Thank you for your beautifully worded insight. I have been very caught up in seeking, hearing this is very helpful to see it for exactly what it is. 🙏🏼
@@drmindfulness gave 31 years to pursue enlightenment.. I'm 46..went through suicidal depression... All i can say is u can never stop the seeking energy.. All of a sudden it exhausts itself... No atom bomb no oneness n ludicrous concepts... The pursuit of enlightenment is the biggest egoistic concept... The biggest desire is to have no desire.. Bullshit... U just be... Keep flowing fart drink have sex... I can't explain what happened. .. I repeat no power can stop seeking energy... How it exhausts I don't know
Very helpful and right on time for me. Just entered into this stop seeking mode and the ego was right there pushng me to seek why. I had thst awareness at least. I am more at peace for sure.
UA-cam algorithm is wonderful and somehow a 'gods gift'. It brought me from teacher to teacher and through several high capacity insight bringers, slowly increasing the value. Today it brought me to this video which summarizes all others and brought my inner thoughts to a wonderful stop, at least for a while ;). Thank you for your well thought and balanced words which are very good to understand even for a non english native.
you start becoming aware and observe. you observe yourself observing. pure turyam. you have had enough. the youtube algorithm brings you a video that confirms it. Thank you Dr Mindfulness 🙏
This is a very important message, expressed in a clear way. It confirms and supports that my end of seeking is not falling asleep, but accepting what is, in the way I see it in the very moment. The paradox is that sometimes a part of me is still falling in the seeking mode again. To accept this is for me the challenge now. Thank you so much. Manfred, Germany
Today when logic and sense is spoken its taken as a light bulb moment. People have become so lost in the wonder of enlightenment that they have forgotten they are the ones holding the light.
@@drmindfulness The world today has given the illusion that there is darkness inside. Today's spiritually is all based from the Christian Religion. Ant Spiritual practice that charges money is just selling faith and hope just like the church.
The most challenging aspect is that we see how useless seeking is, but when we stop listening to the video or reading the book and actually practice mindfulness, the egoic self seems to take revenge and flood our minds with even more feelings and emotions. I've been an "insight junky" for years, decades even, and the practice of meditation remains almost as difficult as it was when I started. Writing and reading and talking about mindfulness is much less difficult than practicing it. It's as if language is a trap laid by the egoic mind.
Very insightful statements. Seeing the mind's games is very helpful. Sometimes when we have practiced for many years, we do not believe that anything has changed, but if you look back at how you acted in the past, you may be surprised.
I know exactly what you mean. I am always looking for ''the one'' next video so that I finally get it. Kinda like an addiction. I read and watch more about meditation then I practice it.
Thanks for sharing this information. I am also caught up in this trap of spiritual seeking for enlightenment for a long time. No seeking pressure, so we can just live in the present moment. I can’t thank you enough! 🙏🙏🙏
You took the words right out of my mouth. Thankyou. I resonate with all you say here . I might add respectfully that no one needs this advice and that all people have built in their blueprint absolutely everything needed for their fulfillment even this advice here.
I am a seeker for the last 50 years . I often think I am in the same place after all these years of seeking .I have been practising meditation for over 45 years. I believe that I am more mentally stable, more compassionate and peaceful than I was 50 years back.But I am not certainly confident or sure that even these good changes in me are as a result of my practice of meditation or due to my age . I often I get restless, worried and scared and still pursuing making money. I wonder sometimes that beneath a layer I remain same young person who was concerned about his future. I believe intellectually that I am chasing a mirage and many a time I feel tired and hopeless. I wonder what is this life after all? After accumulating wealth, comforts, status and family, inside me I remain the same……. Worried and disturbed. Don’t know what to do
Hi. thank you for the comment. This is something that I have heard before. There are different ways to come at this depending on how you practice. It could be that seeking is at the root. It could be that you do not REALLY want to know truth, but rather want something out of it. It could be that there is doubt so the practice is off and on. Ultimately, it may be helpful to really look deeply at what is most important to you. Is it TRUTH just for truths sake?
@@drmindfulness you are right. I was very restless and unhappy as a child and started looking for solution from my adolescence. That lead me to take meditation as a way of becoming more peaceful and happy. May be I got those Upto an extant. I was not trying to know the truth. Slowly I had realised that. For the last so many years I am reading and watching Elkhart and Mooji . I stumped on your this clip and it nailed me. Thanks.
Glad it was helpful! It does seem that when we try to do anything we are seeking. there is an art to just resting with whatever is happening including ideas about seeking.
You describe this difficult navigation very well - your measurement .. “How much of the self is let go of?” is a great pointer - is all doing is distraction ❤ thank you This content is so dense with wisdom and insight 😊
If you didn't go through what you shearing with us now, your realization of this fact will be to your reach so I will say seeking is only a path to your truth you shear mow and need to be appreciated such inner quest to know the truth about life. And all what you have experience neither good or bad is what is called truth. Thank you for sharing with us.
I had a great relization last year about life, death, eternity, cosciousness. My life didn't change, but struggles are easier because I know they are fleeting.
@@drmindfulness, you made it very clear: Doing lots of things is not the way. When we stop trying things come to us. Thank you for responding. It means a lot to me to know that there are people in the "enlightenment community" who I can interact with.
The road I walked started differently. I was quite content with my personality and circumstances, but I was aware of self-imposed conversions. I yearned not so much for "enlightenment" as for insight. The quest began with knowledge and the discovery that thinking alone was not the solution. Through meditation and silence practice and also focusing attention on what needed to be done, I gained insight into my doings. Yes, I certainly tried to become wiser, but there came a time when I let go of that too. It started with the abandonment of all teachings, from Plato to Gurdjieff. All the books remained in the cupboard except the Asthavakra Samhita and the words of Ramana. The search was valuable because it gives insight into thinking, feeling and acting and the eternal play of the ego. There comes a time when you know that you are not the ego, but that you have more than one! It is the difference between 'to be' and 'to have'.
Thankyou very much. Very well explained. Your talks did change my perspective significantly. It has been a very pleasant experience understanding what you explained. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Enlightenment is realty, which is possible through the Vipassana meditation. It means knowing the nature of our mind and body. This remove our ignorance . Mindfulness, and wisdom,can be obtained through, mortality, and Anapana meditation and Vipassana meditation only.
Enlightenment is an idea. If you seek it, the seeker 'you' is not different from the idea. It is thus illusory. When seeking ends, enlightenment could pop up but here the doer is absent. So nobody remains to tell you he got enlightenment.
I see a lot of dogma on many comments over here. I feel it's kind of simple: just let it go, suffering is unnecessary. So I understand what you mean, I actually feel happy because it's so simple.😊
It is sooo simple, but the egoic mind wants to complicate it endlessly. This drive to complicate is perhaps the biggest resistance that the ego can put forward.
Great question. I would listen to my three marks of existence, talk, and then all five talks on the five aggregates. I would then use that as a framework for looking to see if you can find an independent separate self anywhere within the aggregates. You would also be looking to see if anything has a lasting permanent existence and see how you cause suffering in your own life by clinging to the pleasant and pushing away the unpleasant. Let me know if that is enough guidance or if you want some more.
Just to let you know, I found this video highly interesting. I have watched quite a few videos on so called awakening, spirituality, meditation, Buddhism, religion, laws of attraction etc etc, always believing that some day I will click on the right one and gain some superior knowledge/answer. The more I watch these kind of videos, the more I seem to go round and round in circles. I have got to the point recently, where I feel like giving up, because I feel like I am never going to find the answers I ‘seek’. Your video kind of answered how I feel and perhaps by giving the self nothing to seek anymore, it doesn’t know what to do, so maybe I am entering a new phase and I (perhaps foolishly) await to see what happens next. I still strive to be the best person I can be, I’m still interested in spiritual things, but have less expectations. I have saved your video to watch again, I struggle to digest even the simplest thoughts sometimes, but your video explained things very well. Any further tips would be appreciated and I wish you and anyone else who has come across this video all the best on your journey, thank you.😊
thank you for the comment. The ego does go around in circles because the mind can never grasp the Truth. Waiting to see what what happens is a constructive approach for you at this time. it is like waiting for your eyes to adjust to a dark room. Just sit and wait and things start to become clear.
