NON-DUALITY: How To Awaken In 2024

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  • @snakedogman
    @snakedogman Рік тому +38

    The mind always wants something to do, trying to convince us that there's some problem to solve and something to figure out before we can be at peace.

    • @81gamer81
      @81gamer81 8 місяців тому +2

      And such is its task. Let it do its thing. Thoughts need attention to affect you. You give them power. Thoughts are not good or bad, thinking makes them so - Shakesspear (I think)

    • @kannan1610
      @kannan1610 7 місяців тому

      Nice & aptly put!

    • @ejrhenriksen
      @ejrhenriksen 6 місяців тому

      And to whom would this award be given? 🎉

  • @Kiki-dq7gr
    @Kiki-dq7gr 9 місяців тому +18

    I swear you should get an award for this 😂. The most simple,direct and well explained pointing i've ever heard

  • @neelapatel1081
    @neelapatel1081 7 місяців тому +5

    Trust Alex to awaken us to our true nature, in his keeping it real and no-fuss wholesome way. There really is no "way" other than this video. Such profound knowledge delivered so simply and effectively.

  • @stangoodvibes
    @stangoodvibes Рік тому +21

    The last video we ever need to watch on non-duality 😅 Goodbye UA-cam

  • @balajelraluca3389
    @balajelraluca3389 10 місяців тому +4

    Wow, I love your videos, you manage to express so simple but so essential, no romance, no filosophy, no spiritual language, that creates even more confusion. I found you recently, and I m so glad, because you asweared my questions, my doubts, and to the tricks of my mind, so effectively. Sorry for the english, ...🙈

  • @junesage7485
    @junesage7485 Рік тому +8

    So effortlessly and eloquently spoken, a true gift. Namaste 💫

  • @bobbys1249
    @bobbys1249 Рік тому +9

    Brilliant, Truth as close as one can get. I love the part that points out once you recognize your original mind that is just the beginning, awakening doesn’t solve all your problems. We have a life time of mind habit. With awakening all seeking energy is gone, and a new chapter begins. In all situations standing at the center of reality is now the game and with all games you win some and lose some but the essential you is untouched. Peace to all and good luck.

    • @Illuminated333
      @Illuminated333 7 місяців тому

      If you are awakened you realize you have no problems. Problems are made up.

    • @bugrist
      @bugrist 4 місяці тому +1

      ​@@Illuminated333yet existing inside a body is bound to having problems. If someone wants to find food at the table and a roof over the head for many people this leads to huge problems and pain.

  • @94nolo
    @94nolo Рік тому +3

    the realization of what i am, i always was, and will be to come. i am.

  • @tracyblack4708
    @tracyblack4708 10 місяців тому +5

    Wow it’s like you were talking right to me. Great video

  • @ahkaufuan4932
    @ahkaufuan4932 7 місяців тому +3

    I almost skipped watching after the first 20 sec. I am glad I didn’t. This really resonate within me. Thanks.

  • @carltonsoo829
    @carltonsoo829 2 місяці тому +1

    Most direct and no BS explanation ever! Thank you so much once again Alex!

  • @budlacombe
    @budlacombe Рік тому +3

    Don’t seek nor avoid, take what comes 🙏🏻

  • @reneepoulin8232
    @reneepoulin8232 Рік тому +7

    I hope you awaken the world Amazing ❤

  • @darladarlading
    @darladarlading Рік тому +7

    Wow. You appeared in my feed randomly and I’m so grateful. Everything you said was so clear and direct - I appreciated the examples you gave of how the mind convinces itself there’s something more to attain.
    Thank you 🙏 ❤

  • @christinegrace6783
    @christinegrace6783 Рік тому +12

    so beautifully expressed. thank you for sharing this Wisdom.... YOU ROCK! Yes.

  • @spes09
    @spes09 7 місяців тому +1

    14:45 My mind is telling itself it has awaken after seeing that window open.. Thank you so much! ♥

    • @RobbeyT1
      @RobbeyT1 5 місяців тому

      That was an awakened ghost going out for a walk 🤣

  • @MattyLiam333
    @MattyLiam333 5 місяців тому

    I was pondering this before meditation this morning, I didn't want to do it. Been meditating daily for almost 10 years. Divine timing for this video. Thank you!❤

  • @TalkingTruewithJulieHoyle
    @TalkingTruewithJulieHoyle Рік тому +3

    The function of the mind is to think and to doubt. And, to keep going. 🤣 Seeking is mind-driven. When you wake up, this is seen. 🥰 Thank you for sharing.

