Sunday, December 7, 2008

Friends of the Heart December Issue ~ Sundance Burke, Author, Free Spirit


The Friends of the Heart December Issue is available for viewing.

In This Issue:

"You Are the Goal of Self-Realization"
Katie Davis, Author, Awake Joy

"Ramana Maharshi - Abide As the Self"
Free one hour video on the Self-Inquiry teachings of Ramana Maharshi with beautiful footage and tribute to one of the most revered sages of modern day India.

"Gifts of Joy and Spirit"
Better Together: 20% Discount on Awake Joy and Free Spirit

"Bliss Is Surrender"
Kip Mazuy, Founder of Bliss Music

"Only The Self Is Love"
Sundance Burke, Author, Free Spirit

"Friends of the Heart Katie Davis Facebook Group"
Share the awakening daily with Katie and Sundance
http://groups.to/FriendsoftheHeartKatieDavis

"All You Have Is Now"
Gina Lake, Author, Embracing the Now

Freely share with your Heart Friends ...

Go to: http://www.KatieDavis.org/FriendsoftheHeart.html

Sundance Burke Website: www.SundanceBurke.org

Friday, November 7, 2008

Friends of the Heart November Issue by Katie Davis, Author, Awake Joy, Sundance Burke, Author, Free Spirit



The new November issue of Friends of the Heart is now posted on the Katie Davis Website. To enjoy, please visit Friends of the Heart.


In This Issue:

"Holiday Presence" by Katie Davis, Author, Awake Joy

"Being Beyond Belief" by Sundance Burke, Author, Free Spirit

"Gratitude to Heart Friends" Sundance and Katie Travels

"Diamond of Joy" Free Video (5 min) by Katie Davis

Awake Joy and Free Spirit New Book Reviews

Heart of Life E-book by Katie Davis at Awake Books

Donations to the teachings at Friends of the Heart

Visit www.KatieDavis.org/FriendsoftheHeart.html

Sunday, August 31, 2008

Friends of the Heart September Issue ~ Katie Davis, Author, Awake Joy ~ Sundance Burke, Author, Free Spirit

In This Issue ~

1. "Neither This Nor That" by Katie Davis, Author, Awake Joy

2. "Ego's Postponement Strategy" (7 min) Free Video with Katie Davis

3. "Witnessing the Dream" by Sundance Burke, Author, Free Spirit

4. "The Simple Secret" (9 min) Free Video with Sundance Burke

5. "From Heart to Heart" ~ Poems:
"The Animal" by Sonjan
"Peak Experiences" by Daniel Barre

6. "Awake Joy Book Review"

7. "Free Spirit Book Review"

8. "Being Love" (9 minute) Free Video with Sundance and Katie

Event Reminders ~ Talks, Satsangs, Advaita Satsang Intensives, Day Retreat with Katie Davis, Author, Awake Joy and Sundance Burke, Author, Free Spirit:

September 12 ~ Seattle, WA ~ Awake Right Now! Introduction
East West Bookshop

September 13 ~ Seattle, WA ~ Awake Right Now! Intensive
East West Bookshop

September 19 ~ Portland, OR ~ Awake Joy and Free Spirit
New Renaissance Books

September 20 ~ Portland, OR ~ Awake Right Now! Intensive
New Renaissance Books

September 26, 27, 28 ~ Boulder, CO ~ Advaita Satsang

October 3 ~ Ridgway, CO ~ Advaita Satsang

October 4 ~ Telluride, CO ~ Advaita Satsang

October 5 ~ Ouray, CO ~ Satsang Day Retreat

October 10 ~ Fullerton, CA ~ Awake Right Now! Talk
Host, Dr. Mark Waller, Author, Awakening and Paradox of Being Human
Sponsor, First Church of Religious Science

October 11 ~ Fullerton, CA ~ Awake Right Now! Intensive
Host, Dr. Mark Waller, Author, Awakening and Paradox of Being Human
Sponsor, First Church of Religious Science

October 15 ~ Carlsbad, CA ~ Awake Right Now! Talk
Sponsor, Center for Positive Living

October 18 ~ Carlsbad, CA ~ Awake Right Now! Intensive
Sponsor, Center for Positive Living

