@@sajafendel Why would I be happy by becoming aware and therefore gaining " freedom" ? I wouldn't be free. I will still have my problems that need to be dealt with. What then, is the big deal about becoming aware ( i.e. awakening ) ? I don't see it. And I certainly don't see why these awakened people say they feel joy from this. I'm underwhelmed by it. ( * by the way - how many people have told you that you look like Paul McCartney of the Beatles ? As he was in 1969 /70, at the time of the " Let It Be" album. )
Yes, the knowing without knowing even through childhood. I dont think the veiling worked entirely on some of us. Or maybe that was agreed apon before birth as well. Or were just glitches it the matrix, whoops 😂
Thank you for your service to all who find you. I have been aware of my existence beyond the body and five senses since 2018 giving me peace and joy in experiencing life in this flesh. I have subscribed and will enjoy your videos as a gift to myself! I have kept silent on this subject due to having difficulty expressing this using the word. Love and light to you ❤
Thank you. I feel happiness experiencing the logic in your explanation. I feel happiness when realising there are such wonderful human beings like you on our planet. Thank you.
Wow, thank you, thank you, thank you. I understood this already but love the way you explained it and it truly helped me today to detach myself from what my body and my mind were feeling today. Each time we forget this fundamental truth we suffer. 🙏
First time I've listened to you - love the simple pointing. It is easy to get hooked up to certain phrases such as Non-duality Awareness is so obvious sometimes that we don't see it. The thinking mind can't accept that it could be easy.
By his definition I suppose I must be aware. But I'm buggered if I can see why that is exciting. Because I don't feel any different at all. Bit of a non event. I tend to believe that this is not true awakening. Aren't we supposed to feel this "Oneness" they talk about ? I don't feel that. So I can't be awake, can I ? Back to the drawing board then ( sigh ) .....
You cannot learn Oneness. It is an experience. It is what you are now, you are everything and everyone ,including the space, kinda like one immovable unit that flows . See yourself in all your reflections. Desire more than anything else and you will be shown, you have free will to choose❤
So happy to have found you Saja. Really enjoyed hearing what you had to say about enlightenment, and I especially enjoyed your beautiful Welsh accent. Instant subscribe.
In short, consciousness is the overall experience of being present and aware, while awareness is the specific focus or attention to particular things in that experience. Awakening is an inner journey into higher consciousness. Higher consciousness is understanding your authentic self, that is divine.True enlightenment is becoming one with God. In this age there are folks that are going through an ascension process. A process of controlling the ego and healing from past pain, and learning discernment. This brings a 5th diimensional consciousness called Christ Consciousness, a unity consciousness. Know that you are at the beginning stages of introspection, you just opened the book. Keep up the good work!
It's a humble realization. Realizing that the "YOU" never was. The body is no longer seen as something that houses "The mind" but no different that perceiving a rock or a tree etc.
@@sajafendel this perspective is probably the most direct I’ve come across, rather than just saying you’re already there. Most can’t make that simple connection, so the trick is to make the connection, in doing so you realise it, once done your there, it’s not a mystery anymore so to speak, we kind of need to communicate our way back to our selves.
How do we know that awareness is fundamental and not a product of the mind? How do I know when my brain stops, my awareness doesnt just cease? And if that is the case, how can it be said that my existence stands alone? How can we KNOW?
We can not know. The mechanism that wants to know, that wants to work things out, that thinks there's something to solve, is the thing we are falsely identified with. In this video he is saying that what you are is before all this knowledge. All language is duality, all words are tools used by the mind to keep the feeling of separation going. What's already here without any word?
Actually you can KNOW because awareness is KNOWING in itself, and when its realized/KNOWN to be fundamental it is KNOWN to be EVERYTHING, including ALL outside the "brain" , ita a unifies field of BEING itself that is KNOWN BY BEING ITSELF
It doesn't need to be Known because it already is. There's many ways to point to this and yes words seem essential. The word KNOWN can be tricky and to the seeking mind can be like alcohol to an alcoholic, well it was here🙏
No one on this earth can tell you if awareness is fundamental and eternal or not, if they do they are just repeating what someone else said or that they believe philosophically. They have no way of KNOWING this objectively. However channeled entities could provide this knowledge, and in fact they do, and I believe them (but still don't KNOW it).
What is important is to see that whatever the truth is, the truth we all currently believe, namely the world is separate, causes suffering. The model of the world being non-dual causes complete freedom and peace and happiness. So the real question to ask is where is my actual proof the world is separate? There has never and will never be any evidence let alone proof.
Firstly depends on what you mean by infinite, secondly if that infinite recognition is correct, you have to then take another step to intgetrate the implications of that into your body and mind. It’s one thing to believe you’re infinite, another thing to know you are infinite by direct experience, and it’s another thing to have integrated that on a physical level.
We are Source. Your experience of being the "I Am" who is aware of this single moment in you is the very same being that experiences this same moment in me. When we wake from this incredibly lucid dream, I will remember being you, and I will remember being me. We are the same "I." There is a misconception in reincarnation that says it is the lineage of a single soul through time to enlightenment, when, in reality, we are all just you in this very instant. I say all that to say the depth within us is the same as the very creator of all existence. We run as deeply as Source. We are Source. We are infinite.
If I can't experience or feel like this body/mind as separate from anything that I perceive, then I could say that I have realized my true nature. I don't necessarily want to be "enlightened", for that's a term for ones' ego to revel in. Not mine.
Saja, I want to believe this! But what happens to our awareness when we are unconscious --for example, when we are in dreamless sleep? In other words, how can I be infinitely aware (or how can I be infinite awareness) if my awareness seems to "come and go" (when I am awake or in dreamless asleep) in the same way as my temporal experiences come and go?
