Bhakti A Complete Soteriology

Adam Wes You can begin to meditate while we wait for people to show up.

Waiting for a couple more people to show up. If you know anybody that's not here, maybe you can give them a text. Thank you.

When we begin to meditate, we're just allowing the energy to soften, to bring ourselves into a state of presence with our own energy and mind observing.

Namaste, everybody. Thank you for being here. Thank you for joining the meditative component, the three of you. I appreciate you guys understanding the importance of the integration of the two, mathematics and spirituality. That's what we're doing here, and they really are part of the same thing.

We're still missing a couple people I anticipated being here, but that's okay. I'd like to begin with the sermon. I've actually written something out and posted this on Circle. I'm going to go through it with you and really discuss what bhakti is, and then we'll get to the meditation, which will be informed by what we discuss.

Everybody's getting their glasses. You guys are funny.

This is a five-page document I wrote just for this session here. It's really from the heart, and I'm sharing with you the heart of it on week one, day two, I guess.

So, a complete soteriology. This is a sermon on bhakti, the yoga of love, distilled and adapted for contemporary life.

Bhakti is, a lot of times, very traditional. The language, the terminology, the things that bhakti people do usually have a lot of tradition involved. The way I do bhakti is purely ontological. It's not tradition-based, although I like to hang out with those people doing those things. It's nice. It's fun. But really, what I've done is distilled the philosophy of bhakti and its potent core mechanism to awaken, to discover truth, beauty, and love. So that's what I mean by distilled and adapted.

What is a soteriology? A soteriology is the study of salvation. Now, many of us may not have any idea that we want to be saved, but what does that mean? I would ask you: Are you deeply, completely, at such a state of peace and ecstasy in every moment, untouchable? Just look in and ask yourself, am I at the highest potential that this body-mind universe has to offer in terms of my peace, my love, and my knowledge?

That's what we mean by salvation. We'll go into that in a little more detail. How can we be delivered from suffering, ignorance, and bondage into some state of wholeness, freedom, and divine union? This is soteriology. I really like this word. It's one of my favorite words, actually.

Bhakti is the yoga of love. I'm going to read what I wrote here.

It's a state where you live for existence itself. You love existence, and you recognize yourself as one with existence. In this state, there's a sense of being beyond the becoming of life, the seeking, the finding, fulfillment in circumstantial formations. You're going into existence. There's something unspoken that's so powerful. There's some part of us that is so complete.

Human beings are always seeking formations, right? They'll be happy when they get this thing. They have to have it. But you can go deeper and find that you can fall in love with existence itself. I think it's advantageous to awaken that longing if it's not there.

I'm suggesting that the solution to everything lies in this. That's what I'm suggesting. We'll get into why this is a solution.

So, seek the formless essence of existence itself, and then we can also enjoy that essence expressed in form. Form on the other side is much more beautiful because it is imbued with the magic of existence. If you don't have this magic, you get the thing you want, but if you're not deeply happy and joyous like a child, you can't really enjoy it. Right?

Love is the bliss of being. Now, some of these things may seem kind of out of left field. Why is love the bliss of being? I thought love was between two people. You love your meal. You love your house. You love your car. You love your person. But what is love as the bliss of being?

I would look at all those other forms of love as having this at their heart. Bliss comes from detachment and refocusing on existence itself. Love is a state of completeness where you're very detached and reverberating in your own perfection. It's like dissolution. When you're in this state, this dissolution is an acceptance form, a state of affection. It's the affection of being so abundant in your own being. We're so absolutely abundant, being the universe.

The center of the universe is inside of us, and our heart and the center of the universe coincide. You can experience this when you go into the essence, or the quintessence, and discover that the essence, the source, is what we actually are.

If you focus on the energetic heart, right in the center of the chest, this is the doorway energetically into the deeper heart, the heart that's everywhere, or the heart in which everywhere is. I'm flipping things around here.

This is supposed to be a beginner's course, but really, this is some of the most advanced stuff that I'm sharing here. You're here. I suspect that you're ready for it. I think the fact that you've chosen and been drawn to this means that you likely are.

