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@channelname Existing to search for the meaning of your existence is, in itself, already a meaning to your existence. In another words, we exist to search for meaning for (our) existence, as if existence existed to understand itself. That is why the meaning of existence is the self-realization of existence itself.
The personality and programming is much the same but at 44, I see I have been many selves. The self is a ephemeral as life itself. We constantly change and from one year to the next our self can be as different as the seasons. My eternal search for inner reflection to find myself was what led me to push all human influences away for the necessary artistic freedom to go within and then articulate the mysteries and questions that live there,waiting to be painted and written.solitude is a blessing for the artist trying to self realise.
It's a constant struggle physically and mentally to keep reaching my solitude. So many distractions and necessities. Then the discipline and inspiration to carry out to completion whichever project I'm currently working on are an exercise. I'm lucky to have this opportunity. I'm 47 and spent most of my life giving up on myself, but kept on living. My lifestyle will catch up with me eventually. Until then I'm trying to fit as much creativity in as possible. Just venting. So much for solitude
Did pushing human influences work for you? I'm also trying to find myself, but I want to witness from someone who has went through that journey. Thanks friend
@@mrhakeem1154 yes for the mind can come up with fascinating things. Temporal isolation combined with socialisation seemed good for my mental health. Depending on mood it could take me to stagnant dark places too. Best to be around other artists sometimes but keep your space for your own journey. I also use cultural influences in my work and lighting. Recently did a nice feature ceiling with fabric lights, wind chimes and lengths of flowers and rambling tree structures. Fake butterflies on the ceiling and walls. lol my room I made my own Alice in wonderland fairy tale and halfed the large room into a secret space with voile curtains to open inside, swagger from the ceiling. . projector iights set mood lighting and fading stars. I can change the multiple waves onto one colour, multiple, mixed, ebay is great no sewing just a staple gun and various coloured voiles. Too much alone made me depressed but there were other things going on like no friends that were much into storytelling through pictures and art or writing. Some incense it was complete with a srtings of autumn leaves and material pictured walls. Sorry wrote with one hand distracted, hope this is decipherable. X pink, purple, blue voile reflects stars, ceiling and walls just made the piece come together. I use metaphor or deeper mystery meaning in my framed work, just to point to the meaning of this angel or lyrics by Leonard Cohen and others, I love framing them but into mysteries that are probably quite obviously connected. Gives it meaning behind the art. P. Sl the garden can be a great place too for finding or making natural fairy ladders upto a mini shelf on the ceiling wall. I papered the walls white glitter to give a magic feel but ideas grow on me so it either never finishes or is replaced. Wish I could post, it's on my fb and I've never been taught, isolation brings out my inner child and subconscious I think. A collaboration of my favourite lyrics into story form mostly unrelated or with words changed here or there..
Solitude is the key for many, i was locked up in solitary for 6 months as a young man, i had to learn to deal with my inner demons with no distractions or destroy myself, im older now and still i can enjoy my solitude and am still learning, its not a mystery to me why people live on top of mountains or deep in the forests by themselves.
I cannot get enough of your material. It's basically a summary of all the great works I have been drawn to over the years, and a nice introduction to the academic pathways I am yet to embark on. I am currently studying towards a degree in counseling, and your content is a comprehensive and stimulating component of my extra curricular activity. Thank you so much! My fascination for these subjects only grows stronger the more I learn!! Keep up the great work. God bless
this was good, because I realized how much of this is all just words and concepts, in other words, "almost real" things, so that "being your authentic self", is not so much a place to go to (and stay there), but a result of being open to what you experience here, and are aware of, and recognizes (the words "authentic self") more core aspects of your being (that you deeply associate with and feel, are really part of you) after a long life, what I find the process to be is quite a few conditions of being, - I am the conscious now, but that conscious now can be different, some times more immersed and caught up in some normal state, sometimes higher and whole, not influenced by conditions on the earth - one experiences these different states over and over again, gradually becoming more aware of the differences: then there is "being awake", where you are specifically aware of "being awake", and "being alive" where you experience "life" flowing through you - all of these different experiences help you to see and understand more clearly what we associate with being who we are, and then there is of course, "something beyond that", thank God :)
06:15 - 06:32: about self-esteem: "The neighbor's grass is always greener elsewhere": trust me, stop comparing your life to others, you will feel much better about yourself.
I believe many take a leap of faith every day in the fact that they face what they know is not what should be. The inner self must die only to be reborn again. Having faith in GOD or what one best understands GOD to be is the beginning of the inner self journey. Being focused on a positive path for growth encompasses most Western ideologies and some Eastern as well.
Being told how to think who I am on a "deeper" worded note... becareful. Its in the stars, and so are you. You are more than you've been led to believe.
Philosophy is true intelligence, it is about the inner journey not the outer one. Anyone that sees the true light of philosophy will go down a rabbit hole of pure chaos and loss of sense of self. This is why the majority of people choose to stay at the surface of life because only few will understand and even fewer will attain the knowledge needed to jump in the pool of being whole. Make the inner like the outer and the outer like the inner. And the only way to do so is through love acceptance and forgiveness. This creates space for that which is suppressed to come back out and be confronted.
Ditto to all the agreeable comments here. Accordingly, given the amount of self development I undertook since 1987, I can state confidently that I am nearing emancipation from my lifelong demons, nirvana and nearing the end of what Jung called the "process of individuation". THANK YOU for the leg up.
ive started at 18, it was so transcending when it happened. it was like i realized that the person i was pretending to be wasnt me, and there is an actual me. ive been practicing and learning abt carl jung, dr lepera, and others. ive asked ppl my age, friends family, and none of them have even thought abt these things. how long have u been going through ur journey to finding yourself? is it possible i might not ever meet myself?