@@drmindfulness Thank you for your reply. When you said the ego can even trick you into thinking that pursuing enlightenment will bring you the happiness that you seek, that was deep!, I’d never thought of it that way before. I think I’m just going to stay still for a while, I need a rest!.
I very much agree, and I'm happy to hear this from someone other than my self, as I begun to think it was my lazy self creating excuses to avoid putting in more work. My experience, if anyone cares to read, is as follows: I've always been into sincretism, finding the use of the best parts from diffrent traditions, much better than following a single one, with all its pros, but also its very own problems, so you can say my path was chaotic to begin with, but for my rebellious self it was, or rather, is, just fine. I've also always been attracted to shamanism from a very young age, trying lsd the first time at 13 years old, an experience that I still fondly remember as wonderfully eye opening. Ive always looked at psychotropic substances as a gift from nature, psylocibin, dmt, peyote etc.. are all keys opening diffrent doors, allowing you to explore both your subconscious and what we call reality, temporarily lifting the veil of Maya. It might sound like nonsense to many people, but like most things, you can't judge things you have no knowledge of or no experience with, besides, try to tell it's nonsense to every tribe on earth that has been using psychoactive plants in initiation rituals and/or medicine for the past couple thousand years, at least, and see how that goes. But enough of it, I'm not trying to sell "substances" to anyone here, I simply want to share my experiences. So, with a mix of diffrent philosophies, such as Quabbalah, Jainism, Anthroposophy, quite a lot of it, and a few others, mixed every now and then with the use of whatever psychoactive substance happened to find its way to me, I'm humbly gonna say that I definitely reached what Gnostics called the Christ within, the Buddha state of consciousness or however one wants to call it, with the beuty of synchronicity that comes "free" with it and so on. But just like Dr. Mindful is saying, it is not a permanent state, it could be, but let's put it this way, would you climb a mountain only to then live at its peak forever? Is it even feasible? Or it's just a wonderful experience which main goal is to humble us? Just like climbing a mountain is after all, it's quite a good analogy in fact, and I'm inclined to think so, particularly after experiencing it diffrent times. There is also a negative side of it, or at least there is for me, in the form of being left with more questions than I got answers, such as: did I really made any real progress in my spiritual journey? Or I simply deluded myself into believing I did? This question in particular led me to finding answers I wasn't prepared to get (by crossing over a completely diffrent field of study), which deeply scared me, and no, not under the influence, that is a really small part of my journey, probably between 5% and 10%, so I was completely lucid when I got scared out of my body, and I won't go into detail with it as it's not really important. What this experience led to, is what this video is about, I started to feel the only real way to make progress is by altogether stopping to try making progress, taking a seat in the back and for a change be a passenger, leaving control, or the illusion of control, back to Nature and the Universe, listening to what They have to tell me, when They want to tell me, rather than forcing answers, progress, or again, the illusion of it. Being alone in this journey, as one should be, it's very hard to get confirmation on one's thought processes, and even though I ended up reading about this state of mind in Buddhist literature, it is always nice to hear it from someone with similar life experiences. Truth is, we'll never know until we die I guess, but you can be sure of one thing, either as a passenger or as a driver, I'll do everything in my power to break the cycle, as to me, the real nightmare is the idea of having my memory wiped clean just to start over again..
I want to become enlightened through fully knowing God, not by having taken a substance, I appreciate that was only a tiny piece of your awakening but personally though I wasn't Christened or brought up in any religion I have always believed in God and my only desire has always been to become as close to the Lord as possible and I have had a few spiritual experie😮nces over my lifetime way before I ever realised that I was more than that have shown me that God is here within us, to achieve my goal
More than just a body! I feel I am on the right path to enlightenment and that the Lord is guiding me in all areas of my life and because I believe that God is the only being here I can fully accept his guidance in all ways .😊😊😊
I thought that was brilliant ..it was better than any tarot card or Gaia etc.i can't believe something so disappointing to hear could give me so much relief.. I'm fkn exhausted from seeking and seeking up and down up round and round now I know know I don't now I'm right no I'm wrong.. all this just so I might awaken or find awareness,I feel like I'm dealing with some dickhead with baggage and until I've tailored all his needs I get a holiday of awareness... I seriously wish I wasn't conscience didn't exist.. life has become some evil joke and I'm 1 if the avatars in it and I've just come to and realised fruitcakes with nuclear illumati narcissistic millionaires reset of earth history of lies.. earth is beautiful but something wrong with us ATM,humans to earth and all species are like a skin rash.. ..what's the purpose I my question??? ..plz answer I would love your insight.
Enlightenment can happen and it is no illusion. But couldn´t happen, for people who seek it for their ego, it is a wrong path. Just people with a childlike mindset, which has no knowledge (what is the forbitten fruit in bible) and a lot of curiosity (what is conciousness and awareness) will find it. Only than the truth can unfold. The truth is the real knowledge. Not the knowledge by itself, it could be right or wrong in this case. The earth is created as a place to grow your mind. It is designed to have issues. Without these the character wouldn´t learn. Every solved problem is a step of growing.
@@cthrewu2958 it's all lies including what you've just said, why be so attached to these silly stories? You think of yourself as a character and an ego and so you suffer, another story. The fact that you want to be free is the very reason you arent. Stop taking yourself so seriously, you don't exist in the way you think you do, you confuse your ID for your very self, you believe in the symbols that represent you and never notice the truth of your being. Who you think you are is just that... who you THINK you are, that isn't who you really are, no thought will ever be any more than a thought so instead of focusing on what you THINK about life just focus on life as it is, no need to define it and package it into labels and stories, you're only deceiving yourself.
I'm at the point that this video talks about. I've sort of given up. I don't even care if i don't realise that I'm already enlightened. I just accept whatever " is" in my life, I'm sort of just watching the movie. Even doing that is wonderful.
Yes. Yes. We get to a point where we identify with the witness rather than the ego. This is a joyous time- so peaceful that many people mistake it do awakening. Eventually even that identification falls away and there is just pure beingness.
Enlightenment is samadhi (above mental happiness).. beyond thoughts and beyond body feeling.... Note: without seeking, no enlightenment is possible... We are design to seek enlightenment.... which is beyond vibration...
He thought truth or absolute consciousness is a product of the mind ,the greatest delusion that any being could consider to be ultimate reality. Is a petty,to see a person deeply rooted in the personhood but trying to guide others to realise something that can be discovered by thy self ,through thy self or by the mercy and grace of the divine. A mind deeply rooted in psychological reality trying to guide others to realise existential reality. Hmmmmmm He still have a long way to go.
Yes, there will be an aspiration to know truth, but I am distinguishing this from seeking which comes as a desire by the egoic mind to be a bitter person. It is more like an impulse of consciousness to become self-aware.
samadhi, (Sanskrit: “total self-collectedness”) in Indian philosophy and religion, and particularly in Hinduism and Buddhism, the highest state of mental concentration that people can achieve while still bound to the body and which unites them with the highest reality.
Dr. Mindfulness is thinking about happiness!!! When Dr. Mindfulness will become happy just by sitting quietly then he will know what is enlightenment!! In that state there is no time and space!! Nothing to seek about!! Nothing to do!! I has become everything!! Dr. Mindfulness will then realise that the whole universe emanates from himself!!
Very helpful video … I’m so mixed up in my emotions on this journey .sometimes I thing there is something wrong with me maybe or I loose my mind. Should I just try to stop thinking ? Regards , sofia 💕
this not uncommon. We spend so much of our day lost in thought, that it can be difficult to shift from that. Here is a video that might help ua-cam.com/video/c_MZPXMc6_U/v-deo.html
A Zen Master once asked : _"SK Sum, are you enlightened?"_ SK Sum replied: _"SK Sum doesn't know, even though he's enlightened because he doesn't know what is enlightenment!"_ Zen Master : _( laughed loudly & said) 😂 now we can go drink tea together!_ 😊🙏🙇♂️🌷 Sadhu Sadhu SK Sum
Good does Good it's that simple. Lux et Veritas! Excelsior! Love the Truth and ever upward . ......Upward towards love! Also remember "The only way" is the wrong way! 🙏❤🖖!
