Life Living Itself: Recent Episodes
Susanne Marie
Recorded Sunday August 17th 2 Hours Self-preoccupation veils the natural sense of unity and belonging. This is why, traditionally in India, the Bhakti path of selfless service, Seva, has been so deeply valued. When we make a habit of prioritizing our own needs above all else, it reinforces the illusion of a separate self. The spiritual journey is, in essence, a process of self lessening so that the Divine may grow within us. Deep down, …
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Open Circle Hosted Online Meeting with Susanne Marie Recorded Saturday, June 14, 2025 Sometimes the only way to be free of something is to allow yourself to be fully trapped. Most of us are initially drawn to spirituality with the understandable desire to feel better and in general to be released from suffering. Often, however, our desire to escape suffering creates its own bondage. The desire itself plays into the belief that something needs to …
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Recorded July 2025, approx. 1 hour. In this rich and insightful episode on The Center For Healing Podcast, Matt is joined by spiritual teacher Susanne Marie for a profound exploration of the integrative path of spiritual awakening. Together, they unpack the evolving journey of awakening, moving through key phases such as: The Emptiness Phase – where identity dissolves into spacious awareness The Unity/Oneness Phase – the realization of interconnectedness with all life The Embodiment Phase …
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Recorded March 26, 2025, approximately 43 mins in length. Join Susanne Marie and Connie (Ma Prem Zareen), in an exploratory and lively discussion about how we come about waking up to Truth, and what it takes to have awakening live in a grounded way. We touch on a variety of subjects, with the focus being about the naturalness of waking up, and the importance of looking at one’s conditioning (both collective & individual). Ma Prem …
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Recorded January 2025, 1 hour, 23 minutes long. A relaxed conversation between two friends touching on a variety of interesting topics pertaining to awakening. Pierre Richard is a saxophone player and teacher, and a dedicated spiritual practitioner who lives in Montreal, Canada. Topics contained in this podcast range from the different types of bliss, to the varieties of teachers’ transmissions that exist, including those to avoid. We also discuss the importance of preserving your life …
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This is an online meeting hosted by Open Circle Center and recorded on Sunday November 10th, 2024. Approx. 2 hours. It is good to take stock now and then and sincerely look at what one is wanting spiritually. In order to attain undivided Truth, one needs to be intentional, even if knowing how to get there is undefined. In actuality, having clarity in the moment as to ‘how’, while also allowing divine intelligence to guide, …
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Resting with ‘what is’, is a powerful teaching and helps one live this life with more presence and less resistance. As a practice: First one notices what is taking place inside, then one opens to it the best one can. What is allowing something to be is spaciousness itself, which is already open and free. This practice helps one learn how to be present and available to the moment.
Clip taken from an online meeting titled: Why Awaken?
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Over time one can realize that the separate self sense is not needed in order to make your life work. Relaxing (surrendering) into your Being, and learning how to function from an unbounded place, supports the letting go of the belief that you need to exert a doer (which is imagined). Awakening is making awareness conscious throughout your whole being (as a felt sense), and increasingly in your life.
Clip taken from an online meeting titled: What Can One Do to Awaken?
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Where are you at on your own spiritual map? The more you give yourself to what it is you are wanting spiritually, the more support you receive from the divine. What makes one unaware of Being, is the sense that it is covered over by content. Awakening is your spirit essence becoming conscious of itself, and then having that awareness liberate all the forgotten lost parts, inside. In this video, Susanne speaks to the spiritual map that we hold in common evolutionarily.
This clip is taken from Susanne’s 7-night May 2024, Truth Unveiled Retreat.
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What would you like to be done with? What has been weighing on you, and you would like to set down today?
This audio clip is taken from Susanne’s 7-night May 2024, Truth Unveiled Retreat.
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Enter into the silence in-between the gaps of your thinking mind, by using a Sanskrit seed mantra. Soham is translated as: I am That.
This audio clip is taken from Susanne’s 7-night May 2024, Truth Unveiled Crestone, Retreat. The Retreat package is for sale under Susanne’s Premium Audio Page on her website: https://susannemarie.org/premium-audio/
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The natural flow of one’s breath is an ever present invitation to be renewed. With the in-breath we invite fresh vital life-force energy, and with the outgoing breath, one can release what is not needed or useful, back to the uncreated.
This audio clip is taken from Susanne’s 7-night May 2024, Truth Unveiled Crestone, Retreat.
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In order for awakening to be known throughout one’s system, the light of consciousness is meant to be awaken to sensorily in the body. While learning how to open to feeling presence in the body, one can encounter resistances along the way. Working with these resistances helps one to more deeply live awakening in an abiding way.
This video as well as the Meditation Video titled: The Felt Sense of Presence, are taken from an online 4-part course titled: Focused Practices to Help you Awaken.
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It is best to resist the urge to hurry up awakening. The point is to stay on track remaining focused on your spiritual practice. Digging one well deeply is what yields fruit. It is easy to become addicted to the internet thinking that your spiritual growth will come from taking in outside content. Your own connection to source is what is important. Over time, embodying Truth changes you, emptying you out and revealing a more harmonized and soulful nature.
Clip taken from an online meeting titled: Embodying Soul. Available for purchase under the Premium Audio page of Susanne’s website.
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In this Open Circle Center Hosted Online Meeting, Susanne walks one through landing in the here in now firstly in the body, then placing attention on the power of noticing, leading to awareness being aware of itself.
Whether you are an advanced practitioner, or newly entering the spiritual stream, one can always use the simple (yet profound), essential practice of resting one’s attention on presence. As you may know, what we sincerely give our attention to, grows, and this is also true in regard to realizing our true nature.