Awareness is always there and if one is in the proper state they have a conscious access to it. We are to be in the world (you) but not of it (awareness). Those two states of being are what we are here to meld together and integrate to work in tandem with one another while we're here. Most people actually have no Ideal what's going on and that's not to say that's a bad thing, it just is. We all pretty much know the definitions of all the terminology involved in these teachings but what most are trying to achieve is the connection that seems so elusory and yet is always there. Some things have to literally be experienced in order to truly understand them and solidify them into one's reality. Even then it's hard to explain to someone in the form of just do A B C and there you have it. Like Glenda told Dorothy, "You've always had the power to go back home but if I told you you wouldn't have believed me and had to experience it for yourself." Dorothy now knows should she ever go looking for her heart's desires, she'll look no further than her own backyard (within). A lot of this can play out in so many different ways depending on the individual. You can even feel like two separate entities in one body. But it's not literal but more so holding different states of perception through awareness and most of us have been taught that the outside is more important than the inside in this 3D realm. We let that override the inside and that's how most get struck in the world. Opening that door and trusting in something beyond the 6 senses is what is the key but even then most are too distracted with all the things that play apart in one's life to put much effort into this. That's why most consider this an individual's journey, but how many of us are so connected to things and others in the outside world that if we have to make a choice on the tangible or intangible what's on the outside usually wins. Turning this on and off randomly is like being on a diet to achieve a specific goal and this should be seen as a never ending lifestyle. It's not like some superpower that's always on but one that can always be access and given permission to be active when necessary. It's like intuition on steroids without the side effects. At this point you no longer have to move mountains because the mountains already know to move as we are no longer in our own way. You can literally feel like your in a movie sometimes and only you hear the narration that plays out just as perceive it. That conformation is what solidifies this into one's reality allowing for an biblical type of trust. You become childlike in the sense of a new curiosity of awareness makes even the mundane seem new. It's like being the character in a video game jumping up and down to get the players attention and when they both recognize one another and are on the same page the real game begins. Each becomes invested in the other in a way that allows for what some might consider magic from this perspective. One could go on and on, but you'll know it when your in it and that's when you let go and let God (Universe, Higher-self, interpretation varies). The outside world responds in kind as you influence over it is no longer stuck in a 3D mindset. It's like seeing more of the playing field from a higher vantage point to make choices and decision that otherwise would not have been an option. In this state of awareness you no longer enter a state of victimhood as that is not longer an option or even tries to play a part. Your perception literally takes some definitions and turn them on their heads as they no longer effect you. It's like adding extra points to states in a video game that allow for extra options to be available in gameplay. Probably haven't read all that and if none of it resonates no harm no foul, just one players experience. Good luck! ❤
I would investigate whether it’s awareness that comes or goes or if the mind comes and goes. After all, is it not the mind that disappears in deep sleep? Yes because no objects take place. And do you not wake up from something? What would that something be? It would be the experience of no objects. That is deep sleep. Deep sleep isn’t a lack of awareness, it’s the experience of the lack of objects.
How do I know if I’m limited? . So I do know absolutely I am more than my body and mind, that I’m something outside of that and I’ve known that for a while. I realised a while ago I can’t make things right for others.
You may know you are more than your body mind but you need to be clear on what you are. You are the conscious perceiving aspect of your experience. That is what is unlimited from an experiential perspective and that is not actually a witness to experience but experience ce is made of that perceiver. So there is really no distance. No separation. You must take steps now towards that.
@ thank you. How do I take steps toward that? Do you mean i, as the perceiver, make that experience? My belief so far is that we are here as part of the whole. That we experience others but are not tied to them. That we are here to learn something?
I get that I’m the unlimited conscious perceiving aspect of my experience. That that aspect is unlimited. The bit I’m missing is “experience is made of that perceiver”. Words are tricky aren’t they!
I feel sad that I didn’t understand it 100% ,when I first experienced my awareness I was in shock. I tried to repress that experience and I suffer now for many years..
I know this--I watch to see others do too--one question, why do I never ever meet any others who know, all these years now, but I see this guy here, on YT . Why not in this reality???
Not in the way you think. Usually some on this path notice that they age extremely slow depending on how much one is actually connected to certain states of awareness. It becomes a dilemma the longer one is in a state of awareness of age. It's hard to explain. It's like everything on the outside tells you what's it's like and what to expect at this age or that age and that becomes unconsciously embedded within us and we have to literally retrain our awareness around it. Usually one doesn't go back to far behind the point in which the awareness has set in but will notice overtime the effects solidify in their reality and the outside world starts to notice too. You unconsciously begin to do things that allows this state to be attainable and it becomes your natural state of being. It literally has more to do with the energetic and ethereal body as well as the toroidal field which affects us also on a physical level.
@@gribwitch It's more about reconnecting with that awareness we came in with. Like being a character in a video game, you don't have to have access to the creator of the game but just the player. The player will have a more direct line of communication to the creator than the avatar would. The player has the manual and everything needed to complete the game, even access to other live players so to speak. Just think how one's life would change having access to such an awareness and still being in the avatar which is you. Some things in the game you just happen to pick up along the way but aren't actually sought out. I think longevity might be one of them as one begins to exist in such higher frequencies. If we are to believe the bible, there was a period in time when the connection was so strong and the veil so thin that people lived hundreds of years and not in a feeble state. That was just a by product of this connection before it was lost. I think once that connection is made everything else needed begins to fall into place and in time becomes solidified into one's reality. This doesn't become some crash coarse you jump into and get a degree to place on the mantle, it becomes a career and an actual way of living that anything that doesn't resonate with it will begin to fall away whether we like it or not. That's when the fear and doubt set in as to whether the benefits outweigh what we might consider loses in the 3D realm and most stay stuck in the world that they know. So as far as this awareness is seen, it's like taking a class to learn how to read and then discovering everything else involved around that. Such as sentence structure, the parts of speech, comprehension and even definitions of words and all this would fall under reading overall. I get what you mean though and when you experience it and all these things start to fall into place you'll see what I mean. Good luck! ❤
The thing is, you sill have to have the insight, the transcendent experience of awakening to be awakened. Awakening is NOT a cognitive experience… you can’t be talked into waking up.
I agree. Cognitive experience won’t suffice. People get distracted when their cognitive experience seems to change when they have an awakening. Understanding, however, is not a cognitive experience.
