Opening Greetings and Community Check In

Adam Wes: Everybody, namaste.

Well, let us wait for a few more people to join us.

Thank you.

Oh.

Namaste, everybody.

Aye.

Well, the theme of this month is gratitude. That is our principle of the month, and I wanted to share that with everyone.

I am doing my best to be grateful, despite the fact that there are so few of us here. I am not sure where everybody is, but that is alright. We will have a wonderful time.

Hi, Mom.

Kira, how was your trip?

Kira: It was wonderful. I got to teach in Puerto Rico to people I've never met before, and it was very…

Beautiful. Wonderful.

And how is your practice going, Praveen?

Praveen froze, I think.

Colleen: Did you say, Colleen or Praveen?

Praveen.

Colleen: That's what I thought.

Praveen S: Good, Adam. Good.

Yeah? Oh. Good. Good is… good is not enough. I want to hear more. How is your practice going? Are you meditating every day?

Praveen S: Struggling to, but looking forward very much.

Okay. Well, the routine, the practice, starts in the now. And Ariella! Ariella is back! Wonderful.

So, start today. Part of what we are doing here as Sangha is meditating every day. Fifteen minutes a day is quite minimal.

And I am not picking on you, Praveen; I am just saying this for everyone. This is a challenge for all of us, but it is very important.

Why do we meditate every day? If we do not meditate daily, we get lost in the currents of the past. We walk around with a residue of the past. Why do we do anything, right? You might say, "Well, I do not feel I am so busy." But if you are so busy… hmm.

What matters in our life is that we meet life with clarity, with an accuracy about our purpose, about what we are here to do. Meditation provides us with that. It is something you have to do consistently to realize what you are missing out on.

It is like someone who never exercises, right? They might say, "I am too busy to exercise, I am too lazy to exercise." But one of the things that consistent meditation does is it really changes who we are in very fundamental ways. It is a very practical investment of time.

And fifteen minutes is minuscule. It is like saying, "I do not have five minutes to brush my teeth every day." Well, that is your call, but if you do not brush your teeth every day, you are going to face issues. Meditation is a universal practice. It is relevant to every human being.

We gain an accumulation of the past, and it obscures the present.

We all have this reservoir of absolute ecstasy and bliss within us that remains largely untapped without meditation. I mean, not just largely— even when you have been meditating for twenty years, you realize, wow, I could go that much further into knowledge, wisdom, love, and power.

So… Hi, hi, Naina. Not a mistake. Welcome. Where are you joining from?

Naina B: I'm joining you from India.

Oh!

Naina B: Rajasthan, India.

Well, welcome, welcome. Praveen is in India as well.

So… Done.

Alright, let me just double-check and see if anybody else is on their way, and then we will get started. David and Andrea might join us in a moment.

Monthly Themes and Practice Commitments

While we wait for just one more moment, I wanted to share something that is on the agenda for today. Every month we have a Book of the Month, a principle of the month, and a routine element of the month.

As a Sangha, as a community, when we read the same thing, we build momentum in the wisdom that the book provides. We attune our minds to the mentalities of enlightenment within this book. So it is not just a random book. The books that are suggested are always related to someone who is in the state.

By reading them, you entrain your own energy to their energy. I have chosen a book that I think will be very, very enjoyable to everyone this week. It is called Think on These Things by Krishnamurti.

It is a collection of his talks given to schoolchildren. He literally is talking to, for example, six-year-olds, but adults get so much out of it. Everyone gets something out of it. It is a very profound way that he relates to the human condition and speaks to six-year-olds.

It is not just six-year-olds—it is teachers and everyone—but let me show you.

Practice room. So if you go to the practice room, practice hall, here it is: Krishnamurti, Think on These Things. You can click here and get the text.

This is one of my favorite books of his.

Another thing: we have a meditation routine, and a principle of the month. A principle is the way you relate to life, a rule that you live by, for example. For this month, it is gratitude, and that was the talk that we did last week.

So, gratitude—if you were not here last week, I recommend listening to the audio. Gratitude is the principle of the month, so you can really have some fun with this. Last time, it was mindfulness. Now, go all out with gratitude.

If you had seen me over the last ten years—Kira has seen me—she would ask, "Adam, why are you bowing?" It is because I am crossing the street, and I am so grateful to be on this side, and then I am going to be on that side. That is literally the extent of gratitude I go to. It is a constant blessing, blessing, blessing—grateful, grateful. And it changes everything. Kira, do you want to say something about that?

Kira: I think I have had to wait at least an hour or more, cumulatively, when Adam has gone to express gratitude after a restaurant or visiting a grocery store. I just wait for him to finish being grateful.

