The shitshow that I am is the ocean. There is a certain relief in acknowledging that. Thank you. This is the first time in my life I have ever actually allowed for that without completely hating myself.
My mentor told me: "If we stop using the concept of beginnings and endings, then we all live together as the ocean instead of the individual drops ~ R. Neville Johnston, 24 years ago
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Be in the mess, be aware of the mess. pray the mess. is the way out of the mess.
This reminds me of the saying, "What you resist persists." I am guilty of pushing aside, ignoring and wanting thoughts to be different than what they are. What I believe you're saying is, not until you welcome it all, will you live in peace. Thank you for the reminder! Well said sir!
Well, if this is an a synchronicity, then I don’t know what it is. My mind is completely shattered right now. Like an explosion just went off inside of my body in mind. Your friends story is literally mine and I was just thinking listen, maybe yesterday I often sync this to daily. If I practice practice practice and I do everything right and I do the breathwork and I do this and that and I will have peace one day. However, I do do all of this and I don’t have peace and I don’t know why and I’ve been really wondering why what am I doing wrong. This is so wonderful to hear how you feel incredible just knowing and validating the thoughts that I had are very much normal and you’re right, we should embrace the human aspect of the light because that’s what we are to human and consciousness at the same time. Thank you so much for this.🎉
Transmitted with such deep love and reverence for humanity all the mess and all the light and all ok. Stop chasing the waves you are the ocean 😅😭🤣 Received with great thanks 🙏🏻
It’s almost like he was treating meditation like a drug in that he wanted some form of escape from everything to be the answer. I deeply relate to that. And thank you for explaining in such a positively beautiful way that that is not where we will end up but that it’s ok and it’s beautiful, mess and all.
Thank you so much for sharing this, Jeff! What you talk about, is so familiar to me and I am very happy, to experience the difference meanwhile, which really touches, soothes and relaxes me, like nothing else, so far. Everything is welcome, that is how I can take myself, just as I am and more and more stepping out of the wheel of; imagination, goaling, doubting myself, judging etc... Just breathing... breathing is loving, to me.
gratitude for being here, for the effort it took to make this video and all the lives it will help. we need each other. sometimes we can isolate but i noticed that if we take even the slightest leap of faith it really can move mountains. Jim Carey brought me here 😊 we are loved 🌎 ☮️
They don't have to go away but you don't have to live forever with trauma response from this and past lifetimes. You can do the work to uncover underlying beliefs and drop them, and those responses to life are now gone. This type of work is generally ignored in spiritual teachings.
You’re right, meditation alone is not enough to heal trauma. Community and connections are needed, cultivation of love, physical movement…it takes so much
Great, great, great, thanks from heart,... for me the video expresses brilliantly the absolute simplicity and effortlessness of being "in" the present moment, or better still, of being just that: the present moment ....thanks so much ❤❤❤❤
Thank you, I love how you say „bless our little hearts“ bless our innocence ❤ for me I realized I have been looking for presence as shiva more believing people that this is the way but now I feel so much better with shakti at the moment :) that is good experience for me. I love how Sadghuru says that we put all the good qualities in heaven but actually there is so much in us human when we connect to our shakti, our energy, our bodies… love how you say we can always begin again 🙏🏻💖🙏🏻
Chasing the waves is the way, because then in the end you can understand this failure, otherwise again it will just get into a mental idea of being the ocean already. Chase with fire, with all you have, that is the fire from longing you really need. From this fire you will investigate all believes and can see trough them by real understanding, because you feel the failing, and not because somebody tell you there is no seeking.
One of my favorite Non-Duality teachers Nissagarta Maharaj said, " you don't resist or try to stop the mind, but just be disinterested in the mind thru witnessing the mind." Just because you are not your mind doesn't mean your conditioned mind is not there. There's a difference between identifying with your mind and just witnessing the mind. Jesus himself is tempted by the mind, but He didn't identify with the temptations.🙏🙏🙏
I think we may get that expectation partly because of people such as Jeff and others, that the big breakthrough, epiphany and clarity and peace is how they describe their 'awakening' after years of meditation and deep searching 😕 it's always puzzled me that they, then, dismiss the whole process that brought them to that moment as unnecessary...
