Great meditation! I was doing this earlier this evening, when my wife walked in and asked, "what are you doing?" I replied, "My mind is a mirror". She responded with, "Your brain is a rock" Wife=1, Oneness=0.
Why is my imagination full of wars, diseases, murderers, rapists and other horrific things and acts? Age old question but why all the horror, violence and suffering? None of that is anything I would participate in. I’m way too soft, loving and kind to have that stuff inside my mind. I don’t want to project any of that but it’s there. It’s one of a few questions that nothing I can imagine makes all that stuff “ok.” No theory, no concept and no idea can explain all the horrendous suffering. If this is all god, god is quite insane. A malevolent, mean and evil being indeed. I just don’t understand and I quit trying. Great talk Fred. Maybe I’ll get it someday, maybe not. I’m about to, again, give up on all of it. I’ve gotten nowhere and seemingly wasted a lot of time meditating , listening to talks, reading etc only to get nowhere. 28:51 there it is. “Leave understanding alone.” Perfect
If you can drop It, be my guest. But It may not drop you. When you’ve suffered enough, and find you’re really and truly out of ideas, come to Satsang or schedule an Awakening Session. The miracle of Awakening happens on a VERY regular basis here. Good luck!🍀
@@FredDavisNonduality You and I both know damn well I can’t drop it. 😆 It’s baffling to me because in the last nine years since getting sober, doing the steps and the opening that gave me which led to non duality, there have been several easily recalled moments of absolute clarity, and total certainly about what I appeared to be clear about which is “there is no Sean, there is no doer and it’s always been this way” followed always by hysterical laughter, and yet as quickly as those beautiful, blissful and hilarious moments come, they fade away into only memory. I’m told nonduality isn’t an “experience” and based on recall of certain moments such as recognizing “oh shit. It’s always been this way” that’s right and oh how the mind love experiences. Experience seeking was an obstacle early on. Seems it still may be. You mentioned in a talk once the desire to be tied up and forced into understanding. 😜 Yup, I’d like that. 1 major earth shattering, fireworks everywhere force feeding that way I can drop all this f’n time Ive devoted as a seeker. I can quote all the greats with the best of them and have all the intellectual understanding of it all too and yet here I am upon awakening at 2am ready to go. I’m a part time worker on disability Fred so money is an issue on awakening sessions and satsangs. I’d love to have a session with you and am planning on it but I’ve gotta save up for a while. I’ve got $100 stashed away so far. What is it your charging for a 1:1 session? Nevermind, I’ll go to your page and figure it out. Thanks for always taking the time to answer. You’ve been, and are, one of my favorite actual still living people out here. I love that you’re sober too. You get it in that end too. I’ve switched from alcohol to spiritual seeking. I caught self hiding in meditation several years ago manifesting as spiritual greed and spiritual pride too. It was quite funny to see it.
Also I see with this field that there is no before or after. Only ever this which we are . On discovering this during the meditation, it’s no wonder that it was impossible to remember what happened before I was born or what will happen when I die because from this point of view (as the mirror itself) , non of that makes sense to try ...except of course if I believe I’m just a reflection within so called time and space. Sorry if the way I’ve used language here seems wildly philosophical. Its not meant to be, I mean what I have written literally.
It's "stunnnig" to experience the "not knowing" in immediate contrast to assumed-but-not-really-there-knowing. With eyes open, when I looked for a boundary around me, assuming ahead I would/could know what the view behind the wall behind me looks like if I could look there, I had a surprise. As my head turned to the window just to my side and its view, I realized I couldn't even fill in the view that was just next to the window border! Kind of hard to find a border when I can't even fill in the details and assume that "their" contours are the borders for them! (although my eyesight is quite the experiencing of a sense of knowing, lol)
fantastic, a great homecoming experience...feels like a warm bath of consciousness for consciousness...there is a kind of crystalline silence, an ever present pitch that seems to pervade the field of radiant darkness...not sure if that is just for the experience over here or general characteristic for "other" expressions of awakeness...another experiment to run with that dark field is to explore the sense of depth, how far away is this space? Is it very deep or very shallow? and to let the eyes explore that depth...like a camera trying to focus on emptiness...it senses the infinity somehow, that seems to stun the mind, and awakeness blooms or at least that is how it's experienced here
Thank you , I did the meditation as you instructed and something shifted. The perceiver is the mirror and the reflection at the same time. There is nothing more.
