Sundance and Katie

Links for 2008-07-24 [del.icio.us]

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Sundance Burke, Wholeness
Sundance Burke, author, Free Spirit speaks on Wholeness through spiritual awakening and enlightenment. Free awakening video library at www.SundanceBurke.org.
Sundance Burke, No Dilemma, Author, Free Spirit
Sundance Burke on the Never Not Here television show by ClearSightTV on spiritual awakening and enlightenment. Free video library, free newsletters at www.SundanceBurke.org. Free Spirit is available at his website; a book directly encouraged by Eckhart To
Sundance Burke, Spiritual Awakening and Enlightenment
Sundance Burke, author, Free Spirit, on the Never Not Here television show, "Something We May Be Ignoring." This is a segment of a one hour show that is available in its entirety at www.SundanceBurke.org with other free videos and his book, Free Spirit.

Links for 2008-07-11 [del.icio.us]

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Passion For The Sacred
This poetry is truly the Heart Singing ... soaring ... even in its stillness. Thank you, Sonjan, for the beauty and grace of this poem, the beautiful music and lovely imagery. Katie Davis, www.KatieDavis.orf

Links for 2008-07-10 [del.icio.us]

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Eckhart Tolle Photos ~ Katie Davis, Sundance Burke, Power of Now Tour
Katie Davis and Sundance Burke Photo Gallery. Chronicles their travels of Katie Davis and Sundance Burke for two months with Eckhart Tolle on his first Power of Now Tour. Eckhart Tolle at Mount Shasta, Arizona desert, Santa Monica beach. They became frien

Links for 2008-07-05 [del.icio.us]

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Diamond of Joy - Katie Davis, www.KatieDavis.org
Katie Davis, author Awake Joy, offers a talk on discovering causeless joy through spiritual awakening. Free video library at www.KatieDavis.org as well as her book.
KatieDavis.org Awakening, Enlightenment, Meditation, Nonduality, Advaita, Spirituality, Free Videos
Katie Davis on Never Not Here Show by ClearSight TV. Visit the free video library at www.Katiedavis.org where her new book, Awake Joy, is also available. Sign up for free monthly Friend of the Heart Newsletters with articles on awakening, enlighenment, no

Links for 2008-06-27 [del.icio.us]

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Awakening Group w/ Katie Davis and Sundance Burke
Katie Davis, author, Awake Joy and Sundance Burke, author, Free Spirit, on Never Not Here Show Awakening Group Round Table on awakening, enlightenment, meditation and awake living.

Links for 2008-06-21 [del.icio.us]

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Maui Radio Sundance and Katie, Awake Joy and Free Spirit

Katie Davis, author, "Awake Joy" and Sundance Burke, author "Free Spirit" are interviewed on Mind Body Spirit Inspirational Talk Radio in Maui, Hawaii by Liah Howard on awakening and enlightenment.

Links for 2008-06-17 [del.icio.us]

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Chicago Television ~ Awakening Group with Katie Davis and Sundance Burke

Never Not Here can be a radio show too. Just turn up the volume and go about your daily chores.
An Awakening Group is a sharing that always has the effect of opening the perspective of all involved. It is an amazing open mindedness and open hea

To Be or Not To Be Fulfilled

noreply@blogger.com (Sundance Burke and Katie Davis) — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 11:47:00 -0600

NOT TO BE

Realizing fulfillment is not what most of humanity thinks it is. Most of us try to be fulfilled through activity, the pursuit of one beautiful or exciting thing after another. This stream of activity can take an outer form related to the body and its sense pleasures. It can also take the inner form of ceaseless thinking, self-talking and emotional re-acting. In either case, the purpose of the activity is to fill the space of being with something that will provide security, comfort, pleasure and power. This plan of action is based upon the belief that serving the body and the mind will make one happy and fulfilled. Calenders get filled with busy schedules and off we go into life. "Okay I am done with this, what's next, and then what?" Even while we sit in a chair, we aren't comfortable and content.