Kira: Yes, I have said something. It is real.

In gratitude, we become aware and expand our heart to become the blessing. We become aware of our blessings, and when we live with that, the heart chakra—anahata—actually opens and transforms. We get this beautiful feeling of blissfulness.

Adam Wes: The things we are grateful for are recognized and appreciated, and this is a very core principle in Bhakti. In fact, bhakti yoga—the yoga of love, the spiritual path of love—places gratitude as one of its key principles. While mindfulness is somewhat more intrinsic to Zen, it is also relevant to every spiritual practice.

Okay, and then the routine element of the month—let me find it...

A formal mindfulness activity. Colleen, you are already doing that! Every time you go to yoga, and you practice yoga six days a week as you do, you are engaging in a formal mindfulness activity. Now, you do not have to do it as much as Colleen—she practices for an hour. You can simply do 15 minutes a day.

For me, that would look like doing mathematics for 15 minutes a day, although I do much more than that. The idea is to do something in which you can develop mastery.

I am giving everyone here permission to indulge in what you love to do, in such a way that you just keep getting better and better. So, if the guitar has been sitting there for three years, gathering dust, and you have been meaning to play it—this is the month for you to pick up the guitar, practice your scales, and develop mastery.

It should be something that feels very playful for you. Do it purely for the joy of doing it—do not focus on the results. And secondly, it should be something where you can develop a degree of refinement. So, do not just play the same song every time. Learn, and try to become a connoisseur of that art, whatever it may be.

So those are the three things: the book of the month, the principle of the month, and the formal mindfulness activity. The whole idea is that every month you add something to your routine, until you have a three- or four-hour routine that makes you a very powerful energy field.

Now, if you have not been doing 15 minutes a day of meditation, that is the very first one. So you should do 15 minutes a day of meditation in addition to this.

Any questions? Oh, and by the way, I recommend you just spend time here at the Sangha hall. You can look at the Sanskrit words we have, listen to the guided meditations, contemplate the quote of the day, or listen to the playlist.

Alright, so let me... stop sharing. Any questions? Is anyone inspired? Did I inspire you, Naina? You had such a nice smile.

Naina B: Thank you, and you have definitely inspired me.

Adam Wes: I have been picking up my painting brush, which I had not done in many years.

Naina B: So, you have given me a turbo boost to go fully into it.

Adam Wes: Lovely, wonderful. Yes, I remember when my teacher, about ten years ago, said, "You can do math every day." I said, "Really? That feels... wonderful, it is fun." I am so glad I can do math every day, because the whole time I had been resisting it. You know, what is math? It is pure contemplation. It does not seem very practical, right? Although it is very practical.

It structures the mind. So I do math, and then I go and meet the world, and I am very productive because I have a very crystal-like mind. So, Naina, if you go and paint for 15 minutes, then go into the world, your mind is structured with all the geometry in the painting, or the colors, or maybe you are doing it with a lot of feeling, so you get in touch with your heart and flow state. Then everything is more beautiful. Your whole life becomes twice as productive for those 15 minutes, right?

Wonderful, wonderful. And that is a perfect example of a Dharmic practice right there—painting. I love it.

So, hi Andrea!

Andrea P: Hi. Sorry I was late. I was thinking it was an hour later. Did we change the...

Adam Wes: Yes, that is why I messaged you, because the time zone changed. I thought you might have missed it.

Andrea P: Okay, yes, I have an idea how... Any idea? David also apologizes, he had to take his son to the doctor.

Adam Wes: Okay, okay.

Andrea P: Yes. So he asked me to apologize.

Adam Wes: I am glad to hear from David, wonderful. So, Andrea is in Mexico, for everyone who may not realize. We literally have a global sangha here. It is very futuristic, right?

We have no national borders; we are one big family, as Ariella always says, and we are practicing to become futuristic human beings—more conscious, more beautiful, integrated in intellect, in heart, and in the capacity to make contact with light and mystical states of awareness. It is very futuristic, even though it is also very ancient.

But to bring it into the mainstream, to do it as people living and working in the world, that is what makes it futuristic.

Kindness as a Spiritual Principle

Okay… So, the sermon I want to give today is on kindness. Kindness is actually another one of the most important bhakti principles. Gratitude and kindness together help build a collection of principles that are heart-centered and love-centered.

I have quite a bit I would like to share about kindness, and it is not that simple, actually. So I recommend everyone take some time to contemplate what is shared here. There will be a transcript available, and you can dive into kindness. What does kindness mean this week? How can you practice it? How can you grow in kindness?