  • @jjk8417
    @jjk8417 Місяць тому

    Absolutely wonderful, thank you! Namaste

  • @lanle5820
    @lanle5820 9 місяців тому +1

    Thanks for good Help

  • @garymoore3446
    @garymoore3446 4 місяці тому

    The Minute you stop seeking and thinking you need to seek anything is when you awaken

  • @ravenofthewild
    @ravenofthewild 4 місяці тому +2

    To quote Popye..."I Am what I Am"

  • @neelapatel1081
    @neelapatel1081 7 місяців тому

    Thanks!

  • @Outoforbit4good
    @Outoforbit4good Рік тому +6

    Subscribed thank you, simple and direct i love this!

  • @Nonduality
    @Nonduality 4 місяці тому

    Thank you for spreading both the teaching and the word nonduality. You are doing the greatest work.

  • @Dr3adlox
    @Dr3adlox Рік тому +7

    Great video.
    Scripture does state that you use the mind to come to the realization of that which is beyond the mind but I generally agree with you.
    For me it feels like Im thinking about it, trying to find it with my mind until the point where I realize that I am lost in these thoughts and that they are only illusion which I am Only Observing. And that is when the mind settles down in the realization that no thought is of any relevance since all of them are just the observation.
    Its like the mind runs around until it fins a neutral point of unconditional stability. Knowledge leads it out of itself.
    And after that life goes on but you are of the awareness that everything that is happening is unrelated to me and so it does not matter in any way. Its happening but its not happening to me.
    And in that state the mind is constantly very relaxed which starts to bring up the very pleasurable sensations of that detachment. God is making this for me and it feels really good even when its nothing.

    • @AlexShailer
      @AlexShailer  Рік тому +3

      Perfect! If a pointer like "Awareness" doesn't mean anything to you, it doesn't matter. It's about whatever is right for you. And it is true, that you can use the mind (or more accurately, the faculty of attention) to go beyond the mind. So I never discourage anyone from doing so. But if we are to be completely honest, we have to tell the Truth, which is that its already present. Both things are true AT ONCE. The mind can never understand that.

    • @Кабиналах
      @Кабиналах Рік тому

      The first part of your comment is absolutely incorrect

  • @garymoore3446
    @garymoore3446 4 місяці тому

    You are the thing you are seeking!

  • @Stefan69whatever
    @Stefan69whatever Рік тому +1

    Back to the basics. simple and clear. The really isn't much more to say.❤👍

  • @swarnaasarrma
    @swarnaasarrma Місяць тому

    Thanks Alex I was not able to understand this concept from books and teachings from other people!

  • @JHeb_
    @JHeb_ 4 місяці тому

    It's nice to come back to this video from time to time.

  • @Kimmen
    @Kimmen Рік тому +2

    Thank you for sharing this. This has been showing itself more and more to me over the last year, and now I understand what it points towards. It's the most beautiful teaching ever, and so ridiculously simple. It's too simple really.
    Thank you!

  • @annemcvitie4805
    @annemcvitie4805 Рік тому +1

    Thank you 🙏 I dropped into infinite awareness ♥️

  • @satyajeetprabhu
    @satyajeetprabhu Рік тому

    Beautiful pointings! Thank you Coleco and Happy New Year 2024!

  • @BlakeLight722
    @BlakeLight722 Рік тому

    Omg! This video addressed EXACTLY what I needed to know because it’s EXACTLY what I’m experiencing right now! Divine timing, thnk you Alex I’m so happy I stumbled on your channel 🙏✌️🫶💫

  • @AliciaJames-n7o
    @AliciaJames-n7o 11 місяців тому

    Great Alex, I love the way you explain the unexplained infinite consciousness.