The difficulty for the vast majority of Westerners is that they have never had the opportunity to engage in an authentic study of meditation and so they cling to notions of presence (being in the moment) as being the actual practice. Because of this then they make contradictory statement such as "there is only this moment" and "bring your attention back to where you are" in the same breath. And so the practice becomes circular and one can spend decades meditating but never really get anywhere.
@@manualslr Perfect example of how of how an inexperienced practitioner will take a trite statement that they haven't understood, use that as a meditative focus, spend years cultivating that thinking it is an authentic practice, only then to realise that have been wasting their time. Think about it, for example; do you ever go to the shop to buy milk or bread?
@@ultimatemeaning "Why do you think that you are active? Take the gross example of your arrival here. You left home in a cart, took train, alighted at the railway station here, got into a cart there and found yourself in this Ashraman. When asked, you say you travelled all the way here from your town. Is it true? Is it not a fact that you remained as you were and there were movements… all along the way? Just as those movements are confounded with your own, so also the other activities. They are not your own." Ramana "Whoever says that the Tathagata goes or comes, sits or lies down, he does not understand the meaning of my teaching." Diamond Sutra
@@Mandance There is no benefit in deceiving yourself that you have realised a view beyond good and evil. It is a common mistake that brings only harm and no benefit. The view of equality is a realisation equivalent to recognition of the nature of mind and non-duality. But for you there is good and bad and the evidence of this is in your own reply that identifies a perceived negativity.
Hi jeff everything is the limitless one dont forget ! The rain and the wind = the infinite you and me is the limitless one light and dark = the limitless one hell and heaven = the limitless one everything nothing dual non dual bla bla = all the limitless one ❤
'The present moment is all we can have...' 'We can experience sensations...sounds.... Who is it that experiences or has a body or a mind? This is the illusion of duality. There is no separation and therefore no duality. There only seems to be a separation. That is how we have been conditioned to think since early childhood. There is only what is. That includes the sum total of what appears to be happening. It includes the appearance of a separate self. We are what seems to be going on. We are what is. There is no separate subject outside of all there is which can know all there is as an object. What this is, is a mystery. It cannot be known. It is not a thing or no thing or NOTHING. Yet it includes everything. It is everything and nothing simultaneously. There is no separate self. There is only this. Life is what is. No one has it. You are it. Everything and nothing. The infinite. You cannot get it.
So, when you realise that you don't experience the peace and bliss once you get to presence, you could experience relief, like your friend. Now that't the new promised goal of meditation! ;)
Lol, yes the mind can turn anything into a goal. Even that. The goal isn’t to have no goal. That would be a goal. It’s to be aware of these goals. Just to see them. They are only thoughts in awareness…
Also, I’m looking for some ideas or videos or advice. I am at a part of my journey. That is really incredible. I’ll keep it short, but one block I’m going through right now is humanity and human beings, I struggle every single day every single minute to like others. I no longer have family and friends, but I actively choose that and that’s the way they treat me so I’ve cut them off. More of a respect thing for my journey. However, just in general with humans eyes actively stay clear because I just can’t stand people but I want to love them and not feel such hatred towards humanity and people in general how do I go about? This is some thing I really really really want is to love instead of heat, but I really struggle but I don’t know how to.😢
Try just feeling the hatred deeply as an energy in your body and in your awareness. Accept it and don’t judge it or yourself for feeling it. Stay with it. There’s a reason it’s there. Just let it be. Relax into it. After a while say: May I be well, may I be safe, may I be loving, may I be comfortable and at peace etc.etc.etc.etc. Then extend this wish to other people, to the family members and friends and eventually to every human being. We are all grappling with the same humanity, aware and unaware consciousness. I wish you love and compassion 💖🙏
It is always the same story with these teaching about being already ok in the presence. I can understand that presence is always there no matter what arises and that from presence it is fine. However if there is an ego, there is a boundedness to this way of looking, and ego will always have a sense that something is not ok. You can not ok this away, or even say this is also ok, that it is not ok. Otherwise the ego would just go away. The point is the boundedness to a ego always will have this sense of not ok, and from there on there is the nessecity to investigate it and not ok it away this need of investigate it. This will only keep you stuck in a mental framework of being ok, believing it is ok, because this is what spirituality teaches. The urge is go free yourself from boundedness, start there, not from feeling already ok, that is an ok trap. Only an experience of being ok can help, not an idea of being ok or reminding yourself the whole time that in presence it is already ok, right?