Thank you for talking about this. You have a different way of explaining awareness which I find interesting and helpful. I am a bit new to all of this, so my questions may seem silly. I kinda understand that I am aware of being. So that I am awareness. But why do I feel that my awareness is confined inside my body ? If I close my eyes, I feel my awareness inside of me. It seems that to be aware, to feel/sense my awareness, in other words : to experience awareness , it is only possible through the body/mind But you say that awareness is not confined in the body, that it is infinite. So where is that awareness ? And if we don’t have our body and mind anymore, would we be able to experience that awareness (to sense it, to know it exists) ? Thank you for your help.
Awareness is the substance of everything, so it is nowhere, it takes place “everywhere” but truly there’s nothing other than awareness for it to take place so it is as though it is nowhere. It is 0 dimensional so it takes place outside time and space. This is a very big question so give you any satisfaction in a comment, this is what I have built the community for. To answer one of these fundamental questions 🙏 But I would say, of course you feel awareness is inside you if you have believed it is inside you all your life. Your experience will appear in accordance to the limitations of your beliefs. We must explore these limitations and check for their evidence via the meditations I host.
How does the recognition from not knowing to "I am infinite" happen? How can you know that you are infinite? Because if you are there isn't space for someone to say I am that, there is just the infinite.
It’s in the form that We know we have no limitation. Infinite is a negative word. Meaning it describes the lack of something. To see we are infinite is to see that we simply have no limitation.
Every belief has a lie 💓 Awareness is the heart Consciousness is the mind Heart is all of us Mind is ego 💓 Stay neutral my friend 🤍 Thank you for remind us we are made out of water - that is true 8D
Being aware that you are more than your mind creates the scenario of being in the world (you) but not of it (awareness).This 3D realm entraps us into thinking we need it as it determines what options you have access to through our limited senses including the mind. Opening the door to awareness allows for options to play out in an unforeseen manner that the mind could never come up with. It's like being able to spot a side quest in a video game from a character that everyone seems to overlook. That awareness will make things play out in unheard of ways that can cause one to question their sanity if one has not established a trust in them through experiences that solidifies this awareness into one's reality. You just have to let go!
@@news4facts That becomes an individuals choice. Most of that will come from healing oneself and in service to oneself which is often overlooked. For some this is easy for others not so much. Depending on the nature/nurture aspects of one's environment. Many of us are struck in trauma and codependency and might not find the strength to release these. There's nothing new that can be said that isn't in any self help or self healing book. It boils down to an individual making a conscious effect to be in control of their lives. There are too many variables involved in individual's lives to give a blanket statement of what one should do. Allowing for that connection with awareness to guide you is what is needed and to allow that trust to be made whole again. I wish there was some magic words to say but there aren't and you have to search within for that. The illusion of time means there's always a tomorrow so some things just take time.❤
how can i know i am infinite if i dont *know* infinite? I only know past (memory/thought), present (this), and future (thought). hmmmm... I only know this. But how can I be certain that "this" will not end?
No not necessarily brother. I don’t know what you mean by non conceptual awareness, but if you mean to simply recognise the aspect of awareness itself (ourself) then no. That is definitely a big step, but true awakening is to have undoubting experiential clarity and understanding that the awareness that we are is infinite.
Thanks for your reply By nonconceptual I meant the perception without a preconceived idea of phenomena. Like a table - it is a concept, not the thing itself. I'm slightly confused as to why would you discredit Buddhists and their aspirations, it doesn't leave a good impression frankly. Someone with permanent experience of infinite awareness would surely have understanding of the path and have compassion for everyone. Why do you think people practice diligently for years, lifetimes (if you belive in reincarnation) to have realization? In the end, you mention the importance of "not knowing", or beginners mindset, and at the same time you talk about all this as if you know the ultimate meaning. Forgive my unskillful speech if I seem harsh, but I can't see past these contradictions when you claim to have realization.
You’re right, it’s impossible, however it does cause an effect, it is the experience of fear. Fear is the experience of non existence. Which really is the experience of existing, but believing that we don’t.
I think this video highlights an issue with definitions. In a way, i agree, we are all awake already yes - but isn’t this information quite impotent unless it is somehow at the forefront of / imbuing experience? ie. Isn't there a danger of it being purely conceptual, if as Saja says we haven't uprooted our belief in separation? I mean a baby is awake, but it does not know it's awake, similar to animals. So wouldn’t enlightenment actually be describing more the recognition of and lived experience of being awake? ie. being aware of being aware? or being aware we are infinite and not separate? Isn’t it kind of like - most us 'regular people' having a lottery ticket with the winning numbers somewhere in our home or car, but being unaware of it as we haven't checked the winning numbers yet - so we are technically ’millionaires’ but still not any more well off because we have not actually collected the prize money? I mean, if i think 'i am perfect as I am' [not saying Saja is saying that, but pretty sure some other, neo-advaita teachers for instance may promote this kind of understanding] - then there can be inadvertently the idea of 'no need to practice, no need to do any inner work, no need for self-enquiry, exploration, no need to uproot any belief's and i can just continue, business as usual, following all my self-centred instincts - afterall i am already enlightened right? However isn't the reality more like - I can't go and buy a new Ferrari, if my winning ticket is still stuck down the side of the sofa, can i? ie. if i'm still living from a belief in a separate finite body-mind, then i am actually no more better off - than before if i only conceptually believe 'i am already awake' - as my belief in separation has not been uprooted yet - so my lived experience has not changed.
When this body and mind disperse into their constituent parts at end of life, awareness will continue in other bodies and minds, but not mine. You seem to propose that 'I' should consider myself to be abstract awareness, which seems to be just an architectural structure of bodies and minds, with any particular realisation of it being finite and not the real thing?
No not at all. The mind doesn’t actually die. Just the aspect of the mind that creates the finite experience you now call peters life. Infact, it’s safe to assume that part of your mind that you are experiencing with all these memories doesn’t die either. I have found access to aspects of myself that go beyond this lifetime. I don’t know how I can prove that to anyone so I never share it. But maybe you’d find it interesting to know.
ok so, how do I go back? I don’t want everyone reading my mind or having the WHOLE matrix turning weird and warped! I’m not taking that shit for much longer!