Nice one Fred, I've watched numerous non dual videos over the years both yours and others but this one really struck something in me (the me that doesn't exist) hopefully the reflection can travel back along the light to merge with the source.
Hi...i hope everything is good with you and the wife 😊... BTW one funny thing is took 3 years to clear up and accept the iam awakeness 😂 can't even doubt it anymore... If u ever feel like making more videos what's happens after and the stabelaze process fell free... ❤️
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Waking up with Fred unit. One of the best non dual teacher to have existed.
Thank you, Pratik!
All my thoughts have disappeared. All my anxiety is gone forever. Thanks Fred
Forever is a long time. Come to Satsang.
@@FredDavisNonduality I needed this comment... awareness comes and goes... forever indeed.
Profound Truth here. Love This!
Thanks, Doug!
This session really made me remember who I actually am. Thankyou most helpful stuff ever
You're very welcome!
Thanks
Thank YOU, Louise!♥
Amazing. Beautiful. Unity. The Stillness upon which everything moves
Yes indeed!
Wow! It is so restful. Just to be!
You're doing well, John.
Great meditation! I was doing this earlier this evening, when my wife walked in and asked, "what are you doing?"
I replied, "My mind is a mirror".
She responded with, "Your brain is a rock"
Wife=1, Oneness=0.
lol Good to hear from you, Jim.
Why is my imagination full of wars, diseases, murderers, rapists and other horrific things and acts?
Age old question but why all the horror, violence and suffering?
None of that is anything I would participate in. I’m way too soft, loving and kind to have that stuff inside my mind.
I don’t want to project any of that but it’s there.
It’s one of a few questions that nothing I can imagine makes all that stuff “ok.”
No theory, no concept and no idea can explain all the horrendous suffering.
If this is all god, god is quite insane. A malevolent, mean and evil being indeed.
I just don’t understand and I quit trying.
Great talk Fred. Maybe I’ll get it someday, maybe not. I’m about to, again, give up on all of it. I’ve gotten nowhere and seemingly wasted a lot of time meditating , listening to talks, reading etc only to get nowhere.
28:51 there it is.
“Leave understanding alone.”
Perfect
If you can drop It, be my guest. But It may not drop you. When you’ve suffered enough, and find you’re really and truly out of ideas, come to Satsang or schedule an Awakening Session.
The miracle of Awakening happens on a VERY regular basis here. Good luck!🍀
@@FredDavisNonduality
You and I both know damn well I can’t drop it. 😆
It’s baffling to me because in the last nine years since getting sober, doing the steps and the opening that gave me which led to non duality, there have been several easily recalled moments of absolute clarity, and total certainly about what I appeared to be clear about which is “there is no Sean, there is no doer and it’s always been this way” followed always by hysterical laughter, and yet as quickly as those beautiful, blissful and hilarious moments come, they fade away into only memory.
I’m told nonduality isn’t an “experience” and based on recall of certain moments such as recognizing “oh shit. It’s always been this way” that’s right and oh how the mind love experiences. Experience seeking was an obstacle early on. Seems it still may be. You mentioned in a talk once the desire to be tied up and forced into understanding. 😜
Yup, I’d like that. 1 major earth shattering, fireworks everywhere force feeding that way I can drop all this f’n time Ive devoted as a seeker.
I can quote all the greats with the best of them and have all the intellectual understanding of it all too and yet here I am upon awakening at 2am ready to go.
I’m a part time worker on disability Fred so money is an issue on awakening sessions and satsangs.
I’d love to have a session with you and am planning on it but I’ve gotta save up for a while.
I’ve got $100 stashed away so far. What is it your charging for a 1:1 session? Nevermind, I’ll go to your page and figure it out.
Thanks for always taking the time to answer.
You’ve been, and are, one of my favorite actual still living people out here. I love that you’re sober too. You get it in that end too.
I’ve switched from alcohol to spiritual seeking. I caught self hiding in meditation several years ago manifesting as spiritual greed and spiritual pride too. It was quite funny to see it.
Thankyou Fred . I am without pain thoughts and all anxiety has gone.
