"The Rose Garden"
by Katie Davis, Author
Awake Joy: The Essence of Enlightenment
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A total relaxation of breath and body.
An absolute let go of desire for thought.
Vigilance to the energetic pull of time.
Do not touch this time.
Notice its push and pull force and remain still.
Be aware.
Sit free.
Nothing is needed.
Be as freedom.
No effort is required to Be.
Stand naked as Being.
See who you are with nothing to wear.
Have courage.
Face this empty ease.
Please innerstand this Being.
I am not pointing to understanding.
Understanding is looking to content for its realization.
We have all tried this approach to deeply knowing.
It simply does not satisfy.
To innerstand is to stand knowingly
Within the simple sense of obvious Being
And not look to anything else.
No feeling, no thought or idea, no movement,
No form and no time.
Just this moment, this now,
Surrender the world and its activity,
The body and its sensations,
Your relationships and their needs,
The thought stream and every story of knowledge.
Surrender the totality of your outer life in the world
And the fascination of your inner life.
Retreat to Being, simple Being
And be as still as Being Is.
Relax deeply into this lovely Being.
Hold nothing. Drop all effort for this.
There is no doing for Being.
So much effort and seeking have already been tried.
Nothing in that vein has worked.
So now, this instant, let all of that go.
Let everything go that can go, and see what remains.
We do not know if anything remains.
We do not know who we are
Without our sensible things.
Being precedes all this experience.
Allow yourself to fall between the cracks
Of all this happenstance.
Notice that you exist in this empty space.
What is the full nature of this Being?
Rest attention just here, just now.
Simply Aware, simply Being.
Existence with and without form.
Aliveness with activity and free of activity.
Consciousness aware of itself, in and beyond all things.
An infinite field of pure presence,
As Being everywhere sensed and nowhere found.
Consciousness is this Alone Being.
Being is this full Consciousness.
This Consciousness, this Being, is Freedom.
“I am that I am” is this.
Know this Being directly.
This knowing is Now.
This blessed, simple Being is Bliss.
This is Who You Are,
A Beingness that waits on nothing for its realization.
"SELFLESS SERVICE"
"COMPASSION"
"LOVE"
"GRATITUDE"
The Way of the Heart
When the human being is consciously fulfilled, blessings appear in every aspect of our lives. Full embodiment of the Heart is the
precious gift that becomes the art of Awake Living. We live the natural way of the Heart in a profoundly human manner that is globally undivided. This unity is in cooperation with humanity, the living earth, its vital environment, and in harmony with the welfare of its creatures. The quality in which we live is not one of personal choice that is mentally selected as a right way based upon moral virtues, but rather the organic outcome of the total surrender as the Heart. The Spirit is fully integrated as we contemplate our relationships, workplace, investments, health, schools and politics. It is not that living becomes a spiritual practice, but rather our multi-diversity is appreciated as a symphony of Love in action. We have assimilated a balance in our daily lives that includes the spiritual in every encounter as it appears. We are virtually a free instrument of the Heart and selflessly serve Its way. Awake Living is conscious that we are being lived for the good of the whole. As the Heart and its Power, we are the Whole.
Four Roses
The roses are limitless in this abundant Garden. Today, I offer you four; they are compassion, service, gratitude and unconditional love. Each has been chosen for its fragrance, brilliance, and foremost for its power in turning the “mind’s life” around, to the open way of the Heart.
The pink rose of true compassion is a gift of basic goodness to alleviate the suffering of others. Compassion is the full emptiness and its cultivation purifies the mind. You allow your heart to be touched and are deeply empathetic with human conditions, while compassion stirs you to right action. Compassion is the work of goodwill and fosters basic kindness. You are the whole and embrace the creatures of the earth and protect the natural beauty of nature. This compassion includes a feeling of the joy that appears in others’ lives with equal warmth and gratitude. You care for life for what Life is and for what you are.
The white rose is a gift of purity and innocence in the silence of serving others, the earth and its creatures. It is silent in that the service is selfless and humble, free of personal interest or outcome. With no motive in service, the quality is far beyond the mind and its ideas.
The fuchsia rose is one of gratitude for the Life that appears each moment. You express gratitude to others, the greater Life for its abundance, the earth for its trees, the sea for its gifts, other living creatures and insects for their service to Life, and the weeds that you pull as you smell the earth to grow your rose garden. In the end, gratitude overflows the Heart of Life until a grateful Heart is all there is.
The red rose of unconditional love is the greatest, since virtually every soft petal contains all the others and indeed, the entire Garden of Awake Living. This gift appreciates Life’s truest passion for loving with patience, humility, forgiveness and emotional maturity. You are kind and in harmony with living, instead of throwing Life around. We have our differences in the human mind and have differing perspectives, however at Heart, we are One Life. Awake Living is not attached to our individual perspectives as though they were our personal identity, so we are open to the whole, so that human diversity is respected with tolerance. This receptivity emulates a love that offers a broader reality for the family, spirituality, society, workplace, environment, science and the arts, so that we live in cooperation, appreciation, enthusiasm and acceptance. Since we are wise love, we are not searching where to get it. Instead, we are watchful for every opportunity to overflow the greatest gift of the Heart.
KATIE DAVIS is author of Awake Joy: The Essence of Enlightenment. In 1986, she spontaneously and radically awakened without practices or teachers. In fact, she had never heard of awakening, enlightenment or Self-realization. In 1988, she met Sundance Burke, author of Free Spirit: A Guide to Enlightened Being. Since 1999, Katie has been traveling worldwide to share the message of conscious freedom and causeless joy that is available through spirtual awakening, enlightenment and Self-realization.
