In my last track,
I mentioned God's grace and how beautiful God's grace is and that it's everywhere.
I even said it was in the air around you.
The air you breathe itself has godliness in it.
God's in everything.
God is everything.
But if that's so,
Then what does that mean to us?
Because we don't know this godliness.
We have not experienced it.
In fact,
Everything we've experienced seems to be almost the opposite.
So how could it be both?
To some people,
God is everything and they seem so religious and so full of love and so ecstatic all the time.
Then we have other people who are the exact opposite,
Who feel empty and horrible and lonely and miserable almost all the time.
So how can you have both?
Well,
I want to say thank you for joining me.
My name is Douglas Gromins and I will try to do my best to describe how this happens.
In reality,
It's really simple,
But believing that reality or understanding that reality and grasping it is sometimes hard to do.
Because if you're open and receptive to the essence of a godliness,
And I think that's a good way to phrase it,
Godliness,
Not like open to God,
But open to godliness,
Open to this entity that basically is in everything and also is not in everything at the same time.
And there are millions upon millions of people searching and seeking and doing everything they can.
And in the audio track that I made a few weeks ago about spiders can say a lot.
Basically I use the analogy of you have to build the web,
A spider has to build its web or else it starves.
If it doesn't catch anything in the web,
Then it starves and then dies.
And that's just the natural law of life.
So something has to be done,
A certain effort has to be done.
But Buddha and many other mystics have also said that no matter how much aesthetics you do,
How many times you meditate,
How many times you pray,
How many times you stand on your head and act like a yogi and do everything you can do,
Nothing will happen to you.
So,
What does a Buddha mean when they say that?
What does an Alan Watts say when he means that?
Or what is an Osho?
Or any of the mystics that have said this,
What do they mean by you cannot attain?
So what can you do?
If there's nothing that you can do to attain,
To have this godliness essence take over and become you basically and you become the essence,
What can you do to make this merging happen?
And this is where the guru comes in.
And the word guru I think kind of means like the one that can show you the pathway,
The one that has traveled before and now he's ready to show you the pathway.
So that's all that the word guru really means.
And Nanak,
A famous mystic,
Has said that you need a guru to help you find this way out because it's very tricky.
Because like I said,
On one hand there's nothing you can do and then on the other hand I say you're like a spider building a web.
And once the web is built then you get to live on and carry on in life.
But as a spiritual person you must do a few things but only if you have one thing in common and one thing in mind.
And that one thing in mind is a receptivity to the beyond.
Now that sounds dangerous because anytime you become receptive and open to the beyond then you're also receptive and open to anything negative that could come in as well.
Everybody doesn't shut off just because it's positive or negative.
You become receptive,
You become open,
You become trusting.
I mean if you can imagine this,
Say you have a cup and you flip the cup upside down and put it on a counter and try to pour water in it or try to get water in it.
As long as that cup's upside down you can never get water to go up in it unless you do some kind of crazy magic trick but that's another story.
But yeah,
So in essence we are all being these cups and we're upside down.
We're not receptive.
We can't take in.
And once you flip yourself over,
Once you become receptive and accepting and allow yourself to be filled then all these things can happen.
And it's God's grace.
It's like as soon as the cup flips over it gets full of Godliness almost instantly.
You start to feel the effects almost instantly.
So the whole work of a guru is not to flip that cup over for you.
That would be impossible.
That's something that's internal within you.
That is your own choice in this matter.
And you can go throughout life with your cup upside down and never receiving this Godliness,
This essence to come into you.
And what makes you do that is fear for the most part.
Fear and greed but mostly fear keeps that cup upside down all the time.
Keeps you at bay from anything entering into you.
It keeps out the bad and that's true but it also keeps out the good and that's bad.
You could ask anyone who's ever fallen in love before that it's worth it to be receptive,
To be open to love.
And being open to Godliness and to God's love is,
I know it's scary.
It sounds foreign.
It sounds like it could only happen to somebody else but it can happen to you because like I said God's essence is there.
And you have to trust that this is true.
But as soon as you flip your cup upside down and become receptive and center yourself.
And what I mean by centering yourself is basically finding that stillness inside of you.
Find that moment of silence and serenity and stillness inside of you.
And you have to build that center and you have to work on that center.
This is the whole job of being spiritual is to building that center up and getting yourself to a point where you can jump into a spiritual center and out of the mind center.
Can it be done without a guru?
Yes.
