In This Video:
Our culture mistakes receptive, silent Yin for weakness, when it's actually the direct line to awakening. Vulnerability, often experienced by women through childbirth or deep feeling, isn't a flaw; it's a mechanism that releases the pain body and deepens you into the Self. When you inquire with sincerity, the tide turns. You stop hunting for the Truth, because the Truth starts hunting you. This is not a philosophy; it is a homecoming from the dream of separation.
- Where in your life do you treat silence and receptivity as weakness instead of strength?
- Have you ever felt the tide turn, where the effort of seeking gives way to a sense of being sought by the Self?
- What 'bus stops' does your mind offer—comforting beliefs or spiritual concepts—that stop you from going all the way back to the source?
TRANSCRIPT
[00:00] Silence and Yin are not respected here yet. They're seen as weakness. [00:27] It's about not believing everybody. It takes courage to rebel from inherited patterns and ask why. [00:36] Women have an advantage here. Childbirth, pregnancy—that whole thing heads you more towards Yin, which is the direction of awakening. A vulnerability comes, a lot of the pain body releases, and there's a deepening. [01:13] This self-work is more suited for women; it is their natural direction. And they seem to be good at it. [03:00] If you do this with enough sincerity, at some point the tide turns and it starts hunting you. It becomes an automatic dynamic. [04:32] It's a homecoming. Awareness has left the Truth and gone into a dream of separation, and now it's coming back home. [04:57] The practice is to sit on the side of the river and watch the stream of separation go by. Be still, slow down, and do not get caught in the show. [07:47] Silence isn't respected here. The culture is noise, noise, more noise. [10:04] Just keep going back. Keep going back until there's nothing but yourself. Don't stop at any of the bus stops the mind offers you. [10:13] You realise you are not of this world; this world is of you. When the 'going back' exhausts itself, you turn around and merge. [14:04] Beyond the three states of waking, dreaming, and deep sleep, the deepest is called Turita, the fourth. It's absolute nothingness. It's no state. [17:21] Turita is no state. This is what 'die before you die' points to. Freedom is the ultimate win. [20:07] Go all the way out, then turn around into merging. No bus stops. Enjoy. That's what we are.
GLOSSARY
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Yin
The receptive, silent, and vulnerable quality that is the natural direction of awakening. It is a strength, not a weakness, that allows for the deep surrender required for Direct Realisation. -
The Hunt
The turning point in sincere self-inquiry where the seeker stops 'hunting' for Truth and the Self begins to 'hunt' them, pulling them inward automatically. -
Turita
A Sanskrit term for 'the fourth state,' which is actually no-state. It is the absolute nothingness of the Substratum, prior to the mind's creations of waking, dreaming, or deep sleep. -
Homecoming
The direct experience of returning to the Self. It is the end of the 'dream of separation,' where awareness recognises it was never apart from its source. -
Die Before You Die
A pointer urging the dissolution of the egoic 'I' belief before physical death. It signifies the ultimate freedom found in realising you are not the body or the mind. -
No Bus Stops
An instruction to avoid settling for intermediate spiritual states, pleasant feelings, or conceptual understandings on the path to full realisation. It means to 'go all the way'.
Q&A
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What is the 'female advantage' in spirituality?
The 'female advantage' refers to how experiences like childbirth and a natural disposition towards vulnerability can align one with Yin—a receptive, surrendering quality. This is the direct vector of awakening, as it helps release the accumulated 'pain body' and fosters the deep surrender needed for self-realisation. -
What does it mean when the Self 'hunts' you?
This describes a turning point in sincere self-inquiry. After a period of dedicated seeking (hunting for truth), the dynamic flips. The Self, or the substratum of being, begins to pull your awareness inward automatically. The personal effort of seeking is replaced by a powerful, impersonal pull towards homecoming. -
What is Turita in non-duality?
Turita, or 'the fourth state,' is a term pointing to what is beyond the three conventional states of waking, dreaming, and deep sleep. It is not another state but the recognition of the ever-present, silent substratum in which all states appear and disappear. It is the absolute, 'no-state' of pure being. -
Why is silence considered a strength in spiritual practice?
In a culture that values noise and constant activity (Yang), silence (Yin) is a form of rebellion and a source of great strength. It allows you to step out of the 'stream of separation' and rest as the witness, rather than being carried away by the mind's chatter. It is the ground of being itself. -
What does 'no bus stops' mean on the spiritual path?
This is an instruction to not settle for intermediate spiritual experiences, conceptual knowledge, or pleasant states. The mind will offer many comfortable places to stop, but full realisation requires going all the way back to the source, without settling for anything less than total dissolution of the 'I' belief.
“There’s nothing to add. What you are is prior to beliefs, thoughts and labels.
Here we explore and unveil the ultimate mystery of non-dual being.
Reality.”
