Merging into Oneness Talk + Meditation

With one simple exercise, we can break free of our limitations & move into the field of consciousness, which is the same stream of energy that moves everything.

Tony Samara, world-renowned spiritual teacher & author of 16 books, has been sharing deep spiritual work & energy transmission for the evolution of consciousness for over 25 years. Combining meditation, detoxing the body, a plant-based diet & a simple lifestyle, he is best known for how his work touches more deeply than words.

Transcript

You you you you you hello I hope you can hear me and that sun is still shining where you are and that I trust that everything is beautiful at least it is here and so from here and there is a beautiful transmission that will happen today and I'd like to highlight and the topic of the set saying which is something and quite complex to put into words but I will utilize Kabir's mystical poetry to bring across the meaning of this set saying and what I like is not just the words but actually the meaning behind the words and basically Kabir is speaking about the truth in this extract of the poem and the way to the truth because of course that is what spiritual work is about it's coming back home to the truth that is beyond truth meaning and truth that is a dogma or truth that someone else tells you this is your way or this is how it needs to be or this is what you need to think which is how those people live their life whether you're aware of this or not the truth meaning the truth that is from that part of yourself I call the heart you know the truth that is beyond belief systems beyond dogmas beyond anything that constitutes a limitation that then fixes your consciousness in one space the truth is expensive and Kabir says the truth is one of course you know that expansion is not to a specific place or an idea that expansion is into all aspects that constitute the flow of life so the truth is one it cannot be many cannot have multitude aspects to itself it cannot divide itself into many truths and in essence it cannot be many you may start at any path you want but eventually it has to merge into the one stream of truth which leads to the absolute and this you know is what makes spiritual work so interesting that in the end even though we may think everything and is individual or our mind likes to think that everything is individual has an aspect of character to it the flow the stream of life the stream of energy that upholds the structure of truth in everything it's in the universe in the movement of galaxies and the movement of planets that constitute a bigger space than that of one's mind or one's individual understanding of space it is in everything that sense of oneness when you touch upon that and through your individual consciousness when your individual consciousness breaks free of the little boxes of belief systems and is able to not just go to those spaces because it's impossible to go to those spaces from an individual perspective but to carry the same stream of energy that brings all those multitudes of multitudes of experience and of life and of the beautiful world that we share into a sense of oneness so it doesn't matter what you do of course and Kabir doesn't believe that you can just do anything to reach that truth he's saying doesn't matter where you start because in the end you have to start somewhere and for me that starting point is always recognizing who you are in this moment it is not searching for an ideal which often is how people choose to practice spirituality from lofty ideals and placing themselves in a space where you are struggling to reach the perfect but acknowledging from your from the depth of your experience that somehow your body your mind your emotions your energy your experience of this life is imperfect and you hope or you wish or you work hard towards creating perfection in your experience in your spiritual practice this is not for me the best way the best way is to come back to the space of nurturing yourself wherever you are that means acknowledging for example if you have a negative picture about your body about you know the physical aspect which of course some people have and they're aware of it and some people have but they're not aware of it and hence why the Western body is so it's so it treated in such a way where nurture and compassion towards that aspect is so missing from the experience of the honoring that happens or should be happening of the body you know we create ideas that we're this or we are that from that limited perspective of judgment or that limited perspective of I'm not perfect or I could be better or I'm this aspect that is so far removed from the divine flow that is your body because actually the divine lives in your body not just in your mind or your emotions lives in your body and the experience of your body hence why in many mystical traditions the body was used as an expression of spiritual practice the way you walked the way you moved the way you breathe into your body was an extension of spiritual practice the way you honored the body was an extension of spiritual practice this means that we were not looking at the body from a perspective of dualism we were allowing that stream of truth to move into our body experience this creates a beautiful release for the body so we don't hold onto with our physical structure the limitations that the ego then sees is so important we don't hold on to that with our body many are not even aware of the tensions and the stresses and the tension that is carried in the muscles and the ligaments of the body simply because of belief systems that remove us from our truth and hence why the temples people dance and move their body in the divine way that is rightfully an expression of that truth and this is where you need to start when you are walking today on the earth when you're walking towards your office towards the kitchen towards wherever you're going take a deep breath deep breath and bring that breath down to your feet and ask are you in touch with the physical is your body expressing the divine and physical format you know this is then what allows you to ground your lofty ideas about the divine into this present moment when you come back to your body and your breath in this moment then you're aware of whatever it is that is creating pain and suffering that awareness in itself is not enough when you are grounded in your body you need to choose an activity which allows the body to be free you have a choice this is why you are human we have a choice to live your truth that is what Kabir is saying he's saying that you can start anywhere you like but basically the only way back home is to merge with the absolute your body is part of the absolute so when you honor your body by letting go of the ego mind ideas that are caught up in the physical structure by saying I'm divine my steps that I'm taking towards the absolute are divine then you change the whole format of how you interact with your body look at little children look how relaxed look at how spontaneous they are and understand that that is the natural flow of the body and within that experience there is wisdom there is a spontaneous merging that happens that goes beyond mind goes beyond effort goes beyond I need to be compassionate to my body and treat my body in a better way or feed it healthy food or look after it in this way or relax a little bit because I've been working so hard or get a massage because my shoulders are painful because of whatever reason beyond all that