It is easy to get caught up with flowery or complicated pointers, falsely believing that realization is difficult to attain and meant for the few. But it does take a certain type of dedication and willingness to unstrip oneself of imagination and avoid the tendency to complicate things, which puts awakening into time.
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Learning how to be true to oneself rather than giving over to how one imagines one should behave, helps one to align to Truth. Remain home within yourself, and see what kind of response comes from there.
Audio clip taken from Susanne’s Truth Unveiled May 2024 Crestone Retreat. You may purchase the entire 7 night retreat package on her Premium audio page.
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A skill worthy of learning has to do with noticing the natural in and outgoing of your breath. With the in-breath, we are here and exist, and with the out-breath, we let go and release into emptiness.
Audio clip taken from Susanne’s May Truth Unveiled 2024 Crestone Retreat. You may purchase the entire 7 night retreat package on her Premium audio page.
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In this meditation, Susanne walks one through the steps of how to drop below identification via being in awareness of noticing. Noticing without interpretation is a doorway to freedom and is something one can practice. This meditation was especially loved by those who attended Susanne’s Taos retreat.
Recorded live at Susanne’s Taos Retreat, September 2022.
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In this guided meditation, you are invited to tune into what presence feels like in the body via the sensing body. This helps ground presence consciously so that one can know what awareness is not only in an abstract way through the mind, but also in an understandbly direct and sensorially manner via the body.
This audio as well as the video titled: Non-Dual Awakening of the body, are taken from an online 4-part course titled: Focused Practices to Help you Awaken.
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In this meditation, Susanne walks one through sinking into the aliveness of presence by using a simple, yet powerful, Sanskrit seed mantra: Soham (I am That). This clip is taken from an online 4 – part series titled: Focused Spiritual Practice Support Sessions.
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There is a very simple method to realizing your true nature, and that is in order to wake up and have truth stabilize within, you have to not only desire it with your whole heart, you also have to one pointedly work towards it.
There is a saying in Zen that the Buddha lies at the base of the hedgegrow. What this is pointing to is that truth is locatable, bit in order to find it, you are required to sincereley look. Realizing truth is not held outside of you, found within teachings on YouTune, or dispensed solely by grace. Truth is locatable and resides in a grounded way, within you.
The Indian spiritual teacher Nisargadatta said that sincerity is key, which couldn’t be more true. It is vital to look for yourself to see whether you contain the sincerity needed to be unwaveringly devoted. When such devotion is cultivated, the goal is a forgone conclusion as our focused attention is the power that is required.
In this meeting Susanne will speak honestly about what is required to realize truth, including guidance as to where to place your attention. If you are already clear on your personal inner guidance, this meeting will support you in further deepening into the unfoldment of Truth.
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In order to advance spiritually, we do need to open in trust to the inner guidance that is intent on bringing you back home to your undivided true nature. In this meeting, you are invited more fully into letting go of control, so that divine intelligence can support your inner unfoldment.
A poem from Shar which emerged following the online meeting:
One day walking life, next moment walking life. One day loving life, next moment loving life.
Breathe, fill the lungs & release. Same day every day, yet, each day blossoms so differently.
As rhythm of moment blossoms so differently.
Once you walk through the door. Life is life, yet life not life.
The one that angered, now let go of. The one that irritated, now let go of.
Mind now a moment passing away.
Mind another day lived, another day loved, another day being home as is,
no holding, just living wildly.
poem- Sharkatana
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Susanne and friends exploring the topic of how the impact of crisis can be met within the realm of awakening. Living our daily lives under ordinary conditions, when the unexpected never materializes and is very far from our active mind, often doesn’t reveal undiscovered territory within one’s conditioning.
This reveals itself in its full, if often unwanted, glory when a major incident takes place. The opportunity held within such times of one’s life unearths hidden patterns leading to reactions and behaviors that jump at the opportunity to come to the light and be transformed. Perhaps the first blessing of a major life altering event is being stopped so fully that there is no option other than being fully present to the moment. Another is encountering the beautiful human spirit of generosity and kindness that can help redeem one and in turn open one’s heart.
Similarly, pain and crisis can invite vast reservoirs of capacity to open in surrender to the moment, helping us to see how much we have benefited from realizations and personal work. It is a blessing to be benefited by the grace arising out of deep spiritual work. It is like having a spiritual piggy bank that comes in handy when faced with challenging times.
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Everybody contains inside of them an inner spiritual guidance system, which when aligned with, helpd orient one to following the path that best servces your awakening. Learning how to open in trust to your inner knowing is much of what the spiritual journey is about. ~ Online Meeting hosted by Open Circle Center
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Our desire to remember the truth of our being and the fact that we are one with life, is the spiritual seekers journey. In honor of Earth Day, we will take the opportunity to remember together our interconnection. Coming back to our true nature is for the most part an individual journey, and yet there are times when community (Sangha), is highly supportive.
There is real connective power contained in group energy, and when the intention is in alignment with opening to Truth, the vibration creates a field in assisting awakening. This is why the Buddha said that it takes: Buddha, Sangha, and Dharma (truth), to wake up to our being.
On this day we will share in a group meditation, talk, and dialogue, inviting Mother Earth to reveal to us her open mystery, reminding us of our universal Oneness. Coming back home to our intrinsic wholeness is our birthright, and one that is vital for our collective well-being.
*Monthly Online Meetings calendar is found on Susanne’s website (under Events). All are welcome.
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Whether you are an advanced practitioner, or just entering the spiritual stream, one can always use the simple (yet profound), essential teaching of: Stop, Rest, & Allow.
