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Im a schizophrenic. I do doordash for extra money. One order at night, i arrived and walked to the door, placed his food down and took a picture. I got in my car and drove away. 30 minutes later he called and asked where his food was, i totally remember taking the picture at his doorstep. So he took it up with Doordash. An order later, i opened my back door and.. saw his order. I was so confused why it was there. I remembered everything about going there and taking the picture. He said I was never on his cameras.. Appearantly i hallucinated the whole delivery. I was there, but must of never left the car or even drove up.. What was i doing then?? Staring blankly at the windshield? With glazed over eyes?? I called him and apologized but he already got his refund. I felt so terrible. Im on medication and nothing works. It just goes to show how easily some misfirings in the brain can completely alter your sense of reality.
I realised recently, when I remember places I have been in the past and think about visiting them again, if I returned to that same location the place would not be the same place. What you have in your memory is absolutely unique, a one-off occurance never to be repeated. You had the experience of being in that place at that time, at that time of day, in that season. You will never have that identical feeling again. The now is really all there is, and memories of past nows
Let me one up your realization XD You are not remembering. You are fabricating. Every time you try to remember, you are just fabricating the place. No memories are the same. No fabricating are the same.
You’ve never been in one place or the other. If anythng a place appeared to be in “you” , and a”I” appeared to be in it. It’s appearing now. But there’s no really an “I” and no “place’, language and a cognitive mapping makes them appear so. There’s only always empty here
This video has so many layers! You know, when I was on my early studies I struggled a lot with this coded language that Buddha used for teaching . I was like “just give the answer already, man!” 😂 But as life progressed and I gathered more experience I began to understand. These topics, despite being absolutely simple, are extremely hard to understand without an active and vigorous will to learn. Simple answers would lead only to shallow debates. So yeah… do we exist? Empty is form and form is empty. About the interdependent arising, I feel it’s also Samsara itself. This net of matter, solar systems, of needs, of constant hunger, seeking and feeding, raw necessities, birth-reproduction-death, trades, transformation, karma… being born into existence is to spin the wheel of Samsara. And then you start to see that suffering is imbedded into existence to the core. And the more we realize that, the more suffering loses friction with our minds… we can still feel it, but it doesn’t hurt as much anymore. We begin to see that every single one of us is swimming as hard as one can to survive existence. Just a bubbly foam of life, drifting upon an infinite soup of matter.
You have many fine words. I can tell you are a thoughtful soul. I was young too. I liked it very much. When I indulge myself, and before everybody starts to get uptight, I let life wash around be like the beach. I get so tickled I pee...You swim? 🧒🚸
@@waynemacomson6448 really, I am very lucky man that I've found your brilliant comment today. Finally I let me being like the beach, yeah) breathe and swim... and sometimes dive under water
I have shared this video with everyone I am close with. This video is life changing. As a cognitive psychologist and scientist, you have single-handedly reworked my world to consider things that I had never considered. I am forever in your debt 🙏
@@riyasawant7173 Everything is psychology: every food you consume, every breath you take, every beat of your heart affects how you think, feel, and behave. Buddhism gives you a framework to guide you through life, but still allows you to believe whatever you want to believe. I encourage everyone to practice Buddhism.
One of my favorite stories is that of the Bhudda's final test. After he reached enlightenment, the demoness Mara approached him and told him "No one will understand you Bhudda". Bhudda thought for a minute and said distinctly "Some will understand." With this insight and assertion Bhudda had just passed his final test. I am not Bhudda but I have faced a similar dynamic in my Path. I may have a glimpse here and there without my figurative headset. I don't expect everyone to understand as this is a prescription for failure (see quote by Bill Cosby). But some will understand. I paradoxically as a student on the Path wish to understand those who I might not understand if I'm not careful and open-minded. When I learn then I must have the will to share this with others who may not in turn understand me. Peace. 😎
I love the phrase: "what we think of as a thing, a laptop, is but a momentary phase of a causal stream stretching all the way back to the big bang." Absolutely brilliant and right on. Thank you :)
Thank you, ive always been an incredibly deep thinker and tend to see what others cant but sometimes i cant accept things that others can see in me. This was powerful 😊
It’s amazing that whenever I watch your videos I completely go silent. Its like my thought vanishes. Your videos are full of direct insights. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. All I can say right now is that I will try not to get attached to this map that you have provided here.
Thank you for this video. Sometimes it drives you mad trying to explain emptiness to people using a language you’ve already seen to be horribly pixilated. But sometimes, you break through, and you watch their mind experience time unfurl, they see the interconnection of all things; you watch them both become humble and powerful in the same moment. This video helped me understand new ways to articulate the taste of chocolate to those that have never tasted chocolate in their entire being. Thank you fellow one 🙏 May truth radiate in the 10 directions
Your explanation of the concept of Interdependent Arising was very good. Greetings and best regards from a follower of yours here in Brazil. Thank you very much."
I'm grateful for your refreshing content. Much like Allen Watts, after listening to you speak, I generally remember that everything is alright. It always has been. It always will be. All the best my friend.
You can explain on intellectual level what can't be told in words better than anyone else I have listened too. You inhaled the dharma like only few did. congratulations! Keep doing these videos. If I can do a wish then I would appreciate one vid especially on the topic "identification with consciousness" - which appeared shortly here in the context of the 5 skandhas - but it is a long debate between Buddhists and Advaitas - so an interesting topic to dive in
Thank you for the support and the kind words! You are the third person to mention to me the issue of identifying with consciousness this week... a sign perhaps :) I'm writing this down for future videos.
