I must say that I enjoy that you do not talk down to your viewer. The little observations and nuances you give in this talk and in so many of your videos are very helpful. Simple and helpful.
For me, if I pay close attention / bring my awareness to the bodily sensation of comforting or discomforting feeling, the other thought-related part gets so unnoticeable or even disappears! I mean I want it or don’t want it doesn’t even form! It’s just experiencing and in this way, there is always acceptance, Surrender!
Over activation of brain cannabinoid receptors along with maoi action gives sudden insight ,which is just an illusion caused due to amplified processing power and memory recall
Thank you for creating this video which is somehow the exact video I needed at this particular point in time. Just this morning I have been engaging with this particular practice you describe, which seems to me to fit Into a view of dependence arising/ origination. Until this point I never really grasped both importance of dependence arising and its usefulness in engaging with experience, so thank you very clear elucidation
Brilliant as always brother! Surender / Acceptance is a tool that works great for "me". Whatever is happening right now I don't reject it if unpleasant, or enforce it if pleasant. I simply welcome the happening and surrender to the raw experience. I watch it without interfering and somehow experiences from being mostly uncomfortable have come to be neutral and there is peace in that neutrality. Thank you brother!
I have just started exploring this and beginig to realise that pain and negative emotions are such amazing teachers. I feel like I have spent a life time trying to avoid them or just feeling them in the hope that it would get rid of them! What was quite surprising has been the discovering that these sensations are also boundless, from the point of view of the mind it makes them seem very local and personal and like there is a self separate to the sensations that then has to resist them but in direct experience no such boundaries exist...... its definitely harder with more intense experiences though.
Yes! I would even encourage you to look into the moniker "negative emotions" I hear this phrase so much, but I can tell you that people make the most transformation when the explore what most will call negative emotions. Fear, sadness, grief, anger, shame, these are where the money is :)))
Thanks, Emotions like computer programming command for mind go do something or not do that takes away free will? After awakening, u kind of step back see emotions without identified with it that causing emotions to resolve quickly?
Yes, I might say the resistance to emotions as well as momentary conditions is what subsides significantly. With equanimity it gets extremely calm internally and yet the enjoyment of all textures goes on.
On page 268 of your book- “the moment you realize… the whole struggle instantly vanishes.” How do i get beyond the conceptual understanding of this to the actual experience of this??? There is the I that knows this, intuits it, but the Self has not risen above the walls of the concept yet- i still feel bound by resentment related to work (for which my mind has “substantial evidence”), preoccupation with future and reliving past “wrongs”. 7 years ago, the Self did overwhelm the walls and for months i experienced joy, freedom and peace (i still have residual benefits) until, like your video i listened to this morning described, small bits of questions arose that eventually separated me from the reality that i intimately experienced, that all those around me sensed. Years later the questions culminated in exploration of the nature of evil and suffering and god’s intention and - on and on. Perhaps interesting questions after freedom but an apparent road block for my liberation.
Sounds like 7 years a go you had an awakening. It this point it's less trying to discover the Self (I assume you know the sense of I Am and can rest there with meditation), more about addressing the perceptual filters that keep selfING occurring., Start with equanimity/reactivity per the playlist. It's dirty work but it has to be done lol. Without that the flip flopping usually just continues and the sense of self chases the sense of self hoping to make itself feel better which it ultimately can't.
I have just had an experience this morning, and wonder if it is what your talking about? I was relaxing in the garden not thinking. Into my head popped "I want to go home" i said that's a thought and flicked it away . But I seem to have flicked it into my body? I started weeping and my heart chakra was on fire. I had the deepest yearning for home (what ever that means) But while i was experiencing It, It was not good or bad , I was somehow watching and experiencing at that same time. ??
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake It was a deep experience, I feel it was about reconnecting to all. But then my thoughts had a crack at it! If it was a thought was the physical experience just a manifestation of a thought? I know I should trust myself, but things are intense right now and I'm not quite there yet.
@@KK-qd6ro I’d say the physical experience was authentic. The interpretation sort of an outgrowth. Once we truly realize “form is emptiness” this looks very very different. In a good way
In this practice are we trying to come to any sort of conclusions as to exactly the reason we are resisting the present moment as we just sit with the discomfort or are we simply just trying to make a clear distinction that this contraction or whatever it may be can be felt in a different way without having any thoughts about it? And do you recommend putting our full attention in the feeling itself trying to be as neutral as possible while siamotainously trying to intuit the reason why we are resisting if that was the case?
Good questions. First just be willing to sit in that experiential gap and not try to want or not want, push, pull on or distract from that raw discomfort. Also no need to deconstruct it, like is it a body sensation or a thought etc (thought it will largely be a physical experience). Once you can stay with that raw discomfort for a bit you you begin to look into whether there is any reason to react in any way, or whether there is sone sort of actual agent there that compels you to react internally or externally. With practice you will often notice subtle shifts in the way you move through situations. The reactivity goes way down and you notice a lot less inclination to distract in general. More importantly it becomes clear exactly what is a distraction or seeking behavior or netball process abd what is simply responding to the momentary conditions. Like you don’t have to think about it it just becomes obvious. This is when equanimity truly starts to flower. And it goes deeper until reactivity is basically gone.