This is not true. But it does take a certain type of dedication and willingness to unstrip oneself of imagination and avoid the tendency to complicate things, which puts awakening into time.
The full audio with dialogue can be found on Susanne’s website under her Premium Audio page. Titled: Coming Back to Basics
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Divinity dwells within everything in existence. Every rock, tree, creature, and human being is an expression of divine intelligence, incarnate. Earth is birthed out of That and is on her own evolutionary journey, as is the Sun, and each unique soul.
Everything in creation is life in evolution, growing in awareness of what is possible. God is composed of both its transcendent eternal nature, as well as imminent within manifestation. Without form, spirit does not know itself, and has no capacity to expand, deepen, and grow.
Remembering for ourselves the sacredness and value of being here, supports our own incarnation as unique souls, as we are divine sparks emerging out of the cauldron of spirit.
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This is the fourth audio meeting of the 4th Spiritual Practice Support Group of 2022 (a 4-part series), whereby Susanne met with a group of sincere spiritual travelers, answering questions in-depth on a wide range of topics regarding spiritual practice.
Topics in this meeting:Trauma & HealingDifference between psychological techniques & being self-led.The power of being direct.The elemental energy of anger.
Healthy boundaries.The full 4-meeting series is offered for sale under Premium Audio.
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The rise and fall of the sense of you emerges out of the vast ocean of Self. Dropping below labels and becoming the dancing molecules of vibration, allows you to become more diffused with your sense of self, opening you up to inner harmonization and liberation. The true meaning of alchemy is going from the gross to the subtle, and the transformational process that ensues. Recorded live at Susanne’s Taos Retreat, September 2022.
The first step in non-dual realization is discovering that there is no center to the sense of ‘me’. This understanding grows the more we let go into the unknown. Video clip taken from an online meeting titled: Living Non Duality. Available for purchase on Susanne’s website under Premium Audio. www.susannemarie.org
For many there is a transitional time between feeling like a ‘doer’ and living life without having a sense of self. This is a period of deconstruction where what we have taken to be falsely true about ourselves and the world goes through a filtering process, so that what is real can emerge and be lived. Video clip taken from an online meeting titled: Living Non-Duality. Available for sale under Premium Audio on Susanne’s website. …
In this final conversation with CLJ, Susanne speaks about parenting during the time of her awakening period as the deconstructing of her personal self was taking place. From Conscious Living Jewel www.consciouslivingjewel.com.au
A guided meditation pointing out the fact that awareness is always here. Recorded live at Susanne’s Taos Retreat, September 2022. www.susannemarie.org
In this interview segment, Susanne speaks about the various dimensional and tranformative shifts in her spiritual journey. From Conscious Living Jewel www.consciouslivingjewel.com.au
In this video clip, Susanne speaks on the process of how the feeling of separation arises within, creating a sense of being a person. She also touches on how forgetting our intrinsic oneness is a collective pain that we all share, leading to feeling disconnected from life, and that pain can be a doorway to exploring what is true. Video clip taken from an online meeting titled: Living Non Duality. Available for purchase on Susanne’s …
In this video clip Susanne breaks down non-duality and how the feeling of being separate arises. She points out that the remedy for self-forgetfulness lives within each person. Taken from a recent online meeting titled: Living Non-Duality. ~ Available for purchase on Susanne’s website under Premium Audio. www.susannemarie.org
One’s mind, body, and heart have the capacity to realize that everything is undivided (one with all things), as well as empty in nature. Embodiment is realization taking root throughout one’s whole being as works its way through your system, and transforms your humanity. From Conscious Living Jewel www.consciouslivingjewel.com.au
An unconscious coping strategy used to avoid one’s life as it is, and what we contain inside which is uncomfortable. Opening to what is free inside is a beautiful thing, but we are not meant to live in the transcendence, but rather, the calling is to embody realization and integrate it into our lives. From Conscious Living Jewel ww.consciouslivingjewel.com.au
The ability to self-reflect creates the sense of being a ‘me’. In this interview, Susanne breaks down how this occurs, and why it is important to look at oneself and life without the filter of a ‘self’. From Conscious Living Jewel www.consciouslivingjewel.com.au
In this interview, Susanne breaks down what spiritual realization is, touching on the different levels of awakening and the organic unfoldment that takes place. From Conscious Living Jewel www.consciouslivingjewel.com.au
Audio clip (Part 1 of 4) taken from Susanne’s 3rd Evolution Course: Healing Your Relationship with Life. The entire course is available for sale on the Premium Audio page. Susanne Marie
The more we deepen within ourselves, the less we naturally hold back from living as a simple expression of ordinariness. Remaining on the edge of curiosity, helps keep things fresh and full of nuance, within one’s everyday routines of life. Audio clip taken from a Spiritual Practice Support Group session. Susanne Marie
Audio clip taken from Susanne’s 3rd Evolution Course: Healing Your Relationship with Life. The entire course is available for sale on the Premium Audio page. Susanne Marie
Audio clip taken from Susanne’s 3rd Evolution Course: Healing Your Relationship with Life. The entire course is available for sale on the Premium Audio page Susanne Marie
Audio clip taken from an online Spiritual Practice Support Group meeting. Susanne Marie
A subtle meditation walking one through feeling into sensation and the energetic signature of what we contain inside. This helps break down the solid sense of self, opening one up to the emptiness contained within form. Susanne Marie
Something magical takes place when mind rests in the gap created by ‘don’t know mind’. Within this gap lies the unconditioned. Audio clip taken from the online meeting: Befriending the Unknown Available for sale under Premium Audio. Susanne Marie
This is the third audio meeting of the 3rd Spiritual Practice Support Group of 2022 (a 4-part series), whereby Susanne met with a group of sincere spiritual travelers, answering questions in-depth on a wide range of topics regarding spiritual practice. The full 4-meeting series is offered for sale under Premium Audio. For more information on current online events, visit: https://susannemarie.org/events
Dropping Labels, and opening up to the vastness of what we contain, allows for an open-hearted acceptance of all that arises. In this way, the psuh/pull of indentification falls away, including the separate self-sense. Audio clip taken from Susanne’s recent Evolution Course: Healing Your Relationship with Life.