These videos are in my opinion the most thoughtful well put together teachings on the non self, or non no self. People get confused in the tangle of philosophies and get lost in ever deeper rabbit holes when the truth is already at our very fingertips. Simply choose to be happy…. All else is suffering and struggle…. Simply choose to be happy…let go and be happy.
This was absolutely beautiful. I mean well done! Language is a hallucinogenic. Great job. If you work with a team, let everybody know they did a wonderful job.❤
I’ve been watching the world too closely the last few years, barely enjoying the view. Thank you for reigniting that search inside of me. Every other video of yours gives me tears of joy.
I like to think of myself as a pattern that assimilates things and concepts and sometimes lets go of them, it's like whatever my consciousness sticks to becomes a part of me.
I want to congratulate you and thank you for another excellent video. I have been involved in Buddhism for over 20 years and your ability to distill the Dharma so concisely and honestly with great skill is truly impressive and ultimately very helpful. Keep up the wonderful work that you are doing. Many, many thanks 🙏 ❤
I am truly grateful once again for your insightful interpretation of the same Buddha teachings. It's much easier to understand and makes more sense compared to what I learned growing up in Southeast Asia, where Buddhism was primarily taught in Chinese, and karma was seen as a system of rewards and punishments.
Do dreams, dreams are made of the same substance as awareness. It’s consciousness manifesting itself in our mind. Who is the dreamer? Who dreams? If language is a hallucinogenic, you’re hallucinating my thoughts right now. Communication is a dream. The mind is a dream. We dream in dreams. This stuff is so fun. I love Buddhism. It’s so liberating.❤❤❤
Buddha, Christ, Amma, Hanuman, Krishna, Shiva, and all other avatars from this world are all so wise. Ultimately we are all avatars of this world, for we are all beyond our own creations, but fully embodied avatars are truly something else ❤️🙏🏼
Simeon, that was well done. Plus, your metaphors helped me understand the fascinating topic of emptiness and no-self better. I just started studying Buddhism and I'm in love with it because it touches on something I could never articulate yet sense is the truth about "all this".
This presentation is absolutely incredible, one of the best videos I’ve ever seen on any media. I cannot imagine how much time and energy went into producing this, this is just amazing, wow. Great job, your talent shown here on too many levels to list is hard to even comprehend. Thank you so much for this video!
A segment from 'Saved by the Light of the Buddha Within'... My new understandings of what many call 'God -The Holy Spirit' - resulting from some of the extraordinary ongoing after-effects relating to an NDE... Myoho-Renge-Kyo represents the identity of what some scientists are now referring to as the unified field of consciousnesses. In other words, it’s the essence of all existence and non-existence - the ultimate creative force behind planets, stars, nebulae, people, animals, trees, fish, birds, and all phenomena, manifest or latent. All matter and intelligence are simply waves or ripples manifesting to and from this core source. Consciousness (enlightenment) is itself the actual creator of everything that exists now, ever existed in the past, or will exist in the future - right down to the minutest particles of dust - each being an individual ripple or wave. The big difference between chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo and most other conventional prayers is that instead of depending on a ‘middleman’ to connect us to our state of inner enlightenment, we’re able to do it ourselves. That’s because chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo allows us to tap directly into our enlightened state by way of this self-produced sound vibration. ‘Who or What Is God?’ If we compare the concept of God being a separate entity that is forever watching down on us, to the teachings of Nichiren, it makes more sense to me that the true omnipotence, omniscience and omnipresence of what most people perceive to be God, is the fantastic state of enlightenment that exists within each of us. Some say that God is an entity that’s beyond physical matter - I think that the vast amount of information continuously being conveyed via electromagnetic waves in today’s world gives us proof of how an invisible state of God could indeed exist. For example, it’s now widely known that specific data relayed by way of electromagnetic waves has the potential to help bring about extraordinary and powerful effects - including an instant global awareness of something or a mass emotional reaction. It’s also common knowledge that these invisible waves can easily be used to detonate a bomb or to enable NASA to control the movements of a robot as far away as the Moon or Mars - none of which is possible without a receiver to decode the information that’s being transmitted. Without the receiver, the data would remain impotent. In a very similar way, we need to have our own ‘receiver’ switched on so that we can activate a clear and precise understanding of our own life, all other life and what everything else in existence is. Chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo each day helps us to achieve this because it allows us to reach the core of our enlightenment and keep it switched on. That’s because Myoho-Renge-Kyo represents the identity of what scientists now refer to as the unified field of consciousnesses. To break it down - Myoho represents the Law of manifestation and latency (Nature) and consists of two alternating states. For example, the state of Myo is where everything in life that’s not obvious to us exists - including our stored memories when we’re not thinking about them - our hidden potential and inner emotions whenever they’re dormant - our desires, our fears, our wisdom, happiness, karma - and more importantly, our enlightenment. The other state, ho, is where everything in Life exists whenever it becomes evident to us, such as when a thought pops up from within our memory - whenever we experience or express our emotions - or whenever a good or bad cause manifests as an effect from our karma. When anything becomes apparent, it merely means that it’s come out of the state of Myo (dormancy/latency) and into a state of ho (manifestation). It’s the difference between consciousness and unconsciousness, being awake or asleep, or knowing and not knowing. The second law - Renge - Ren meaning cause and ge meaning effect, governs and controls the functions of Myoho - these two laws of Myoho and Renge, not only function together simultaneously but also underlies all spiritual and physical existence. The final and third part of the tri-combination - Kyo, is the Law that allows Myoho to integrate with Renge - or vice versa. It’s the