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[NARRATOR] Samadhi is an ancient Sanskrit word for which

there's no modern equivalent.

There's a fundamental challenge with making

a film about Samadhi.

Samadhi points to something that can't be

conveyed on the level of mind.

This film is simply the outer manifestation

of my own inner journey.

The intention is not to teach you about Samadhi

or provide information for your mind,

but to inspire you to directly discover your true nature.

Samadhi is relevant now more than ever.

We are at a time in history where we have not only

forgotten Samadhi, but we've forgotten what we forgot.

This forgetting is Maya, the illusion of the self.

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As humans, most of us live immersed in our daily lives

with little thought of who we are, why we are here,

or where we're going.

Most of us have never realized the true self, the soul,

or what the Buddha called anata, that which

is beyond name and form.

Beyond thinking.

As a result, we believe we are these limited bodies.

We live in fear, either conscious or unconscious,

that the limited self structure that we are identified with

will die.

In today's world, the vast majority

of people who are engaged in religious or spiritual

practices, such as yoga, prayer, meditation, chanting,

or any kind of ritual, or practicing techniques which

are conditioned which means they are just part

of the ego construct.

The seeking and the activity isn't the problem.

Thinking you have found the answer in some external form

is the problem.

Spirituality, in its most common form,

is no different than the pathological thinking

that is going on everywhere.

It is a further agitation of the mind.

More human doing as opposed to human being.

The ego construct wants more money, more power, more love,

more of everything.

Those on the so-called spiritual path

desire to be more spiritual, more awake, more equanimous,

more peaceful, more enlightened.

The danger for you watching this film

is that your mind will want to acquire Samadhi.

Even more dangerous is that your mind might

think it has acquired Samadhi.

Whenever there's a desire to attain something,

you can be sure it's the ego construct at work.

Samadhi is not about attaining or adding

something more to yourself.

To realize Samadhi is to learn to die before you die.

Life and death are like yin and yang, an inseparable continuum

endlessly unfolding with no beginning and no end.

When we push away death, we also push away life.

When you experience the truth directly of who you are,

there is no longer any fear of life or death.

We are told who we are by our society and our culture.

And at the same time, we are slaves to the deeper

unconscious biological craving and aversion

that governs our choices.

The ego construct is nothing more than the impulse

to repeat.

It's simply the path that energy once took,

and the tendency for the energy to take that path again,

whether it is positive or negative for the organism.

There are endless levels of memory or mind,

spirals within spirals.

When your consciousness identifies with this mind

or ego construct, it ties you to social conditioning,

which you could call the matrix.

There are aspects of the ego that we can be conscious of,

but it's the unconscious, the archaic wiring,

the primal existential fears that are actually

driving the whole machine.

Endless patterns of grasping towards pleasure and avoidance

of pain are sublimated into pathological behaviors.

Our work, our relationships,

our beliefs, our very thoughts,

and our whole way of living.

Like cattle, most humans live and die in passive subjugation,

feeding their lives to the matrix.

We live lives locked into narrow patterns.

Lives often filled with great suffering.

And it never occurs to us that we can actually become free.

It is possible to let go of the life that has

been inherited from the past.

To live the one that is waiting to come forth

through the inner world.

We were all born into this world with biological conditioned

structures, but without self-awareness.

Often when you look into a young child's eyes,

there's no trace of self, only luminous emptiness.

The person one grows into is a mask worn over consciousness.

Shakespeare said, "all the world's a stage

and all the men and women, merely players."

In an awakened individual, consciousness

shines through the personality, through the mask.

When you are awake, you don't become

identified with your character.

You don't believe that you are the masks that you are wearing.

But nor do you give up playing a role.

When we are identified with our character, our persona,

this is Maya, the illusion of the self.

Samadhi is awakening from the dream of your character

in the play of life.

2,400 years after Plato wrote the "Republic,"

humanity is still making its way out of Plato's cave.