Go to Friends of the Heart: www.KatieDavis.org/FriendsoftheHeart.html

Event Testimonials: www.KatieDavis.org/Testimonials.html

Schedule Details: www.KatieDavis.org/Schedule.html

More information about Sundance Burke: www.SundanceBurke.org

More information about Katie Davis: www.KatieDavis.org

Free Video Library of the Teachings: www.KatieDavis.org/FreeAwakeningVideos.html

Thursday, August 21, 2008

LA Satsang in Fullerton, AWAKE Right NOW! Talk and Intensive, October 10, 11 ~ Katie Davis, Author, Awake Joy, Sundance Burke, Author, Free Spirit

The Fall 2008 Tour for Katie Davis, author, Awake Joy, and Sundance Burke, author, Free Spirit includes four California Events in Satsang in Fullerton, CA, October 10, 11 and in Carlsbad, CA, October 15, 18.

Friday, October 10, AWAKE Right NOW! Talk, 7:00-9:00 pm, At the Door $10

Saturday, October 11, AWAKE Right NOW! Intensive, 10:00 am-4:00 pm, Register $75 at the church office.

Venue and Sponsor: First Church of Religious Science Church, 117 N. Pomona Ave, Fullerton, Reverend Annette Drake,(714) 525-1126

Host: Dr. Mark Waller, author, Awakening, The Paradox of Being Human, The Dance of the Lion and the Unicorn. Contact Mark: (888) 401-6275. www.MarkWaller.com

You may register for the intensive at the church office or if you would rather register by credit card go to: www.MarkWaller.com/AwakeRightNow.htm

Event and Satsang Testimonials at: www.KatieDavis.org/Events.html

Free videos of the teachings and more information at:

www.KatieDavis.org and www.SundanceBurke.org

Contact Sundance and Katie at awake@KatieDavis.org

Carlsbad Satsang, AWAKE Right NOW! Talk and Intensive, October 15, 18 ~ Katie Davis, Author, Awake Joy, Sundance Burke, Author, Free Spirit

The Fall 2008 Schedule for Katie Davis, author, Awake Joy and Sundance Burke, author, Free Spirit includes four California events: October 10, 11 in Fullerton and October 15, 18 in Carlsbad, CA.

Wednesday, October 15, AWAKE Right NOW! Talk in Satsang, 7:00-9:00 pm, $10 at the door.

Saturday, October 18, AWAKE Right NOW! Intensive, 11:00-5:00 pm, Register $75

Sponsor: Carlsbad Center for Positive Living, 390 H Oak Avenue in Carlsbad, Reverend Debby O'Donnell and Founder and Reverend Dr. Jane Claypool, (760) 434-9579. www.carlsbadcenterforpositiveliving.com.

Please register at the church office.

Event and Satsang Testimonials: www.KatieDavis.org/Events.html

Free videos of the teachings and more information about Katie Davis and Sundance Burke at www.KatieDavis.org and www.SundanceBurke.org.

Contact Sundance and Katie at awake@KatieDavis.org.

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Boulder Advaita Satsang, Ridgway Satsang, Telluride Satsang, Ouray Satsang Day Retreat, Private Satsang - Sundance and Katie

Boulder Advaita Satsang, Rigway Satsang, Telluride Satsang, Ouray Satsang Day Retreat - Katie Davis, Sundance Burke

Seven Colorado events including a Day Retreat in Ouray and you are invited to join us ~ Katie Davis and Sundance Burke, www.KatieDavis.org, www.SundanceBurke.org Katie is author of "Awake Joy" and Sundance is author of "Free Spirit"

Sundance and Katie begin sitting 15 minutes early and you are welcome to join them. Please enter in silence.