This is the seed of contemplation that can last a lifetime. One of the reasons I'm enjoying this course so much is I get to sit down and do this, think about this, share this, discuss this. I love that. I'm in no way done contemplating. It's a lifetime of contemplation.

Bhakti is a longing. What I said was, it's for one who longs for existence. There's almost this feeling of melancholy that you need to find this thing. When you find it, you don't feel that melancholy, but there's this fervent energy that you long for something that is ineffable and esoteric. What I said was, a part of themselves that's immutable. It means it cannot go away. Unassailable. It cannot be hurt.

They want to merge with the universe and become it. One has to experience the bliss of existence to really even have this longing, but you may have had a glimpse and want to get back to it. That's one of the important things. I hope that everybody can today have a glimpse, or perhaps you're already there, but really feel the potential and then feel the longing to abide in that.

One of the things that helps some people find this is they go through a kind of suffering and they let go. They find that their separate existence is false. Their modus operandi of life has been misinformed. They're seeking in the wrong way. They're seeking in formations, and really what they want is something lasting, the constant of the universe.

Peace comes from aligning with constants, the constant of our being and the constant of our change as well, which would be called integrity. Think of it as the derivative of a function, the rate of change in calculus of a function. The derivative is the thing that determines the function. Integrity is like a causal rule that you can live by, and there's a constant in all the formations through integrity, but there's also a constant in dissolution through being.

Integrity and dharma, which means truth or duty in Sanskrit, are natural expressions of this loving wholeness that we have. When we're very complete, we can express that completeness as integrity.

Integrity takes a little bit of courage, right? A lot of people say, "Oh, integrity is tough." All right, but if you feel so complete and whole, then integrity is much more natural. In fact, the spontaneity of one who's completely surrendered is integrity, assuming they would be aligned with loving action.

How can we have more integrity? It can't just be an imposition of an ideal. It's more a matter of the freedom that comes from feeling whole, that comes from aligning with the constant of your existence, from the love that is just overflowing with fullness from within your heart.

This is how people really cultivate these virtues. If you have some beautiful virtues in you, which a lot of you have here, maybe contemplate why. Why are you so moral in a genuine way when maybe people you encounter aren't? Maybe it's harder for them to be moral. Maybe they don't feel so whole inside, right? Maybe you can expand upon that when you contemplate that nature within yourself and all of us.

I don't want to read everything because this will take too long. We should definitely start meditating in five minutes or so, but we're only on page two. Gosh. This is on the Circle app, so you can read this, review it, and revisit it during the last week if you want. But I recommend you really think about this.

Wholeness also brings clarity. I'm going to go a little faster.

In mathematics, in life, when you're whole, that wholeness brings a kind of affectionate dispassion that allows you to see the truth without it being clouded by motive, judgment, and agenda.

The gospel, which is a biblical word, but I like it because what it means is the good news, is this: We are all intrinsically blissful, ecstatic eternity. This must be uncovered by each of us, but we can find out that we are made of bliss and ecstasy itself.

That's a fundamental acceptance that's required, to say, "Okay, well, if I'm bliss, maybe I don't feel it, but maybe I don't need to keep striving so hard to be respected," or whatever it is that may get in the way of your peace on a moment-to-moment basis.

True love between people also comes from this. When you go into that, become that, give everything to that, and sincerely feel that this is what really matters, then, when you believe that your bliss is your nature, you see this inside of somebody else.

Just think of looking into somebody's eyes and seeing the universe reflected, bliss and eternity reflected within them, and you come to know yourself through their eyes. I would say this is a really deep kind of love. It's a love not through attachment, but through a mutual recognition of the same ontological reality within all of us.

By the way, I like this word ontology. It means the study of being, of existence.

Some part of us remembers that we never needed to go anywhere, that we're already everything, that our nature is blissful. Insufficiency is a state of seeking.

