I understand we are never going to find answer's useing the mind, it's just a playback and record mechanism. We find peace through releasing the wanting to control the past and wanting to control the future. The irony is we can have anything we want providing we first let go of wanting it. This concept goes agianst all that we have been taught and the mind will try to reject this idea. Bieng concious of this is the key. As a thought arises ask the mind if it has an answer { right now } and it goes quiet. This puts us in a postition of being the master of the mind and not a slave to it.
@@hollicarlton260 Yeah you're already there 😄 and it's also the words, the thoughts, the emotion. You are all of it and none of it at the same time. The whole illusion of the seeker, the me with a past and future only appears as one thought experience now. The whole illusory story of "my life" is held together by this subject/object thought function in the mind. When that stops happening, what you are and always have been becomes clear in immediacy. But it's not a personal experience. It's the end of that personal experience in that we see it never actually happened. The illusion of self is like the most awesome magic trick that has ever been. It's mind blowing how one thought experience can generate a entire personal story that feels completely convincing. 😂
Thank you again and again, David for these helpful videos. I want to ask you about "looking backwards" or being "aware of awareness". Every time I try this, it seems like all the energy in my body is being withdrawn to a source or centre point. A sense of immense relaxation. And for a tiny fraction of a second, all concepts cease to exist. But it doesn't stay and the mind comes back immediately, noticing various sensations and commenting on them. Also, for a short while after this practice, it feels like the body is contained in a surrounding "spaciousness". Are any of these positive indications of practicing correctly?
@@kevintinkersinprague1441 Yeah, the monitoring thoughts keeping tabs on what's happening can just be recognised as thoughts and they calm down after a while. They're probably the last ones to go as they seem to be relating to more immediate experience. So it's good that your attention is in immediate, direct experience. Attention can become so immediate and direct that the thoughts are recognised as thoughts before they fully form. When the space of thought is calm, then you can use the intention of inquiry to question the nature of that subjective self 🙂 The way you are inquiring sounds good to me though, just keep recognising the thoughts as thoughts. The hidden thoughts will come to the surface eventually.
Hi David! Great pointers. Ive noticed when I inquire towards the self, how this feeling of "me", that i'm right here right now, it is very....blurry, hard to pin down and locate when I feel towards it. There is some body reaction, in the chest and throat, contraction of sort, maybe a light fear response or feeling startled, if that makes any sense? Conceptually I understand that it is propably because nothings there to begin with. This type of thought theme, where I think I understand what is going on, is very persistant and "safe". So what you where saying in this video fit well into what I'm trying to sort through. But do you have any ideas what I could explore or just continue to feel feel feel?
Sounds great. Yeah like you're saying the self isn't there so you never pin it down, it just gets more and more elusive and less "solid" the more you look, as the thoughts that are creating the sense of self become softer. What you are that is actually here becomes clearer and it's qualities are impossible to objectify, but it's obvious. The sense of "you" as a personal experience becomes less and less locatable or "real" and is replaced by an impersonal aware presence that isn't particularly locatable, but is everywhere. Whenever you notice it, it's already here, but you can't find it. That's what is meant when you hear "everything and nothing", our true nature never has to be found because it's already the case. It's just the thought function that seems to be obscuring it and separating experience up into "central subject/external object", cams down and stops happening. So it's kind of like a relaxation back to what you already are before the mind starts moving. If you keep looking the way you are looking it will clarify. But it might not clarify in a way where you can notice it and say" that's it", because that's a thought. The weird thing about this is that experience is inherently self-aware. It recognises it's self, as it's self without the need for thought to confirm it. Whenever we start talking about it, language makes it sound like "I realised my true nature as awareness", and the mind frames it like it was noticed as an objective experience with thought, but it's not like that 😂
I recently noticed that the body is extra fidgety. Reacts to every thought. I am now annoyed of getting annoyed by every thought. But then who gets annoyed?
@@JuditKalmar-te3oq That's good it means your attention is more direct/immediate and on the body sense. You're noticing that the thoughts are reacting to thoughts and sensations. Just keep recognising the thoughts as thoughts immediately and keep the attention on the direct conscious experience rather than the content of the thought or what it is saying. Then rather than asking who is getting annoyed, ask "what am I that knows all of this experience". What are you that is aware of the thoughts and the sensations, the body etc. The knowing, present awareness in which it all appears. If the mystery of inquiring that way "stalls" the mind and creates a "quiet looking" or an alert, attentive but still curiosity then stay with it. The restlessness and annoyance will calm down when you re-orient your attention away from the content of thought and the mind will become less reactive and more still. I think going with an impersonal version of inquiry will be effective for you. E.g. "what is this" rather than "who am I". Nit that the words matter but there is a different flavour in the intention 🙂
Thank you David. So important to always come back to centre. Clear the mind and let things naturally unfold.
