Monthly Archives: September 2014

A Session with Karen Richards

September 22, 2014

Last week I had an hour session with Karen Richards via Skype to help me “wake up”.  She’s in England so there’s an eight hour time difference.  Many powerful moments in our talk keep coming to mind.  It wasn’t what she said but the effect it had on me. I sensed a strong intention from her to point me in the right direction which seemed to intensify any time I opened up to it, and on several occasions this stopped me in my tracks and I was speechless. She was able to sense where I was at and I felt in some way completely transparent and exposed. I had some powerful insights but I see more than ever before how such insights are deeply personal and talking about it just won’t have the same impact or make sense to someone else. Like a joke that falls flat because “you had to be there”.

Anyway, something has changed.  This search has become less frustrating and more effortless in that I sense no effort is really necessary – everything just unfolds the way it does and can simply be noticed the way it is, whatever it is. Don’t know if that will make any sense. It’s hard to explain, but it’s significant to me possibly because some imagined limitations have fallen away.

Something told me to call Karen when I first saw her in an interview over a year and a half ago. That has never happened before and my intuition turned out to be right. Now I feel somewhat embarrassed by how I’ve bought into my own illusions and somewhat sad to let them go, actually, but also I feel somewhat amused by the whole thing! Interesting. This has far reaching implications! None of which really matter however, ultimately. We’re already awake. We’re floating in a sea of awakeness, and we ARE that!

Well, that’s my report, and whether or not you found it helpful,  I suggest you visit Karen’s website and watch the videos, and see if something resonates

Nothing is Happening – Insight

September 18, 2014

Yesterday I was walking up the stairs and feeling a bit frustrated because it seemed hard to do self-inquiry at that moment because I had to participate in the world of “doing things” like walking up stairs. I felt trapped in being identified as a person in this reality. Then it suddenly occurred to me that nothing was happening – that this reality I was buying into was like a movie on a theater screen and for the screen there is nothing happening. The screen remains completely unaffected by the events in the movie, and is always present. I remembered that I am consciousness and not its content, and this led me back to recognizing that “being” itself is the source and destination of self-inquiry. This recognition is still with me and shows me that my true inquiry or meditation can never be disturbed by whatever is happening, and that in fact, nothing is happening!

I don’t expect anyone to get this but it’s just something I’m sensing now. It relates to time being an illusion and everything being awareness.