great, invisible thread of energy that fuses and connects all Life and matter - as well as the past, present and future. It’s also sometimes termed the Universal Law of Communication - perhaps it could even be compared with the string theory that many scientists now suspect exists. Just as the cells in our body, our thoughts, feelings and everything else is continually fluctuating within us - all that exists in the world around us and beyond is also in a constant state of flux - constantly controlled by these three fundamental laws. In fact, more things are going back and forth between the two states of Myo and ho in a single moment than it would ever be possible to calculate or describe. And it doesn’t matter how big or small, famous or trivial anything or anyone may appear to be, everything that’s ever existed in the past, exists now or will exist in the future, exists only because of the workings of the Laws ‘Myoho-Renge-Kyo’ - the basis of the four fundamental forces, and if they didn’t function, neither we nor anything else could go on existing. That’s because all forms of existence, including the seasons, day, night, birth, death and so on, are moving forward in an ongoing flow of continuation - rhythmically reverting back and forth between the two fundamental states of Myo and ho in absolute accordance with Renge - and by way of Kyo. Even stars are dying and being reborn under the workings of what the combination ‘Myoho-Renge-Kyo’ represents. Nam, or Namu - which mean the same thing, are vibrational passwords or keys that allow us to reach deep into our life and fuse with or become one with ‘Myoho-Renge-Kyo’. On a more personal level, nothing ever happens by chance or coincidence, it’s the causes that we’ve made in our past, or are presently making, that determine how these laws function uniquely in each of our lives - as well as the environment from moment to moment. By facing east, in harmony with the direction that the Earth is spinning, and chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo for a minimum of, let’s say, ten minutes daily to start with, any of us can experience actual proof of its positive effects in our lives - even if it only makes us feel good on the inside, there will be a definite positive effect. That’s because we’re able to pierce through the thickest layers of our karma and activate our inherent Buddha Nature (our enlightened state). By so doing, we’re then able to bring forth the wisdom and good fortune that we need to challenge, overcome and change our adverse circumstances - turn them into positive ones - or manifest and gain even greater fulfilment in our daily lives from our accumulated good karma. This also allows us to bring forth the wisdom that can free us from the ignorance and stupidity that’s preventing us from accepting and being proud of the person that we indeed are - regardless of our race, colour, gender or sexuality. We’re also able to see and understand our circumstances and the environment far more clearly, as well as attract and connect with any needed external beneficial forces and situations. As I’ve already mentioned, everything is subject to the law of Cause and Effect - the ‘actual-proof-strength’ resulting from chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo always depends on our determination, sincerity and dedication. For example, the levels of difference could be compared to making a sound on a piano, creating a melody, producing a great song, and so on. Something else that’s very important to always respect and acknowledge is that the Law (or if you prefer God) is in everyone and everything. NB: There are frightening and disturbing sounds, and there are tranquil and relaxing sounds. It’s the emotional result of any noise or sound that can trigger off a mood or even instantly change one. When chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo each day, we are producing a sound vibration that’s the password to our true inner-self - this soon becomes apparent when you start reassessing your views on various things - such as your fears and desires etc. The best way to get the desired result when chanting is not to view things conventionally - rather than reaching out to an external source, we need to reach into our own lives and bring our needs and desires to fruition from within - including the good fortune and strength to achieve any help that we may need. Chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo also reaches out externally and draws us towards, or draws towards us, what we need to make us happy from our environment. For example, it helps us to be in the right place at the right time - to make better choices and decisions and so forth. We need to think of it as a seed within us that we’re watering and bringing sunshine to for it to grow, blossom and bring forth fruit or flowers. It’s also important to understand that everything we need in life, including the answer to every question and the potential to achieve every dream, already exists within us.
For me the self is not a fixed thing but an ever changing thing and ever growing thing, it has beingness but it”s more of a being that is always becoming. So the self, not being fixed, is no self. Because it is always changing.
Oh my, by far a showcase of all your previous work. Kudos and much appreciated. Excellent work, so much to digest. But you've help me past small bump along my path. Many times during this video my thoughts were drawn to Orange, and Emptiness. One is coming to realize; to be empty, is to open up ones vessel for more. However if you are filled up, then one can not experience anything new or novel. Only the empty cup ever gets filled ? Many Thanks Seeker2Seeker, our Teacher...😮
this vid should have more views, ita very good and its something more people should understand and stop taking life for granted in their little closed minded worlds
The Universe is comprised of wavelengths. Light, sound, electronic frequencies, water, air, radiation, and even emotional waves. Must give us pause. 🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨ "Before I start, I must see my end. Destination known, my mind's journey now begins. Upon my chariot, heart and soul's fate revealed. In time, all points converge; hope's strength, resteeled. But to earn final peace at the universe's endless refrain, we must see all in nothingness... before we start again." 🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨ --Diamond Dragons (series)
Great view on the existence! Thank you for this! ❤ We might not be able to choose what we can choose now but we can choose what influence we want to try to have on our choices in the future. ^^
Before enlightenment- it's just a mountain Awakening- it's actually a very complex and dynamic interplay between different relationships coming together to form ephemeral transitive material apparition that is interconnected with all other things in the universe since the beginning of time After enlightenment- it's just a damn mountain!