@ I know god is Consciousness, we are a piece of that larger consciousness, but other spiritual teachers have been saying the larger consciousness (god) can delete us. I guess that’s my fear I need to get over, thanks for your reply.
As you age you have to endure kids appearing with amazing new information - that older people already know. For a LONG time. Over and over and over and over .... your turn is coming.
Wait a second so enlightenment means seeing that we are unlimited but at this moment we don’t see that? Sooooo… That means we’re not enlightened yet then 😅
Buddy what do i need you and your revelations for ? I'm still gonna grow old, probably occasionally suffer along the way and eventually die! How come 20 something years olds these days seem to know it all ? Is that because google seems to know it all ? 😆
Enlightenment in Buddhism is simply seeing Reality as it actually is, not becoming a God (which would be antithetical). If you don't know the philosophical basics, what else might you be mistaken about? But if it makes you feel good, everyone's enlightened! Of course that would mean there could never have been any unenlightenment, which means there never was or is enlightenment.
Noone awakens...u just see ...u r not ur thoughts or any thought, sensation or energetic loud of thoughts...we call energy or emotion= all beautyful or ugly lies...thats it.Aum
We borrow our existence from source aka God. While this is seemingly impossible to prove it is true whether one believes it or not. For example I did not seed myself into my mother's womb nor did I supply the conciousness that animated that seed and because I do not know who did nor where that conciousness came from I have concluded 3 things. Number 1, I am not God, I am not the I am, I am not a creator and never can nor will be. Number 2, Jesus told the truth when He said only He has seen the Father aka God, it must be true because I have never seen God nor have a recollection or memory of God and 3, by extension I can believe Christ when He tells me that He is both the Son and the Father because He has seen that which has animated me.
Yes, you are aware, you ALWAYS, have trust and confidence, notice "where" you are placing it. Stop/delete "All" beliefs, be"lie"fs. Your mind is to "notice" what HAS happened. Follow, what excites you/ makes you feel best. ❤ Love, Love, Love. You Exist, all is one, what you give out you get back, everything changes, except these 4. ❤❤❤ STICK to the FACTS!!
😊😊 You have no clue about enlightenment. Enlightenment is when you are able to perceive the material realm in forms of energies and to feel God. Wake up!!
😂😂😂 You may want to add some neuroscience to your dialogue. We no longer say we have 5 or 6 senses. There are at least 9. Also in having experienced several small periods of awakening over the last 49 years of meditation, awakening is a experience of all your sense data being experianced as incoming information and not emotion. Best Wishes
“Most people won’t allow themselves to be enlightened until they have paid what they believe is an acceptable price for it.” Watts
Hahahahha this quote. I love it. I would say, more accurately, although not to discredit Watts, - “unless we have been provided the right context.”
@@sajafendel Why would I be happy by becoming aware and therefore gaining " freedom" ? I wouldn't be free. I will still have my problems that need to be dealt with. What then, is the big deal about becoming aware ( i.e. awakening ) ? I don't see it. And I certainly don't see why these awakened people say they feel joy from this. I'm underwhelmed by it.
( * by the way - how many people have told you that you look like Paul McCartney of the Beatles ? As he was in 1969 /70, at the time of the " Let It Be" album. )
Alan watts, “the zen master told his student to give up and go home.”
Only those who have past this process really know the significance.
Lol yes my friend
They are paying the ferryman but not realising it
Now this is what i was looking for simple and straight forward
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It's crazy that as a child i had already come to similar conclusions without knowing anything! Thank you! Extremely clear message! 🙌🏼
Glad you resonated Lucy! Thanks for your comment 🙏
Yes, the knowing without knowing even through childhood. I dont think the veiling worked entirely on some of us. Or maybe that was agreed apon before birth as well. Or were just glitches it the matrix, whoops 😂
Beautifully explained, I can sense your wisdom man keep going and keep sharing what you acknowledge
I appreciate your support brother 🙏🌅
Such goodness incoming as the new normal. Thank you for showing up.
Thanks for the support Nina 🫶
Thank you for your service to all who find you.
I have been aware of my existence beyond the body and five senses since 2018 giving me peace and joy in experiencing life in this flesh.
I have subscribed and will enjoy your videos as a gift to myself!
I have kept silent on this subject due to having difficulty expressing this using the word.
Love and light to you ❤
Deeply appreciate your kind and supportive words 💚 blessings to you, have a gorgeous day 🌅
Thank you, dear Saja, for "not knowing is a good place to start". Took the pressure off of my mortal brain to believe that "I'm unlimited".
Right?! It’s as good as the best place to be. Glad you resonate man.
Thank you. I feel happiness experiencing the logic in your explanation. I feel happiness when realising there are such wonderful human beings like you on our planet. Thank you.
A very beautiful message. Thank you my friend 🫶🌅
The Beautiful Beings of Gaia would like to thank Saja Fendel for your service. We are forever grateful.
Your teachings are landing so gently here :) too wonderful, thank you Saja!
Thank you so much! 🙏
Truley greatful for your wise words in it's simplest form. Blessings 🙌
Blessings back to you 🙏
I appreciate this channel so much. So grateful it came into my reality.
Just seen you joined the community! Grateful to have you my friend 🙏
@sajafendel I feel so honoured to be part of this.
Wow, OMG🎉, you just changed my world. Thank you.
I appreciate your comment, glad this helped 🙏
We are in this together
Wow, thank you, thank you, thank you. I understood this already but love the way you explained it and it truly helped me today to detach myself from what my body and my mind were feeling today. Each time we forget this fundamental truth we suffer. 🙏
Absolutely 🙏💚
Gratitude for this clear presentation .👏❤️
Thank you Elizabeth! 🙏
I'll point soul's to your video my friend because i love what's you've said
Gratitude brother 🙏🫶
Thank you!
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First time I've listened to you - love the simple pointing. It is easy to get hooked up to certain phrases such as Non-duality Awareness is so obvious sometimes that we don't see it. The thinking mind can't accept that it could be easy.
By his definition I suppose I must be aware. But I'm buggered if I can see why that is exciting. Because I don't feel any different at all. Bit of a non event. I tend to believe that this is not true awakening. Aren't we supposed to feel this "Oneness" they talk about ? I don't feel that. So I can't be awake, can I ?
