by Fred Davis
This educational talk invites recognition of awakeness, oneness and seeking. In a relaxed and open way, rather than aiming for a particular outcome you are encouraged to stop seeking by noticing who is already here, now, in all.
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Columbia, SC, USA
Transcript
You'll never. . . Wake up as long as you're seeking. I heard that and it just drove me nuts. Because it was like. . . I can't find it as long as I'm seeking. So what to do now? Where to go now? What am I to do in this situation? Mean i know there's no doer but what am i still what am i supposed to Hello everybody, Good to be with you as always. So today, I'm going to tell you something that could fundamentally alter everything that you're doing if you're not awake right this minute. You're not already awake. In awakening sessions. I never actually tell the person, So now you're away. Because it's unnecessary. Ask them questions. And then they come to recognize. That what we call awakening has occurred. But there's no awakening that actually takes place. And I don't mean that there's no awakening. For the seeker or there's no awakening for the absolute or anything. I mean, There's no awakening for anybody whatsoever. And it is the language that we have used around awakening. Has really kept people in the bushes for not just centuries millennia So. . . The language that we use is we say, He's awake. She's not. I'm awake, He's not. He's awake and I'm not. There's no such thing as a character. There's no such thing as a human being. That is a way. And there is no such thing as a human being. That is unawake. There is no such thing as a separate human being. It looks like it. I get it. I understand. I just put a shirt on this thing that looks like an individual unit, But it's not an individual. It's all part of oneness. When you hear people say, Gee, You'll never find this thing as long as you're seeking, That's as true as anything anybody's ever going to tell you about awakening. If I tell you that you're already awake, And I know how annoying that is because it was annoying to me too. But that was also. One of the truest things that anybody, It's true, It's very true-ish. Not quite true, This isn't quite true. This idea. That you're already away. That's very true-ish. The problem is that it's misunderstood who it is that's away. Because what we think is the reason we don't think we're awake when we think we should be. Is because we're waiting for the unit to wake up. We're waiting for the meat to wake up. We're waiting for the character to wake up. And I signed up to get Fred enlightened, Right? And sadly enough, That never happened. Because there's no enlightened Fred. But there is an authentically awakened Uh, Teaching vehicle that you're welcome to call Fred. I'm going to call it Fred because just got to call it by something. I'm used to Fred. So if somebody comes up behind me and they say, Hey, Bill, I'm not going to turn around. But if they say, Hey, Fred, I'm going to turn around. But I'm not turning around because I think that I'm limited to this single unit. I'm going to turn around because that's what units do in that situation. That's the practical thing to do. It's meeting relativity on its own level. Which means I'm turning around. Hey, What, What? Ramana Maharshi would have done the same thing. Hey, Ramana, Yeah, What? Yes, Sir. The problem is that when you split hairs with non-dual teachings, Generally speaking, You split the wrong ones. That's just the truth. And I did too. I get that I really do. And I sympathize with this. I was a seeker for 24 years. I was not a quick study at this. Probably just like you who've been on this path. Maybe three years, Maybe five, But probably 10 or 20 or 30 or 40 or 50. I haven't hit a 70. I haven't woken up anybody that was on the fan. 70 years yet, But I had woken up more than one that was on the path for 60. This thing is completely obvious, But only in hindsight. Can't see it going in. It just only can see it. Once it's already done. What I did, I'm telling you is that well what i did at that time was i this is honest to god's truth is that i tried to pretend I was not seeking any longer. Okay, That's it. I give up. Did you hear that God? I'm giving up. I've given up seeking, So now show yourself. I mean, It was just about that ridiculous. I really thought that if I could pretend because I couldn't stop thinking, You'll notice that you can't either. Not in the way that you think you have to. But the way that you think you have to quit sleeping is not the way that you have to quit sleeping in order to wake up. What we want to do, We want to notice who it is I'm talking about when I tell you that you're already awake. And we want to see. What it is. That stops seeking and starts to notice them. When people tell you that you're already