Day 7 - Closing Talk and Final Sharing (live replay)

Good morning everyone.

So here we are. It's the last morning.
So I'd like to talk a little bit about

what happens now in life
and this integration.

As with everything on this path this
whole idea of integration is a bit

of a paradox. So I'm going to be sort of
talking about the two dimensions of life

and a little bit about understanding this
paradox. And I'll maybe start by something

that Ramana Maharshi said a lot. He said
you know, this path requires vigilance...

talking about the two dimensions of

life and a little bit about

understanding this

paradox. And I'll maybe

start by

something something that Ramana Maharshi

said a lot. He said you know this

path requires

vigilance... a constant vigilance and

this is something that is

ongoing throughout life. And

it's an interesting sort of

vigilance because it's not a

vigilance to to do something.

It's a vigilance

to remember the truth or to abide in the

Self; to be as you truly are. So

there's this ongoing vigilance.

There's a teaching... in

the teachings of Dogen he says

that

meditation doesn't lead to enlightenment,

meditation is

enlightenment. You know by being, by

just being, by just sitting, by

unhooking from the mind you know it

requires this constant vigilance.

So this is this is one aspect of the

path; one aspect of

integration. And the counterpart to it is

that everything is perfect as it is and

nothing needs to be done. Nothing

needs to be

achieved. And we can

hold

this paradox together. It's this always

being Buddha, always becoming Buddha. You

know Ken Wilbur talked about waking

up and growing up. So there's

recognizing the truth

of who we are; you know the waking up,

And there's this ever

unfolding development process. You

know this this human avatar is an

ongoing project. So we're we're always

engaged in both. There's always

waking up and growing up. So you

know from one perspective the

mind asks you "how do I, how do I

stay awake?" We touch

awareness you know and

and the mind says "how do I keep it?"

And this is the delusion of the

mind... that there's something to do,

something for it to do to stay awake.

So this is the the fundamental

delusion of the mind... you know it thinks

that "I'm going to

purify samskaras, I'm going to do this,

I'm going to do that. I'm going to... you

know where's the the the next workshop?"

And you know this is

an

endless doing and seeking. So

hopefully at this

retreat you know the one thing that I

I really want to convey is that we

can let go of that seeker. We

can we can let go of that seeking mind,

that we don't we don't need to seek with

the mind. That what we're seeking is

already here and if we're engaging in

any practice it's just unhooking

from that

mind. You know it's just being you.

You could say the just being is the

the entire path. Really it's that simple.

You know I always say it's so

simple that the mind misses it so

don't fall into the trap, you know that

there's something to do,

something to integrate something

for that mind to to get its

control mechanism engaged

with.

So in terms of the ongoing

being you know the sadhana, the

ongoing

vigilance... we we're going to

load you up with stuff....

we're going to send out a

big email with information about

connecting to the awaken the world

community site where you can hook up

with dyad partners. There's ongoing

resources as well.... what I've been

just talking about this whole sort of

paradox, of what comes now.

You know there's a really amazing

book by Adyashanti- I'll be sending a

link to it and it's called "The End

of Your World" if I could write

one book it would be that book. It's

it's beautiful -he sums it up

really really well, this

delusion of the mind. The subtitle

for it is "straight talk about

enlightenment". So I always

recommend that one for after a

retreat. The pointers are really

really

powerful. So we're going to be

connecting you with the

online community,

dyad

resources. People were asking about

the schedule page and the videos.

So anybody who has participated in

the retreat will have constant access to

to that in perpetuity. You can

access that anytime so that

link will always be active and

actually that schedule page is

going to turn into sort of a

retreat where you can

just sort of build your own retreat.

So it'll have all the videos and talks

and we're going to tweak it. There's

still a few more things to sort out on

it so it's going to get refined over

time.

One thing I should

mention... so this whole retreat has

been an incredible amount of energy

and momentum to make it happen

and to put all this stuff together. So

Lilla and I are going on a holiday right

after this and we have a

million emails and messages that

have been coming in and

we're totally swamped so if we don't get

back to you. I'm

going to eventually get to every message

and email, but just know that

we're taking a little downtime

to recharge the avatars after this.

So

um yeah

so there a few things

I'll talk about and then I'd love to

one of the things that I really

love at these retreats is at the end to

hear from you guys and you

know I'd love to hear what the takeaways

are from this retreat and the

insights because the

wisdom starts to come alive in everyone.

Yeah I'd like to share that

wisdom and hear from you guys.

So that would be

amazing. So there's there's just a few

more things I'd like to mention. So

we've talked a little bit about how

the mind appropriates and you know the

mind asks "how do I hang on to this?" you

know and that's the delusion of

the mind. There's

the character... that

conditioned self that wants to

control... that wants to be in the driver's

seat. It likes to appropriate

awakening.

The truth is there's no "I"

that

awakens that is a thing you know that

is a character. We awaken

from that. So when we go

back into life one of the big traps

is when that

conditioned self says okay I'm more

awake now you know I'm more um

enlightened, what can

happen is going back into life and

thinking I'm awake and everyone

in the Matrix is asleep, and

there's this separation.

It's another game that the mind

likes to play. It creates a sense of

separation in in life. So be very

conscious that that can

happen. When we're truly

awake the paradox of it is

it seems that the world is awake.

Actually it's not me awake. It's

like you see the One Source in

everyone so you see someone

living their life and you see

through the character. You see

the One Source. So by Awakening

ourselves we awaken the

world. We see the world as

awake. So if we see this

separation... that the

world is asleep

so again this

is the paradox. We go back to life and

we'll see the mind patterns clearly.

We'll see the characters of our self and of

everyone clearly. We see the madness

of the egoic consciousness

clearly but also recognize that it's

all a playwithin

the one

source. There's one saying...

I can't remember who said this but

I like this one... they said uh yeah I

can't remember the name but they said

"If you if you give a lawnmower rocket

fuel, it's still a

lawnmower. So if you

go back into life

we've freed up a lot of

energy and that energy can go back

into the old patterns very quickly.

So the

lawnmower... if you give it rocket fuel

it's just going to go like high speed

but it's still doing the same thing it's

always done. And the ego is the same.

If we go back in into the world

those patterns are there.

That wiring.... it's like

we can't just quickly unlearn our

wiring. We can't

just unlearn a

language. All those those neuropathways

and old pranic

pathways that are connected to the ego

structure....

when we don't feed

them they're like weeds

in the garden and they'll

eventually die out. So we just have

to be vigilant that we don't

feed

them. But it can take time for them to

die out. Ramana Maharshi... I love the

fan analogy... is the perfect

analogy. This

conditioned mind is like a fan and it's

going at high speed and it has momentum

and we pull the plug on that fan but

the fan's still going. So it takes time.

We just have to be vigilant to

not plug in the fan. Just notice

where that energy is going. Is it going

into the old patterns?