I am sure many of us are already extremely kind—otherwise, we probably would not be here—but there is a lot of nuance to it, and it is actually quite an esoteric topic. So let us go through it.

So, what is kindness? Maybe just take a moment. What do you think kindness is, for yourself?

In kindness, we experience an enormous goodwill for another. We care about their well-being. There is kindness, and there are acts of kindness. We may take action on that feeling and do something for someone.

A key mechanism at play in kindness is empathy. We make others happy, and we become happy. There is a joy in kindness. It is not just giving something away—it is creating an abundance of energy, of love.

When you make another happy and you experience happiness yourself, there is an empathic recurrence that also changes you energetically. Your heart expands. You stop living in the shell of separateness, of that selfhood.

To live a life constantly attending to yourself—me first, me first, everyone else second—is actually a morbid state. We do not generate much joy from that.

Giving, on the other hand, is a very joyful experience, and it changes us inwardly. You may go and be kind and heal something that you have been carrying for a decade. You may be kind and feel as though you are walking on air, enjoying a beautiful feeling for days or weeks afterward—or even just for a minute, until you are unkind again.

Because the karma of kindness often has instantaneous repercussions. You might be mean for a second and then realize, “Oh, I feel selfish.” And that feeling is not very enjoyable.

But how does one really get into kindness? Because it is one thing to say, “Be kind.” You can always engage in kind acts, do kind things, but you may not feel, deep in your heart, moved by it. You may go and feed the homeless and think, “Oh, wow,” but still feel egotistical, or as if you do not care, or you are just going through the motions.

So there is a deeper transformation of consciousness involved. Can you see that? It is not just, “Did you do it?” It is, “How did you feel?” Did you genuinely feel compassion? Did you genuinely feel goodwill? Did you see the other’s spirit?

And merge with them through knowledge—the knowledge of knowing the other by becoming the other. So how does that happen?

Well, another way to define kindness is to say that I am the totality. I am the plant, I am the neighbor, I am the car, I am the rock. And I am acting not on behalf of myself, but on behalf of the totality.

It is a very different orientation. Most people say, “What am I going to do?” But in an enlightened state of consciousness, we do the righteous thing, the right thing, the Dharmic thing. It is not a matter of personal agenda, but a matter of clear seeing—what is in service to the whole.

It is a very honorable orientation. To act on behalf of the whole, as the whole, the totality, as the totality—that is very much a part of kindness.

In kindness, we have to feel an abundance within. Through meditation—here is a reason to meditate—I think everyone values kindness. Well, the more you feel that you need nothing from another, that you are so full on your own ecstasy, on your own blissfulness, on the light within, the more you realize, “I am just divine. I am godliness. And I am so full. How could I exploit another?”

I do not want anything from another. I am full. I want for another. I want them to find the absolute riches of spirituality and meditation and love within themselves. So when we all become a source of the divine, it is easier to be kind.

We no longer look upon another with exploitive intent, because we are not trying to fill an emptiness. Once we rise beyond that—oh, another thing—so we have that fullness within. Another part of our fullness is to live in integrity.

So our actions are not about what we get, but they are principled. I do things because that is the way I respond to the circumstances. Circumstances may come.

I will always act with the constant of my integrity. I do what is right. It may benefit me, it may not benefit me, but it will always benefit my integrity. I get to live in the constant—

Of integrity, and there is peace in that. And there is a dignity in that.

So, when we live in integrity and we live in our blissfulness, our being, those two constants—being is a constant, a constant of eternity. The background. Integrity is a constant, kind of like calculus. It is the constant of change.

So if you know calculus, one of the things we learn about is rates of change. Imagine the rate of change is defined. How does destiny unfold in that consistency? That is defined not by what things are, but how they transform, how they transmute. That is integrity.

Just through the mathematical lens there. Not just a mathematical lens, but it is a very accurate description, right? There is a set of rules by which we meet the myriad of circumstances. So it is the finite meeting the infinite. See that?

So meditation helps us to connect with that blissfulness. And integrity—which is something you can contemplate, like, what is your integrity—helps you. And then, actions become spontaneous. The heart says, this is the right thing to do. This is how we can follow that righteous action.

Listen to your heart. What does the heart say to do? And if you get really good at it—if you meditate on your heart enough, another reason to meditate every day—you can feel your heart, and your heart will say, no, do not do that.

And it may be something quite mundane, like red bell peppers versus green bell peppers. The heart knows which one on which day. Because there is an intuition in the heart. The heart is a knower beyond the fragmented conditioning of the mind, of the intellect.