Satsang Testimonials: www.KatieDavis.org/Events.html

Free Videos at www.KatieDavis.org and www.SundanceBurke.org

Friday, September 26, 7:00-9:00 pm, Boulder Advaita Satsang
Saturday, September 27, 6:00-8:00 pm, Boulder Advaita Satsang
Community United Church of Christ
2650 Table Mesa Dr., Boulder
Optional Donation at the Door $20
Contact Pat Dorsey (303) 817-3472 or louisvillemt@msn.com

Sunday, September 28, 4:00-6:00 pm, Boulder Advaita Satsang
Attila Kassa, 7257 Siena Way, Boulder
Optional Donation at the Door $20
Contact Attila, (720) 480-9646 or attila.kassa@comcast.net

Friday, October 3, 7:00-9:00 pm, Ridgway Advaita Satsang
Ridgway Community Center (Adjacent to the City Park)
Donation at the Door $15-$20
Contact Travis Norris (970) 209-1868 or wireless_limited@msn.com

Saturday, October 4, 4:00-6:00 pm, Telluride Advaita Satsang
Telluride Yoga Center,
Donation at the Door $15-$20
Contact Travis Norris (970) 209-1868 or wireless_limited@msn.com

Sunday, October 5, 11:00 am-5:00 p0m (lunch break), Satsang Day Retreat
Travis Norris, 44 Whispering Pines Dr., Ouray (2 miles north of Ouray)
Contact Travis to Register: $50-$75, ((970) 209-1868 or wireless_limited@msn.com

Monday, October 6, All Day and Evening, Private Satsang with Katie Davis or Sundance Burke, $80. To schedule a one hour session, contact Travis Norris (970) 209-1868 or wireless_limited@msn.com

Sunday, August 10, 2008

Sundance and Katie - No Dilemma - Authors, Free Spirit, Awake Joy - Free Videos (9 minutes)

Sundance Burke, author, Free Spirit, and Katie Davis, author, Awake Joy share that there is No Dilemma in spiritual awakening and enlightenment. Enjoy the entire Sundance and Katie Free Videos Library with videos, television and radio shows on spiritual awakening, enlightenment, non-duality, meditation, Advaita and spirituality at www.SundanceandKatie.org.

Friday, August 8, 2008

Katie Davis - The Only Essential Question - Free Video (7 minutes)

Katie Davis, author, Awake Joy, points to The Only Essential Question for spiritual awakening and enlightenment on the Never Not Here Show. Enjoy the entire Free Videos Library with videos, television and radio shows on spiritual awakening, enlightenment, nonduality, advaita, meditation and spirituality at www.KatieDavis.org.

Thursday, August 7, 2008

Sundance Burke - Wholeness - Free Video (9 minutes), Author, Free Spirit

Sundance Burke, author, Free Spirit, speaks on realizing Wholeness that is associated with spiritual awakening and enlightenment on the Never Not Here television show. Enjoy the entire Free Awakening Videos Library with videos, television and radio shows on spiritual awakening, enlightenment, advaita, nonduality, meditation and spirituality at www.SundanceBurke.org.

Sunday, August 3, 2008

Sundance Burke - Aliveness - Author, Free Spirit, (6 minute video)

Sundance Burke, author, Free Spirit: A Guide to Enlightened Being points to the extraordinary sense of Aliveness that is associated with spiritual awakening and enlightenment. Enjoy the entire Free Videos Library with videos, television and radio shows on awakening, enlightenment, nonduality, advaita, meditation and spirituality at www.SundanceBurke.org.

Sundance and Katie's Fall 2008 Schedule includes Talks, Satsang, Satsang Intensives and a Satsang Day Retreat: Seattle, Portland, Boulder, Ridgway, Telluride, Ouray, Los Angeles, Carlsbad and tentatively Sebastopol.

Review Event Testimonials and Schedule Details at www.SundanceBurke.org/Events.html.

Saturday, August 2, 2008

Katie Davis - A Certain Hesitation - Author, Awake Joy (7 minute video)

Katie Davis, author, Awake Joy: The Essence of Enlightenment, points that if there is A Certain Hesitation, who is that who is hesitating? In surrender all is resolved in spiritual awakening and enlightenment.

Enjoy the entire Free Videos Library with videos, television and radio shows on awakening, enlightenment, nonduality, advaita, meditation and spirituality at www.KatieDavis.org.

Friday, August 1, 2008

Sundance Burke, "A Simple Secret"- Sundance Burke is Author of Free Spirit, Free Videos (9 minutes)

Sundance Burke, author, Free Spirit: A Guide to Enlightened Being, points to a simple secret in association to spiritual awakening, non-duality, enlightenment and Self-realization. Enjoy the entire free video library at www.SundanceandKatie.org.

