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What is a ‘Holiday’?
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In Salvadore Poe’s (Sal’s) teaching, a holiday is defined as the simple and profound recognition of “I am and I know that I am“. It is a conscious shift from identifying as a body, mind, or personal story to recognizing oneself as pure knowing or pure being.
Key aspects of a holiday include:
- A Break from “Selfing”: Sal describes a holiday as a break from the “work” and energy required to maintain a separate sense of self, its history, and its future. It is an “atom bomb” to the personal story, allowing you to jump off the mental and spiritual “carousels” of philosophy and seeking.
- Blown Wide Open: Instead of a focused or restrictive meditation, a holiday is a state of being “blown wide open,” where attention is relaxed and unfocused. Sal emphasizes keeping the eyes open because nothing is excluded; sensory objects, sounds, and thoughts are all included equally within aware being.
- Freedom from the Known: A holiday is the recognition of the pure subject—the “I” that knows—distinct from “the known,” which includes all objects of the senses, thoughts, and emotions. In this state, one is unborn, meaning no objects (labels, opinions, or attributes) are being added to the simple fact of being.
- The “Big Yes”: It is an affirmation of timeless being rather than a process of negating thoughts or trying to change oneself. Sal suggests that simply living this freedom more frequently naturally lessens the impact of ingrained conditioning and trauma.
- Timelessness: In a holiday, there is no past or future because both are merely thoughts; there is only the actual, alive “now”. This unchanging “I” is the same presence that has been here throughout your entire life, regardless of changing circumstances or physical states like pain or illness.
Ultimately, a holiday is not about achieving a specific “blissful state” or experience, but about discovering the stable ground of your own existence which is already and always free. Sal teaches that while one holiday may be powerful, the work often unfolds through “living meditation” and repeated recognition until freedom becomes your default condition.
| Episode | Date | Post Link | Audio Player | Keywords | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Good Morning Wake UpEp. 113 What Do I Want? | 2026-08-14 | Listen/Read | Desire, Compulsive Thought, Holiday | Frames wanting freedom as wanting it the way a drowning person wants air, total, undivided. Points to compulsive, repetitive thinking as what pulls attention from being, and calls for discerning the moment a separative I begins to rise. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up – Ep. 112 The Highest Teaching Is Silence, Yourself | 2026-08-13 | Listen/Read | Silence, Pure Being, Prior I, Highest Teaching | Frames silence as the highest teaching, not an absence of sound but resting prior to the rising I, already complete. Needs no seeking, philosophy, or understanding, since it knows itself directly as pure, subjective being. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up – Ep. 111 The Phantom I Vanishes in Favor of Pure Being | 2026-08-12 | Listen/Read | Phantom I, Ego, Pure Being, Looking | Examines the phantom I as merely a self-referencing sense arising from pure being, never a solid, findable object. Looking for the I directly makes it vanish, revealing timeless, limitless being; freedom is now, not a future event. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up – Ep. 110 What is Eternal? What is Samadhi? | 2026-08-11 | Listen/Read | Eternal, Samadhi, Pure Being | Eternal doesn’t mean forever but what always is, the unchanging pure being at the root, the same whenever you look. Distinguishes Nirvikalpa Samadhi (world absent) from Sahaja Samadhi: pure being while the world appears. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up – Ep. 109 Asleep In The Waking State | 2026-08-10 | Listen/Read | Deep Sleep, Contentment, Waking State | The contentment of deep sleep comes from the absence of the rising I. The inquiry: recognize that same deep, palpable contentment now, while awake and fully conscious, unconcerned with what appears in the mind. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up – Ep. 108 Be Still | 2026-08-09 | Listen/Read | Be Still, Pure Being, The Rising I, Palpable Stillness | Invites resting as be still and know that I am, stillness not as an unmoving body or a blank mind, but as not rising as the I. The body can move, wiggle, act; you at the center stay still. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up – Ep. 107 Abide As The Ever Present Contentment, Peace and Silence | 2026-08-08 | Listen/Read | Contentment, Abiding, Mini-Intensive | A taste of the August Mini-Intensive. Notice the still, peaceful background beneath every movement of body and mind; the only job is to abide as yourself, pure being. Nothing can touch that silence. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up – Ep. 106 Where Do I End and The World Begins? | 2026-08-07 | Listen/Read | Separation, Rising I, Boundless Being | Investigates where I is located. The rising I is the separating factor that ends me at the skin. Without it, pure being permeates all it perceives, boundless, no center, not inside the body, not ending anywhere. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up – Ep. 105 True Silence is the Absence of the Rising I | 2026-08-06 | Listen/Read | Rising I, True Silence, No Attributes | A litany negating every attribute, no name, form, nationality, gender, past or future. In the absence of the rising I, none apply. True silence isn’t the absence of noise but the absence of the rising I. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up – Ep. 104 Is Effort Needed to Be On Holiday? | 2026-08-05 | Listen/Read | Effort, Effortlessness, Seed | Addresses whether effort is needed to be on Holiday. Your essential being takes no effort, Holiday is a seed that sprouts by itself. The one who thinks effort is required is the rising I. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up – Ep. 103 Free From The One Who Needs To Know | 2026-08-04 | Listen/Read | Freedom From The Known, Security, Ego | Draws on Krishnamurti’s freedom from the known. Ego sustains itself by needing to know for security. Admitting I don’t know ends both the need and the one who needs it. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up – Ep. 102 Hiding in Open View | 2026-08-03 | Listen/Read | Source, Open View, Prodigal Son | Frames pure being as the Source hiding in open view, always the most obvious thing whenever you look. The Prodigal Son who must journey home is just the phantom I; seeking is ended, not satisfied. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up – Ep. 101 A Case of Mistaken Identity | 2026-08-02 | Listen/Read | Mistaken Identity, Thoughts, Root | Builds on the phantom I, showing thoughts only ever refer to the body while pure being momentarily mistakes itself for them. A holiday returns you to the root, prior to the rising I. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up – Ep. 100 The Phantom I Can’t Withstand Scrutiny | 2026-08-01 | Listen/Read | Phantom I, Scrutiny, Ego, Inquiry | Asks whether spontaneous thoughts indicate a self. Ego forms only when the I attaches to thoughts as me. Look directly for that separate I and it vanishes. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up – Ep. 99 The Real Sentience is What I Am | 2026-07-31 | Listen/Read | Sentience, Eternal Now, Real Life | Distinguishes the real sentience of pure being from the mind’s fears, projections and reminiscences. True life is what you are at essence, not the movement of mind. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up – Ep. 98 Jump – The Three Carousels of Mind | 2026-07-30 | Listen/Read | Carousels of Mind, Happiness, Jump | Describes the carousels of mind, the strategies we ride looking for happiness in all the wrong places, and invites jumping off them into pure being. Also recommends not reading the transcript, but simply being. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up – Ep. 97 Self Love | 2026-07-29 | Listen/Read | Self Love, Immovable I, Contentment | Points to the immovable, unchanging I that has been present the whole life, found by simply attending to pure being. Contentment is inherent here because being itself lacks nothing. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up – Ep. 96 Ok, I see. What Now? | 2026-07-28 | Listen/Read | Simplicity, Ordinary, Enlightenment | Emphasizes that pure being is utterly simple and ordinary, nothing mystical or mind-blowing. The mind resists this, assuming liberation must be something more extraordinary. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up – Ep. 95 Is The Conceptual Mind Needed To Know Yourself as Pure Being | 2026-07-27 | Listen/Read | Conceptual Mind, Beyond Words, Recognition | Argues that knowing yourself as pure being is not an intellectual understanding and cannot be found in any book or words. The value is recognized between the words, not in them. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up – Ep. 94 Pain and Contraction on Holiday | 2026-07-26 | Listen/Read | Pain, Contraction, Body | Addresses the expectation that recognizing pure being should erase bodily pain, noting the body is the experiencing entity and will feel contractions and illness. Feeling essential peace during extreme acute pain is not realistic. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up – Ep. 93 The Unbound Space of Pure Being | 2026-07-25 | Listen/Read | Phantom I, Unbound Space, Mechanical Thought | Contrasts the phantom I, an evanescent bubbling of self-referring thought, with the unbound space of pure being that you actually are. Most thought is mechanical, serving only to keep the phantom alive. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up – Ep. 92 Knowing The Peace of Deep Sleep While In The Waking State | 2026-07-24 | Listen/Read | Unborn, Deep Sleep, Rising I | Explores abiding as the unborn being prior to the rising I, where the peace and silence of deep sleep are known while awake. The contraction of the self is what obscures it. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up – Ep. 91 Holiday Is Not A Practice. It Is A Way Of Being | 2026-07-23 | Listen/Read | Way of Being, Not a Practice, Holiday | A text-free holiday reframing holiday not as a practice to perform but as a natural way of being to rest in. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up – Ep. 90 An Extended Holiday – Pure Subjective Conscious of Being | 2026-07-22 | Listen/Read | Extended Holiday, Pure Being, No Text | A text-free, extended holiday inviting you to stop reading and simply rest as pure, subjective conscious being. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up – Ep. 89 How To Have More Holidays | 2026-07-21 | Listen/Read | Holiday, Non-doership, Noticing | Responds to a request about being on holiday more often, explaining that the very noticing of being lost in thought is itself the return to pure being. There is no doer who chooses it, holidays arise spontaneously. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up – Ep. 88 Tend To Your Own Business, Being Free | 2026-07-19 | Listen/Read | Thoughts, Commentary, Business | Discusses how thoughts are just a moving commentary and have zero importance to freedom. It encourages tending to your own business by being free. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up – Ep. 87 Big I Small I? | 2026-07-18 | Listen/Read | Big I, Small I, Source, Ripple | Refutes the idea of a small self separate from source, noting that even ego is just source appearing as a ripple. There is nothing to kill or get rid of. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up – Ep. 86 Do We Make Choices? | 2026-07-17 | Listen/Read | Choice, Agency, Subsequent idea | Analyzes decision-making to show that the idea of agency only appears after an action has spontaneously occurred. Seeing this is the end of ego. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up – Ep. 85 What Is Attention? | 2026-07-16 | Listen/Read | Attention, Source, Subjective | Explains that attention is pure being knowing itself rather than an object. It is not something to strengthen but something to turn back onto its source. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up – Ep. 84 Unborn Being Is Always Here. Have A Look! | 2026-07-15 | Listen/Read | Birth, Unborn, Clinging | Describes how adding objects to pure being creates birth and ego. One is invited to remain unborn by not grasping labels. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up – Ep. 83 A Holiday Is What The Word Implies | 2026-07-14 | Listen/Read | Break, Work, Subjective | Defines a holiday as a break from the work of maintaining an individual self-story. It is coming out into the sun of subjective consciousness. | |
| Lastest News and Updates | 2026-07-07 | Listen/Read | |||
| Have a Holiday | 2026-05-11 | Listen/Read | |||
| What is the Sense I Am? Is it Silence? | 2026-05-04 | Listen/Read | |||
| Hoilday from the latest Open Meeting | 2026-05-03 | Listen/Read | |||
| Sal and Kat Freedom of Sharing Pt. 1 — The Search | 2026-04-27 | Listen/Read | |||
| Is There a Central Figure Here? | 2026-04-24 | Listen/Read | |||
| In The Absence of the Need for Understanding or Description | 2026-04-23 | Listen/Read | |||
| Falling In Love With Being | 2026-04-22 | Listen/Read | |||
| A Paradigm Shift | 2026-04-19 | Listen/Read | |||
| Panama | 2026-04-18 | Listen/Read | |||
| Reduce, Reduce, Reduce | 2026-04-17 | Listen/Read | |||
| The Audacity to Be Free | 2026-04-16 | Listen/Read | |||
| Turning Attention to Pure Being | 2026-04-15 | Listen/Read | |||
| The Story of You | 2026-04-14 | Listen/Read | |||
| Opening Holiday Inquiry from today’s Open Meeting | 2026-03-29 | Listen/Read | Open Meeting, Holiday, Inquiry | The opening Holiday inquiry from a live Open Meeting, posted for those who couldn’t attend, a guided settling into pure being to begin the session. | |
| Hoiiday Meditation – Essential Mind is Empty | 2026-03-20 | Listen/Read | Empty Mind, Being, Meditation | A short Holiday meditation: come to rest as being; everything rises and falls in empty mind. | |
| Am I Only Awareness? Or Am I Also The Body? | 2026-03-18 | Listen/Read | Awareness, Non-Duality, Wave And Ocean | Questions the teaching I am only awareness. A wave is also ocean, non-duality means there aren’t two, awareness and form. There is only ocean, and that includes the waves. | |
| I Am The Eternal Appearing As The Temporal | 2026-03-17 | Listen/Read | Eternal, Temporal, Unchanging I | An experiment revealing the unchanging self: though everything about you has changed since childhood, you have not. You are the same one that has known every experience of your life. | |
| Holiday Inquiry – The Visual Field. There’s No End To Me. | 2026-03-16 | Listen/Read | Visual Field, Paradigm Shift, Boundless | A Holiday inquiry into the visual field. Dropping the focus on a limited self, we know ourselves as blown wide open, a paradigm shift from limited to unlimited, with no end to me. | |