In fact, we may be more transfixed by illusions

than ever.

Plato had Socrates describe a group

of people who lived chained in a cave all of their lives

facing a blank wall.

All they could see were shadows projected on the wall

by the things passing in front of a fire which

was behind them.

This puppet show became their world.

According to Socrates, the shadows

were as close as the prisoners would ever

get to seeing reality.

Even after being told about the outside world,

they continued to believe that the shadows were all that is.

Even if they suspected there was something more,

they were unwilling to leave what was familiar.

Humanity today is like the people

who have only seen the shadows on the cave wall.

The shadows are analogous to our thoughts.

The world of thinking is the only world that we know,

but there is another world that's

beyond thinking, beyond the dualistic mind.

Are you willing to leave the cave?

To leave all that you have known to find out

the truth of who you are?

In order to experience Samadhi,

it's necessary to turn attention away from the shadows,

away from the thoughts, towards the light.

When a person is only used to darkness,

then they must gradually become accustomed to the light.

Like acclimatizing to any new paradigm,

it takes time and effort and a willingness to explore the new,

as well as shed the old.

The mind can be likened to a trap for consciousness,

a labyrinth or a prison.

It is not that you are in prison, you are the prison.

The prison is an illusion.

If you are identified with an illusory self,

then you are asleep.

Once you are aware of the prison,

if you fight to get out of the illusion,

then you're treating the illusion as if it's real,

and you still remain asleep.

Except now, the dream becomes a nightmare.

You'll be chasing and running from shadows forever.

Samadhi is awakening from the dream of the separate self

or the egoic construct.

Samadhi is awakening from identification with the prison

that I call me.

You can never actually be free because wherever you go,

your prison is there.

Awakening is not about getting rid of the mind or the matrix.

On the contrary, when you're not identified with it,

then you can experience the play of life more fully.

Enjoying the show as it is without craving or fear.

In the ancient teachings, this was called

the divine game of Leela, the game of playing in duality.

Human consciousness is a continuum.

On one extreme humans are identified

with the material self.

On the other extreme is Samadhi, the cessation of self.

Every step we take on the continuum towards Samadhi,

brings less suffering.

Less suffering does not mean life is free from pain.

Samadhi is beyond the duality of pain and pleasure.

What it means is that there is less mind,

less self creating resistance to whatever unfolds.

And not resistance is what creates suffering.

Realizing Samadhi even once allows

you to see what is at the other end of the continuum.

To see that there is something other than the material world

and self-interest.

When there is an actual cessation

of the self structure in Samadhi,

there is no egoic thought.

No self.

No duality.

Yet, there is still the "I am," the Anatta or no self.

In that emptiness is the dawn of prajna or wisdom.

The understanding that the imminent self

is far beyond the play of duality,

beyond the entire continuum.

The imminent self is timeless, unchanging, always now.

Enlightenment is the merging of the primordial spiral,

the ever changing manifested world,

or lotus, in which time unfolds with your timeless being.

Your inner wiring grows like an ever unfolding flower

as you disidentify with the self,

becoming a living bridge

between the world of time and the timeless.

Merely realizing the imminent self

is only the beginning of one's path.

Most people will have to experience and lose

Samadhi countless times in meditation

before they are able to integrate it

into other facets of life.

It's not unusual to have profound insights

into the nature of your being during meditation

or self-inquiry, only to find yourself once again

falling back into old patterns.

Forgetting the truth of who you are.

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To realize that stillness or emptiness in every facet

of life, every facet of one's self,

is to become emptiness dancing as all things.

Stillness is not something separate from movement.

It is not opposite to movement.

In Samadhi, stillness is recognized

to be identical with movement.

Form is identical to emptiness.

This is nonsensical to the mind because mind is the coming

into being of duality.

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Rene Descartes, the father of Western philosophy,

is famous for the saying, "I think, therefore I am."