After a retreat like this there's

know so much energy has been freed um so

when if we plug in that fan it's going

to go 100 miles an hour it's going to be

supercharged so so just be really really

um extra vigilant um afterwards and take

time to to

transition into the world and and leave

leave some space you know spend some

time in in nature just being if you

can um another

um thing or phenomenon um that I I like

to talk about as well in the esoteric

Traditions they talk about um the

general law the general law and this

this um General law is has to do with

sort of the um the gravity center of the

Matrix you know there's a there's a

certain um kind of orbit or gravity um

that um most most of uh Society is in

you know they're in a certain orbit or

you could say a certain

vibration um so when we start to do uh a

retreat like this we're starting to pull

out of that gravity Center we're we're

starting to pull away from from the main

um you know um kind of consensus reality

that that is happening on this planet so

so as we move away um the general law

says that um you

know you'll get pulled back um you

there's there's going to be an effort to

um that gravity will will try to pull

you back um so um you know when we're

we're interacting with others you know

people people who know our

characters um they may see that we're

not we're not being our characters the

same way you know there it's like

there's something different um we're

we're behaving a little bit differently

and and it's like what's what's what's

wrong with that person you know they're

they're not they're not buying into the

drama anymore there must be something

wrong with them or you know so the um

you know so there there there will be

this this um energy that is like trying

to um get the character to um activate

again and and to behave the same way and

engage with the same patterns um so just

be aware that that that happens um we

want to be um mindful you know when we

when we

share what has happened over this week

you know the the experience and the

Insight um you know just be careful when

when we share it um you know I I

remember coming back from um you know

some of the Retreats that I've done and

and and sharing um with someone who who

didn't really appreciate it or or maybe

thought I was a little crazy and um you

know it it you you can lose energy you

can lose you can lose um you know there

there's you know at these these Retreats

like there's there's the direct

experience you know the

direct um you know realizations and then

you know once removed from that there's

sort of this embodied energetic memory

of it you know and that that embodied

memory can reactivate the direct

experience but then even once more

removed from that is the story about it

the story about it so we we don't want

to just go into the story and and become

disconnected from um that direct

experience so so just you know the mind

the mind really um loves stories you

know and it and it loves to um you know

get its get its hooks in any way it can

and and um you know there might be uh a

tendency to um

you know want to tell people about what

this is and that's awesome you know it's

it's I you know we we want to spread

this as much as possible but also um

yeah just for your own path there are

certain things that are um maybe just

for you you know certain experiences

that are that are wor certain um truths

that are just for you or or to be shared

you know in in special

circumstances so just just maintain that

um that connection or you know that

little flame whatever that is you know

sometimes they refer to PR prna prna

paramita you know the ultimate wisdom as

this this little flame at the beginning

and and it it needs to be protected

until it's a a a fire like a a you know

a Raging Fire then then you can just go

out and burn everything down

but so uh another thing that that comes

up

um you know um sometimes it it's funny

like you know there there will be people

will will get an insight into who they

are and um you know or you know there's

there's a sense of peace and everything

but then then the mind will come in and

say but but I really don't know my

purpose like what's my purpose you know

I I don't find the purpose of of my life

and once again that's um you know

like

the you know every everything you're

like the purpose is is to be you know

like you already are like that's that's

the ultimate purpose is is to be here

and and and you you already are so so

you fulfilled that purpose um but but

there's an there's an energy or an

aliveness so I think what that that

question is really asking is what you

know what does the energy want to do you

know what what do I want to explore and

play with in in this life and um you

know to me that the answer to that uh

Joseph Campbell had it he said follow

your bliss you know follow that that

energy and

aliveness and um and just see where it

goes and we we we don't really know um

where it's going to go to me you know

life is not you know it's it's not like

what if if I had a purpose you know like

some big mission to fulfill you know in

the future that would be an incredible

burden it would be uh you know it's it's

like the M it's I think it it's it's

good for the mind to just let that go

and and relax and and and just just play

you know it I think to me it can be much

more childlike um or more like a like a

dance you know you just just allow it to

unfold and see see what music is playing

and and go with

it like that's saying you know to come

to Stillness let go into the moving

stream you know let go into the music

and and just see how this life has

moved yeah and you know in the the Sufi

tradition um you know they they

sometimes talk about how um life is

happening for you it's not happening to

you you know so what whatever comes

whatever whatever arrives you know at

your doorstep um just just invite it in

and and uh you know it's happening for

you and you know if if there's this

little character that thinks you know oh

you know all this stuff is happening to

me um you know it's sometimes we miss

the beautiful poetry of life you know

even even the the biggest challenges

that come you know at the the times in

life like you know for me when I when I

was sick um you know it was still life

happening for me um it was you know

something

shifting something moving this this

character into the next phase of its its

journey and path and so

um yeah if we can if we can shift that

that perspective and and just see the

the the benefits of of what is unfolding

then

um you know we can turn everything into

something that is that is for our

Evolution and and for our our own

benefit so there's a um quote I'd like

to end with um this is a quote from um

Meister eart

um so he says wisdom consists in doing

the next thing you have to do doing it

with your whole

heart and finding Delight in doing

it I'll read it again wisdom consists in

doing the next thing you have to

do doing it with your whole heart and

finding Delight in doing doing

it

yeah

so yeah and what's coming up for me also

is um you know in the big picture of you

know life in the world um you know at

the the end of one of my films I had a a

a quote from uh Buckminster Fuller and

he he says you know like basically he

says it in different ways in his books

um you know like don't go to battle with

the world don't try to change the

existing system you know if we um and

other other teachers have said this in

all different ways you know nii nii said

um you know if you go to battle with

monsters just be very cautious that you

don't become a monster you know so if

you engage with with um The Matrix you

know you engage with the Empire you

become the Empire you know so um so just

just um be careful and and you know he

Buckminster Fuller says in instead you

know create a new system a new way of

living that makes the old one

obsolete

yeah yeah

so I'd love to open it up and and hear

from people and

um yeah so so why don't we do that

um yeah I'll go to Theo I see you had

your hand up first there so I'd like to

hear from

you Dan

hello can you hear me yeah

de

Dan it is so wonderful to meet a good

friend a genuine

friend on the

journey thank

you I am deeply

touched seeking fell away a couple of

years ago

but reactions still

continued fluctuations still

continued I've

never done di diads before and never in

conjunction with

meditation I've been on the path for

since I'm

14 but the

impact has

been opening profoundly

opening

wonderful right prior to this

Retreat I had a series of triggered

reactions that created a situation

that made a number of us

unhappy this character Theo beat himself

up really good about

it

and there

was a desperate need to an obvious need

to do some work

and I was going through the internet

you're on my I'm subscribed to your

channel and I happened to

see you were doing an online

Retreat and I clicked on

it and the

generosity of the way you

presented and invited people

to

participate made it possible for

me and this

is

opened my

heart

and the Very issue that brought me here

which was the culmination over a year of

four or five triggered reactions that I

just

couldn't stop you know not that stopping

it is the right

way but it brought me here and

then in the last meditation this

morning mind was gone I was watching

it I stopped the meditation I took I

stopped my video and I got some coffee

something said just do that just do

that and then I came back after some

coffee and I sat down and on the last 15

minutes an Insight

came it came from

the feeling of

love and an open

heart an Insight of how to

respond to the situation that I had

reacted

to

beautiful and it was so simple but it

could never have come

from a triggered reactive

mind so I only have one question for you

now that I know you're going on a

vacation can we begin again when you

come

back there there's going to be more for

sure and and um like I said that um you

know all the materials are going to be