LOC is another spiritual awakening map. I am not sure that awakening can be quantified in that way, but I do not know much about this map. Such maps can be useful.
Yes, I studied these text in 1970s and they elicited my journey. Here's a good place to read the text. www.holybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/Ashtavakra-Gita-ebook.pdf
Thanks for the question. When the ego is still dominating your life, it is that which is seeking in a very forceful and wilful way. Once the ego falls away, it feels more like an aspiration for truth coming from a deeper intelligence, it’s not really seeking anymore.
Just witness life... Don't seek . As happiness & sadness both are states of mind, enlightenment is also a state of our own mind...We all are already "infinitely enlightened" ones.... Beyond forms...
Sometimes it looks like thought appears on it's own however it feels like I can deliberately think a thought. Like I can think about getting up the chair which I can follow it up bu getting up. So that is why it is confusing
In the effort of seeking Self Realization (we get confused when we use Enlightenment), one evolves. The spirit of seeking has to come from within, whatever influences you. This effort pays off in a handling life much better than without seeking. Well if one can be happy all the time, if one can evolve without any seeking, then that sounds good. One has to make their own choice. For sure you will stop listening to the wise (or the enlightened), when you accept this is an illusion. The Buddha sought answers, he was not seeking enlightenment; it is not a degree; it is a Byproduct if it happens. Start early in life , seek the right people like Ekhart and Rupert etc.
Yes, the Buddha emphasized Right or Wise Effort in so many places, including the 8-fold path. There is also an impulse that comes out of Consciousness itself that wants to see the Truth.
What is living from your true nature.? Because to live we need body and mind and the ghost that acts as glue which is the ego. So once awakened how to live?
That is a great question. I have numerous talks about living from our true nature. They are called living the truth. Awakening is the beginning of the end. living the realizations is a process.
A little further down from this hymn of aspiration to the higher is offered a video entitled: The Illusion of Seeking Enlightenment. Neither this man here nor that other there say the word LOVE even once... And you, who are reading this and maybe silently crying in your heart, know that you are loved beyond words and protected in love in eternity. Trust in love! That's what an old tom cat tells you. We cats are experts in cosmic love. 🐱💕
Actually meditation burn your egos. Then the process of awareness starts. Mostly It start with body awareness like smelling touch etc then slowly mind control begins and then mind penetrate to body and your journey of awakening start. For common man it is difficult to understand but those are regularly working on this practice they understand it. You do not have to run on any special effects but observe the senses only. This is the method
It is a paradox. there is nothing you can do to speed up your enlightenment and at the same time you should put a balanced effort into uncovering truth.
@@manapatil2133 you don't have to understand. Knowledge prevents self understanding. You have to see directly. Not with intermediary agent called thought. The seeking you is another thought, therefore the observer vanishes in direct perception.
The idea about obtaining enlightenment, presented at the start of the material, doesn't distinguish itself too much from the idea of redemption (or at least penitence) , so I don't get it how the spiritualists came up with that in a way that is supposed to be different from religion.
Thank you for the comment. The notion of redemption that is the cornerstone in many religions, including Judaism, Christianity and Islam is not dissimilar to enlightenment or awakening as conceived in Buddhism or Hinduism. All these words point to the idea that we live in the illusion that we are separate from God or the divine. Our engagement with the different spiritual traditions is focused seeing that this is an illusion and seeing our true nature - that we are one with God or the Absolute.
@@drmindfulness Thanks for the quick review of my comment as well. What I have also noticed about modern spirituality is the so gratified given love devoid, though, of factuality. There is no love without deed, but "awakened" people live solely by that grain of aparent "love". And also, they find quick excuses for their desire to avoid people at times, blaming the others for giving bad vibes (which actually reflect their own vibe to be honest).
How do you feel about Nirvana (not the 9🥴s alternative rock band)? Do you just basically accept that, personally, this can not be your last incarnation; or perhaps there is no way to know for sure, so it's best to rather lighten up and better appreciate the moment @ hand? I was seriously contemplating monkhood in this world constantly growing more and more evil🙈🙉🙊and stupider🤪all around me. It is heartbreaking; I honestly would appreciate an environment that just simply makes sense, and it appears as though a monastery might make the most...... People with same aspirations encouraging each other to be @ their best etc. Would like to know your take on this
No way to know about rebirth. Moving to a monastery is OK, but it’s important to be clear about your motivation or intentions. If you’re going there to escape in the relative reality that this is counterproductive. If you’re going because there’s a deep aspiration for truth, than it can be very helpful. Watch my video on the two truths for some clarity on why there’s injustice in the world but it is perfect just the way it is.
Thank you for the question. There is a definite paradox. First, there is nothing that you can do to speed up or slow down your awakening, and yet you must strive on tirelessly to attain awakening. Effort evolves throughout one's practice, and ultimately becomes effortless effort. We all start off with illusory willful effort which is fine. You have inspired me to do my next talk on this.
Dear reader, at the outset of this piece I would like to state that I have great faith in mankind, I believe that all of mankind in their hearts of hearts are decent. That said mankind is in a terrible mess! So what is the solution? First we have to know the problems, and then know the source of the problem So on the problem side let's start at home. Domestic violence against women! Divorce. Suicide. Drug addiction both prescription, and illegal. Homelessness. House rental unaffordability. Mortgage unaffordability. Lack of respect for indigenous people, and their culture. Wars with all the devastation they cause. Two hundred million stateless refugees. Millions dying from starvation. Millions working for below subsistence wages. Millions of people who feel disenfranchised who feel betrayed. Right wing dictators with calcified minds. Left wing dictators with calcified minds. Well meaning philosophers whose philosophies have calcified into ideologies. Global warming with all of its consequences, floods, drought etc etc. All of these things have one source, and that is state of mind! Or should I say a state of mind that does not allow for a person to experience emotional ease. Now we know the source, the question is what to do? Well we are so far down the rabbit hole we must deal with the symptoms, and at the same time deal with the source, or the lack of quality of the source i.e. our thinking. As things stand people are victims of circumstance, but the problem is that people don't even see that. Most people see life as something that just happens to them, and do not question that, so their experience of life is a sort of outside in experience, and that they have no hand act or part in determining the quality of their experience of their reality. A question has to be asked at this point are people victims of circumstance or are they innocent victims of their unconscious thinking? Does this have to be the way? No! Can we improve the quality of our lives? Yes! How? By improving the quality of our state of mind. So how do we do that? Start by asking this pertantent question of ourselves such as, if it were not for the faculty of mind would I be having this experience I call my life? Having answered that question in the affirmative, no I would not be having this experience I call life, ask yourself this question! Am I up for claiming ownership of my experience of my life? Am I up for taking responsibility for my life? What is the advantage of this? Well it shifts a person from a position of a victim of circumstance to an active participant in their own lives. So what is the advantage in any of that? Well it gets one out of the blame game! It also prevents one from slipping into bitterness, and begrudgery. Which in of itself leads to emotional ease, And that allows for a kinder gentler experience of life. That in turn allows us to be more present to our own emotional well-being, and by default more present to the emotional well-being of others. This is at the heart of building local communities, and global communities, it's as simple as people looking out for each other. This is what will bring about transformation and with that transformation there will come a state of mind whereby people will live in contentment. This will mean people's sense of identity will not be linked to what they are, ie their possessions or status in life, instead their lives will be imbued with a feeling of gratitude for life for life's sake. Now please do not misunderstand me even in an enlightened state people will still run to gauntlet of human emotion. So in times of joy there will be laughter, and in times of sorrow there will be tears. What I am writing about is not denial of human emotion, it is about understanding it, and embracing it by owning it, and taking responsibility for it. With a little understanding, and a little kindness born of that understanding we can all live peacefully in the cradle of humanism. Kind regards. Eamonn Leonard.
Great but I want to know how and when and what you did to shift from seeker to finder......any more nitty gritty details of your path would be of interest (to no one).
Read the Dissapearance of the Universe to understand enlightenment. Enlightenment is eternal blisfull extreme happiness, don't stop too early. Enlightenment is not ego seeking something external. Enlightenment is an internal shift. Do not be confused by this video.