that spontaneous interaction with the divine through the physical form allows for you to understand the meaning behind merging with the absolute from the body the body carries the potential of ecstasy the body carries the potential to receive that experience of oneness also not just your mind or your feelings the body the body is the temple that then allows for the mind to follow through into this moment so when you are grounded as you walk towards wherever you're going you're grounded and connected just to some aspect of the earth but the divine flow that is in this physical structure then that is in itself a revolution from the old belief systems the belief systems that our culture has inherited from whatever religious tradition or whatever belief system that was wrongly passed into our culture for thousands of years where the body is seen as a lower aspect of that expression of the divine it is simply not true the body beyond the material but the body that is connected to the body of life the breath the movement of energy the space of Kundalini the space of expansion needs to be in the body that doesn't mean that you forget everything and you just focus on the physical sensations of the body that is an absolute wrong perception of the body in the end if you have that belief system what you're doing is also living the separate living from a separate perception of what the body is by falling into the game of the mind where the ego mind believes that desires and sensations are your body your body is much more when you open up to the ecstasy of the body you realize that that ecstasy is beyond desire beyond little perspectives of physical and it embraces the body that is beyond your body that is the divine within all physical structures that oneness then is felt in your physical body it is not a desire it is a completion or a movement towards the beauty of what it means to manifest your experience in the physical sense when you do this you understand how it is to merge into the beautiful absolute at least on one level the level that we're here to experience this is why you have a body this is why you are incarnated into this physical structure to honor it not to ignore it or to see it as sinful or to burden it with your mind negativities or your emotional problems that you have experienced in your past I was reading that in a scientific journal that this very very famous doctor who now writes a lot in scientific journals was explaining that unlike our old belief system heart problems heart attacks which by the way are in the West the main cause of death early death or sickness and even before cancer and you know was explaining that the heart is a reflection a total reflection of your emotional life of course we know this year this is nothing new but for a doctor to say that and to say that all heart problems all heart disease all heart attacks that happen in essence are unresolved emotional issues that you may have experienced in your past that but and then he went on to explain scientifically you know what almost physical changes happens when you hold and suppress emotions in your body even if you did this 20 years ago you know like people say are relaxed now so that you don't give yourself a hard time relax your body and you you think you're okay but even if 20 years ago you gave yourself an emotional trauma and emotional physical trauma that your body of course reacted towards in that contractive very difficult way the muscles of the heart hold on to that memory you understand the muscles hold on to that structure and sometimes only much later begin to release that if you're not doing this consciously by allowing the divine aspect to make the flow happen through the channels that are ecstasy then very often that release comes as physical problems physical problems where there's high cholesterol or there is tension or palpitations or whatever it is that then are the beginning of heart problems the heart is the physical aspect of the heart in your heart is as divine as the heart that is the heart of everything and you need to nurture that you need to take a deep breath and relax that space relax the tension that you may have because of situations that happen in the past don't hold on to them don't but even in the unconscious mind you don't have those ideas which then totally suppress that flow of energy in the physical realm so that after a while the heart the physical heart becomes so solidified in its negative belief systems that it has to tell you in a certain way that you really are doing the wrong thing for it to just flow and be alive and celebrate aliveness you know people kill themselves rather than open their hearts to the truth it is your choice to open your heart to truth is your choice it's very easy let go of whatever allows your body to be seen in a negative way when you do this not only do you feel bad but we even better deep inside you begin to understand compassion you begin to understand what it's like to be sensitive you begin to remove the insensitivity that people have that have now that we have now created in such a way that insensitivity that it has become a cultural norm we are not only unable to open ourselves to love we close ourselves to the compassion of many many things this is why the world is suffering in the end so many closed hearts allow for the world to be as it is place where there is coldness a place where there is so much energy being put into whatever pain and suffering that each individual is going through that we don't have the foresight or the ability to move beyond our own little world and into the world that is needing that flow of divinity needing that flow of heartfelt compassion when we are able to do this towards all beings not just human beings but all aspects of life beautiful sun as it shines today we're able to receive that in our body and open up relax the muscles breathe in the beautiful air expand into the beautiful space that is there present for us to enjoy when we are able to do this when we are able to be sensitive to all beings then we understand that not only are we practicing spirituality in a real wonderful way but we have started from the profound space of truth I hope that this is something that you put into practice not only today but every day every day every day that you see yourself contracting the body muscles contracting the mind throwing all sorts of pictures that contract not only the physical muscles but the heart and the blood and the breath and the way that you joyously dance in the world that you take a deep breath and say I have a choice I will not do this any longer I will celebrate life I will celebrate the divine aspect of myself that is life itself when you do this we all together create a beautiful transformation your truth sets the truth in everything around you free you set the past free you set the future free and in this moment you live your freedom thank you you you you you you you you

Reviews

Thank you Tony. I love it! But just want to ask, how do I, or what does it mean to set the future free? I don't understand the concept of setting something free that does not exist. Can you enlighten me? Peace. M. X

Nice talk and I loved the OM in the end and more so the 11 seconds of silence was great !

You have no idea how much I used to fight silence !!!! Before it used to annoy me !

I still am a very hyperactive person ... ! And I strive to be alive for life I do not just live .... thanks

Many thanks Tony this l found l understood and will take on board all that you said.Sue