So, in kindness, we act with a spontaneity that is really heart-directed. And it acts—the heart always says who is involved and what can I do for the totality. That is the way the heart thinks. The heart knows. It does not say, me first, because—

I do not know if this is that obvious to people, actually, but maybe it is, right? The heart obviously does what feels right, and what feels right is always concerned with everybody’s well-being. Right?

So… I am going to look at my outline here. Another thing about kindness is we get into that state where we are giving everything away. Giving actually seems, perhaps, like—how can you gain happiness? By giving the things, right?

But when we give, especially the things that we are attached to—the things inside of us—give away your pride. Do not be the best. Let somebody else be the best, right? Do not be self-important. Give away your jacket to the homeless person. It is so sweet. It is a really beautiful thing to give things away. Something will come—it will come back to you, right?

So, when we give things away, we are telling our subconscious that we are godliness. Because we are the essence of the universe. Why would you give something away if it was you? Right? So you are saying, I am not this, I am not that, I need nothing.

One thing that happens in kindness is we develop freedom. We get to be who we want to be. What is an impediment to freedom? When we want something from another, it is difficult to be true to ourselves.

Have you ever found yourself holding back, not saying what you truly think, because you want someone to see you a certain way—or because you do not want them to know who you really are? But when you reach a place of genuine kindness—when you truly do not care what anyone thinks—you become free. I care about people, but I do not concern myself with what anyone thinks of me. In that space, I am suddenly free.

I can be quirky. I can be eccentric. I can simply be myself. And that is priceless: to be yourself. I am thinking of you, Kara, right now. Everyone—well, Kira does this very well, but as we have discussed before—

So, kindness is quite advantageous, because it opens the door to freedom. We become more free.

Now, if you have ever practiced art in any of its forms—painting is an archetypal example, but this applies to other forms as well—art is about self-honesty. You have to get on stage, in whatever way that means for you, and express yourself honestly.

Kindness helps you do that. This is truly profound: if you are deeply kind, you can simply be yourself. Consider that. If I am kind, I do not want anything from the audience. I am not going to exploit them. If they do not like me, I do not want them to be there. I do not want to pretend or trick them into staying by making them think I am something I am not. That is a trick, and it is not nice. It is not very kind, is it?

Nana, did you want to say something? I sensed you might want to add something.

Naina B: I have never been able to make this association, because I used to think that I am a very honest and outspoken person, and because I love myself, I do not hold back.

But I have never made this connection before—because I do not want anything from you, I feel so full within. That is also why I do not hold back, and I can be authentically expressive, so it just…

connected something for me.

Adam Wes: Beautiful, exactly. It is interesting—when we look at the truth, whether it is the truth of physics, mathematics, or the human condition, when we clarify things, it is very empowering. Then you can protect what matters. Perhaps one day we are honest and kind, and then suddenly something changes—maybe someone is trying to manipulate us. When we see the truth, we can protect ourselves, because the truth protects us. Seeing and knowing exactly what is happening is a form of—

Protecting goodness.

Right, so that is why I like to discuss these things and introduce a new topic each week. Where there is clarity, there is resilience.

It is important to contemplate. That will become a new routine element down the road—contemplating every day. When you contemplate and maintain a degree of lucidity and understanding, that is part of enlightenment.

If you read the Bhagavad Gita, or Krishnamurti, or any of the Taoist texts, or the philosophers, you will notice that these highly conscious individuals are extremely lucid.

And not in a convoluted way—it is simple.

That is why Krishnamurti's book, Talking to Children, is actually wonderful, because he expresses things simply.

And that requires a degree of mastery: to be simple.

Okay. That is the essence.

Alright, so, artists. If you want to be a great artist, kindness is part of that.

And how far can you take it? How far can you simply be—this is who I am. Love me or hate me, take it or leave it, this is what I am going to be. And it takes—

Kindness to do that. Not courage.

I am a little hesitant to say not courage—perhaps there is some courage—but what is courage? Courage often feels forced. Kindness does not feel forced.

If you do not like learning about math and spirituality, you probably should not attend the class I am holding on math and spirituality. I am not going to try to trick people. I may try to help people see why it is relevant to them, but the whole idea is to allow people to act in their own freedom.

Kindness holds people in freedom. It says: act in your freedom.

And what brings us together—this is key—what brings us together is our complementary intrinsic natures.

Not manipulation, subversion, or force.

In kindness, we receive what we need, because we find the people who are meant to work with us.

So, you may be interested in a wonderful woman or a wonderful man. Complementary natures bring you together, not manipulation.

That is a very clear example. This also happens in business.