| Consciously Free From The Known | 2026-03-15 | Listen/Read | Freedom From The Known, Conditioning, Being | An inquiry meditation into how conditioning forms and how we mistake it for ourselves. Guided Holidays reveal that which is already free from the known, no matter what comes and goes, I am always here. | |
| The Story Of Self Is A Myth | 2026-03-14 | Listen/Read | Story Of Self, Object, Suffering | A pointed talk that the personal story, glorious, traumatic, or nostalgic, is merely an object, not who I am. Believed, it becomes real and brings suffering; seen as just another passing appearance, it’s a myth. | |
| What Am I Prior To The Sense Of I Am? | 2026-03-09 | Listen/Read | Prior To I Am, Ramana, Nisargadatta | Where Ramana and Nisargadatta suggest holding to the sense I Am until it dissolves, this inquiry points out you are already free of it, looking into what it is to be prior to I am. | |
| Freedom From The Story of Self. Come Out Into The Sun | 2026-03-08 | Listen/Read | Story Of Self, Freedom, Into The Sun | A short inquiry on stepping free of the personal story and coming out into the sun of pure being. From the India Intensive collection. | |
| What Is Inquiry? | 2026-03-07 | Listen/Read | Inquiry, Affirming And Negating, Big I Small I | Introduces the inquiry approaches Sal uses, the affirming and the negating, and the question of the small I and big I, are there two? Recorded ahead of the India Intensive. | |
| Introduction to Non-doership inquiries | 2026-03-06 | Listen/Read | Non-Doership, Free Will, Inquiry | The introduction to a two-day inquiry into non-doership and free will, followed by many inquiries to see this directly for oneself. From the India Intensive collection. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up Ep. 82 – Free From Doubt | 2026-01-31 | Listen/Read | Doubt, Known, Unknown | Argues that doubt only arises from the known (ideas of progress or enlightenment). In the unknown of pure being, no one exists to have doubt. | |
| Good Moring Wake Up Ep. 81 – What is Here Before, During and After Everything? | 2026-01-29 | Listen/Read | Constant, Eternal now, Rebel | Encourages finding the untouched being that remains constant despite changing experiences. This eternal now is always present for the real rebel. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up Ep. 80 – To Be Still Is The End Of Ego | 2026-01-28 | Listen/Read | Stillness, End of ego, Identification | Defines being still as no longer needing any definition or description of oneself. This stillness marks the end of ego-separation. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up Ep. 79 – The Audacity of Being Free | 2026-01-27 | Listen/Read | Audacity, Ignoring mind, Bypassing | Proposes ignoring mental movements in favor of pure being as an audacious act of self-love. It challenges the label of spiritual bypassing. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up Ep. 78 – Embracing Self Love is Effortless Freedom | 2026-01-26 | Listen/Read | Self-love, Gentle effort, Abiding | Suggests that abiding as pure being is easier when viewed as embracing self-love. This gentle effort is fueled by interest in one’s own nature. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up Ep. 77 – A Meditation Inquiry Into Doership | 2026-01-25 | Listen/Read | Doership, Spontaneous, Relief | Meditation observing that thoughts and sounds appear spontaneously without a doer or predetermination. This recognition brings relief and ease. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up Ep. 76 – Free Will vs. Determinism. Do We Need Either Concept? | 2026-01-24 | Listen/Read | Free will, Determinism, Unknown | Questions the need for both concepts, noting they both serve the ego’s need for the known. Freedom from the known means having neither. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up Ep. 75 – Self, From Gross to Subtle to Prior To | 2026-01-23 | Listen/Read | |||
| Good Morning Wake Up Ep. 74 – No Words Can Touch It. It’s Too Simple | 2026-01-22 | Listen/Read | |||
| Good Morning Wake Up Ep. 73 – I Am Is The First Superimposition | 2026-01-21 | Listen/Read | |||
| Good Morning Wake UP Ep. 72 – What Happens In The Morning When I Wake Up? | 2026-01-20 | Listen/Read | |||
| Good Morning Wake Up Ep. 71 – I Am Is The Beginning of the World | 2026-01-19 | Listen/Read | |||
| Good Morning Wake Up Ep. 70 – Falling In Love With Being | 2026-01-18 | Listen/Read | |||
| Good Morning Wake Up Ep. 69 – In The Absence Of The Need For Any Understanding Or Description There Is Only | 2026-01-17 | Listen/Read | Silence, No-definitions, Beyond-words | States that silence is the highest teaching because it signifies the end of the one who needs answers. Definitions like nothing are already too much. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up Ep. 68 – I Am The Answer To All Questions | 2026-01-16 | Listen/Read | |||
| Good Morning Wake Up Ep. 67 – In Any Moment, The Most Obvious Thing Is My Own Pure Being, Who I am | 2026-01-15 | Listen/Read | |||
| Good Morning Wake Up Ep. 66 – The Vast Openness Of Being Knowing | 2026-01-14 | Listen/Read | |||