Life is an uncompromising teacher, and she only wants the highest level of truth. We get what we most want when it comes to living in an aithentic way, and aligining with our true nature, is how we progress forward.
Ultimate fulfilment is not to be found outside of ourselves. It is up to each person to break the trance of being outwardly focused to the point of self-forgetfulness. the wrold of form (Maya), is a beautiful aspect of God. But we are not meant to become lost in it. Rather we are meant to dance with her from a place of integrated wholeness. Audio clip taken from Susanne’s recent Evolution Course: Healing Your Relationship …
I very much enjoyed my podcast conversation with Amba. She is very perceptive, and has an authentic voice. We touch on a lot of topics, such as the sense of Self, and how the mind turns itself into an object in awareness. But the main theme is about the evolutionary drive of life (through awakening), to embrace all the aspects of life into its never-ending field of understanding, so that we can know all as …
In this audio clip, Susanne speaks directly to the unconditional heart, asking for its loving support. The heart is a center of intelligence, and it contains a very clear guidance system. One can learn how to engage the heart energetically, and have heart co-arise with whatever we are encountering, both within as well as with life situations. This assists one in dropping the experience of inner division, as the heart arises from wholeness. Audio clip …
We are a seamless part of the wholeness of life, and remembering this timeless truth, is our birthright. Underneath layers of imagination, fear, and doubt, lies our true heart, clarity of vision, and authentic self. Awakening is the invitation to return home to the natural state. It is an undoing of beliefs, rather than an accumulation. In this meeting, Susanne deconstructs how we get in our own way, helping to uncover the simplicity of our …
Premium Podcast Love, Serve and Remember These three words by Ram Dass’ beloved Guru, Neem Karoli Baba, contain a complete spiritual road map, pointing to how to live a fulfilled and fruitful life. In this meeting, Susanne who has been a lifelong devotee of Neem Karoli Baba (along with Amma), will delve into the power and meaning of these living words, and why they for her encompass a full teaching. Living a life of truth …
In this spring 2022 public meeting clip held in Sebastopol, California, Susanne speaks about the beauty of longing and its place in one’s spiritual journey back to wholeness. She also touches on how to view ego as a movement in consciousness, something that one can feel into and help dissolve, and not as an actual entity, (which entrenches separation).
In the midst of information overload, and the real pain of the world, it is easy to forget how to consciously inhabit ourselves. In order to retain equilibrium during a massive collective imbalance, one has to make an effort to give attention to the inner life. It is a matter of what one ultimately values: being identified with the outer world, or the beauty of your own center. Your inner center is a welcoming place …
This is the first audio meeting of the Spiritual Practice Support Group of 2022 (a 4-part series), whereby Susanne met with a group of sincere spiritual travelers, answering questions in-depth on a wide range of topics regarding spiritual practice. The full 4-meeting series is offered for sale under Premium Audio. For more information on current online events, visit: https://susannemarie.org/events
Choosing to remain present to the alive moment is a vital spiritual practice. As a collective we are experiencing ongoing waves of fear and information overload, which makes it increasingly challenging to remain present and connected to one another. Making an inner decision to open to everyday reality, helps in maintaining sanity in the midst of increasing mass hypnosis. Resisting the impulse to go into inner division (expressing itself as judgement), helps to maintain inner …
The habit of looking outside of oneself is a collective trance that has to be broken, in order to be free. As long as we are in imagination about the future or constantly recycling the past, we are not able to access eternal truth that is always here. Making an inner decision in choosing to be present, and then practicing bringing ones attention back to Now, is vitally important. It takes courage and strength as …
This is the first meeting of a 5-part series, whereby Susanne met with a group of sincere spiritual travellers, answering questions in depth on a wide range of topics regarding spiritual practice. The full 5-meeting series is offered for sale under Premium Audio. For more information on current online events, visit: https://susannemarie.org/events
Using Bernadette Roberts’ map as a way to understand the spiritual journey, Susanne Marie describes the evolution from self-centered consciousness to No-self.
Realization has many stages. With the awakening of mind, the Self is clearly cognized as separate from relative experience. This brings the ability for the mind to rest in and as awareness. As the heart awakens, it sees the world and itself as united and undivided, birthing compassion for all of life. With the awakening of the body, form knows itself to be God, and that “all this is That.” Recorded with Awakening Together in …
While each person’s spiritual journey is unique, there are common themes and landscapes that we share. In this meeting I share my personal understanding of the evolution that takes place as we evolve out of being a self-centered individual, to being divinely centered (unity), and finally beyond to No-Self. In Part 2, I fill in some gaps left out of the first meeting, and focus on people’s questions and inquiries.
While each person’s spiritual journey is unique, there are common themes and landscapes that we share. In this meeting I share my personal understanding of the evolution that takes place as we evolve out of being a self-centered individual, to being divinely centered (unity), and finally beyond to No-Self.