Basically what I'm saying is that most of us believe that our fulfillment must be sought through experiences. We seek and believe in the value of activities that stimulate our bodies and minds. However, the problem with body and mind experiences is that they don't possess continuity, they don't last. Whatever satisfaction we might get out of an activity dissipates from the moment the activity ends. When the party is over, the let down begins. All great ideas have very short lives. No thing... lasts. Those who pursue fulfillment by this strategy often sense an existential emptiness whenever nothing is going on. An uneasy feeling arises when there's nothing to do or think. Of course, this is the part of the strategy that has not been taken into account. It's not accounted for because very few of us are really clear about what we truly want. It is quite normal for humans to accept mediocrity, half-heartedness and lack of full faith in self and others, because we have the memory of a long legacy of unfulfilling experience. Not asking much for ourselves, we don't expect much from others. The result is the world you see on television. Surely we can be and do better and the choice and opportunity for such belongs to each of us. For those who are willing, the first step is to give an honest look at what isn't working. Tell the truth, be honest and sincere. Decide what you really want from this life. Be willing to consider your Being from the ground up. Only by your open-minded presence can you transcend habitual patterns. In other words, you cannot hold on to old limiting beliefs or failing strategies and expect to be free from their continuing influence.

One of the key forces keeping the strategy in place is our desire for control. This desire is the primal motivation of a strategy that most often prefers an experience of pleasure over pain. Perversely however, some of our preferences are just the opposite and we seek to confirm our identities by pain and poor feeling. Either way, it is by effort and force that we attempt to shape our experience into a habitual pattern that will temporarily reward us with the feelings we seek. Most of humanity is addicted to this worldly experience, the incessant stimulation of body and mind. Since each of us is addicted to our experience of choice, we will do anything to get it and repeat getting it. Only by controlling the form of our bodies and minds and that of others can we make the feelings happen. It is sad but true that most of us are stuck in a strategy that is a proven failure by any honest contemplation of the happiness it provides.

Another force that keeps us from true fulfillment is the force of belief. It is because we believe ourselves to be bodies and minds that we seek the pleasures and pains of the senses and the intellect. It is appropriate for us to be obsessed with the experiential form of life, when we conceive ourselves as mere form. It is natural for matter to attract and repell itself. However matter ages, decays and ulitimately disappears. As matter is inherently unstable, it is a poor source of satisfaction. If this is all we are, then temporary pleasure is the best we can hope for. Since many of us believe in nothing more than our physical experience, we are limited to that experience and its fragile dynamic. "Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die." This, too, we see on TV, in our shopping malls and holiday celebrations.

Ultimately, our worldly strategy for fulfillment is all about filling the space of life with some form of experience that can be perceived through our bodies and brains. What we have yet to contact is the space of being or pure consciousness. Tommorrow I will initiate that encounter. Blessings, Sundance

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The separate sense of self, the one who is trying to complete itself, will simply never be satisfied or fulfilled. First, we tried completion through school, friends, sports and many other forms of achievement and attainment. Then, we began searching for satisfaction within a career and its requirements and further achievement. One day, we met our lover and started a family and we began trying to fulfill ourselves through husband, lover, child and family activies. All of these attempts to find true and lasting happiness within the world of form are destined to failure. When we believe that you are a student, a professional, a lover or a mother, those are merely the roles that you are playing. True fulfillment cannot arise within the role that your playing, since the role is only a partial description of who you are. You are more than a successful or unsuccessful student. That role only describes a tiny part that you are. You are more than a wife. That is only a partial description of the broader nature that you truly are. Nonetheless, we continue what we believe to be a very rational search in the life situation to at last find the enduring happiness for which we are searching. However, even intellectually we can see that as long as we believe ourselves to be a fraction, a separate sense of self, we will continue on and on experiencing lack. The lack of fulfillment cannot be blamed on your lover or your friend or your boss. The lack will continue to seem to exist as long as you maintain the delusional belief that you are separate. The activies and experiences of which Sundance is speaking as he said may provide a fleeting fulfillment. We are happy and perhaps have a great adventure in the wilderness. Yet, discontentment resurfaces. This resurfacing is a pointer that there is a mistake here. We have a most primary identity crisis. As a fraction of Totality, you need to complete. As a fraction, you need to protect yourself from 'others' and use others for some ego gain in order to acquire ... to try to be whole. No matter what you try ... as long as you believe you are a fraction, fulfillment is not an option. Anyway, who could be separate from something named Totality? That can only include who you think you are, but you are not limited to that minor, partial, role playing description. Go back to the beginning and investigate. Is it true that dreaming "I" exists? Is it true that it is pointing to the separate self that thinks its limited to a body? The unconditional love of the Still Heart is already complete, you have only to realize that it is so. Then, in intimate relationship, we free one another from any need whatsoever, since we have realized our true identity as wholeness. We no longer have a need for gain. We no longer feel any threat of loss. We are not trying to fill our empty space with our lover and then blame them for falling short. First things first. Realize that you are whole and then what is attracted into your life is whole as well. Blessings, Katie __________________________________________

