1 00:00:09,010 --> 00:00:10,710 What we are going to describe 2 00:00:10,716 --> 00:00:12,973 has been called ‘The Secret Of Secrets’, 3 00:00:12,980 --> 00:00:16,949 the esoteric wisdom that leads to samadhi. 4 00:00:17,589 --> 00:00:21,189 Samadhi is the goal of all spirituality, 5 00:00:21,420 --> 00:00:24,450 its union with the source. 6 00:00:24,880 --> 00:00:27,760 the truth of who or what you are. 7 00:00:27,960 --> 00:00:30,119 The truth that transcends the limited mind, 8 00:00:30,119 --> 00:00:33,690 cannot be seen by means of the limited mind. 9 00:00:33,820 --> 00:00:36,899 The still point cannot be reached 10 00:00:36,899 --> 00:00:40,200 by means of movement. If you want to 11 00:00:40,200 --> 00:00:42,660 realize the still point beyond thinking, 12 00:00:42,660 --> 00:00:45,960 let go of all interest in thoughts and sensations, 13 00:00:45,960 --> 00:00:47,520 all preferences, all phenomena 14 00:00:47,520 --> 00:00:49,680 generated by the mind and senses, 15 00:00:49,680 --> 00:00:52,680 and rest in naked awareness. 16 00:01:20,520 --> 00:01:23,159 There are two fundamental dimensions XXXXXXXX 17 00:01:23,159 --> 00:01:26,400 existence In This Moment 18 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:29,520 there's that which is changing and that 19 00:01:29,520 --> 00:01:32,040 which is unchanging 20 00:01:32,040 --> 00:01:34,860 thoughts and Sensations are a field of 21 00:01:34,860 --> 00:01:36,740 constantly changing phenomena 22 00:01:36,740 --> 00:01:39,659 [Music] 23 00:01:39,659 --> 00:01:42,960 what is unchanging is the awareness of 24 00:01:42,960 --> 00:01:45,130 that field of change 25 00:01:45,130 --> 00:01:48,300 [Music] 26 00:01:49,140 --> 00:01:51,299 we are usually so caught up in the field 27 00:01:51,299 --> 00:01:55,079 of change fixated on its objects that we 28 00:01:55,079 --> 00:01:57,720 ignored the dimension of awareness 29 00:01:57,720 --> 00:02:00,659 so we start our investigation by 30 00:02:00,659 --> 00:02:04,259 becoming aware of awareness 31 00:02:04,259 --> 00:02:07,750 in conscious of consciousness 32 00:02:07,750 --> 00:02:14,740 [Music] 33 00:02:18,320 --> 00:02:21,530 [Music] 34 00:02:27,650 --> 00:02:43,270 [Music] 35 00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:46,140 the challenge with resting in Awareness 36 00:02:46,140 --> 00:02:49,080 for long periods of time 37 00:02:49,080 --> 00:02:51,060 people have not cultivated the 38 00:02:51,060 --> 00:02:53,940 concentration and Equanimity to stay in 39 00:02:53,940 --> 00:02:56,040 awareness 40 00:02:56,040 --> 00:02:58,620 we are addicted to comfort and The 41 00:02:58,620 --> 00:03:00,780 Limited mind will want to escape from 42 00:03:00,780 --> 00:03:03,000 this exercise 43 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:05,400 it will find it profoundly uncomfortable 44 00:03:05,400 --> 00:03:08,160 and will create every type of hindrance 45 00:03:08,160 --> 00:03:10,510 or distraction 46 00:03:10,510 --> 00:03:11,879 [Music] 47 00:03:11,879 --> 00:03:15,300 there are two primary knots that bind us 48 00:03:15,300 --> 00:03:18,239 to Ego identification 49 00:03:18,239 --> 00:03:21,120 body is attached to comfort 50 00:03:21,120 --> 00:03:25,220 and the mind wants to know 51 00:03:26,040 --> 00:03:28,560 if we continue to seek the comfort of 52 00:03:28,560 --> 