Satsang Notes 10-21-15

Fred Davis asks during a one-on-one session, what if space were not dividing things,but connecting them!?

FRED: What if the space is not dividing you and the lamp, but rather it's joining you and thelamp? Does that change things?

CLIENT: Oh God, yes!

FRED: See how powerful a tiny nudge can be? Now, if the space is joining everything toeverything else, how many things are going on?

CLIENT: Just one.

Fred on what most spiritual seekers who go through, "I had it, I lost it" miss:

There is no "you" there to be cloudy OR clear! -Fred Davis

ANY idea you have of yourself can only ever be a fragment and thus a limitation.-Michael Jeffreys

The Body, like a Camera, is 100% a Tool

The body/unit, like a camera, has no past. It can only record whatever is presently in front of it.And it does so without the possibility of judgment. It captures an image, but doesn’t give a hootWHAT that image is nor is it even aware it’s capturing it!!

Q:WHAT is AWARE of the image you see before you NOW?

So where does the idea of past come from? The only place it can come from: a THOUGHT. Butthat thought is always only appearing when? NOW. So “the past” only ever exists as apresently arising story/image/feeling. You have never actually been in the past. You have neveractually been in the future. So all you’ve ever experienced is NOW.

The reason we don’t see/experience ourselves as Awareness, which is the only thing here, is

because we are identified with the body.

We doubt our true nature when we still feel we are the body-unit. Even if intellectually webelieve we are not the body, the presence/whiff of any niggling doubts is a red flag thatidentification is still running at some level.

Notice that the body, the action figure, is always moving, always on a journey, always trying toget something. The body/me identity is always in a state of becoming. There is so muchhabitual identification with the body, that we don’t even notice ever present Awareness, whichis PRIOR to being a body, a thought, a feeling or anything else that arises.

It’s important to understand that the body is programmed NOT to notice Awareness,because sustained noticing leads to seeing through the false “me.” Although the “me”is a phantom, it still strives to keep itself alive like all forms of energy.

So the programming is not interested in being seen through and ending the charade. However,because You are not the phantom “me,” it is possible to break free of planet “me’s” gravitationalpull.

Guilt

Because it’s the body-programming that brings about this separate sense of self, this absolvesone of the need to feel guilty or as if they have done something wrong, since it’s just theprogramming doing it’s thing and not You.

Guilt is based on believing that things could be any other way than the way they show up.

Notice that you can’t have guilt without a “me” who “has” the guilt.

Notice also that you can’t have guilt without the belief in cause and effect, as in I should havedone something differently.

Body Identification = Suffering

Belief in being the body keeps the belief in the “me” running.

Q: So if Identification is not in the body and it’s not in awareness, where does it come from??

A: No where. Identification is just an idea. The self is a phantom; it seems to exist, but doesn’t.

What we are doing here at satsang is seeing through the phantom self... pulling the run outfrom under it.

Important: Don’t just believe what is being said here... It must be checked/confirmed forYourself, usually repeatedly, if it is to have any real power!

Exercise: What is your experience when you see AS the body (when unit identification isrunning) VS. when you merely see THROUGH the body (like you would a window)?