But it's very very difficult because it's hard to just trust existence.
Very rare few people can just trust existence but it can be done.
You don't have to have a guru if you can be receptive and learn to shift your center into a spiritual center.
Just these words alone that I'm sharing with you are enough to make that jump happen.
But you have to trust.
And you'll have to deal with the good and the bad.
And like I said the essence of godliness is going to be right on you.
Like I hate to use the term stink on shit but basically yeah it's that close.
It's like it's there.
You can't avoid it.
And it's a beautiful thing to let happen to you.
Once you shift from your mind center to your spiritual center then you relax in life.
Then you can actually have the energy to move forward in life and make better decisions.
But you trust in this higher consciousness that enters you when you make this shift to the spiritual center.
You basically have a lifeline,
A thread into godliness.
And that thread will guide you and help you make decisions and help you to live a beautiful life.
And then other things will simply drop.
Bad habits will simply drop.
That's another reason why I say that this trust in existence,
This being receptive is a good thing because you mature when you shift to the spiritual center.
Then all these bad things in life that had lured you or tempted you before,
They just drop on their own accord.
They don't affect you like they used to.
Just like a child drops his toys when it becomes a certain age and he doesn't play with them anymore.
You too will basically develop spiritually and mature to a level where you're able to raise energy even higher than you ever thought before.
Because there are levels above and that are more divine.
It's so divine that Buddha called his path the middle path and reaching this nirvanic state.
This nirvanic state is a state of complete emptiness but fullness at the same time.
It's both.
Like I said,
God exists and God doesn't exist.
But it's just something you have to experience.
And you can experience it in deep meditation.
And in these levels of deep meditation there are three levels of samadhi that we go into.
Like I said,
There are things that are above just the spiritual center.
There's so much to grow and so much to know.
Buddha called it the thousand petaled lotus.
You become a flower that just keeps blooming and blooming and blooming and constantly flowering once you've experienced the level of nirvana or the higher levels of samadhi.
And you start feeling samadhi basically when your energy raises up past the heart and into the throat chakra and into the third eye and into the crown.
Usually the crown.
But the third eye and the throat are very close to it.
And these three I always group together because they are more heavenly basically than they are earthly.
They are closer to heaven than the lower chakras are.
Our lower chakras ground us to the earth and we need that grounding.
And a well-grounded person is able to grow and mature.
Like I've heard the saying say that sometimes you have to have your roots of your tree reach all the way down to hell in order for the branches to reach up into heaven.
And that's the way it is with a spiritual person too.
You have to be grounded and having a mature physical body,
A mature emotional body,
A mature intellectual body.
And then allowing yourself to grow into the spiritual being.
And that's the halfway point.
And after you develop and switch to the spiritual center,
This fourth center of life,
Then your life becomes abundantly beautiful.
Everything around you is radiant with beauty.
And I wouldn't say it's ecstatically happy even though you're full of bliss.
And bliss is really wonderful.
And nothing else is like it in the world.
In fact,
There's no opposite to bliss.
Bliss basically is its own entity.
There's no such thing as being unblissful.
I mean,
There's such a thing as being happy and unhappy or sorrowful.
But bliss has no opposite to it.
And that's why it's something of a higher realms in life,
A higher essence that you raise your energy up into experiencing this wonderful thing of bliss.
I've mentioned that the three levels of samadhi coincide with the throat chakra,
The third eye and the crown.
But what I want to also mention is this,
Is that the throat chakra,
When energy reaches the throat chakra,
It is this,
You become this like Buddha essence who feels like they are this drop of water falling through the mountains in a waterfall,
Rushing through the streams really,
Really fast up high in the mountains.
And it's got all this energy.
And there's all this dimensional essence to it.
But you realize that you're part of the ocean when you are still in this waterfall state.
And that's rare.
It happens to some people.
Oh,
They have moments where they feel it.
And it's like a glimpse of lightning at night.
You see the image of the mountain,
A path that you want to travel.
And that flash of lightning gives you the courage to move forward into the mountain and actually travel the path.
But to travel the path,
You need light.
So you work harder at life and you strive and dive deeper into your meditation.
And then the next level you enter is the third eye.
And when the third eye is opened up,
It's more like the river is starting to calm down.
And maybe it's reaching the ocean and getting a little bit closer to the ocean.
So it's more still.
It's not as chaotic and it's not moving in every single direction everywhere.
It's in a flowing state.