I know nothing about enlightenment. And is it really helpful to meditate to achieve enlightenment just like millions of people doing? I gave up meditation already since I don't know what is enlightenment. Funny thing is that I am still seeking something but while knowing that. So stupid but cute.
it is good that you do not know what enlightenment is. Beginners mind or empty mind is most useful. Meditation is simply moving out of a fascination with the noise of the egoic mind and instead resting as awareness. For many spiritual traditions it is a part of knowing our true nature. I wish you all the best in your journey that is already right with you.
@@drmindfulness thanks for your reply sir. I have a question if i have a habit which I think is bad for me .then Here evaluating the habit as bad is thought! isn't it? I can supress the habit only for short period. after that those habits take place inevitably. though I am concious about that. So please tell me how can one deal with habits
some how some power put us here ,,,,trapped in illusion, giant prison , penetrentary , for the soul....do we deserve to be here/////???? are we cosmic egotistic selfish narcissitic phsycopaths... cosmic criminals ? untill we change and return to goodness truth and all the virtues...? untill we get a clean heart ,,, free from vice in all its forms ....shall we then attain salvation , saved from vice unhappiness... etc are we sorry for bad words thoughts and deeds///??? how sorry are we ???? do we deserve to be here...??? we have not been able to help ourselves ..... our power has not been enough .... do we need a higher power ??? dear God of goodness please help us all... thanks to the Father Son and Holy Spirit
The “instruct” is cool 💯😎. But most will stumble on until one has an epiphany relevant to the whole paradox. You’re in the pull of a sucker’s trek 😐 and you’re gonna have to learn to ultimately laugh at your “spiritual” suckerdom 😂😂😂. You’ve fallen for the trap 🪤 of “one-upsmanship.” 😬 Culture has conditioned you with just enough reductionist, abstractionist based distinctions to drop U right in the middle of a gigantic hallucination 🌎💯🤔. And rather than being “one up,” w status, or money, or whatever position and ideas, you head toward the prized ideal of being one up “spiritually” 🧘🏻♂️🧘🏾 The ego actually likes yoga mats and hangin around distinguished shamans, or “spiritual masters.” 🤷🏾♂️🌎💯😂 Acting transcendent n sh#t! 👌🏽🤣 And the Truth is, it absolutely does help sometimes to “fake it til you make it.” 👍🏾🌎😎 Or, as they say these days, “Fu%k around and find out!” 😂 Ive realized the ego has this game down so pat, it will cause it’s own demise and ultimately its own death 💀 (from levels of spiritual and Egoic disappointment)… and then show up at it’s OWN FUNERAL! 😳😣 As if it wasn’t the cause of having itself taken out, once again 💯😂😂😂😂😐😠😟 And this is because… it’s only gonna throw more ATTENTION its way, whether U feel great, or fu#ked up! 🌎🧘🏾💀💯🤷🏾♂️😬 They only way to catch a break from this perpetual state of ontological affairs is somehow become present to it and chuckle 😂, while surrendering and acknowledging your own silliness. This dude is cool 👌🏽🤓. But still kind of comes off like there is some “somber” angle 📐. But I appreciate it even being brought up. The rest of Us are constantly caught up and swept in 🧹 by our ceaseless cosmopolitan consumerist compulsions. So he wont even show up in their algorithm 🤷🏾♂️💰🌎💯🤓
@@drmindfulness The ego can produced tens of thousands of it’s own “funerals” 😂… and then show up at them to “mourn,” the poor guy (or girl) 💯😂😂. U know, “pay it’s last respects.” 😧😢😩🤷🏾♂️💯🤣🤣🤣 Without a sense of humor, it’s really gonna be a tough go… because U just KNOW 🤔 this thing is to be taken with ultra seriousness 🧘🏾🌎💯😐. However, if U learn to step outside yourself, at least momentarily, then U can play the Joker 🃏 and run around back and give yourself a nice playful kick 🦵🏾🤣🤣🤣. It’ll NEVER resolve if we dont learn to take ourselves lightly. Don’t mind me Doc👌🏽🙏🏾💜🌎🧘🏾
REAL TRUE LIVING PROVEN ETERNAL INFINITE GOD IS MOTHER NATURE ADHYASHAKTI PARAMPRAKRUTI PARAMPARMESHWARI SUPREME ENERGY SUPREME NATURE SUPREME TRUTH SUPREME INTELLIGENCE SUPREME GOD SUPREME INFINITY N V R INDIVISIBLE PART OF MOTHER NATURE ADHYASHAKTI PARAMPRAKRUTI PARAMPARMESHWARI PROIF IS IN OUR DNA N GENES N V R INDIVISIBLE PART OF MOTHER NATURE THIS IS SCIENTIFIC FACT N ULTIMATE TRUTH N VEDIC ADWAITH PHILOSOPHY OF VASUDHAIVA KUTUMBAKAM JEEVDAYA AHIMSA MANAVTA THIS IS REAL FACT REAL TRUE ENLIGHTENMENT
Indeed. The illusory separate self believes that it is limited. The realization of our true nature is limitless and eternal. thank you for the comment.
Thank you for your beautifully worded insight. I have been very caught up in seeking, hearing this is very helpful to see it for exactly what it is. 🙏🏼
Glad it was helpful!
@@drmindfulness gave 31 years to pursue enlightenment.. I'm 46..went through suicidal depression... All i can say is u can never stop the seeking energy.. All of a sudden it exhausts itself... No atom bomb no oneness n ludicrous concepts... The pursuit of enlightenment is the biggest egoistic concept... The biggest desire is to have no desire.. Bullshit... U just be... Keep flowing fart drink have sex... I can't explain what happened. .. I repeat no power can stop seeking energy... How it exhausts I don't know
You saved so much time
Very helpful and right on time for me. Just entered into this stop seeking mode and the ego was right there pushng me to seek why. I had thst awareness at least. I am more at peace for sure.
the egoic mind is slippery and shapeshift, and an illusion.
I feel like I’ve arrived. No more seeking. No more walking a tight rope in self help, but just enjoying what is.
Yees, every moment of just being with what is, is a moment of peace.
UA-cam algorithm is wonderful and somehow a 'gods gift'. It brought me from teacher to teacher and through several high capacity insight bringers, slowly increasing the value. Today it brought me to this video which summarizes all others and brought my inner thoughts to a wonderful stop, at least for a while ;). Thank you for your well thought and balanced words which are very good to understand even for a non english native.
thank you for the kind words. I am happy that the video was helpful.
you start becoming aware and observe.
you observe yourself observing.
pure turyam. you have had enough.
the youtube algorithm brings you a video that confirms it.
Thank you Dr Mindfulness 🙏
Very good
This is a very important message, expressed in a clear way. It confirms and supports that my end of seeking is not falling asleep, but accepting what is, in the way I see it in the very moment. The paradox is that sometimes a part of me is still falling in the seeking mode again. To accept this is for me the challenge now.
Thank you so much. Manfred, Germany
thank you. I just posted two videos on effort that might be helpful.
Some of the best advice and insight I’ve come across, I too was in the trap of seeking so this has been very helpful. Thank you so much
Glad it was helpful!
Today when logic and sense is spoken its taken as a light bulb moment. People have become so lost in the wonder of enlightenment that they have forgotten they are the ones holding the light.
So insightful. We forget to simply pause and look inside.
@@drmindfulness The world today has given the illusion that there is darkness inside. Today's spiritually is all based from the Christian Religion. Ant Spiritual practice that charges money is just selling faith and hope just like the church.
The most challenging aspect is that we see how useless seeking is, but when we stop listening to the video or reading the book and actually practice mindfulness, the egoic self seems to take revenge and flood our minds with even more feelings and emotions. I've been an "insight junky" for years, decades even, and the practice of meditation remains almost as difficult as it was when I started. Writing and reading and talking about mindfulness is much less difficult than practicing it. It's as if language is a trap laid by the egoic mind.
Very insightful statements. Seeing the mind's games is very helpful. Sometimes when we have practiced for many years, we do not believe that anything has changed, but if you look back at how you acted in the past, you may be surprised.
