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This exercise brings an instant Shift in Power, hence returning the power to you. Therefore, in every meditation, you always start with your breath, then feel your breath and the space around your breath. When you go deeper, feel the Space around your feeling, your emotion, and around the cloud energy. There is a reason why I always say that. This is because one of the ground rules of Non-Duality, Presence, and mature or awakened being is to feel your feelings and be present with them. Be with your clouds of energies and be fully responsible for that. That is your responsibility. If you blame someone for how you feel, you instantly start giving your power away. If you judge somebody, you start giving your power away. It is not wise to do that.
Being Present is not residing in the bubble, in the river, in the energy. Even when the good times come, you still need to be Present Here and Now, rather than lost in those pleasant feelings and energies. Various justifications arise: ‘I just want to enjoy myself; I just want to have fun, I need this.’ However, what happens is that you are lost in the energy and feeling, and you have no power. You are not awakened. You are merely semi-veiled. Enjoying semi-sleepiness is a lovely feeling, but you are only half awake now, and half asleep, because you are in the energy, in the bubble.
How do my thoughts relate to my feelings? To feel the feeling sounds very simple, but it is a difficult practice because, what usually happens when people have challenges is that they think about their sadness and anger, and they project things onto other people – you did this, I am sad because of you, and I am angry because of this. They think and that is a problem.
It is no longer some ‘being-in-the-flow’ hippie kind of thing. Presence is growing spiritually, becoming present, mature, and responsible. You are not denying or escaping anything.
Feeling the energy is just something uncomfortable, and it may feel like something is grinding in the stomach, solar plexus, or the heart, but it is doable, and that’s it. It is not so bad. Associations, justifications, meanings, and stories have no power in them. However, when you come back to the feeling and raw energy, that is where your power comes back to you. As you spend time doing this practice, you find that you are healing deeply. You are healing from the things that forced you not to be present. You are healing from the things that took your power away. In the Presence consciousness, you start to heal deeply. There is deep subconscious healing happening. It is not just changing beliefs. It is much deeper than that. It is not making new habits, which is a subconscious playground.
The breakthrough into that initial lightness is called Non-Duality, where you can be present with energies without reacting to the conditions in your life or avoiding them. That is the entrance to Non-Duality. It is called Transcendence, which goes beyond the dual conditions of feelings.
Therefore, transcendence means growing above. It is not escaping but going through and then growing above. It is hard work, and that is the real meaning of the word transcendence, living beyond any position. Now, you know what living beyond duality is because you went through duality and felt the feelings and raw energies. You felt how you were pulled to the left and right and pushed up and down.
This experience is yours. Every experience is precisely for you. Sometimes, it is good, and at times, challenging, but it is for you. There is no more distance, no resistance, no avoidance, and that is what unlimited means – being inclusive. It is indeed all included, all integrated. It is All Absolutely you, not only for you, but it is you. There is nobody else here. There is no more distinction, separation, distance, or any entity behind it. That is called a complete Non-Dual realization, but there is a path to that Absolute Non-Duality and openness. “As long as I am this or that, I am not all things.” (Meister Eckhart)
Everybody has spent 20, 30, 40, or 50 years being conditioned to avoid emotions. Now, in just a few months or years, you need to catch up with the last few decades of what you have been accumulating, storing, or avoiding. The good thing is that it does not take that long.
deeply. As you sit in practice and do it, you start seeing results, and then, you get those confirmations that you are no longer reacting in this way, no longer doing that, and no longer resonating with this and that. These are all your confirmations that you are on the right path and are steadily maturing. In Inner Love10, people tend to escape reality for a while. It is the honeymoon phase of spirituality. However, real life begins in Presence, and you return to life. You go back to the feelings and raw energies, you emerge from the clouds and bubbles, and then, you just start sitting with them. There, a significant transformation occurs, and much power returns to you.
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Enlightened Authentic Self by Sat Mindo Damalis presents key insights from the contemplative tradition. The 10 passages above capture the essential teachings.
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