No other phrase more clearly encapsulates

the fall of civilization and the full scale identification

with the shadows on the cave wall.

Descartes' error, like the error of almost all humans,

was the equating of fundamental being with thinking.

At the beginning of his most famous treaties,

Descartes wrote that almost everything

can be called into doubt.

He can doubt his senses and even his thoughts.

Likewise, in the "Kalama Sutta," the Buddha

said that in order to ascertain the truth,

one must doubt all traditions, scriptures, teachings,

and all the content of one's mind and senses.

Both of these men started with great skepticism,

but the difference was that Descartes stopped

inquiring at the level of thinking

while the Buddha went deeper.

He penetrated beyond the deepest levels of the mind.

Maybe if Descartes had gone beyond his thinking mind,

he would have realized his true nature

and Western consciousness would be very different today.

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Instead, Descartes described the possibility

of an evil demon that could be keeping us

under a veil of illusion.

Descartes did not recognize this evil demon for what it was.

As in the movie "The Matrix," we could all

be hooked up to some elaborate program feeding us

an illusory dream world.

In the movie, humans lived out their lives in the matrix.

While on another level, they were merely

batteries feeding their life force

to the machines which used their energy for their own agenda.

People always want to blame something outside themselves

for the state of the world or for their own unhappiness,

whether it's a person, a particular group or country,

religion, or some kind of controlling Illuminati,

like Descartes' evil demon or the sentient machines

in "The Matrix."

Ironically, the demon Descartes envisioned was the very thing

that he defined himself by.

When you realize Samadhi, it becomes clear

that there is a controller.

There is a machine, an evil demon leaching

your life day after day.

The machine is you.

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Your self structure is made up of many little conditioned

sub-programs, or little bosses.

One little boss that craves food.

Another craves money.

Another status, position, power.

Sex, intimacy.

Another wants consciousness or attention from others.

The desires are literally endless

and can never be satisfied.

We spend a lot of our time and energy decorating our prisons.

Succumbing to pressures to improve our masks.

And feeding these little bosses making them more powerful.

Like drug addicts, the more we try

to satisfy the little bosses, the more we end up craving.

The path to freedom is not self-improvement or somehow

satisfying the self's agenda, but it's a dropping

of the self's agenda altogether.

Some people fear that awakening their true nature

will mean that they lose their individuality

and enjoyment of life.

Actually, the opposite is true.

The unique individuation of the soul

can only be expressed when the conditioned self is overcome.

Because we remain asleep in the matrix, most of us

never find out what the soul actually wants to express.

The path to Samadhi involves meditation

which is both observing the conditioned self,

that which changes, and realizing your true nature,

that which does not change.

When you come to your still point,

the source of your being, then you'll

await further instructions without any insistence on how

your outer world has to change.

Not my will, but higher will be done.

If the mind only tries to change the outer world to conform

with some idea of what you think the path should be,

it's like trying to change the image in a mirror

by manipulating the reflection.

To make the image in a mirror smile,

you obviously can't manipulate the reflection.

You have to realize the you that is the authentic source

of the reflection.

Once you realize the authentic self,

it doesn't mean that anything on the outside

necessarily needs to change.

What changes is the conscious, intelligent inner energy,

or prana, which is freed from conditioned patterns

and becomes available to be directed by the soul.

You can only become aware of the soul's purpose

when you are able to watch the conditioned self

and its endless pursuits... and let them go.

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In Greek mythology, it was said that the gods condemned

Sisyphus to repeat a meaningless task for all eternity.

His task was to endlessly push a boulder up a mountain

only to have it roll down again.

The French existentialist and Nobel Prize winning author,

Albert Camus, solved the situation of Sisyphus

as a metaphor for humanity.

He asked the question, how can we

find meaning in this absurd existence?

As humans, we are toiling endlessly.

Building for a tomorrow that never arrives.

And then, we die.