I know exactly what you mean. I am always looking for ''the one'' next video so that I finally get it. Kinda like an addiction. I read and watch more about meditation then I practice it.
Thank you so much for this wonderful presentation... 🙏🌹
I am happy you enjoyed it.
Thanks for sharing this information. I am also caught up in this trap of spiritual seeking for enlightenment for a long time. No seeking pressure, so we can just live in the present moment. I can’t thank you enough! 🙏🙏🙏
You’re welcome.
The egoic mind is tricky so it is hard to know where the trap begins and ends.
You took the words right out of my mouth. Thankyou. I resonate with all you say here . I might add respectfully that no one needs this advice and that all people have built in their blueprint absolutely everything needed for their fulfillment even this advice here.
Thanks for sharing!! You are so right.
right video at right time...seeking has stopped with knowing there is nothing to seek inward as well as outword
Great Value.
I am unable to accept that total acceptance is an unattainable ideal, and I accept this.
Terrific video. This is a truly powerful pointer.
I am glad that you found it helpful.
Thank you.
You're welcome!
Beautiful, loved every word here
So glad!
excellent. very convincing explained
I am glad you found it helpful.
I am a seeker for the last 50 years . I often think I am in the same place after all these years of seeking .I have been practising meditation for over 45 years. I believe that I am more mentally stable, more compassionate and peaceful than I was 50 years back.But I am not certainly confident or sure that even these good changes in me are as a result of my practice of meditation or due to my age . I often I get restless, worried and scared and still pursuing making money. I wonder sometimes that beneath a layer I remain same young person who was concerned about his future. I believe intellectually that I am chasing a mirage and many a time I feel tired and hopeless. I wonder what is this life after all? After accumulating wealth, comforts, status and family, inside me I remain the same……. Worried and disturbed. Don’t know what to do
Hi. thank you for the comment. This is something that I have heard before. There are different ways to come at this depending on how you practice. It could be that seeking is at the root. It could be that you do not REALLY want to know truth, but rather want something out of it. It could be that there is doubt so the practice is off and on. Ultimately, it may be helpful to really look deeply at what is most important to you. Is it TRUTH just for truths sake?
@@drmindfulness you are right. I was very restless and unhappy as a child and started looking for solution from my adolescence. That lead me to take meditation as a way of becoming more peaceful and happy. May be I got those Upto an extant. I was not trying to know the truth. Slowly I had realised that. For the last so many years I am reading and watching Elkhart and Mooji . I stumped on your this clip and it nailed me. Thanks.
Perfect timing. Thank you! ❤
you are welcome.
Immensely helpful... Happy to have found you 🙏❤. I have been practicing being present.. yet seeking by being present 😅... peaceful nonetheless
Glad it was helpful! It does seem that when we try to do anything we are seeking. there is an art to just resting with whatever is happening including ideas about seeking.
You describe this difficult navigation very well - your measurement ..
“How much of the self is let go of?” is a great pointer - is all doing is distraction ❤ thank you
This content is so dense with wisdom and insight 😊
I am glad that you found it helpful.
If you didn't go through what you shearing with us now, your realization of this fact will be to your reach so I will say seeking is only a path to your truth you shear mow and need to be appreciated such inner quest to know the truth about life. And all what you have experience neither good or bad is what is called truth.
Thank you for sharing with us.
Thank you for the comments.
Thank you, very very helpful.
Glad it was helpful!
Well presented, thank you... it's a gift.
I am glad that you found it helpful
This was really helpful, thank you so much 🙏
You're welcom.
I had a great relization last year about life, death, eternity, cosciousness. My life didn't change, but struggles are easier because I know they are fleeting.
well put. thank you. Realizing the deathless is totally liberating as you say.
@@drmindfulness, you made it very clear: Doing lots of things is not the way. When we stop trying things come to us.
Thank you for responding. It means a lot to me to know that there are people in the "enlightenment community" who I can interact with.
The road I walked started differently. I was quite content with my personality and circumstances, but I was aware of self-imposed conversions. I yearned not so much for "enlightenment" as for insight. The quest began with knowledge and the discovery that thinking alone was not the solution. Through meditation and silence practice and also focusing attention on what needed to be done, I gained insight into my doings. Yes, I certainly tried to become wiser, but there came a time when I let go of that too. It started with the abandonment of all teachings, from Plato to Gurdjieff. All the books remained in the cupboard except the Asthavakra Samhita and the words of Ramana. The search was valuable because it gives insight into thinking, feeling and acting and the eternal play of the ego. There comes a time when you know that you are not the ego, but that you have more than one! It is the difference between 'to be' and 'to have'.
Yes, we all seem to have a different path, all leading to same Truth. thank you for sharing.
Very helpful, thanks!
Glad it was helpful!
Great video! Thanks! I’ll have to check out a meeting!
Glad you enjoyed it and you would be most welcome to come to our group.
Perhaps Descartes might have said more accurately, “ I seek therefore I am.” Thanks for this important insight.
You're very welcome. That's great insight into Descartes
@@drmindfulness I’ve only recently discovered your videos and I am impressed how clearly and concisely you express Buddhist “philosophy.” Thanks!
Thankyou very much. Very well explained. Your talks did change my perspective significantly. It has been a very pleasant experience understanding what you explained. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Glad it was helpful!
Enlightenment is realty, which is possible through the Vipassana meditation. It means knowing the nature of our mind and body. This remove our ignorance . Mindfulness, and wisdom,can be obtained through, mortality, and Anapana meditation and Vipassana meditation only.
Enlightenment is an idea. If you seek it, the seeker 'you' is not different from the idea. It is thus illusory. When seeking ends, enlightenment could pop up but here the doer is absent. So nobody remains to tell you he got enlightenment.
Will put. thank you.
Seems like there is no ultimate enlightenment then; the light of consciousness is continuously expanding!
There is ultimate Reality or Truth which is limitless and infinite. Enlightenment is seeing Truth. Is that what you are saying?
Knowing yourself in the complexity of the universe is enlightenment! Solitude and meditation helps you to understand yourself better every day.
thank you for the comment
I see a lot of dogma on many comments over here. I feel it's kind of simple: just let it go, suffering is unnecessary. So I understand what you mean, I actually feel happy because it's so simple.😊
It is sooo simple, but the egoic mind wants to complicate it endlessly. This drive to complicate is perhaps the biggest resistance that the ego can put forward.
So what kind of practice do you recommend for stripping away what's not me? To let go of the illusions?
Great question. I would listen to my three marks of existence, talk, and then all five talks on the five aggregates. I would then use that as a framework for looking to see if you can find an independent separate self anywhere within the aggregates. You would also be looking to see if anything has a lasting permanent existence and see how you cause suffering in your own life by clinging to the pleasant and pushing away the unpleasant. Let me know if that is enough guidance or if you want some more.
Just to let you know, I found this video highly interesting. I have watched quite a few videos on so called awakening, spirituality, meditation, Buddhism, religion, laws of attraction etc etc, always believing that some day I will click on the right one and gain some superior knowledge/answer. The more I watch these kind of videos, the more I seem to go round and round in circles. I have got to the point recently, where I feel like giving up, because I feel like I am never going to find the answers I ‘seek’. Your video kind of answered how I feel and perhaps by giving the self nothing to seek anymore, it doesn’t know what to do, so maybe I am entering a new phase and I (perhaps foolishly) await to see what happens next. I still strive to be the best person I can be, I’m still interested in spiritual things, but have less expectations. I have saved your video to watch again, I struggle to digest even the simplest thoughts sometimes, but your video explained things very well. Any further tips would be appreciated and I wish you and anyone else who has come across this video all the best on your journey, thank you.😊
thank you for the comment. The ego does go around in circles because the mind can never grasp the Truth. Waiting to see what what happens is a constructive approach for you at this time. it is like waiting for your eyes to adjust to a dark room. Just sit and wait and things start to become clear.
@@drmindfulness Thank you for your reply. When you said the ego can even trick you into thinking that pursuing enlightenment will bring you the happiness that you seek, that was deep!, I’d never thought of it that way before. I think I’m just going to stay still for a while, I need a rest!.
I very much agree, and I'm happy to hear this from someone other than my self, as I begun to think it was my lazy self creating excuses to avoid putting in more work.