00:03:31,319 the body and continue to seek knowing 53 00:03:31,319 --> 00:03:32,879 with the mind 54 00:03:32,879 --> 00:03:35,340 We Will Never Move Beyond The Limited 55 00:03:35,340 --> 00:03:37,500 mind and body 56 00:03:37,500 --> 00:03:41,040 we will remain like a herd animal 57 00:03:41,040 --> 00:03:43,560 a creature that craves pleasure and 58 00:03:43,560 --> 00:03:46,440 avoids pain endlessly responding to 59 00:03:46,440 --> 00:03:48,780 stimulus 60 00:03:48,780 --> 00:03:50,580 endlessly doing 61 00:03:50,580 --> 00:03:54,490 and unaware of the dimension of being 62 00:03:54,490 --> 00:03:57,120 [Music] 63 00:03:57,120 --> 00:04:00,720 to be aware to be fully attentive to 64 00:04:00,720 --> 00:04:03,239 what is happening without the mediation 65 00:04:03,239 --> 00:04:06,840 of egoic conditioning without Concepts 66 00:04:06,840 --> 00:04:10,500 without controlling manipulating or 67 00:04:10,500 --> 00:04:12,239 distortion 68 00:04:12,239 --> 00:04:14,459 without the filtering of The Limited 69 00:04:14,459 --> 00:04:17,620 mind is to be present without choosing 70 00:04:17,620 --> 00:04:19,079 [Music] 71 00:04:19,079 --> 00:04:22,079 present without choosing and therefore 72 00:04:22,079 --> 00:04:25,280 without a chooser 73 00:04:26,340 --> 00:04:29,100 every time the Mind moves without your 74 00:04:29,100 --> 00:04:33,660 willing even the tiniest movement it is 75 00:04:33,660 --> 00:04:35,280 due to filtering through the 76 00:04:35,280 --> 00:04:37,340 conditioning of the self-structure 77 00:04:37,340 --> 00:04:41,820 [Music] 78 00:04:41,820 --> 00:04:44,520 the path leads to cessation of the 79 00:04:44,520 --> 00:04:46,560 entire Whirlpool of mind 80 00:04:46,560 --> 00:04:47,850 foreign 81 00:04:47,850 --> 00:04:52,080 [Music] 82 00:04:52,080 --> 00:04:55,620 to realizing all levels of self is empty 83 00:04:55,620 --> 00:05:00,960 [Music] 84 00:05:00,960 --> 00:05:03,840 how do I drop all doing how do I drop 85 00:05:03,840 --> 00:05:06,800 mind activity 86 00:05:07,259 --> 00:05:11,400 listen closely this is the paradox 87 00:05:11,400 --> 00:05:14,880 The Limited egoic mind here's the 88 00:05:14,880 --> 00:05:18,419 question and wants to know how 89 00:05:18,419 --> 00:05:23,479 but that limited mind can't do it 90 00:05:23,820 --> 00:05:27,180 the mind will always fail in any attempt 91 00:05:27,180 --> 00:05:29,220 to realize Stillness 92 00:05:29,220 --> 00:05:33,440 because the mind is movement 93 00:05:33,440 --> 00:05:38,360 the Mind itself is movement 94 00:05:38,520 --> 00:05:41,820 it is an endless process of doing 95 00:05:41,820 --> 00:05:45,240 we have to make the shift from doing 96 00:05:45,240 --> 00:05:47,419 to being 97 00:05:47,419 --> 00:05:50,460 the you that you think you are is a 98 00:05:50,460 --> 00:05:54,539 process a constant movement a collection 99 00:05:54,539 --> 00:05:57,380 of patterns 100 00:06:02,400 --> 00:06:05,759 that you has to die 101 00:06:05,759 --> 00:06:08,880 the pathological pattern of you has to 102 00:06:08,880 --> 00:06:12,419 end for somebody to be realized 103 00:06:12,419 --> 00:06:15,860 let that sink in 104 00:06:16,320 --> 00:06:18,360 spiritual teachers have given the 105 00:06:18,360 --> 00:06:20,639 instruction to reach samadhi 106 00:06:20,639 --> 00:06:23,639 be still and know 107 00:06:23,639 --> 