If we truly realize this truth, then we

will either go mad if we are identified

with our egoic personas.

Or we will awaken and become free.

We can never succeed in the outer struggle

because it's just a reflection of our inner world.

The cosmic joke, the absurdity of the situation

becomes clear when there's a complete and utter failure

of the egoic self to awaken through its futile pursuits.

In Zen, there is a saying, "before enlightenment,

chop wood, carry water.

After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water."

Before enlightenment, one must roll the ball up the hill.

After enlightenment, one must also roll the ball up the hill.

What has changed?

The inner resistance to what is.

The struggle has been dropped or rather, the one who struggles

has been realized to be illusory.

The individual will, or individual mind,

and divine will, or higher mind, are aligned.

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Samadhi is ultimately a dropping of all inner resistance

to all changing phenomena without exception.

The one who is able to realize inner peace,

irrespective of circumstance, has attained true Samadhi.

You drop resistance not because you

condone one thing or another, but so that your inner freedom

is not contingent on the outer.

It's important to note that when we accept reality as it is,

it doesn't necessarily mean that we

stop taking action in the world or we

become meditating passivists.

Actually, the opposite can be true.

When we're free to act without being driven

by unconscious motives, then it is

possible to act in alignment with the Tao,

with the full force of our inner energy behind us.

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Many will argue that in order to change the world

and bring about peace, we need to fight harder

against our perceived enemies.

Fighting for peace is like shouting for silence.

It just creates more of what you don't want.

These days, there's a war against everything.

A war against terror.

A war against disease.

A war against hunger.

Every war is actually a war against ourselves.

The fight is part of a collective delusion.

We say that we want peace,

but we continue to elect leaders who engage in war.

We lie to ourselves saying that we are for human rights,

but continue to buy products made in sweatshops.

We say we want clean air, but we continue to pollute.

We want science to cure us of cancer

but won't change our self-destructive habitual

behaviors that make us more likely to be sick.

We delude ourselves that we are promoting a better life.

We don't want to see our hidden parts that are

condoning suffering and death.

The belief that we can win a war against cancer, hunger, terror,

or any enemy that was created by our own thinking and behavior,

actually lets us continue to delude ourselves.

That we don't have to change the way we operate on this planet.

The inner world is where the revolution must first

take place.

Only when we can directly feel the spiral of life within,

will the outer world come into alignment with the Tao.

Until then, anything we do will add to the chaos already created

by the mind.

War and peace arise together in an endless dance.

They are one continuum.

One half cannot exist without the other.

Just as light cannot exist without dark.

And up cannot exist without down.

The world seems to want light without darkness.

Fullness without emptiness.

Happiness without sadness.

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The more the mind gets involved, the more fragmented

the world becomes.

Every solution that comes from the egoic mind

is driven by the idea that there is a problem,

and the solution becomes an even greater problem

than what it was trying to solve.

What you resist, persists.

Human ingenuity creates new antibiotics

only to find nature getting more cunning

as bacteria get stronger.

Despite our best efforts in the ongoing fight,

the prevalence of cancer is actually increasing.

The number of hungry people in the world steadily grows.

The number of terrorist attacks worldwide continues to rise.

What's wrong with our approach?

Like the sorcerer's apprentice from Goethe's poem,

we have taken hold of a great power,

but we do not have the wisdom to wield it.

The problem is that we do not understand the tool

that we are using.

We do not understand the human mind

and its proper role and purpose.

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The crisis is born of the limited conditioned way

in which we think, the way we feel, and experience life.

Our rationalism has robbed us of our ability

to recognize and experience the wisdom

of many ancient cultures.

Our egoic thinking has robbed us of the ability

to feel the depth and profound sacredness of life.

The numinosity of life.

And to realize entirely different levels

of consciousness, which are now almost lost to humanity.

In the ancient Egyptian tradition,

Nedirs were archetypal forms whose characteristics

could be embodied by those who purified

their physical and spiritual bodies in such a way

that they were fit to house higher consciousnesses.