  • @ManjilJoshi
    @ManjilJoshi Рік тому

    Blunt direct pointing and simple and with none of mind ads. 😌🙏

  • @balajelraluca3389
    @balajelraluca3389 10 місяців тому +1

    The expressions that bother me most are "everything appears and disappears", "nothing happens" or "is and is not at the same time", "there is no cause and effect", "there is no evolution". Obviously I get tied up in words and the confusion and stress becomes even greater when I apply these expressions to everyday life, on a personal level, and I end up thinking that there is no point in doing anything because there is no cause and effect, or that nothing happens anyway, or that everything is pointless since I cannot influence reality or what happens. Extrapolating these dictates to everyday life is dangerous, it can lead to depression.

    • @AlexShailer
      @AlexShailer  10 місяців тому +1

      These things are relevant and real in the relative world of form. They are pointed to as 'not real' to distinguish the temporary form from what is ultimately real: unchanging awareness, or beingness. Non-Duality isn't about ignoring the relative realm or saying it doesn't matter. With Self-realization, the world and the individual can be engaged with, whilst knowing one's true nature as awareness/beingness as larger than and beyond it.

    • @balajelraluca3389
      @balajelraluca3389 10 місяців тому

      @@AlexShailer thank you! I also found other videos of yours that explains these things very well! 👍

  • @linpetite777
    @linpetite777 8 місяців тому

    Thank you🙏. I very much appreciate your pointing....it helps me becoming aware of just being in this moment. Love your guidance.

  • @bb581
    @bb581 7 місяців тому

    The best video I’ve heard so far! So simple yet so hard to do.
    Thank you kindly ❤️

  • @FemAquarius
    @FemAquarius Рік тому

    So. Very. Good. Thank you, Alex Shailer! 🙏

  • @roycohen.
    @roycohen. Рік тому +3

    beautiful.. enjoyed it. thanks :)

  • @stuartgreenblatt6596
    @stuartgreenblatt6596 Рік тому

    Thank you Alex! Happy New Year!

  • @MusikHuck
    @MusikHuck 4 місяці тому

    great! Thanks

  • @BubbleGendut
    @BubbleGendut Рік тому

    Agree. Nicely said. What interests me intellectually is what if anything we take away from this life. Rupert Spira suggests nothing can be added to consciousness whereas Bernardo Kastrup suggests some of life’s lessons are absorbed.

    • @AlexShailer
      @AlexShailer  Рік тому

      I believe we do. I love Rupert but I don't agree when he says '"Localized consciousness dissipates into the wider medium after death" or something like those lines. There is enough 'Out of body' and NDEs and people literally dying and coming back and saying localized awareness continued. There is no good reason to say it dissipates after this life and there may be many lifetimes and layers of reality

    • @iainthebruce
      @iainthebruce Рік тому +1

      ​@@AlexShailer Sure, but is this not conflating the dream with the absolute. With OBE's etc, you are talking about levels of localised consciousness or densities that are still within the dream. The only objective reality is the indivisible, boundless, timeless, unmanifest potentiality. Ultimately, what would it be that 'absorbs' these lessons or that references this 'localised awareness'? Knowledge, known experience or memory only has perceived value within the 'appearance' and within the concept of time. That, within which and from which, the 'appearance' seems to arise and dissolve, is itself without attribute. No division, no other, no referencer or knower. Having said that, your video was excellent and i really enjoyed your delivery and focused pointing. Great work, looking forward to more. Liked and subbed.

  • @davidrandell2224
    @davidrandell2224 Рік тому

    The “creative nothing “, Max Stirner,1844/2017 Landstreicher translation- “The Unique and Its Property “, is still as good as it gets.

  • @TheBeatSpring
    @TheBeatSpring 6 місяців тому

    Well said, thanks for the pointers.

  • @Olhoseternos-Oracoes
    @Olhoseternos-Oracoes Рік тому

    Maravilhosooo! Sem palavras, Gratidão Alex!!

  • @mame1960
    @mame1960 Рік тому

    Thank You!

  • @starkeyrob
    @starkeyrob Рік тому +1

    I would say you have hit the nail on the head Alex , except that there isn't any nail.

    • @AlexShailer
      @AlexShailer  Рік тому +3

      haha I get you! Oh wait... I don't "get" anything lol

    • @superduperdom
      @superduperdom Рік тому +1

      There is a lot of mass debating in non-duality, and the confusion between a conceptual understanding and the felt sense of it is pervasive, the difference between reading the menu and eating the meal. Equally everybody has a unique journey, one person’s intuition might tell them to meditate, another to do therapy, or spend time in nature, or take psychedelics, or listen to a teacher on UA-cam telling them they are already it.