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Sundance and Katie - Love of Being - Authors, Free Spirit, Awake Joy, Free Videos (7 minutes)

SundanceandKatie.org: Sundance Burke, author, Free Spirit: A Guide to Enlightened Being, and Katie Davis, author, Awake Joy: The Essence of Enlightenment point to the Love of Being that is associated with spiritual awakening and enlightenment. Sundance and Katie appear on the Never Not Here Show by ClearSightTV. More free videos at www.SundanceBurke.org, www.KatieDavis.org and www.SundanceandKatie.org.

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Katie Davis - Ego's Postponement Strategy - Free Video, Author, Awake Joy - Never Not Here Show by ClearSight TV (8 minute video)

KatieDavis.org: Katie Davis, author, Awake Joy, shares on Ego's Postponement Strategy, in reference to spiritual awakening and enlightenment, on Chicago's Never Not Here Show with Richard Miller (nevernothere). Enjoy the video library at Free Videos at www.KatieDavis.org.

Thursday, July 24, 2008

Sundance Burke Suggests 'We May be Ignoring' on Never Not Here Television, Advaita Satsang Teacher and Author of 'Free Spirit'

Sundance Burke, author, Free Spirit, and Advaita Satsang Teacher suggests that We May Be Ignoring as he speaks on awakening, Advaita, non-duality and enlightenment on the Never Not Here Show by ClearSightTV.

This is a segment of a one hour show that may be enjoyed at www.SundanceBurke.org in the Free Videos library.

Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Sundance and Katie on Mind Body Spirit Radio ~ Podcast, Slideshow and Music

Sundance Burke, author of Free Spirit and Katie Davis, author of Awake Joy on Mind Body Spirit Radio and interviewed by Liah Howard on awakening, enlightenment and enlightened relationships. The free podcast has a beautiful slide show with music. Enjoy the entire video library at www.katiedavis.org and www.sundanceburke.org.

Show 27 Katie Davis, Never Not Here Show by Clearsight TV

Show 27 Katie Davis, author, Awake Joy: The Essence of Enlightenment" on Chicago's Never Not Here Show by Clearsight TV on awakening, enlightenment, Self-realization, meditation, spirituality, awake living. She discusses her new book, Awake Joy. Enjoy the free awakening library with satsang videos, television show and radio podcasts with beautiful slide shows and conscious music at www.katiedavis.org and www.sundanceburke.org

Show 28 Katie Davis on Never Not Here Show by Clearsight TV

Katie Davis, author, Awake Joy, on Chicago's televised Never Not Here Show 28 by Clearsight TV on awakening, enlightenment, meditation, living now, life purpose, spirituality, advaita and nonduality.Enjoy the entire free awakening video library at www.katiedavis.org and by Sundance Burke, www.sundanceburke.org.

Katie Davis Video Interview by Jordan Shafer of CompassionWorks

Katie Davis, author, Awake Joy, is interviewed by Jordan Shafer of CompassionWorks before Dallas Satsang on awakening, enlightenment, meditation, nonduality, advaita, living now, meditation and spirituality. Enjoy the entire free awakening video library by Katie Davis and Sundance at www.katiedavis.org/freeawakeningvideos.html with interviews, satsang, television shows and free radio podcasts with slide shows and beautiful conscious music.

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Awareness Anonymous By Sundance Burke

New WiseCrack by Sundance Burke


(AA Meeting ~ Speaking at an Awareness Anonymous meeting)
Hi, my name is Sundance and I am a non-thinker.
I used to over-think unconsciously every day. I was a slave to my mind.
Now that I am conscious and aware, I no longer think.
In fact, it’s been 5 minutes & 32 seconds since I had my last thought.
Today, I stay thought-free, one second at a time.