There may be moments in your life where you're like, "Oh, I don't like just sitting and being alone." Meditation is very hard for people sometimes because they have to confront themselves. They can't continue gorging on food, gorging on television, or being codependent with other people. They have to sit and confront themselves and face their insufficiency, which is a state.

We are fundamentally sufficient, but we can be in a state of insufficiency. When we sit in silence, the silence burns that out of us. The fire of transmutation occurs. This is what meditation is about.

Sit. Observe. Don't run from yourself. Observe yourself as you are, and don't feed those escapes. They will wither away in silence.

This is a tall order here. You could do this in a big way, or you could do this in a little way, right? You could go all-out Buddha on us. Buddha went into the forest. He's like, "Let me give up all my riches. I'm a prince. I've got everything." But he's like, "Oh, it's not enough." He went into the forest, and then he came back and discovered the middle way, which is really what I'm talking about here, actually. But you have to bring all these pieces together.

When will you stop running? When will you stop seeking? When will you look and find within the gospel, the good news that you are bliss and perfection itself?

Everybody's running. I walk around LA and see all these people going somewhere. They're all so attached to wherever they're going. The universe is inside of them. Everything they seek, there's nothing you could get that's more joyful and ecstatic than your own freedom.

This is meditation. Meditate on your heart. Observe it without the escapes. When you allow yourself to settle down, when you allow the energy to dispel, to fall away from you, that's when it begins. That's when the meditation and the heart begin to open.

All right, let's keep going. I've actually described most of these things.

Virtue comes from this wholeness. Don't let virtue be an imposition of some moral ideal. Let your morality be an expression of your intrinsic wholeness. You'll develop kindness, gentleness, independence, psychological freedom. That's what I mean by independence.

The energetic practice that I'm suggesting for this week is to sit and feel your heart. Now, you may not feel a heart much, and you may feel it a lot. But there's a center, right in the center of the sternum, that is warm and fuzzy and full of love and energy. It's your heart chakra. There are three chakras above and three chakras below. This is the middle one, and it's the heart.

It's important to feel that, awaken that, confront your biology. There's a biology there. It may be electrochemical. It may be electromagnetic. It may be built into your fascia. It may be part of your vagus nerve. It may be all of those things.

What you're seeking to do is bring the feeling of clearing your heart, opening your heart. It's a very powerful thing to do.

The principle for this week is kindness, which is why I recommended the film Cinderella. The key line in that movie, which I watched in 2015, and I was crying in the film because I was so moved by the beautiful kindness, is, "Have courage and be kind."

That's what she does in that film. Her parents tell her to do that, and she does that. The evil stepmother comes along, and she's so humble, kind, and forgiving. It's really beautiful. So please watch.

That's the principle. When you practice being kind, it actually opens your heart energetically. We're doing it from both sides: pure energetic exercise, and then application of the principle.

Now, you may not feel kind because, like I was saying, it's not just a moral ideal. But the choice to say, "Okay, I'm going to be kind. I am kind. I'm going to choose kindness right now. I'm going to have fun with it," matters.

Kindness can be fun. It's fun to make somebody feel good about themselves, to be there, to listen to somebody deeply. There are so many ways to be kind. Essentially, you're caring about others and their well-being, not just me first.

It can be dangerous if you make it all about others, so be careful. That can be a problem. You ultimately want to be a field of kindness that is shining light on everything it touches, including yourself. It's not discriminating. You're just kind. You're just a kind person.

All right, any questions? You guys like it? I hope you like that. Yeah? Cool.

How about you, Colleen? This is my mom, Colleen. You're talking, Mom. You don't want to join? Okay. You want to talk? Okay, that's fine.

Ariella, do you want to say something?

Ariella This has just been unbelievable, Adam. It resonates with me so much.

Adam Wes I thought it would. That's why I was like, "You have to be here and get this."

Ariella Yes, thank you.

Adam Wes I'll send you the documents too, if you want.

Ariella Yes, please.

Adam Wes Ariella is a very magical woman, with a very powerful energy field for a five-foot-two woman. She's got a big energy field, trust me. It hits you like a wall of water. It's because of her kindness. She blesses her food and thinks about everybody in the whole world.

