Life Living Itself

When we move beyond our own individual concerns and learn to embrace the concerns of others and of the world as our own, the self center that causes so much individual suffering is eased. What becomes revealed is that we are in fact all of life. A deep caring for the whole emerges the more that we realize that we are all interconnected. The post The World’s Concerns are Our Concerns appeared first...

Deeper than our surface preferences, concerns and fears, lies a vast reservoir of allowance. We can learn how to access it by tuning into the heart, whose nature is unconditional acceptance and which holds all polarities comfortably within itself. The post Berkeley Open Circle Meeting: Opening to Allowance appeared first on Susanne Marie .

Our essential nature, which rests prior to all concepts, is unconditioned Being. When our essential nature is known and felt through the heart, life is viewed through the lens of unity. We feel a deep intimacy with everything. In fact, we appreciate that our “own” essential nature and that of everything are one and the same. This manifests in our behavior and experience as allowance, acceptance, w...

Learning how to increasingly tell (relative) truth both to ourselves and to others and as a result, living more authentically, is a doorway to absolute Truth. The post The Importance of Being Truthful appeared first on Susanne Marie .

An evening meeting with a Seattle non-dual group which was a prequel to a powerful weekend intensive. It takes maturity and a courageous willingness to come to stop looking outside of ourselves for ourselves. Are you ready to stand on your own two feet, stop wavering and go one pointedly towards what you want? The post Standing On Your Own Two Feet: A Seattle Evening Meeting appeared first on Susa...

Join Susanne Marie and Adyashanti in an exploration about an often misunderstood subject. Beyond the traditional landing places that mind creates (commonly discussed in non-dual circles), lies an indescribable landscape of living as pure, direct experiencing. Prior to this opening, the habitual subjective filter creates a veil of separation of which one is not even aware. This is true even within...

As we practice resting in that which is prior to content, we strengthen our capacity to know ourselves as all of creation. But first a solid base needs to be established on which consciousness is no longer glued in identification with what it is focusing on. This broadens one’s capacity to sense into oneself as the whole, no longer solely a personal identity, but knowing oneself as everyone and ev...

Life is evolving, asking us to rise up to embrace our inner autonomy and to meet as equals in service to the whole. The old paradigm of a few teachers serving as ‘wisdom holders’ is ebbing. We are transitioning from a hierarchical way of meeting others in Truth with the teacher on top, to an egalitarian one in which we meet in a circle, inviting each another to express our own knowing, gifts, and...

Topics: Learning to develop a sense of what is true, a place inside that is already free of pain and already at peace. Consciousness is indiscriminate. It isn’t driven by will force, so it goes wherever attention is placed. When it is placed on awareness itself, it learns to rest as That. There is an evolution to consciousness that is occurring, we are deepening. The embodiment of spirit into matt...

Dropping pretense with one another and learning how to communicate authentically serves in supporting an enlivened connection with others. Tuning into ourselves as Natural Beings, as being aspects of nature, serves in helping us remember ourselves and helps bring more joy and aliveness to our lives. The separate self has a feeling tone to it. Learning how to tune into this felt sense helps us thin...

A video clip taken from a recent online meeting. Meeting one another from a place of undefended naturalness allows for true communication to occur. The way we listen to one another helps bring what is undivided to the foreground. In this way both our speaking and our listening become one movement creatively sharing communication. The full length audio of the meeting (longer than the video, with qu...

The more we deepen in realization, the more that we see that there is no difference between ourselves and Nature. We are One Being with the Earth, with all creatures large and small. We are One great indivisible whole seeing and meeting each other in Sacred Mutuality. Evolution is at work as each one of us realizes our intrinsic unity with all of Life. The post Living Realization appeared first on...

Putting one’s attention on what lies prior to manifestation helps bring pure awareness, which is ordinarily in the background, to the foreground. Then, instead of being addicted and glued to content and as a result, forgetting the Self, the mind can more easily be at peace and in natural harmony with itself and with the rest of the ever-shifting appearance of life. The post Resting as Awareness –...

Putting one’s attention on what lies prior to manifestation helps bring pure awareness, which is ordinarily in the background, to the foreground. Then, instead of being addicted and glued to content and as a result, forgetting the Self, the mind can more easily be at peace and in natural harmony with itself and with the rest of the ever-shifting appearance of life. The post Resting as Awareness –...

Life is a gracious teacher whereby we learn over time how, in truth, giving and receiving are aspects of one integrated whole which supports the balanced functioning of life. In this video I share an experience I recently had when I went to see Amma, where I received a wonderful direct teaching of how giving and receiving works. The post Tapping into Universal Support appeared first on Susanne Mar...

Have you noticed that when you really let yourself feel something completely that this one thing fully embraced leads to the totality of existence? The vastness of what we are lies within the minutia. Enter fully into experience and know yourself as That. The post Diving into Experience appeared first on Susanne Marie .

When we give ourselves the permission to let go into not knowing, relaxing the boundaries of what we take ourselves to be, something magical opens up, and that is our own knowing. In this meeting I invite that knowing to emerge and speak within the group. The post The Freedom of Not Knowing – Part 2 appeared first on Susanne Marie .

When we give ourselves the permission to let go into not knowing, relaxing the boundaries of what we take ourselves to be, something magical opens up, and that is our own knowing. In this meeting I invite that knowing to emerge and speak within the group. The post The Freedom of Not Knowing – Part 1 appeared first on Susanne Marie .

Each one of us is the Holy and each one of us has access to the wellspring of innate wisdom. We share the same light and ground of being as did the Buddha, Christ, and all the saints. In essence, no one is more Holy than another. The post Being a Light Unto Yourself (Audio) appeared first on Susanne Marie .

Relaxing into our natural selves softens our edges, softens the one who is in defense to life. We can move through the world in a relaxed and undefended way. This allows for the natural state to move in, as, and through us. Just like the wind, we are a thing of nature. The post Living as Undefined Essence appeared first on Susanne Marie .

All manifested form is empty at its center. This includes what you take yourself to be, a person. Even though it seems like you are the one feeling, thinking, and have a body, in truth this is not so. The power of inquiry and resting in our true nature helps to break the sticky trance that consciousness has regarding its manifested aspect. The post There Really is No Person appeared first on Susan...

Many of us run from that we most want, which is ourselves stripped bare of defense. This moment, raw in its own power, offering no promises of delivery. Here, in this place of simplicity, we find ourselves left without imagination clouding the view. The post Immediacy of Experience Webinar appeared first on Susanne Marie .

A Mothers Day Open Circle Meeting in Berkeley (in 3 parts). Topics include the falling away of the sense of self (when it is a healthy letting go versus resulting from trauma), as well as letting go of control when it comes to personal will falling away. Resting in the unknown is the general theme of this meeting. The post A Mothers Day Open Circle Meeting in Berkeley, Part 1 appeared first on Sus...

A Mothers Day Open Circle Meeting in Berkeley (in 3 parts). Topics include the falling away of the sense of self (when it is a healthy letting go versus resulting from trauma), as well as letting go of control when it comes to personal will falling away. Resting in the unknown is the general theme of this meeting. The post A Mothers Day Open Circle Meeting in Berkeley, Part 2 appeared first on Sus...

A Mothers Day Open Circle Meeting in Berkeley (in 3 parts). Topics include the falling away of the sense of self (when it is a healthy letting go versus resulting from trauma), as well as letting go of control when it comes to personal will falling away. Resting in the unknown is the general theme of this meeting. The post A Mothers Day Open Circle Meeting in Berkeley, Part 3 appeared first on Sus...