@@mowths I am no qualified expert. I've no formal education, and neither did both my parents or their parents. They could barely speak English. Therefore, my English language came from primary school. I left school at 17 barely able to read or write. After a tumultuous Family Court litigation, at age 27 I discovered I could not compete against lawyers, magistrates and two psychological assessments. My vocabulary was extremely limited. Therefore I then decided to teach myself to read and write. It has been over 30 years since then. I have since read hundreds of books if not thousands. Poor spelling and illegible writing stopped me from writing. However, it too has improved. I began to find myself once I gained more words to describe profound ideas. Where once I struggled to comprehend alot I find I can now participate or be included in the ideas of others, and more especially in my own ideas. The journey has been long and arduous. I've learned that there is no denying the past or trying to hide it. There is a great deal of negativity there, it is part and parcel of me. My task now is to seek the positive in order to balance the ledger. It's not so much two steps forward three steps back. It evolved into two steps forward one step back. I feel I am on the verge of only moving forward one small step at a time. That sounds clinćhed, and while it has taken me 60 years to finally begin to return to my original desires, mentally I feel young again. And happy.
@@mowths im 19 soon to be 20. Started this journey about 4-6 months ago. It’s weird because, like you said, nobody our age even thinks about stuff like this. But it’s been a blessing. Self reflection Leads to healthy changes and more self esteem, if done right. And it’s been channels like this one, that have helped me along the way. Id love to hear about your journey.
a human being is not a spirit anymore. it is the mentality, the psyche. the psyche is us. what psyche have? goals, connections with others, immortality... you have to shape your life within these three
Evangelion did a beautiful job touching upon some of these fundamental aspects of psychology, through the frame of someone experiencing despair, while also giving it the artistic grandeur to express how impactful it really feels. Like a struggle of world destroying forces hinging on something as fragile a child.
@@dalaminaubis7822 Thank you for your comment, that's very perceptive! Also, as a Danish speaker I'm impressed with how this lecturer perfectly pronounces the name of Kierkegaard!
My self is the mother of my idols. I am the thing I compose as 1 composes a speech: My true self is the only part of me that wants to grow because life itself is will to power.
I don't think I agree with Søren Kierkegaard's leap of faith but his inquiry of the two despairs is fascinating. I believe it holds a lot of significance today in our society.
I forgot the quote and who it is by but this topic reminds me of that how people will become so comfortable and brainwashed in this world they will not realize that they are the living in slavery to the system and not even knowing it and they will never revolt because they have been brainwashed so well
10:58 According to Taoism, the self is an extension of the cosmos. The perfect man has no self. The ideal of Taoism is the lack of self. 13:42 Jung proposes shifting from the ego to the self by bringing one's unconscious contents into consciousness (wholeness of personality). 14:25 The best way to interact with the unconscious is through dreams. 16:22 The persona is the mask which conceals one's true self. 17:15 Life calls, not for perfection, but completeness. Without suffering, there is no progress.
I think that all these beliefs are saying the same essential thing. That if we let go of our lower, earthly, egotistical personality self, then we become the larger, cosmic, true Self. The Oneness of all creation.
@@WeAreAllOneNature He who knows de 1 becomes das 1. Oneness within oneself brings oneness with das whole universe. My self is de mother of my idols. My true self is de only part of me that wants to grow because life itself is will to power.
Becoming one with God is what all humans naturally want. We fall short of that and stray from the path when we serve our own will and pleasures (sin), rather than strive to do God’s will.
This is because that is since This is not because that is not. This and that: You are in me because I am in you since we are 1. This is das fundamental law of Buddhism because it gives rise to 4 noble truths: 1. Illness exists because of 2. Illinterbeing. 3. Wellness exists because of 4. Wellinterbeing.
I've been listening to each of your videos almost back to back because your voice is not only soothing but calm and slow, something I've noticed has helped me listen a lot better compared to faster talking ❤
@10:15 "Suffering comes from craving, desire and attachment ... " Suffering actually comes from evil ... To deny that evil exists in the world ... outside of ourselves ... is to suffer from detachment from reality ... which is to suffer from insanity...
"become who you are" it sounds so simple, doesn't it? great video - I've only recently discovered your channel and it has become one of my favorites to listen to when I have the time and inclination to pay full attention.
You can’t become who you are without obstacles, the fork in the road that builds personality traits, the more obstacles the more forks the more knowledge of self. So many people today want to be like everyone else, simple, uninteresting, unintelligent, non opinionated, basic and a victim a follower nothing more basic than religion. You can’t be religious and know yourself.
Wow, thank you for your profound understanding! your videos are so well put together. Your work is one of the best I’ve come across, it gets on many many levels of great intensity, so great!
I think it would be appropriate to include Kierkegaards concept of anxiety, and more than just those two types of despair. Staying in the moments of the synthesis, some very profound types of despair is the possible despair found in the relation to necessity and freedom.
Tojo 1 second ago That terrible beautiful thing Becoming who you are, it’s sublime but at the same time challenges you to assume it’s mantle, to assume the full weight of the responsibility for your existence. The prize is sl grand but you have to put yourself on the line, to be fearless knowing full well you may fall short The alternative is to live someone else life, someone else’s idea
Wonderful video. Very nice. Thank you. All the teachings blend, don’t they? We start empty at childhood. Our mental perceptions. Then we judge the experiences we live, and begin to create our own electro-chemically stored, sleeping self. It dictates our lives. The currents of the Tao we experience. They become the ignored rudders setting us on and off course. That mass of crap we don’t want to deal with? That’s the problem. Our stored experiences connect to the unified field we are all experiencing, and guides us to the people and places our subconscious takes us to. That’s the wood in the eye from Jesus. The blind third eye. Etc. It’s that mass of bad feelings inside. We have to see that. They are just experiences that we have given birth to by naming them. We un-name them. Forgive. Change the way you emotionally feel about XXX experiences and they no longer act out with that emotion. It doesn’t feel good to do, but alternatively it ruins your life if ignored. Not everyone needs to do it. Some have had wonderful lives. Many need to but never will. Best wishes. The paths are unique because it goes in each persons head. And only each of us can make our own trip. And ya, it’s just psychologically to the nth degree. Till you’re pure again. Empty. Like a child. Not feeling a victim anymore. Free from our mental bonds. Those inner conflicts make us feel bad. Resolving them just makes you heal.
