Category: Holidays
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Sal 169: Resistance to Being
Names the mind’s outward pull as simply “a resistance to pure being” — notice it, and the noticing is already self-attention. Every return finds the same unchanging Source, which rises as thoughts, sensations and the personal I, as ocean rises as wave.
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Sal 168: Take One Step Further Back Into Pure Being
Invites stepping “one step further back” from even the subtle bodily feeling of being here into pure subjective consciousness — knowing only “I am.” Ignore objects without denying them; take five minutes any time for a holiday.
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Sal 167: What Am I? What Has Never Changed?
An opening holiday from the Zoom Open Meeting that asks “What am I?” If I were the body, beliefs or accumulated impressions, I would vanish whenever they go unattended or in deep sleep; what remains is the I that has never changed.
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Sal 166: The Movement of Separate I Has a Story of Self
Points to this moment, just as it is, as the Absolute — there is “nothing behind the curtain,” no hidden source and no time in actual experience. Out of this appearance rises the contracted separate I, which seeks to fix and change and carries a story of self.
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Sal 164: I Am Always The Same
Asks what about you has never changed: body, thoughts and perceptions all come and go, but the I known at seven is the same now. Attention drifts to objects and returns to the changeless I, untouched.
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Sal 163: Just For A Moment Be, Nothing, No One
Points to utterly simple being, where time stops; any sense of incompleteness is the rising I dividing what is. Since efforting is again the I, the invitation is gentle: “just for a moment, be” — nothing, no one.
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Sal 162: Abide Here As That
Invites going straight to the root: “I know that I am,” and be still there. Turning toward objects is mere habit that boards the vehicle of self; stability and peace abide when you abide here as that.
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Sal 161: The Hypnotic Power of the Idea of Agency/Ego
Asks whether anyone controls what appears. Pure being is changeless and has no agency, and the shifting thoughts, breath and sensations have no controller either; ego is the “phantom” that slips between the two, claiming free will.
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Sal 160: The Nature of I is Stillness, Silence, Peace
A guided rest in pure subjective awareness. Knowing “I am” needs no name, history, belief, or sense object — only itself. Being independent of objects is what a holiday is, and the nature of I is stillness, silence, peace.
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Sal 159: A Holiday in the Woods
A video walk through the Connecticut woods, inviting viewers to share the holiday of simply being. All sights, sounds and movements appear momentarily within the pure being that I am, which stays “the same always”; nothing more is needed than to know yourself.