When I was thinking, I was addicted to the past. For me, one past thought simply led to the next. I just couldn’t stop thinking, because I thought I needed it to be who I am. Yet, every time I thought too much, I’d end up suffering. After several years of hard core thinking, I began to hallucinate. I thought that I was seeing separate people, places and things. I felt completely isolated and lonely. I tried to possess and hold onto the images as if they were real. I was constantly paranoid. I felt like everyone was leaving me or after me. I projected the cause for all my problems onto the illusion of others. My vision got blurry and I started seeing double. I would reach out for things that weren’t there. I was constantly dissatisfied and afraid. I began to believe that an imaginary future held my salvation and I lost all contact with the present moment. I felt divided, lost and constantly threatened. I didn’t know it then, but I was about to wake up in a gutter of my own making. Because of this experience, I now realize that I cannot have a single thought without the risk of falling back into my addiction.

By these meetings, I have come to realize that thinking is a dis-ease and so I shouldn’t feel guilty. I now know that I am not responsible for the thoughts that I think. I am merely unconscious when I am thinking, and so, I don’t know what I am thinking or how much.

I used to feel that I couldn’t live without thinking and that I was powerless to stop. The truth is, I used to over-think everyday. I guess you could have labeled me a Maintenance Thinker. I just couldn’t do anything without thinking about it first. I’d think a lot before going to bed at night. I’d also think in the morning, as I was getting ready for work. I’d even think on the job and then I’d bring my thinking home with me. All the while, I didn’t feel like my thinking habit was a problem. I thought that I could think and get away with it. Often, I would hide my thinking from my family and friends. I didn’t want anyone to know how much I was thinking. So, I wouldn’t reveal anything I thought. I would just keep my thinking to myself and think alone. You see, I became a closet thinker. However, sometimes a friend would suspect that I was thinking alone and ask, “What are you thinking?” I’d say “nothing,” hoping to hide the fact that I had been thinking all the time. Occasionally, I’d be honest and own up to my thinking and tell them just what I thought. Unconsciously, I probably knew that my thinking was a problem and that I needed help.

It’s a fact that I experienced a tremendous number of problems while I was still thinking about one thing after another. In the beginning, it seemed that I could think socially. However, I soon found out that 2 thoughts were never enough for me. I just couldn’t stop at “I Am.” With me, 2 thoughts became 3 and 3 became 4… “I am…I am so…I am so angry,” I’d think. Next, I’d be pounding down one thought after another until I was completely unconscious and unhappy. “I am so angry… at… you… for…leaving…me… and…running…off…with…my…best…friend.” I’d go on like this until I blacked out and lost all consciousness. My thinking was completely out of control and I hurt myself, my family and friends. I also created a lot of enemies.

Sometimes, I used to think positive thoughts to get high, but after thinking too many thoughts my thinking would invariably turn negative and then I’d suffer. When I wasn’t thinking anything at all, I felt so bad that I desired to start thinking again, just to get high again. This cycle of up and down thinking would repeat itself endlessly. Eventually, I thought my life was hopeless and I thought about ending my thinking altogether.

Only by grace, I discovered Awareness Anonymous and attended my first meeting. These meetings were dry, and so, no thinking was allowed anywhere in the hall. The anonymity in the group name comes from no thinking. However, each anonymous member of the group used to be an over-thinker, just like me. To maintain our anonymity, we hang out with other non-thinkers and try to avoid places where there’s a lot of thinking going on. Someday I hope that I’ll be able to be around thinkers without thinking like they do. Until then, I’ll just stay with the program and not think. I cannot tell you how grateful I am to be here anonymously.

Saturday, June 28, 2008

Sundance and Katie on Mind Body Spirit Radio, Author, Free Spirit and Awake Joy

Enjoy Sundance and Katie, authors of "Free Spirit" and "Awake Joy" on Mind Body Spirit Maui Radio with a beautiful Hawaii slide show and conscious music by Kirtana and John Astin. They share the awakening, enlightenment, enlightened relationships, photos of traveling with Eckhart Tolle and more. They are interviewed by Maui's Liah Howard. Enjoy the entire free awakening video library that features programs with Sundance and Katie on awakening, enlightenment, meditation, satsang and spirituality by clicking Free Awakening Videos.

Know Yourself ~ United Kingdom ~ Sundance and Katie ~ Free Podcasts and Audio Downloads, Authors, Free Spirit, Awake Joy

For our English Heart Friends and others around the world, you may now enjoy free satsang downloads with Katie Davis, author of "Awake Joy: The Essence of Enlightenment" and Sundance Burke, author of "Free Spirit: A Guide to Enlightened Being" at the Know Yourself Website ~ Discover Your True Identity.