My experience, if anyone cares to read, is as follows: I've always been into sincretism, finding the use of the best parts from diffrent traditions, much better than following a single one, with all its pros, but also its very own problems, so you can say my path was chaotic to begin with, but for my rebellious self it was, or rather, is, just fine. I've also always been attracted to shamanism from a very young age, trying lsd the first time at 13 years old, an experience that I still fondly remember as wonderfully eye opening. Ive always looked at psychotropic substances as a gift from nature, psylocibin, dmt, peyote etc.. are all keys opening diffrent doors, allowing you to explore both your subconscious and what we call reality, temporarily lifting the veil of Maya. It might sound like nonsense to many people, but like most things, you can't judge things you have no knowledge of or no experience with, besides, try to tell it's nonsense to every tribe on earth that has been using psychoactive plants in initiation rituals and/or medicine for the past couple thousand years, at least, and see how that goes. But enough of it, I'm not trying to sell "substances" to anyone here, I simply want to share my experiences. So, with a mix of diffrent philosophies, such as Quabbalah, Jainism, Anthroposophy, quite a lot of it, and a few others, mixed every now and then with the use of whatever psychoactive substance happened to find its way to me, I'm humbly gonna say that I definitely reached what Gnostics called the Christ within, the Buddha state of consciousness or however one wants to call it, with the beuty of synchronicity that comes "free" with it and so on. But just like Dr. Mindful is saying, it is not a permanent state, it could be, but let's put it this way, would you climb a mountain only to then live at its peak forever? Is it even feasible? Or it's just a wonderful experience which main goal is to humble us? Just like climbing a mountain is after all, it's quite a good analogy in fact, and I'm inclined to think so, particularly after experiencing it diffrent times.
There is also a negative side of it, or at least there is for me, in the form of being left with more questions than I got answers, such as: did I really made any real progress in my spiritual journey? Or I simply deluded myself into believing I did? This question in particular led me to finding answers I wasn't prepared to get (by crossing over a completely diffrent field of study), which deeply scared me, and no, not under the influence, that is a really small part of my journey, probably between 5% and 10%, so I was completely lucid when I got scared out of my body, and I won't go into detail with it as it's not really important. What this experience led to, is what this video is about, I started to feel the only real way to make progress is by altogether stopping to try making progress, taking a seat in the back and for a change be a passenger, leaving control, or the illusion of control, back to Nature and the Universe, listening to what They have to tell me, when They want to tell me, rather than forcing answers, progress, or again, the illusion of it.
Being alone in this journey, as one should be, it's very hard to get confirmation on one's thought processes, and even though I ended up reading about this state of mind in Buddhist literature, it is always nice to hear it from someone with similar life experiences. Truth is, we'll never know until we die I guess, but you can be sure of one thing, either as a passenger or as a driver, I'll do everything in my power to break the cycle, as to me, the real nightmare is the idea of having my memory wiped clean just to start over again..
Thank you for your comments. I enjoyed reading them.
I want to become enlightened through fully knowing God, not by having taken a substance, I appreciate that was only a tiny piece of your awakening but personally though I wasn't Christened or brought up in any religion I have always believed in God and my only desire has always been to become as close to the Lord as possible and I have had a few spiritual experie😮nces over my lifetime way before I ever realised that I was more than that have shown me that God is here within us, to achieve my goal
More than just a body! I feel I am on the right path to enlightenment and that the Lord is guiding me in all areas of my life and because I believe that God is the only being here I can fully accept his guidance in all ways .😊😊😊
Yes, the illusionary Ego seeks enlightenment; which cannot happen. 😊
One of the most dangerous things on the planet is an ego that thinks it’s enlightened.
I thought that was brilliant ..it was better than any tarot card or Gaia etc.i can't believe something so disappointing to hear could give me so much relief.. I'm fkn exhausted from seeking and seeking up and down up round and round now I know know I don't now I'm right no I'm wrong.. all this just so I might awaken or find awareness,I feel like I'm dealing with some dickhead with baggage and until I've tailored all his needs I get a holiday of awareness... I seriously wish I wasn't conscience didn't exist.. life has become some evil joke and I'm 1 if the avatars in it and I've just come to and realised fruitcakes with nuclear illumati narcissistic millionaires reset of earth history of lies.. earth is beautiful but something wrong with us ATM,humans to earth and all species are like a skin rash.. ..what's the purpose I my question??? ..plz answer I would love your insight.
Enlightenment can happen and it is no illusion. But couldn´t happen, for people who seek it for their ego, it is a wrong path. Just people with a childlike mindset, which has no knowledge (what is the forbitten fruit in bible) and a lot of curiosity (what is conciousness and awareness) will find it. Only than the truth can unfold. The truth is the real knowledge. Not the knowledge by itself, it could be right or wrong in this case.
The earth is created as a place to grow your mind. It is designed to have issues. Without these the character wouldn´t learn. Every solved problem is a step of growing.
@@cthrewu2958 it's all lies including what you've just said, why be so attached to these silly stories? You think of yourself as a character and an ego and so you suffer, another story. The fact that you want to be free is the very reason you arent. Stop taking yourself so seriously, you don't exist in the way you think you do, you confuse your ID for your very self, you believe in the symbols that represent you and never notice the truth of your being. Who you think you are is just that... who you THINK you are, that isn't who you really are, no thought will ever be any more than a thought so instead of focusing on what you THINK about life just focus on life as it is, no need to define it and package it into labels and stories, you're only deceiving yourself.
I'm at the point that this video talks about. I've sort of given up. I don't even care if i don't realise that I'm already enlightened. I just accept whatever " is" in my life, I'm sort of just watching the movie. Even doing that is wonderful.
Yes. Yes. We get to a point where we identify with the witness rather than the ego. This is a joyous time- so peaceful that many people mistake it do awakening. Eventually even that identification falls away and there is just pure beingness.
Enlightenment is samadhi (above mental happiness).. beyond thoughts and beyond body feeling.... Note: without seeking, no enlightenment is possible... We are design to seek enlightenment.... which is beyond vibration...
He thought truth or absolute consciousness is a product of the mind ,the greatest delusion that any being could consider to be ultimate reality.
Is a petty,to see a person deeply rooted in the personhood but trying to guide others to realise something that can be discovered by thy self ,through thy self or by the mercy and grace of the divine.
A mind deeply rooted in psychological reality trying to guide others to realise existential reality. Hmmmmmm
He still have a long way to go.
Bliss of being
What is samadhi
Yes, there will be an aspiration to know truth, but I am distinguishing this from seeking which comes as a desire by the egoic mind to be a bitter person. It is more like an impulse of consciousness to become self-aware.
samadhi, (Sanskrit: “total self-collectedness”) in Indian philosophy and religion, and particularly in Hinduism and Buddhism, the highest state of mental concentration that people can achieve while still bound to the body and which unites them with the highest reality.
Dr. Mindfulness is thinking about happiness!!! When Dr. Mindfulness will become happy just by sitting quietly then he will know what is enlightenment!! In that state there is no time and space!! Nothing to seek about!! Nothing to do!! I has become everything!! Dr. Mindfulness will then realise that the whole universe emanates from himself!!
Whose to say that DM hasn't realized any or all of that?
Very helpful video … I’m so mixed up in my emotions on this journey .sometimes I thing there is something wrong with me maybe or I loose my mind. Should I just try to stop thinking ? Regards , sofia 💕
this not uncommon. We spend so much of our day lost in thought, that it can be difficult to shift from that. Here is a video that might help ua-cam.com/video/c_MZPXMc6_U/v-deo.html
A Zen Master once asked : _"SK Sum, are you enlightened?"_
SK Sum replied: _"SK Sum doesn't know, even though he's enlightened because he doesn't know what is enlightenment!"_
Zen Master : _( laughed loudly & said) 😂 now we can go drink tea together!_
😊🙏🙇♂️🌷
Sadhu Sadhu SK Sum
And you know it.
Good does Good it's that simple. Lux et Veritas! Excelsior! Love the Truth and ever upward . ......Upward towards love! Also remember "The only way" is the wrong way! 🙏❤🖖!