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Sundance’s Comments on Conscious Being
Each moment of Being is sacred and heart-full, a benediction to our spirit. To fully realize this blessing requires our authentic humility, because the source of our existence is the greatest of all mysteries, that which the mind cannot know. Though we have been taught to attain, grasp and possess, this is not the way to Self. As Jesus declared, “the truth will set you free.” So, the acquisitive mind cannot be our way. Only our boundless bliss feels right. To realize this sanctity of being, we simply allow our attention to be totally present and unoccupied. Here, we discover our stillness, our silence and our sensitive receptivity.
This still, small voice is your own.
Can you hear it?
Conscious Being is my offering to set this tone within you, to sound the note of OM and follow it into pure awareness. This awaring is our solitude and here we meet as Beloved.
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by Katie Davis, Author, Awake Joy: The Essence of Enlightenment
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Questioner:
Can you enlighten me?
Katie:
No. The one who is asking this question, the false sense of me or the mind-made self does not exist as any more than an idea, while YOU are infinitely more, even right now, although not yet conscious of this fact.
The thought itself is harmless, we use use it all the time for communication.
However, it is the misidentification with the thought as identity that is at issue. The body is here with all of its beauty and all of its diversified expressions, yet it is not ultimately who we are.
That "I am the body" ties a knot between the body and the Absolute. Until the misidentification is relinquished, radiant stillness, enlightenment and Self-realization are not an option ... realizing the ultimate truth of who we are.
Further, until the "mind" is turned inward, it cannot reflect the light of Absolute.
We have all probably played with hand mirrors when we were little, while trying to reflect the sun. Unless the mirror is turned directly at the sun, we do not get the flash of reflecting light. Turned some other way, it might mirror the neighbor's house, your own arm or some other thing, but it will not receive the light.
Enlightenment is this extraordinary moment and its power is so profoundly intense it destroys all of the "fog on the mirror" of the mind ... tendencies. It is permanent and the false "I" never again projects from the Heart. The false "I" remains Pure I alone.
It is the end of all suffering and the end of all misidentified/compulsive thinking. It is almost like the divided mind 'dies' and is no more; the end of any requirement for duality in order to experience; the end of all separation and therefore suffering.
The situation is that you are not the mind, not even the universal mind. So we could say that enlightenment happens to the mind, while YOU are Pure I alone.
The reason that I sometimes refer to the myth of enlightenment (and yet it is) is because what is realized is that suffering is a total delusion, the mind itself does not even exist as some other thing and all of the fog on the mirror is likewise a delusion and even the divided mind is a false idea.
The impact is so intense that all that is false is sizzled away and we find a perfectly clear mirror of the mind. There was never anything 'wrong' with the mirror itself. It was simply pointing the wrong way or one could say projecting out into the world of form in identification with objects.
Self-inquiry turns the projecting mind around by one question, "who am I?" With persistence, it is successful. It unties the non-existent knot!
Plus which, even if the FOG is ultimately realized as false, it still cannot offer a perfect reflection. And of course, this has to be directly realized.
So trying to escape suffering by rationalizing "this is just an illusion" is resistance. We are asked to dive into the hurricane of collective suffering, far deeper than "personal" suffering, when we realize the "eye" of the hurricane and the direct delusion.
In these teachings, I differentiate between enlightenment and Self-realization. Enlightenment is the complete and irreversible realization of Pure I alone. It happens unconsciously. So, it is not an ego-gain. It is in the absence of "you."
Self-realization is conscious and is the full embodiment (not body, but not excluded) or we could say full integration of the Totality. As Pure I, "my body" is the appearance of the universe; no matter how subtle or gross. All there is ... is Self and that Self-Power is the universe.
There is no longer a Source from which all else arises. There no Creator that creates some other that is separate. Only the Absolute.
When someone asks, "can you enlighten me?" It is always a question of where they are looking FROM. Those reference points shift deeper and deeper and deeper until no reference points (false) remain.
In other words, no one wakes up. In fact, there is only wakefulness.
Yet, it does no good to say that "I am already that," while still identified with the false I that is the body and therefore duality, its separation, time/space and suffering.
The being of the body is organic and alive, yet dull and 'borrowed.' I am prior to "I am." There is no "my" being. That is the ego speaking; yet of course, inseparable.
The being of the "I am the witness only" is radiant and dynamically blissful. Yet, it is still a 'borrowed' or reflected light. The subject-witness will be eliminated.
Pure I is PURE Awareness that is PURELY being-consciousness-bliss (satchitananda). Beyond, yet an indivisible and homogenous field of pure potentiality.
I am Pure Awareness in "relationship" to consciousness. I am Pure Beingness in "relationship" to the universe.
While progress is a false idea, we can measure our "progress" by the degree that we are the resting power of mind (yet beyond), patient and don't mind suffering (forebearance), the absence of suffering, and no doubt remaining.
All Love ~ Katie
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Dear Katie and Sundance,
I want to let the two of you know what a profound and lingering affect you had on me. As a long time student of Papaji and Gangaji and the many teachers that have come to Boulder, please accept my deepest pranams for one of the most memorable teachings I have personally received in the last 18 years. You and Sundance make a great team. Your humor, love and deep caring were expressed so easily. The meditation was amazing. Your quiet and gentle approach awakened in a simple way the wonder of the non-dual presence. I look forward to be invited into this timeless embrace with you again. Safe travels …
~ Love, Chandra, Shankar Gallery, Boulder, Colorado