A great business says, here are my beautiful products and services—come and buy them, or do not buy them. It is not about forcing anyone. You stand in spiritual independence, in freedom.

My spiritual independence allows everyone to stand in their own freedom and act of their own volition. That is a kind orientation.

What brings people together? The fact that it is obvious they should be together. This business offers that service; I am looking for that service. Perfect.

This man or woman wants these experiences, this woman or man wants these experiences, and they are complementary—good. Complementary natures. This teacher, this student, this—

Tree.

And this bush. Trees are a good example. The plant kingdom is very good at this, because it exists in a complete state of integrity and acceptance.

If a tree loses a branch, it grows it back. If a tree encounters an obstruction, it grows around it. It finds the light. So, it is helpful to notice how this principle applies in the plant kingdom.

Alright, I will not go on too long, because we should have a good meditation here. I think I have covered most of it.

So, the meditation we do here is centered on Shakti. Shakti—Jyoti is another name for it, meaning brightness in Sanskrit—is the essential substance of the universe.

The whole universe exists in the subjective point of consciousness. I am a dreamer. The universe is in my dream. All the laws of physics, all the galaxies, cannot exist without the witness to behold them.

So, that trans-dimensional point of awareness is the dreamer, and the fabric of the dreamer is light.

And you can have a direct encounter with this light in meditation. We go into the source, the substratum of our own being, and dissolve, like a metal statue dissolving back into metal.

And it renews us and purifies us, and we become quite ecstatic, because uneclipsed by form, the formless substrate is ecstatic by its very nature.

That ecstasy, that blissfulness, that shanti—another Sanskrit word—is an expression of merging into the light, making contact with the light.

Light, absorption in the light, helps us experience kindness as well. If you spend 15 minutes a day—if you are skilled in meditation, to the point where you can simply go into the light—that is very, very special. Colleen?

Colleen's my mom. Mom, if you are able to go into the light, that is a very valuable opportunity. To spend 15 minutes a day in light—what could that do for you?

And if you feel it is difficult to do this on your own, I have a guided meditation on light. You can simply sit and be supported, and then you do not have to watch the clock or feel uncomfortable.

Kindness is a very spiritual, or a very mature, spiritual orientation. It is very mature to become kind. You may be young, older, or in between, but it is a very mature state. And it erases the center of self, so that you can act with the totality.

One more thing I should say: in order to act on kindness, there has to be clarity, so that you know what to do. Kindness requires that we are aware of the needs of the other, and we are aware of the response that is necessary.

Without clarity, without stillness in the mind—through which we can see clearly—it is hard to act kindly. A still pond lets us see to the bottom if there are no ripples or sand or mud. That clarity allows us to see through. So, when the mind becomes very still, it allows us to see.

The apprehension of truth is a part of kindness. It allows kindness to act clearly. Otherwise, we act in fragmentation. We may not be able to love the person we love, because we cannot see what they need.

You have to see beyond the self, and see the other as they are—beyond words, beyond interpretation. Truth is the seeing of what is. It is the suchness. It is the capacity to know something in the moment, not from conditioning or accumulation or idea, but through perception.

Great thing to do in mathematics.

Alright, I think I have covered everything. One more thing. If you suffer from anxiety, depression, fear of public speaking—all kinds of things—kindness is a remedy for all the pathological human psychological conditions. It is very much a remedy.

Because it opens the heart, and you become simple again. Those pathologies are complexities imposed upon your beautiful perfection. They are not really intrinsic to who you are. They are perturbations on the surface of perfection—little knots, little obscurations.

Kindness undoes those. It undoes the knots, it purifies you, because you are washing yourself of self in kindness, so that you reveal the Self with a big S.

And most of all, I would say the meaning of life is love. What matters in life are those moments where we live with, and as one with, everybody.

And I want to recommend a movie: Groundhog Day. It is one of my favorite films, from about 30 years ago. In Groundhog Day, he basically goes through this exact journey. He is a selfish jerk—he even says that—and by the end of the day, he learns love and kindness. He gets stuck on February 2nd, which is Groundhog Day, and he repeats it over and over again, until he learns his lesson.

It is a really brilliant movie. It is one of my favorites. In fact, it is so much one of my favorites, and so relevant to this, that I put three movies on the practice hall—it is the third one. So if you go into the practice hall, the third movie is there. That is Groundhog Day.

Kindness is free; it is available all the time. We can always independently access kindness. It is like going on a diet—it is free. How much does it cost to not eat as much today? Not very much. Certain things are free. Silence is free.