At a certain point concepts make no sense whatsoever. The mind never existed as something real.. just behaved as if real. When relating ends there is only the indescribable moment of totality.
Just watched for only a few moments of Andrew Huseman recommended by Sarah Huemmert . Did he just come along recently? It seems he copied you from your earlier years. I saw you live many, many years in Boulder, CO. I was left cold as you spoke so unkindly to a woman who was struggling very much. Your dismissiveness of her was at the core, arrogant, hurtful and surprisingly unnecessary. Do you recall that? It hurt my heart to even be there. I know you have had your own struggles since then. I hope no one treated you that way. I like the newer Jeff and am unsure, now as catching a piece of this video, if you have jumped back into non-duality or whatever/whoever you thought you were years ago in Boulder. I so enjoyed your return to UA-cam months ago now, married and having a child. You seemed to have really made sound and loving changes. Is that still growing stronger in you?
The shitshow that I am is the ocean. There is a certain relief in acknowledging that. Thank you. This is the first time in my life I have ever actually allowed for that without completely hating myself.
What a beautiful man you are. Listening to you feels like coming home.
My mentor told me: "If we stop using the concept of beginnings and endings, then we all live together as the ocean instead of the individual drops ~ R. Neville Johnston, 24 years ago
Be in the mess, be aware of the mess. pray the mess. is the way out of the mess.
Yes! Love what arises in your consciousness.. mess or bliss and between.everything are allowed
Awesome Truth! Thank You, Jeff, for sharing this!
you are so beautiful, you are so true, you are so precious... thanks from the deep of my heart dear Jeff ❤
Once again!! Life saving!! Be like a child, I am the light,,! Your words are amazing!!!❤
Thank you Jeff you are amazing, much love!
How nice is it to have you back, Jeff ❤ Big hug and much love.
Pedro
I like this setting, please record more in here
We are the light 🕯️ Thanks from Brazil.
You're a good human being ❤
Thank you for sharing the light. There has been enough light all along - yes indeed🙏☺️
Thank you, always comforting to listen to what you are saying.
This reminds me of the saying, "What you resist persists." I am guilty of pushing aside, ignoring and wanting thoughts to be different than what they are. What I believe you're saying is, not until you welcome it all, will you live in peace. Thank you for the reminder! Well said sir!
You are really looking well and alive. Thank you Jeff. Always an honour to listen to you.
This was beautiful, thanks for sharing.
Thank you Jeff, it inspired me
Well, if this is an a synchronicity, then I don’t know what it is. My mind is completely shattered right now. Like an explosion just went off inside of my body in mind.
Your friends story is literally mine and I was just thinking listen, maybe yesterday I often sync this to daily. If I practice practice practice and I do everything right and I do the breathwork and I do this and that and I will have peace one day. However, I do do all of this and I don’t have peace and I don’t know why and I’ve been really wondering why what am I doing wrong. This is so wonderful to hear how you feel incredible just knowing and validating the thoughts that I had are very much normal and you’re right, we should embrace the human aspect of the light because that’s what we are to human and consciousness at the same time. Thank you so much for this.🎉
Wow. Beautiful. Thank you!!!
