in awareness. 0:02:56.040,0:02:58.620 We are addicted to comfort 0:02:58.620,0:03:00.350 and the limited mind will want 0:03:00.350,0:03:03.000 to escape from this exercise, 0:03:03.000,0:03:05.400 it will find it profoundly uncomfortable 0:03:05.400,0:03:07.680 and will create every type of 0:03:07.680,0:03:10.510 hindrance or distraction. 0:03:11.879,0:03:14.730 There are two primary knots that 0:03:14.730,0:03:18.239 bind us to ego identification. 0:03:18.239,0:03:21.120 The body is attached to comfort 0:03:21.120,0:03:25.220 and the mind wants to know. 0:03:26.040,0:03:28.560 If we continue to seek the comfort 0:03:28.560,0:03:31.319 of the body and continue to seek 0:03:31.319,0:03:32.879 knowing with the mind, 0:03:32.879,0:03:35.040 we will never move beyond the 0:03:35.040,0:03:37.500 limited mind and body. 0:03:37.500,0:03:41.040 We will remain like a herd animal, 0:03:41.040,0:03:43.560 a creature that craves pleasure 0:03:43.560,0:03:46.440 and avoids pain, endlessly responding 0:03:46.440,0:03:50.460 to stimulus, endlessly doing, 0:03:50.610,0:03:54.520 and unaware of the dimension of being. 0:03:57.120,0:04:00.720 To be aware, to be fully attentive to 0:04:00.720,0:04:03.239 what is happening, without the mediation 0:04:03.239,0:04:06.840 of egoic conditioning, without concepts, 0:04:06.840,0:04:10.500 without controlling, manipulating 0:04:10.500,0:04:13.714 or distortion, without the filtering 0:04:13.714,0:04:15.279 of the limited mind, 0:04:15.279,0:04:18.370 is to be present without choosing. 0:04:19.079,0:04:22.079 Present without choosing, and therefore 0:04:22.079,0:04:24.800 without a chooser. 0:04:26.340,0:04:29.100 Every time the mind moves without your 0:04:29.100,0:04:32.750 willing, even the tiniest movement, 0:04:32.750,0:04:35.700 it is due to filtering through the 0:04:35.700,0:04:39.160 conditioning of the self-structure. 0:04:41.820,0:04:44.520 The path leads to cessation of 0:04:44.520,0:04:47.070 the entire whirlpool of mind. 0:04:52.080,0:04:56.322 To realizing all levels of self as empty. 0:05:00.960,0:05:03.410 How do I drop all doing, 0:05:03.410,0:05:06.439 how do I drop mind activity? 0:05:07.259,0:05:11.400 Listen closely, this is the paradox. 0:05:11.400,0:05:14.880 The limited egoic mind hears that 0:05:14.880,0:05:18.419 question and wants to know how, 0:05:18.419,0:05:23.479 but that limited mind can't do it. 0:05:23.820,0:05:27.180 The mind will always fail in any attempt 0:05:27.180,0:05:32.360 to realize stillness, because [br]the mind is movement. 0:05:33.440,0:05:38.360 The mind itself is movement, 0:05:38.520,0:05:41.820 it is an endless process of doing. 0:05:41.820,0:05:45.240 We have to make the shift from doing 0:05:45.240,0:05:47.419 to BEING. 0:05:47.419,0:05:50.460 The you that you think you are is a 0:05:50.460,0:05:53.994 process a constant movement, 0:05:53.994,0:05:57.380 a collection of patterns. 0:06:02.400,0:06:05.759 That YOU has to die. 0:06:05.759,0:06:08.440 The pathological pattern of you 0:06:08.440,0:06:12.419 has to end for Samadhi to be realized. 0:06:12.419,0:06:15.860 Let that sink in... 0:06:16.320,0:06:18.360 Spiritual teachers have given 0:06:18.360,0:06:20.639 the instruction to reach Samadhi. 0:06:20.639,0:06:23.639 Be still and know. 0:06:23.639,0:06:26.940 Be still and know the True Self. 0:06:26.940,0:06:29.819 Primordial Awareness beyond name and form. 0:06:31.359,0:06:35.570 Be still and know that you are God. 0:06:37.620,0:06:40.940 What exactly do they mean? 0:06:41.880,0:06:45.860 What is it that becomes still? 0:06:47.280,0:06:49.740 Obviously no one's physical body can 0:06:49.740,0:06:51.890 become absolutely still, 0:06:51.890,0:06:55.179 existing within time and space. 