The best way to find your real self is to become who you really is by fighting negative influence whether from within or beyond. Avoid being influenced by outside forces, only learn from them.
I really wanted to learn a part of psychology ( because of inspiration which I got from my idol ) , I was confused want to do next but when I open youtube later I found this channel and I my wish came true . I don't how was it possible, but still I guess the universe wants me to contribute something to this world and helping me in all ways .....
Hey, listen: out there somewhere, there is, in the very least, some individual who, specifically, needs you to necessarily exist as the most authentic version of yourself.
This is interesting but I dont think I'll actually be looking for this individual I'll just continue to flow with life and keep singing my own song if they happen to hear the music they are more than welcome to stay and also leave without any attachment or judgment
“One must let go of the craving by practicing asceticism ”. Excuse me?? This is utterly NOT a premise of any sect of Buddhism. Asceticism is an extreme. At the very heart of the legend of the Buddha - is the lesson of THE MIDDLE PATH. Neither a life of sense pleasures NOR A LIFE LACKING ALL SENSE PLEASURE - is the path. In the legend - the Tathagata left the ascetics!!! As such what you say is clearly inaccurate. Your channel is superb. Your summaries are superb. You just happened to have gotten this rather significant and basic premise of Buddhism - dead wrong!
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thank you, i will be listening this several times. i reached the top of ‘self-actualized’ pyramid a decade ago, but i am somewhere in the journey to maslows transcendence.. to self realisation, i can’t quite say where.. 😂😂.. without knowing it i formulated the leap of faith as per kirkegaard, but beginners mind keeps me humbly confused as to my progress in escaping maya.
Das beste master of today world is he combines multiple disciplines into 1 single coherent system. What is discipline ? At de end of de day, Discipline=1 set of skills that makes me want to wake up and get up to work for what I want. Above all, I want to be strong and healthy because health, youth+freedom=3 greatest blessings of life But because of fame and fortune Man tends to chase after the ends and forget about the root. Returning to das source is returning to tranquility because man longs to retreat within himself Since there is no happiness higher than rest. Break das flower -tipped arrows of Mara And death will never touch me again. Painful is birth. Painful is death. Painful is birth and death Over and over again. He who crosses over to the other shore becomes arhat; Other people run up and down on this shore From death to death.
I sit here and wonder as I am in complete shock after watching this video .... How many people realize one of the quotes from Carl Jung is ment quiet literally. It would be unnoticed by someone inexperienced.
the “who” that is trying to figure out who you are is who you are…stop searching and you will find he who was searching is what you were looking for all along.
When you lose a child - that will change you to know who and what matters - my family - church - neighbors never helped - only the government - my son was very sick - I could barely work
WOW, only 3 minutes in and I see exactly what I'm going through with my family. They think something is wrong with me because I know for an outright fact the Earth is flat, yet all the evidence I present gets ignored. 🤦 Talk about frustrating!
I've come to The Self Realization that life is just suffering and pain made by the authorities of and rulers of this evilly enslaved life we all live therefore I'll never bring children into this world because mostly Life is FAILURE at BEST of all of horrible experiences and events we all go through and most a lot of all people hate life at its best and or of its worst because the two are the same results ending in suffering and creates pain in the end unless you get Euthanized out i a painless way only NON-EXISTENCE = FREEDOM form pain and suffering etc, I mean No One Ever Asked To Be Here, and we all never ever gave consent to ever be here as well etc...That's My -->>>Self Realization of Life and I'm never the only one who feels that way many other do too.......Great Video on The Topic......
that's to do with your view of external factors, not you as a person anyway, you can believe this and you won't live a very joyful life. I see pain is essential to life - the yin and yang. can't have light without dark. life is life, everything just is. you can accept it for what it is or refute it.
Authenticity means living my own most potential for interbeing on spaceship earth. Congfu is a journey to balance and harmony. A man’s nature is in harmony with itself When he desires to be nothing But what he is. He is a god in ruin.
I tried to make a concise, shortest possible, summary of what your channel presents to a sibling, I presume my vivid feeling made it harder to show it as pure evidence for your channel provided education on UA-cam for a niche, unbiased ensemble of topics that should be (imo) printed and given to any curious evolving mind.
I began to be awakened 10 years ago and what you said was one of the biggest things I learned. I always thought buddhism, transcendence, altered states was religious mumbo jumbo. Faith-based, other-worldly. But, I've come to see that it's basically what psychologists talk about. It's transcending one's self (not reality, or the astral plane, or whatever "religion" conjures in the mind). Less self-talking. More self-being. It's strange to me because I would have never reached this level of self-awareness, individuation of the "self talking in the moment" from the "self in the moment (without explanation)" if I'd tried to come at it through the traditional avenues. I would have focused on which teaching is better, whose translation is more accurate. It would have turned into another obsessively narrated sense of self ("I'm one of those people because I know this, that, the other.... I use the right words."). And, even through psychoanalysis I wouldn't have gotten here either because I wouldn't have trusted anyone to tell me what's going on in my mind. ("They have an agenda or bias for me to believe what they want me to believe." I was/am very counter-dependent that way.). I got where I am through mindfulness (on the present moment. First video in my playlist.). Like Joseph Goldstein says, "if you want to understand your mind, just sit down and observe it." It's really that simple. If a person individuates their "self in the moment" from their default-mode "self narrating/explaining/confabulating in the moment" they can't avoid awakening, self-realization. It all starts there. A person can't expose themself to that individuation of self without awakening in a substantial way (from which there's no going back. You can't un-learn or un-experience it.). It takes time/practice to experience that reality, be familiar with it. The un-present self is a lifelong habit. It takes practice of observing it to develop individuation and be awakened (more and more). It's not an immediate epiphany (it can be at times, but still takes patient observation and development of that familiarity with one's self). There's no religion involved. No need to have faith in anything. You just observe what is It's like breaking out of a lifelong mild (or not-so-mild) delusion. That has a lot of tie-in to psychology. Mental illness is often living in the past/future, dis-integration with the present, delusional grasp of reality. I came to realize "all roads lead to rome." There is no perfect way for everyone. The "middle way" is the target (excess is just another confabulated self).