The original Nedir, or the divine principle

of this wisdom, was known as Thoth for Tahuti.

Often depicted as a scribe with the head of a bird, or ibis,

and represented the origin of all knowledge and wisdom.

Thoth could be described as the cosmic principle

of thinking or thought.

Thoth gave us language, concepts, writing, mathematics,

and all the arts and manifestations of the mind.

Only those who had gone through special training

were allowed to access Thoth's sacred knowledge.

The Book of Thoth is not a physical book,

but is the wisdom of the Akashic or etheric realm.

Legend tells that Thoth's knowledge was deeply

hidden in a secret place within every human being,

and was protected by a golden serpent.

The archetypal or perennial myth of the serpent or dragon

guarding a treasure is one that permeates many cultures.

And has been called by names such as Kundalini Shakti, Chi,

Holy Spirit, and inner energy.

The golden serpent is the egoic construct which

is bound in the inner energies.

And until it's mastered and overcome,

the soul will never be able to attain the true wisdom.

It was said that the Book of Thoth brought nothing

but suffering to any individual who read it.

Even though they would find the secrets of the gods themselves

and all that is hidden within the stars.

What must be understood is that the book

brought suffering to any individual who read it

and the ego that tried to control it.

In the Egyptian tradition, awakened consciousness

was represented by Osiris.

Without this awakened consciousness,

any knowledge or understanding attained by the limited self

would be dangerous, disconnected from higher wisdom.

The Eye of Horus had to be open.

The esoteric meaning that we find here

is similar to the more familiar story of the fall

in the Garden of Eden.

The Book of Thoth parallels the tree of knowledge,

of good and evil, whose fruits Adam and Eve

were tempted to eat.

Humanity, of course, has already eaten the forbidden fruit.

Already opened the Book of Thoth.

And has been cast out of the garden.

The serpent is a metaphor for the primordial spiral

that extends from the microcosm to the macrocosm.

Today, the serpent is living as you.

It is the egoic mind expressed as the manifested world.

We have never before had access to so much knowledge.

We've gone deep into the material world,

even finding the so-called God Particle.

But we've never been more limited, more ignorant

of who we are and how to live.

And we do not understand the mechanism

by which we create suffering.

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Our thinking has created the world as it is now.

Whenever we label something as good or bad

or create a preference in our mind, it's due to the coming

into being of the egoic structures or self interests.

The solution is not to fight for peace or conquer nature,

but to simply recognize the truth

that the very existence of the ego structure

creates duality, a split between self and other.

Mine and yours.

Man and nature.

Inner and outer.

The ego is violence.

It requires a barrier, a boundary from the other

in order to be.

Without the ego, there is no war against anything.

There is no hubris.

There is no overreaching nature to create profit.

These external crises in our world

reflect a serious inner crisis.

We don't know who we are.

We are completely identified with our egoic identities,

consumed by fears, and are cut off from our true nature.

Races, religions, countries, political affiliations,

and any group that we belong to all reinforce

our egoic identities.

Almost every group that exists on the planet today

wants to claim its perspective as true and correct,

as we do on an individual level.

By claiming the truth as its own,

the group perpetuates its own existence in the same way

that an ego or self structure defines itself against other.

Now more than ever, different realities

and polarized belief systems are coexisting on Earth.

It is possible for different people

to experience completely different thoughts

and emotional reactions to the very same external phenomena.

In the same way, samsara and nirvana, or heaven and hell,

are two different dimensions occupying the very same world.

An event that may appear apocalyptic to one person,

could be seen as a blessing to another.

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So what is becoming obvious is that

your external circumstances don't

have to affect your inner world in any particular way.

To realize Samadhi is to become a self-propelled wheel.

To become autonomous, a universe unto one's self.

Your experience of life is not contingent

on changing phenomena.

An analogy can be made with metatron's cube.