Gratitide is the right attitude. So much of what you said aligns with experiences with Dhiravamsa 3 month Vipassana retreat where one day for a blissful minutes(I think Therefore I am totally didn't matter to my wholenesswithout any drugs, I meaning my dual nature disappeared and suddenly every move in the grass, ripple in the sky had dissolved me.
Another great video. Thank you! 🙏 It brings me back to the Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra and the teachings within the sutra on sense perception, interdependent origination, and sunyata (“emptiness” or “voidness”). I like to remind myself that “Form is Void, and the Void is the Form.” Form (the physical and mental phenomena we perceive) is empty of inherent existence (void), and this emptiness (void) is not separate from the phenomena (form). All phenomena are devoid of intrinsic nature. I find myself going back to the Heart Sutra whenever I experience a strong feel or attachment to the perception of the experience. The moment of reflection and the letting go of that strong feel or attachment is like crossing to the other shore on the raft and letting the raft go upon reaching the other shore.
I like to think of the universe as an embryo and our existence as that of the zero point of the next level of existence. And I like to say that, in the dream of life, there can be only one, and you're It. I like to think that we're creating our own worlds as we live and die, thus finding what really matters to us and, in letting go completely, we then, as a matter of course, allow for all that we aspire to... to become. Thank you, us.
You have a voice that matches thich nhat hanh in terms of being both relaxing and understanding, and while you MAY or MAY NOT be a monk, it is still impressive how you can explain in a detailed way
You wrap up neatly and succinctly ideas I have struggled to communicate. Due to linguistic shortcomings. Mostly on the part of those I was trying to illuminate. And, my inability to speak in the common vernacular.
Thank you, indeed all is empty, but empty is all. This content is incredible, it's poetic, a beautiful discription, it is food for thought. But emptiness is to be experienced, it is our true nature, the only true way of living. Even with incredible poets like you to describe those concepts, still we need to sit, to experience and express to understand. Thank you
You guys have to do a deep dive and into the Tibetan book of the dead! Talk about Buddhist relationship to death! Oh, it’s beautiful. It’s so profound. talk about the Bardo that we’re all living through right now so amazing so fun oh, that would be amazing video❤❤❤❤
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How to connect reborn with self non exist
It's disturbing to me that you've accurately defined it as pixelated as this what exactly the main features of my awakening
However the extended this and that blabbering was too much for me lmao
So many Bulgarian names
I am the light, experiencing itself.
Im a schizophrenic. I do doordash for extra money. One order at night, i arrived and walked to the door, placed his food down and took a picture. I got in my car and drove away. 30 minutes later he called and asked where his food was, i totally remember taking the picture at his doorstep. So he took it up with Doordash. An order later, i opened my back door and.. saw his order. I was so confused why it was there. I remembered everything about going there and taking the picture.
He said I was never on his cameras.. Appearantly i hallucinated the whole delivery. I was there, but must of never left the car or even drove up..
What was i doing then?? Staring blankly at the windshield? With glazed over eyes??
I called him and apologized but he already got his refund. I felt so terrible. Im on medication and nothing works. It just goes to show how easily some misfirings in the brain can completely alter your sense of reality.
Stay safe and be well, brother!
I realised recently, when I remember places I have been in the past and think about visiting them again, if I returned to that same location the place would not be the same place. What you have in your memory is absolutely unique, a one-off occurance never to be repeated. You had the experience of being in that place at that time, at that time of day, in that season. You will never have that identical feeling again. The now is really all there is, and memories of past nows
Eckhart Tolle.❤
Let me one up your realization XD
You are not remembering. You are fabricating. Every time you try to remember, you are just fabricating the place. No memories are the same. No fabricating are the same.
You’ve never been in one place or the other. If anythng a place appeared to be in “you” , and a”I” appeared to be in it. It’s appearing now. But there’s no really an “I” and no “place’, language and a cognitive mapping makes them appear so. There’s only always empty here
That memory arise in the now,that content is now.Not in the past.Yet we suffer from past memories.Because of this fabricated timeline,nothin happens.
Impermanence. It’s why you can never go back. It’s not there. ❤
This video has so many layers!
You know, when I was on my early studies I struggled a lot with this coded language that Buddha used for teaching . I was like “just give the answer already, man!” 😂
But as life progressed and I gathered more experience I began to understand. These topics, despite being absolutely simple, are extremely hard to understand without an active and vigorous will to learn. Simple answers would lead only to shallow debates. So yeah… do we exist? Empty is form and form is empty.
About the interdependent arising, I feel it’s also Samsara itself. This net of matter, solar systems, of needs, of constant hunger, seeking and feeding, raw necessities, birth-reproduction-death, trades, transformation, karma… being born into existence is to spin the wheel of Samsara.
And then you start to see that suffering is imbedded into existence to the core. And the more we realize that, the more suffering loses friction with our minds… we can still feel it, but it doesn’t hurt as much anymore. We begin to see that every single one of us is swimming as hard as one can to survive existence. Just a bubbly foam of life, drifting upon an infinite soup of matter.
Beautifully put, my friend!
You have many fine words. I can tell you are a thoughtful soul. I was young too. I liked it very much. When I indulge myself, and before everybody starts to get uptight, I let life wash around be like the beach. I get so tickled I pee...You swim? 🧒🚸
@@waynemacomson6448 HAHAHAHAHA so random, love it 🤣🤣
@@waynemacomson6448 really, I am very lucky man that I've found your brilliant comment today. Finally I let me being like the beach, yeah) breathe and swim... and sometimes dive under water
How can you keep making videos one better than another and even more deeper? Your channel is fantastic.