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T0 Be Fulfilled

Our spiritual awakening is being aware of our divine nature as Spirit, right now, right here. "What is that?" you might ask. Well, I cannot point it out or give it form, because Spirit is not a worldly experience. Spirit is not an object that becomes manifest by the sensing power of the body or cognizing power of the intellect. We know that each moment of our worldly experience is constantly appearing as matter, changing form and disappearing altogether. What many have yet to realize is that Spirit is the continuity of consciousness, the knowing space in which all life happens. Spirit is pure Awareness, the invisible All Knowing and Ever-Present Being. You are this Spirit. We come into life experience as This and then we, the spirited Consciousness, learn mind; that which fragments and divides spiritual Being into thought-forms. The power to think, which we as humans hold in such high esteem, actually causes all of our psychological confusion, misery and sorrow. Why? Simply because we identify with this power to imagine and think. We dream the dream of our personal existence, all the while being the Wakefulness, the continously present awareness that survives all of our temporary experiences. Our Knowing Spirit is whole, present and free, and This is our true fulfillment. Realize your continuity, that which does not come and go, that which always knows and that which is free Now. Look to your Spirit and be fulfilled. Blessings, Sundance

Flagstaff Satsang, JOY Right NOW

noreply@blogger.com (Sundance Burke and Katie Davis) — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 17:58:00 -0600

Registration for Sundance and Katie's satsang and satsang intensive is now open. First, they will be speaking at the Flagstaff Religious Science Church at the Sunday morning services at 10:00 am on January 27 with music by Tom and Shondra and no registration is required. There is an optional love offering to the Church. Then, on Friday, February 1, they begin a two day event in Flagstaff entitled JOY Right NOW. Satsang will be Friday evening with a satsang intensive on Saturday, February 2. You may register for a single event or for a special two day pass. The donation is reduced through registration, but you may also donate at the door.

Those attending the Sedona Satsang at the Sedona Creative Life Center in the Chapel on January 26 also have the option of registering for a two day pass that includes Satsang in Sedona as well as the Saturday JOY Right NOW Satsang Intensive at the Flagstaff Religious Science Church on Saturday, February 2.

Our sponsor for all of our events in Arizona is Richard Sink of Video Satsang, who regularly offers video satsang with Gangaji and Eckhart Tolle at the Spiritual Life Center in Flagstaff.

To register for the Flagstaff events, please go to Flagstaff Religious Science Church. To register for Satsang in Sedona, go to Schedule and Registration. You may also donate for all of the events at the door. For more information about the Arizona events or to view Sundance and Katie's Schedule for 2008, go the Sundance and Katie.

We invite you to awaken!

Awakening

noreply@blogger.com (Sundance Burke and Katie Davis) — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 10:08:00 -0600

What is this Awakening? Everyone assumes and also thinks that they are someone, meaning a person. Well, you are not a person, because a person is just an experience. Your experience of being a person comes and goes and does not even last for 24 hours. You also experience the world and your family, friends and neighbors and they do not last either. You forget all this every night. And when all this disappears, you also disappear because this "you" is like everything else, it's just experience.

No experience is the awakening. This is completely true. The awakening has nothing to do with experience, so there's no point to seeking one. Whatever you experience can never be what being awake is. And No Experience is the awakening, that which underlies all that happens. As you are not found in any experience, you are no-thing at all, but you are. I AM is this Being. However, you cannot improve this Being by adding to it, because all you could add is not what you are. So do not try to add anything and do not try at all; one way or another.

Awakening is just being free and clear, not from something like experience, but as What Is. Nothing Is, Being happens. Be clear, this is Awakening. Blessings Sundance

Awake Joy & Free Spirit Presales Open

noreply@blogger.com (Sundance Burke and Katie Davis) — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 18:33:00 -0600

Presales are open for Awake Joy: The Essence of Enlightenment by Katie Davis and Free Spirit: A Guide to Enlightened Being by Sundance Burke. Both books are hardbound, each with 224 pages, and they each have a retail price of $22.95.