Metatron is mentioned in various ancient Christian, Islamic,

and Jewish texts, and is archetypally related

to the Egyptian Nedir, Thoth,

as well as Hermes Trismegistus of Greece.

Metatron is intimately connected with the tetragrammaton.

The tetragrammaton is the fundamental geometric pattern,

the template or primordial emanation

of physical reality, which has been called

the word of God or the logos.

Here, we see a two-dimensional representation of the figure,

but if you look a certain way, you see a 3-D cube.

When you see the cube, nothing has changed in the figure,

but your mind has added a new dimension to your seeing.

Dimensionality, or one's perspective,

is simply a matter of becoming habituated to a new way

of perceiving the world.

Upon realizing Samadhi, we become free of perspective.

We're free to create new perspectives because there's

no self invested in or attached to a particular viewpoint.

The greatest minds in human history

have often pointed to levels of thought

beyond the limited self structure.

Einstein said the true measure of a human being

is determined primarily by the measure and sense in which he

has attained liberation from the self.

So it's not that thinking and existence of the self is bad.

Thinking is a wonderful tool when the mind is

in service to the heart.

In Vedanta, it is said that the mind makes a good servant,

but a poor master.

The ego perpetually filters reality

through language and labels,

and is constantly judging,

preferring one thing over another.

When the mind and senses are your master,

they will create endless suffering, endless craving

and aversion, locking us into the matrix of thinking.

If you want to realize Samadhi,

do not judge your thoughts as good or bad,

but find out who you are prior to thought,

prior to the senses.

When all labels are dropped,

then it is possible to see things as they are.

The moment a child is told what a bird is,

if they believe what they're told,

then they never see a bird again.

They only see their thoughts.

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Most people think that they are free, conscious, and awake,

but if you believe you are already awake, then why would

you do the difficult work to attain what

you believe you already have?

Before it becomes possible to awaken,

it is necessary to accept that you are asleep

living in the matrix.

Examine your life honestly without lying to yourself.

Are you able to stop your robotic, repetitive

life patterns if you want to?

Can you stop seeking pleasure and avoiding pain?

Are you addicted to certain foods, activities, or pastimes?

Are you constantly judging, blaming,

criticizing yourself and others?

Does your mind incessantly seek out stimulus?

Or are you completely fulfilled just being in silence?

Do you react to how people think about you?

Are you seeking approval and positive reinforcement?

Do you somehow sabotage situations in your life?

Most people will experience their lives the same way

today as they will tomorrow and a year from now

and 10 years from now.

When you begin to observe your robot-like nature,

you become more awake.

You begin to recognize the depths of the problem.

You are completely and utterly a sleep, lost in a dream.

Like the inhabitants of Plato's cave, most who hear this truth

will not be willing or capable of changing their lives

because they are attached to their familiar patterns.

We go to great lengths justifying our patterns.

Burying our heads in the sand rather than facing the truth.

We want our saviors, but we are not

willing to get up on the cross ourselves.

What are you willing to pay to be free?

Realize that if you change your inner world,

you must be prepared to change the outer life.

Your old structure and your old identity

must become the dead soil out of which new growth comes.

The first step to awakening is to realize

that we are identified with the matrix of the human mind,

or the mask.

Something within us must hear this truth

and be roused from its slumber.

There is a part of you, something timeless,

that has always known the truth.

The matrix of the mind distracts us, entertains us,

keeps us endlessly doing, consuming,

grasping in a cycle of craving and aversion

with constantly changing forms.

Keeping us from the flowering of our consciousness,

our evolutionary birthright which is Samadhi.

Pathological thinking is what passes for normal life.

Your divine essence has become enslaved,

identified with the limited self structure.

The great wisdom, the truth of who you are,

is buried deep within your being.

J. Krishnamurti said it is no measure of one's health

to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

Identification with the egoic mind is the sickness

and Samadhi is the cure.

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