    • @starkeyrob
      @starkeyrob Рік тому

      @@AlexShailer So even pure consciousness has a sense of humor.

  • @kin8324
    @kin8324 Рік тому

    Thank you.

  • @AndreasHafenscher
    @AndreasHafenscher 8 місяців тому

    Now, I understand the terminus POINTER! Thanx. Great content.

  • @sartemisa1
    @sartemisa1 Рік тому

    Waw... what a true confession.
    Simple but the mind didn't fight it, as you predicted. Maybe because it was prepared by other guides ( to avoid the word teacher ) and here, now it received the truth.
    Simple, naked, unconditional, natural ;)
    Ironic how the other non-dual use phrases as: it is this ( implying that exists, also ), it's what appearing ( indirectly implying dissapearing ).
    Thanks Alex

  • @mdmanrecords
    @mdmanrecords Рік тому

    Edibles and a stern right hander. God bless

    • @AlexShailer
      @AlexShailer  Рік тому +1

      Ha! Well... that's what Consciousness is doing! God Bless.

    • @mdmanrecords
      @mdmanrecords Рік тому

      Happy new year mate 👍

  • @balur104
    @balur104 Рік тому

    Thank you so much 🙏🌻

  • @bobpawlowski4681
    @bobpawlowski4681 Рік тому +1

    Wow! Thank you.

  • @jpgerbet
    @jpgerbet 7 місяців тому +2

    There is no mind. There are only thoughts with a sense of someone claiming them. “My mind, my thoughts”.

  • @billmcdonald3561
    @billmcdonald3561 Рік тому

    Nice work! Many thanks!

  • @sjdinatree
    @sjdinatree Рік тому +1

    Wow loved this!!

  • @mags8805
    @mags8805 Рік тому

    This is so helpful. Thank you!

  • @saeedassou3195
    @saeedassou3195 7 місяців тому

    Thanks for this brother.

  • @IAMLiamwalker4444
    @IAMLiamwalker4444 Рік тому +1

    Much Love♾️❤️♾️

  • @JasperAlkmaar
    @JasperAlkmaar Рік тому +1

    He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found.
    Bottom line; this is true from absolute perspective, but the ‘apparent’ reality for most of us is that we ARE still operating from the Person level, and actually DO need a practical approach (while knowing the absolute)

  • @andrewodonnell7126
    @andrewodonnell7126 6 місяців тому

    Excellent video!

  • @DTMA_8
    @DTMA_8 Місяць тому

    All your videos are great Alex, but this one is brilliant, no need to listen to anything or anyone else, i'd pin it. I always wondered why I forgot my true nature and struggled to disassociate from a variation of pure awareness, being that I was in the fishbowl of apparent duality. Separating suggests that there is something to separate from, which keeps the game going. But why deliberately choose to forget and perhaps suffer? Could it be that I as Awareness am so perfect, whole and complete with no ability to get more so, that I conveniently forgot this for the experience of remembering it, and all that that entails? Why does the mind fight this, surely it's also Awareness?

  • @garyisaacs6526
    @garyisaacs6526 Рік тому +2

    " I think therefore I am " R. Descartes ~ " i don't identify with my thoughts therefore I am not " A. E. Neuman

  • @524sbth
    @524sbth 2 місяці тому

    Would it had been called "the secret?" Lol
    Thank u, its just really good for me to hear this, bc its hard to know "what" to look for when your looking......

  • @brightlight369
    @brightlight369 Рік тому

    👏👏👏 Thank u so much. So to the point❤

  • @craigherriot4026
    @craigherriot4026 Рік тому

    Seriously impactful. liked and subscribed.

  • @SaxonShore
    @SaxonShore 5 місяців тому

    Good one!

  • @vijiind
    @vijiind 3 місяці тому

    I have subscribed Alex ! Can you throw points on basic nature which is classified in Hindu scriptures
    Satvik (Calm ) Rajas( Active) Tamas(dull) moods

  • @AliveClint
    @AliveClint 8 місяців тому +2

    If there’s trauma or repression, you can’t just drop that belief. This is not helpful to so many people, it will just get them into a bypass where they lose their humanity.

