This Satsang with Rick has been recorded at the Rainbow Spirit Festival 2009 in Baden-Baden. Thanks a lot to the organizer of the festival for the permission of filming.

Video Part 1

The story of the Rick character; the illusion to control life; cancer diagnosis and need to become enlightened; the harder Rick tried, the worse it got; everything that defined the Rick character began disappearing; “Consciousness is ALL THERE IS”; no room left for things being separate from consciousness; the thought that I am an individual arises in ALL THERE IS; no independent reality; the sense of something missing; no past and no future; despite this clarity the story goes on; the fact there is no longer a belief in an independent reality does not change anything; stories of awakening vary; the need of change seems to arise with the idea of the individual; you cannot do anything because you do not exist; you cannot even wait to disappear; nothing has ever happened; time is a concept; always the eternal now; no one to judge; this is it; utter perfection; loving embrace of what is;

Part 2 

Seeing through the story does not require change; perfectly ordinary life; “Why?” and “How?” questions arise in the story only; when the story is seen through questions dry up; no special feelings; just the absence of the belief in the individual; life goes on completely ordinarily; the ALL THERE IS never changes; birth and death are ideas in the ALL THERE IS; pain occurs but to no-one; no way to know why cancer stopped; stories can be about everything; life simply is; no-one gets enlightened; you already are what you seek; the one who seeks the answer is the one who cannot find it; success or lack of success are just happening; neither destiny nor fee will, no need for clarity of thoughts; the game of life; no right or wrong; your own history is meaningless;

Part 3

One energy, no separation; absolute and utter engagement in life; no-one to resist life; you are life; loving embrace of life; love of everything; YOU ARE THAT; ease of being; misperceptions related to believe in being an individual; search for enlightenment as attempt to avoid life; falling into a bottomless pit; utter safety; challenging the beliefs in the story; separation in religions; the dark night of the soul; so called “spiritual experiences”; no need for experiences; pain and anger associated with seeking; softening of desperation; less tension about life; no experience is belonged to anyone; these are all appearances in “WHAT IS”

Part 3

About the dilemma of life and the deep knowing that questions never will be answered; enlightenment is a concept, nothing to get or to become; the image of the fish swimming in the ocean and searching for water; nothing left to do but to laugh; no more questions without the belief in the individual; about the idea that Rick has something which others haven't; the wisdom is Here; life is torture and amusement; daily life is This and takes care of itself; just a description of what Is, useless for anything; the possibility to still talk about interesting things in the story; motivation and history are a part of the story; seeing This does not prevent from participating in the story; the story goes on and is naturally unfolding; about what happens after death; This never dies; the limited individual can never understand the unlimited; about the concepts of reincarnation and karma; life is This with all the thoughts and the seeking.

Part 3

Only being – no subject and no object, suffering out of believe, experiences – but nobody to experience, the duality of passion and boredom, the search for reasons, enjoying the ride, in the internal presence, the mystery of individuality, to see through the story and being lost in it anyway, the something more beyond the story, consciousness beyond body and mind

Part 4

Hedonisms, the concept of individual responsibility and associated suffering, real humbleness, the trick of the mind of feeling bored, beyond the story: no time, the Rick character as a father, absolutely nothing to do – even not not-doing, the attraction to keep the I in the story

The simplicity of life without conception of a separate individual

Video Part 1

Everybody totally surrendered to the wisdom in the midst of the world of phenomena, the individual a mere idea and illusion, indescribable knowledge as synonym for I-am and pure consciousness, no identification with the body and the person, beyond the story of the present moment in the present moment no cause and effect, past and future as parts of the story, feelings that are not happening to somebody, no advices but descriptions of what is, resonance in the unseparated consciousness in apparently separate individuals, in the knowledge of the eternal presence, peace beyond the knowing of the mind, even the impulses as part of the story, Satsang in no tradition and without teachers and disciples as separate in individuals, wisdom arising form what we are

Part 2

Illness and health as aspects of the story, beyond the story: consciousness, from the mind the unanswerable questions: "Why?", the mind existing only as part of the story without independent reality, the end of the questions without answers; health not by medicines, but nutrition and movement, stress management and spirituality, the hunter- and gatherer-diet, vegetarianism as a concept from ethical motives, allergies to dairy products and cereals, extra weight around the waist as a result of cereal-consumption and as risk for health, control and decisions in daily life, the simplicity of life unbearable by the mind, the concept of "living one's life", the transition to the eternal presence

Rick (Dr. Richard Linchitz), who lives and practices in New York, is a renowned physician, especially in the field of the alternative pain- and cancer therapy. Once feeling utterly helpless with his own health-problem he met Satyam Nadeen and his vision of life collapsed. After his awakening he started giving satsang together with Satyam Nadeen, and since Nadeen has gone silent, Rick answers the questions. "I don’t have anything to say", he explains, "but if a question is asked, the answer appears. Medical questions get medical answers, and spiritual questions get spiritual answers."

In his new book "Every Moment is Grace" published in Germany by J. Kamphausen Verlag under the German title: "Jeder Augenblick ist Gnade", Rick answers the questions of satsang-participants in Baden-Baden. Also the interview with Rick on the video clips was done during the Rainbow Spirit Festival 2007 in Baden-Baden.