Know Yourself is offering in their Enlightenment and Truth category, "Diamond of Joy," which is a two hour audio download for purchase of Dallas satsang, produced by Video Dynamics that will also become available as a DVD in the Sundance and Katie Store at their websites, www.KatieDavis.org and www.SundanceBurke.org.

Know Yourself is also offering two free audio podcasts with Sundance and Katie: Beauty Truth and Unreasonable Joy in their Free Talks and Teachings category.

You may go to Sundance and Katie's Knowyourself Web Page by clicking

http://www.knowyourself.org/speakers/34/

Never Not Here Awakening Group Round Table with Sundance and Katie from Clearsight TV

Sundance Burke, author, Free Spirit: The Essence of Enlightenment and Katie Davis, author, Awake Joy: The Essence of Enlightenment on the Never Not Here Show. Host and producer, Richard Miller, organized and produced an Awakening Group in Chicago as a televised Round Table. This is not a traditional satsang. It is wonderful in demonstration of all the states of consciousness that are available. Where are you looking from? What is your reference point? Are you willing to allow the Truth?
114 minutes. Enjoy the entire free video library with six Never Not Here Shows, free radio podcasts with beautiful slide shows with music and video interviews with Sundance and Katie by clicking Free Awakening Videos.

Sunday, June 15, 2008

My My My by Sundance Burke

If we want to be enlightened, we will have to lighten up by dropping all our unnecessary burdens, heaviness, and carry-on baggage. What is that, one might ask? Well, it's all the things that we identify with and attach to that don't belong to us and I'll get to these things in a minute. But first, how do we demonstrate that we attach to things? We demonstrate this by our thinking and speaking. We say "my" body, "my" feelings, "my" mind, "my" world etc. Here's a very short list of the things that weigh us down from one moment to the next. "MY" body, disease, health, illness, pain, image, worries, concerns, goals, projects, work, house, car, bills, neighborhood, environment, hopes and dreams. "MY" feelings, memories, guilt, resentments, regrets, insecurities, frustrations, excitement, depression, sadness, anger, happiness, fears and desires. "MY" thoughts, judgments, opinions, political and religious affiliations, past, future, story, knowledge, experience, training. Each and every one of these things possesses some weight for us to carry.

Let me ask, do any of these things really belong to YOU? Another way of approaching this is to ask, who would you be if none of these things had anything to do with you? Don't all these conceptual trappings just make YOU up as something when in truth YOU are no-thing at all? Is there any such thing as a YOU without this idea that "I am what I perceive"? Strip down, get naked, let's go skinny dipping. Take off all your restricting clothes. It's just apparel, cover up, make-believe pretense. None of these things are YOU. And if YOU let everything go you'll realize who you really are.

Wow, can you believe it, You are no thing at all, so there is nothing for anything to attach to. One thing needs another for attachment and YOU do not qualify for that position. Lucky YOU! My oh my have YOU changed. YOU look good unburdened, light and free. It's crazy isn't? We have been carrying all this weight throughout our lives and it has never even occurred to us that we could put it all down. I am not saying that you don't have to interact with all these things anymore. You will have these interactions. However, you will no longer be confused. You will meet them from a clear awareness. Things only weigh upon us because we believe that these things make us who we are. Well, the truth is that they do not make us who we are. Rather, we make them what they are. If YOU can intuit the truth of all this, YOU will never again use the word "my" to express your belief, rather YOU will use it to express your wonder. "My Oh My" what a beautiful life!
Blessings, Sundance

Monday, June 2, 2008

New Release, June 2: Sundance Burke, author of "Free Spirit" Interview on the "Never Not Here" Television Show 30

New release today, June 2, Sundance Burke, author of "Free Spirit: A Guide to Enlightened Being" is interviewed by host and producer, Richard Miller, on Chicago's "Never Not Here" Television Show 30. Sundance speaks on awakening to your life's deepest purpose and the nature of consciousness.

Enjoy the entire free awakening video library by clicking Sundance.

To purchase his new book, "Free Spirit," please click Amazon.