I wanted to add to what I said a month ago: check out Iain McGilcrhist's videos. He describes a left/right brain dichotomy that fits into the "seeking the same 'thing'." What he says strikes me as the same thing as Mooji (buddhism),Tolle (new age), Joseph Goldstein (buddhism & secular), Sam & Dan Harris (not related, secular, neurological). McGilchrist brings a psychiactric and neurological perspective that makes A LOT of sense to me.
I never Wright comments, I think this is the first. I don't dream at night. I day dream. Everything written in the works I am experiencing and feel deeply. The only obscurity and my only bemusement is my dream state. My dreams are brought into my continuous involuntary, every day. What is the meaning of that?
I always envyed people that naturally gifted in spirituality. Sadly I could only reach this by taking acid which opened my eyes. Theres so much to learn about world and yourself.
It is also revealing who we are to Karma, and getting sent to the "place just right" in the afterlife. If you aren't happy with what your free will choices lead you to in your next incarnation, don't blame God or Karma - you did it to yourself
Find an idea and die for it - transcendent Must become what you can be - self realisation Become conscious of the unconscious - carl jung Become conscious of the non self - buddhism Become conscious you are that - advaita Create your own value and meaning and suffer profoundly and life enhancingly as a superior man accepting everything in all its detail genuinely perfectly - nietzsche
Shift ego to the self, unconscious content (symbolic archetype, timeless inherited pattern), unconscious and conscious have come in peace and live together, in dream they do, so imitate dream and repress nothing, dreams follow pattern... study them... archetype are also present in dream, human history and mythology... self control, don't be dependent on power beyond our control, hidden unfavourable aspect of our personality which we despise and attribute to others and deny... yet we accept positive... the less it is embodied the darker it is... persona masks conscious and authentic self... accept shadow... you might be more likeable likeable other but at the cost of others... don't contradict yourself integrate your shadow... shadow work... self awareness... radically honest and investigate dreams... studying ones reaction... individuation
I wonder why the concept of self from eastern spirituality is generally defined or popularized as illusory. I have been studying Vaishnavism and the understanding of self realization (self is spirit, part and parcel of God, simultaneously one and different with the Divine) there is very close to western philosophy, according to this video, to what Abraham Maslow and Carl Jung had presented.
its because when there is "I" there must be a "you" and since the cosmos is a unity all the concepts,beliefs and identification (which is thought) can not possibly be true and thus the "I" is an illusion because its a product of thought. if you can't think there is no identification so the ego can never be formed.
So what's the point of learning anything and knowing ourselves when we die and be born again in next life we have to learn again, suffer again by others, and who knows what circumstances will be
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Magnificent video.
Indeed, a man cannot survive without a ray of hope to become unto god
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@channelname Existing to search for the meaning of your existence is, in itself, already a meaning to your existence. In another words, we exist to search for meaning for (our) existence, as if existence existed to understand itself. That is why the meaning of existence is the self-realization of existence itself.
The personality and programming is much the same but at 44, I see I have been many selves. The self is a ephemeral as life itself. We constantly change and from one year to the next our self can be as different as the seasons. My eternal search for inner reflection to find myself was what led me to push all human influences away for the necessary artistic freedom to go within and then articulate the mysteries and questions that live there,waiting to be painted and written.solitude is a blessing for the artist trying to self realise.
I concure also for my self realized journey
strength through solitude :)
It's a constant struggle physically and mentally to keep reaching my solitude. So many distractions and necessities. Then the discipline and inspiration to carry out to completion whichever project I'm currently working on are an exercise. I'm lucky to have this opportunity. I'm 47 and spent most of my life giving up on myself, but kept on living. My lifestyle will catch up with me eventually. Until then I'm trying to fit as much creativity in as possible. Just venting. So much for solitude
Did pushing human influences work for you? I'm also trying to find myself, but I want to witness from someone who has went through that journey. Thanks friend
@@mrhakeem1154 yes for the mind can come up with fascinating things. Temporal isolation combined with socialisation seemed good for my mental health. Depending on mood it could take me to stagnant dark places too. Best to be around other artists sometimes but keep your space for your own journey. I also use cultural influences in my work and lighting. Recently did a nice feature ceiling with fabric lights, wind chimes and lengths of flowers and rambling tree structures. Fake butterflies on the ceiling and walls. lol my room I made my own Alice in wonderland fairy tale and halfed the large room into a secret space with voile curtains to open inside, swagger from the ceiling. . projector iights set mood lighting and fading stars. I can change the multiple waves onto one colour, multiple, mixed, ebay is great no sewing just a staple gun and various coloured voiles. Too much alone made me depressed but there were other things going on like no friends that were much into storytelling through pictures and art or writing. Some incense it was complete with a srtings of autumn leaves and material pictured walls. Sorry wrote with one hand distracted, hope this is decipherable. X pink, purple, blue voile reflects stars, ceiling and walls just made the piece come together. I use metaphor or deeper mystery meaning in my framed work, just to point to the meaning of this angel or lyrics by Leonard Cohen and others, I love framing them but into mysteries that are probably quite obviously connected. Gives it meaning behind the art. P. Sl the garden can be a great place too for finding or making natural fairy ladders upto a mini shelf on the ceiling wall. I papered the walls white glitter to give a magic feel but ideas grow on me so it either never finishes or is replaced. Wish I could post, it's on my fb and I've never been taught, isolation brings out my inner child and subconscious I think. A collaboration of my favourite lyrics into story form mostly unrelated or with words changed here or there..