there as well like a complete

do-it-yourself Retreat will be always

available there as well so've already

done it yeah yeah

um and um I I hope that somehow I really

want to contribute I have a deep desire

to help um so um I'll reach out to you

if there's any possible way I can be of

help or service I would really be happy

to do that that's wonderful yeah thank

you and and um one thing i' I'd love to

mention about um on that point is um you

know really like what what this is all

about is is just conveying like once you

once you've realized it yourself you

know once you've realized what it is to

sort of unhook from the mind um then you

know the the help the greatest help is

to just share it you know as as much as

possible with with everyone you know

just from your own heart and your own

knowing and your own Insight so um so

for everyone um um yeah and and that

that may that may come in all kinds of

different creative ways for different

people so um yeah so that's really the

mission you know if there's a mission of

awaken the world um you know the mission

is really to awaken yourself and then

whatever flows from that is it yeah

whatever it make is alive yeah and I

just want to say one other thing um

during the diets in the last diet for

some reason it was the last diet that it

became clear to me um of how the other

person was a reflection of my own

mind and

how it although I although I knew this

to a certain level there's a knowing of

this um it made it even clearer to me

the

absolute

Ridiculousness of being within the

gravitational pull of these thoughts and

feelings and and reactivity and how it

just wasn't necessary anymore so it

shifted me just another millimeter you

know like a like a Boeing

747 slowly turning toward

awareness um more deeply so anyhow much

gratitude uh

I'm I'm very thankful to have have

having done this with you thank you

thank you thanks for your sharing yeah

beautiful

um I'll go to

ADI hi Dan so this uh feels like a dream

come true for me I won't take much of

your time so I want to share some

insights um during this Retreat process

which I had so um I felt the self is

like everywhere there is no separated

and uh this feeling of Duality is an

illusion uh purpose of this illusion is

created for knowing the Oneness in

everything so uh so that there is no

resistance

nonresistance that is existing in

everything that we need to feel uh just

observe Duality itself uh exist to know

the non Duality for example if there is

no experience of Sorrow then it won't be

possible to experience the joy and

happiness if there is no sense of

everything then uh there there won't be

a sense of nothingness so so this was

something that is amazing and um so

theoretically I used to know uh the

different uh religion uh I used to

follow the uh teachings of different

religions but couldn't feel it before I

started watching your uh films

and uh everything things started make

make sense to me and I started feeling

the Oneness and um this is amazing and

uh I feel deep gratitude from the bottom

of my heart and

um I feel blessed and I see uh

Enlightenment everywhere um I see

Divinity everywhere

uh so thank you Dan and uh God bless you

you and it it feels so much joy I cannot

explain to you

so like

love love is there all the time so so

thank you so much thank you thank you

thank you yeah thank you for doing this

work and for your Insight so much yeah

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wonderful yeah

I'll go to uh

Yale are you

there

hey I just really wanted to say thank

you as well Dan for the incredible

generosity with which you conduct this

whole project that you

started and

um

I've really enjoyed interacting with all

the people in this

Retreat

and I also want to thank everyone in the

dades with the way you opened your

hearts and share things that are

sometimes not easy to

share and uh my takeaway here is just to

keep letting

go and the recognition that this is

doable you know that

um it is possible in everyday

life to keep recognizing the

eye and uh for me what has helped also

is just

what used to be an impediment was to

always think

that it has to be already you know it

has to be this project that keeps

getting

restarted but the recognition for me

that it doesn't have to be perfect and

just when I remember I do

it has been helpful and

it's just been beautiful and also uh so

I wanted to share that also Dan I wanted

to say that

um my phone is going off

sorry I just uh wanted to say that the

the wealth of information that you're

sharing from your experience in uh

meditation in

particular and and the way that you're

doing it and the

insights that you're bringing out I

think

is yeah it's radiating

out so thank

you w I'm glad you've received that

radiation that's awesome

thank thank you for

sharing

yeah I'd like to highlight one thing you

said about people working in the diads

you know it's just so amazing to see um

you know this whole doing this online

like we we do this in person and and

it's amazing how it works online you

know almost as well I I think pretty

much just as well and people are

engaging and um so yeah so thank you

everyone for for opening your heart and

being vulnerable and and and um yeah

just really going for it you know it's

it was really

inspiring

yeah I'll go to

um I'll go to uh

Bushra thanks

then yeah

um the diet thank you everybody whoever

helped me in that process it was

amazing

um there I got so many things from

you um it's like unfolding you know the

Lotus PS those are

unfolding um failures for so 20

years trying to find out not able to

find out all those

happen the only thing I was not able to

find which was very close to me you know

and I

found like the process I thought and I

know it's the practice the takeaway is

the practice I know it because of the

failures like there's no other

way um one thing I was like you know the

mine is

like want to share

your and now you even said that be

careful about

sharing what you know some some things

are very secret like if you B totally

burn out and you're ready to share then

share so it's interesting like

today oh and all this happen um

pain pain pain and with the chat like I

knew where what it

is whatever you said I was able

to like with the mind I know it but I

was not able to find that light you know

like that that lights to break that out

and I've H it through this journey

but what happened is

um today when I was looking and trying

to meditate it was hard for me to uh sit

for a long time and um Chad

breathing thing was help me to break

that pain it helped me for the flow so

I'm very thankful for that that that

happened and today the last

thing when you said yesterday that

um you found

the you don't know what was the there

was other way to love

even

and so today my the

last meditation object came was my

husband

thank

you beautiful thank you and thank you we

are doing that and the whole process

together not speaking to each

other it's a journey and lot of failures

Back in

Forth lot of things but um yeah

um just

practice practice and practice and

obviously uh I totally understand that

because of the failures that Awakening

is is like a Maya you know is illusion

that it happened and then you come back

and failures yesterday when I was trying

to move I fell down like the body he got

stuck you know so have to surrender I

was ready to surrender for a long time

but so it's unfolding it's unfolding

it's not that it's a journey and I'm

loving it so thank

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you I for that last thing that you gave

me how to the other way how to love

there's other ways to love thank you and

enjoy your break

hi thank you thank you for your yeah

very touched thank you everybody thank

you I

literally there's so much yeah wherever

you want I'm ready to

help and

anybody like I don't know what is the

journey

see awesome I'm I'm sure you're going to

connect and you know spread this with

many people and yeah and and keep it

alive at the same

time thank

you okay we'll go to

navit hello

Dan

hello hello um first of all I just want

to

say just thank you and I'm so so

grateful for everything that you have

provided us with I I remember I was just

desperately looking and just searching

and trying different techniques

following

different rures reading tons of

materials and then just by chance I

found you and it's really feels like

that my questions have been answered

fully I feel

really at peace that I've never had

before inside

me and the big takeaway for me in this

retreat has been to look inside because

I feel I kept looking outside for ansers

for help or like I'll get this

readymade you know from

somewhere but I've learned that it's the

work that I have to do with

myself and the diets never done before

the experience was

so so powerful I think the witness is so

powerful having someone there looking at

you listening to

you my

mind and you're right there was nowhere

for it to

escape I didn't do all of those being in

UK in a different time zone but as many

as I could I think that's something that

definitely learned a lot from and gained

a lot

from a lot of things like Theo said

the emotions and thoughts were almost

mirrored at times so many times it

happened

and yeah I just I just can't thank you

enough I just feel so peaceful and

blessed and I always had fear in my my

life I had fear of things and I feel

that's subsiding as well I

feel never felt more

whole in my

life

Wow thank you so much thank you so much

thank you enough thank you for sharing

wow yeah that's amazing I I love hearing

you know when when it sounds like you're

really getting that you know we don't

need to seek in the outer world you know

when when that the end of that seeking

comes you know it's a real turning point

on the path so I'm so happy that you got

that thank you thank you and have a

lovely break thank

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you Andrew Andre Andrea go with Andrea