Being present means resting your awareness (your ability to notice), upon that which it is noticing. In this way, you are aware of something, as well as simultaneously being aware that you are aware. Allow your awareness to meet (and join), whatever you are experiencing. This will be felt as well as sensed, and is not meant to be an intellectual exercise (although mind does play a part). This practice helps bring two things together: Our inherent emptiness …
A guided meditation from Susanne Marie to help open your heart. Excerpted from Awareness Explorers podcast Episode 46 “Susanne Marie, Guest Explorer.” Awareness Explorers YouTube Channel
‘In this episode we talk to Susanne Marie about the experiences of unity and of “no self,” and the role that the heart and softening have in awakening. Includes a guided meditation from Susanne Marie to help open your heart.’ Awareness Explorers YouTube Channel
A guided meditation with techniques on how to live a balanced life. By opening to the emptiness contained within all experience, as well as learning how to feel into form, we are able to learn how to live in harmony within ourselves and with life.
Sometimes the only way to be free of something is to allow yourself to be fully trapped. Our desire to escape suffering creates it’s own bondage. Most of us are intially drawn to spirituality with the understandable desire to feel better and in general to be released from suffering. But this desire in itself playes into the belief that something needs to be done about how we are feeling. that we need to somehow disappear …
The journey of opening to the suffering of others begins with ourselves. Compassion blossoms with the realization that we are the one responsible for allowing our own hearts to open, and that turning towards our pain rather than away is the key. Once we have the strength to embrace ourselves as we are, then this ability naturally turns outwards to include the pain of others in our world.
Without the engagement of our hearts our spiritual and life journey is dry and barren. Devotion is the ability to reach outside of ourselves with trust that something greater exists than what we ourselves know or understand. This something is the mystery of existence itself. It is divinty inherent within all things. When we lean into trust that there is a greater intelligence guiding our lives, we are able to let go of our limited …
Beyond descriptions of enlightenment or realization lies the lived experience of what we are in truth, right now. And right Now there is the immediate accessibility to be present, open, and aware. Together we will explore what is the direct experience of being awake: Here and Now.
Beyond descriptions of enlightenment or awakening lies the lived experience of what we are in truth, right now. And right now there is the immediate accessibility to be present, open, and aware. Together we will explore what is the direct experience of being awake: Here and Now.
Our surivival as a species requires us to make a leap from fear to love. Making things that are ignorant within ourselves, conscious, is an act of love and courage, and is the greatest transformative unifying power on Earth.
When the inquiry ‘who am I’ naturally arises. The difference between being ‘Being led’ and mind led.
A candid conversation with Gabor Harsanyi and Nurit Oren and their guests – Susanne Marie and Pierre Richard – about the various pitfalls and misconceptions surrounding awakening. They clarify what awakening really is, as opposed to what we imagine or expect it to be, and expound on the peace that is naturally ours when we open to what IS and apply simplicity.
A new interview with Renate McNay and Susanne Marie Filmed in London September 2018. In this interview, Susanne maps out her spiritual unfolding with three distinctly different types of realizations. First the mind woke up to itself (awareness becoming aware of itself), then the heart opened (unity consciousness), and finally the body released itself of identity.
An opening talk with Susanne Marie, with Hungarian translation. Take the time to let the words sink while the translation is taking place. The space allows for the simple truth and silence behind the words to enter.
Dropping everything we think we know, we enter into purely experiencing that which is in praise of itself. Taken from a Seattle weekend intensive.
The simplicity of our true nature is easily overlooked and discounted as it is the only thing which doesn’t pull on our attention. We enter the kingdom within ourselves quietly and humbly through our inherent innocence. This audio is taken from a Seattle weekend intensive with Susanne.
There is a force within that knows how to live this life. Learning how to attune and open to what is intelligently guiding life is accessing the same power that is guiding the universe. Life in its intelligence knows what it is doing. When we open to what surrender really is, we leave the need to control behind and open to what the beauty of allowance and trust offers.
Sharing with you a delightful conversation with Danny and Sherry who are part of a wonderful Sangha in Seattle. The topics in this audio include: * The human experience. * Open vs. awakened- the use of language. * What I feel is my greatest contribution. * What is transmission? * Defining moment of emerging as a spiritual ‘teacher’. * Spiritual experiences in childhood. * Possible pitfalls along the spiritual path. * Sudden vs. gradual awakening. …
Grace Bubeck talks with Susanne Marie – Life challenges is a new series of live online conversations with non-dual spiritual teachers who are dealing with challenging situations in their own lives. The intention of these conversations is to invite teachers to share their experience and their reflections openly and candidly so that this can serve as a model and teaching to all of us as to how life challenges can be met in an aware …
A deep and delightful exchange with Nurit and Gabor Harsanyi – about the importance of recognizing the essential nature of the feminine principle… especially in the act/non-act of shifting into awakening.
Why do we dim the light of our knowing? Why do we give power away to authorities outside ourselves, forgetting that we hold access to direct knowing through the inherent intelligence of our own light of awareness? Perhaps now is the time to consider connecting to the power of self-direction and inner wisdom, a birthright with which we have all been graced, rather than keeping the light of self-knowing dimmed. Together we will explore the …
Nurit speaks with Spiritual Mentor Susanne Marie about the impact of lineage and what to watch out for in the spiritual arena. The two shed light from their own experiences and encourage “Being” as opposed to following blindly a mind-based teaching. For information about Nurit, please visit treeofsilence.com.
A deep and enjoyable meeting touching on a range of topics such as the nature of seeking, engaging the heart, awareness practice and more, with a mature non-dual group which meets regularly with therapist and teacher Michael Hall in Binghamton, N.Y.