Solitude is the key for many, i was locked up in solitary for 6 months as a young man, i had to learn to deal with my inner demons with no distractions or destroy myself, im older now and still i can enjoy my solitude and am still learning, its not a mystery to me why people live on top of mountains or deep in the forests by themselves.
It can be a fine line my friend. I'm glad you found something positive though.
They tried to break you but you came out stronger. Lol
I cannot get enough of your material. It's basically a summary of all the great works I have been drawn to over the years, and a nice introduction to the academic pathways I am yet to embark on. I am currently studying towards a degree in counseling, and your content is a comprehensive and stimulating component of my extra curricular activity. Thank you so much! My fascination for these subjects only grows stronger the more I learn!! Keep up the great work. God bless
What a profound video, congratulations! You make a difference in people's lives with your videos. Keep up with the great work!
People want to make a difference in this hellish world.
this was good, because I realized how much of this is all just words and concepts, in other words, "almost real" things, so that "being your authentic self", is not so much a place to go to (and stay there), but a result of being open to what you experience here, and are aware of, and recognizes (the words "authentic self") more core aspects of your being (that you deeply associate with and feel, are really part of you)
after a long life, what I find the process to be is quite a few conditions of being, - I am the conscious now, but that conscious now can be different, some times more immersed and caught up in some normal state, sometimes higher and whole, not influenced by conditions on the earth - one experiences these different states over and over again, gradually becoming more aware of the differences: then there is "being awake", where you are specifically aware of "being awake", and "being alive" where you experience "life" flowing through you - all of these different experiences help you to see and understand more clearly what we associate with being who we are, and then there is of course, "something beyond that", thank God :)
06:15 - 06:32: about self-esteem:
"The neighbor's grass is always greener elsewhere": trust me, stop comparing your life to others, you will feel much better about yourself.
I believe many take a leap of faith every day in the fact that they face what they know is not what should be. The inner self must die only to be reborn again. Having faith in GOD or what one best understands GOD to be is the beginning of the inner self journey. Being focused on a positive path for growth encompasses most Western ideologies and some Eastern as well.
Being told how to think who I am on a "deeper" worded note... becareful.
Its in the stars, and so are you. You are more than you've been led to believe.
I do believe philosophy is undervalued. Thank you for these informative and inspirational videos.
UNDERSTATEMENT!
Sadly, it has become undervalued. But you can't blame the new miners for not recognizing gold. Let them rediscover it.
Philosophies are even less valued, people simply prefer to take the simple answers given by religions and spirituality.
The despair of society is why philosophy is undervalued.
Philosophy is true intelligence, it is about the inner journey not the outer one. Anyone that sees the true light of philosophy will go down a rabbit hole of pure chaos and loss of sense of self. This is why the majority of people choose to stay at the surface of life because only few will understand and even fewer will attain the knowledge needed to jump in the pool of being whole. Make the inner like the outer and the outer like the inner. And the only way to do so is through love acceptance and forgiveness. This creates space for that which is suppressed to come back out and be confronted.
Ditto to all the agreeable comments here. Accordingly, given the amount of self development I undertook since 1987, I can state confidently that I am nearing emancipation from my lifelong demons, nirvana and nearing the end of what Jung called the "process of individuation". THANK YOU for the leg up.
Same here. Started going through my rebirth at 33, 35 and I'm so near the better parts
ive started at 18, it was so transcending when it happened. it was like i realized that the person i was pretending to be wasnt me, and there is an actual me. ive been practicing and learning abt carl jung, dr lepera, and others. ive asked ppl my age, friends family, and none of them have even thought abt these things. how long have u been going through ur journey to finding yourself? is it possible i might not ever meet myself?
@@mowths I am no qualified expert. I've no formal education, and neither did both my parents or their parents. They could barely speak English. Therefore, my English language came from primary school. I left school at 17 barely able to read or write. After a tumultuous Family Court litigation, at age 27 I discovered I could not compete against lawyers, magistrates and two psychological assessments. My vocabulary was extremely limited. Therefore I then decided to teach myself to read and write. It has been over 30 years since then. I have since read hundreds of books if not thousands. Poor spelling and illegible writing stopped me from writing. However, it too has improved. I began to find myself once I gained more words to describe profound ideas. Where once I struggled to comprehend alot I find I can now participate or be included in the ideas of others, and more especially in my own ideas. The journey has been long and arduous. I've learned that there is no denying the past or trying to hide it. There is a great deal of negativity there, it is part and parcel of me. My task now is to seek the positive in order to balance the ledger. It's not so much two steps forward three steps back. It evolved into two steps forward one step back. I feel I am on the verge of only moving forward one small step at a time. That sounds clinćhed, and while it has taken me 60 years to finally begin to return to my original desires, mentally I feel young again. And happy.
@@mowths im 19 soon to be 20. Started this journey about 4-6 months ago. It’s weird because, like you said, nobody our age even thinks about stuff like this.
But it’s been a blessing. Self reflection Leads to healthy changes and more self esteem, if done right.
And it’s been channels like this one, that have helped me along the way.
Id love to hear about your journey.
@@musselchee9560 that was beautiful, well said. perfectly articulated. ty for sharing ur story w me. it did in fact help me
Jung’s theory of the shadow self is always fascinating.
Very well summarized. The density of these 17 min is unbelievable.
Thank you for this.
This video should be shared around the world so we can all be better than we are now.
a human being is not a spirit anymore. it is the mentality, the psyche. the psyche is us. what psyche have? goals, connections with others, immortality... you have to shape your life within these three
“He cannot release himself from the trivial obligations that give him no value.”