How much does it cost to access these most valuable things in life, right? Silence, kindness—it is completely within your own command. You can be in a difficult situation, and kindness can be your shield. It can be your support.

So, practice kindness this week. Try it for a week. Go all out, get a little playful with it.

Ariella, make your husband wonder what has changed in my wife's mind this week. I want him to be so confused—why is she being so nice to everybody? Why is she being kind to that little blade of grass growing out of the sidewalk? Be kind, and practice it, and explore it. Write about it, listen to the people in your life. Perform acts of kindness—you are a steward of the field. Act on behalf of the totality as the totality.

Colleen: I think that is Ariella's normal way of being. I think she was born kind, and she only knows it.

Ariella: Thanks.

Adam Wes: Yes, Ariella is extraordinarily kind, that is true.

Ariella: Sure.

Adam Wes: But perhaps have some fun with it. I am giving you extra permission to be over the top, if you want.

Alright.

Colleen: Helen, could you explain when you said you had—if you have anxiety, when you speak or on stage—what exactly… I still did not get it about kindness and anxiety as a speaker.

Adam Wes: So, kindness produces an energetic transformation of the kundalini. You actually start to feel your—

The way we are is not just in the brain cells; it is in the body. It is in the energy field, in the aura, in the paradigm, and in the brain cells. It is all connected.

And when we are kind—

Most of these things are rooted in the heart. When the heart feels really full, and you are just buzzing with warmth and fullness, you do not have anxiety. When the heart feels other things—I do not even want to focus on it—you get anxiety.

Kindness is this feeling of being at home in yourself. When you are truly at home in yourself, it becomes a remedy for many of the psychological issues that people face—depression, anxiety, and various others. Perhaps not all of them, as some have other causes, but generally, these challenges are closely related to the heart chakra, anahata.

So, does that answer your question?

Colleen: It sounds more like confidence that you are talking about.

Adam Wes: That is a good question. For example, when speaking on stage—

If I am feeling kind, there is the egoic confidence of someone who simply thinks they are great. They want everyone to give them attention, and it is actually not very healthy.

That comes from a place of, "I am great, I am confident, I know what I am doing is good enough. I have refined myself, I walk a certain way, I believe I am great, so I am going to stand up on stage and take, and be enough, because I am enough." That is one kind of confidence.

So that is confidence in one sense. Another kind of confidence is—

I do not need anything. I want the best for everybody. I am who I am. I love myself as I am. I love you as you are. So why would I be nervous?

Why do we care what people think? That is a good question. Why do we want someone to feel—

It is interesting, because I know that you are very kind, and at the same time, you do care what people think a little bit sometimes.

I think there is an opportunity to open that up even more. Sometimes we can be very kind in so many ways, and there is still a small part that can be attended to.

Colleen: Okay, thank you. I will think about it.

Adam Wes: Yes, thank you for the question.

Colleen: I love your description about the tree.

Adam Wes: Oh, by the tree? Thank you, yes.

I have many, many plants in my place, as you can see. I have little plants literally growing across the floor.

That is part of the practice—I recommend plants. Alright, I hope that was not too long for anyone. Naina, was that too long for you? That was not too long? Okay, good. Are you alright? Hm? Alright.

Oh my gosh, I cannot believe it is 6:52. I am sorry. Okay.

Well, let us get meditating. This is supposed to be meditation. Usually, the goal is 30 minutes of meditation, 30 minutes of sermon, and 15 minutes to share about our experience in the meditation.

Guided Meditation on Light and the Heart

Alright. So today we will meditate on the heart.

Feeling a great deal of sufficiency, wholeness… And perhaps we should—maybe—you know what, we should actually go into light. Let us do that. The light and the heart go together.

So, how do you go into light? We will do an eye-gazing meditation. Make it a little softer.

This works incredibly well over the internet, actually. I just had an amazing session with Harrison the other day, and we were both in so much light. But let us do it.

In gazing, we gaze at the screen, gaze at me, or gaze at yourself, or simply gaze at the computer. If you gaze at me, there will be a bit more of an empathic attunement that occurs, but it is not staring, it is not looking at the physical. We are expanding and watching everything at once.

When we do this, we allow everything to dissolve. Physicality collapses into a state of actuality, of denseness. When we let go of it, it becomes fluid again. That fluidity reveals a brightness everywhere. Everything is made of light.

Light is everywhere, and you can see that. I would like to help people actually feel that today. Sometimes we just close our eyes and focus on the heart, and you can go into light with your eyes closed as well. But gazing is a very powerful way to invoke the light.

So I am going to gaze with all of you, and if you look at everything at once, be patient. It accumulates. It could happen instantaneously, but it can also take a few minutes to build.