00:06:26,940 be still and know the true self 108 00:06:26,940 --> 00:06:29,819 primordial awareness Beyond name and 109 00:06:29,819 --> 00:06:31,440 form 110 00:06:31,440 --> 00:06:33,950 be still and know that you are God 111 00:06:33,950 --> 00:06:37,620 [Music] 112 00:06:37,620 --> 00:06:40,940 exactly do they mean 113 00:06:41,880 --> 00:06:45,860 what is it that becomes still 114 00:06:47,280 --> 00:06:49,740 obviously no one's physical body can 115 00:06:49,740 --> 00:06:52,560 become absolutely still it wasting 116 00:06:52,560 --> 00:06:55,919 within time and space because time space 117 00:06:55,919 --> 00:06:58,620 itself is movement 118 00:06:58,620 --> 00:06:59,539 foreign 119 00:06:59,539 --> 00:07:02,639 space is mined 120 00:07:02,639 --> 00:07:07,759 the universe is Big mind or logos 121 00:07:10,259 --> 00:07:13,500 first hermetic principle is that the all 122 00:07:13,500 --> 00:07:18,440 is mind the universe is mental 123 00:07:19,319 --> 00:07:23,280 universe is mind and mind is movement 124 00:07:23,280 --> 00:07:26,340 how can I be still and know 125 00:07:26,340 --> 00:07:29,520 how can you be still on a globe spinning 126 00:07:29,520 --> 00:07:34,460 thousand miles per hour around its axis 127 00:07:35,060 --> 00:07:39,060 spinning 67 000 miles per hour around 128 00:07:39,060 --> 00:07:41,340 the Sun 129 00:07:41,340 --> 00:07:45,300 moving 500 000 miles per hour around the 130 00:07:45,300 --> 00:07:46,259 Galaxy 131 00:07:46,259 --> 00:07:50,479 and millions more through the universe 132 00:07:52,380 --> 00:07:55,319 your heart is beating cells are moving 133 00:07:55,319 --> 00:07:56,520 inside 134 00:07:56,520 --> 00:07:58,319 food digesting 135 00:07:58,319 --> 00:08:01,680 the brain producing brain waves 136 00:08:01,680 --> 00:08:06,000 your blood is pumping energy is moving 137 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:08,520 how can we be still 138 00:08:08,520 --> 00:08:11,460 when the spiritual Masters say be still 139 00:08:11,460 --> 00:08:12,660 and know 140 00:08:12,660 --> 00:08:14,520 they must be talking about something 141 00:08:14,520 --> 00:08:15,720 else 142 00:08:15,720 --> 00:08:19,160 something Beyond time and space 143 00:08:19,160 --> 00:08:23,280 something beyond the physical and mental 144 00:08:23,280 --> 00:08:25,979 what is meant by Stillness is something 145 00:08:25,979 --> 00:08:28,259 that we have no word for in our modern 146 00:08:28,259 --> 00:08:30,500 language system 147 00:08:30,500 --> 00:08:33,779 the Sanskrit language the language of 148 00:08:33,779 --> 00:08:36,779 the yogis has more precise terms which 149 00:08:36,779 --> 00:08:39,919 point to the non-dual 150 00:08:40,620 --> 00:08:44,940 the term shunyata is often translated as 151 00:08:44,940 --> 00:08:46,440 voidness 152 00:08:46,440 --> 00:08:49,380 Stillness or emptiness 153 00:08:49,380 --> 00:08:51,839 it is what is used in connection with 154 00:08:51,839 --> 00:08:55,019 anata or no self 155 00:08:55,019 --> 00:08:57,520 the realization of Buddha nature 156 00:08:57,520 --> 00:09:01,500 [Music] 157 00:09:01,500 --> 00:09:03,959 Stillness is maybe the closest English 158 00:09:03,959 --> 00:09:05,220 word 159 00:09:05,220 --> 00:09:07,440 but it is inadequate to describe 160 00:09:07,440 --> 00:09:09,660 something that is not of this dualistic 