Wow
This is truly some Evangelion-level shit. I really, really like it. Thank You.
Evangelion did a beautiful job touching upon some of these fundamental aspects of psychology, through the frame of someone experiencing despair, while also giving it the artistic grandeur to express how impactful it really feels. Like a struggle of world destroying forces hinging on something as fragile a child.
@@dalaminaubis7822 Thank you for your comment, that's very perceptive! Also, as a Danish speaker I'm impressed with how this lecturer perfectly pronounces the name of Kierkegaard!
My self is the mother of my idols.
I am the thing I compose
as 1 composes a speech:
My true self is the only part of me that wants to grow because life itself is will to power.
I don't think I agree with Søren Kierkegaard's leap of faith but his inquiry of the two despairs is fascinating. I believe it holds a lot of significance today in our society.
I forgot the quote and who it is by but this topic reminds me of that how people will become so comfortable and brainwashed in this world they will not realize that they are the living in slavery to the system and not even knowing it and they will never revolt because they have been brainwashed so well
We go by our experience in life and how we were raised
The interpretation of these body of works is incredible!
10:58 According to Taoism, the self is an extension of the cosmos. The perfect man has no self. The ideal of Taoism is the lack of self.
13:42 Jung proposes shifting from the ego to the self by bringing one's unconscious contents into consciousness (wholeness of personality).
14:25 The best way to interact with the unconscious is through dreams.
16:22 The persona is the mask which conceals one's true self.
17:15 Life calls, not for perfection, but completeness. Without suffering, there is no progress.
I think that all these beliefs are saying the same essential thing. That if we let go of our lower, earthly, egotistical personality self, then we become the larger, cosmic, true Self. The Oneness of all creation.
@@WeAreAllOneNature
He who knows de 1 becomes das 1.
Oneness within oneself brings oneness with das whole universe.
My self is de mother of my idols.
My true self is de only part of me that wants to grow because life itself is will to power.
@@satnamo Yes. Microcosm / macrocosm.
As above, so below.
Becoming one with God is what all humans naturally want. We fall short of that and stray from the path when we serve our own will and pleasures (sin), rather than strive to do God’s will.
@@officialthomasjameshow do you know that exactly?
Advaita Vedānta; the highest of all truths, more Eastern philosophy on this great channel please!
This is because that is since
This is not because that is not.
This and that:
You are in me because I am in you since we are 1.
This is das fundamental law of Buddhism because it gives rise to 4 noble truths:
1. Illness exists because of
2. Illinterbeing.
3. Wellness exists because of
4. Wellinterbeing.
Thank you. My healer, teacher, source of direction!
I've been listening to each of your videos almost back to back because your voice is not only soothing but calm and slow, something I've noticed has helped me listen a lot better compared to faster talking ❤
@10:15 "Suffering comes from craving, desire and attachment ... " Suffering actually comes from evil ... To deny that evil exists in the world ... outside of ourselves ... is to suffer from detachment from reality ... which is to suffer from insanity...
"become who you are"
it sounds so simple, doesn't it?
great video - I've only recently discovered your channel and it has become one of my favorites to listen to when I have the time and inclination to pay full attention.
that's sounds funny. you can't become who you are because you already are. you can only understand who you are.
You can’t become who you are without obstacles, the fork in the road that builds personality traits, the more obstacles the more forks the more knowledge of self. So many people today want to be like everyone else, simple, uninteresting, unintelligent, non opinionated, basic and a victim a follower nothing more basic than religion. You can’t be religious and know yourself.
The philosophical equivalent of knocking the ball , way out of the ball park And in just under 18 minutes too .
Wow, thank you for your profound understanding! your videos are so well put together. Your work is one of the best I’ve come across, it gets on many many levels of great intensity, so great!
He who loves himself becomes great in himself.
He who loves others becomes great through his devotion.
He who loves god becomes greater than all.
@@satnamoif im not mistaken, that quote is from kierkegaard
Thank you for all the guidance eternalized .
I think it would be appropriate to include Kierkegaards concept of anxiety, and more than just those two types of despair. Staying in the moments of the synthesis, some very profound types of despair is the possible despair found in the relation to necessity and freedom.
So happy to just be life it self
Tojo
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That terrible beautiful thing
Becoming who you are, it’s sublime but at the same time challenges you to assume it’s mantle, to assume the full weight of the responsibility for your existence. The prize is sl grand but you have to put yourself on the line, to be fearless knowing full well you may fall short
The alternative is to live someone else life, someone else’s idea
This channel is a treasure, a God Send.
This channel deserves way more views. Keep up the great videos.🙏
Hermoso vídeo! Gracias, por educarme!❤
Wonderful video. Very nice. Thank you. All the teachings blend, don’t they?
We start empty at childhood. Our mental perceptions.
Then we judge the experiences we live, and begin to create our own electro-chemically stored, sleeping self. It dictates our lives. The currents of the Tao we experience. They become the ignored rudders setting us on and off course.
That mass of crap we don’t want to deal with? That’s the problem.
Our stored experiences connect to the unified field we are all experiencing, and guides us to the people and places our subconscious takes us to. That’s the wood in the eye from Jesus. The blind third eye. Etc. It’s that mass of bad feelings inside. We have to see that. They are just experiences that we have given birth to by naming them.
We un-name them. Forgive. Change the way you emotionally feel about XXX experiences and they no longer act out with that emotion.
It doesn’t feel good to do, but alternatively it ruins your life if ignored. Not everyone needs to do it. Some have had wonderful lives. Many need to but never will.
Best wishes. The paths are unique because it goes in each persons head. And only each of us can make our own trip.
And ya, it’s just psychologically to the nth degree. Till you’re pure again. Empty. Like a child. Not feeling a victim anymore. Free from our mental bonds. Those inner conflicts make us feel bad. Resolving them just makes you heal.
This channel is amazing.