0:06:55.179,0:06:58.620 Because time-space itself is movement. 0:06:59.539,0:07:02.639 Time-space is mind, 0:07:02.639,0:07:07.759 the Universe is big mind or Logos. 0:07:10.259,0:07:13.500 The first Hermetic principle is that 0:07:13.500,0:07:18.440 The All is mind, the Universe is mental. 0:07:19.319,0:07:21.830 If the Universe is mind and mind 0:07:21.830,0:07:26.340 is movement, how can I be still and know? 0:07:26.340,0:07:29.520 How can you be still on a globe spinning 0:07:29.520,0:07:34.460 a thousand miles per hour around its axis, 0:07:35.060,0:07:40.190 spinning 67 000 miles per hour [br]around the Sun, 0:07:41.340,0:07:46.409 moving 500 000 miles per hour [br]around the Galaxy, 0:07:46.539,0:07:50.759 and millions more through the Universe? 0:07:52.380,0:07:56.159 Your heart is beating, [br]cells are moving inside, 0:07:56.520,0:08:00.589 food digesting, the brain [br]producing brain waves. 0:08:01.680,0:08:06.000 Your blood is pumping, energy is moving, 0:08:06.000,0:08:08.520 how can we be still? 0:08:08.520,0:08:12.350 When the spiritual Masters say [br]'be still and know', 0:08:12.660,0:08:15.720 they must be talking about something else, 0:08:15.720,0:08:19.160 something Beyond time and space, 0:08:19.160,0:08:23.280 something beyond the physical and mental. 0:08:23.280,0:08:25.979 What is meant by stillness is something 0:08:25.979,0:08:30.179 that we have no word for in our [br]modern language system. 0:08:30.500,0:08:33.580 The Sanskrit language, the language 0:08:33.580,0:08:36.779 of the yogis, has more precise terms 0:08:36.779,0:08:39.919 which point to the non-dual. 0:08:40.620,0:08:44.940 The term 'shunyata' is often translated 0:08:44.940,0:08:48.610 as ‘voidness’, stillness or emptiness. 0:08:49.380,0:08:51.839 It is what is used in connection 0:08:51.839,0:08:55.019 with 'anata' or no-self, 0:08:55.019,0:08:58.172 the realization of Buddha nature. 0:09:01.500,0:09:05.169 Stillness is maybe the closest [br]English word, 0:09:05.220,0:09:07.440 but it is inadequate to describe something 0:09:07.440,0:09:10.250 that is not of this dualistic world. 0:09:11.519,0:09:15.580 What is actually realized is the [br]Primordial Consciousness, 0:09:15.580,0:09:18.720 which is beyond stillness and movement, 0:09:18.720,0:09:22.270 beyond time. It is eternal, 0:09:22.270,0:09:24.519 the ground of your being, 0:09:24.519,0:09:27.210 the essential nature of reality 0:09:27.210,0:09:30.800 that does not change. [br]Actually it is beyond 0:09:30.800,0:09:34.200 change and the changeless. 0:09:34.200,0:09:37.440 When our true nature is realized 0:09:37.440,0:09:40.450 it becomes obvious that stillness [br]and movement 0:09:40.450,0:09:43.490 are a duality created by the Mind, 0:09:43.490,0:09:48.910 silence and noise are a duality [br]created by the mind. 0:09:50.640,0:09:53.580 Everything is already inherent within 0:09:53.580,0:09:56.459 that primordial stillness, the movement 0:09:56.459,0:10:00.749 of the world is identical to stillness. 0:10:01.580,0:10:04.080 Be still and know, 0:10:04.080,0:10:07.380 be in motion and know. 0:10:07.380,0:10:10.300 It is all emptiness dancing. 0:10:10.300,0:10:12.690 This is not something philosophical, 0:10:12.690,0:10:14.340 but an entirely different way 0:10:14.340,0:10:16.990 of interfacing with the world. 0:10:17.191,0:10:20.090 Actually it's about dropping [br]the interface, 0:10:20.339,0:10:23.139 dropping the reducing valve which is 0:10:23.139,0:10:26.840 the self-structure, and experiencing[br]your true nature 0:10:26.840,0:10:29.410 unmediated by the limited mind. 0:10:30.300,0:10:33.120 The so-called outer world is transcended 0:10:33.120,0:10:37.710 by realizing stillness, [br]which when realized, 0:10:37.710,0:10:41.090 includes that which it transcends. 