Thank you, my friend!
He’s leading us closer to enlightenment with each video. Starting small and working his way up to more advanced content.
(?). Surface scraping.😊
Yours and Doug's Dharma content have helped reduce the suffering in my life. For that I'm grateful.
Kindly also give a look at content by Tsem Rinpoche and Master Chen. Hope you'll find it beneficial
I have shared this video with everyone I am close with. This video is life changing. As a cognitive psychologist and scientist, you have single-handedly reworked my world to consider things that I had never considered. I am forever in your debt 🙏
You think Buddhism is psychology. Should I practiced it. Because you are psychologist
@@riyasawant7173 Everything is psychology: every food you consume, every breath you take, every beat of your heart affects how you think, feel, and behave. Buddhism gives you a framework to guide you through life, but still allows you to believe whatever you want to believe. I encourage everyone to practice Buddhism.
@@JPGrant I hope Buddhism is not pseudoscience
@@riyasawant7173 Science wasn't even mentioned... 🤦♂
@@JPGrant But is Buddhism pseudoscience
To see the world in a grain of sand. To hold Infinity in the palm of our hand.
One of my favorite stories is that of the Bhudda's final test. After he reached enlightenment, the demoness Mara approached him and told him "No one will understand you Bhudda". Bhudda thought for a minute and said distinctly "Some will understand." With this insight and assertion Bhudda had just passed his final test. I am not Bhudda but I have faced a similar dynamic in my Path. I may have a glimpse here and there without my figurative headset. I don't expect everyone to understand as this is a prescription for failure (see quote by Bill Cosby). But some will understand. I paradoxically as a student on the Path wish to understand those who I might not understand if I'm not careful and open-minded. When I learn then I must have the will to share this with others who may not in turn understand me. Peace. 😎
This is some of the best content on UA-cam. Thank you for your insightful videos.
Thank you, I’m glad you’re enjoying them!
I love the phrase: "what we think of as a thing, a laptop, is but a momentary phase of a causal stream stretching all the way back to the big bang."
Absolutely brilliant and right on. Thank you :)
Turtles all the way down!
Sadu, sadu, sadu, this is a masterful use of language to shine a clear light on the Dhamma 🙏🙏🙏
Thank you, my friend, I appreciate your support!
Thank you, ive always been an incredibly deep thinker and tend to see what others cant but sometimes i cant accept things that others can see in me. This was powerful 😊
It’s amazing that whenever I watch your videos I completely go silent. Its like my thought vanishes. Your videos are full of direct insights. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. All I can say right now is that I will try not to get attached to this map that you have provided here.
Thank you for taking the time to write this, it’s a touching comment :)
Very interesting approach. It is such a difficult idea to express, yet you do a wonderful job explaining the unexplainable!
This is maybe the best video I’ever seen. Just resumes my philosophy so accurately
Thank you for this video.
Sometimes it drives you mad trying to explain emptiness to people using a language you’ve already seen to be horribly pixilated.
But sometimes, you break through, and you watch their mind experience time unfurl, they see the interconnection of all things; you watch them both become humble and powerful in the same moment.
This video helped me understand new ways to articulate the taste of chocolate to those that have never tasted chocolate in their entire being.
Thank you fellow one 🙏
May truth radiate in the 10 directions
Amen! And thank you for the kind comment :)
Your explanation of the concept of Interdependent Arising was very good. Greetings and best regards from a follower of yours here in Brazil. Thank you very much."
It may be the best video I've seen about emptiness and Buddhism.
May it help a lot of people 🐸🙏
Gate Gate Paragate Parasamgate Bodhi Svaha
Thank you for the support, my friend!
om muni muni, mahamuni Sakyamunineyeyeah Bodhi soha hung.
My intellect has difficulty understanding emptiness. But your words has made it more easy for me to comprehend it better. Thank you.
Thank you for your support!
Emptiness!!
Empty of what?
Empty of independent existence.
Emptiness in the aspect that one stops trying to control
Accepts then focuses upon the vibratory connection only...emptiness...
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@@Ansh-vajra thank you Ansh-vajra.
I'm grateful for your refreshing content. Much like Allen Watts, after listening to you speak, I generally remember that everything is alright. It always has been. It always will be.
All the best my friend.
Thank you, my friend. All the best!
You can explain on intellectual level what can't be told in words better than anyone else I have listened too. You inhaled the dharma like only few did. congratulations! Keep doing these videos.
If I can do a wish then I would appreciate one vid especially on the topic "identification with consciousness" - which appeared shortly here in the context of the 5 skandhas - but it is a long debate between Buddhists and Advaitas - so an interesting topic to dive in
Thank you for the support and the kind words! You are the third person to mention to me the issue of identifying with consciousness this week... a sign perhaps :) I'm writing this down for future videos.
These videos are in my opinion the most thoughtful well put together teachings on the non self, or non no self. People get confused in the tangle of philosophies and get lost in ever deeper rabbit holes when the truth is already at our very fingertips. Simply choose to be happy…. All else is suffering and struggle…. Simply choose to be happy…let go and be happy.
❤ Your videos and the teachings and the insights they contain have changed my life and my understanding of life forever. Thank you for your good work.
Thank you for these kind words!