161 00:09:09,660 --> 00:09:11,519 world 162 00:09:11,519 --> 00:09:14,100 what is actually realized is the 163 00:09:14,100 --> 00:09:16,800 primordial Consciousness which is beyond 164 00:09:16,800 --> 00:09:21,120 Stillness and movement Beyond Time 165 00:09:21,120 --> 00:09:23,959 it is eternal the ground of your being 166 00:09:23,959 --> 00:09:27,120 the essential nature of reality that 167 00:09:27,120 --> 00:09:30,120 does not change actually it is beyond 168 00:09:30,120 --> 00:09:34,200 change and the changeless 169 00:09:34,200 --> 00:09:37,440 when our true nature is realized it 170 00:09:37,440 --> 00:09:39,600 becomes obvious that Stillness and 171 00:09:39,600 --> 00:09:42,660 movement are a duality created by the 172 00:09:42,660 --> 00:09:46,740 Mind silence and noise are a duality 173 00:09:46,740 --> 00:09:50,180 created by the mind 174 00:09:50,640 --> 00:09:53,580 everything is already inherent within 175 00:09:53,580 --> 00:09:56,459 that primordial Stillness 176 00:09:56,459 --> 00:09:59,519 the movement of the world is identical 177 00:09:59,519 --> 00:10:01,580 to Stillness 178 00:10:01,580 --> 00:10:04,080 be still and know 179 00:10:04,080 --> 00:10:07,380 be in motion and know 180 00:10:07,380 --> 00:10:10,740 it is all emptiness dancing this is not 181 00:10:10,740 --> 00:10:13,440 something philosophical but an entirely 182 00:10:13,440 --> 00:10:15,360 different way of interfacing with the 183 00:10:15,360 --> 00:10:16,740 world 184 00:10:16,740 --> 00:10:18,899 actually it's about dropping the 185 00:10:18,899 --> 00:10:20,339 interface 186 00:10:20,339 --> 00:10:23,459 dropping the reducing valve which is the 187 00:10:23,459 --> 00:10:26,040 self-structure and experiencing your 188 00:10:26,040 --> 00:10:28,620 true nature unmediated by the Limited 189 00:10:28,620 --> 00:10:30,300 mind 190 00:10:30,300 --> 00:10:33,120 the so-called outer world is transcended 191 00:10:33,120 --> 00:10:35,700 by realizing Stillness 192 00:10:35,700 --> 00:10:39,120 which when realized includes that which 193 00:10:39,120 --> 00:10:40,700 it transcends 194 00:10:40,700 --> 00:10:42,300 [Music] 195 00:10:42,300 --> 00:10:44,519 The Duality of Stillness and movement 196 00:10:44,519 --> 00:10:47,360 collapses 197 00:10:47,399 --> 00:10:51,240 realizing samadhi this Great Awakening 198 00:10:51,240 --> 00:10:54,440 is just the beginning of the path 199 00:10:54,440 --> 00:10:57,540 Anjali says that the entire Endeavor of 200 00:10:57,540 --> 00:11:00,600 yoga is aimed at the cessation of the 201 00:11:00,600 --> 00:11:02,579 whirlpool of the Mind 202 00:11:02,579 --> 00:11:05,579 chitta virti naroda 203 00:11:05,579 --> 00:11:07,860 you could say it is the cessation of 204 00:11:07,860 --> 00:11:10,339 karma 205 00:11:10,740 --> 00:11:13,440 the cessation of deep unconscious 206 00:11:13,440 --> 00:11:17,940 patterns on many different levels 207 00:11:17,940 --> 00:11:20,519 when we realize our true nature we 208 00:11:20,519 --> 00:11:23,160 temporarily cease our identification and 209 00:11:23,160 --> 00:11:25,210 reaction to the mind 210 00:11:25,210 --> 00:11:26,700 [Music] 211 00:11:26,700 --> 00:11:29,940 it's like pulling the plug on a fan 212 00:11:29,940 --> 00:11:33,180 when we pulled the plug on a fan the 213 00:11:33,180 --> 00:11:35,519 inertia of the Fan's blades