Linda Clair 'Enlightenment is in the Body ' Interview By Renate McNay

Linda Clair 'Enlightenment is in the Body.' Interview By Renate McNay
Linda is a Meditation Teacher based on ZEN practice. She is the Author of the book 'What do you want - Conversations about Enlightenment.'
In this interview which is the second conscious.tv one with her Linda says that enlightenment is the beginning of a whole new way of living and although its the end of suffering and fear, there is no end to the practice as long as one is in the body. To be fully free you need to go through being grounded, so grounded that you’re able to let go of everything-even enlightenment.
Stay in your body. The silence is in your body. Its not out there. Stay in your body and you’ll be surprised what happens.
To really become immersed in the silence, you need to free your body - purify your body of the past. Only then will there be silence and that silence is overwhelming. www.simplemeditation.net

[@simonebraund3916]

"Thinking is a movement away from now." "The desire to think comes from fear." Beautiful. Great sharing, thank you. x✴

[@mdawson12345]

Thanks Renate and Linda for a valuable interview. I like your gentle, sensitive style of interviewing Renate. You do more than interview, you participate in the experience and that adds more depth. Thankyou.

Dear Renate , thank you for very beautiful interview with Linda! I am verry happy to see Linda with you again, it brings again something "new". Thanks for all your work 🙏🏽👍

[@GrahamBolt-kv4zi]

Hello I hope you're safe over there? I hope this year brings happiness prosperity, love and peace all over the world. I would love us to be good friends in honesty and in trust so as time goes on it will bring something great for us in the future, hope you don't mind? I'm Engineer Graham Bolt from Nashville Tennessee, where are you from

[@reinhardjung3258]

I like your honesty, Linda.

[@angelalyall8292]

Love your interviews Renate. I particularly enjoyed this interview with Linda, the realisation that I am basing everything on trying to avoid my own death was a big wow moment for me, thank you.

[@GrahamBolt-kv4zi]

Hello I hope you're safe over there? I hope this year brings happiness prosperity, love and peace all over the world. I would love us to be good friends in honesty and in trust so as time goes on it will bring something great for us in the future, hope you don't mind? I'm Engineer Graham Bolt from Nashville Tennessee, where are you from

[@gloriasilence]

"Trying to teach the Spanish to be silent..." The laughter that followed...

[@brianlinville439]

We tend to think we are our body/mind. And from that vantage point, we want to be enlightened. Going past thinking we are our body and mind,=no one there to be enlightened.

[@afriend621]

"If you see the illusion you are enlightened, but if you think you are enlightened you are in the illusion" -Papaji

[@gretanavarauskaite2904]

Thank you so much🙏🏻🌸❤️

[@johnburman966]

I understand that most genuine methods talk of gradual transformation of the bodies. I take this to also mean the non physical bodies which we inhabit. Each aha....experience is followed by slow integration. I started in the 60's with TM and it's more advanced components which still plays a part of my life. What I got tired of was all the baggage, rules, brainwashing that went with. The simple method here is excellent, I will incorporate. There is no goal to achieve, consciousness is never ending creation......we can get to flow with it without resistance or separated ego... who knows, it's lovely.

[@martynspooner5822]

If enlightenment has to be the most important thing in your life what is it that wants it apart from ego.

[@Sannyasin]

Im wondering why the "SACRAL CHAKRA" most important part of the body? Linda say that she also focus on that part, and I also heard that before here in ConsciousTV one of the interviewed by Iian McNay but I forget what is the title if that interviewed.

[@michelleramauro8602]

Renate interviewed Reggie Ray "Finding Realization in the Body" he is a Buddhist teacher. Very good interview. His article "Touching Enlightenment" about meditating with and through the body is also very good. Here is a link to his website. www.dharmaocean.org/about/articles-interviews/

[@TheSolsonia2003]

Excelente 🙏🍁🧡🍂

[@GrahamBolt-kv4zi]

Hello I hope you're safe over there? I hope this year brings happiness prosperity, love and peace all over the world. I would love us to be good friends in honesty and in trust so as time goes on it will bring something great for us in the future, hope you don't mind? I'm Engineer Graham Bolt from Nashville Tennessee, where are you from

[@zonehermit]

thank you

[@projectliberation1981]

The ego never gets demolished totally. What happens when you become enlightened is the ego dissolves. It still there just in different form. It has less influence over the self.

[@consideredwhisper]

Thank you, beautiful women, for your insight and wisdom

[@flaviasouza8724]

I see in her an awake consciousness like no other alive person save Byron Katie. In the eyes. It’s clear as day to me. Bright deep open cosmic eyes.

[@movvasrinivas1]

I am enlightened My grandchildren treat me like an ordinary person

[@augustusbetucius1572]

That's because you are. Enlightenment has been described again and again as "ordinary"

[@emotionwave]

This confuses me really because it seems different to what David Bingham or Tony Parsons say about awakening. Linda seems like she still has that identification with the self by comparison.

[@sohara....]

Interesting. DB does say, in an interview, either on Conscious TV or on the Sedona method channel, that you're always meeting someone who's more advanced... further along. *

[@amanitamuscaria7500]

Agree. It seems very different. I keep wondering if we should somehow (i don't know how) get a definitions of terms dictionary. To me, what DB and his like say is very clear (the lineage being DB, John Wheeler, Sailor Bob Adamson, Nisargadatta Maharaj and back) and it echoes teachings by ET, Spira etc. And for me, what they say fits exactly into the ancient teachings of Advaita Vedanta. When you realise (beyond the intellectual understanding) who you truly are - pure awareness, pure being, pure consciousness or sat, chitt, ananda. There seem to be endless interpretations of what it means to be "enlightened" - awake, aware, self-realised etc etc but most agree that it is a limitless journey which begins with realisation.