I think you've been doing a lot of this throughout your whole life, Ariella. The mathematician and thinker that I am, I'm bringing a little bit of lucidity that perhaps can be added to what you already understand about it.

Ariella Yes. I love that. Thank you.

Adam Wes Thank you.

Ariella It's just so wonderful to hear it all in words. Wow.

Adam Wes Yay! I'm so glad you feel that.

Now you know a little bit more about me. I long for existence. Maybe this will give you some more context for some of the things I say when I talk about anything, about math, about meditation. There's just this feeling.

I asked ChatGPT about it, and it's like, "You kind of sound like Rumi." Rumi had this longing too. He's very romantic about existence. I feel quite romantic about existence. It's a love affair.

Existence is this dissolution. When you sit here, sit with a teacher, or sit with community, sangha, you can feel there's a power that will wash you away. In yoga, sometimes they call it Shiva, the destroyer. There's also Shakti. We'll try to do that with the energy right now.

Essentially, ideas are one thing, but you want to awaken the power inside of you. The universal power is very powerful. It's like a tsunami. It's not our power. It's the power of existence. It destroys. It's destructive in the most beautiful way. It's renewing destruction, this purifying love.

I encourage you to find that in the presence of a teacher, in engaging in an action, in the presence of a nature scene, or in your own humble and courageous surrender. Perhaps become nothing but that power. That power is what matters.

All right. What time is it? Thirty-four.

Shall we start meditating? Can we get the music on? Elias, did you like it? Yeah? Cool. Good. Nice. Feel your heart like Elias just did.

Let's begin. This will be a little bit of a guided meditation, with lots of space, perhaps. You can hear the music, I'm assuming. It's quiet for now. It's coming on, though.

Every moment, there's an eternity that we can turn our attention to. You can let the abstraction of time fall away and see what really is happening now.

Let's begin by really feeling the heart center. We're going to do no more than just that. You can either take your finger or put your hands on your heart, physically touching, or you can put them in front if you feel the energy, magnetism, expanding from your heart center. Whatever feels intuitively correct.

The point is to feel the heart. Bring your attention there, not simply to thoughts, to being in your head, or on your back, but focus on your heart.

As we focus on the heart, there's an accumulation of energy that will build. Sometimes we have to move through a purification process. You may simply feel the body right there, or you may start to feel the energy, the chi, kundalini, the life force energy that runs through the body. It is very, very potent in that energetic vortex.

You may feel heat, magnetism, vitality in either of those forms, or some other form. Expansion.

This is another energy mudra that you can do, just like this. You may feel silly doing it, but I encourage you not to. Think of your heart as being held like a giant sphere in front of you by your hands. Hold it like that with your mind.

You can also just sit. You don't have to do any of these. Just hold the field in a certain structure with your mind and try to dance it.

That may have produced enough of a transformation for you to just enjoy now, or you can keep doing it if you like.

For those of you who have been doing this meditation for a while, if you're seeing the light, you can just focus on the light or bring the light into your heart center. The light is a deeper heart space, not in physicality, not in space and time, but in its source. Go to the light if you can perceive it.

Really feel that you are love when you meditate, not simply feeling the heart center, but moving into the paradigm of love.

I'm going to do just one more song, so really enjoy this.

Take a moment and observe how you feel. Observe with gratitude. Notice your heart field and the love throughout your field. Let yourself feel a little joy, maybe a little smile. Radiant, positive, blissful, childlike, divine embodiment.

Then, when you're ready, you can come out of the meditation.

Colleen, would you like to share a little bit?

Colleen I really needed that. Thank you so much, Adam.

Adam Wes You're welcome.

Colleen It's interesting because I started off and there was a new color.

Adam Wes Oh, yeah?

Colleen But it went away when I relaxed, and the color was gray.

Adam Wes I think that's because you're too busy.

Colleen The red was becoming more orangey, more orange and red, and then gray was taking over. As I got into the meditation, I went back to the colors that I usually do.