awake, I know what most people think. You'll think what I thought, Which is that, Well, They're talking about this. And I knew when I was told, Fred, You're already awake. I mean, I knew that was bullshit as it came out of their mouths because. I knew that this unit was a new number one that I was this unit. And given the fact that I was this unit, The easiest, That I was a Fred Davis and a Fred Davis was this year. And given the fact that this unit. . . I mean, That I knew the unit wasn't awake. That's what the hell I had come to the teachers for, Was to wake it up, Right? I got a recalcitrant. Unit here wake it up And then they had the nerve to tell me I was already awake. But they weren't talking to this. They really were not because. I awakeness. And not this unit. What I mean by that is on one level, Within the level of relativity, I am everything. So. . . I include this unit. I don't exclude this unit, But I did when I was a seeker. I was thinking that oneness began maybe an inch, Inch and a half outside of my soul. And that I was looking for oneness and that I just couldn't find it. And all this crap was in the way. Let's see all the crap that's in the way. That's oneness. The noise that you're hoping is gonna die down so that you can concentrate on finding oneness is oneness. The activity that other people are doing that you feel like if they just don't shut up I'll scream and I'm certainly never ever gonna be able to to spot my true nature. That is your true nature. That noise, That activity, It's all your true nature. Because you're not that unit. And I know that you know that on some level, But the problem is the level that you probably know it is not really very helpful. Because I had a guy last week that came to me and said, You know, That I already know there's no, I already know that there's no Bob for it. So there's no point in there going over that. But the one who was saying that he already knew there was a Bob, Was Bob. And that does you no good whatsoever, Other than as a general philosophy, It's a fine thing to follow. It's very useful. You know, Surrender to what is or whatever. I mean, That's great advice. It's great advice practically. It's great advice for a unit if it can only take it. But a unit cannot surrender. This because a unit is resistance itself. This is resistance. To there is conditioned spice and there's unconditioned spice. This is conditioned space and we could say that it's not really the air but we're just for the sake of of languaging we'll say and and this is unconditioned So this is resistance to that. That's only if this is. Within relativity, This is resistance to that. That's the way to put that. Because it's only in relativity that there's a condition of unconditioned space. Because in truth, There's nothing but unconditional space and appearances. And that's what this is. This is an appearance. And the thing over there that thinks it's a Bob or a Carol or a Ted or an Alice. That is. . . An appearance. And when I say it's an appearance I mean it's an appearance Like. . . This is an appearance. What was that like? That's what you are. See how quick that came? And how do we know that that is. . . Um, An appearance and not something that's quote real. Because the light didn't used to be. The light is here. And now the light is not here. And that's the very definition. If this was a spiritual experience. That's the very definition of a spiritual experience, Or any other experience, Is that it's not happening, It happens, And then it's not happening anymore. That's what experience is, Spiritual or otherwise. And what this is. This is an experience. Not for this! But for you. This is an experience. For a whiteness. Call it oneness if you want. Oneness is true until it's not, So we may as well say oneness. The, Uh, I'll teach you oneness first, Then I'll teach it to you later. Call it God, Call it Dale. See, You're looking for Dow, But you are Dow. You're not anything other than Dow. How do I know because there's not anything. It just isn't. There's, When you look around here, You're looking at the face of God. But the one that's looking at the face of God. Is God. You ever heard somebody had that spiritual awakening? Oh, Fred had a very powerful spiritual awakening. And I woke up and. . . Everywhere I looked, I saw the face of God. Well, Here it is. I mean, I thought it was going to be like a thousand TV sets or something with God faces on them. Whatever a God face looked like. I don't know what I really had no concept of how that could be. That's a little bit like closer than close and all those things that don't make any sense until they do. But once they do, They make very profound sense. And they're very, Very clear. They're clear pointers, But they just rarely, Rarely were. The thing is, But they're very good for. . . Um, Assuring that awakening has occurred.