[@billenglish6352]

There is no time to waste. Only the eternal. It never ends.

[@TheCreate21]

Again Ty-👌

[@TEE19622]

Enlightenment is realizing that you are sufficient and both part of the collective and an individual

[@Rome372]

Enlightement is not the top, but in my view it is the basis, the buttom from all. Everything is removed, the room is empty my heart doesn’ t struggle anymore with so many emotions. I can see clearly Now! 😂 I did not ‘ reach the top’ ..... I was more freed from my identity concept. It is so big but also sooooo Simple. We are not better, of higher, of wiser, we are just done with our lives.

[@johnburman966]

Being a teacher of consciousness is a real test to ego. People will give you their souls if they think you have the goods. I could only take a few years of teaching TM, it split me in two. I could maybe do it now, because I don't need it. However I would not for other reasons.

[@spiritualanarchist8162]

I find this a somewhat confusing interview.. I almost feel like yelling: 'Take some time to be with your Self , instead of talking, writing and teaching '( But then i 'm just an unperfect guy with an ego)

[@authenticpublicityyt]

You are what you make yourself, nothing less.

[@spiritualanarchist8162]

@@authenticpublicityyt 'make' ?

[@authenticpublicityyt]

Spiritual Anarchist Yes

[@spiritualanarchist8162]

@@authenticpublicityyt Sorry, I don't get it, Make yourself is to vague for me.It can mean a lot of different things, 'the thing i make ? How i make the Self, or make the ego-self..or..etc,

[@Salvation7]

Salvation is deliverance and protection from deadly things happening to us

[@tonydaniels6352]

Nice interview. She is genuine. But when she's says she is getting smaller and smaller and there is absence rather then presence, she will say later that she is bigger because she will know she is everything that appears which is total presence. This will happen when her realization matures into God Consciousness, then she will see the Divine in everything, where there is no difference between emptiness and form.

[@jjjos]

Tony Daniels is that where you are?

[@tonydaniels6352]

@@jjjos yes that is where I am. I only speak about what is my experience.

[@jjjos]

Tony Daniels how did you do that? was it years of formal practice?, slowly dissolving the ego? Psychedelics? did you find a teacher to work directly with? Help a brother out

[@tonydaniels6352]

@@jjjos I meditated every day for 30 years.

[@jjjos]

Tony Daniels 😂 maybe there’s a shortcut

[@s.c.1494]

People are so stuck on the wording when language is just a signpost or "finger pointing to the moon". One spiritual teacher might means something quite different than another using the same term. I think it is wise to get to know more about the teacher before jumping to conclusions.

[@yetanotherperson6436]

I hope that this is taken as constructive rather than negative. 'Journey' and 'energy' seem like odd choices of words for a teacher as they are vague. I would love to have known what Linda meant by them.

[@andrewpeters9520]

Please read A.H Almaas 🤔🙏🏼

[@billenglish6352]

In the end she nails the landing. No more need for experience. She doesn't mind what happens.

[@iloverumi]

"space," "silence," and an "absence" are all objects. inner, subtle, mental objects.

[@centrino538]

3 times wrong, 'Rumi' (lol). Space, Silence, and Presence are qualities of our true nature, i.e. what we really are : Awareness. And Awareness are beyond / before the mind / mental activities like labelling...

[@MT-jj6gh]

MIND is all there is.

[@iloverumi]

@Syrius Bthe "subject" is an object too

[@iloverumi]

@@centrino538 If space, silence, and presence are qualities of "our true nature," then our true nature must be an object. Something cannot have experienceable qualities and not be an object. Again, I agree that it is a subtle object- perhaps the most subtle object we can experience. But it is still an object.

[@kopilit]

Indeed. iloverumi. Those words lead towards the abyss of all.

[@xdfckt2564]

Hope can she say she is enlightened if the ego has eroded?

[@Kimoto504]

If the primary identification of consciousness/awareness in her is not with the ego/body then it's possible.

[@billharrison3518]

A female krishnamurti?

[@jonashjerpe7421]

No

[@alanwhitehead9756]

Better.

[@xdfckt2564]

In saying her state is amazing, she is making a judgement

[@ryanwilliamtempleton8387]

Btec John Butler

[@catem3102]

Dear, oh dear. So many claims from people who should just be quiet and wait. And wait some more. All I hear is ego.

[@dimitris.mouroulis]

My hunch is she knows she's a fraud.

[@buutich1]

Those who say they are enlightened are not enlightened. You won't find any enlightened person who will say that they are.

[@Radpal824]

How could you possibly know that for sure?

[@flaviasouza8724]

so many enlightened teachers say they are realized... if they don't say it outright because of the confusion that words/terms create, they describe it... all of them describe it. But... I can see it. I don't know how I can, but I can and that is the gift of all gifts, or the consequences of hard long work.

[@xdfckt2564]

Why does she 'like' to teach? What's in her that likes?

[@augustusbetucius1572]

Absence or diminution of ego doesn't mean there is an absence of conditioning.

[@Entschuldigungen]

You have no right to speculate about the creation of God.

[@ashleymistletoe]

So, she obviously does not know. And those who don't know don't know that they don't know.