yeah

hi um hello

hello um thank you so so much for

everything um I found you through

YouTube um just by

chance

and um I kind of follow the teachings of

aramana mahashi a lot and I don't know

when I watched your

um your

movies something somebody else said one

of your speakers said yesterday or the

day before but he was just I didn't

really have any choice in the matter I

was just drawn

like it was incredible from from my

heart space I just everything about the

movie just touched

me and illuminated in me all the

things all the teachings that I followed

in the past or I'm kind of abiding by

now and um yeah it was incredible I I

just have so much gratitude and um the

takeaway for me is um that I know that I

don't know anything I really don't know

I still don't know do you know what I

mean yeah

I'm

still

yeah um but um yeah just always in deep

inquiry all the time right for years

because I had a big trauma when I was a

child and I lost my whole fam family

just one day I had no no one and I was

completely destitute as a young girl so

for me my journey started very young and

my Awakening started

very young but I couldn't really I

couldn't really uh see what was going on

you know um yeah but anyway thank you

thank you so much to

everyone thank you thank you to everyone

thank you and to you yeah thank you

wonderful thank you yeah it's amazing

how uh you like what you described you

know that whatever it is that makes

people something wakes up and it's like

I have to go you know that to me that is

that primordial mind that you know the

Scarab power you know it it comes to

life and and it's it's very mysterious I

I love hearing how you know people often

come and they they don't really know why

but there's something something

propelling yeah

thank thank you very

much yeah

go to

um

sukino

yeah oh can you

unmute here we go right hello again

hello hello I right I've already thanked

you yesterday or whenever it was I can't

remember everything just blend into one

long process um yeah after hearing what

everyone's talking about um I just want

to say is like how everything you're

saying is like as if it's already in my

own mind and it it I just resonate with

everything you say so I can't add

anything to you I'm I've got a m full of

sweets and I can't add anything to what

you're actually teaching all I want to

say to people is just rather than just

hearing what Dan's saying listening

deeply to what he's saying he's telling

you exactly what you need to hear and

what you need to do there's nothing to

it as simple as that and my my process

started years ago as well when my life

fell apart like the last lady just there

and I think a lot of people when they

reach a real low E in their life that's

when they do turn to spirituality to

find find a reason is like you know why

why is all this happening to me but then

like you said we realize it's not

happening to you it's just life

happening and my teacher Michael G he

says you know we life isn't personal but

we make it personal because we all want

to be hello are you still there oh yeah

still here yeah yeah I'm sorry something

something else came up on my screen yeah

said life is personal but we make it

personal because we want to be the

victims in our own story so he says just

stop being the victim it's not about you

you know like use that it's just life

happening isn't it and when you can do

get that to sort of Disconnect from like

you said the character the Avatar when

you can sit back and just watch all the

nonsense that's coming into your mind

just let it

go it does have that flip on you you do

have a a switch in your behavior your

approach to the world and everything uh

and like I said I I spent a year in a

tent you know in as much isolation as I

could and uh you know after reading lots

of stuff watching all your things and

yeah you come to all these realization

of yourself and you have to uh but not

on like an intellectual level you have

to know it and experience it like you

say for

yourself and I I can't recommend highly

enough to people just go out in the

countryside get away from the noise of

the town or wherever you live and be

with nature it was the most Blissful

year of my whole life and I've had 60

years of them and that last world was

just awesome living in a tent just with

nobody with nothing it was just magical

and when I came away you saying about

letting uh just following the energy of

what it is that you want to do wants to

do this and I live in a small town on

the south coast of England and uh I

basically blast the whole town with

Dharma like I'll go to the beach and I

draw massive on signs on the beach like

40 foot high I write Dharma in the sand

just so that when all the people come

down in the morning I go there early and

do it and then did you see it and I get

all these photographs sent to me from a

group that I'm in the for the

said oh we found this and you know and I

do stuff like this I made these little

stones with d and I pop them all around

the town people send me pictures in

Messengers say oh we found one of your

dos so and and and it's like what it's

in s like what you're doing once

you it's you just want to share that

love don't you you just want want to try

and if you could bottle it up and just

give it away that would be you know you

could touch people's heads and then lien

them away the it's like it is a magical

experience overall isn't it but it is

like you said it is a continual process

you know we keep having these further

and further and deeper and deeper

realizations and and you know

disconnection from it all and and like I

said it just makes when you absorb life

and just be with it it does make

everything much more enjoyable just

eating if you're really focused on what

you're

eating have vegetable

bir and like when completely absorbed

and it was just magical it's like you

say it's like eating for the first time

or Shing for the first time completely

concur with everything you say yeah I

just wanted to share that um but yeah

this is what I do oh I F in the Town

Center as well and I right little Dharma

card though and when people stop and

chat to me and I let them pick one and

you know like a a magician does where

you turn the card down here pick one of

these take it away with you and every

single time the the different lesson on

every card and every single time the

when they read it they go oh my God

that's St that's so pant to what I'm

going through right now I just said to

him just always remember

DH lessons aren't personal but they're

always about

you I like that yeah beautiful beautiful

thank you right thank you okay and I

just want to thank thank you for putting

this on it was absolutely fantastic

experience I loved it and I have I've

learned how to go deeper into my

meditation and everything because of you

awesome awesome thank you

enjoy your holiday yes okay thank you

thank you thank you thank you everybody

else you fantastic all right bye bye bye

bye

bye okay I'll go to uh Ting

Ting hey hello hello yeah I

actually I should put my hands up and

down a couple of times uh

I actually don't like Spotlight that

much and all other participants uh yeah

what they saying they thank you so I

thought I I had the same message but

then the reason I put my hands up is

that well I still even though they said

like it still hasn't come for me so

that's why I want to take the

opportunity to thank you as

well so how I found you is also from

YouTube so I actually saw your puffless

puff movie

2021 that was around cwood and that was

around one of the hardest time uh for

me and then part that um also went and

uh do some yoga and some other practices

but having said that I haven't done much

meditation so coming to the this iron

Retreat um I found that it helped me a

lot in the sense that it pushed my like

especially sitting down it able to like

physically help me to kind of push some

of the boundaries but obviously that's

not the the only one like I do learn

like one of the ladies mentioned that

finding not the like it's like the mean

meaning of life but it's not so much

that it's more like like the

understanding of the live process and

and I kind of find uh found that on on

the on the retreat so with that it kind

of gave me a lot of things to work on

and uh

and yeah I whereas like previously I

wasn't fully

searching but then every time when I ask

like prior to this like no no other

person like even come close to explain

it what it is all about like some of

them um where you just have to put your

belief in it and that part like it's

never I never receive the that part of

GRA so therefore I couldn't overcome the

first hurdle which is the belief part so

so yeah I couldn't go very far from that

but where U uh in the past couple of

years uh and some of that are very

similar to this I Retreat is that the

direct experience and with that

it uh really resonate with me because it

take away the need to believe and I find

that even though as much I like to

believe uh I find I couldn't overcome

that but with with uh like I am Retreat

now we have take away the need for that

and it's always the direct experience

even though there's a lot more to go for

me uh but having said that I think I've

seen glimpse of it and yeah I'm my prude

for that thank you yeah I love that to

me um you know that understanding that

you know whether you believe or whether

you doubt um you know it's still all the

level of mind so once once you get that

you know you realize the truth is beyond

all of that so it doesn't matter if you

believe or doubt it's the truth is as it

is and yeah so that that's an amazing

Insight yeah a huge one thank

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you let's hear from Zoo I'd like to hear

