Meditation, Nonduality, Spiritual Enlightenment

“In meditation
we are simply
noticing
that everything is.

It is not the ‘everything’
that is important,
it is the is-ness itself
that is the key.

The mind is always
caught up in the content.

But awareness
only experiences the essence.

Whether there is anger
or a thought
of a chocolate brownie
or a heavy rain outside.

All of these things
are of the same energy.

They exist out of
life itself,
the one energy
that is animating everything.

And even in saying this
the mind is agreeing
or disagreeing.

The mind is relating
to the words as content.

It is trying to comprehend
something that
cannot really be put in words
in the first place.

All the words can really do
is point
and it is up to
you whether you give
your attention
to where the words are
pointing

or you get caught up
in the content
of the words.

And if you give
your attention
to where the words are pointing,
then you move beyond words;
you move beyond content
and rest in that
which cannot really be described.

So there is this shift that
needs to happen,
to move beyond trying
to experience things with the
intellect or emotion
to experiencing what is here
beyond intellect and emotion.

To realizing
the is-ness
of everything.

It is not that thinking
has to stop,
it is that you stop
being transfixed
by the content
of the thinking
and realize
that which is always
animating the content,

that which is
making the content
possible in the first place.

The conscious
ever flowing energy
that is bliss itself.

Blessings,

Kip”

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Salvikalpa Samadhi (or Savikalpa Samadhi) is when thoughts can still come, but there is no identification with them.  They arise and disappear while you remain as the witness.  You could also call this state of Samadhi an advanced state of “Witness Consciousness.” 

When you are in this state, you have no personal identity, you rest as awareness itself.   

How it begins: 

Once you are established in being a witness to your thoughts, the thoughts change.  Your thoughts started off as personal thoughts, what you have to do, what you want to do, what you are worried about, what happened in your past etc.  You also think linear.  One thought leads to another and to another. 

But as you enter witness consciousness, the thoughts become random, they are no longer personal.  They arise and disappear independently of each other.  You can see pictures or have dreams/visions of things you have never seen before, that cannot even be explained in words.  You can experience yourself as a completely different person in a completely different place, yet still you remain a witness to it, there is not identification with it.  Almost as though you can hover above the vision without every becoming it.   When you dream at night, you become a part of the dream, you are in it, but in this state of Samadhi, you are simply watching it like watching a movie. 

The greatest part of Salvikalpa Samadhi is that your attachment to your identity and thoughts are broken for the period of time you remain in Samadhi.  It is as thought the huge weight of who you believe yourself to be is taken away.  You have no name, no physical boundaries, no weight, no problems.  All worries, desires, judgments and attachments are gone.  This brings incredible peace and bliss.  Like being in a deep state of blissful sleep yet fully conscious.  If you can remain a witness to these visions/dreams, you disappear deeper and deeper into consciousness itself.  Thoughts can appear slower, less often and there can be long gaps of utter silence.  Consciousness like the sun, burning brighter and brighter. In this state, the bliss that floods every cell of your being is incredible.  It is as though every cell of your energetic body (the physical is no longer dominant) is singing, humming, vibrating in bliss.  You experience incredible healing as all of the energy gushes through your energetic form.  It is the doorway to Nirvikalpa Samadhi. 

Salvikalpa Samdhi is not just about witnessing the thoughts but that is how it begins.  As said above, Salvikalpa Samadhi is defined when your individual attachment and identification is broken.  So that there is no individual “you.”  There is no ego.  There is just consciousness experiencing whatever arises out of itself.  Completely unaffected by whatever arises and disappears. 

How you attain Savikalpa Samdhi is simple:    Become a witness to your thoughts.  Be so vigilant in your focus that when every thought arises, be a complete witness to that thought, do not touch it, do not get involved with it, keep your focus on being the witness.   This is not a mental experience and cannot be done with the mind.  These words can only point.  You have to practice it.  It is an advanced state of meditation.  It is effort while remaining effortless. 

Awareness is your very nature.   It is not an action that you do, awareness simply is.  But because you are so addicted to identifying with thoughts, there must be the intense focus to not get involved with the thoughts. 

In beginning meditation, there are so many thoughts and you are so used to being identified with the thoughts that you will not even understand what being a witness is.  So at first, a technique is needed, like watching your breath or asking “who am I?” 

