Category: Stream
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Sal 154: Enjoy the Stillness and the Silence
Offers a mostly wordless holiday with one inquiry: when a concern appears, what is it that has that concern? Seeing it is only the rising I, mind, “you’re out again into the sun of pure being.” Nothing more is needed than just to be.
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Sal 153: The Source of All That Moves is I
Defines a holiday as simply knowing that I am, prior to name, form and story. Freedom isn’t gained by understanding; it is seeing your nature is already free. Knowing oneself as the source of all that moves shifts the locus of being.
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Sal 152: Don’t Mind The Mind. Know I, Pure Subjective Being
Contrasts the way of negating with the way of affirming — “the big yes,” I knowing I. Fighting thoughts only gives them more juice; simply don’t mind the mind, since ever-changing thoughts can never be the eternal I.
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Absence of need
Russ Konieczny: The non-dual exposes our absence of need. It’s been said that all desire is for the desire for peace and happiness…. The trick of it, is to ask what do you want? If you got what you want, with the guarantee that you would be miserable with it, would you still want it…
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Divine Union and Everyday Life
“Whether termed pure awareness, the spark of the soul, the True Self, or Satchitananda, all of these traditions agree that the ultimate divine reality is not a distant object to be acquired. It is an ever-present ground that is already fully present within human consciousness.”
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Sal 151: Knowing Oneself in a Different Light
Shares the opening holiday from an open meeting: attending to the unchanging “I am” prior to body and mind. Knowing oneself as pure aware being, not only the changing person, is a “paradigm shift, shift of being” off the roller coaster.
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Sal 150: Living a Different Paradigm
Asks “what about you is always the same?” amid the changing body, mind, and world. When pure aware being becomes the locus of your being, peace no longer depends on circumstances: a paradigm shift into living freedom.
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Sal 149: Wake Up As Pure Subjective Consciousness
Invites simply abiding as pure subjective consciousness — “I know that I am.” When the world and its woes impose themselves on waking, don’t go into them; the true inquiry is to be what is already whole and free.
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Sal 148: Being is the Goal and the Way
Guides a full turning around from the body’s sea of subtle energy back onto pure subject: “I know that I am.” In being, all seeking is finished — being is both the way and the goal.
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Sal 147: To Inquire Into Freedom is to Be Free
Argues that real inquiry isn’t analysis or an endless pursuit but immediate self-recognition — “to inquire into freedom is to be free.” Becoming “an inquirer” forever is ego’s subtle trick to keep the inquiring one alive.