This was absolutely beautiful. I mean well done! Language is a hallucinogenic. Great job. If you work with a team, let everybody know they did a wonderful job.❤
Your “this” and “that” observation is perfect
I’ve been watching the world too closely the last few years, barely enjoying the view. Thank you for reigniting that search inside of me. Every other video of yours gives me tears of joy.
Thank you, my friend!
I like to think of myself as a pattern that assimilates things and concepts and sometimes lets go of them, it's like whatever my consciousness sticks to becomes a part of me.
Brilliant... The biggest take away from this super deep dive is to enjoy the view...
Excellent, thank u!!! ❤
Paradoxically, I feel more complete after listening to this🤔
Humbled
Watching your video essays are always a great experience!
Glad you like them!
I want to congratulate you and thank you for another excellent video. I have been involved in Buddhism for over 20 years and your ability to distill the Dharma so concisely and honestly with great skill is truly impressive and ultimately very helpful. Keep up the wonderful work that you are doing.
Many, many thanks 🙏 ❤
Thank you, I appreciate you taking the time to write this!
That was beautiful from start to finish, in every way. Thank you friend 🙏❤️
As always...many thanks, Simeon! Always lightening the way. I'm grateful for you!
Thank you for the support, my friend!
What an absolutely fantastic video in every way! Wow! Well done❤
Excellent! Excellent! Excellent!
I am truly grateful once again for your insightful interpretation of the same Buddha teachings. It's much easier to understand and makes more sense compared to what I learned growing up in Southeast Asia, where Buddhism was primarily taught in Chinese, and karma was seen as a system of rewards and punishments.
Thank you, I’m glad the video is useful!
We are the primordial dreaming of itself. ❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏
Excelente reflexão. Muito obrigada❣️
Do dreams, dreams are made of the same substance as awareness. It’s consciousness manifesting itself in our mind. Who is the dreamer? Who dreams? If language is a hallucinogenic, you’re hallucinating my thoughts right now. Communication is a dream. The mind is a dream. We dream in dreams. This stuff is so fun. I love Buddhism. It’s so liberating.❤❤❤
dreams are mirror matter, awareness is its observance
Thank you for another incredible video, love and light :)
Your videos are pure art. Your prose, poetry.
Buddha, Christ, Amma, Hanuman, Krishna, Shiva, and all other avatars from this world are all so wise. Ultimately we are all avatars of this world, for we are all beyond our own creations, but fully embodied avatars are truly something else ❤️🙏🏼
Thank you! My heart chakra is Smiling from Armpit to Armpit! 😁
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What a beautiful expression!
Grateful to Simeon for another outstanding presentation explaining a very profound teaching in a contemporary living language we could understand. 👍🙏
Thank you - and I appreciate your support!
Simeon, that was well done. Plus, your metaphors helped me understand the fascinating topic of emptiness and no-self better. I just started studying Buddhism and I'm in love with it because it touches on something I could never articulate yet sense is the truth about "all this".
This presentation is absolutely incredible, one of the best videos I’ve ever seen on any media. I cannot imagine how much time and energy went into producing this, this is just amazing, wow.
Great job, your talent shown here on too many levels to list is hard to even comprehend. Thank you so much for this video!
Thank you!
A segment from 'Saved by the Light of the Buddha Within'...
My new understandings of what many call 'God -The Holy Spirit' - resulting from some of the extraordinary ongoing after-effects relating to an NDE...
Myoho-Renge-Kyo represents the identity of what some scientists are now referring to as the unified field of consciousnesses. In other words, it’s the essence of all existence and non-existence - the ultimate creative force behind planets, stars, nebulae, people, animals, trees, fish, birds, and all phenomena, manifest or latent. All matter and intelligence are simply waves or ripples manifesting to and from this core source. Consciousness (enlightenment) is itself the actual creator of everything that exists now, ever existed in the past, or will exist in the future - right down to the minutest particles of dust - each being an individual ripple or wave.
The big difference between chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo and most other conventional prayers is that instead of depending on a ‘middleman’ to connect us to our state of inner enlightenment, we’re able to do it ourselves. That’s because chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo allows us to tap directly into our enlightened state by way of this self-produced sound vibration. ‘Who or What Is God?’ If we compare the concept of God being a separate entity that is forever watching down on us, to the teachings of Nichiren, it makes more sense to me that the true omnipotence, omniscience and omnipresence of what most people perceive to be God, is the fantastic state of enlightenment that exists within each of us. Some say that God is an entity that’s beyond physical matter - I think that the vast amount of information continuously being conveyed via electromagnetic waves in today’s world gives us proof of how an invisible state of God could indeed exist.
For example, it’s now widely known that specific data relayed by way of electromagnetic waves has the potential to help bring about extraordinary and powerful effects - including an instant global awareness of something or a mass emotional reaction. It’s also common knowledge that these invisible waves can easily be used to detonate a bomb or to enable NASA to control the movements of a robot as far away as the Moon or Mars - none of which is possible without a receiver to decode the information that’s being transmitted. Without the receiver, the data would remain impotent. In a very similar way, we need to have our own ‘receiver’ switched on so that we can activate a clear and precise understanding of our own life, all other life and what everything else in existence is.
Chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo each day helps us to achieve this because it allows us to reach the core of our enlightenment and keep it switched on. That’s because Myoho-Renge-Kyo represents the identity of what scientists now refer to as the unified field of consciousnesses. To break it down - Myoho represents the Law of manifestation and latency (Nature) and consists of two alternating states. For example, the state of Myo is where everything in life that’s not obvious to us exists - including our stored memories when we’re not thinking about them - our hidden potential and inner emotions whenever they’re dormant - our desires, our fears, our wisdom, happiness, karma - and more importantly, our enlightenment.