from Zoo hi

there hi everyone Dan hey um I had two

major turning points and one of them I

actually put on the chat it was that

meditation is just to hang out in the I

am

awareness and watching Sensations arise

pass away staying open like a forest

sponge not Contracting not pushing away

not craving it's just being this very

very

open

and mind will come thoughts will come

and it'll go and it's just being

completely

relaxed in this

moment and then it

becomes at some point the meditation

took over and it was just being this was

just

eating it was just like being sustained

by the energy force of life it was just

it was like a glorious

Feast to stay in the AM

and then so the next um Insight was this

morning when I woke up and the question

popped up who am I as direct awareness

as

direct experience

perception and it was right away

oh it's this awareness that's living and

breathing and being

and

so it was very clear that the

sad is just to keep on going like

this from moment to moment to moment

Breath by Breath by breath and with the

help of the diad it was very clearly

seen

when awareness is in the sensations in

the body it's very relaxed

and when the Mind comes in there's

tension in the forhead and there's

tension in the pit of the stomach and

it's like this open sponge starts

to close the pore starts to close and

it's like and then the sensation or

there's a sense of being blocked from

life and being blocked from the

sustenance that's constantly flowing

through and so just the fact of seeing

that it just lets go it's the mind just

slides right off like oil on a plastic

sheet and it's oh so it's like life is

just

about staying open constantly from

moment to moment to moment that's the

continuous

process and that's it yeah when there is

the

diad it's sometimes being a witness the

thoughts come up of evaluation and

judgment and and then there's tension

again and then when that's SE it relaxes

and comes back to presence and with that

open hearing and

listening it's like the witness is

sustaining Itself by listening

and as someone as as the character that

is sharing what's

happening

um that is also being sustained by the

presence and the witness

so there was a feeling of constantly Fe

feeding off of each other supporting

each other

to clear the unconscious and be free and

then sometimes the body will like start

shaking like crazy and tears would slow

and and it's this feeling of having done

10 years of

psychotherapy it's such a relief it's

like constantly taking a shower on the

inside of the the body with another

being and so the whole Retreat shows the

character that life is lived

some

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openness beautiful yeah yeah that's the

the deepening is you know this you know

we have this Awakening we find out who

we are and then you know the what we are

is is this ever

deepening engagement with life like

directly experiencing each moment

Whatever Whatever life is presenting

and and being fully you know not not in

relation to it anymore but just being it

being being it directly yeah that's it

it's like a

nonu um ever

unfolding you know direct experience of

of life and and that's it and you know

sometimes we um you know when we come in

into these these moments um yeah we feel

if the block is there if there's like a

veil there then um you you said

something about just making it conscious

it would it would you know dissolve and

and that's it yeah we just the the

unconscious is only um you know it's

it's only mediating because it's

unconscious but once it's made conscious

then that Veil drops

yeah

yeah it's good to see is So yeah thank

you okay is Zoo still there oh sorry um

yeah did you hear anything no no I think

there was an audio problem some yeah

some kind of feedback thing so um yeah

can you repeat that yeah um just to

capit um having done a retreat in person

at your retreat center and having doing

this Retreat online at home um both are

very different in its benefits because

doing a retreat in person there's the

support of seeing all these different

bodies staying very calm and and being

nourished being fed and um being

together energetically and then being

online there's this habit of being at

home of wanting to the Mind wanting to

look at the phone to to keep busy and

entertained and so that was really

clearly seen and now there's this really

strong Habit to wake up and do toning

and to meditate and to continuously

practice because before it was like the

retreat center and home but now it's

like the retreat has come home home and

the home is the

self and this self is moving out into

the world with the retreat the whole

knowledge of the retreat the whole uh

rewiring of all of the these

programs like letting go of the separate

self and coming back to awareness

awareness awareness who am

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I

and bringing that into the external

world as well as living in in the space

by

myself amazing yeah thank you for that

that feedback um yeah I think there

there's a real benefit to doing it in

your home and and you know in some ways

it probably is harder because you have

those distractions and the usual

patterns of being in the home but but

also I think yeah there's a there's a

huge benefit of doing it in the home to

to transform it yeah to to recreate it

and yeah that's

amazing thanks thank you yeah yeah

blessings

everyone you

too we'll go to

hassim yes can you hear me yes yeah I

don't want to take too much time because

everyone is waiting I I just feel myself

uh very blessed joining this Retreat and

the most important thing I think other

than me we see the the smile and the

good feeling of everyone who's talking

you to you and the ones on the screen I

think that's the reflection of your

sincerity that we see on the face of the

people I had I was always timid to go

into self inquiry before the before the

retreat I used to practice silent

illumination

shikantaza but uh with this I with this

Retreat I have the uh the power to step

into self-

inquiry I don't have the courage to go

to diets but I will

later so I just wanted thank you very

much that's my takeaway that's that's

what that was super brilliant thank you

very much thank you thank you for

sharing thank

you okay uh we'll go to

Lucy hello can you hear me

hi

there oh she's not I'm not not see s

disconnect in the

internet

hello

hello things

are a little bit Frozen there are

you try try speaking again it's

disconnecting can you hear me okay I can

hear you yeah I can't see you but I can

hear you I can see

you yeah just just go ahead can't hear

anything yeah that's okay I can I can

hear you

perfectly

what she's G she's gone okay are you

J

yeah let's go to

Jonas he Dan hi

Jonas yeah I

also no yeah lifting my hand and erasing

it and putting it down and well I guess

all I really want to say is also thank

you so

much it's been everything else that I

expected

I came here with expectations I guess

and um it's been everything else and

it's it's

beautiful

just think there permission that I I can

just I don't have to do anything I just

all I have to do is be myself it's like

such a relief and I don't know really

how to do that

yet it's okay

and there's there just like

a a relief that's that's under the level

of perception somehow like I don't

really perceive it fully and I get

dragged into all kinds of things

constantly

but I'm coming back over and over and I

don't have a clue I thought thought I

come here and I'm going to be awakened

or whatever or and I have to I had there

so much seeking

and I just come out with not knowing who

I am really but knowing that I can just

I just can be myself I can just be me

and that's beautiful perfect yeah yeah

the not knowing is is a huge burden

lifted from the mind

the Mind still thinks it needs to know

and figure everything out but it's it's

paradoxical

completely that's amazing yeah you look

you're so much lighter um yeah it's it's

it's amazing yeah it's it's been

wonderful to watch you move through this

process and really thank you so much for

offering this and

or

it's been also for me like I could not

not be here like I actually only two I

wanted to go there all the time from

when I found out about it only two days

before I thought I did not I couldn't it

wouldn't be logistically possible

everything and everybody around me made

it possible my wife um took my took care

of our child and with our parents-in-law

and all I want to say

all I want to say is uh for me the

strongest meditation has

been this is paradoxical the breaks that

I was just with with my family and with

everybody is just

like just a new way of being there

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just amazing amazing yeah just being