    • @AlexShailer
      @AlexShailer  8 місяців тому +1

      Exactly, which is why I've never said that and why I've made several videos on the topic

  • @pairadeau
    @pairadeau Рік тому

    this video is important to alert people to the lines of thinking to avoid but it does nothing for the earnest seeker who already understands this and is still confounded by how to simply be what they are. i'm afraid that's where the "meat" is. no attack on the video btw. we just need to be sure that we understand all the subtleties (not just conceptual even though only concepts are able to communicate anything - whether they be verbal or nonverbal concepts....so maybe there is where the confusion may be arising?) before we claim to be able to guide someone else in their own path. let us try to take the posture of a fellow investigator of truth sharing discoveries rather than possibly someone that has found "the real way" "the essential way" "the clear and obvious way", "the effortless way", etc. everybody on youtube take it easy. ha ha. much love to all.

    • @AlexShailer
      @AlexShailer  Рік тому

      When you say "already understands this" and "is still confounded", what that says to me is: "has thoughts about it, but never followed the pointer"... and that's the point of the video. You must stop trying to understand it intellectually, and instead, use the facility of your attention to look at the Awareness that is aware of all these thoughts. You must stop trying to look into your mind. That is contracted focus. Soften your attentional focus and see everything at once. Now stay there as long as possible. Don't get bored straight away and start thinking about it again.

    • @pairadeau
      @pairadeau Рік тому +1

      we're saying the same thing. i presume this video was an attempt to understand/relay it intellectually. if you claim "no...the pointer herein are to do exactly the opposite i.e. that you can't understand it intellectually" please realize that this is also a concept. that was my only point. cheers good friend. @@AlexShailer

  • @bluevelvet5476
    @bluevelvet5476 Рік тому

    It was so great, for a moment i felt like im a consciousness having a human experience than i started to think again 😅

    • @AlexShailer
      @AlexShailer  Рік тому +1

      Haha, welcome home!

    • @yurperfect
      @yurperfect Рік тому

      But you are still consciousness aware of the mind thinking...
      Always, already, perfect, alive, alert, awareness...and nothin' you can do about it ❤❤

  • @shuttlefish59
    @shuttlefish59 5 місяців тому

    That was spooky the window opening behind you. I thought that was very good too.

    • @AlexShailer
      @AlexShailer  5 місяців тому

      Haha I know it also opened in a weird way lol

  • @Justin-fx9xu
    @Justin-fx9xu 11 місяців тому

    great vid thank you.

  • @kannan1610
    @kannan1610 7 місяців тому

    Alex love you man!

  • @williamcallahan5218
    @williamcallahan5218 7 місяців тому

    "What is the use of accepting the illusory nature of the universe and everything in it, while excluding yourself?"
    Ramesh Balsekar

  • @energybender
    @energybender 6 місяців тому

    mind twisting explanation

    • @AlexShailer
      @AlexShailer  6 місяців тому

      Twist it shake it move it

  • @fritsspinder3734
    @fritsspinder3734 8 місяців тому

    🙏🏻namaste
    That was genius!!!!!

  • @TI_Ted
    @TI_Ted 5 місяців тому

    can some one point to where this kicks in ?

  • @laisa.
    @laisa. 7 місяців тому

    The "function of the mind is like that" and "I should just let it". Who runs the mind and who runs the one wanting lo let the mind run and who has the outside perspective asking this? It's all percieving in the moment and then stories about a me, a mind, letting or not letting. Stories seem to make up a duality but they also appear in the now. It's all simultaneously happening

  • @gosia3032
    @gosia3032 9 місяців тому +1

    👌👋👋👋Thank you !!!

  • @bsways
    @bsways 9 місяців тому

    We do need to train the mind to be still in order to see through the illusion. Distraction is a hinderance to seeing the true nature of reality. Also why did we need to “forget ourselves to experience a limited self in a limited world”? What’s the point? Why not just not come here in the first place?