The other state, ho, is where everything in Life exists whenever it becomes evident to us, such as when a thought pops up from within our memory - whenever we experience or express our emotions - or whenever a good or bad cause manifests as an effect from our karma. When anything becomes apparent, it merely means that it’s come out of the state of Myo (dormancy/latency) and into a state of ho (manifestation). It’s the difference between consciousness and unconsciousness, being awake or asleep, or knowing and not knowing.
The second law - Renge - Ren meaning cause and ge meaning effect, governs and controls the functions of Myoho - these two laws of Myoho and Renge, not only function together simultaneously but also underlies all spiritual and physical existence.
The final and third part of the tri-combination - Kyo, is the Law that allows Myoho to integrate with Renge - or vice versa. It’s the great, invisible thread of energy that fuses and connects all Life and matter - as well as the past, present and future. It’s also sometimes termed the Universal Law of Communication - perhaps it could even be compared with the string theory that many scientists now suspect exists.
Just as the cells in our body, our thoughts, feelings and everything else is continually fluctuating within us - all that exists in the world around us and beyond is also in a constant state of flux - constantly controlled by these three fundamental laws. In fact, more things are going back and forth between the two states of Myo and ho in a single moment than it would ever be possible to calculate or describe. And it doesn’t matter how big or small, famous or trivial anything or anyone may appear to be, everything that’s ever existed in the past, exists now or will exist in the future, exists only because of the workings of the Laws ‘Myoho-Renge-Kyo’ - the basis of the four fundamental forces, and if they didn’t function, neither we nor anything else could go on existing. That’s because all forms of existence, including the seasons, day, night, birth, death and so on, are moving forward in an ongoing flow of continuation - rhythmically reverting back and forth between the two fundamental states of Myo and ho in absolute accordance with Renge - and by way of Kyo. Even stars are dying and being reborn under the workings of what the combination ‘Myoho-Renge-Kyo’ represents. Nam, or Namu - which mean the same thing, are vibrational passwords or keys that allow us to reach deep into our life and fuse with or become one with ‘Myoho-Renge-Kyo’.
On a more personal level, nothing ever happens by chance or coincidence, it’s the causes that we’ve made in our past, or are presently making, that determine how these laws function uniquely in each of our lives - as well as the environment from moment to moment. By facing east, in harmony with the direction that the Earth is spinning, and chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo for a minimum of, let’s say, ten minutes daily to start with, any of us can experience actual proof of its positive effects in our lives - even if it only makes us feel good on the inside, there will be a definite positive effect. That’s because we’re able to pierce through the thickest layers of our karma and activate our inherent Buddha Nature (our enlightened state). By so doing, we’re then able to bring forth the wisdom and good fortune that we need to challenge, overcome and change our adverse circumstances - turn them into positive ones - or manifest and gain even greater fulfilment in our daily lives from our accumulated good karma. This also allows us to bring forth the wisdom that can free us from the ignorance and stupidity that’s preventing us from accepting and being proud of the person that we indeed are - regardless of our race, colour, gender or sexuality. We’re also able to see and understand our circumstances and the environment far more clearly, as well as attract and connect with any needed external beneficial forces and situations. As I’ve already mentioned, everything is subject to the law of Cause and Effect - the ‘actual-proof-strength’ resulting from chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo always depends on our determination, sincerity and dedication.
For example, the levels of difference could be compared to making a sound on a piano, creating a melody, producing a great song, and so on. Something else that’s very important to always respect and acknowledge is that the Law (or if you prefer God) is in everyone and everything.
NB: There are frightening and disturbing sounds, and there are tranquil and relaxing sounds. It’s the emotional result of any noise or sound that can trigger off a mood or even instantly change one. When chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo each day, we are producing a sound vibration that’s the password to our true inner-self - this soon becomes apparent when you start reassessing your views on various things - such as your fears and desires etc. The best way to get the desired result when chanting is not to view things conventionally - rather than reaching out to an external source, we need to reach into our own lives and bring our needs and desires to fruition from within - including the good fortune and strength to achieve any help that we may need. Chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo also reaches out externally and draws us towards, or draws towards us, what we need to make us happy from our environment. For example, it helps us to be in the right place at the right time - to make better choices and decisions and so forth. We need to think of it as a seed within us that we’re watering and bringing sunshine to for it to grow, blossom and bring forth fruit or flowers. It’s also important to understand that everything we need in life, including the answer to every question and the potential to achieve every dream, already exists within us.
Nah...
For me the self is not a fixed thing but an ever changing thing and ever growing thing, it has beingness but it”s more of a being that is always becoming. So the self, not being fixed, is no self. Because it is always changing.
I experience, therefore I Am.
Thank you for sharing one the best maps and illuminating Interdepent Arrising.
Oh my, by far a showcase of all your previous work. Kudos and much appreciated. Excellent work, so much to digest. But you've help me past small bump along my path. Many times during this video my thoughts were drawn to Orange, and Emptiness. One is coming to realize; to be empty, is to open up ones vessel for more. However if you are filled up, then one can not experience anything new or novel. Only the empty cup ever gets filled ? Many Thanks Seeker2Seeker, our Teacher...😮
Beautifully put, my friend! And thank you for the kind words :)
I am love that emanates from light and sound. Then again maybe the reverse is equally true.