Adam Wes Gray is actually great, because you're seeing color at all. But for you, that's a little bit of a step backwards.

Just to tell everybody a little bit about these colors, this is my mother, Mom, Colleen. I want everybody to meet you.

Colleen Hello.

Adam Wes We've been doing this for quite a long time. When you meditate, there's a whole cosmology of the light spectrum that you can move through. We'll be talking about this in a future week. We started with the heart, but it gets a little more advanced, and we get into the light.

The mind is made of light, actually. There's a whole cosmology of the light spectrum that you can move through, which consists of different frequencies of different layers of your existence. The colors are indicators of certain levels of essentiality, levels of depth that you're moving into.

The incarnation, the soul, Paramatman, which is the soul of the universe, all have different qualities. You can actually navigate through them to the heart of your being. When you do this, that's a very good way to get into the heart and experience the rapture that I was speaking of.

My mom's been quite busy today, and I've never heard her say she saw gray. Gray is just a little mucked up. But it's really beautiful, the way you said that as soon as you relaxed, the gray turned into the orange and the red. What beautiful corroboration.

I don't know much about the gray, actually. It's amazing to hear you talk. She sees all these colors, very subtle colors, like spearmint green and things. So, wonderful. You had a good day?

Colleen Thank you. Thank you, Adam.

Adam Wes You're welcome. Namaste, Mom.

How about you, Ariella?

Ariella That was the most amazing meditation I've ever had.

Adam Wes Wonderful.

Ariella At the beginning, my eyes started to water, and my nose, and I actually had a tear come down my cheek. I've never done that.

Adam Wes It felt like a heartfelt tear, right?

Ariella Yes.

Adam Wes Good. We did a lot of heart stuff today. I was like, "I'm going to be focused and do something today."

Ariella Do you think it was connected to the meditation?

Adam Wes When your heart opens, and we really were doing a lot of heart work, you might have noticed that we did heart work and then I got quiet. That's because we opened the heart, and then I could get quiet. I just wanted to make sure everybody was having a good meditation.

When you open the heart, it's more conducive to a good experience. It's good to start with that. There's a very close relationship between the energetic heart and emotions, and you can feel it physically. This is really wonderful.

Sometimes, when you start to cry, your heart clears a lot. It's good to cry good tears because you're actually clearing your heart, purifying and opening your heart. It's very healthy.

Ariella I didn't make that connection. Thank you.

Adam Wes You're welcome.

How about Vijay? Let me unmute you.

Vijay I'm unmuted. Great.

It was so lovely to meditate with everyone for the first time, to feel everyone in this realm. I went to a place that I haven't been to with other meditations.

I see a lot of colors. This was so beautiful, to see amazing geometric colors. There were a lot of dodecahedrons with the heart, with rainbows and psychedelic colors. It was more like Lemurian beautiful.

Then this amazing blue came in. Bear with me, but a very psychedelic version of Paul McCartney and George Harrison walked past in my meditation.

Adam Wes Oh, really? You saw them walk past you? Nice. That's fantastic.

Vijay I was like, "Okay, we need to go back to meditation and mantra. Don't get distracted with them," because I was so enjoying my expanding heart space. So that was another part of, "Where did you guys come from?"

Adam Wes That's amazing. Wonderful. It sounds like you really got a very profound experience in the astral plane.

Vijay Yes, and I'm very visual. But the very end of it was the stillness. I saw, right here, the wings of this bird, just in peace and stillness. I'm going to do a drawing of it. It's so beautiful.

Adam Wes Were they white wings?

Vijay White wings, yes.

Adam Wes I felt that when you were in the stillness. You're the peaceful bird.

Vijay I'm actually trying to draw it so I don't forget it. Can you see?

Adam Wes Oh, nice. It's great that you saw dodecahedrons. That's fascinating.

Vijay It was like I was seeing it from the inside out. All these beautiful forms.

Adam Wes Well, namaste, Vijay. Nice to see you. You're in Texas, by the way. Austin, right?

Vijay Austin, yes.

Adam Wes Nice.