The other part of meditation is to allow whatever sensation is here to be as it is.  This is how you begin in meditation, by accepting whatever is here, by allowing yourself to experience whatever is here in the moment.   If you really look in this moment, you will see you are constantly resisting being present.  Being present for more than a few seconds is intense, can often feel painful at times.  So a large part of meditation is experiencing yourself as you are in this moment, allowing yourself to feel whatever is here in the moment as sensation, without getting involved with it, without defining it, judging it or analysing it. Once you can accept and allow yourself to experience whatever is there, then you can move into witness consciousness.  If you try to be a witness before being able to accept your experience in the moment, it probably will be forced and only reinforce the ego. So if you are new to meditation, begin with a technique and practice allowing yourself to experience what is here.  This will be very peaceful in itself.  You will begin to experience yourself as being, as presence itself.   It is not “I am a person” but simply “I am”

Once established in being as presence in the moment, then you move into witness consciousness.  As you become a witness to your thoughts, by grace, Salvikalpa Samadhi simply happens.  You can go to the point of witnessing, and then it is consciousness itself that takes over and for the period of time in Samadhi, the ego is gone. 

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It is perfect to be agnostic and attain unconditional peace, happiness and enlightenment.  In fact, in many ways, it makes attaining enlightenment much easier. 

For would you rather believe in enlightenment or would you rather be enlightened?  Would you rather believe in unconditional peace or would you rather live in a state of unconditional peace? 

For if you want to live enlightenment and unconditional peace, you have to truly become agnostic.   

It has always been said that happiness and peace is your very nature.  So to attain enlightenment, you have to experience yourself as you truly are beyond all beliefs, concepts, opinions and dogmas.   

It is not about becoming something, but rather to truly experience yourself as you are in this moment.  To be honest about what is here in this moment. 

Here’s an example:  Say you are sitting on a park bench, a stranger walks by, steps on your foot, doesn’t say anything and keeps on walking.  That is the truth of it in that moment.  Someone stepped on your foot and kept on walking.  Now it has passed. 

But there are a thousand thoughts that come rushing forth: “How rude of that man to step on my foot and not apologize,”  then “He must hate me” then “Why is everyone so mean to me?” then “He is everything that is wrong with this world.” Then “It would be justified for me to run after him and step on his foot.” Then “He probably would try and hit me but then I would deck him and it would feel really good…”  

On and on it goes.  Most of the thoughts you are not even aware of but still they deeply effect you because you are identified with your thoughts.  But all of the thoughts are untrue, all of it is nonsense.  The truth of it is that a man stepped on your foot.  Then it passed.  Everything else is untrue.  Whatever you say about why the man stepped on your foot is pure speculation, whatever scenarios you imagine about what might happen next are all fantasy.   

And the man stepped on your foot once.  But you replay the scene in your mind hundreds of times.  So one step on your foot turns into someone stepping on your foot hundreds of times.  But it has passed; no one is stepping on your foot now!  Quite funny if you think about it. 

So you see in this, all thought about the incident has no truth.  The only true part was a man stepped on your foot. The truth now is you are simply sitting on the park bench. 

A woman once asked a great enlightened teacher named Sri Anandagiri “I want to feel love.  I want my heart to open.” 

Anandagiri asked “Which is true:  That you want to feel love, or that you do not feel love now?” 

She replied “That I want to feel love.” 

“No” He said, “You know the truth.  The truth is that right now you do not feel love.  What you would like to feel is not the truth.” 

Because the idea that she would like to feel love was simply a thought.  A thought that she made important, but it had nothing to do with her experience in the moment, it was only a resistance to what she was experiencing in the moment.  And that is stressful. 

Because peace, happiness and enlightenment is not about becoming something.  It is about experiencing yourself as you are in this moment.  The idea from the ego is that you should be different than you are.  But you are as you are.  That is the truth.  The truth simply is.  And in being aware of what is, there is peace, there is happiness. 

So I ask you to look in this moment, purely agnostic.  What is your experience in this moment?   

And you might say “I want to feel peaceful.” 

But that is not what you experience in this moment, that is only a thought that you identify with.  It has nothing to do with what you are experiencing right now. 

You say, “I feel unhappy.” 

Better, more honest.  But still, that is just a label, a judgment on what you are actually experiencing.  What does unhappy feel like? 

“There is a tightness in my chest.” 

Good.  Can you allow yourself to experience that tight sensation in your chest?  Because if you can allow yourself to experience that tightness, as sensation, then there is peace. 

“The tightness is there because I got in an argument with my wife this morning.” 

But that is just an idea.  Can you prove that?  There is a tightness sensation in your chest, that is what you know in this moment.  Why it is there is just speculation.  The reason for it being there is just a thought.   

The truth is this moment, not what you remember.  You keep carrying your past with you.  But your past is past.  This moment is fresh and new.  Life is happening here and now.  Your responsibility is simply to notice what is here and now.  To be honest about what is here and now. 

“But I don’t want to feel this tightness in my chest.” 

But who doesn’t want to feel it?  Is that not just a thought that you identify with? 

“But I thought that thought.” 

But who is the ‘I’ that thought it?  You assume that you are that thought.  But if you look, the thought came by itself.  If you look, the thought arises and there is the action of identification, you grab hold of that thought and make it you.  But you are not a thought.  The thought will come and go and you will remain. 