yeah just enjoy being

you thank you

go to

Sam sh

shyam

hello Hi Sam can you hear me yeah oh

thanks so much

uh I have two names sham is uh my I am I

was given a by a Hindu teacher it's

another name for

Krishna oh amazing

uh I am so

happy I should just say that you know we

had an

exchange about Bak the yoga love and

devotion and you said that any kind

of Devotion to

a another person

uh instead of just to the yourself is

misguided and I just want to say I'm

have a growing love and devotion for you

anyway whether you like it or

not yeah well you know it's all the One

Source so it's all

good you know when I first asked the

question you know uh about the

meditation object

being you know the breath or the sound

that I hear

continuously you gave me the best answer

choiceless awareness which is my new

mantra you know it's like

everything and as soon as I meditated

the next

morning the uh

breath and the sound merg

together and you know the breath would

come into my third eye and then my crown

chakra and then the sound would radiate

through my entire body and I became you

know it was in the most intense

vibration I've ever felt and for a

moment I even saw my body vibrating sort

of out a body thing and it was

powerful and what came to me also in the

flesh which I mentioned to you and I

should share with the rest of the group

is that I saw the

meditation image of the Sufi master in

your encountering the

sarapin video which I really

loved and I felt that maybe I could give

you the name of the Sufi that you found

to be nameless and we've shared that and

you know it has a lot to do

with the Sur shab yoga I've been

practicing now for 34 years and you know

maybe you know that they call this sound

the the process

surma and I thought maybe there could be

a guide

there uh for you to uh practice surma to

reach the samma that uh ran mahashi has

achieved um or

experienced I thought I'd just leave you

with a another imperative if I could

give you an imperative and maybe sure uh

who is

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the uh who is

breathing that's a good one yeah yeah

it's you know it's all the same answer

ultimately but yeah it's it's you know

there's many many imperatives um that

work that's a good one the bre breath is

is the most beautiful Bridge well tell

me who is who is

breathing it's the you the same one

that's here the the same one that is

aware were you were you fully aware of

of the breath when you were with the

seraphim

seraphim um that's a a conversation we

can we could have together um it's a

it's a there there's a lot of um

unfolding in that but uh it was a it was

in a samade state when when that

experience happened so so it was it

wasn't being aware of the breath it was

um being the breath and then being the

energy and then being um just being you

know so the but the meditation object

was no longer the

breath or not I yeah there was no no

choosing and and that's you know you

mentioned choice awareness and to me

that that is you know the the deepening

of this practice is it it is the Gateway

you know when that when there's no

choosing um the choosing the Chooser and

the chosen all at some point become one

um and then there's this just this

unfolding of you know whatever is in in

that moment and but I didn't understand

choices awareness I think my meditation

practice was held up because I'm you

know I'm following a concept framework a

lot of baggage I had to drop have to

drop because you know I want to leave my

body you know I want to travel to all

these different regions that I been told

are

available and you know if if you if you

leave your

body then who's

breathing I mean are you going to be

able to

observe you know in a non with non-local

Consciousness your body breathing

without you in it you know that's kind

of a interesting question for me that

I'm

exploring yeah there's a lot a lot to

explore you know there's there's the out

of outof body experience and there's you

know to me the in the body experience is

is just as uh you know that's really

what this is about as well um you know

like whether and who whether we're in

the body out of the body you know the

question is who is the knower of all of

that experience know who is the one that

is ever present I should share what

prompted me to join and meet you which

the biggest blessing I've had in since

the first Guru I met and he he you know

I met him and I said will you guide me

to the shop and then a week later I've

been hearing it ever since

um uh I lost my train of thought

um the

I'm just gonna say thanks so much yeah

okay yeah thank you I love you and all

the people here and your team and and

I'm like the other women that made me

cry I'm at your

service thank you whatever I can do and

everybody else had said that thank you

so

much yeah beautiful yeah I'd like to

highlight um the uh the choiceless

awareness for me on my path um the

teachings of Krishna myty um I don't

know if I really mentioned him much but

um for me he um those pointers are

really powerful um so some um some of

his his teachings were um

really powerful um stepping stones for

me to come to choiceless awareness in my

practice so um if you well I've listened

to him and and and you explain it much

better than he

does thank you I explain it better than

anybody yeah w i i love Krishna mty he

he there's there's something in him um

that um yeah that's it really helped me

on my path so um yeah great pointers

yeah thank you thank

you go to Joseph

can you Hi D hi

there

um I'm gonna share a quick story is I I

found your films two months ago and when

I was looking for more resources from

you and I saw the first retreat was

going to be two months from now I was

just so joyous and much like everyone

else there was a natural needing to be

here to see if you were re the real deal

and I wanted to connect with the voice

that that I heard because that voice was

it was me it was it was what I was

searching to be and you and your team

have have exceeded expectations on all

levels and so thank you for that and you

know this experience the diet experience

particularly like you meet with all

these faces of all these different ages

from all these countries from all these

cultures and you're watching them go

through the same issues that you're

going through to various degrees and in

a span of 40 minutes you see people's

faces are drawn and

sunken and then they're becoming

enlightened and smiling and and going

through all the this stuff and it's just

so clear to me like this literally is

the process of the world waking up this

is Awakening in the world and I'm so

grateful to be a part of this process

and I'm so grateful for all of these

individuals that I got to not meet and

know at a deeper level than everyone

else that I've had a a you know real

conversation with in the past so thank

you to you your team thank you to

everyone here for being you know an

amazing presence and I'm so grateful to

be a part of this journey that we're

truly all on um as one you know together

so thank you thank you Joseph yeah thank

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you

tryc oh we could we could try Lucy

again are you you

back yes I'm back can everyone hear me

and see me okay yeah sorry about that

internet completely went out yeah yeah

it's good

um great um I'm going to make it sure

thank you so much for your hard work and

your team and every everyone who is here

it's just tremendous energy it's almost

magical like everyone's here for the

same reason and we're working on

ourselves with this um endless discovery

of ourselves

um and I feel uh very different

empowered because normally very timid

about opening up in front of people and

especially strangers it takes me a long

time to warm up and U these diets the

first few days was difficult all I see

is these Sensations in the body but not