0:10:42.300,0:10:46.219 The duality of stillness and [br]movement collapses. 0:10:47.399,0:10:51.240 Realizing samadhi, this great awakening 0:10:51.240,0:10:54.440 is just the beginning of the path. 0:10:54.440,0:10:57.540 Patanjali says that the entire endeavor 0:10:57.540,0:11:00.600 of yoga is aimed at the cessation 0:11:00.600,0:11:02.579 of the whirlpool of the mind. 0:11:02.579,0:11:05.579 'Chitta vritti nirodha'. 0:11:05.579,0:11:08.570 You could say it is the cessation [br]of karma, 0:11:10.740,0:11:14.250 the cessation of deep unconscious patterns 0:11:14.250,0:11:17.940 on many different levels. 0:11:17.940,0:11:20.519 When we realize our true nature, 0:11:20.519,0:11:23.160 we temporarily cease our identification 0:11:23.160,0:11:25.210 and reaction to the mind. 0:11:26.700,0:11:29.940 It's like pulling the plug on a fan. 0:11:29.940,0:11:32.869 When we pulled the plug on a fan, 0:11:32.869,0:11:35.107 inertia of the Fan's blades keeps it 0:11:35.107,0:11:37.720 keeps it going as long as we don't 0:11:37.720,0:11:39.420 plug the fan back in, 0:11:39.420,0:11:43.579 it will eventually come to stillness. 0:11:43.800,0:11:46.320 Karma is simply the tendency for energy 0:11:46.320,0:11:49.188 to follow established pathways. 0:11:49.188,0:11:52.730 When Consciousness slips back[br]into pattern, 0:11:52.730,0:11:55.440 it's like plugging in the fan. 0:11:55.440,0:11:58.360 Energy follows Consciousness. 0:11:58.360,0:12:01.667 Energy goes back into the old patterns. 0:12:04.380,0:12:06.519 Another way of describing it, 0:12:06.519,0:12:09.480 is through the law of inertia. 0:12:09.480,0:12:12.870 A mind in motion stays in motion, 0:12:12.870,0:12:16.620 unless acted upon by an outside force. 0:12:17.339,0:12:19.620 In the matrix of the conditioned mind 0:12:19.620,0:12:21.839 that we call the Universe, 0:12:21.839,0:12:24.420 energy and thought cycle through fractal 0:12:24.420,0:12:27.600 labyrinths that exist on a Continuum, 0:12:27.600,0:12:29.820 for micro to macro levels, 0:12:29.820,0:12:32.880 branching and exploring endlessly 0:12:34.519,0:12:37.920 All spiritual practice is an intervention, 0:12:37.920,0:12:41.040 an outside force, 0:12:41.040,0:12:43.680 a Consciousness which diverts energy 0:12:43.680,0:12:47.300 from flowing in the conditioned pathways. 0:12:47.300,0:12:51.210 You have to be willing [br]to change your life. 0:12:53.639,0:12:55.920 Someone can do all the meditation 0:12:55.920,0:12:58.440 in the world but if they go back to their 0:12:58.440,0:13:00.000 same old patterns, 0:13:00.000,0:13:02.040 their same old routine, 0:13:02.040,0:13:05.040 then the wiring remains in place. 0:13:06.800,0:13:10.079 Our unconscious motivations must be 0:13:10.079,0:13:12.600 excavated and faced. 0:13:12.600,0:13:15.120 If through great perseverance and 0:13:15.120,0:13:18.060 determination, we managed to not plug in 0:13:18.060,0:13:20.160 the fan, then there is an actual 0:13:20.160,0:13:23.220 cessation of the 'vritties'. 0:13:23.220,0:13:26.040 A profound silence that is born 0:13:26.040,0:13:28.380 within the self-structure. 0:13:28.380,0:13:31.920 Every time we identify with and react to 0:13:31.920,0:13:34.740 some preference produced by the mind, 0:13:34.740,0:13:37.124 we plug the fan back in. 0:13:37.124,0:13:39.779 The longer we remain in awareness, 0:13:39.779,0:13:42.839 the more of the samskaras are purified. 0:13:42.839,0:13:45.959 The more the fan slows down, 0:13:45.959,0:13:47.769 and the human vessel becomes 0:13:47.769,0:13:50.490 more permeable to awareness, 0:13:50.490,0:13:53.621 the more we become empty of self.