Back to the drawing board then ( sigh ) .....
So true 🙏💚
You cannot learn Oneness. It is an experience. It is what you are now, you are everything and everyone ,including the space, kinda like one immovable unit that flows . See yourself in all your reflections. Desire more than anything else and you will be shown, you have free will to choose❤
You’re the best.
thank you a lot saja, happy to find you
Happy to meet you! Big hugs back 🫶
So happy to have found you Saja. Really enjoyed hearing what you had to say about enlightenment, and I especially enjoyed your beautiful Welsh accent. Instant subscribe.
I appreciate you my friend! Thank you! I always find it funny when someone recognises my accent. Where are you from?
@@sajafendel I'm from Cornwall but half of my family are from Llanelli, and you sound like you're from near there. Where are you?
@ awesome! Im from Bridgend 🙏
@@sajafendel Beautiful soul, beautiful voice - you're winning, Saja 😇
In short, consciousness is the overall experience of being present and aware, while awareness is the specific focus or attention to particular things in that experience.
Awakening is an inner journey into higher consciousness. Higher consciousness is understanding your authentic self, that is divine.True enlightenment is becoming one with God. In this age there are folks that are going through an ascension process. A process of controlling the ego and healing from past pain, and learning discernment. This brings a 5th diimensional consciousness called Christ Consciousness, a unity consciousness.
Know that you are at the beginning stages of introspection, you just opened the book. Keep up the good work!
We’re all at the beginning stages. As we will always be 🙏
I’m excited to join the community. Thanks for all you do
It will be a pleasure to have you 🙏
Totally totally agree!!
Glad you resonate! 🫶
Thank you for shining the light on me, really cool timing☮️ 🐀
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So glad you showed in my recommendeds; new sub.
Thank you! :) What a pleasure thanks for the sub 🫶
Thanks for the true teachings..brother🙏🏻
Always a pleasure man. Thanks for the support 🙏
@ ahh sorry!! 🤭but i m girl actually
It's a humble realization. Realizing that the "YOU" never was. The body is no longer seen as something that houses "The mind" but no different that perceiving a rock or a tree etc.
But how to tackle this belief when it just leads to not knowing?
@macaroon147 it's not a belief.
@markimel4947 oh so "I am in the body" is not a belief?
@macaroon147 I'm saying there's no "Me" or "You" inside a body.
@markimel4947 yes and I'm asking how do you tackle the belief that there is a you in the body. I think you misunderstood my first reply bro
This is one of the most brilliant videos I've ever seen. I never looked at it from this point of view. Thank you 🙏🙏🙏
I am really clear now, you wonderful man. Thank you x
Glad it helped 🙏💚
I enjoyed your point of view 🙏
Thank you, I’m glad you did 🙏
@@sajafendel this perspective is probably the most direct I’ve come across, rather than just saying you’re already there. Most can’t make that simple connection, so the trick is to make the connection, in doing so you realise it, once done your there, it’s not a mystery anymore so to speak, we kind of need to communicate our way back to our selves.
You are the light, not the lit.
Love it 🙏
Speak for yourself bro, I'm lit 🔥
@@macaroon147 😂😂🙏 that’s more legitimate actually.
Thank you Saja 🙏
My pleasure Tiana 🙏
Wood is as much of a concept of a thing as a pool table.....
Yeah!
Love it brother! A important message shared so clearly 💧
I appreciate you man 🙏💚
Clearly for you maybe.
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I just stumbled upon this channel and found this very informative and wished so to speak that I came across you sooner. -Peace and Love-
How do we know that awareness is fundamental and not a product of the mind? How do I know when my brain stops, my awareness doesnt just cease? And if that is the case, how can it be said that my existence stands alone? How can we KNOW?
We can not know.
The mechanism that wants to know, that wants to work things out, that thinks there's something to solve, is the thing we are falsely identified with. In this video he is saying that what you are is before all this knowledge.
All language is duality, all words are tools used by the mind to keep the feeling of separation going. What's already here without any word?
Actually you can KNOW because awareness is KNOWING in itself, and when its realized/KNOWN to be fundamental it is KNOWN to be EVERYTHING, including ALL outside the "brain" , ita a unifies field of BEING itself that is KNOWN BY BEING ITSELF
It doesn't need to be Known because it already is.
There's many ways to point to this and yes words seem essential. The word KNOWN can be tricky and to the seeking mind can be like alcohol to an alcoholic, well it was here🙏
No one on this earth can tell you if awareness is fundamental and eternal or not, if they do they are just repeating what someone else said or that they believe philosophically. They have no way of KNOWING this objectively. However channeled entities could provide this knowledge, and in fact they do, and I believe them (but still don't KNOW it).
What is important is to see that whatever the truth is, the truth we all currently believe, namely the world is separate, causes suffering. The model of the world being non-dual causes complete freedom and peace and happiness. So the real question to ask is where is my actual proof the world is separate? There has never and will never be any evidence let alone proof.
I feel you just woke me up
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Thank yooooou!
Thanks for the support 🙏
I woke up this morning and I'm still awake unitl bed time.
I like that
I believe I am infinite. I don’t see how that can help me deal with decades chronic illness with no end in sight.
Become someone without illness.
Firstly depends on what you mean by infinite, secondly if that infinite recognition is correct, you have to then take another step to intgetrate the implications of that into your body and mind.
It’s one thing to believe you’re infinite, another thing to know you are infinite by direct experience, and it’s another thing to have integrated that on a physical level.
Videos like this !!!
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This is the best one
We are Source. Your experience of being the "I Am" who is aware of this single moment in you is the very same being that experiences this same moment in me. When we wake from this incredibly lucid dream, I will remember being you, and I will remember being me. We are the same "I." There is a misconception in reincarnation that says it is the lineage of a single soul through time to enlightenment, when, in reality, we are all just you in this very instant.
I say all that to say the depth within us is the same as the very creator of all existence. We run as deeply as Source. We are Source. We are infinite.