Until February 1, we are offering a 20% discount on each book which saves $4.59 per book. In addition, we are also offering a Togetherness Presale Discount for those who would like both books. The Togetherness Discount is 30%, saving $13.77, plus two books ship for the price of one.

Awake Joy and Free Spirit will ship February 1. The presale discounts apply until February 1.

Click the following links to enjoy Awake Joy: Summary, Contents, Reviews, Author Biography, Purchase.

For Free Spirit, please click: Summary, Contents, Reviews, Author Biography, Purchase.

We hope that you enjoy them and that they point to awakening and Self-discovery. They truly were a joy to create.

Friends of the Heart January 2008

noreply@blogger.com (Sundance Burke and Katie Davis) — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 14:54:00 -0600

We invite you to enjoy the January issue of Friends of the Heart which is a monthly publication offering articles on non-duality by authors, musicians, artists and poets. This issue includes "Adoration" by Katie Davis, Presales of Awake Joy by Katie Davis and Free Spirit by Sundance Burke, "Only the Self is Love" by Sundance Burke, information about event registration for events in Dallas, Sedona, Flagstaff, Boulder, Richmond Hill, Toronto and Chicago, "Loss, Grief, and Grace" by Meredith Young-Sowers, author of Spirit Heals, Heart of Life E-book by Katie Davis, and "A Way of Communicating the Sense of Nonduality" by Jerry Katz, editor of One.

We have also added a Contributor's Directory underneath the newsletter on the same page so that you may more conveniently find and enjoy all of the submissions by authors who have shared their wisdom with Friends of the Heart over the years.

Love at First Glance

noreply@blogger.com (Sundance Burke and Katie Davis) — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 03:11:00 -0600

Ecstatic poetry recognizes that all love is One Love and that in falling in love with one another, we are expressing the Divine. Rumi, a thirteenth century ecstatic poet, describes The Glance as falling in love at first sight. He shares that The Glance is the mystical moment, when two spiritually connected individuals meet. The following selections reveal, in the meeting of eyes, not only the exquisite union of two loving souls, but also the Love that is the Heart of the Universe. Katie selected these excerpts from The Illuminated Rumin, translated by Coleman Barks and illustrated by Michael Green.

~ What is the Heart? It is not human and it is not imaginary. I call it You.

~ This is how I would die into the Love that I have for You…as pieces of cloud dissolve in sunlight.

~ Out beyond ideas of wrong-doing and right-doing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about. Ideas, language, even the phrase “each other,” just doesn’t make sense any longer.

~ You and I have spoken all these words. But for the way we have to go, words are no preparation. There’s no getting ready, other than Grace. I have one drop of knowing in my soul. Let it dissolve in your ocean.

~ What was in that candle’s light that opened and consumed me so quickly? Come back, my Friend. The form of our Love is not a created form. Nothing can help me, but that Beauty. There was a dawn, I remember, when my soul heard something from your soul. I drank water from your spring and felt the current take me.

~ This night, there are no limits to what may be given. This is not a night, but a marriage. A couple whispering in bed in unison the same words. Darkness simply lets down a curtain for that.

~ I would love to kiss you…when soul rises into lips, you feel the kiss, you’ve always wanted.

~ In Love that long! I am Here, this moment, inside the Beauty, the gift God has given, our Love: this ring, this gold and circular sign, means we are free: out of eternity, I turn my face to you, and into eternity: we have been in Love that long.

Awake Delight

noreply@blogger.com (Sundance Burke and Katie Davis) — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 15:32:00 -0600