Your voice is so refreshing. I can click on one of your videos without worrying about some annoying UA-camr being obnoxious and loud for an intro.
Best philosophy channel on UA-cam
Comparison is das thief of joy
The best way to find your real self is to become who you really is by fighting negative influence whether from within or beyond. Avoid being influenced by outside forces, only learn from them.
Wow, you covered some ground in that video. Well done, love it.
This channel is really incredible
This has been very en!lightning video. Especially the references to Kierkegaard and Jung. I am learning a lot. Thank you.
I really wanted to learn a part of psychology ( because of inspiration which I got from my idol ) , I was confused want to do next but when I open youtube later I found this channel and I my wish came true . I don't how was it possible, but still I guess the universe wants me to contribute something to this world and helping me in all ways .....
Hey Army, I am also here right now to find myself,know myself, love myself. The guidelines from BTS was a turning point for me. I am blessed ☺️
Another amazing video, Søren was way ahead of his time..
Love love love - all you need is LOVE...
Hey, listen: out there somewhere, there is, in the very least, some individual who, specifically, needs you to necessarily exist as the most authentic version of yourself.
😚🙌
This is interesting but I dont think I'll actually be looking for this individual I'll just continue to flow with life and keep singing my own song if they happen to hear the music they are more than welcome to stay and also leave without any attachment or judgment
@@WWeRockFan1001
Whatever works to keep you alive.
by letting go of trying to find out “who you are” is how who your are finds you
I suffer with Infinitude’s despair unfortunately.
“One must let go of the craving by practicing asceticism ”. Excuse me??
This is utterly NOT a premise of any sect of Buddhism. Asceticism is an extreme. At the very heart of the legend of the Buddha - is the lesson of THE MIDDLE PATH. Neither a life of sense pleasures NOR A LIFE LACKING ALL SENSE PLEASURE - is the path. In the legend - the Tathagata left the ascetics!!!
As such what you say is clearly inaccurate.
Your channel is superb. Your summaries are superb. You just happened to have gotten this rather significant and basic premise of Buddhism - dead wrong!
Really well explained. Thanks
Thank you
You add too much to my life by this channel
Powerful!!! Thank you. Definitely food for thought 💞
Great timing. Thank you. I have been thinking alot about resurrection and re-birth
You have a beautiful channel. I thank you for all the knowledge you have given me about a whole host of topics. 🙏
I am halfway through, this is beautiful work, man! keep it up!
Everything dances 💃 🕺 and then it connects. Great work connecting some of the big hitters. Covid virtual ‘High fives or 🤜 🤛!’ all around, great work and very efficient and effective as I wear my student 🧥once again…🎯💡👌
thank you, i will be listening this several times. i reached the top of ‘self-actualized’ pyramid a decade ago, but i am somewhere in the journey to maslows transcendence.. to self realisation, i can’t quite say where.. 😂😂.. without knowing it i formulated the leap of faith as per kirkegaard, but beginners mind keeps me humbly confused as to my progress in escaping maya.
Wow Awesome message...
Love nd Light!!!
Das beste master of today world is
he combines multiple disciplines into 1 single coherent system.
What is discipline ?
At de end of de day,
Discipline=1 set of skills that makes me want to wake up and get up to work for what I want.
Above all,
I want to be strong and healthy because health, youth+freedom=3 greatest blessings of life
But because of fame and fortune
Man tends to chase after the ends and forget about the root.
Returning to das source is returning to tranquility because man longs to retreat within himself
Since there is no happiness higher than rest.
Break das flower -tipped arrows of Mara
And death will never touch me again.
Painful is birth.
Painful is death.
Painful is birth and death
Over and over again.
He who crosses over to the other shore becomes arhat;
Other people run up and down on this shore
From death to death.
Deathvis not painful: death is release from pain and constriction, death is release into infinity, union with Source
Work of art "Indian Canoe" by Albert Bierstadt.
I sit here and wonder as I am in complete shock after watching this video .... How many people realize one of the quotes from Carl Jung is ment quiet literally. It would be unnoticed by someone inexperienced.
Very good video man, I really enjoyed it. Very well explained and insightful!
Another fantastic video. So well put together. Great work, man!
"There's no first step to enlightenment." You already are.
imo its self confidence that reveals the self
the “who” that is trying to figure out who you are is who you are…stop searching and you will find he who was searching is what you were looking for all along.
When you lose a child - that will change you to know who and what matters - my family - church - neighbors never helped - only the government - my son was very sick - I could barely work
Excellent summary.
Well presented🙏
Very good.Enjoyable and
Understandable 😊🙏
Thanks. An informative video, as always. Keep it up
WOW, only 3 minutes in and I see exactly what I'm going through with my family. They think something is wrong with me because I know for an outright fact the Earth is flat, yet all the evidence I present gets ignored. 🤦 Talk about frustrating!
ur delulu
Thank you, this was amazing 🙏🏻💕
I've come to The Self Realization that life is just suffering and pain made by the authorities of and rulers of this evilly enslaved life we all live therefore I'll never bring children into this world because mostly Life is FAILURE at BEST of all of horrible experiences and events we all go through and most a lot of all people hate life at its best and or of its worst because the two are the same results ending in suffering and creates pain in the end unless you get Euthanized out i a painless way only NON-EXISTENCE = FREEDOM form pain and suffering etc, I mean No One Ever Asked To Be Here, and we all never ever gave consent to ever be here as well etc...That's My -->>>Self Realization of Life and I'm never the only one who feels that way many other do too.......Great Video on The Topic......
that's to do with your view of external factors, not you as a person
anyway, you can believe this and you won't live a very joyful life. I see pain is essential to life - the yin and yang. can't have light without dark. life is life, everything just is. you can accept it for what it is or refute it.
I have enjoyed this video. Thank you. What part does my need for a spiritual parent play in actualizing myself?
Authenticity means living my own most potential for interbeing on spaceship earth.