“There is resistance to feeling the tightness in my chest.” 

Yes, very good.  Be aware of the sensation of resistance.  That is all you have to do.  There is a sensation in your chest, there is a sensation of resisting that sensation.  Can you allow all this to be?  If you do this, the resistance will fall away.  Then all will be left is that sensation in your chest.  That will eventually change too.  But you remain as awareness. 

If you investigate this moment like this, seeing what is true and what is untrue, you will see that all thinking is just that, thought.  It has no truth in what is actually happening.  You will see thoughts come and go, sensations come and go and change, but you remain aware of everything. 

The one thing you cannot deny is this awareness.  In fact, you cannot separate you, this moment and awareness.  If you are here, you are aware.  And you are always here.   

You seem to get caught up in thoughts.  If you get caught up in thinking about where you grew up, it seems you are there where you grew up.  But the moment you realize you are caught up in your thinking, you will see, you are here and you always were here.  It was just an idea, an illusion that you were somewhere else. 

So you know awareness is the truth.  You cannot deny awareness.  Whatever arises or disappears there is still always awareness here.  So if you rest in awareness, in being aware of whatever arises, you remain true to this moment.  And you will find that the very nature of awareness is peace, love and happiness.  And that the realization that you are awareness and that all arises out of awareness is enlightenment itself. 

So in questioning everything, you come to the conclusion that you truly know nothing.  That any commentary about the moment is just thought arising.    

But you remain as awareness.  There is always awareness.  And the nature of awareness is unconditional peace.  Peace that is here for no reason.  Happiness that is here for no reason.  Simply because you are. 

So to be truly agnostic is a perfect guide to finding unconditional peace, happiness and enlightenment.   

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“If you really look at
every desire you have,
it is there to avoid
feeling what is here in this moment.
 
You set goals
and make plans.
 
And do many enjoyable
and fun things.

And all of this is lovely.
 
But after you attain what you want,
after you have had your holiday
or won the marathon,
you are again faced
with yourself
in this moment.
 
You are again confronted
with whatever is here in this moment
that you keep avoiding.
 
It might be emptiness,
or sadness,
or loneliness.
 
Boredom really is a state
where you have run out of ways
of distracting yourself from this moment.
 
So you invent more and more ways,
more and more actions
to keep your from stillness.
 
Unfortunately,
in all of this seeking happiness,
you are avoiding happiness.
 
I suggest to you,
in love,
to stop avoiding this moment.
 
To stop looking to feel something
else than what is here.
 
Even if it is emptiness,
to surrender yourself
to that emptiness.
 
To truly be here
in this moment.
To give yourself completely
in silence
to being present
here and now.
 
Because here,
beyond what you are avoiding
lies unconditional happiness.
 
What you were looking for
all along.

There is nothing you need to do.
Just stop all doing.
Stop all action.
 
Let go of everything
that can be let go of.
 
Then there is unfathomable peace.
Subtler and subtler levels of awareness.
 
The weight and stress
of ego
disappears in an instant,
and you rest as radiance.
 
Once you really
surrender into stillness,
and experience this peace,
you may never want to leave.
 
Blessings,
 
Kip”
 
 
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It is in experiencing what is here in this moment that you find unconditional love and happiness.

Unfortunately, the habit is to avoid this moment, thus creating stress and unhappiness.

Everyone is seeking the same thing. You can say either they are seeking happiness or to get out of their pain.

The thing about it is, like a fly caught in a spider web, the more you try to get out of your pain, the more stuck in the pain you become.

That is where desire is born. Where seeking is born. You look here and there to try and find a way out of your pain, to find happiness and love. Most people are not even aware of their pain. Yet if you look, you will see how you are constantly seeking something to take you out of this moment, to keep you from experiencing what is here. There is a discomfort here, the need to be distracted by something in order to feel good. But you have gotten used to this discomfort, and you have gotten really good at avoiding it. The main way you avoid it is through thinking.

There are layers and layers of mental activity on top of that pain, there are a million tasks and distractions that keep you from ever becoming consciously aware of that pain.

If you really look at why you do the things you do, it is that they give you some sort of pleasure or relief. You want to win the race because it feels good for a short time that you won. You want an icecream because while you are eating that ice cream, there is a certain amount of pleasure. You may even want to be angry at someone, because you get a certain amount of relief by focusing that anger at someone.

If you are bored, you seek any means to overcome that boredom. Because all boredom really is, is the state where you have run out of ways to distract yourself from this moment.

So you seek to fulfill desires. First it may be instant gratification desires like sex and drugs. Then there are material desires, or desires for success, to find a relationship. Then desires to improve yourself.

Ultimately, you come to the conclusion that none of these things fulfill you. So you have spiritual desires. You want enlightenment. You enter meditation to get bliss or to be free from your pain.