| Good Morning Wake Up Ep. 65 – What Does The I Thought Refer To? | 2026-01-13 | Listen/Read | I-thought, Inseparable, Ocean of being | Examines how the I in thoughts like I have regret is inseparable from the thought itself. When the thought goes, that I goes too. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up Ep. 64 – Prior To I Am, Pure Being | 2026-01-12 | Listen/Read | Prior-to-I-am, Root, Ungraspable | Points to the root pure being that exists prior even to the first touch of the I am manifestation. This root is ungraspable but known. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up Ep. 63 – Is The Body Solid? Is That What I Am? | 2026-01-11 | Listen/Read | Spaciousness, Energy field, Non-solid | Deep inquiry into the body as a field of sensations rather than a solid object. When mental images are ignored, only spacious energy remains. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up Ep. 62 – Am I Located Inside The Body? Let’s Find Out | 2026-01-10 | Listen/Read | Location, Body-sensations, Pervasive | Inquiry leading through the body to show that I am not located in any specific sensation. The body is within me knowing. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up Ep. 61 – What Is Aware of All Appearances? | 2026-01-09 | Listen/Read | Subject, Object, Inquiry | Inquiry showing that if you know an object, it cannot be you; you are the one that knows. Even the I am sense is an object known to I. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up Ep. 60 – A Paradigm Shift | 2026-01-08 | Listen/Read | Paradigm shift, Awareness, Living freedom | Encourages a shift from being a me in a body to being blown wide open aware. This is living as awareness moment to moment. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up Ep. 59 – Unborn Being Prior to I Am Simply Is | 2026-01-07 | Listen/Read | Unborn, Manifestation, Birth of self | Distinguishes unborn being from the first touch of manifestation, the I am sense. Birth occurs when an object is added to pure being. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up Ep. 58 – Pure Being, Not a Speck of Self | 2026-01-06 | Listen/Read | Weightless, No-judgement, Shared root | Describes a state of pure being without a central authority judging or parsing experiences. This weightless essence is shared by everyone at the root. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up Ep. 57 – Peace, Silence, Bliss Are the Doorway to Freedom | 2026-01-05 | Listen/Read | First flavor, Doorway, Prior-to-silence | Notes that peace and silence are the first flavor of form, though I am prior even to silence. Falling in love with this peace is key. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up Ep. 56 – The Real Personal | 2026-01-04 | Listen/Read | Personal, Impersonal, Timeless | Redefines the personal as the timeless, spaceless being that exists before the me story. The impersonal is the real personal. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up Ep. 55 – Why Isn’t One Holiday Enough | 2025-12-16 | Listen/Read | Intensive, Habits, Great matter | Explains that an intensive is often needed to resolve a lifetime of questions and mental habits. It is the great matter of removing the head of data. | |
| Good Morning Wake UP Ep. 54 – The Rising of Ego is the Rising of Division | 2025-12-15 | Listen/Read | Division, Greed, Collective benefit | Connects ego to division and greed, suggesting that freedom removes the seed of terrible things in the world. Freedom benefits everyone, not just the individual. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up Ep. 53 – What Causes Seeking for Freedom? | 2025-12-14 | Listen/Read | Suffering, Seeking, Love of peace | Suggests seeking begins with the pain of the self-contraction. Awakening is the scientific but warm process of moving toward the love of peace. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up Ep. 52 – Ego IS the Need to Understand | 2025-12-13 | Listen/Read | Understanding, Identity, Question | Argues that the need to understand is what ego is, rather than something it has. Pure being is the answer where questions no longer exist. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up Ep. 51 – Infatuated with Freedom | 2025-12-12 | Listen/Read | Conditioning, Infatuation, Impact | Explains that living freedom lessens the occurrence and impact of ingrained conditioning and trauma over time. It is a choice of where to place one’s infatuation. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up Ep. 50 -There is. Possibility. What Do You Want? | 2025-12-11 | Listen/Read | Urgency, Choice, Opportunity | Asks if one wants freedom or the ego story, noting freedom becomes real when it becomes urgent. The possibility for freedom is always now. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up Ep. 49 – Getting Real | 2025-12-10 | Listen/Read | Triggers, Get real, Truth | Advice on getting real by ignoring body-mind triggers and coming out into the sun of nothing. It is turning to truth rather than self-improvement. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up Ep. 48 – Your Eternal I | 2025-12-09 | Listen/Read | Eternal I, Story-free, Sameness | Discusses how the me story vanishes in the moment of open knowing. The eternal I has no nationality, politics, or preferences. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up Ep. 47 – Immovable Being | 2025-12-08 | Listen/Read | Immovable, Non-interference, Rest | Encourages not being concerned with the quantity of thoughts, as they cannot interfere with immovable being. Simply know I am and rest. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up Ep. 46 – In the Midst of Movement, Stillness is Here | 2025-12-07 | Listen/Read | Knowing, Stillness, Life-events | Points out that I have been the same knowing presence throughout every event of one’s life. Stillness is the unmoving background of all experiences. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up Ep. 45 – Living Meditation, Like Now | 2025-12-06 | Listen/Read | |||
| Good Morning Wake Up Ep. 44 – I Am Enough, Pure Being | 2025-12-05 | Listen/Read | Complete, Enough, Understanding | Defines the need to understand as the rising of ego. Resting as pure being reveals that one is already complete and whole. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up Ep. 43 – I Know THAT I Am | 2025-12-04 | Listen/Read | That, Identity, Discovery | Clarifies that a holiday is about knowing that I am rather than achieving a blissful state. This that is free of name, form, and time. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up Ep. 42 – A Moment of Pervading Silence. Why not! | 2025-12-03 | Listen/Read | Silence, Palpable, Enjoyment | Invites the listener to enjoy a palpable silence that exists beneath the activity of the world. This silence is undisturbed by the movement of form. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up Ep. 41 – The Way and the Goal Are The Same | 2025-12-02 | Listen/Read | Path, Goal, Immediacy | States that the goal is who you already are, and the path is simply knowing that right now. There is no route back to what you never left. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up Ep. 40 – Nothing Behind the Curtain | 2025-12-01 | Listen/Read | Meaning, Security, No-answer | Explores how questions of meaning arise from ego’s insecurity. In pure being, there are no answers because there is no one who needs them. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up Ep. 39 – Is There a Central Figure Creator Here? | 2025-11-30 | Listen/Read | Doership, Controller, Ego | Challenges the idea of a central doer by noticing that thoughts and breath happen spontaneously. Ego is defined as the mistaken idea of being a controller. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up Ep. 38 – The Somatics of Trauma | 2025-11-29 | Listen/Read | Trauma, Neutral, Default | Recommends taking the foot off the gas by not fueling trauma with thought patterns. Freedom eventually becomes the default condition over trauma. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up Ep. 37 – I Am Found Always | 2025-11-28 | Listen/Read | Ubiquity, Presence, Poem | A poem affirming that I am is present in every breath, step, thought, and state, including deep sleep. Since everything is I, one can never be lost. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up Ep. 36 – All Movements Have Their Momentary Display | 2025-11-27 | Listen/Read | Differences, Unity, Changeless | Explains that we unite at the root of nameless being while differences only exist at the level of mind and politics. This root is the same for everyone. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up Ep. 35 – I Am Self-Illuminating | 2025-11-26 | Listen/Read | Self-luminous, Self-denial, Obvious | Describes I as a self-luminous light that needs no external proof or philosophy. It is a call to stop denying the obvious eternal I. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up Ep. 34 – Suspension of Disbelief | 2025-11-25 | Listen/Read | Analogy, Movie, Disbelief | Uses the movie analogy to show how realization allows one to enjoy the movie of life without being hypnotized by the me story. The story continues, but belief in a center is gone. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up Ep. 33 – Knowing Being in the Midst of Pain | 2025-11-24 | Listen/Read | Pain, State-free, Constant | Shares that knowing I am remains unchanged even during intense physical pain or dizziness. Awareness is constant and never affected by physical states. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up Ep. 32 – It Never Stops Unfolding | 2025-11-23 | Listen/Read | Unfolding, Dedication, Depth | Discusses how the work of realization continues to deepen over time through self-love and dedication. It is a lifelong settling into freedom. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up – Ep. 31 – In Not Knowing, Knowing is Revealed | 2025-11-22 | Listen/Read | Not-knowing, Revealed, Spontaneous | Explains that truth is spontaneously revealed when one sits in not knowing anything. Words spoken from this state are reflections of timeless being knowing itself. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up Ep. 30- The Big Yes! | 2025-11-21 | Listen/Read | Affirmation, Acknowledgment, Big yes | Advocates for affirming one’s essential being (the big yes) instead of the endless process of negating thoughts. This affirmation of timeless being negates everything else instantly. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up Ep. 29 – Without Bakthi and Love, What is Liberation? | 2025-11-20 | Listen/Read | Bhakti, Love, Non-separation | Argues that self-realization is filled with bhakti (devotion) and reverence for truth. Liberation is the essence of love and the end of separation. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up Ep. 28 – The Body Mind is Touched. It is the Experiencing Entity | 2025-11-19 | Listen/Read | Reactions, Untouched, Experiencing | Explains that while pure being is untouched, the body-mind experiences reactions like anger or fear. Freedom is when these movements leave no trace. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up Ep. 27 – At the Root of Sensations, Silence Pervades | 2025-11-18 | Listen/Read | Sensations, Silence, Pervading | Notes that a palpable silence pervades all sensations, regardless of whether the body is healthy or sick. This silence is at the root and is not dependent on physical movements. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up – Ep. 26 Just To Be Is Enough | 2025-11-16 | Listen/Read | Being, Enough, Living meditation | Emphasizes that there is nowhere to go and nothing to do other than being knowingly. All concerns are resolved in this living meditation of pure being. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up Ep. 25 – Everything is Revealed in Timeless Being | 2025-11-15 | Listen/Read | Revealed, Value, Living-it | Suggests that simply living as open knowing reveals everything of value without needing intellectual attainment. The value of freedom becomes clearer the more it is lived. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up – Ep. 24 The Way to Be Free is to Be Free | 2025-11-14 | Listen/Read | Truth, Already-case, Freedom | Asserts that truth is the simple fact of being here now, which has always been the case. One becomes free simply by recognizing and being that which is already free. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up – Ep. 23 When Attraction Towards Objects Stop, What Is? | 2025-11-13 | Listen/Read | Attraction, Stop, Pure subject | Describes the moment when the automatic attraction to objects stops, leaving only the pure subject knowing itself. This is a complete stop of movement in any direction. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up – Ep. 22 Nothing to Divide and No One to Be Divided | 2025-11-12 | Listen/Read | Rising I, Resting I, Unity | Explores how division only occurs when the rising I (ego) attaches attributes to being. At the level of resting I, there are no differences and we all meet in unity. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up – Ep. 21 The Fertile Soil of Being | 2025-11-11 | Listen/Read | Metaphor, Spontaneous, Ground | Uses the metaphor of fertile soil to describe how all life movements sprout from and return to being. Resting as this soil allows one to see life’s spontaneous flow. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up – Ep. 20 Security and Stability Are Found As You | 2025-11-10 | Listen/Read | Security, Stability, Change | States that security and stability are only found in the unchanging essence of you. Transience offers only insecurity, but pure being is inherently stable. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up – Ep. 19 If Freedom is What Compels You, That is What You Will Have | 2025-11-09 | Listen/Read | Compulsion, Attraction, Truth | Explains that awakening depends on whether one finds the story of ego or the peace of freedom more compelling. Freedom is what you have if you are in love with it. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up – Ep. 18 Feelings Are Not the Inner Guru | 2025-11-08 | Listen/Read | Feelings, Ephemeral, Wisdom | Clarifies that feelings are ephemeral movements like thoughts and are not a reliable barometer for wisdom. True wisdom is found in the ground of pure being prior to feelings. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up – Ep. 17 The Inner Guru | 2025-11-07 | Listen/Read | Inner guru, Sat-chit-ananda, Revealed | Defines the inner guru as one’s own essential being, which is prior to all external knowledge or teachings. This guru is revealed in the unknown of pure being. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up – Ep. 16 This I Am | 2025-11-06 | Listen/Read | All-pervading, Eternal now, Root | Affirmation that I am all-pervading, the eternal now, and the root of every sensation and thought. It concludes that there is only pure subject and nothing is separate from I. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up – Ep. 15 Not Even Silence | 2025-11-05 | Listen/Read | Silence, Pure Being, Holiday | A guided Holiday, Not Even Silence, resting as pure being prior even to silence. No transcript text accompanies this post. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up – Ep. 14 No Answer and No One to Need an Answer | 2025-11-04 | Listen/Read | Silence, No-answer, Time-free | Points to a state of pure knowing that is free of time, history, and the need for verbal answers. When the questioner vanishes, no answer is needed. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up – Ep. 13 Attention is I / I Am That | 2025-11-03 | Listen/Read | Attention, I Am That, Pure Being | A guided Holiday on attention as I, attention turned upon itself is pure being, I am that. No transcript text accompanies this post. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up – Ep. 12 We Start at the End | 2025-11-02 | Listen/Read | Goal, End, Recognition | Explains that the simple recognition of open knowing is the end or goal of spiritual work. It is a break from the me story to come out into the sun of pure being. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up – Ep. 11 Open | 2025-11-01 | Listen/Read | No-self, Openness, Division | Uses a poem to illustrate that in the absence of a separate self, there is only open. It suggests that without a self, there is no division or separation. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up – Ep. 10 Who I Am is Freedom From the Known | 2025-10-31 | Listen/Read | Pure knowing, Subject, Freedom | Distinguishes pure knowing (the subject) from the known (objects like thoughts and sensations). Knowing oneself as pure subject is described as freedom from the known. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up – Ep. 9 Neither Dual nor Nondual | 2025-10-30 | Listen/Read | Concepts, Obvious, Being | States that for pure being, concepts like duality or non-duality have no actual meaning. It is the most obvious reality, requiring no path or practice to be known. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up – Ep. 8 Meditation is an Atom Bomb | 2025-10-29 | Listen/Read | Atom bomb, Story, Now | Defines meditation as the end of the story of you, destroying mental myths of past and future. It asserts that only the now of pure being is actual and alive. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up – Ep. 7 Always This | 2025-10-28 | Listen/Read | Actuality, Timeless, Reconciled | Focuses on the immediate reality that this moment of being is already reconciled and true. It invites the listener to attend to themselves as pure, timeless knowing. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up – Ep. 6 You Outshine the Sun | 2025-10-27 | Listen/Read | Light, Awareness, Sun | Compares the light of one’s own aware being to the sun, noting that the sun itself only appears within aware I. This inner light is so bright it outshines the sun. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up – Ep. 5 The Silence of Being | 2025-10-25 | Listen/Read | Silence, Story, Openness | Describes coming to rest in pure being as a state of silence where the personal story is inactive. It suggests keeping eyes open during this recognition to avoid excluding parts of experience. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up – Ep. 4 Aware is Another Name for I | 2025-10-23 | Listen/Read | Aware, Inclusion, Identity | Explains that aware is not an action but the very nature of who we are. Everything is naturally included within this aware I. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up – Ep. 3 I Am Needs No Validation | 2025-10-22 | Listen/Read | Carousels, Validation, Pure subject | Describes jumping off mental and spiritual carousels to recognize an I that requires no external proof or philosophy. This I is undeniable and exists prior to any description. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up – Ep. 2 A Different Way of Knowing Myself | 2025-10-21 | Listen/Read | Pure being, Subjective I, Unchanging | Encourages shifting one’s identity from the body-mind to pure knowing and pure being. This unchanging I is the true center where peace is found. | |
| Good Morning Wake Up – Ep. 1 Introducing a Holiday and Meeting Properly | 2025-10-20 | Listen/Read | Holiday, Aware, I am, Timeless | Defines a holiday as recognizing I am and I know that I am amidst all appearances. It emphasizes a wide-open attention where everything is included equally as pure being. | |
| New Series Announcement – Good Morning Wake Up | 2025-10-18 | Listen/Read | Announcement, Daily Holiday, Series Launch | Announces the Good Morning Wake Up series: a daily Holiday posted 9 AM Eastern, revealing your timeless essential being in real time, not intellectual, but recognized in your own knowing prior to thought. | |
| I at Rest Knows No Division | 2025-07-28 | Listen/Read | Rest, No Division, Being | An early Holiday recording, I at rest knows no division. Shared on Substack with an invitation to pass the message on; minimal body text. |
Holger: This list here just gives a taste; please refer to Sal’s Substack for the current Holidays.
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