This is good! ❤
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This is excellent
Glad you enjoyed my friend 🙏
If I can't experience or feel like this body/mind as separate from anything that I perceive, then I could say that I have realized my true nature. I don't necessarily want to be "enlightened", for that's a term for ones' ego to revel in. Not mine.
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Saja, I want to believe this! But what happens to our awareness when we are unconscious --for example, when we are in dreamless sleep? In other words, how can I be infinitely aware (or how can I be infinite awareness) if my awareness seems to "come and go" (when I am awake or in dreamless asleep) in the same way as my temporal experiences come and go?
Awareness is always there and if one is in the proper state they have a conscious access to it. We are to be in the world (you) but not of it (awareness). Those two states of being are what we are here to meld together and integrate to work in tandem with one another while we're here. Most people actually have no Ideal what's going on and that's not to say that's a bad thing, it just is. We all pretty much know the definitions of all the terminology involved in these teachings but what most are trying to achieve is the connection that seems so elusory and yet is always there.
Some things have to literally be experienced in order to truly understand them and solidify them into one's reality. Even then it's hard to explain to someone in the form of just do A B C and there you have it. Like Glenda told Dorothy, "You've always had the power to go back home but if I told you you wouldn't have believed me and had to experience it for yourself." Dorothy now knows should she ever go looking for her heart's desires, she'll look no further than her own backyard (within).
A lot of this can play out in so many different ways depending on the individual. You can even feel like two separate entities in one body. But it's not literal but more so holding different states of perception through awareness and most of us have been taught that the outside is more important than the inside in this 3D realm. We let that override the inside and that's how most get struck in the world. Opening that door and trusting in something beyond the 6 senses is what is the key but even then most are too distracted with all the things that play apart in one's life to put much effort into this. That's why most consider this an individual's journey, but how many of us are so connected to things and others in the outside world that if we have to make a choice on the tangible or intangible what's on the outside usually wins.
Turning this on and off randomly is like being on a diet to achieve a specific goal and this should be seen as a never ending lifestyle. It's not like some superpower that's always on but one that can always be access and given permission to be active when necessary. It's like intuition on steroids without the side effects. At this point you no longer have to move mountains because the mountains already know to move as we are no longer in our own way. You can literally feel like your in a movie sometimes and only you hear the narration that plays out just as perceive it. That conformation is what solidifies this into one's reality allowing for an biblical type of trust. You become childlike in the sense of a new curiosity of awareness makes even the mundane seem new. It's like being the character in a video game jumping up and down to get the players attention and when they both recognize one another and are on the same page the real game begins. Each becomes invested in the other in a way that allows for what some might consider magic from this perspective.
One could go on and on, but you'll know it when your in it and that's when you let go and let God (Universe, Higher-self, interpretation varies). The outside world responds in kind as you influence over it is no longer stuck in a 3D mindset. It's like seeing more of the playing field from a higher vantage point to make choices and decision that otherwise would not have been an option. In this state of awareness you no longer enter a state of victimhood as that is not longer an option or even tries to play a part. Your perception literally takes some definitions and turn them on their heads as they no longer effect you. It's like adding extra points to states in a video game that allow for extra options to be available in gameplay. Probably haven't read all that and if none of it resonates no harm no foul, just one players experience. Good luck! ❤
I would investigate whether it’s awareness that comes or goes or if the mind comes and goes. After all, is it not the mind that disappears in deep sleep? Yes because no objects take place. And do you not wake up from something? What would that something be? It would be the experience of no objects. That is deep sleep. Deep sleep isn’t a lack of awareness, it’s the experience of the lack of objects.
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How do I know if I’m limited? . So I do know absolutely I am more than my body and mind, that I’m something outside of that and I’ve known that for a while. I realised a while ago I can’t make things right for others.
You may know you are more than your body mind but you need to be clear on what you are.
You are the conscious perceiving aspect of your experience. That is what is unlimited from an experiential perspective and that is not actually a witness to experience but experience ce is made of that perceiver. So there is really no distance. No separation. You must take steps now towards that.
@ thank you. How do I take steps toward that? Do you mean i, as the perceiver, make that experience? My belief so far is that we are here as part of the whole. That we experience others but are not tied to them. That we are here to learn something?
I get that I’m the unlimited conscious perceiving aspect of my experience. That that aspect is unlimited. The bit I’m missing is “experience is made of that perceiver”. Words are tricky aren’t they!
I feel sad that I didn’t understand it 100% ,when I first experienced my awareness I was in shock. I tried to repress that experience and I suffer now for many years..
I know this--I watch to see others do too--one question, why do I never ever meet any others who know, all these years now, but I see this guy here, on YT . Why not in this reality???
Enlightened is
Did u find permanent freedom and peace sir?
Yes sir
Amazing brother
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To me awareness is a flowing stream infact which is not dependent on anything and all pervasive even if we are in this costume or not.
If I want to be half of my real age , Is it possible since time is an illusion ?
Not in the way you think. Usually some on this path notice that they age extremely slow depending on how much one is actually connected to certain states of awareness. It becomes a dilemma the longer one is in a state of awareness of age. It's hard to explain. It's like everything on the outside tells you what's it's like and what to expect at this age or that age and that becomes unconsciously embedded within us and we have to literally retrain our awareness around it. Usually one doesn't go back to far behind the point in which the awareness has set in but will notice overtime the effects solidify in their reality and the outside world starts to notice too. You unconsciously begin to do things that allows this state to be attainable and it becomes your natural state of being. It literally has more to do with the energetic and ethereal body as well as the toroidal field which affects us also on a physical level.
Yeah speak to Brian Johnson
@@notahouse There's more than one state of awareness ???? How many are we meant to discover, for God's sake ? !
@@gribwitch It's more about reconnecting with that awareness we came in with. Like being a character in a video game, you don't have to have access to the creator of the game but just the player. The player will have a more direct line of communication to the creator than the avatar would. The player has the manual and everything needed to complete the game, even access to other live players so to speak. Just think how one's life would change having access to such an awareness and still being in the avatar which is you. Some things in the game you just happen to pick up along the way but aren't actually sought out. I think longevity might be one of them as one begins to exist in such higher frequencies.