Yes! Thank you!
thank you for sharing :) did you hear of transmissions? i heard of people like true spiritual awakening or LOC 1000....:)
LOC is another spiritual awakening map. I am not sure that awakening can be quantified in that way, but I do not know much about this map. Such maps can be useful.
Absolutely
Ashtavakra Gita talks about this
I am glad that you enjoyed it!
Yes, I studied these text in 1970s and they elicited my journey. Here's a good place to read the text. www.holybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/Ashtavakra-Gita-ebook.pdf
What is it that is doing the seeking?
Thanks for the question. When the ego is still dominating your life, it is that which is seeking in a very forceful and wilful way. Once the ego falls away, it feels more like an aspiration for truth coming from a deeper intelligence, it’s not really seeking anymore.
Just witness life... Don't seek . As happiness & sadness both are states of mind, enlightenment is also a state of our own mind...We all are already "infinitely enlightened" ones.... Beyond forms...
yes, thank you for the comment
Principle and attributes. Stop looking at the attributes and look for the Principle of the eternal now..good luck and best wishes 🙏❤🖖!
Yes! Thank you!
Hi. I wanted to know whether we have free will
Who wrote the question? Was it your personal will or something that simply appeared first as as a thought that you had no control over.
Sometimes it looks like thought appears on it's own however it feels like I can deliberately think a thought. Like I can think about getting up the chair which I can follow it up bu getting up. So that is why it is confusing
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"O how sweet it is to enjoy life, Living in honesty and strength! And wisdom is sweet, And freedom." Buddha
In the effort of seeking Self Realization (we get confused when we use Enlightenment), one evolves. The spirit of seeking has to come from within, whatever influences you. This effort pays off in a handling life much better than without seeking. Well if one can be happy all the time, if one can evolve without any seeking, then that sounds good. One has to make their own choice. For sure you will stop listening to the wise (or the enlightened), when you accept this is an illusion. The Buddha sought answers, he was not seeking enlightenment; it is not a degree; it is a Byproduct if it happens. Start early in life , seek the right people like Ekhart and Rupert etc.
Yes, the Buddha emphasized Right or Wise Effort in so many places, including the 8-fold path. There is also an impulse that comes out of Consciousness itself that wants to see the Truth.
What is living from your true nature.? Because to live we need body and mind and the ghost that acts as glue which is the ego. So once awakened how to live?
That is a great question. I have numerous talks about living from our true nature. They are called living the truth. Awakening is the beginning of the end. living the realizations is a process.
A little further down from this hymn of aspiration to the higher is offered a video entitled: The Illusion of Seeking Enlightenment. Neither this man here nor that other there say the word LOVE even once...
And you, who are reading this and maybe silently crying in your heart, know that you are loved beyond words and protected in love in eternity. Trust in love!
That's what an old tom cat tells you. We cats are experts in cosmic love. 🐱💕
Love is the Truth. when i say Truth I mean love.
Actually meditation burn your egos. Then the process of awareness starts. Mostly It start with body awareness like smelling touch etc then slowly mind control begins and then mind penetrate to body and your journey of awakening start. For common man it is difficult to understand but those are regularly working on this practice they understand it. You do not have to run on any special effects but observe the senses only. This is the method
Enlightenment is not a journey. The time factor is the illusory ingredient of the day false enlightenment. There is no method for enlightenment.
Without method you can’t understand
It is a paradox. there is nothing you can do to speed up your enlightenment and at the same time you should put a balanced effort into uncovering truth.
@@manapatil2133 you don't have to understand. Knowledge prevents self understanding.
You have to see directly. Not with intermediary agent called thought. The seeking you is another thought, therefore the observer vanishes in direct perception.
The idea about obtaining enlightenment, presented at the start of the material, doesn't distinguish itself too much from the idea of redemption (or at least penitence) , so I don't get it how the spiritualists came up with that in a way that is supposed to be different from religion.
Thank you for the comment. The notion of redemption that is the cornerstone in many religions, including Judaism, Christianity and Islam is not dissimilar to enlightenment or awakening as conceived in Buddhism or Hinduism. All these words point to the idea that we live in the illusion that we are separate from God or the divine. Our engagement with the different spiritual traditions is focused seeing that this is an illusion and seeing our true nature - that we are one with God or the Absolute.
@@drmindfulness Thanks for the quick review of my comment as well. What I have also noticed about modern spirituality is the so gratified given love devoid, though, of factuality. There is no love without deed, but "awakened" people live solely by that grain of aparent "love". And also, they find quick excuses for their desire to avoid people at times, blaming the others for giving bad vibes (which actually reflect their own vibe to be honest).
How do you feel about Nirvana (not the 9🥴s alternative rock band)? Do you just basically accept that, personally, this can not be your last incarnation; or perhaps there is no way to know for sure, so it's best to rather lighten up and better appreciate the moment @ hand? I was seriously contemplating monkhood in this world constantly growing more and more evil🙈🙉🙊and stupider🤪all around me. It is heartbreaking; I honestly would appreciate an environment that just simply makes sense, and it appears as though a monastery might make the most...... People with same aspirations encouraging each other to be @ their best etc. Would like to know your take on this
No way to know about rebirth. Moving to a monastery is OK, but it’s important to be clear about your motivation or intentions. If you’re going there to escape in the relative reality that this is counterproductive. If you’re going because there’s a deep aspiration for truth, than it can be very helpful. Watch my video on the two truths for some clarity on why there’s injustice in the world but it is perfect just the way it is.
So, trying to be enlightened doesn't get you there and not trying doesn't get you there, so nothing one does or doesn't do gets you there.
Thank you for the question. There is a definite paradox. First, there is nothing that you can do to speed up or slow down your awakening, and yet you must strive on tirelessly to attain awakening. Effort evolves throughout one's practice, and ultimately becomes effortless effort. We all start off with illusory willful effort which is fine. You have inspired me to do my next talk on this.
Maybe you're already there?
Dear reader, at the outset of this piece I would like to state that I have great faith in mankind, I believe that all of mankind in their hearts of hearts are decent.
That said mankind is in a terrible mess!
So what is the solution?
First we have to know the problems, and then know the source of the problem
So on the problem side let's start at home.
Domestic violence against women!
Divorce.
Suicide.
Drug addiction both prescription, and illegal.
Homelessness.
House rental unaffordability.
Mortgage unaffordability.
Lack of respect for indigenous people, and their culture.
Wars with all the devastation they cause.
Two hundred million stateless refugees.
Millions dying from starvation.
Millions working for below subsistence wages.
Millions of people who feel disenfranchised who feel betrayed.
Right wing dictators with calcified minds.
Left wing dictators with calcified minds.
Well meaning philosophers whose philosophies have calcified into ideologies.
Global warming with all of its consequences, floods, drought etc etc.
All of these things have one source, and that is state of mind! Or should I say a state of mind that does not allow for a person to experience emotional ease.
Now we know the source, the question is what to do?
Well we are so far down the rabbit hole we must deal with the symptoms, and at the same time deal with the source, or the lack of quality of the source i.e. our thinking.
As things stand people are victims of circumstance, but the problem is that people don't even see that.
Most people see life as something that just happens to them, and do not question that, so their experience of life is a sort of outside in experience, and that they have no hand act or part in determining the quality of their experience of their reality.
A question has to be asked at this point are people victims of circumstance or are they innocent victims of their unconscious thinking?
Does this have to be the way?
No!
Can we improve the quality of our lives?
Yes!
How?
By improving the quality of our state of mind.
So how do we do that?
Start by asking this pertantent question of ourselves such as, if it were not for the faculty of mind would I be having this experience I call my life?
Having answered that question in the affirmative, no I would not be having this experience I call life, ask yourself this question! Am I up for claiming ownership of my experience of my life?
Am I up for taking responsibility for my life?
What is the advantage of this?
Well it shifts a person from a position of a victim of circumstance to an active participant in their own lives.
So what is the advantage in any of that?
Well it gets one out of the blame game!
It also prevents one from slipping into bitterness, and begrudgery.
Which in of itself leads to emotional ease,
And that allows for a kinder gentler experience of life.
That in turn allows us to be more present to our own emotional well-being, and by default more present to the emotional well-being of others.