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this vid should have more views, ita very good and its something more people should understand and stop taking life for granted in their little closed minded worlds
The world is made of things, the world is made of thoughts
The Universe is comprised of wavelengths. Light, sound, electronic frequencies, water, air, radiation, and even emotional waves. Must give us pause.
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"Before I start, I must see my end. Destination known, my mind's journey now begins. Upon my chariot, heart and soul's fate revealed. In time, all points converge; hope's strength, resteeled. But to earn final peace at the universe's endless refrain, we must see all in nothingness... before we start again."
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--Diamond Dragons (series)
Thank you, Simeon. ❤
_To identify with your knowing of experience is as absurd as identifying with the space in which you stand_
Awesome clarification.
You sing beautifully🙏
Great view on the existence! Thank you for this! ❤ We might not be able to choose what we can choose now but we can choose what influence we want to try to have on our choices in the future. ^^
Beautifully said! I think the Buddha would have enjoyed hearing this :)
Before enlightenment- it's just a mountain
Awakening- it's actually a very complex and dynamic interplay between different relationships coming together to form ephemeral transitive material apparition that is interconnected with all other things in the universe since the beginning of time
After enlightenment- it's just a damn mountain!
It's beautiful appreciated without speech or thought ~ just recognition
One of the best essays on this subject I have heard. Subbed for more.
The video was remarkable, conveying a profound message that humanity would benefit from acknowledging- the inherent unity of all.
THANKS, THANKS, THANKS I have no words to express what you have shared just THANKS THANKS
Gratitide is the right attitude. So much of what you said aligns with experiences with Dhiravamsa 3 month Vipassana retreat where one day for a blissful minutes(I think Therefore I am totally didn't matter to my wholenesswithout any drugs, I meaning my dual nature disappeared and suddenly every move in the grass, ripple in the sky had dissolved me.
Thank you so much for this beautiful description to the nature of self.
Thank you so much for the generous support! I'll keep giving it my best :)
Brilliant summary, thank you for putting this together.
Surprisingly good. And it's hard for me to think something is good. 👏
You’ve nailed it despite your young age 🙌🏻 Thank you.
Profound words that lead me to a better view.
This has healed “my” soul, if you will… 😉 Thank you for this map, Simeon.
Peace be with you. 😊
Thank you as always for your art.
Clearly explained feels natural Thank you
Wow, what an incredible video. I will likely watch this many times. Thank you!
I appreciate it!
Thanks!
Thank you for the support!
Also by far the best video ive watched of your channel, thank you
Absolutely brilliant 🙌🙌🙏🙏
Thank you. Looking forward to the next video
Thank you!
Amazing, beautiful video.
Thanks a lot !!!
Wow. I so appreciated and enjoyed this, so unlike anything else...
Beautiful work 🫶🏻
Another great video. Thank you! 🙏 It brings me back to the Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra and the teachings within the sutra on sense perception, interdependent origination, and sunyata (“emptiness” or “voidness”). I like to remind myself that “Form is Void, and the Void is the Form.” Form (the physical and mental phenomena we perceive) is empty of inherent existence (void), and this emptiness (void) is not separate from the phenomena (form). All phenomena are devoid of intrinsic nature. I find myself going back to the Heart Sutra whenever I experience a strong feel or attachment to the perception of the experience. The moment of reflection and the letting go of that strong feel or attachment is like crossing to the other shore on the raft and letting the raft go upon reaching the other shore.
Your videos are mind altering ✨
Great message to help me understand that which I have been struggling with a great deal. Thank you!
I like to think of the universe as an embryo and our existence as that of the zero point of the next level of existence.
And I like to say that, in the dream of life, there can be only one, and you're It.
I like to think that we're creating our own worlds as we live and die, thus finding what really matters to us and, in letting go completely, we then, as a matter of course, allow for all that we aspire to... to become.
Thank you, us.
thank you for sharing your work as we each journey
.... Remember to enjoy the view.... that sums it all.
Thank you for this wonderful tesching. ☯️
Thank you.
This opened up a space in me that made me see something uncomfortable. I seem to be pretty good at that when watching your videos
Thank you for your support, my friend!
You have a voice that matches thich nhat hanh in terms of being both relaxing and understanding, and while you MAY or MAY NOT be a monk, it is still impressive how you can explain in a detailed way
You wrap up neatly and succinctly ideas I have struggled to communicate. Due to linguistic shortcomings. Mostly on the part of those I was trying to illuminate. And, my inability to speak in the common vernacular.
Thank you, indeed all is empty, but empty is all. This content is incredible, it's poetic, a beautiful discription, it is food for thought. But emptiness is to be experienced, it is our true nature, the only true way of living. Even with incredible poets like you to describe those concepts, still we need to sit, to experience and express to understand. Thank you
True - and kind - words. Thank you!
be here now do no harm help others be still close eyes listen to your breathing self liberation through seeing with naked awareness.
Thank you for your work and all the time you put in enlightening and opening eyes for new experiences not limited to words.
Interesting perspective thanks for sharing this. ❤😊
I am the experienceR and the voyeur simultaneously...the character playing the part/parts on screen and the audience 🥳♓️
You guys have to do a deep dive and into the Tibetan book of the dead! Talk about Buddhist relationship to death! Oh, it’s beautiful. It’s so profound. talk about the Bardo that we’re all living through right now so amazing so fun oh, that would be amazing video❤❤❤❤