If we are to believe the bible, there was a period in time when the connection was so strong and the veil so thin that people lived hundreds of years and not in a feeble state. That was just a by product of this connection before it was lost. I think once that connection is made everything else needed begins to fall into place and in time becomes solidified into one's reality. This doesn't become some crash coarse you jump into and get a degree to place on the mantle, it becomes a career and an actual way of living that anything that doesn't resonate with it will begin to fall away whether we like it or not. That's when the fear and doubt set in as to whether the benefits outweigh what we might consider loses in the 3D realm and most stay stuck in the world that they know.
So as far as this awareness is seen, it's like taking a class to learn how to read and then discovering everything else involved around that. Such as sentence structure, the parts of speech, comprehension and even definitions of words and all this would fall under reading overall. I get what you mean though and when you experience it and all these things start to fall into place you'll see what I mean. Good luck! ❤
The thing is, you sill have to have the insight, the transcendent experience of awakening to be awakened. Awakening is NOT a cognitive experience… you can’t be talked into waking up.
I agree. Cognitive experience won’t suffice. People get distracted when their cognitive experience seems to change when they have an awakening.
Understanding, however, is not a cognitive experience.
@ Understanding not a cognitive experience? I don’t know about that but I’ll think about it…. 😊
Thank you for talking about this. You have a different way of explaining awareness which I find interesting and helpful.
I am a bit new to all of this, so my questions may seem silly.
I kinda understand that I am aware of being. So that I am awareness.
But why do I feel that my awareness is confined inside my body ? If I close my eyes, I feel my awareness inside of me.
It seems that to be aware, to feel/sense my awareness, in other words : to experience awareness , it is only possible through the body/mind
But you say that awareness is not confined in the body, that it is infinite.
So where is that awareness ?
And if we don’t have our body and mind anymore, would we be able to experience that awareness (to sense it, to know it exists) ?
Thank you for your help.
Awareness is the substance of everything, so it is nowhere, it takes place “everywhere” but truly there’s nothing other than awareness for it to take place so it is as though it is nowhere. It is 0 dimensional so it takes place outside time and space. This is a very big question so give you any satisfaction in a comment, this is what I have built the community for. To answer one of these fundamental questions 🙏 But I would say, of course you feel awareness is inside you if you have believed it is inside you all your life. Your experience will appear in accordance to the limitations of your beliefs. We must explore these limitations and check for their evidence via the meditations I host.
How does the recognition from not knowing to "I am infinite" happen? How can you know that you are infinite? Because if you are there isn't space for someone to say I am that, there is just the infinite.
It’s in the form that We know we have no limitation. Infinite is a negative word. Meaning it describes the lack of something.
To see we are infinite is to see that we simply have no limitation.
@@sajafendel "Infinite is a negative word", this is incredibly helpful. Thank you!
Every belief has a lie 💓
Awareness is the heart
Consciousness is the mind
Heart is all of us
Mind is ego 💓
Stay neutral my friend 🤍
Thank you for remind us we are made out of water - that is true 8D
still not getting it. skip.
I AM NOT ENLIGHTENED cus the suffering is still here and limit is my middle name.
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Haha my guy! 🙏
And how to get out of my mind?
Why would you want to remove your mind? Not necessary
@@sajafendel so how to not stuck with mind
Being aware that you are more than your mind creates the scenario of being in the world (you) but not of it (awareness).This 3D realm entraps us into thinking we need it as it determines what options you have access to through our limited senses including the mind. Opening the door to awareness allows for options to play out in an unforeseen manner that the mind could never come up with. It's like being able to spot a side quest in a video game from a character that everyone seems to overlook. That awareness will make things play out in unheard of ways that can cause one to question their sanity if one has not established a trust in them through experiences that solidifies this awareness into one's reality. You just have to let go!
@@notahouse what about attachment to family
How to let go attachment
Emotions comes in between
@@news4facts That becomes an individuals choice. Most of that will come from healing oneself and in service to oneself which is often overlooked. For some this is easy for others not so much. Depending on the nature/nurture aspects of one's environment. Many of us are struck in trauma and codependency and might not find the strength to release these. There's nothing new that can be said that isn't in any self help or self healing book. It boils down to an individual making a conscious effect to be in control of their lives. There are too many variables involved in individual's lives to give a blanket statement of what one should do. Allowing for that connection with awareness to guide you is what is needed and to allow that trust to be made whole again. I wish there was some magic words to say but there aren't and you have to search within for that. The illusion of time means there's always a tomorrow so some things just take time.❤
how can i know i am infinite if i dont *know* infinite? I only know past (memory/thought), present (this), and future (thought). hmmmm... I only know this. But how can I be certain that "this" will not end?
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Please share the videos w/me ❤ TY
So you assert that the experience of non-conceptual awareness is awakening/enlightenment, do I understand correctly?
No not necessarily brother. I don’t know what you mean by non conceptual awareness, but if you mean to simply recognise the aspect of awareness itself (ourself) then no.
That is definitely a big step, but true awakening is to have undoubting experiential clarity and understanding that the awareness that we are is infinite.
Thanks for your reply
By nonconceptual I meant the perception without a preconceived idea of phenomena. Like a table - it is a concept, not the thing itself.
I'm slightly confused as to why would you discredit Buddhists and their aspirations, it doesn't leave a good impression frankly. Someone with permanent experience of infinite awareness would surely have understanding of the path and have compassion for everyone.
Why do you think people practice diligently for years, lifetimes (if you belive in reincarnation) to have realization?
In the end, you mention the importance of "not knowing", or beginners mindset, and at the same time you talk about all this as if you know the ultimate meaning.
Forgive my unskillful speech if I seem harsh, but I can't see past these contradictions when you claim to have realization.
Hi Saja. Love your content. I just want to know how can one experience non-existence, if non existence does not exist, it can never be experienced. ?
You’re right, it’s impossible, however it does cause an effect, it is the experience of fear.
Fear is the experience of non existence. Which really is the experience of existing, but believing that we don’t.