  • @MateuszSikora1
    @MateuszSikora1 10 місяців тому

    Thanks, awakened👍

  • @davethorne7351
    @davethorne7351 11 місяців тому

    I love this relax into the truth ❤

  • @petereinheit2031
    @petereinheit2031 Рік тому

    awareness says: very nice video

  • @skydog4049
    @skydog4049 11 місяців тому

    The mind will do whatever it wants..

  • @1igonin
    @1igonin 7 місяців тому

    We are the Consciousness perceiving Itself. One whole unfragmented/non local/timeless Consciousness can be pure Love and Harmony, but for such Entity to be able to expand/reverberate infinitely Its Love and Harmony It must had to fragment/localize/time fixate Itself in dual nature (material expression revealed in us material living beings) so that by, awakening from our own duality, we could bring higher Orders of reverberation/vibration to such Oneness Love and Harmony. We were made separate, our minds keep to separate and categorize things as long as we live, its aim is rational understanding and complexification of its own content and perception, a closed vicious and untrue never ending cycle, our work is thus to stop such mental cycle and by SURRENDER of mind and body (the only thing that one must really DO) make coherent our perception/awareness with every internal and external thing that arise in our minds - LOCAL MIND HARMONIZED WITH THE HIGHER MIND THROUGH THE FULL AWARENESS OF WHAT IS (without subjective/local interference).

  • @kalliyoga
    @kalliyoga 12 днів тому

    Lo behold🙏

  • @viktorianagy7965
    @viktorianagy7965 8 місяців тому

    ohhhh. Amazing🥰🤩❣

  • @harjotmahal8985
    @harjotmahal8985 Рік тому

    I liked what you said.👌

  • @kdybfest6556
    @kdybfest6556 2 місяці тому

    I have known about Non Duality for a few years now. Meditate often for a period of time until I heard a conversation between Sam Harris and another on the Waking Up app. There it was said that about 30% of those who have an awakening do not cope with it, and end up suffering greatly for a long, long time. Elsewhere I have subsequently learned that this is called Dark Night Of The Soul. I immediately stopped meditating. This was too risky. Who would I talk to if I turned out to be one of those percent. Who would guide me? An awakening could have ended up being a journey to hell. I think those who encourage awakening should be more clear about this and make the viewers aware of this risk.

  • @discoteque7768
    @discoteque7768 5 місяців тому

    200,000 years of conditioning can’t cease from one day to another.

    • @AlexShailer
      @AlexShailer  5 місяців тому

      It's unlikely yes. Conditioning has momentum and Consciousness is also infinite.

  • @svenphil8879
    @svenphil8879 Рік тому

    Well said. Where are you at, looks a bit tropical.

  • @FromIdeologytoUnity
    @FromIdeologytoUnity Рік тому

    What if I just trust that its unfolding naturally and focus on my creative goals while 'doing' spiritual practices like meditation as a form of spiritual hygiene rather than to get awakening?
    Still, certain things are being experienced. Like creative block, overthinking, catastrophising, anxiety and more. I would like a....smoother experience. I mean its all awakened either way, but I would much prefer to be awakened in a peaceful way? I guess thats unfolding too and I don't need a teacher. But why did I come across this then? I guess this just presses my buttons. Still, my experience is 'better' than it ever has been and getting better quicker, so, thats good.

    • @AlexShailer
      @AlexShailer  Рік тому

      Yup! That's great. I still meditate A LOT, do breathwork every day, and do the 'practice' of resting as awareness'. It all helps with many things.

  • @jackwilliamatkins5602
    @jackwilliamatkins5602 Рік тому +1

    May the Porterhouse of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen

  • @discardmyfriends
    @discardmyfriends 3 місяці тому

    What do you do if theres intense feelings of hurt and depression even without thoughts

    • @AlexShailer
      @AlexShailer  2 місяці тому

      Watch my videos about how to release trapped emotions

  • @zuluru8020
    @zuluru8020 6 місяців тому

    awakening ( or whatever) steps -> 1) just meditate on WHO AM I and you will get ALL the ANSWERS. no more discussions. PERIOD.

  • @contemplatingwithamaster
    @contemplatingwithamaster Рік тому +2

    👁️🌹👁️ nicely said 😊

  • @rahmasamir909
    @rahmasamir909 Рік тому +2

    There is nobody to awaken 😂😂 ❤ 🎉🎉🎉🎉