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Experience with Dave Oshana by Maryanna. USA, Maine.
Sep 11, 2009
7 years ago I attended a weekend coaching conference in NC. To get a ‘cheap flight” I was staying an extra day and flying back on Tuesday. During a break in the conference, a Canadian coach with whom I had struck up a friendship observed, “ I see you are staying an extra day like me. I will be visiting with a friend. You are welcome to come with me if you like. He is enlightened.”
I thought, "Sure! She has a friend who is enlightened (note the sarcasm)! This has got to be entertaining!" So I agreed to go.
When we had difficulty finding the place, I began to get interested. I have noticed before in life, that interference can arise when we approach people who embody really high energy.
When we did finally get there, a young British man, in his twenties, named Dave Oshana, met us. We sat together outside, the three of us overlooking the Blue Ridge Mountains. The two of them chatted away. I observed. I seemed to sense a different energy inhabiting his body than mine. Or was I just imagining that? The conversation in my mind became more focused:
The quiet inner voice said, “He is for real… Something different is coming from him than comes from me or most of us………someone invited him here. You could invite him to Maine.”
The loud inner voice replied emphatically, “What are you thinking?! You don't even know him!”
After a brief pause, the quiet voice firmly replied, “The next time there is a break in their conversation, invite him to Maine.” I found myself inclined to follow the direction of the quiet voice. I waited for a break in their conversation, and then I invited him.
He glanced in my direction. Then with the grin of a kid involved in mischief, with gentle amusement he replied, "BUT, You don't even know me!"
My mind was still for a long time after that, as I felt an energy transmission emanating from him.
The following day we planned to return vie a different route, to meet with him in the morning before our flights. Since we were flying at different times, we took two cars. She led the way, since I didn’t have directions. We were on a four-lane highway initially, but before the exit we needed, we ran into heavy roadwork and a high traffic detour. In no time I had lost her and was pretty much lost myself. I realized that the best, really only option was to turn around and head for the airport. So I got myself headed back in that direction on the highway. As I was about to pass one of the many exits to who knew where, I found myself taking an exit. At the end of that exit ramp, to my utter surprise, there was my friend, waiting for me! “Come on let’s go!” I followed her down the back roads to the retreat where we met Dave.
Acknowledging that we had little time, he sat with us again. Trying to imagine what enlightenment might be, I remember asking him if he had thoughts? “Yes, but I don’t attach to them. They are like clouds in the sky.”
“Then he turned to me, and said, “You should be ashamed of yourself, at your age, not being enlightened.” The affect of those words hit me on multiple levels. My ego was triggered by the phrase, “You should be ashamed of yourself,” which I had heard with painfully frequency from my mother growing up.” But on a soul level, I was overcome with a wave of immense love, shaking my body, bringing tears to my eyes, as my lungs groped for more air.
Next this man, who is younger than my sons said with a kind of fatherly concern, “You know what to do. Drink lots of water. Breathe. You should go now to get your plane.”
That was seven years ago. It is the last time I was in Dave’s physical presence. But the connection has remained unbroken. In fact it has only gotten stronger with time. The power of the Transmission that comes through Dave continues as a growing source of peace, grace and gratitude and a subtle expanding energy.
Words are not accurate or deep enough to convey what I receive from the Transmission. I invite you, with all my heart, to treat yourself to this blessing. Experiencing it personally is the only viable description.
I think of Dave as my teacher. And from that first exchange, the medium of teaching is often playful. Brief playful email exchanges; embody an energy transmission that reverberates through my whole being. The changes in my life take various forms:
· Before I met Dave, my shoulders were iron-like rigid shields that generally inhabited the space near my ears and jaw. Now they have descended and softly rise and fall my breath.
· Those old hard painful inherited robotic thoughts of how my partner, or something else in my experience is wrong or misguided, have softened frequently into periods of ‘no mind’ and at other times the old trigger is met with inner amusement and compassion for my own and all of our human struggle.
· My sense of failure at being able to meditate despite much previous instruction and efforts, has given way to relaxing into a sweet spacious aliveness.
· At going on 68 years, many folks who have known me for years report that, “I look younger each time they see me.”
There is also the Teaching.
Early in 2008 Dave began offering Live Transmission Classes on the internet. Again my experience is that these classes happen on multiple levels. There is the content of his teaching, which is clear and very useful. Then there is the Transmission. For most of the first year of listening to these often-weekly classes, I would hear his first introductory sentence and then an hour later I would hear his concluding sentence. What he said in between I had no recall of. So why did I keep ‘listening’? Because my experience of life was different - more expanded, awake and graceful in the hours and days following the Live Transmission Class.
Late last winter, I listened to a replay of a Live class. Listening to the replay, I was able to follow the words and the teaching. However, it was not easy. It was like trying to listen to something through loud noise or static. But there was no noise or static or anything that I am accustomed to in my awareness. It was like trying to listen while being impacted by a huge energy transfusion.
In April, I scheduled and receive a one-on-one with Dave over Skype. Since that session with him, I am able to hear most of the teaching on the Live Transmission Classes and relax into a deeper openness to the Live Transmission experience. Day to day I experience expanded peace, kindness, and joy in my relationships, my activities, my body, my awareness of Life happening inside and out.