I think this video highlights an issue with definitions. In a way, i agree, we are all awake already yes - but isn’t this information quite impotent unless it is somehow at the forefront of / imbuing experience? ie. Isn't there a danger of it being purely conceptual, if as Saja says we haven't uprooted our belief in separation?
I mean a baby is awake, but it does not know it's awake, similar to animals. So wouldn’t enlightenment actually be describing more the recognition of and lived experience of being awake? ie. being aware of being aware? or being aware we are infinite and not separate?
Isn’t it kind of like - most us 'regular people' having a lottery ticket with the winning numbers somewhere in our home or car, but being unaware of it as we haven't checked the winning numbers yet - so we are technically ’millionaires’ but still not any more well off because we have not actually collected the prize money?
I mean, if i think 'i am perfect as I am' [not saying Saja is saying that, but pretty sure some other, neo-advaita teachers for instance may promote this kind of understanding] - then there can be inadvertently the idea of 'no need to practice, no need to do any inner work, no need for self-enquiry, exploration, no need to uproot any belief's and i can just continue, business as usual, following all my self-centred instincts - afterall i am already enlightened right?
However isn't the reality more like - I can't go and buy a new Ferrari, if my winning ticket is still stuck down the side of the sofa, can i?
ie. if i'm still living from a belief in a separate finite body-mind, then i am actually no more better off - than before if i only conceptually believe 'i am already awake' - as my belief in separation has not been uprooted yet - so my lived experience has not changed.
You’d be right Greg, but take the message for what it’s worth, I think you know and are very clear on what I am saying and why I am saying it 🙏🌅
How does one deal with a belief in eternal hell?
When this body and mind disperse into their constituent parts at end of life, awareness will continue in other bodies and minds, but not mine. You seem to propose that 'I' should consider myself to be abstract awareness, which seems to be just an architectural structure of bodies and minds, with any particular realisation of it being finite and not the real thing?
No not at all. The mind doesn’t actually die. Just the aspect of the mind that creates the finite experience you now call peters life. Infact, it’s safe to assume that part of your mind that you are experiencing with all these memories doesn’t die either.
I have found access to aspects of myself that go beyond this lifetime.
I don’t know how I can prove that to anyone so I never share it. But maybe you’d find it interesting to know.
Have you ever heard of the story of the house cat that thought it was a lion, until it ended up in the jungle?
ok so, how do I go back? I don’t want everyone reading my mind or having the WHOLE matrix turning weird and warped! I’m not taking that shit for much longer!
Hahaha loved this man.
🙏🫶 good to hear from you brother
If you are indeed awakened, you would not have a youtube channel
Can God/Source kill are consciousness? And are we forced to reincarnate if we don’t want too?
God is consciousness. And no.
@ I know god is Consciousness, we are a piece of that larger consciousness, but other spiritual teachers have been saying the larger consciousness (god) can delete us. I guess that’s my fear I need to get over, thanks for your reply.
As you age you have to endure kids appearing with amazing new information - that older people already know. For a LONG time.
Over and over and over and over .... your turn is coming.
Wait a second so enlightenment means seeing that we are unlimited but at this moment we don’t see that? Sooooo… That means we’re not enlightened yet then 😅
That's correct. And also the bleedin' obvious.
Then maybe you mistook the message 🙏 not sure if you watched all the video or not.
Avadhuta Gita
5:27 - 5:47.
Buddy what do i need you and your revelations for ? I'm still gonna grow old, probably occasionally suffer along the way and eventually die! How come 20 something years olds these days seem to know it all ? Is that because google seems to know it all ? 😆
Yeah sir it’s all chat GPT
Enlightenment in Buddhism is simply seeing Reality as it actually is, not becoming a God (which would be antithetical). If you don't know the philosophical basics, what else might you be mistaken about? But if it makes you feel good, everyone's enlightened! Of course that would mean there could never have been any unenlightenment, which means there never was or is enlightenment.
Yeah enlightenment doesn’t really exist
So what’s the point of life?
I would watch the Disney movie soul. Incredible way of putting it.
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Noone awakens...u just see ...u r not ur thoughts or any thought, sensation or energetic loud of thoughts...we call energy or emotion= all beautyful or ugly lies...thats it.Aum
How doe s nobody know this? Yes.. good question :D xD :P and why?
That which perceives and understands is that which knows whatever it is that we know
@@sajafendel We all do that all the time though. What's your point ?
We borrow our existence from source aka God. While this is seemingly impossible to prove it is true whether one believes it or not. For example I did not seed myself into my mother's womb nor did I supply the conciousness that animated that seed and because I do not know who did nor where that conciousness came from I have concluded 3 things. Number 1, I am not God, I am not the I am, I am not a creator and never can nor will be. Number 2, Jesus told the truth when He said only He has seen the Father aka God, it must be true because I have never seen God nor have a recollection or memory of God and 3, by extension I can believe Christ when He tells me that He is both the Son and the Father because He has seen that which has animated me.
Just remove the mind you are englightment
You don’t need to remove your mind
@@sajafendel this looks like ChatGPT is having a conversation with itself 😅
I get it. There is nothing to know. Everyone can unsubscribe now.
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Yes, you are aware, you ALWAYS, have trust and confidence, notice "where" you are placing it. Stop/delete "All" beliefs, be"lie"fs. Your mind is to "notice" what HAS happened. Follow, what excites you/ makes you feel best. ❤ Love, Love, Love. You Exist, all is one, what you give out you get back, everything changes, except these 4. ❤❤❤ STICK to the FACTS!!
Tat Tvam Asi
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You have no clue about enlightenment.
Enlightenment is when you are able to perceive the material realm in forms of energies and to feel God.
Wake up!!
😂😂😂 You may want to add some neuroscience to your dialogue. We no longer say we have 5 or 6 senses. There are at least 9.
Also in having experienced several small periods of awakening over the last 49 years of meditation, awakening is a experience of all your sense data being experianced as incoming information and not emotion.
Best Wishes
Cool man. What are the other 4?
Nice Try
... You inflate, Bien and awaken to the body
Being and awaken are virtues of the Spirit
Not the material
If u dont thank JESUS for that gift ur own pride will blind u and u will be greatly mistaken