When we live directly without an interpretive filter, we live the ‘now’ in each moment, naturally. Recording is from the August 2017 online meeting.
Through the vehicle of our senses we can naturally learn how to open to a vaster intelligence – one that is undefinable and unlimited. Taken from Susanne’s latest online meeting.
We discuss the non-localized self. When we expand beyond the boundaries of the personal self we naturally experience our inter-connectedness with one another and with all of life.
In this Easter Sunday talk, I begin with the theme of the Kingdom of Heaven within. We discuss having the attention take a 180 degree turn, and the value of living outer life on the foundation of inner realization.
Life is continuously offering us an invitation to embrace this moment and ourselves just as we are. Our messy human lives are an expression of divinity undergoing continuous evolution.
Moving beyond the myth that awakening frees us of difficult feelings and our shadow. What in fact occurs is that we learn to open to and embrace our shadow and unconscious as they are.
This type of question often arises out of a confusion of where to place our attention. The secret is: Not to place attention so much on oneself! We complicate our lives with overthinking and analyzing, rather than learning how to tap into spontaneity and the aliveness of what is needed in any given moment.
When we move beyond our own individual concerns and learn to embrace the concerns of others and of the world as our own, the self center that causes so much individual suffering is eased. What becomes revealed is that we are in fact all of life. A deep caring for the whole emerges the more that we realize that we are all interconnected.
Deeper than our surface preferences, concerns and fears, lies a vast reservoir of allowance. We can learn how to access it by tuning into the heart, whose nature is unconditional acceptance and which holds all polarities comfortably within itself.
Our essential nature, which rests prior to all concepts, is unconditioned Being. When our essential nature is known and felt through the heart, life is viewed through the lens of unity. We feel a deep intimacy with everything. In fact, we appreciate that our “own” essential nature and that of everything are one and the same. This manifests in our behavior and experience as allowance, acceptance, welcoming, and a deeply felt intimacy with what is.
Learning how to increasingly tell (relative) truth both to ourselves and to others and as a result, living more authentically, is a doorway to absolute Truth.
An evening meeting with a Seattle non-dual group which was a prequel to a powerful weekend intensive. It takes maturity and a courageous willingness to come to stop looking outside of ourselves for ourselves. Are you ready to stand on your own two feet, stop wavering and go one pointedly towards what you want?
Join Susanne Marie and Adyashanti in an exploration about an often misunderstood subject. Beyond the traditional landing places that mind creates (commonly discussed in non-dual circles), lies an indescribable landscape of living as pure, direct experiencing. Prior to this opening, the habitual subjective filter creates a veil of separation of which one is not even aware. This is true even within expanded, unified states of consciousness. Once this filter falls away, life is experienced directly, …
As we practice resting in that which is prior to content, we strengthen our capacity to know ourselves as all of creation. But first a solid base needs to be established on which consciousness is no longer glued in identification with what it is focusing on. This broadens one’s capacity to sense into oneself as the whole, no longer solely a personal identity, but knowing oneself as everyone and everything.
Life is evolving, asking us to rise up to embrace our inner autonomy and to meet as equals in service to the whole. The old paradigm of a few teachers serving as ‘wisdom holders’ is ebbing. We are transitioning from a hierarchical way of meeting others in Truth with the teacher on top, to an egalitarian one in which we meet in a circle, inviting each another to express our own knowing, gifts, and strengths. …
Topics: Learning to develop a sense of what is true, a place inside that is already free of pain and already at peace. Consciousness is indiscriminate. It isn’t driven by will force, so it goes wherever attention is placed. When it is placed on awareness itself, it learns to rest as That. There is an evolution to consciousness that is occurring, we are deepening. The embodiment of spirit into matter is a deepening that consciousness is opening up to. …
Dropping pretense with one another and learning how to communicate authentically serves in supporting an enlivened connection with others. Tuning into ourselves as Natural Beings, as being aspects of nature, serves in helping us remember ourselves and helps bring more joy and aliveness to our lives. The separate self has a feeling tone to it. Learning how to tune into this felt sense helps us thin the veils that creates the felt sense of separation.
A video clip taken from a recent online meeting. Meeting one another from a place of undefended naturalness allows for true communication to occur. The way we listen to one another helps bring what is undivided to the foreground. In this way both our speaking and our listening become one movement creatively sharing communication. The full length audio of the meeting (longer than the video, with questions), is available beneath the video.
The more we deepen in realization, the more that we see that there is no difference between ourselves and Nature. We are One Being with the Earth, with all creatures large and small. We are One great indivisible whole seeing and meeting each other in Sacred Mutuality. Evolution is at work as each one of us realizes our intrinsic unity with all of Life.
Putting one’s attention on what lies prior to manifestation helps bring pure awareness, which is ordinarily in the background, to the foreground. Then, instead of being addicted and glued to content and as a result, forgetting the Self, the mind can more easily be at peace and in natural harmony with itself and with the rest of the ever-shifting appearance of life.
Putting one’s attention on what lies prior to manifestation helps bring pure awareness, which is ordinarily in the background, to the foreground. Then, instead of being addicted and glued to content and as a result, forgetting the Self, the mind can more easily be at peace and in natural harmony with itself and with the rest of the ever-shifting appearance of life.
Life is a gracious teacher whereby we learn over time how, in truth, giving and receiving are aspects of one integrated whole which supports the balanced functioning of life. In this video I share an experience I recently had when I went to see Amma, where I received a wonderful direct teaching of how giving and receiving works.
Have you noticed that when you really let yourself feel something completely that this one thing fully embraced leads to the totality of existence? The vastness of what we are lies within the minutia. Enter fully into experience and know yourself as That.
