Who Is the Seeker? A Reflection On Awareness

The seeker cannot wake up.

You've heard that over and over again.

What is the seeker?

Well,

I would say that for 24 years,

This was a really,

Really just determined seeker.

Not for all the 24,

Sometimes in,

Sometimes off.

This body cannot wake up,

So quit expecting it.

What if the body suddenly gets an electric pulse through it?

Oh,

I've heard about that.

I've heard that might be a sign of awakening.

It might be something that accompanies awakening,

But it has nothing to do with awakening.

The awakening is not about the body.

I mean,

The very first thing they taught you when you started non-duality was you are not the body.

And you went,

Yeah,

I know that.

Boy,

This body's really glad to know that.

There's no one here that's permanently awake.

See,

This is shocking.

And that's the truth.

There's no one here that's permanently awake.

And many of you think,

Well,

Many of you think that Fred Wayton Davis is not awake at all,

I'm sure.

But there's many of you out there who believe that there's something over here that is like a guy or it's connected to this guy and it's permanently awake.

And I'm gonna tell you,

That's not true.

There's nothing permanent.

There's nothing here to be permanently awake.

I'm awake to this arising this moment,

Or I'm not at all.

So since this body is not trying to wake up,

Let's just do some math.

Notice that there is speaking and hearing going on.

There's hand movements over here.

Oh,

It's such an animating character.

You have to love it,

Or not.

But this is not gonna wake up.

So the body's not gonna wake up.

The body's not gonna,

So does the body needs to have a specific thing happen to it before I can wake up.

Is that true?

No.

We're not talking about the body.

Well,

Right now,

If you subtract the body that's over there,

Just subtract it,

Just take the body out of the picture.

I'm talking to something that can take the body out of the picture.

That's the truth.

You can actually see that there's no body there.

Until you can see that,

Just release any attachments to the body.

Just get the body out of there.

Or if you don't believe you can,

Then believe I can.

I'm gonna subtract this body from our equation that we're working on here.

Now,

When you subtract this body,

What's left?

There's no soul.

I know nothing about souls.

I know nothing about afterlife.

I know nothing about any of that stuff.

I'm not saying that there can't be dreams that may be along that line or something.

I just don't know.

But I know it has nothing to do with non-dual reality.

It has nothing to do with what we're doing here,

Which I guess is non-dual.

It has to be non-dual,

But I don't know what even that quite means.

Just doing something.

And the we're that's doing it is doing it with awakeness.

When you subtract the body,

What do you find?

Well,

There is,

In the absence of the body,

Then there's just this.

In the absence of the body,

There's just consciousness.

Do you really need that body?

This is consciousness talking to consciousness.

This is awareness talking to awareness.

I'm gonna use them as the same thing for the moment.

Awareness,

The same awareness has been listening to this.

I just want you to stop and check.

And tell me,

Do you need that body?

If you will do that,

Honestly,

You're gonna have to do what people do with me in session all the time,

Which is tell me no.

That consciousness doesn't need that body.

It may need that body if it wants to express itself objectively.

But let me ask you this.

The consciousness that I'm speaking with right now,

Do you really need to express yourself objectively?

That's not the case here.

And I've seen hundreds of people for whom it was not the case once they checked.

So if you're checking and you're coming up with some other answer,

You're wrong.

You're off base.

I don't mean you're wrong three strikes you're out.

I mean,

You're wrong and change your tactics.

Because we never change our tactics.

We keep doing the same old thing,

The same old way and expecting something new to happen.

And it doesn't.

We keep,

We're reading books,

We're meditating,

Hell,

We're chanting,

We're prostrating,

We're doing all this stuff,

Singing,

Dancing,

Begging,

Rolling,

Dancing.

Because at the end of that,

There's nothing.

You can't wake up later.

You can't wake up right this minute.

Because what I'm talking to is myself.

You don't have to wake up.

You just have to notice that there's a wakeness here right now.

The ordinary,

Every day,

Good God,

I'm hungry,

I'm thirsty,

I've got to go somewhere for that very thing.

Dumb old,

Regular old consciousness.

When we're talking about higher levels of consciousness,

I'm gonna say that what we're really talking about is higher levels of clarity.

Awakening is just like this,

Like a light switch.

It's off,

It's on.

There's no path to get there.

But there's plenty to be done once the light is on.

That's what this teaching really specializes in.

Okay.

You are a wakeness.

There's nothing here to wake up.

There is nothing here that is not awake.

You are a wakeness.

And you are more like a verb than you are a noun.

Awakeness doesn't have to wake up.

There is no capacity for sleep.

And when I talk about clearing up,

It ain't clearing up awakeness.

I mean,

Awakeness is always here,

Always there.

Always clear,

Doesn't need Fred Davis to help it out.

So clearing is what?

It's just clearing out patterns that are held by the unit.

I don't quite understand all of it.

I don't understand a lot of stuff,

But I do know what works.

This works.

This works,

This teaching works.

I think I'll go.

Thanks a bunch for signing in,

Coming to see what I had to say.

Thank you.

I love you.

Bye-bye.