Ah ha! We are awake. We are not our thoughts; any idea, voice, belief, opinion or feeling judgment. We have awakened from our dream of endless desire and fear. We see the splinter in our mind. “Something needs to change in this moment for me to be happy.” What a funny and absurd idea. How can we possibly be happy, when we are entranced by such a suggestion? Obviously, we cannot be happy while chaining our Being to a pre-condition for present contentment. Yet, now we are awake. We see the thought. We realize what it is saying and we recognize the lie. This mind has always been speaking like this. However, now the trance is over, the splinter is gone and our eyes are crystal clear. Awareness is here, always here and That is who we are. We are awake in the light of knowing without pretending to be some-thing or some-one. We are not sad, depressed, angry, bored or confused. We are not afraid or longing. We are not a splinter of the mind. We are awake. We see the thief sneaking in to take us away to its hiding place. We catch this thief red-handed. We enjoy this attempt to steal from us, because we know that our house is empty and no one is home. We release this thief, because there never was anything real to get or take. This plan for our takeover is just so ill-conceived. Dreams are just dreams. Thoughts are just thoughts, hitching posts for every little self-concept. We are not little or big. We are not an abstraction of Being Alive. We are simply Awake and ever delighted to be so. Love & Blessings, Sundance

Being Present & Self-realization

noreply@blogger.com (Sundance Burke and Katie Davis) — Sat, 24 May 2008 13:18:00 -0500

Question:

Thank you for your work!! I have a question for you... Is this about "being present, in the moment", or realizing the truth of who we really are? It seems, if I am totally present, in the moment, i don't know who i am because i'm not thinking or conceptualizing. But, that being totally present goes in and out, or back and forth. However, if i know myself as pure awareness, i walk around with that "knowing" and it doesn't matter if i am present or not!! There seems to be a difference here and a big contradiction. One is totally alive i guess you could say, and the other seems to be a mind thing or an intellectualizing. Can you please offer your insight and guidance? Thank you very much!!! Peace

Sundance Response:
Being present in the moment is just the first step in realizing who you really are. And what does being present really mean? It means being conscious of all that is happening in your experience right now, both outside the body and within the body/mind. It means that one is aware of self-experience now and aware that one is aware now. Very practically it is eating and knowing there is eating, walking and feeling there is walking, thinking and seeing the thought process as it happens, being conscious of the present sense impressions being felt and reflected in the body/mind etc. It is by being present right now, which means conscious of Being Experience, that one can be beyond the body & mind phenomena and broadly engaged in that which knows all of this experience; the coming and goings on.
Consciousness is the permanent backdrop for all life experience, inner or outer. This sense of inner or outer is transcended into All Being when there is a conscious witnessing present as Self. This Aware Presence does not distinguish between inner or outer, that inside or outside the physical body, as the conscious Presence is who you are as the seer-knower-feeler and everything seen -known -felt, including the body, is this Self's experince, but not itself, except relatively and temporarily. Knowing who you truly are or Self-realization is fully realizing that True You is always here and beyond all experience including the experience of life as we know it. There are infinite life expressions that one might behold, many worlds, many dreams and You are their knower and also their source.
This cannot be understood intellectually and be called Self-realization. The latter is being this knowledge and that means that what I am saying is your actual experience of being nothing other than BeingAware. Self-realization is not a philosophy to be mentally explored, rather it is the reflected Livingness of that which is Pure Awareness... the Lover of All Mainifestation... the Heart of any Life.
Another response to your query is: concepts do not matter except to other concepts. Being is All that is Living Now.
Thanks for asking. I trust this pointing serves Truth.
Blessings Sundance

Free Awakening and Enlightenment Videos

noreply@blogger.com (Sundance Burke and Katie Davis) — Mon, 26 May 2008 02:34:00 -0500

Free videos on awakening, enlightenment, consciousness, nonduality, spirituality and meditation at www.SundanceBurke.org, author of "Free Spirit: A Guide to Enlightened Being." You may also enjoy Sundance in television interviews and radio podcasts.

Television Interview with Sundance Burke, Author, "Free Spirit"

noreply@blogger.com (Sundance Burke and Katie Davis) — Mon, 26 May 2008 02:40:00 -0500

Television interview with Sundance Burke, author of "Free Spirit: A Guide to Enlightened Being," by Richard Miller, host and producer of the "Never Not Here" show.

Visit www.SundanceBurke.org.

Katie Davis, Author, "Awake Joy" on the "Never Not Here" Television Show by Richard Miller

noreply@blogger.com (Sundance Burke and Katie Davis) — Tue, 27 May 2008 22:49:00 -0500

Katie Davis, author of "Awake Joy: The Essence of Enlightenment" is interviewed on Chicago television on the "Never Not Here" Show by host and producer, Richard Miller on awakening, enlightenment, consciousness, meditation, nonduality and spirituality. For more free videos, go to www.KatieDavis.org/FreeAwakeningVideos.html, also television and radio interviews. For free videos, television and radio interviews with Sundance Burke, author of "Free Spirit: A Guide to Enlightened Being" please go to www.sundanceburke.org/FreeAwakeningVideos.html.