I am very excited that he is returning to the US. He is responding to the invitation, 7 years ago. He is coming to Maine. He will also be in Minneapolis prior to being here in ME.
I thought, "Sure! She has a friend who is enlightened (note the sarcasm)! This has got to be entertaining!" So I agreed to go.
When we had difficulty finding the place, I began to get interested. I have noticed before in life, that interference can arise when we approach people who embody really high energy.
When we did finally get there, a young British man, in his twenties, named Dave Oshana, met us. We sat together outside, the three of us overlooking the Blue Ridge Mountains. The two of them chatted away. I observed. I seemed to sense a different energy inhabiting his body than mine. Or was I just imagining that? The conversation in my mind became more focused:
The quiet inner voice said, “He is for real… Something different is coming from him than comes from me or most of us………someone invited him here. You could invite him to Maine.”
The loud inner voice replied emphatically, “What are you thinking?! You don't even know him!”
After a brief pause, the quiet voice firmly replied, “The next time there is a break in their conversation, invite him to Maine.” I found myself inclined to follow the direction of the quiet voice. I waited for a break in their conversation, and then I invited him.
He glanced in my direction. Then with the grin of a kid involved in mischief, with gentle amusement he replied, "BUT, You don't even know me!"
My mind was still for a long time after that, as I felt an energy transmission emanating from him.
The following day we planned to return vie a different route, to meet with him in the morning before our flights. Since we were flying at different times, we took two cars. She led the way, since I didn’t have directions. We were on a four-lane highway initially, but before the exit we needed, we ran into heavy roadwork and a high traffic detour. In no time I had lost her and was pretty much lost myself. I realized that the best, really only option was to turn around and head for the airport. So I got myself headed back in that direction on the highway. As I was about to pass one of the many exits to who knew where, I found myself taking an exit. At the end of that exit ramp, to my utter surprise, there was my friend, waiting for me! “Come on let’s go!” I followed her down the back roads to the retreat where we met Dave.
Acknowledging that we had little time, he sat with us again. Trying to imagine what enlightenment might be, I remember asking him if he had thoughts? “Yes, but I don’t attach to them. They are like clouds in the sky.”
“Then he turned to me, and said, “You should be ashamed of yourself, at your age, not being enlightened.” The affect of those words hit me on multiple levels. My ego was triggered by the phrase, “You should be ashamed of yourself,” which I had heard with painfully frequency from my mother growing up.” But on a soul level, I was overcome with a wave of immense love, shaking my body, bringing tears to my eyes, as my lungs groped for more air.
Next this man, who is younger than my sons said with a kind of fatherly concern, “You know what to do. Drink lots of water. Breathe. You should go now to get your plane.”
That was seven years ago. It is the last time I was in Dave’s physical presence. But the connection has remained unbroken. In fact it has only gotten stronger with time. The power of the Transmission that comes through Dave continues as a growing source of peace, grace and gratitude and a subtle expanding energy.
Words are not accurate or deep enough to convey what I receive from the Transmission. I invite you, with all my heart, to treat yourself to this blessing. Experiencing it personally is the only viable description.
I think of Dave as my teacher. And from that first exchange, the medium of teaching is often playful. Brief playful email exchanges; embody an energy transmission that reverberates through my whole being. The changes in my life take various forms:
· Before I met Dave, my shoulders were iron-like rigid shields that generally inhabited the space near my ears and jaw. Now they have descended and softly rise and fall my breath.
· Those old hard painful inherited robotic thoughts of how my partner, or something else in my experience is wrong or misguided, have softened frequently into periods of ‘no mind’ and at other times the old trigger is met with inner amusement and compassion for my own and all of our human struggle.
· My sense of failure at being able to meditate despite much previous instruction and efforts, has given way to relaxing into a sweet spacious aliveness.
· At going on 68 years, many folks who have known me for years report that, “I look younger each time they see me.”
There is also the Teaching.
Early in 2008 Dave began offering Live Transmission Classes on the internet. Again my experience is that these classes happen on multiple levels. There is the content of his teaching, which is clear and very useful. Then there is the Transmission. For most of the first year of listening to these often-weekly classes, I would hear his first introductory sentence and then an hour later I would hear his concluding sentence. What he said in between I had no recall of. So why did I keep ‘listening’? Because my experience of life was different - more expanded, awake and graceful in the hours and days following the Live Transmission Class.
Late last winter, I listened to a replay of a Live class. Listening to the replay, I was able to follow the words and the teaching. However, it was not easy. It was like trying to listen to something through loud noise or static. But there was no noise or static or anything that I am accustomed to in my awareness. It was like trying to listen while being impacted by a huge energy transfusion.
In April, I scheduled and receive a one-on-one with Dave over Skype. Since that session with him, I am able to hear most of the teaching on the Live Transmission Classes and relax into a deeper openness to the Live Transmission experience. Day to day I experience expanded peace, kindness, and joy in my relationships, my activities, my body, my awareness of Life happening inside and out.
I am very excited that he is returning to the US. He is responding to the invitation, 7 years ago. He is coming to Maine. He will also be in Minneapolis prior to being here in ME.