Jesus is the way, the truth and the Life.
lol what's your name again?? Lovely message
Thank you Jeff for this reminder, your sharing is so precious at this time!.💗..Merci infiniment !...Love🥰💗🙏
This made me wanna laugh and cry at the same time 😂❤ thank you!
Wow Jeff, that last statement!! There has been enough light, All Along!!! Powerful! Think about it!❤
Transmitted with such deep love and reverence for humanity all the mess and all the light and all ok. Stop chasing the waves you are the ocean 😅😭🤣 Received with great thanks 🙏🏻
It’s almost like he was treating meditation like a drug in that he wanted some form of escape from everything to be the answer. I deeply relate to that. And thank you for explaining in such a positively beautiful way that that is not where we will end up but that it’s ok and it’s beautiful, mess and all.
All people on the you tube said that you are saying they and you are right about it all. It's nice for you and them to help thanks 🇬🇧🙏👌
Thank you so much for sharing this, Jeff! What you talk about, is so familiar to me and I am very happy, to experience the difference meanwhile, which really touches, soothes and relaxes me, like nothing else, so far. Everything is welcome, that is how I can take myself, just as I am and more and more stepping out of the wheel of; imagination, goaling, doubting myself, judging etc... Just breathing... breathing is loving, to me.
I feel your message deeply. Beautiful ♥ thank you!
Beautiful message.❤❤❤
I wish you luck on your journey, and thank you for sharing, it has been very useful for me. All the best.
Love the waves they rise and fall
gratitude for being here, for the effort it took to make this video and all the lives it will help. we need each other. sometimes we can isolate but i noticed that if we take even the slightest leap of faith it really can move mountains.
Jim Carey brought me here 😊
we are loved 🌎 ☮️
This is life saving! Thank you Jeff!!!❤
thank you for sharing mind and soul opening insights
Love this!!! Thank you Jeff!
Thanks so much Jeff☀️
Thanks for this Jeff! Love and light!
clear and true and beautiful 🙂 thank you Jeff! 🥰
New subscriber today✔
Thank you so much Jeff. I love your work and very much appreciate you sharing it with us 🙏♥️
Thank you so much! 🙏 i feel less alone when i hear you ❤
Thanks Jeff! I really appreciate this message!❤ Timely AF!
Thank you for such an illuminitating talk. Full clarification 👌
That was just such a great spiel Jeff , loved it. Love to chat one day . Thanks ❤️ Bill from down under
They don't have to go away but you don't have to live forever with trauma response from this and past lifetimes. You can do the work to uncover underlying beliefs and drop them, and those responses to life are now gone. This type of work is generally ignored in spiritual teachings.
You’re right, meditation alone is not enough to heal trauma. Community and connections are needed, cultivation of love, physical movement…it takes so much
Thank you so much❤
In one workshop lady said, God Bless Jeff Foster...
Love the expression of the mind in your face😅❤
Great, great, great, thanks from heart,... for me the video expresses brilliantly the absolute simplicity and effortlessness of being "in" the present moment, or better still, of being just that: the present moment ....thanks so much ❤❤❤❤
So wonderful, thank you so much
Great video good sir ✌
Even the first few seconds, where you stumbled on introducing your name lol. Its very relatable
This is great, thanks, brother.
Thank you, I love how you say „bless our little hearts“ bless our innocence ❤ for me I realized I have been looking for presence as shiva more believing people that this is the way but now I feel so much better with shakti at the moment :) that is good experience for me. I love how Sadghuru says that we put all the good qualities in heaven but actually there is so much in us human when we connect to our shakti, our energy, our bodies… love how you say we can always begin again 🙏🏻💖🙏🏻
Chasing waves! Yes. I understand.
True presence does not judge anything. Judgement of any kind is Ego.