Maui Satsangs and Internet Radio

noreply@blogger.com (Sundance Burke and Katie Davis) — Sat, 31 May 2008 23:55:00 -0500

You are invited to satsang with Sundance Burke, author of "Free Spirit" and Katie Davis, author of "Awake Joy" on Maui, Sundays, June 1, 8, 15, and 22 at 4:00 pm in Maui Meadows at 875 Kumulani. Please arrive 15 minutes early.

Thursday, June 19 at Noon, Sundance and Katie will be on Mind Body Spirit radio on KAOI Radion 1110 AM. The call-in talk show will also be available on the internet at www.MindBodySpiritMaui.com with an MP3 available at that website after the show. The interview will be by Maui's Liah Howard. You are welcome to join us and call-in your questions.

Sundance Burke Awakening Video Interview - 35 min.

noreply@blogger.com (Sundance Burke and Katie Davis) — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 00:04:00 -0500

Sundance Burke, author of "Free Spirit: A Guide to Enlightened Being," is interviewed by Jordan Shafer of Compassionworks in Dallas before satsang. They speak on awakening and enlightenment. Enjoy the entire free video library with television interviews and radio podcasts with slideshows and music at www.SundanceBurke.org/FreeAwakeningVideos.html. On this website, you may also signup for free monthly Friends of the Heart Newsletters with articles on awakening, nonduality, advaita and enlightenment.

Amazon Buy: "Free Spirit: A Guide to Enlightened Being" by Sundance Burke

noreply@blogger.com (Sundance Burke and Katie Davis) — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 13:41:00 -0500

Amazon Buy: "Free Spirit: A Guide to Enlightened Being" by Sundance Burke may be purchased by clicking www.Amazon.com. You may search inside the book and review the Table of Contents as well as excerpts from "Free Spirit." You may also read customers comments and reviews or share your comments about this book.

You will be forwarded to the buy page by clicking Amazon

You may also purchase "Free Spirit" at the Sundance Burke website, signup to receive free monthly newsletters from Friends of the Heart or enjoy Sundance's WiseCracks. Click Sundance

New Release, June 2: Sundance Burke, author of "Free Spirit" Interview on the "Never Not Here" Television Show 30

noreply@blogger.com (Sundance Burke and Katie Davis) — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 22:13:00 -0500

New release today, June 2, Sundance Burke, author of "Free Spirit: A Guide to Enlightened Being" is interviewed by host and producer, Richard Miller, on Chicago's "Never Not Here" Television Show 30. Sundance speaks on awakening to your life's deepest purpose and the nature of consciousness.

Enjoy the entire free awakening video library by clicking Sundance.

To purchase his new book, "Free Spirit," please click Amazon.

My My My

noreply@blogger.com (Sundance Burke and Katie Davis) — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 15:26:00 -0500

If we want to be enlightened, we will have to lighten up by dropping all our unnecessary burdens, heaviness, and carry-on baggage. What is that, one might ask? Well, it's all the things that we identify with and attach to that don't belong to us and I'll get to these things in a minute. But first, how do we demonstrate that we attach to things? We demonstrate this by our thinking and speaking. We say "my" body, "my" feelings, "my" mind, "my" world etc. Here's a very short list of the things that weigh us down from one moment to the next. "MY" body, disease, health, illness, pain, image, worries, concerns, goals, projects, work, house, car, bills, neighborhood, environment, hopes and dreams. "MY" feelings, memories, guilt, resentments, regrets, insecurities, frustrations, excitement, depression, sadness, anger, happiness, fears and desires. "MY" thoughts, judgments, opinions, political and religious affiliations, past, future, story, knowledge, experience, training. Each and every one of these things possesses some weight for us to carry.

Let me ask, do any of these things really belong to YOU? Another way of approaching this is to ask, who would you be if none of these things had anything to do with you? Don't all these conceptual trappings just make YOU up as something when in truth YOU are no-thing at all? Is there any such thing as a YOU without this idea that "I am what I perceive"? Strip down, get naked, let's go skinny dipping. Take off all your restricting clothes. It's just apparel, cover up, make-believe pretense. None of these things are YOU. And if YOU let everything go you'll realize who you really are.