When you start to see a white mistiness, or colors, or any sort of visual perturbation, let it brighten. Let the brightness, the luminosity, open and ideally wash through you and purify you.

Let us do it. And just stay centered in your heart while you do this. If anyone wants to close their eyes, that is completely fine.

I am just going to take turns with people. Cura, let us meditate.

So, keep meditating with me. I will spend a couple of minutes with each of you.

Bring your attention very broadly to the periphery of your vision. It is not up to us—it is up to the light—so allow yourself to soften your whole habitual hold on the universe.

You can play with your vision, just let it blur ever so slightly. Another thing you can do is try to feel that you are holographic. Let your body become transparent.

Gentleness and dissolution allow the light to emerge. One mistake here, I think.

Praveen, let us meditate. Alright, so we will just do a few minutes together. Everyone else, keep meditating with me.

Let us look at everything at once. Notice some of the ways that we hold ourselves in a rigid manner. Let those soften. Just let it all melt.

Make sure to reach out with your field. It is easier to access the light when you feel expansive. Let your heart expand, let your head expand.

Become aware of the whole space without exclusion. Look at everything at once.

Thanks, Praveen. Namaste. Keep it going.

Nana, would you like to meditate? Let us look at everything.

Yes, you know what you are doing—I can feel it. You can very subtly invoke that luminosity in the body. It is a subtle pressure on the light. Unlock it, just very gently.

Beautiful, keep that going. Your heart is so expansive, I love it. You can feel it across the...

Ariella. Let us go into light together.

Adam Wes: So, you know that thing you do when you bless your food, Ariella? Please do that now.

Everybody, keep this going. It builds, it accumulates. You gain a kind of divine momentum, an absorption.

Just give your attention to the luminosity. Feel the luminosity. That was the area. Thank you. Keep it going.

Ariella: Thank you.

Colleen? Mom? Oh. Are you looking at me? Okay, gaze with me. Look at everything at once.

If you start to see me shift into different people, that is okay—just allow it. See if you can see your colors with your eyes open. You are looking very broadly, with a very gentle, slight blur.

Thanks, Mom. Keep it going.

And Andrea. Ready to gaze? You can bring a subtle attention to your third eye. It actually helps you invoke the light—the magnetism there.

Make sure you are aware of the periphery of your vision. Wonderful.

Okay, let us just do a couple more minutes, just as a group.

You can close your eyes and see the light with your eyes closed, or keep them open and bring attention to the heart center. Just reach out and feel awareness.

Oof. The great moment, and the great expanse of the universe. Endure. Union with that expanse.

I am feeling gratitude, of course. Must stay.

Would anybody like to—oh, how about you? Go ahead, Mom, could you share a little bit about your experience? Let me... Alexa, turn on the corner light. Colleen?

Colleen: That was very nice, thank you, Adam. I did see some light—it was all red today.

Adam Wes: Wonderful, with your eyes open?

Colleen: Unusual.

Adam Wes: Wonderful!

Colleen: There we go. Very peaceful, with my eyes closed. It is harder for me with eyes open, so I like to go into that.

Adam Wes: Yes. Nice.

Colleen: Thank you very much.

Adam Wes: You are welcome. Have a nice day. Good job, way to see the Shakti.

Would anybody else like to share? I do not think we should all share, because we are running a little low on time, but does anybody have a question or want to share anything?

I want to tell you, Naina, when I was meditating with you, I really feel that you obviously have a very deep practice already. The way your heart expanded was really soothing, and I could feel all of that—it was beautiful. Your heart just goes really big, like a floodlight. Way to go, that was wonderful, and very still and poised. It was very lovely.

I would love to hear how your experience was.

Naina B: It was very heart-expanded, and I could also feel your light. It is always very lovely to see all these concepts that we read about and hear about, but when you really practice, you can see all of that—you can experience it.

Adam Wes: Yes.

Naina B: Borders, and it is all a very connected field.

I did not experience that, since you are not in my proximity, but I could feel that connection.

Adam Wes: You know, the internet—there is a degree of entrainment just by… it really comes through on video. Even though it is maybe not the magnetic field, or maybe it actually is. Like, what is time and space anyway, right? How far are we really? In Star Trek, they talk about subspace, and you could have instant transmission from light years away. So who knows what the reality is, because you really can feel everything.

Hey, somebody is calling me. Okay, I can see they are calling me—very psychic. So, what is that? Well, wonderful. Thank you for being here and bringing your beautiful energy. Namaste. Beautiful meditation. Ariella, you were going to share something.