When we give ourselves the permission to let go into not knowing, relaxing the boundaries of what we take ourselves to be, something magical opens up, and that is our own knowing. In this meeting I invite that knowing to emerge and speak within the group.
When we give ourselves the permission to let go into not knowing, relaxing the boundaries of what we take ourselves to be, something magical opens up, and that is our own knowing. In this meeting I invite that knowing to emerge and speak within the group.
Each one of us is the Holy and each one of us has access to the wellspring of innate wisdom. We share the same light and ground of being as did the Buddha, Christ, and all the saints. In essence, no one is more Holy than another.
Relaxing into our natural selves softens our edges, softens the one who is in defense to life. We can move through the world in a relaxed and undefended way. This allows for the natural state to move in, as, and through us. Just like the wind, we are a thing of nature.
All manifested form is empty at its center. This includes what you take yourself to be, a person. Even though it seems like you are the one feeling, thinking, and have a body, in truth this is not so. The power of inquiry and resting in our true nature helps to break the sticky trance that consciousness has regarding its manifested aspect.
Many of us run from that we most want, which is ourselves stripped bare of defense. This moment, raw in its own power, offering no promises of delivery. Here, in this place of simplicity, we find ourselves left without imagination clouding the view.
A Mothers Day Open Circle Meeting in Berkeley (in 3 parts). Topics include the falling away of the sense of self (when it is a healthy letting go versus resulting from trauma), as well as letting go of control when it comes to personal will falling away. Resting in the unknown is the general theme of this meeting.
A Mothers Day Open Circle Meeting in Berkeley (in 3 parts). Topics include the falling away of the sense of self (when it is a healthy letting go versus resulting from trauma), as well as letting go of control when it comes to personal will falling away. Resting in the unknown is the general theme of this meeting.
A Mothers Day Open Circle Meeting in Berkeley (in 3 parts). Topics include the falling away of the sense of self (when it is a healthy letting go versus resulting from trauma), as well as letting go of control when it comes to personal will falling away. Resting in the unknown is the general theme of this meeting.
Pure experiencing is a way of living that brings the sense of intimacy and the impact of immediacy to every moment.
Consciousness seems to be evolving in its capacity to deepen through us – it’s medium. A shortened version of a longer piece (Bringing Spirit Down Consciously Into Form).
The body is an access point for consciousness to sense into what is going on both within ourselves and without. Over time our capacity grows in learning how to occupy ourselves in our inner being, our senses, and in regards to our feeling selves.
Susanne Marie and Will Pye discuss the role and nature of ‘Surrender’ in awakening. Video here
Rick Archer interviews Susanne Marie on Buddha at the Gas Pump. In Susanne Marie’s first interview, she describes how oneness was already known as a child, and how this awareness slowly and painfully ebbed away resulting in a seeker being born and the story of how this was eventually seen through. Video here.
This session is part of the online retreat on ‘Living from Love’. For more information go to: www.living-from-love.com. Video here.
Vulnerability is an entry point into the heart of being. As consciousness evolves, we are given ever greater opportunities to turn towards meeting ourselves more fully. The invitation to meet oneself with love eases the transition as we make a shift from operating out of fear into one of moving from love. Video here.
From Friends in Presence: “A postcard conversation from two friends in presence, Susanne Marie & Jen Peer Rich talk about recognizing presence in others as actually recognizing the one we all are, and we get down and dirty into the nitty-gritty of presence. We also explore qualities of consciousness coming together in a unique symbiotic intermingling as one love.” Video here.
God is found not only in the absolute nature of reality but also within experience and form. Freedom lies in the loosening of the grip of identification with form. Once freed, then consciousness can enter back down into form without losing itself, allowing life to freely dance in and out of form.
What is truly living this life? Who and what are we? These are the questions that arise when we truly wish to inquire into what is true. The goal of the spiritual life is to have the personal sense of ‘me’ thin out over time. How to know ourselves as all of creation, and still operate and function as a personal self?
Sharing with you all a recent online Valentine’s Day Open Circle meeting on the topic of the Unconditional Nature of Love. All of life is in love with itself. Unconditional love has the power to transform our relationships with both ourselves and with the world. It is a pre-existing love, it has always been here and always will be.
Relax into Being as the undivided self that you naturally are. A meditative session that invites open hearted allowance, relaxation, and deep rest into your Being.
The theme of this piece is accessing the intelligence that resides in the Now. The most magical way to live one’s life is to let go of ideas of how things should go. The more that we let go of mind to navigate our day, the more that true intelligence can step in.
Through what lens do we see life? We each have to find out for ourselves whether this is a friendly universe or not. What makes it friendly versus not? Through deeply inquiring into what is true in any given moment, one’s own perspective changes revealing a deeper way of seeing life that is transformative.
The sense of ‘me’ thins out over time revealing our totality with all existence. The experience of being a divided separate self collapses as inner division falls away. This organic process is a natural maturation for each one of us and for humanity itself. As the separate sense of self falls away a unified sense of ourselves as being one with life becomes known which later opens up to simply being life itself.