So it's more serene and more calm.
And when you see pictures of Buddha,
They're trying to portray this essence of being near the river where the river actually gets ready to dive and become one with the ocean.
And then the crown chakra is that dissolving into the ocean.
It is the let go.
And if you get into meditation,
I won't say I guarantee you,
But if you get into meditation and you follow my words and you learn to be receptive,
Especially while you're meditating,
Be open and receptive while you're meditating,
And your energy will raise upward into the crown chakra.
You won't be able to see anything.
You won't be able to hear anything.
The only way you know what happens that you were in that level of samadhi was that when you come out of it,
You're full of bliss.
And you're just sitting there with this wow.
They call that divine wine,
This blissfulness that you're feeling.
And when you meditate in the morning time,
You carry that blissfulness with you throughout the day.
And it usually lasts almost the whole day.
And then when you come home after you get off work or after a long day of doing whatever you like to do,
When you come home and you meditate in the evening,
Then it fills you with blissfulness for the evening.
So falling asleep becomes easier.
Falling asleep becomes this beautiful essence.
And you look forward to falling asleep because you're so full of bliss.
You may not need to sleep as long as you used to before if you start meditating and you meditate quite often.
If you're meditating twice a day for six months to a year,
You'll find that you may not need to sleep nowhere near as much as you used to because something happens when you're meditating that happens while you sleep,
But it happens in greater amounts when you're meditating.
So you need less amount of time,
But you're getting actually more time where your brain becomes still and calm and you feel this blissfulness because of this stillness and this calmness.
And all this is waiting for you if you can learn to be receptive.
So that's the only thing.
The spider is lying there in its nest just waiting very still,
Very patiently,
Very calm,
Just waiting for something to fall into its nest so that it can eat and live.
I know that sounds kind of harsh,
Right?
But that's just the way life is,
Is that as a spiritual being,
If you're receptive,
All these things can happen to you if you allow them to happen,
If you make a space for them.
And every time you meditate,
You're creating more space and you're emptying your mind and you're getting rid of the negativity.
When you flip yourself over and become receptive to spiritual energy,
Then the divine is cleansing your spirit.
And this freedom of thinking,
These moments where there's no thought,
Is just so peaceful for the body and so peaceful for the mind itself.
In fact,
The mind becomes stronger when you learn to meditate.
When you become spiritually centered,
The mind now becomes your slave and you become the master,
Your consciousness.
But your consciousness is not separate from the universal consciousness,
This cosmic consciousness.
It evades everything,
It pervades everything,
It's in everything,
It's abundant in the trees,
It's abundant in the plants and the grass and the air you breathe,
And it's all around you.
But if you are masculine or assertive and keeping this energy away from you,
Then none of that will happen.
That is your freedom of choice.
That is your will over what you call God's will.
God wants you to be receptive,
But if you're not ready to be receptive,
If you still need to have this ego essence about you,
Controlling you and guiding you,
Then that's your prerogative.
Nobody can change you from that.
That's up to you to change when you're ready.
Okay gang,
This was a fun and insightful talk.
I hope you guys enjoyed it.
And just one more thing.
Also,
I think a guru should be known as like a big shade tree.
The bigger the shade tree,
The more you can rest and relax under it.
If the tree is so small and so young that it has no shade,
Then you don't really want to sit down and relax under it.
But if it's big and it has lots of shade,
Then you feel like you can relax under the big tree.
And Buddha was probably one of the biggest trees around.
Osho was a very big tree.
Alan Watts was a pretty big tree.
And this is my whole work too,
Is to give you a place to rest,
To let you sit down under my shade and listen to these words and enjoy them and relax for a few minutes.
And then find the courage to go into meditation and experiment with the things that we mentioned.
And it's not just my words.
My words are as ancient as any others or any guru or any yogi could ever share with you.
This is ancient knowledge.
But it has to be kept fresh by those that are still alive.
Like I said,
Osho's dead.
And listening to Osho's tracks and all his work could keep you going for a really long time.
But he can't answer any of your questions.
Whereas a living guru,
A living person,
A living person who can show you the way,
Asking them questions is beneficial to you because then you move along and you learn to trust a lot better.
Or a lot easier,
I should say.
So anyway,
Thank you again for joining me and I hope you find some shade under this tree.
Alright,
Take care of yourselves.
Namaste to all my spiritual friends and aloha to all you surfer friends.
Take care.
Bye bye.