Sean, would you like to share a little bit? Then Elias, if you want to share after, or if you want to go. I know sometimes you're on a schedule.

Sean It was very peaceful. I did not see the colors and the shapes, although I have had those experiences in the past. But the feeling of the heart with the middle finger was something very, very profound. Then holding the heart, almost the aura, was really neat.

I was struggling with some back pain and working through that.

Adam Wes Do you remember I said, "Don't be in your back"? I actually said, "Not in your head, not in your back, but in your heart."

Sean Yeah, I missed that.

Adam Wes If you're having back pain, you can always just lean back against something. If you really need to lie down, you can lie down. In time, stretch and fix that. It's good to be able to sit in a half-lotus position for an hour without that. Eventually.

But that's not the important part. The important part is you're feeling your heart chakra. That's fantastic.

Sean A secret about me is that I have a very open heart chakra, very, very open. It's been something I've been working with for a long time, but we can talk more about that later.

Adam Wes I'd love to talk about that. Wonderful. Do you feel like you altered it, moved it?

Sean It was wonderful. There were a lot of connections and synchronicities from the beginning to the end here, so I'm processing a lot of that right now.

Adam Wes Wonderful. Share on Circle. I want you to share with everybody.

By the way, the three of you who joined, just keep in mind, a lot of people are in Europe, so that's why they're not here. It's too late. But it would be interesting for you to share and talk about these things. It makes it more real. "Paul McCartney walked by," "There were colors," and, "I felt my heart chakra with my middle finger." Sharing on Circle will help people.

Vijay It was a very Sgt. Pepper moment. George walked by just as I was thinking, "These are very psychedelic colors." Then, "Back to meditation. Don't distract me."

Adam Wes It's good to stay focused. Ultimately, it means we're moving through beautiful things. But yes, "Don't distract me." We're trying to go even past all the magic, in a way, into a deeper, more divine magic.

It's a good thing, though. Mom, you saw the dolphin, I remember, last week or two weeks ago. This is a good sign. It means you're moving past the physical, and there's an energy opening and clearing.

There's nothing wrong with the astral, by the way. It's good, and you can cultivate it simultaneously, for sure. It's just like cultivating your intellect. It's another dimension of us, of our experience.

So, wonderful. Vijay, that's really awesome that you saw that. Amazing. I kind of wish I would see more actual stuff myself. When you see dodecahedrons, that would be really cool.

Vijay I see geometric forms, but this was the first time I saw these multiples. It's like seeing inside a beehive, all these different forms.

Adam Wes Wow.

Vijay They passed by and constantly changed, so it wasn't static. Thank you so much.

Adam Wes You're welcome. Thank you for being here and meditating like that.

Namaste, Sean. Thank you so much. Wonderful.

Elias, would you like to share?

Elias Can you hear me?

Adam Wes Yeah.

Elias Okay. I'm driving home because of a meeting I'm supposed to be at. As you saw, I was in my car, and I didn't intend to be. It was kind of a mess of an evening.

I came in with a lot of frustration, resistance, and judgment that I was trying to offload onto my girlfriend, who I'm about to meet. I was projecting it onto her, feeling like a victim to life.

It took the full length of the meditation for me to finally relax into all of that. By the end, I did feel that connection to the heart. But there was so much. As my heart was opening, I would notice these closures. Even just tuning into my heart made me want to resist, so there were many layers of resistance.

It's going to be much nicer to have this dinner, which I'm only just going to make my arrival to now, because I got to meditate with you guys. So thank you.

Adam Wes Sometimes, when we sit down to meditate and we really need to meditate, we don't have a good meditation because we needed to meditate. If you move through all that, and at the end you're like, "Oh, I feel better," that's what matters.

Elias Oh, yeah.

Adam Wes That's wonderful. Also, all that complexity, all those layers you're talking about, getting to know your heart is a part of working with your heart and altering your heart.

It's wonderful that you went through it with such courage and sincerity, being present with what's there. That's what I was talking about in the document when I said, "Observe yourself. Be with yourself."