much of anything else and towards the

end I did feel like there's something

feeling this there's something watching

all these Sensations and that was

interesting and definitely there will be

um a continuous discovery of

um what this is within so thank you

everyone and thank you Dan and your team

wonderful um I just want to quickly ask

is it good to do diets with family and

friends when we're not present with

everyone or is it prefer to do with

someone who we don't really interact

often to get the same

experience yeah no it's amazing to do it

with family and friends yeah yeah can

completely

transform um relationships and um yeah

just you know to be to be with someone

um and just you know even even just just

witnessing you know in a in a

conversation without so you can you can

be sneaky and kind of do diads with

people without them even knowing it you

know so in instead of you know reacting

or or um evaluating you know what people

are saying just just completely drop

into the witness and it it's amazing how

it completely changes um the

relationship and the conversation yeah

but I but yeah um you know with family

if they're if they're game for it it's

it's really

amazing wonderful and then one last

thing is um my family do not speak

English so would there be any part of

the diet or uh teachings that you have

be translated to different language you

posted so we we do have a team of

translators for um the materials and uh

eventually I would love to get all of

these materials translated into all

different languages as well so um that's

going to be an ongoing project and um

but it it's it's on the radar for sure

we want to do that so cool thank you so

much thank you everyone thank you

blessings to

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everyone I'll go to

inz

yeah hello hi there hi hi

everybody yeah I'm I'm really fleshed um

I'm moving somewhere from being

speechless to so much to

say

um yeah um I'm not letting think this

experience go definitely

not um I know that we should but um this

was

amazing

um it was a really hard opening for

me and these uh

diets gave me a really

strong

understanding of my mind how it

functions how it how it's

dysfunctional um so it was uh it was

amazing really I I feel so much love and

gratitude for everyone who participated

here and for the

team so I love you all really from the

bottom of my

heart was a

amazing and um I have a short question

MH that it's confusing

meh so I would ask you to clarify that

for me so that you can move my obsessive

analytical mind from not knowing to

knowing yeah um about these direct

experiences

experience what I experienced here in

one of the diets it was on the third

day was recognized as this is it this is

what I'm searching

for um but it was

completely different from my first

experience um which was also recognized

as this is it this is what I'm searching

for so this

these differences are really confusing

so I will explain short that others have

also uh a chance to speak the first one

was um in devotional singing to a

guru he was self-realized in samadi uh I

never met him in person because he died

two years before I was even

born um and and uh it was it became

known to westerns through this hippie

movement of

Ras and um this experience changed uh

changed my life I mean I was never

having a guru was never on my wish list

or I I just liked to chant sometimes and

then I went to this

event and I completely dissolved into

divine

it was

um it was

lifechanging

and uh this experience was so

strong this positive shock followed

later um but experience was so strong

that uh I was in this strong after glow

of this experience for another three

months after the event and and uh I even

had to go to hospital in these three

months because I had terrible stomach

problems and I was uh really in a

pain I had a surgery there and I was

there in hospital with all this pain but

this vibration of Love of this pure

unconditional love was so strong that

despite that I was there in a

hospital I actually never felt better in

my life

no yeah and when this Afterglow settled

down my mind went into obsessive search

for an

answer what happened to me how this

happened and so on and it was really uh

confusing because this Guru died two

years before I was born so I couldn't go

to India and ring a bell and ask ask

what did you do to me and how did you do

it um and through this experience

actually Rana Mahari became much more

understandable to

me um and in these diets

here um the experience was

different uh I was observing my mind a

lot uh and it came to a

point where um it didn't surrender but

it was pushed away by something

stronger and uh this uh this

started with a great confusion before

this happened my mind was in a such

confusion um that I never experienced

before and then something came out and

pushed this mind into the

background um

and in this experience in the diets it

was this feeling that everything is new

that it's the new world it was not this

unconditional love that I experienced in

the first case but here was really

like a great surprise amazement and

childlike curiosity and what the [ __ ] is

this now what is

happening and some ridiculous silly

happiness uh was also

present and it was recognized as cons

Consciousness coming out so you there

was a recognition of the Consciousness

that is present yeah yeah yeah but this

differences confus me a lot so can you

clarify that for me yeah so so first is

you know that

Consciousness um are you do you still

recognize that Consciousness like as

you in this in this moment yeah yeah I

mean I don't feel it strongly like I

did yeah but the the experience will

always change like experiences come and

go but that

Consciousness the recognition of that

conscious

is is the Gateway you know because when

when when the sense of eye flips from

the character to that Consciousness then

there's an opening and and and these

direct experiences can come so the the

direct experiences there's there's

millions of different direct experiences

so we can we can have a direct

experience of love a direct experience

of of another being you know like

directly experience the we are another

we can have a direct experience of of um

a shower or a blueberry or a tree or you

know so um so but but the opening into

that is um you know when when the sense

of ey is not in in that mind there's the

dropping off and and that flip that

recognition that that I'm here I'm aware

and and so so the the first experience

you had it sounds very similar to my own

experience out of vasna Center where um

it was it was a savaka samade experience

which is you know this Union um

beautiful you know Peak Human Experience

of of um energy and love and connection

um U but it was but the the

Consciousness for me at that time was

not there I didn't when when I used the

word I I was still referring to the Dan

character you know still still thinking

it's it's the Dan character having this

God Godlike

experience um whereas um when we when we

recognize that we are you know this

conscious awareness um then we can allow

these these direct experiences to just

come and go and and um you know that

that one that is grasping in the mind

the the Seeker you know um Can can relax

and we don't need to see seek and and by

not seeking everything is here

everything is already here and and

everything is a direct experience if we

can if we can truly relax into the

moment um and you know and there and

there's an Ever unfolding um capacity to

do that within the self structure

eventually you know that is the path

that's the the inner Lotus is the

growing of that that capacity to to just

be fully here fully open you know fully

wired into life you know to to receive

whatever is

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yeah hi every ready I'm sitting at a

