What Is Samadhi, Enlightenment?

Have you ever wondered why samadhi or enlightenment seems elusive? in this short talk, John elucidates the stunning reality of what samadhi and enlightenment truly are. Nothing stands in the way of knowing who you truly are.

Transcript

When you get into yoga,

You get told all about samadhi and enlightenment.

And like it's some kind of a jackpot,

You know,

Like in the casino when you play on the one arm bandit and you pull the arm and you like hit the jackpot,

You get all the cherries,

And all the shakti comes out,

You know,

The money.

That's what you think you're going to get in yoga,

But and Kundalini,

Big Kundalini awakening.

I've been doing yoga for 51 years,

Something like that.

And no jackpot.

The jackpot has already happened just by being born into creation in this body,

You hit the jackpot.

And when you have what happens is you realize that when you get to be an adult,

Somebody points out what has been born in creation and what it means.

So everything in creation is in samadhi.

Everything is always in permanent meditation.

There's nothing but samadhi,

Nothing but permanent meditation.

Anything that isn't in samadhi is this little human being because of one tiny little thought called I.

Reviews

This is the first talk that I’ve listened to of John’s and I really liked it. I’m going to search for more now. This talk was grounded in lived experience which was conveyed easily through his voice. So grateful that I came across this talk. Thank you!