Wow, can you believe it, You are no thing at all, so there is nothing for anything to attach to. One thing needs another for attachment and YOU do not qualify for that position. Lucky YOU! My oh my have YOU changed. YOU look good unburdened, light and free. It's crazy isn't? We have been carrying all this weight throughout our lives and it has never even occurred to us that we could put it all down. I am not saying that you don't have to interact with all these things anymore. You will have these interactions. However, you will no longer be confused. You will meet them from a clear awareness. Things only weigh upon us because we believe that these things make us who we are. Well, the truth is that they do not make us who we are. Rather, we make them what they are. If YOU can intuit the truth of all this, YOU will never again use the word "my" to express your belief, rather YOU will use it to express your wonder. "My Oh My" what a beautiful life!
Blessings, Sundance

Never Not Here Awakening Group Round Table with Sundance and Katie from Clearsight TV

noreply@blogger.com (Sundance Burke and Katie Davis) — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 22:22:00 -0500

Sundance Burke, author, Free Spirit: The Essence of Enlightenment and Katie Davis, author, Awake Joy: The Essence of Enlightenment on the Never Not Here Show. Host and producer, Richard Miller, organized and produced an Awakening Group in Chicago as a televised Round Table. This is not a traditional satsang. It is wonderful in demonstration of all the states of consciousness that are available. Where are you looking from? What is your reference point? Are you willing to allow the Truth?
114 minutes. Enjoy the entire free video library with six Never Not Here Shows, free radio podcasts with beautiful slide shows with music and video interviews with Sundance and Katie by clicking Free Awakening Videos.

Know Yourself ~ United Kingdom ~ Sundance and Katie ~ Free Podcasts and Audio Downloads, Authors, Free Spirit, Awake Joy

noreply@blogger.com (Sundance Burke and Katie Davis) — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 23:02:00 -0500

For our English Heart Friends and others around the world, you may now enjoy free satsang downloads with Katie Davis, author of "Awake Joy: The Essence of Enlightenment" and Sundance Burke, author of "Free Spirit: A Guide to Enlightened Being" at the Know Yourself Website ~ Discover Your True Identity.

Know Yourself is offering in their Enlightenment and Truth category, "Diamond of Joy," which is a two hour audio download for purchase of Dallas satsang, produced by Video Dynamics that will also become available as a DVD in the Sundance and Katie Store at their websites, www.KatieDavis.org and www.SundanceBurke.org.

Know Yourself is also offering two free audio podcasts with Sundance and Katie: Beauty Truth and Unreasonable Joy in their Free Talks and Teachings category.

You may go to Sundance and Katie's Knowyourself Web Page by clicking

http://www.knowyourself.org/speakers/34/

Sundance and Katie on Mind Body Spirit Radio, Author, Free Spirit and Awake Joy

noreply@blogger.com (Sundance Burke and Katie Davis) — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 23:15:00 -0500

Enjoy Sundance and Katie, authors of "Free Spirit" and "Awake Joy" on Mind Body Spirit Maui Radio with a beautiful Hawaii slide show and conscious music by Kirtana and John Astin. They share the awakening, enlightenment, enlightened relationships, photos of traveling with Eckhart Tolle and more. They are interviewed by Maui's Liah Howard. Enjoy the entire free awakening video library that features programs with Sundance and Katie on awakening, enlightenment, meditation, satsang and spirituality by clicking Free Awakening Videos.

Awareness Anonymous

noreply@blogger.com (Sundance Burke and Katie Davis) — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:24:00 -0500

New WiseCrack by Sundance

(AA Meeting ~ Speaking at an Awareness Anonymous meeting)
Hi, my name is Sundance and I am a non-thinker.
I used to over-think unconsciously every day. I was a slave to my mind.
Now that I am conscious and aware, I no longer think.
In fact, it’s been 5 minutes & 32 seconds since I had my last thought.
Today, I stay thought-free, one second at a time.