computer where I can't raise my hand so

I ask the boss can t

talk what an honor to be with you these

seven days to witness the

Transformations and the beauty and all

the work you're doing in the

world and when Dan says be vigilant be

vigilant be gentle be soft love that

character

no grasping no tug

ofar yeah I love you guys so much so

much so humbled and I love you TI just

wanted to say

hello thanks thanks Tama yeah also like

to um really uh thank everyone that has

been involved with this as well um

there's been so much going on behind the

scenes um you know Lila has been

incredible she's been answering a

million emails and um you've been

listening to her beautiful voice on on

the recordings and um we've been

creating all kinds of stuff and um she's

been um in the diads a lot of you have

interacted with her as well um yeah and

and Chad I'd like to thank Chad he's

he's always he brings such an energy and

intelligence to whatever he does um and

Jason um with the The Yoga practices um

and Tama Jerome um so uh anybody that

you um would like to connect with more

um you know for their own offerings um

in in the email that I'll be sending um

we will have their contact information

so that you can connect with them and

also um I'm going to like right on that

schedule page at the bottom of the page

I'm going to have um the um just a PDF

document of of the uh the email that

we'll sent out send out the with more

resources and all of that so it'll be

all on that one page as well so we'll

just try and make it as as simple as as

possible

so yeah so um yeah we got time for a few

more people so um James yeah why don't

we go to uh

James yeah go to James hi

James

hello hi

there I see B freeze here

I I need to thank

him it's like I know him but I've never

met him

personally I'm a course and miracles

student and for two years I followed him

every day in the

morning as he gave instructions for the

lessons and that meant a lot to me and

I've been getting his emails now for for

three

years and I I I worked with his wife

Lisa Natoli I did some of her

things and uh six weeks I think was one

and a month or something

anyways it was really hard when I he's I

got the email from him and the

invitation came from from teachers of

God and it was

like what is this and and I see things

that he sends out all the time and I

kind of just blow him

off you know and

sorry so I

just and I think I saw something that

said uh he was going to go to India

again and I thought to myself God I need

to have I'd like to go there but I need

to uh go wi the lot or something because

I don't have any money it was like and

then I get this other email this

invitation on was it Friday I got

I I got it on Friday I think and Tuesday

was was or Wednesday was the beginning

and it was like am I gon to do

this and my wife supported

me to do this she like it's like

sometimes I I talk to her but I feel

that Spirit speaking through her to

me telling me what to

do I I kind of get that not all the time

but just sometimes and then what

happened is we started in and I was very

confused because I had God in play I had

Jesus I had Christ and I had all this in

play and it was hard for me to let go of

that and just let everything be as it

is because I know it has to be as it

is and I was really upset I think it was

on Thursday I was going to

quit

and I went downstairs and I talked to my

wife and I read this book by a woman

called tina Spalding it was about Jesus

she channeled

it and there was a few references in

there and my wife got the book out I

didn't have I gave the book away to a

yoga instructor that I just started

doing yoga a month and a half ago and I

have no idea why I'm 73 years old and

I'm starting

yoga what what's going on in my life and

then she does the K the Kindle thing and

gets a book and

gets some of the things that I needed to

hear

so I just came right back up here and

stayed with

it I didn't get everything I think that

I wanted but I got more than I think

that I thought I was going to

get

amazing amazing it's it's great that

you're it sounds like you're very you're

open to the synchronicities that are

unfolding and you you know it's like you

followed the the breadcrumb that that

bill put out there

and um yeah yeah and that's what it was

I mean I wanted to talk to him I I

wanted to email him say would you please

call me and talk to me and tell me that

this is all right to do this what am I

going to do about the course of Miracles

next

year I mean my mind was just going like

just tearing me all

apart like now okay yeah well thank you

and yeah and thank you to bill um I want

to mention um bill yeah if you're here

um yeah Bill a lot of you have

interacted with Bill in the the diads as

well and um you know Bill is very um one

of the few people I've met that that is

just so on fire for awakening and and um

truly his heart is is in it and and he's

you know he's showing up here every

night um in the diads with people

working you know working away and uh

yeah bill is his his energy and and his

his um authenticity is is totally

infectious and uh he he when he

connected with me um you know he got me

doing films and everything with him he

were were it just totally infected me

with his his passion and um yeah so he's

he's amazing and the the the whole coron

Miracles world and um you know Lisa

Natoli as well it's

amazing amazing stuff to connect with on

the path and there you know especially

um if some people um you know just

resonate more with a Christian

perspective and and these are these are

entry points as well so it's it's

beautiful

yeah and and the course tells us at the

end of the last the lessons this

year it doesn't say that this is the

end it says it's just the

beginning yeah that's so true it's so

true like

Awakening you know finding out who you

are is the beginning the real beginning

of the path you know that's that's when

it's the beginning of Life you know a

different different way of living and

you know the whatever you call that

Spirit or energy um comes alive and yeah

it is just the beginning of of something

new so I want to honor you I want to

honor bill and I want to honor everybody

this year and bless everybody yeah thank

you so much yeah thank you i' I'd like

to say hi to Bill there um do you w to

unmute Bill hi

there yeah hi hey thank you thank you

Dan and uh James you're awesome I'm glad

you listened and uh you didn't need to

contact me at all you you got the

download not just from yourself but from

your

wife good good

listening and I just want to say Dan

um it it's it is my my joy and my

absolute uh honor to have been a part of

this

Retreat it was uh when you

first let me know that it was uh that it

was you were building it making it ready

for people I immediately I knew I needed

to clear my deck because I didn't want

to miss it the

um uh coming to the Som Center you know

what uh you know after we met and

started doing a film together of course

soon as I met you I knew I wanted to I

wanted to come and touch and hug and and

connect with you

uh directly and uh of course the the

film allowed us to do that and we we get

to meet all the time for that and it's

your passion that Drew me to you your

love for truth and and and then when I

met uh the rest of you Lila and Jerome

and

uh everyone that is part of the team and

Tammy Amy Tammy Yama thank you for your

excellent uh technical skills and your

obvious love for truth and the Heart of

Awakening and this is what draws us all

to this this event and this

experience it's been uh you know I I got

to sit with uh um over a hundred of you

this last week 60 plus uh diads and it

was uh oh my God God every night I in

fact at the breaks I I would uh talk to

Lisa my wife and I'd say oh babe this is

uh these diets are incredible be this is

a this is a a true Awakening experience

that I'm I'm seeing in a huge way I mean

I thought the somat center was was big

and you know I drive 800 miles to go up

there um around each way

and I'm going to do it again when I

first came to the samati

center I uh the first night when you see

that you have 12 hours of of

diads the next day it makes me almost

want to turn around and drive back when

you first see the schedule it's so

daunting but by day two you're in the

throws you have these diads all day long

they're not just you know for two hours

at at in the evening it's from you know

from morning until 11 o'clock at night

it's very

intense and it's uh and it's worth every

penny of of what it costs to go and yet

as I look at this Retreat that you've

put together here Dan uh you did it man

you you've um you you've assembled a uh

a platform online virtual that a

actually does the same thing that

happens at the Soma Center and uh

tenfold it's it's blowing my

mind and I can I see in the diads as a

facilitator the direct experience is is

Manifest it's it's real it's true and

when I hear these many many

uh testimonies of the experiences of

people who I didn't see I only got to

see you know

20% of the people that that came and and

there are so many that that I didn't see

and so many that haven't raised their

hands and haven't spoken that are truly

having Awakening experiences I can just

say kudos to this idea and I'm grateful

to Consciousness for uh providing you as

a vehicle for this amazing work and

Great

Awakening and you know I've done eight

conferences with some of the greatest uh

teachers of our time with pure presence

conferences and um I I haven't seen our

conferences um

um I haven't seen them

reveal the the true um ability of

Awakening like I'm seeing in this

Retreat this is a a real direct

experience

engagement and I'm looking forward to uh

seeing and being part of uh future

Retreats with awaken the world because I

see the the true value of it and and I

love that Dan that you're

uh no agenda agenda is just waking up is

just just uh helping the world to wake

up to its true uh being and its true

nature and I honor you and uh Lila

thanks for your awesome support and and

uh beautiful voice Lila also does the

the score in our Awakening mind movies

that Dan is so

brilliantly uh become uh like the

Highlight you know

narrators Bridge of content and he and

Leif heimbold are are two other partners

and and editors they do an amazing job

with that thank you Dan for

everything thank you so much Bill yeah

thank you um yeah it's beautiful

yeah well that's I'm I feel so um much

energy you know from what we've done

we've expended so much energy to to make

this happen but i' I've received so much

back and and I feel like this really is

the beginning you know this what we're

doing here I feel is a seed that is

going to grow and and um it's it's just

going to get better from here and um

yeah it's happening it's happening so

thank you so much everyone um it's truly

my honor to be part of your Journeys and

um we'll stay in touch and I'll be

connecting you with the the awaken the

world community and um you can look for

that that email coming um tomorrow and

um and with uh follow-up materials and

um yeah

stay

awake thank

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