Through knowledge, we move through inadvertence and become aware of the structures that we're ensnared in. That's a constant thing that we have to keep renewing in that way.

I'm glad you're feeling better. Thanks for sharing so openly. It's beautiful.

Elias Totally. I find the heart energy to be uniquely solvent.

Adam Wes Nice. I like that. That's a nice way to put it.

When you were talking about the judgment, it wasn't judgment about the meditation, was it? I wasn't sure.

Elias No, it was judgment. I was realizing that I wanted to text my girlfriend and push our time back. I don't know if you know, but I find that when I'm getting uncomfortable or feeling guilty, one of my first inclinations is to blame the other person for the thing I feel guilty for. That's what I was talking about.

Adam Wes I love your self-honesty. All of that stuff is clearly on the way out, because if you're that self-honest with yourself, it doesn't have a hold over you very much.

Elias Good to hear. I like the sound of that.

Adam Wes A lot of people have trouble being honest about themselves. They'd rather think wonderful thoughts about themselves before they love themselves as they are. That's how we make progress, all the way to the end.

Elias I appreciate that very much.

Adam Wes Essentially, one of the ways we get in touch with the heart, and it's the last thing I'll say, is we sit and accept ourselves as we are. We observe ourselves as we are.

Our value is not based on anything. We are infinitely valuable. It's either infinity or zero in terms of our value, right? Because there's no qualification. There's no, "I'm valuable because."

Love does not love because. Love does not exploit. How could that be? Love is unconditional. Love is acceptance.

We love the child with the food all over their face and their wild behavior. We still love the child. We have to love ourselves that way. That's actually how we grow into a very personal, beautiful experience.

It's just about ourselves. It's not about our egoic orientation on the ladder of comparison, right? It's about having a beautiful experience of life.

I just wanted to add that.

Namaste, Elias. Thank you so much for being here and making it happen anyway. It means a lot.

Elias Thank you.

Adam Wes All right. Thanks, Mom. Thank you, Ariella. Thank you, Sean. I'll see you on Thursday, next week, Monday, or whenever.

Participant1: Thank you.

Adam Wes Namaste, everybody.

Participant2: Thank you. Namaste.

Adam Wes Love and blessings, Ariella.

Ariella Yes, love and blessings.

Adam Wes Bye, everybody.

Participant3: Bye.

Bhakti is a longing for existence itself. By turning toward the heart and recognizing the intrinsic sufficiency of being, love, integrity, kindness, and freedom arise as expressions of wholeness.

• Bhakti is the yoga of love and a longing for existence itself.
• Salvation is deliverance from suffering, ignorance, and bondage into wholeness, freedom, and divine union.
• Seeking fulfillment in formations cannot provide the lasting constant that is truly wanted.
• Love is the bliss of being, a state of completeness rooted in existence itself.
• The energetic heart is a doorway into the deeper heart, the heart that is everywhere.
• Wholeness brings clarity, integrity, dharma, and affectionate dispassion.
• Virtue is not an imposed moral ideal. Kindness and integrity can arise naturally from intrinsic wholeness.
• We are fundamentally sufficient, even when we experience a state of insufficiency.
• Silence allows escapes to fall away and brings us into direct contact with ourselves.
• Meditation includes feeling the heart, observing what is present, and moving into the paradigm of love.
• Self-honesty begins with observing and accepting ourselves as we are.
• Love is unconditional, and our value has no qualification.

Sit with the heart and be present with what is there. Observe yourself without running or feeding the usual escapes. Allow the energy to settle, feel the heart as directly as you can, and let kindness and unconditional acceptance include both yourself and others.

• Attention to the energetic center of the heart during meditation.
• Moments of silence in which seeking and escape are not fed.
• Honest observation and acceptance of what is present.
• Kindness as care for others and for oneself.
• The longing for existence beneath the pursuit of particular formations.
• Integrity as a natural expression of loving wholeness.
• Gratitude, joy, and the felt sense of being love.

• What is present when I stop seeking for a moment?
• How does kindness feel in my heart?
• Can I observe and love myself as I am?