When I was thinking, I was addicted to the past. For me, one past thought simply led to the next. I just couldn’t stop thinking, because I thought I needed it to be who I am. Yet, every time I thought too much, I’d end up suffering. After several years of hard core thinking, I began to hallucinate. I thought that I was seeing separate people, places and things. I felt completely isolated and lonely. I tried to possess and hold onto the images as if they were real. I was constantly paranoid. I felt like everyone was leaving me or after me. I projected the cause for all my problems onto the illusion of others. My vision got blurry and I started seeing double. I would reach out for things that weren’t there. I was constantly dissatisfied and afraid. I began to believe that an imaginary future held my salvation and I lost all contact with the present moment. I felt divided, lost and constantly threatened. I didn’t know it then, but I was about to wake up in a gutter of my own making. Because of this experience, I now realize that I cannot have a single thought without the risk of falling back into my addiction.

By these meetings, I have come to realize that thinking is a dis-ease and so I shouldn’t feel guilty. I now know that I am not responsible for the thoughts that I think. I am merely unconscious when I am thinking, and so, I don’t know what I am thinking or how much.

I used to feel that I couldn’t live without thinking and that I was powerless to stop. The truth is, I used to over-think everyday. I guess you could have labeled me a Maintenance Thinker. I just couldn’t do anything without thinking about it first. I’d think a lot before going to bed at night. I’d also think in the morning, as I was getting ready for work. I’d even think on the job and then I’d bring my thinking home with me. All the while, I didn’t feel like my thinking habit was a problem. I thought that I could think and get away with it. Often, I would hide my thinking from my family and friends. I didn’t want anyone to know how much I was thinking. So, I wouldn’t reveal anything I thought. I would just keep my thinking to myself and think alone. You see, I became a closet thinker. However, sometimes a friend would suspect that I was thinking alone and ask, “What are you thinking?” I’d say “nothing,” hoping to hide the fact that I had been thinking all the time. Occasionally, I’d be honest and own up to my thinking and tell them just what I thought. Unconsciously, I probably knew that my thinking was a problem and that I needed help.

It’s a fact that I experienced a tremendous number of problems while I was still thinking about one thing after another. In the beginning, it seemed that I could think socially. However, I soon found out that 2 thoughts were never enough for me. I just couldn’t stop at “I Am.” With me, 2 thoughts became 3 and 3 became 4… “I am…I am so…I am so angry,” I’d think. Next, I’d be pounding down one thought after another until I was completely unconscious and unhappy. “I am so angry… at… you… for…leaving…me… and…running…off…with…my…best…friend.” I’d go on like this until I blacked out and lost all consciousness. My thinking was completely out of control and I hurt myself, my family and friends. I also created a lot of enemies.

Sometimes, I used to think positive thoughts to get high, but after thinking too many thoughts my thinking would invariably turn negative and then I’d suffer. When I wasn’t thinking anything at all, I felt so bad that I desired to start thinking again, just to get high again. This cycle of up and down thinking would repeat itself endlessly. Eventually, I thought my life was hopeless and I thought about ending my thinking altogether.

Only by grace, I discovered Awareness Anonymous and attended my first meeting. These meetings were dry, and so, no thinking was allowed anywhere in the hall. The anonymity in the group name comes from no thinking. However, each anonymous member of the group used to be an over-thinker, just like me. To maintain our anonymity, we hang out with other non-thinkers and try to avoid places where there’s a lot of thinking going on. Someday I hope that I’ll be able to be around thinkers without thinking like they do. Until then, I’ll just stay with the program and not think. I cannot tell you how grateful I am to be here anonymously.

Katie Davis Video Interview by Jordan Shafer of CompassionWorks

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Katie Davis, author, Awake Joy, is interviewed by Jordan Shafer of CompassionWorks before Dallas Satsang on awakening, enlightenment, meditation, nonduality, advaita, living now, meditation and spirituality. Enjoy the entire free awakening video library by Katie Davis and Sundance at www.katiedavis.org/freeawakeningvideos.html with interviews, satsang, television shows and free radio podcasts with slide shows and beautiful conscious music.

Show 28 Katie Davis on Never Not Here Show by Clearsight TV

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Katie Davis, author, Awake Joy, on Chicago's televised Never Not Here Show 28 by Clearsight TV on awakening, enlightenment, meditation, living now, life purpose, spirituality, advaita and nonduality.Enjoy the entire free awakening video library at www.katiedavis.org and by Sundance Burke, www.sundanceburke.org.