keeps it 214 00:11:35,519 --> 00:11:36,540 going 215 00:11:36,540 --> 00:11:39,420 as long as we don't plug the fan back in 216 00:11:39,420 --> 00:11:43,579 it will eventually come to Stillness 217 00:11:43,800 --> 00:11:46,320 karma is simply the tendency for energy 218 00:11:46,320 --> 00:11:49,500 to follow established pathways 219 00:11:49,500 --> 00:11:51,660 when Consciousness slips back into 220 00:11:51,660 --> 00:11:55,440 pattern it's like plugging in the fan 221 00:11:55,440 --> 00:11:58,980 energy follows Consciousness energy goes 222 00:11:58,980 --> 00:12:01,110 back into the old patterns 223 00:12:01,110 --> 00:12:04,380 [Music] 224 00:12:04,380 --> 00:12:06,899 another way of describing it is through 225 00:12:06,899 --> 00:12:09,480 the law of inertia 226 00:12:09,480 --> 00:12:13,260 a mind in motion stays in motion unless 227 00:12:13,260 --> 00:12:16,160 acted upon by an outside force 228 00:12:16,160 --> 00:12:17,339 [Music] 229 00:12:17,339 --> 00:12:19,620 in The Matrix of the conditioned mind 230 00:12:19,620 --> 00:12:21,839 that we call the universe 231 00:12:21,839 --> 00:12:24,420 energy and thought cycle through fractal 232 00:12:24,420 --> 00:12:27,600 labyrinths that exist on a Continuum for 233 00:12:27,600 --> 00:12:29,820 micro to macro levels 234 00:12:29,820 --> 00:12:32,880 branching and exploring endlessly 235 00:12:32,880 --> 00:12:34,519 foreign 236 00:12:34,519 --> 00:12:37,920 practice is an intervention 237 00:12:37,920 --> 00:12:41,040 an outside force 238 00:12:41,040 --> 00:12:43,680 a Consciousness which diverts energy 239 00:12:43,680 --> 00:12:47,300 from flowing in the conditioned Pathways 240 00:12:47,300 --> 00:12:50,100 you have to be willing to change your 241 00:12:50,100 --> 00:12:52,260 life 242 00:12:52,260 --> 00:12:53,639 [Music] 243 00:12:53,639 --> 00:12:55,920 someone can do all the meditation in the 244 00:12:55,920 --> 00:12:58,440 world but if they go back to their same 245 00:12:58,440 --> 00:13:00,000 old patterns 246 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:02,040 their same old routine 247 00:13:02,040 --> 00:13:05,040 then the wiring remains in place 248 00:13:05,040 --> 00:13:06,800 foreign 249 00:13:06,800 --> 00:13:10,079 conscious motivations must be excavated 250 00:13:10,079 --> 00:13:12,600 and faced 251 00:13:12,600 --> 00:13:15,120 if through great perseverance and 252 00:13:15,120 --> 00:13:18,060 determination we managed to not plug in 253 00:13:18,060 --> 00:13:20,160 the fan then there is an actual 254 00:13:20,160 --> 00:13:23,220 cessation of the brities 255 00:13:23,220 --> 00:13:26,040 profound silence that is born within the 256 00:13:26,040 --> 00:13:28,380 self-structure 257 00:13:28,380 --> 00:13:31,920 every time we identify with and react to 258 00:13:31,920 --> 00:13:34,740 some preference produced by the mind we 259 00:13:34,740 --> 00:13:37,980 plug the fan back in the longer we 260 00:13:37,980 --> 00:13:39,779 remain in awareness 261 00:13:39,779 --> 00:13:42,839 the more of the samskaras are purified 262 00:13:42,839 --> 00:13:45,959 the more the fan slows down 263 00:13:45,959 --> 00:13:48,000 and the human vessel becomes more 264 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:51,120 permeable to awareness the more we 265 00:13:51,120 --> 00:13:54,980 become empty of self