Amazon Buy: "Free Spirit: A Guide to Enlightened Being" by Sundance Burke

Amazon Buy: "Free Spirit: A Guide to Enlightened Being" by Sundance Burke may be purchased by clicking www.Amazon.com. You may search inside the book and review the Table of Contents as well as excerpts from "Free Spirit." You may also read customers comments and reviews or share your comments about this book.

You will be forwarded to the buy page by clicking Amazon

You may also purchase "Free Spirit" at the Sundance Burke website, signup to receive free monthly newsletters from Friends of the Heart or enjoy Sundance's WiseCracks. Click Sundance

Saturday, May 31, 2008

Sundance Burke Awakening Video Interview - 35 min.

Sundance Burke, author of "Free Spirit: A Guide to Enlightened Being," is interviewed by Jordan Shafer of Compassionworks in Dallas before satsang. They speak on awakening and enlightenment. Enjoy the entire free video library with television interviews and radio podcasts with slideshows and music at www.SundanceBurke.org/FreeAwakeningVideos.html. On this website, you may also signup for free monthly Friends of the Heart Newsletters with articles on awakening, nonduality, advaita and enlightenment.

Maui Satsangs and Internet Radio

You are invited to satsang with Sundance Burke, author of "Free Spirit" and Katie Davis, author of "Awake Joy" on Maui, Sundays, June 1, 8, 15, and 22 at 4:00 pm in Maui Meadows at 875 Kumulani. Please arrive 15 minutes early.

Thursday, June 19 at Noon, Sundance and Katie will be on Mind Body Spirit radio on KAOI Radion 1110 AM. The call-in talk show will also be available on the internet at www.MindBodySpiritMaui.com with an MP3 available at that website after the show. The interview will be by Maui's Liah Howard. You are welcome to join us and call-in your questions.

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Katie Davis, Author, "Awake Joy" on the "Never Not Here" Television Show by Richard Miller

Katie Davis, author of "Awake Joy: The Essence of Enlightenment" is interviewed on Chicago television on the "Never Not Here" Show by host and producer, Richard Miller on awakening, enlightenment, consciousness, meditation, nonduality and spirituality. For more free videos, go to www.KatieDavis.org/FreeAwakeningVideos.html, also television and radio interviews. For free videos, television and radio interviews with Sundance Burke, author of "Free Spirit: A Guide to Enlightened Being" please go to www.sundanceburke.org/FreeAwakeningVideos.html.

Monday, May 26, 2008

Television Interview with Sundance Burke, Author, "Free Spirit"

Television interview with Sundance Burke, author of "Free Spirit: A Guide to Enlightened Being," by Richard Miller, host and producer of the "Never Not Here" show.



Visit www.SundanceBurke.org.

Free Awakening and Enlightenment Videos

Free videos on awakening, enlightenment, consciousness, nonduality, spirituality and meditation at www.SundanceBurke.org, author of "Free Spirit: A Guide to Enlightened Being." You may also enjoy Sundance in television interviews and radio podcasts.

Saturday, May 24, 2008

Being Present & Self-realization by Sundance Burke

Question:

Thank you for your work!! I have a question for you... Is this about "being present, in the moment", or realizing the truth of who we really are? It seems, if I am totally present, in the moment, i don't know who i am because i'm not thinking or conceptualizing. But, that being totally present goes in and out, or back and forth. However, if i know myself as pure awareness, i walk around with that "knowing" and it doesn't matter if i am present or not!! There seems to be a difference here and a big contradiction. One is totally alive i guess you could say, and the other seems to be a mind thing or an intellectualizing. Can you please offer your insight and guidance? Thank you very much!!! Peace

Sundance Response:
Being present in the moment is just the first step in realizing who you really are. And what does being present really mean? It means being conscious of all that is happening in your experience right now, both outside the body and within the body/mind. It means that one is aware of self-experience now and aware that one is aware now. Very practically, it is eating and knowing there is eating, walking and feeling there is walking, thinking and seeing the thought process as it happens, being conscious of the present sense impressions being felt and reflected in the body/mind etc. It is by being present right now, which means conscious of Being Experience, that one can be beyond the body and mind phenomena and broadly engaged in that which knows all of this experience; the coming and goings on.

