Tag: Holiday
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Sal 122: At The Root I Am Aware Being
Frames aware being as the constant root beneath every changing appearance â body, mind, thought. Introduces Shivashakti (unmanifest awareness appearing as manifest energy) and says knowing this root ends the need to argue with or fix the person one appears to be.
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Sal 121: Let’s Be On Holiday Together
Invites everyone into a wordless shared sit, gently returning attention to pure being whenever the mind wanders â a simple invitation to “be on holiday together.”
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Sal 120: Why Does It Seem Difficult to Abide as Pure Being?
Explores why abiding as pure being can feel difficult when ego and trauma-driven mind-movements resist being set aside. Frames ego as a lifelong “doppelganger,” so living free of it can feel like a loss â yet Holiday remains available even alongside genuine human difficulty.
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Sal 119: Surrender
Urges direct knowing over conceptual seeking, insisting “you can read the menu all day long and you’ll still be hungry â stop reading the menu, start eating.” Frames pure being as self-effulgent and needing no object, the root contentment beneath the rising I.
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Sal 118: Stop Reading The Menu and Start Eating
Urges direct knowing over conceptual seeking, insisting “you can read the menu all day long and you’ll still be hungry â stop reading the menu, start eating.” Frames pure being as self-effulgent and needing no object, the root contentment beneath the rising I.
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Sal 117: Your Innate Being Is Endlessly Fascinating
Frames pure being as “endlessly fascinating” no matter the task or mood â chores, politics, aversions â since none of it touches who we are. Notices that beneath every dislike, “I’m still here,” prior to and regardless of all of it.
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Sal 115: The Peace That Passes Understanding, and Philosophy
Contrasts the philosophical, understanding-seeking mind with simple freedom, noting that real freedom ends the one who needs explanations. Describes present, unknowing awareness as a wordless peace needing no understanding at all.
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Sal 114: In All Times and In All Places, I Am Here
Points to being as already present everywhere â cooking, working, traffic, with friends â not just during morning listening or seated meditation. Nothing needs to change to know freedom; the invitation is to live from it continuously, now, rather than treat it as a scheduled practice.
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Sal 113: What Do I Want?
Frames wanting freedom as wanting it the way a drowning person wants air â 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.
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Sal 112: The Highest Teaching Is Silence, Yourself
Frames silence as “the highest teaching” â 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.