I dunno I've tried to do this but I always end up forgetting this and my conditioning just seems to win out. I feel a kind of despair watching this video.
We have to develop our discernment between the insanity of the thinking process and it’s absence. For simplicity I call this the god of love and the god of war. The god of war obliterates the god of love because the god of love never speaks. Without the development of discernment you will have no choice and be a slave to the god of war. The god of war is called Dave or whatever name your Mom gave you. The god of war has no redeeming qualities and can be called the seven deadly sins. The god of love has no qualities we can mention but makes the tree bear fruit.
Dave, Wow, quite an imaginary story. Yet just another story to keep the Ego fed. May you enjoy your chosen path. And one day realize, there is no path. Peace to you.
@@cps_Zen_Run yes you are correct but we only have imaginary stories to share. As I have said before this is the perfect secret and is not shareable ever but it can be fun to try. Peace to you too.
Yes it's like a character that literally lives rent free inside your metaphorical head - feeding you thoughts for breakfast lunch and dinner. Animating it does draw awareness to it - give it a cartoon voice, a Morgan Freeman narrator, or call it a god of war.
@@nat998 I agree. Sharing stories I sometimes say “there is a monster inside you but if you don’t know what I mean then the monster has you”. It also uses you music collection but never buys any music of its own. What a cheek.
The granularity of this breakdown is SO helpful! Yes! The pre-cursor of a “me” appearing is wanting/not wanting. Thank you 🙏
Looking at this equanimity series again. So many sensations in my body. Deeply greatful for what you do.
I must say that I enjoy that you do not talk down to your viewer. The little observations and nuances you give in this talk and in so many of your videos are very helpful. Simple and helpful.
:)))
For me, if I pay close attention / bring my awareness to the bodily sensation of comforting or discomforting feeling, the other thought-related part gets so unnoticeable or even disappears! I mean I want it or don’t want it doesn’t even form! It’s just experiencing and in this way, there is always acceptance, Surrender!
Simply brilliant, empowering, and very comforting. Between vedana and tanha is our opportunity!
❤️
Over activation of brain cannabinoid receptors along with maoi action gives sudden insight ,which is just an illusion caused due to amplified processing power and memory recall
Both thc and omega 3 are both simultaneously direct agonists of receptors and are MAOI's. One implication is that you can get high off it
The clearest explanation of the skandas/aggregates I’ve heard. Thank you for your sharing your useful understanding!
@@kbshrink welcome 🤗
I love going back through your old video’s occasionally, it’s like finding a hidden gem that’s perfect for right now! 🙏
I'm so glad!
Remain in the GAP or how to break the old bad habit of being "me" 😁. Thank you Angelo!
You’re welcome
Hey thanks for the practice, will keep on doing it!
This can be helpful for looking at addictions
Definitely!
Thank you for creating this video which is somehow the exact video I needed at this particular point in time. Just this morning I have been engaging with this particular practice you describe, which seems to me to fit Into a view of dependence arising/ origination. Until this point I never really grasped both importance of dependence arising and its usefulness in engaging with experience, so thank you very clear elucidation
You’re welcome
Brilliant as always brother! Surender / Acceptance is a tool that works great for "me". Whatever is happening right now I don't reject it if unpleasant, or enforce it if pleasant. I simply welcome the happening and surrender to the raw experience. I watch it without interfering and somehow experiences from being mostly uncomfortable have come to be neutral and there is peace in that neutrality. Thank you brother!
Yes! There is magic in not picking and choosing, but just riding the waves of experience 😊
What a human being Doc !!!
Gratitude.
I have just started exploring this and beginig to realise that pain and negative emotions are such amazing teachers. I feel like I have spent a life time trying to avoid them or just feeling them in the hope that it would get rid of them! What was quite surprising has been the discovering that these sensations are also boundless, from the point of view of the mind it makes them seem very local and personal and like there is a self separate to the sensations that then has to resist them but in direct experience no such boundaries exist...... its definitely harder with more intense experiences though.
Yes! I would even encourage you to look into the moniker "negative emotions" I hear this phrase so much, but I can tell you that people make the most transformation when the explore what most will call negative emotions. Fear, sadness, grief, anger, shame, these are where the money is :)))
Thanks, Emotions like computer programming command for mind go do something or not do that takes away free will? After awakening, u kind of step back see emotions without identified with it that causing emotions to resolve quickly?
Yes, I might say the resistance to emotions as well as momentary conditions is what subsides significantly. With equanimity it gets extremely calm internally and yet the enjoyment of all textures goes on.
On page 268 of your book- “the moment you realize… the whole struggle instantly vanishes.” How do i get beyond the conceptual understanding of this to the actual experience of this???
There is the I that knows this, intuits it, but the Self has not risen above the walls of the concept yet- i still feel bound by resentment related to work (for which my mind has “substantial evidence”), preoccupation with future and reliving past “wrongs”.