🙏🏼❤️
Chasing the waves is the way, because then in the end you can understand this failure, otherwise again it will just get into a mental idea of being the ocean already. Chase with fire, with all you have, that is the fire from longing you really need. From this fire you will investigate all believes and can see trough them by real understanding, because you feel the failing, and not because somebody tell you there is no seeking.
Same....thank you so much Jeff...exactly what I need xxx trying to be free of waves is very painful...
Life saving again Jeff ❤
"Let the waves of this universe rise and fall as they will. You have nothing to gain or to lose, you are the ocean." Ashtavakra
🎉🔥♥️🔥☀️💥🌟
Alleluya
One of my favorite Non-Duality teachers Nissagarta Maharaj said, " you don't resist or try to stop the mind, but just be disinterested in the mind thru witnessing the mind."
Just because you are not your mind doesn't mean your conditioned mind is not there. There's a difference between identifying with your mind and just witnessing the mind. Jesus himself is tempted by the mind, but He didn't identify with the temptations.🙏🙏🙏
So simple ❤
Amazing!
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
I am the Light and the Dark. The All and the No-thing ☯️
It's always NOW.
Past is gone.
Future is not here.
The Hebrewas. Name was the recognizing of their vibration. Name matters. But it can be changed. Nothing stays the same. Energy evolves.
❤
Sweet.
nicely done..
💝💝💝💝
♥️🙏
I think we may get that expectation partly because of people such as Jeff and others, that the big breakthrough, epiphany and clarity and peace is how they describe their 'awakening' after years of meditation and deep searching 😕 it's always puzzled me that they, then, dismiss the whole process that brought them to that moment as unnecessary...
The difficulty for the vast majority of Westerners is that they have never had the opportunity to engage in an authentic study of meditation and so they cling to notions of presence (being in the moment) as being the actual practice. Because of this then they make contradictory statement such as "there is only this moment" and "bring your attention back to where you are" in the same breath. And so the practice becomes circular and one can spend decades meditating but never really get anywhere.
But there's never really a where to get to in the first place 😉
@@manualslr Perfect example of how of how an inexperienced practitioner will take a trite statement that they haven't understood, use that as a meditative focus, spend years cultivating that thinking it is an authentic practice, only then to realise that have been wasting their time. Think about it, for example; do you ever go to the shop to buy milk or bread?
@@ultimatemeaningyou seem to be caught in the same mindset you’re critiquing of thinking in terms of right or wrong, good or bad, do or don’t do etc
@@ultimatemeaning
"Why do you think that you are active? Take the gross example of your arrival here. You left home in a cart, took train, alighted at the railway station here, got into a cart there and found yourself in this Ashraman. When asked, you say you travelled all the way here from your town. Is it true? Is it not a fact that you remained as you were and there were movements… all along the way? Just as those movements are confounded with your own, so also the other activities. They are not your own." Ramana
"Whoever says that the Tathagata goes or comes, sits or lies down, he does not understand the meaning of my teaching." Diamond Sutra
@@Mandance There is no benefit in deceiving yourself that you have realised a view beyond good and evil. It is a common mistake that brings only harm and no benefit. The view of equality is a realisation equivalent to recognition of the nature of mind and non-duality. But for you there is good and bad and the evidence of this is in your own reply that identifies a perceived negativity.
💝💝💝💝💝
Hi jeff everything is the limitless one dont forget ! The rain and the wind = the infinite you and me is the limitless one light and dark = the limitless one hell and heaven = the limitless one everything nothing dual non dual bla bla = all the limitless one ❤
Part of the human experience
hey Jeff, could you do a video on the resistance to healing (and why it happens )
'The present moment is all we can have...' 'We can experience sensations...sounds....
Who is it that experiences or has a body or a mind? This is the illusion of duality. There is no separation and therefore no duality. There only seems to be a separation. That is how we have been conditioned to think since early childhood. There is only what is. That includes the sum total of what appears to be happening. It includes the appearance of a separate self. We are what seems to be going on. We are what is. There is no separate subject outside of all there is which can know all there is as an object. What this is, is a mystery. It cannot be known. It is not a thing or no thing or NOTHING. Yet it includes everything. It is everything and nothing simultaneously. There is no separate self. There is only this. Life is what is. No one has it. You are it. Everything and nothing. The infinite. You cannot get it.