Congfu is a journey to balance and harmony.
A man’s nature is in harmony with itself
When he desires to be nothing
But what he is.
He is a god in ruin.
I love your videos eternalaized!!
Thank you so much for this video.
Buddha didn't say the self is non-existent but mind is.
I think the meaning of life question should evolve as you age...
I Am ... Thank You Hallelujah Amen
I tried to make a concise, shortest possible, summary of what your channel presents to a sibling, I presume my vivid feeling made it harder to show it as pure evidence for your channel provided education on UA-cam for a niche, unbiased ensemble of topics that should be (imo) printed and given to any curious evolving mind.
I have multiple sclerosis these videos are very helpful
Great stuff!
Different traditions, psychologists and philosophers were seeking the same 'thing', but using different languages, methods or techniques.
I began to be awakened 10 years ago and what you said was one of the biggest things I learned. I always thought buddhism, transcendence, altered states was religious mumbo jumbo. Faith-based, other-worldly. But, I've come to see that it's basically what psychologists talk about. It's transcending one's self (not reality, or the astral plane, or whatever "religion" conjures in the mind). Less self-talking. More self-being.
It's strange to me because I would have never reached this level of self-awareness, individuation of the "self talking in the moment" from the "self in the moment (without explanation)" if I'd tried to come at it through the traditional avenues. I would have focused on which teaching is better, whose translation is more accurate. It would have turned into another obsessively narrated sense of self ("I'm one of those people because I know this, that, the other.... I use the right words."). And, even through psychoanalysis I wouldn't have gotten here either because I wouldn't have trusted anyone to tell me what's going on in my mind. ("They have an agenda or bias for me to believe what they want me to believe." I was/am very counter-dependent that way.).
I got where I am through mindfulness (on the present moment. First video in my playlist.). Like Joseph Goldstein says, "if you want to understand your mind, just sit down and observe it." It's really that simple. If a person individuates their "self in the moment" from their default-mode "self narrating/explaining/confabulating in the moment" they can't avoid awakening, self-realization. It all starts there. A person can't expose themself to that individuation of self without awakening in a substantial way (from which there's no going back. You can't un-learn or un-experience it.). It takes time/practice to experience that reality, be familiar with it. The un-present self is a lifelong habit. It takes practice of observing it to develop individuation and be awakened (more and more). It's not an immediate epiphany (it can be at times, but still takes patient observation and development of that familiarity with one's self). There's no religion involved. No need to have faith in anything. You just observe what is It's like breaking out of a lifelong mild (or not-so-mild) delusion. That has a lot of tie-in to psychology. Mental illness is often living in the past/future, dis-integration with the present, delusional grasp of reality.
I came to realize "all roads lead to rome." There is no perfect way for everyone. The "middle way" is the target (excess is just another confabulated self).
I wanted to add to what I said a month ago: check out Iain McGilcrhist's videos. He describes a left/right brain dichotomy that fits into the "seeking the same 'thing'." What he says strikes me as the same thing as Mooji (buddhism),Tolle (new age), Joseph Goldstein (buddhism & secular), Sam & Dan Harris (not related, secular, neurological). McGilchrist brings a psychiactric and neurological perspective that makes A LOT of sense to me.
I never Wright comments, I think this is the first. I don't dream at night. I day dream. Everything written in the works I am experiencing and feel deeply. The only obscurity and my only bemusement is my dream state. My dreams are brought into my continuous involuntary, every day. What is the meaning of that?
Believe you are a spirit, and you will be one
Infinity
2022
The year of change, the Butterfly
You have some fire content for thinkers. Think you :)
Wisdom is finding a centered self without becoming self-centered.
It’s like a psych uni lecture, but it’s good
It all boils down to the Tao...Yin & Yang! Be like water my friend!
To anyone who watched this in its entirety .. you were destined to be great.. stop dwelling in the shadows and show the world what YOU were made of.
I always envyed people that naturally gifted in spirituality. Sadly I could only reach this by taking acid which opened my eyes. Theres so much to learn about world and yourself.
It is also revealing who we are to Karma, and getting sent to the "place just right" in the afterlife. If you aren't happy with what your free will choices lead you to in your next incarnation, don't blame God or Karma - you did it to yourself
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Unconscious realm... true journey of life...
Find an idea and die for it - transcendent
Must become what you can be - self realisation
Become conscious of the unconscious - carl jung
Become conscious of the non self - buddhism
Become conscious you are that - advaita
Create your own value and meaning and suffer profoundly and life enhancingly as a superior man accepting everything in all its detail genuinely perfectly - nietzsche
Shift ego to the self, unconscious content (symbolic archetype, timeless inherited pattern), unconscious and conscious have come in peace and live together, in dream they do, so imitate dream and repress nothing, dreams follow pattern... study them... archetype are also present in dream, human history and mythology... self control, don't be dependent on power beyond our control, hidden unfavourable aspect of our personality which we despise and attribute to others and deny... yet we accept positive... the less it is embodied the darker it is... persona masks conscious and authentic self... accept shadow... you might be more likeable likeable other but at the cost of others... don't contradict yourself integrate your shadow... shadow work... self awareness... radically honest and investigate dreams... studying ones reaction... individuation
I wonder why the concept of self from eastern spirituality is generally defined or popularized as illusory. I have been studying Vaishnavism and the understanding of self realization (self is spirit, part and parcel of God, simultaneously one and different with the Divine) there is very close to western philosophy, according to this video, to what Abraham Maslow and Carl Jung had presented.
its because when there is "I" there must be a "you" and since the cosmos is a unity all the concepts,beliefs and identification (which is thought) can not possibly be true and thus the "I" is an illusion because its a product of thought. if you can't think there is no identification so the ego can never be formed.
So what's the point of learning anything and knowing ourselves when we die and be born again in next life we have to learn again, suffer again by others, and who knows what circumstances will be