Ariella: I just… yes, I was able to connect more with the light when my eyes were closed.

Adam Wes: Okay.

Ariella: And today, for the first time, instead of just being light, it was pink.

Adam Wes: Beautiful. That is a very gentle color. Pink has a lot to do with the heart and healing.

Ariella: Oh, wow, great.

Adam Wes: And pink is the opposite of green on the color wheel, and green is the heart chakra, so they are actually…

Ariella: Oh…

Adam Wes: Duh. Nana is like, I know that. The painters know this. So, wonderful, Ariella. Yes, we have been doing Eyes Closed a lot, so you are probably very conditioned to that technique. But it is good to do both.

Yes. So…

Ariella: Thank you so much.

Adam Wes: You are welcome.

Ariella: What could you feel, Adam, when… they are doing that with me?

Adam Wes: I did feel a very refined openness, cosmically, in you. A very sincere connection with the energy. I really feel this when people… I feel people very much when I am meditating with them, so everybody is like a different flavor. It is like there is an infinite number of flavors.

You have this very… I could almost write a little poem about it. It is like a smooth, open, very grand, kind of mature connection with the divine, and an actual merging with it. So you really went into the meditation with me very deeply, and we both went deeper together because of that.

Ariella: Hmm.

Adam Wes: I kind of go as far as you will go with me—let us see how far we can go. And you were really going deep, and yes, it was lovely.

Ariella: Thank you, thank you.

Adam Wes: Thanks, Ariella. Alright. How about 30 seconds from Kira, and then we will stop. Because I have to hear from the smile.

Kira: Wow. Wow. So thankful. I just feel… the sensation was, like, just major heart expansion, and it just feels like the energy is flowing more freely. It just feels like, oh, that is how it should be.

Adam Wes: Oh, yes.

Kira: You know, it is like, oh… It is strange, actually, to not be in that state.

Adam Wes: Yes. Well, be futuristic, you know? Just be like a magical being from another planet. It is just like, oh, this is just what we do.

I am forgetting what the movie is called. There is a movie where they have these magical beings, and that is just how they are.

Kira: I do want to add—thank you, Adam. I want to add that being around you when you would enter these deep, very dedicated states of gratitude was truly profound to experience. Rather than simply talking about gratitude, it was actually witnessing another person emitting and embodying gratitude.

Experiencing that made me realize how we all have the power to enter a state of kindness, to perform an act of kindness, or to embody gratitude—and that this genuinely affects everyone around us in a profound, though subtle, way.

So, thank you for that beautiful transition. I have received so many transmissions from you of deep, beautiful gratitude. Now, I am able to experience those states and share them with others as well.

Adam Wes: I love it, yes. You are welcome, and thank you. These states—you emanate them. Whether or not you are actively being kind, people notice; they sense that you are a kind person because they can feel where you are at. Or they recognize you as a grateful person, and there is a frequency and energy that comes from that.

Yes. Dom. No mistake here, thank you.

Closing Announcements and Enrollment Orientation

Okay, so it is 7:23. We have the orientation session now, which can go for five minutes or longer. I would love to—if anybody is interested in learning more about all the... Some of you are all set, and you do not have to stay, so I will say namaste and thank you for being here.

For everyone else who wants to stay, I will be going over full enrollment, what is involved in full enrollment, and how you can enroll. Praveen is already enrolled—congratulations, Praveen!—and I will also mention some of the other offerings.

The School of Futuristic Intelligence includes mathematics, meditation, and coding as a form of art—creating art. It is a wonderful opportunity if you are interested in structuring your mind with mathematics and learning it. The program is designed to be accessible to beginners.

We can always do an assessment to see if you feel it is the right level for you. While it is advanced, it is also, in a way, suitable for beginners because it is about direct perception.

So, I am going to log off, and if you would like to log back on, just to—

Renew the recording, and also to give everyone a comfortable way to leave—if you want to go, or if you want to log back on and ask any questions, that is completely fine, but there are no expectations.

Namaste, everyone, good job! Remember to be kind, contemplate kindness, and please watch the movie Groundhog Day.

And also, yes, engage with the themes of the month.

Bye, namaste. Thank you. And by the way—

Kira: Oh, Adam's birthday is coming up, so...

Adam Wes: Thank you, Kira, for mentioning that. I was going to say, in case you want to know, it is my birthday next Monday.

It is my birthday next Monday, so you are welcome to say happy birthday if you wish. Thank you, Kira.

Alright, goodbye everyone. Thank you, namaste, Mom. Thank you, Dad.

Ariella: Stay loving this.