All of this is the natural progression of the ego. It is how it is supposed to be.

But then you come here, you come to a place that can teach you true meditation, as a path to enlightenment. As a way to be free from your pain, to fill you with bliss.

And you find bliss for a time, you find freedom from pain to an extent temporarily. But still, although better than everything else, it still does not fulfill you.

So if you want to be free from all of this seeking, from this pain, if you really want to experience true unconditional happiness, if you really want to learn true meditation as a path to enlightenment read this closely:

1. Realize, that there is pain, there is unhappiness, discomfort. Most people never stop and experience what they are avoiding in this moment. They say “I am happy.” Yet they are constantly seeking something to fulfill them. Just in seeing that you are looking to be fulfilled means you are not fulfilled now. This very realization will bring your great freedom.

Most people do not believe that it is possible to be happy and blissful. They do not believe what all of the meditation masters have said and that your natural state is peace, bliss and love. That it is possible to live in such a state.

Because if you really look in this moment, if you stop all of your action in this moment, and experience what is here in this moment, without getting lost in your thinking, you will probably find peace. This is good.

But then if you stay with it, you will feel the pain you are always avoiding, and very quickly, you will get lost in your thinking again to avoid feeling what is here in this moment.

So you have to be willing to feel what is here. To see that in every moment, you are avoiding this moment, you are resisting experiencing this moment. To become aware of this habitual resistance is great freedom already.

2. Second thing to do is don’t call what is here unhappiness or pain, simply allow yourself to feel it completely. Accept yourself completely as you are without defining it, judging it. Forget the mind all together. Just allow yourself to feel what is here in this moment as sensation. Notice the sensations you feel of existing in this moment. Surrender to how you are, without trying to change it, improve it or define it. Just feel and breathe.

3. In the beginning, use a technique to help keep you present. Because you will get lost in your thinking again and again. Getting lost in your thoughts is simply the habit to avoid being present and experiencing what is here. It can be as easy as noticing the feeling of your breath moving in and out of your nose. Or silently repeating “I am” with every breath, keeping your attention on this feeling of “I am” or being, beyond the mind.

4. You need enlightened presence. When you sit with someone who has mastered the meditation path all the way to enlightenment, their enlightened presence washes through you, cleaning out your energy channels and awakening that same enlightened presence in you. The easiest way to do this is to meditate The Calling CDs for Spiritual Awakening. Simply by listening to the CD, you are given what is known as shaktipat/deeksha/grace. It awakens your natural state in you in the same way as sitting with an enlightened teacher.

5. In accepting yourself as you are, in allowing yourself to experience what is here in this moment, you naturally become aware, present. Meditating with the Calling CDs spoken about above will make this process very easy and provide a lot of bliss and peace along the way to make it a delicious journey.

6. Be responsible. Stop blaming others for your anger or sadness. Stop hurting others, stop seeking justice or to be right.

In order to awaken to your true nature, you must simply experience what life gives you. This is karma. Allow life to be as it is instead of constantly trying to change everyting and everyone around you. In being present in this, without fighting it, you move very quickly into high states of awareness.

7. Intensify the awareness. Become a witness to your thoughts, really, in every moment in meditation, be absolutely present. Sometimes it is necessary to give up the bliss to be present, at some point, bliss also must be surrendered, so a greater freedom and bliss emerges.

8. You, as a person, as the knower, the wanter, the doer, the one in control, you as an ego is the problem, is the suffering. The more you feed this ego and empower it, the more you will separate yourself from the love that you are. So practice humility. Become aware of how you are always trying to be right, to know everything, to be noticed, to be loved, to be accepted by others. Become aware of the ego’s need to be all of these things. In the awareness of it, you move beyond it.

Beyond ego, beyond mind identification, there is simply awareness, more and more subtle levels of awareness. This is what you truly are, this is where freedom lies.

9. In two words, be present. Completely be here in this moment.

This is true meditation, the path to enlightenment. It is about giving up your fantasies and your memories and living in the now. It is about bringing your attention back to this moment again and again every time you get caught up in your thoughts.

Then life gets really beautiful. Everything begins to be taken care of. You become happy, loving, peaceful, blissful. Not as an ego. But as bliss itself, as love itself. You become a channel for the divine. This is true meditation, the path to enlightenment.

Blessings,

Kip

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“Why struggle meditating on your own for decades to experience
what you could within minutes of listening the these CDs.”
 
 
      “How does one really define a euphoric, rapturous,
       high in the heavenly realm, peaceful, blissful plane in one word! 
 
       I went through many phases of emotions
       from crying to bliss to peace beyond description.
       The world needs to know about your work!”
     
      (Gina Hakeem Reavis, Tenn., USA)
 
Click this link while you
are still thinking about it: www.bliss-music.com/thecalling.htm 
 
 
 
 
 

“The ego existsthrough control.