7 years ago, the Self did overwhelm the walls and for months i experienced joy, freedom and peace (i still have residual benefits) until, like your video i listened to this morning described, small bits of questions arose that eventually separated me from the reality that i intimately experienced, that all those around me sensed. Years later the questions culminated in exploration of the nature of evil and suffering and god’s intention and - on and on. Perhaps interesting questions after freedom but an apparent road block for my liberation.
Sounds like 7 years a go you had an awakening. It this point it's less trying to discover the Self (I assume you know the sense of I Am and can rest there with meditation), more about addressing the perceptual filters that keep selfING occurring., Start with equanimity/reactivity per the playlist. It's dirty work but it has to be done lol. Without that the flip flopping usually just continues and the sense of self chases the sense of self hoping to make itself feel better which it ultimately can't.
Boy, you are tough! Thanks for this pointing.
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What i have come to see, is this what ever this is never changes we just think it changes and therefore we suffer
I have just had an experience this morning, and wonder if it is what your talking about? I was relaxing in the garden not thinking. Into my head popped "I want to go home" i said that's a thought and flicked it away . But I seem to have flicked it into my body? I started weeping and my heart chakra was on fire. I had the deepest yearning for home (what ever that means) But while i was experiencing It, It was not good or bad , I was somehow watching and experiencing at that same time. ??
That’s beautiful 😍
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake It was a deep experience, I feel it was about reconnecting to all. But then my thoughts had a crack at it! If it was a thought was the physical experience just a manifestation of a thought? I know I should trust myself, but things are intense right now and I'm not quite there yet.
@@KK-qd6ro I’d say the physical experience was authentic. The interpretation sort of an outgrowth. Once we truly realize “form is emptiness” this looks very very different. In a good way
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake Thanks so much. Your videos are always on point.
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@@KK-qd6ro thanks for all of your feedback
Wow, thank you❤️
You’re welcome
In this practice are we trying to come to any sort of conclusions as to exactly the reason we are resisting the present moment as we just sit with the discomfort or are we simply just trying to make a clear distinction that this contraction or whatever it may be can be felt in a different way without having any thoughts about it? And do you recommend putting our full attention in the feeling itself trying to be as neutral as possible while siamotainously trying to intuit the reason why we are resisting if that was the case?
Good questions. First just be willing to sit in that experiential gap and not try to want or not want, push, pull on or distract from that raw discomfort. Also no need to deconstruct it, like is it a body sensation or a thought etc (thought it will largely be a physical experience). Once you can stay with that raw discomfort for a bit you you begin to look into whether there is any reason to react in any way, or whether there is sone sort of actual agent there that compels you to react internally or externally. With practice you will often notice subtle shifts in the way you move through situations. The reactivity goes way down and you notice a lot less inclination to distract in general. More importantly it becomes clear exactly what is a distraction or seeking behavior or netball process abd what is simply responding to the momentary conditions. Like you don’t have to think about it it just becomes obvious. This is when equanimity truly starts to flower. And it goes deeper until reactivity is basically gone.
🙏🙏… perfectly clarified… thank you.
@@johnmedina9086 youre welcome
I have a question. What is, fear of death? What is the actual fear or resistance that needs to be explored?
🙏 Caryn.
Ultimately resistance or fear of life is illusory, it’s based on a series of misconceptions.
I dunno I've tried to do this but I always end up forgetting this and my conditioning just seems to win out. I feel a kind of despair watching this video.
I feel you. Sometimes despair/ surrender is the way through
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suffering is kind of an anomaly in human nature, idk... well, not only in "human nature" but Nature in general
Seeing a beautiful woman for me brings this way of looking very much into being.
I will sit in the fire 🔥 😒🤪
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We have to develop our discernment between the insanity of the thinking process and it’s absence. For simplicity I call this the god of love and the god of war. The god of war obliterates the god of love because the god of love never speaks. Without the development of discernment you will have no choice and be a slave to the god of war. The god of war is called Dave or whatever name your Mom gave you. The god of war has no redeeming qualities and can be called the seven deadly sins. The god of love has no qualities we can mention but makes the tree bear fruit.
Dave, Wow, quite an imaginary story. Yet just another story to keep the Ego fed. May you enjoy your chosen path. And one day realize, there is no path. Peace to you.
Thanks for sharing your observations. As this process plays out we get ever deepening insights into our nature :)
@@cps_Zen_Run yes you are correct but we only have imaginary stories to share. As I have said before this is the perfect secret and is not shareable ever but it can be fun to try. Peace to you too.
Yes it's like a character that literally lives rent free inside your metaphorical head - feeding you thoughts for breakfast lunch and dinner. Animating it does draw awareness to it - give it a cartoon voice, a Morgan Freeman narrator, or call it a god of war.
@@nat998 I agree. Sharing stories I sometimes say “there is a monster inside you but if you don’t know what I mean then the monster has you”. It also uses you music collection but never buys any music of its own. What a cheek.
Thinking "Best in Show" ... Talking and not talking... 😂
Love that movie
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake naming all the different kinds of nuts is a good meditation... 😀
@@georgeshepherd3381 😅😅😅
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake I would love to hear an interview between you and Zubin playing the role of "Doc Veda"...
@@georgeshepherd3381 we might have to make that happen