This is at the heart of building local communities, and global communities, it's as simple as people looking out for each other.
This is what will bring about transformation
and with that transformation there will come a state of mind whereby people will live in contentment.
This will mean people's sense of identity will not be linked to what they are, ie their possessions or status in life, instead their lives will be imbued with a feeling of gratitude for life for life's sake.
Now please do not misunderstand me even in an enlightened state people will still run to gauntlet of human emotion.
So in times of joy there will be laughter, and in times of sorrow there will be tears.
What I am writing about is not denial of human emotion, it is about understanding it, and embracing it by owning it, and taking responsibility for it.
With a little understanding, and a little kindness born of that understanding we can all live peacefully in the cradle of humanism.
Kind regards.
Eamonn Leonard.
Humanity is at a great crossroads where it is immediately necessary for us to awaken.
and thank you for you comment
Great but I want to know how and when and what you did to shift from seeker to finder......any more nitty gritty details of your path would be of interest (to no one).
I do have a video or two about this.
Read the Dissapearance of the Universe to understand enlightenment. Enlightenment is eternal blisfull extreme happiness, don't stop too early. Enlightenment is not ego seeking something external. Enlightenment is an internal shift. Do not be confused by this video.
Yes, the ego may think it is cool idea, but once it realizes that there is nothing in it for the ego it resists.
can i mail to you or talk to you , Sir.
Yes. I am open to this. steven_hick@carleton.ca
@@drmindfulness thank you mr steven. i am sending you a mail . greetings and thanks
Hear out UG Krishnamurty, dont miss!
Yes. One of my favourite teachers
I know nothing about enlightenment. And is it really helpful to meditate to achieve enlightenment just like millions of people doing? I gave up meditation already since I don't know what is enlightenment. Funny thing is that I am still seeking something but while knowing that. So stupid but cute.
it is good that you do not know what enlightenment is. Beginners mind or empty mind is most useful. Meditation is simply moving out of a fascination with the noise of the egoic mind and instead resting as awareness. For many spiritual traditions it is a part of knowing our true nature. I wish you all the best in your journey that is already right with you.
If you stop seeking how can you function in the world. Doesn't body seek for survival?
Awesome question. In fact, I just recorded a video on exactly that topic. Too funny. check back soon.
@@drmindfulness thanks for your reply sir. I have a question if i have a habit which I think is bad for me .then Here evaluating the habit as bad is thought! isn't it? I can supress the habit only for short period. after that those habits take place inevitably. though I am concious about that. So please tell me how can one deal with habits
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Thank you for a great vidio
I have been a seeker for many years and now even the term seeker makes me laugh😂 nobody gets enlightened.
Nobody get enlightened but it does happen.
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Wow I feel bamboozled 😂
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I am glad that you enjoyed the video.
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I am happy that you enjoyed the talk. Please let me know if there are any other topics that might interest you. :)
This is depressing to my ego 😞
The egoic mind will resist awakening at all costs. It sees if as representing its demise. simply do not believe the thoughts produced.
There student saw the emptiness of the master because he saw emptiness in himself
good luck with stop seeking...but understand that if you are entlightened...the seeking stops at it own...there is no you thats need to stop it...
I think that is what i said in the video.
Imagine a baby that assumed the status of an adult.
W-what
Are you using this as a metaphor for an ego that thinks that it is Enlighted?
some how some power put us here ,,,,trapped in illusion, giant prison , penetrentary , for the soul....do we deserve to be here/////???? are we cosmic egotistic selfish narcissitic phsycopaths... cosmic criminals ? untill we change and return to goodness truth and all the virtues...? untill we get a clean heart ,,, free from vice in all its forms ....shall we then attain salvation , saved from vice unhappiness... etc are we sorry for bad words thoughts and deeds///??? how sorry are we ???? do we deserve to be here...??? we have not been able to help ourselves ..... our power has not been enough .... do we need a higher power ??? dear God of goodness please help us all... thanks to the Father Son and Holy Spirit
All is perfect just the way it is, and we must change or our existence as a species may expire. This is the great paradox.
The “instruct” is cool 💯😎. But most will stumble on until one has an epiphany relevant to the whole paradox. You’re in the pull of a sucker’s trek 😐 and you’re gonna have to learn to ultimately laugh at your “spiritual” suckerdom 😂😂😂. You’ve fallen for the trap 🪤 of “one-upsmanship.” 😬
Culture has conditioned you with just enough reductionist, abstractionist based distinctions to drop U right in the middle of a gigantic hallucination 🌎💯🤔. And rather than being “one up,” w status, or money, or whatever position and ideas, you head toward the prized ideal of being one up “spiritually” 🧘🏻♂️🧘🏾
The ego actually likes yoga mats and hangin around distinguished shamans, or “spiritual masters.” 🤷🏾♂️🌎💯😂 Acting transcendent n sh#t! 👌🏽🤣 And the Truth is, it absolutely does help sometimes to “fake it til you make it.” 👍🏾🌎😎 Or, as they say these days, “Fu%k around and find out!” 😂
Ive realized the ego has this game down so pat, it will cause it’s own demise and ultimately its own death 💀 (from levels of spiritual and Egoic disappointment)… and then show up at it’s OWN FUNERAL! 😳😣 As if it wasn’t the cause of having itself taken out, once again 💯😂😂😂😂😐😠😟
And this is because… it’s only gonna throw more ATTENTION its way, whether U feel great, or fu#ked up! 🌎🧘🏾💀💯🤷🏾♂️😬
They only way to catch a break from this perpetual state of ontological affairs is somehow become present to it and chuckle 😂, while surrendering and acknowledging your own silliness.
This dude is cool 👌🏽🤓. But still kind of comes off like there is some “somber” angle 📐. But I appreciate it even being brought up. The rest of Us are constantly caught up and swept in 🧹 by our ceaseless cosmopolitan consumerist compulsions. So he wont even show up in their algorithm 🤷🏾♂️💰🌎💯🤓
Thank you for your insights. Spiritual suckerdom may be a necessary part of the process for us all, and we will be in this suckerdom until we stop.
@@drmindfulness The ego can produced tens of thousands of it’s own “funerals” 😂… and then show up at them to “mourn,” the poor guy (or girl) 💯😂😂. U know, “pay it’s last respects.” 😧😢😩🤷🏾♂️💯🤣🤣🤣
Without a sense of humor, it’s really gonna be a tough go… because U just KNOW 🤔 this thing is to be taken with ultra seriousness 🧘🏾🌎💯😐. However, if U learn to step outside yourself, at least momentarily, then U can play the Joker 🃏 and run around back and give yourself a nice playful kick 🦵🏾🤣🤣🤣. It’ll NEVER resolve if we dont learn to take ourselves lightly. Don’t mind me Doc👌🏽🙏🏾💜🌎🧘🏾
REAL TRUE LIVING PROVEN ETERNAL INFINITE GOD IS MOTHER NATURE ADHYASHAKTI PARAMPRAKRUTI PARAMPARMESHWARI SUPREME ENERGY SUPREME NATURE SUPREME TRUTH SUPREME INTELLIGENCE SUPREME GOD SUPREME INFINITY N V R INDIVISIBLE PART OF MOTHER NATURE ADHYASHAKTI PARAMPRAKRUTI PARAMPARMESHWARI PROIF IS IN OUR DNA N GENES N V R INDIVISIBLE PART OF MOTHER NATURE THIS IS SCIENTIFIC FACT N ULTIMATE TRUTH N VEDIC ADWAITH PHILOSOPHY OF VASUDHAIVA KUTUMBAKAM JEEVDAYA AHIMSA MANAVTA THIS IS REAL FACT REAL TRUE ENLIGHTENMENT
Thank you for your comment.
You are just limit till so you can not understand which is limitless
Indeed. The illusory separate self believes that it is limited. The realization of our true nature is limitless and eternal. thank you for the comment.
You just *had* to do this video, didn't you !? and i just *had* to wtite this comment , didn't i?
it couldn't be another way.
Awakening is nothing but being aware that what u seek is already there in u.It's not something there, but already here 👍
It was preordained
Okay, I won't bother watching any more of your videos.
That’s the spirit
Thank you
You're welcome