I understand we are never going to find answer's useing the mind, it's just a playback and record mechanism. We find peace through releasing the wanting to control the past and wanting to control the future. The irony is we can have anything we want providing we first let go of wanting it. This concept goes agianst all that we have been taught and the mind will try to reject this idea. Bieng concious of this is the key. As a thought arises ask the mind if it has an answer { right now } and it goes quiet. This puts us in a postition of being the master of the mind and not a slave to it.
Be quiet. And observe. That what you're looking for is that what you're looking from.
It is the place between all words and concepts and beliefs or disbelief 😮I was never getting anywhere
@@hollicarlton260 Yeah you're already there 😄 and it's also the words, the thoughts, the emotion. You are all of it and none of it at the same time.
The whole illusion of the seeker, the me with a past and future only appears as one thought experience now. The whole illusory story of "my life" is held together by this subject/object thought function in the mind. When that stops happening, what you are and always have been becomes clear in immediacy. But it's not a personal experience. It's the end of that personal experience in that we see it never actually happened.
The illusion of self is like the most awesome magic trick that has ever been. It's mind blowing how one thought experience can generate a entire personal story that feels completely convincing. 😂
Thank you again and again, David for these helpful videos. I want to ask you about "looking backwards" or being "aware of awareness". Every time I try this, it seems like all the energy in my body is being withdrawn to a source or centre point. A sense of immense relaxation. And for a tiny fraction of a second, all concepts cease to exist. But it doesn't stay and the mind comes back immediately, noticing various sensations and commenting on them. Also, for a short while after this practice, it feels like the body is contained in a surrounding "spaciousness". Are any of these positive indications of practicing correctly?
@@kevintinkersinprague1441 Yeah, the monitoring thoughts keeping tabs on what's happening can just be recognised as thoughts and they calm down after a while.
They're probably the last ones to go as they seem to be relating to more immediate experience. So it's good that your attention is in immediate, direct experience. Attention can become so immediate and direct that the thoughts are recognised as thoughts before they fully form. When the space of thought is calm, then you can use the intention of inquiry to question the nature of that subjective self 🙂
The way you are inquiring sounds good to me though, just keep recognising the thoughts as thoughts. The hidden thoughts will come to the surface eventually.
Hi David! Great pointers. Ive noticed when I inquire towards the self, how this feeling of "me", that i'm right here right now, it is very....blurry, hard to pin down and locate when I feel towards it. There is some body reaction, in the chest and throat, contraction of sort, maybe a light fear response or feeling startled, if that makes any sense?
Conceptually I understand that it is propably because nothings there to begin with. This type of thought theme, where I think I understand what is going on, is very persistant and "safe". So what you where saying in this video fit well into what I'm trying to sort through. But do you have any ideas what I could explore or just continue to feel feel feel?
Sounds great. Yeah like you're saying the self isn't there so you never pin it down, it just gets more and more elusive and less "solid" the more you look, as the thoughts that are creating the sense of self become softer. What you are that is actually here becomes clearer and it's qualities are impossible to objectify, but it's obvious. The sense of "you" as a personal experience becomes less and less locatable or "real" and is replaced by an impersonal aware presence that isn't particularly locatable, but is everywhere. Whenever you notice it, it's already here, but you can't find it. That's what is meant when you hear "everything and nothing", our true nature never has to be found because it's already the case. It's just the thought function that seems to be obscuring it and separating experience up into "central subject/external object", cams down and stops happening. So it's kind of like a relaxation back to what you already are before the mind starts moving.
If you keep looking the way you are looking it will clarify. But it might not clarify in a way where you can notice it and say" that's it", because that's a thought. The weird thing about this is that experience is inherently self-aware. It recognises it's self, as it's self without the need for thought to confirm it. Whenever we start talking about it, language makes it sound like "I realised my true nature as awareness", and the mind frames it like it was noticed as an objective experience with thought, but it's not like that 😂
Hey I responded to your comment in the latest video but I couldn't find your handle to tag you 😂
@@difficult_to_describeGreat, thanks for that, I will see at as soon as I have time 🙂
I recently noticed that the body is extra fidgety. Reacts to every thought. I am now annoyed of getting annoyed by every thought.
But then who gets annoyed?
@@JuditKalmar-te3oq That's good it means your attention is more direct/immediate and on the body sense. You're noticing that the thoughts are reacting to thoughts and sensations. Just keep recognising the thoughts as thoughts immediately and keep the attention on the direct conscious experience rather than the content of the thought or what it is saying.
Then rather than asking who is getting annoyed, ask "what am I that knows all of this experience". What are you that is aware of the thoughts and the sensations, the body etc. The knowing, present awareness in which it all appears. If the mystery of inquiring that way "stalls" the mind and creates a "quiet looking" or an alert, attentive but still curiosity then stay with it. The restlessness and annoyance will calm down when you re-orient your attention away from the content of thought and the mind will become less reactive and more still.
I think going with an impersonal version of inquiry will be effective for you. E.g. "what is this" rather than "who am I". Nit that the words matter but there is a different flavour in the intention 🙂