Great! Now come to satsang! awakeningclaritynow.com/satsang/
You are Oneness! Thank goodness 😅
That pretty much covers it!
Also I see with this field that there is no before or after. Only ever this which we are . On discovering this during the meditation, it’s no wonder that it was impossible to remember what happened before I was born or what will happen when I die because from this point of view (as the mirror itself) , non of that makes sense to try ...except of course if I believe I’m just a reflection within so called time and space. Sorry if the way I’ve used language here seems wildly philosophical. Its not meant to be, I mean what I have written literally.
It sounds fine to me.
A koan I’ve been working with lately is “what was my face before my parents were born?”
Hasn’t popped yet.
Wow !! You are so intelligent 🤨
You are very kind - any intelligence that came through is not "Fred's" though 😊
It's "stunnnig" to experience the "not knowing" in immediate contrast to assumed-but-not-really-there-knowing. With eyes open, when I looked for a boundary around me, assuming ahead I would/could know what the view behind the wall behind me looks like if I could look there, I had a surprise. As my head turned to the window just to my side and its view, I realized I couldn't even fill in the view that was just next to the window border! Kind of hard to find a border when I can't even fill in the details and assume that "their" contours are the borders for them! (although my eyesight is quite the experiencing of a sense of knowing, lol)
lol ♥
Nice to have a break from body and experience...
Yes, consciousness can be a burden for You.
Thanks for this Fred. What's your view on RASA/ Shaktipat/Transmission. A few teachers are giving this on UA-cam/Skype/Zoom. In order to end seeking.
Hi, Alan. This channel is to talk about this teaching. "What I think" doesn't matter.
Grateful for sharing! Saw the true freedom! Highest regards!
Beautiful! Thanks for letting me know!
fantastic, a great homecoming experience...feels like a warm bath of consciousness for consciousness...there is a kind of crystalline silence, an ever present pitch that seems to pervade the field of radiant darkness...not sure if that is just for the experience over here or general characteristic for "other" expressions of awakeness...another experiment to run with that dark field is to explore the sense of depth, how far away is this space? Is it very deep or very shallow? and to let the eyes explore that depth...like a camera trying to focus on emptiness...it senses the infinity somehow, that seems to stun the mind, and awakeness blooms or at least that is how it's experienced here
Great to see you in Satsang today, Wesley. Keep on doing (or not-doing) what you're doing (or not-doing)!
@@FredDavisNonduality Thanks, Fred. I look forward to satsang every week and sad when it goes.
Fred, thank you so much for your videos. I haven't woke up yet. I will, though. :-) Gregor
You are already Awakeness.
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You cannot see yourself, but you can see. Seeing. 🙏❤️
You are on target--as always.
Thank you , I did the meditation as you instructed and something shifted. The perceiver is the mirror and the reflection at the same time. There is nothing more.
The reflection is a dream. It's a reflection, meaning that there's no there 'there' but it's nonetheless showing up.
Seems like it knew the I needed to know me with through this video made by me??
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Happy Thanksgiving, Fred and Betsy! Thanks!
Thank you, Jon! We actually took half a day off! First time in 2 1/2 years that we've been able to do that. It was great!
Nice one Fred, I've watched numerous non dual videos over the years both yours and others but this one really struck something in me (the me that doesn't exist) hopefully the reflection can travel back along the light to merge with the source.
That's great, Alec! Thank you!
Whoa-ah! How beautifully explicit. Thank you.
"Explicit" = Wonderfully sharp description, Linda!
Thank you great stuff 🤗
Hi, Astral!
Hi...i hope everything is good with you and the wife 😊... BTW one funny thing is took 3 years to clear up and accept the iam awakeness 😂 can't even doubt it anymore... If u ever feel like making more videos what's happens after and the stabelaze process fell free... ❤️
So very grateful and thankful for these teachings! All love and openness; eternity now... The Mirror ❤🙏
Hey, Susan! I'm thankful to spend time in your company.♥
That was crazy. Thank you 🙏
You are SO welcome!
Oh great 🙂 Isn't this based on tibetan Dzogchen ?
I'm glad you like it, but it's based solely on experience.
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@@FredDavisNonduality this is a great meditation. Thank you for sharing 🙏