Learning how to listen and follow one’s truth leads to the sense of being in inner alignment with all that is. Our capacity to be able to listen to where universal truth is leading us grows over time. We gain both confidence and trust as the gap closes between what we consider to be our separate small selves and what we are in truth: the whole of creation. The ramifications of following truth are not …
What is awakening? Awakening is the dissolution of what we believe to be a center to consciousness (ourselves), where the veil of separation that seemingly lies between oneself and others falls away. As more and more people have either glimpses of their true nature, or whether it is an abiding awakening, both individually and collectively we are growing up out of believing we have a self center. Remembering our true nature, we come to the …
There is an organic evolutionary journey that Consciousness takes as it moves from being primarily identified as a thought based being to one emerging over time into becoming a sensing based being. This video outlines this natural human development. The self reflective mechanism of mind helps create the sense of being a center of consciousness. This mechanism eases over time as we gain trust and understanding that there is no need to locate ourselves as …
A premonition vision foretold another awakening, this time of the body, letting go of the instinctual survival drive of the body. Due to a variety of difficult life events, an unresolvable dilemma spontaneously opened a deep letting go of control radically changing my life. The only thing that my mind could come up with was that a death was coming, perhaps of the body, as it was such a different way of operating. Pure seamless …
Within spirituality almost every area is open to be questioned and looked at publicly, but the topic of money and resources is still very much something that people avoid. There is a combination of shame and also fear for those who either have more than enough and for those who don’t. The deeper that freedom penetrates ones consciousness, the more that every topic is open to be investigated. Unity consciousness levels out the hierarchical field …
Last fall I had a deep and spontaneous vision that lasted for over one hour. The details were amazingly visual and the impact was very experiential. I was shown the spiritual evolution of humanity and the incredible intelligence that is guiding the whole journey as we all make our way to Buddhahood or enlightened consciousness. In the end no one is left behind, and this is something we can trust. I was not sure that …
Love is an emanation from our own Being-ness. Because we have bodies, there is a felt sense of what love is. Conditional love is born in time and ends in time, but there is something deeper, a substratum, within which all that arises and falls is held. Unconditional love is allowing by its nature.
The human being has the capacity to reflect on its own nature which means that we have the capacity to see what we are in truth. What we call the ego is just a mechanisms of the self reflective quality that the mind has when it gets lost in believing in being a separate something. Awakening is seeing through this mechanism and using it in order to see what is actually doing the looking.
Consciousness delights in its very own Being. We have the capacity to feel into this delight and to feel how life itself dances within form. When we tune into what is always here noticing and allowing everything to be, we come in contact with what is naturally already free and in love with itself just as it is.
How does one learn how to trust in life? What is one trusting in? Ultimately trust is being lived when the gap closes between what we believe we want and what is actually happening. Realizing that we are life as it is presenting itself in every moment is liberating.
When attention is put on Beingness itself the felt sensation that arises and which permeates our being is joy. Self delights in itself. The joy of Being has nothing to do with believing yourself to be worthy or unworthy, it just is. There is no need to hold back being in love with your Self.
Crisis and hardship are potential doorways to enter into the mystery of the unknown nature of reality. Crisis helps us to grow into being fully human and helps connect us to humanity via our hearts. The best use of crisis is to allow it to strip you clean, and to lay bare what is essential.
Something is always noticing what is awake and aware right now. Becoming curious about what is paying attention helps reveal what is lying in the background silently witnessing everything. As soon as we become quiet inside, natural beingness is invited forward.
What lies deeper than the outward momentum of wanting things to be different? There is nothing that will save you in the end. A dying to looking outside of oneself for satisfaction is the key to real happiness.
We all long for the naturalness of being authentically real. Are you allowing yourself to come out of hiding? There is no need to to have defense in place in order to protect yourself from life. You are beautiful just as you are.
Every moment is another opportunity to surrender to its totality, to what it is holding. There is something that is still and unchanging no matter what we are doing or what is arising. When you discover that unmoving center then there is an awareness to presence that is present to itself in any given moment.
Life is intelligently moving in and through us, as us. When we learn to look inside rather than outside of ourselves, we give ourselves a great gift. We have the capacity to allow life to lead, as that is what we are in truth.
Tuning into your own internal guidance system, helps one to better navigate life. Learning how to listen to one’s inner knowing, to the wisdom of the heart is the key.
There is a tendency in humanity to focus on the negative. Why is this? In truth, in between thoughts there are gaps that we don’t pay attention to. There is space between every single thought. When the space becomes aware of itself, it is called awakening. Consciousness wakes up to itself and as a result, is less glued (stuck) to thoughts. It is liberating and freeing, to know yourself as the backdrop, the space in …
Spiritual seeking is a dance that we do because we are not quite ready to tell the truth. It is a distraction to feeling what it is that you are really wanting. It is so important to tell the truth of what you are longing for. When we tell the truth, we bridge the gap back to our true nature. Before you became anything, you were the unknown. Let yourself be swallowed up by what …
Suffering is a clue, your own personal koan, that something has been placed outside of yourself. Suffering arises when we imagine that having things outside of ourselves is going to alleviate our longing for wholeness. This becomes a habit of mind. Trace all projections back to the place where imagination was birthed, back to the emptiness that you really are.
Seeking begins as soon as we feel that we have lost something, and the root of it begins in childhood. Beginning first with the birth of the sense of “I” when we are very young, and then later over the course of one’s childhood, we lose the felt sense of connection to source. Naturally, we long for what we feel we have lost, and we innocently and mistakenly run after things imagining that what we …
Why do we so often end up not doing what it is that we think we should be doing? This is because we are always doing what we want to do, regardless of how it seems. How do you know this? Because it is what is actually happening. The conflict lies in believing that we should be doing something different, not in actually what we are doing. Being true to ourselves in the moment, is …
Even though relationship seems to be happening outside of ourselves, it really is happening within. All relationship is with the self, it just seems to be with others. How we treat ourselves, how kind we are to our own thoughts, and feelings, is how we will be treating others. It is a natural extension from the inner to the outer, which in the end, is one thing.