Consciousness is the permanent backdrop for all life experience, inner or outer. This sense of inner or outer is transcended into All Being when there is a conscious witnessing present as Self. This Aware Presence does not distinguish between inner or outer, that inside or outside the physical body, as the conscious Presence is who you are as the seer-knower-feeler and everything seen -known -felt, including the body, is this Self's experince, but not itself, except relatively and temporarily. Knowing who you truly are or Self-realization is fully realizing that True You is always here and beyond all experience including the experience of life as we know it. There are infinite life expressions that one might behold, many worlds, many dreams and You are their knower and also their source.

This cannot be understood intellectually and be called Self-realization. The latter is being this knowledge and that means that what I am saying is your actual experience of being nothing other than BeingAware. Self-realization is not a philosophy to be mentally explored, rather it is the reflected Livingness of that which is Pure Awareness... the Lover of All Mainifestation... the Heart of any Life.

Another response to your query is: concepts do not matter except to other concepts. Being is All that is Living Now.

Thanks for asking. I trust this pointing serves Truth.

Blessings Sundance

Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Awake Delight by Sundance Burke

Ah ha! We are awake. We are not our thoughts; any idea, voice, belief, opinion or feeling judgment. We have awakened from our dream of endless desire and fear. We see the splinter in our mind. “Something needs to change in this moment for me to be happy.” What a funny and absurd idea. How can we possibly be happy, when we are entranced by such a suggestion? Obviously, we cannot be happy while chaining our Being to a pre-condition for present contentment. Yet, now we are awake. We see the thought. We realize what it is saying and we recognize the lie. This mind has always been speaking like this. However, now the trance is over, the splinter is gone and our eyes are crystal clear. Awareness is here, always here and That is who we are. We are awake in the light of knowing without pretending to be some-thing or some-one. We are not sad, depressed, angry, bored or confused. We are not afraid or longing. We are not a splinter of the mind. We are awake. We see the thief sneaking in to take us away to its hiding place. We catch this thief red-handed. We enjoy this attempt to steal from us, because we know that our house is empty and no one is home. We release this thief, because there never was anything real to get or take. This plan for our takeover is just so ill-conceived. Dreams are just dreams. Thoughts are just thoughts, hitching posts for every little self-concept. We are not little or big. We are not an abstraction of Being Alive. We are simply Awake and ever delighted to be so. Love and Blessings, Sundance

Monday, January 7, 2008

Love at First Glance by Katie Davis

Ecstatic poetry recognizes that all love is One Love and that in falling in love with one another, we are expressing the Divine. Rumi, a thirteenth century ecstatic poet, describes The Glance as falling in love at first sight. He shares that The Glance is the mystical moment, when two spiritually connected individuals meet. The following selections reveal, in the meeting of eyes, not only the exquisite union of two loving souls, but also the Love that is the Heart of the Universe. Katie selected these excerpts from The Illuminated Rumin, translated by Coleman Barks and illustrated by Michael Green.

~ What is the Heart? It is not human and it is not imaginary. I call it You.

~ This is how I would die into the Love that I have for You…as pieces of cloud dissolve in sunlight.

~ Out beyond ideas of wrong-doing and right-doing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about. Ideas, language, even the phrase “each other,” just doesn’t make sense any longer.

~ You and I have spoken all these words. But for the way we have to go, words are no preparation. There’s no getting ready, other than Grace. I have one drop of knowing in my soul. Let it dissolve in your ocean.

~ What was in that candle’s light that opened and consumed me so quickly? Come back, my Friend. The form of our Love is not a created form. Nothing can help me, but that Beauty. There was a dawn, I remember, when my soul heard something from your soul. I drank water from your spring and felt the current take me.

~ This night, there are no limits to what may be given. This is not a night, but a marriage. A couple whispering in bed in unison the same words. Darkness simply lets down a curtain for that.

~ I would love to kiss you…when soul rises into lips, you feel the kiss, you’ve always wanted.

~ In Love that long! I am Here, this moment, inside the Beauty, the gift God has given, our Love: this ring, this gold and circular sign, means we are free: out of eternity, I turn my face to you, and into eternity: we have been in Love that long.