Skillful Means Series #10
Group Awakening Series For Seekers Tired of Seeking
Summary
DATES
4th, 11th & 18th November
2-4 pm US Eastern Time
This series is not to “prepare” you for awakening; it is to wake you up there and then. Most do.
Hello again, everybody!
Welcome, or welcome back!
Many of you are already familiar with our Skillful Means Series.
They’ve been simply extraordinary, far surpassing our most hopeful wishes.
During each series, I’ve had the pleasure of watching the vast majority of students wake up during the first session, which is a Group Awakening Session.
Many have come to know True Nature while quietly but alertly self-applying the path of discovery that is unveiled.
This series is not to “prepare” you for awakening; it is to wake you up there and then.
Most do. Of those who don’t “get it” in the first session, the majority will recognize True Nature before the end of the course.
I can’t issue a “guarantee” that you’ll awaken; no one can. However, a great many of our regularly participating students started with Skillful Means.
The series comprises one 2-hour group Awakening Session and two subsequent 2-hour group Clarity Sessions.
They are held on three consecutive Saturday afternoons at 2:00 pm Eastern (New York time).
Apparent magic happens.
Most of you have been following this teaching either closely or casually long enough to know, or at least know of its effectiveness.
If you’re someone who has not yet awakened or who has had a “temporary awakening experience,” please come and join us.
This may very well be the best chance you ever have of awakening.
If you’re unfamiliar with this teaching, check out our Even More and Meetings pages.
Just scroll way down and you’ll see scores of testimonials from people just like you who found freedom through The Living Method, which is the birth mother of Skillful Means.
This Teaching delivers, day after day, year after year, since it went online in 2011.
I can’t guarantee you will wake up because awakening simply doesn’t work like that.
What I can tell you is that The Living Method has already worked for many hundreds of people and that, at the very least, you’ll have a marvelous opportunity to awaken.
I will do my absolute best, and most or all will find freedom.
All SMS participants will receive three complimentary Satsangs on the Sundays after each Saturday session.
As always, seating is limited. Every Skillful Means Series typically sells out early, so we advise you to reserve your seat ASAP.
Fred
Fred Davis
Fred Davis is a fully independent, global teacher of nonduality. He is not allied with any school, scripture, teacher, religion, or philosophy. Fred is very much a “regular” person, just like you. He wasn’t born awake or under a cabbage leaf beneath a harvest moon. He was a seeker for 24 years, thus he’s quite unable to declare himself a “quick study.” Fred is an ordinary sage, not a sacred saint. His life’s path is considered colorful by some and checkered by others. That’s probably true for you as well, which is the whole point. He woke up, so to speak, and so can you.
Teaching what is now known as The Living Method through the so-called Fred unit, began locally in 2010 and online in 2011. Over the last thirteen years, it has helped facilitate Realization for well over a thousand followers: perhaps closer to two thousand. The process has changed as experience has deepened, but the core of it remains precisely the same.
The Living Method is the very definition of “direct teaching.” It offers no path to Realization, which is the focus of most “sooning schools.” There are many effective nondual teachers and methods; no one has a monopoly on Truth. For most of those using The Living Method, however, it is reliable and predictable; it usually takes about an hour to Realize. Once Awakeness itself comes out of denial, we start to focus on clearing. We are not trying to clear Awakeness up. Awakeness is always here and always clear. We use self-inquiry coupled with reason to clear the false ideas and behavior of an imaginary character out!
- Waking up is now or never, here or nowhere. Nobody in the history of nonduality has ever woken up “soon!” That whole notion is seen to be ridiculous and woefully self-defeating upon the Recognition of True Nature.
Fred did many practices in his days of “sooning.” He spent endless hours in meditation, meditative silence, and quiet reflection. He offered prayers of centering, submission, and supplication and practiced hatha yoga, yoga nidra, japa, visualization, and deep Self-inquiry, culminating in complete burnout. Burnout saved the day and offered freedom, but it took two years of relentless-to-the-point-of-being-unhealthy nondual inquiry before the peace of abidance as Consciousness Itself could be experienced—by Awakeness Itself.