So, when you realise that you don't experience the peace and bliss once you get to presence, you could experience relief, like your friend. Now that't the new promised goal of meditation! ;)
Lol, yes the mind can turn anything into a goal. Even that. The goal isn’t to have no goal. That would be a goal. It’s to be aware of these goals. Just to see them. They are only thoughts in awareness…
… and yes, we could even make that into a goal :)))
Thanks a lot !
Even to end the live of a inhabit body is also just a allowed wave ?
Also, I’m looking for some ideas or videos or advice. I am at a part of my journey. That is really incredible. I’ll keep it short, but one block I’m going through right now is humanity and human beings, I struggle every single day every single minute to like others. I no longer have family and friends, but I actively choose that and that’s the way they treat me so I’ve cut them off. More of a respect thing for my journey. However, just in general with humans eyes actively stay clear because I just can’t stand people but I want to love them and not feel such hatred towards humanity and people in general how do I go about? This is some thing I really really really want is to love instead of heat, but I really struggle but I don’t know how to.😢
Try just feeling the hatred deeply as an energy in your body and in your awareness. Accept it and don’t judge it or yourself for feeling it. Stay with it. There’s a reason it’s there. Just let it be. Relax into it.
After a while say: May I be well, may I be safe, may I be loving, may I be comfortable and at peace etc.etc.etc.etc.
Then extend this wish to other people, to the family members and friends and eventually to every human being.
We are all grappling with the same humanity, aware and unaware consciousness.
I wish you love and compassion 💖🙏
silence is at the root of what you keep talking about😱
Non duality is nihilism
It is always the same story with these teaching about being already ok in the presence. I can understand that presence is always there no matter what arises and that from presence it is fine. However if there is an ego, there is a boundedness to this way of looking, and ego will always have a sense that something is not ok. You can not ok this away, or even say this is also ok, that it is not ok. Otherwise the ego would just go away. The point is the boundedness to a ego always will have this sense of not ok, and from there on there is the nessecity to investigate it and not ok it away this need of investigate it. This will only keep you stuck in a mental framework of being ok, believing it is ok, because this is what spirituality teaches. The urge is go free yourself from boundedness, start there, not from feeling already ok, that is an ok trap. Only an experience of being ok can help, not an idea of being ok or reminding yourself the whole time that in presence it is already ok, right?
Non -duality wont help you when you're in pain ,it wont help if you're saying that youre the witness of pain .Nothing changes .
At a certain point concepts make no sense whatsoever. The mind never existed as something real.. just behaved as if real. When relating ends there is only the indescribable moment of totality.
Doing all the right things is a thong i do it too
Thing*
I think Jim Carrey had something to do with you being in my feed.
In re: deep rest ❤
Just watched for only a few moments of Andrew Huseman recommended by Sarah Huemmert . Did he just come along recently? It seems he copied you from your earlier years. I saw you live many, many years in Boulder, CO. I was left cold as you spoke so unkindly to a woman who was struggling very much. Your dismissiveness of her was at the core, arrogant, hurtful and surprisingly unnecessary. Do you recall that? It hurt my heart to even be there. I know you have had your own struggles since then. I hope no one treated you that way. I like the newer Jeff and am unsure, now as catching a piece of this video, if you have jumped back into non-duality or whatever/whoever you thought you were years ago in Boulder. I so enjoyed your return to UA-cam months ago now, married and having a child. You seemed to have really made sound and loving changes. Is that still growing stronger in you?
Ach away with ya big softy
Maybe so...but the feelings are miserable sad awful
meditating is a koan.
mediation is.
nothing more.
(answering for a friend whos age i dont know..)
I believe We Are Meditation