Well even the "awakening experiences" are overrated! Anything that is dependent on time, is not going to be there to help when needed most. Finding peace in that which comes naturally, from your own identity, that is what matters.
Have been a lover of honey for years... as Nisargadatta used to say cultivate a mind of honey.. then it won't be susceptible to every jolt on the road like an old churn of water would be... there is a lovely poem I found at a good friend's house donkey's years ago now.. it is called 'Slow me down Lord'... I modified it to reflect the non dual teaching and committed it to memory. Committing things to memory takes an ownership of them so that over time they become one's own... decorating the inside of the head is important... interior 'de corp' ...there being no monopoly on wisdom. Nisargadatta used the terms 'affectionate detachment' and 'dispassionate aloofness' ... such poetic expressions... the words in themselves conjure up a unburdening of baggage a complete letting go... thank you once again for giving us such a new and enlightening insight into our shared essence... i.e. the love which we all are as Nisargadatta says... not one to go searching for ... just to be it... such a beautiful overwhelmingly feeling... every blessing to you for the gifts you grace us with.
One of Nisargadatta's pointers that I returned to many a times simply said, "Affectionate Awareness is the key." Whatever hole the mind has dug itself into, just that backing off from the obsessive thinking to being aware, detached yet affectionate, brings an immediate calm. Slows the me-ing right down!
I've been studying spirituality for 50 years. Yet some of the language you come up with just seems wonderful to me, even though I've been exposed to the ideas for many years. It's a shame so few people seem to be here to hear/read it. (I always read the transcript) For example, "Plant your feet in this timeless moment called Now.and refuse to move" and "Who is it who wants to impose its will upon Reality? Who has these compulsions and aversions?" I will be astonished if your channel doesn't grow. Keep going!
Thank you Suzanne. You have been here almost since the beginning of the channel and it's always nice to hear from you. Let's see how far this goes! Do you have any feedback on the narration? Volume, pace, pronunciation, and inflection, etc. UA-cam is a whimsical place with the amount of content and the big channels. What I see is that some of the biggest channels on spirituality are run by people who've made spirituality a career. And the second big category is completely AI generated content! These are the channels where everything from the voice, to the text, the thumbnails and titles is being churned out using AI. It is absurd and funny and tragic at the same time! So the aim here is just to be as authentic as possible. These videos are not scripted. I just have some key points and structure in mind and speak to it. The kind of lines you quoted just come out spontaneously when the words come from the Heart. And I like to use my own voice because I hope the tone and inflection can pass on the conviction and emotion behind it to the listener.
First of all, thank you so very much for concretely showing the way out. I need exactly your message. As to the voice, I love it and I hope you keep it authentic as you are. We don't need more robots! ❤🙏
@untangle-your-mind it is indeed your true voice that strums the heart, and It hears and knows Its true voice. It recognizes its Beloved and hears love calling through all the forms, and technology of space and time. Beloved continue to ring the eternal bell with your arms of love and call me home into heart again.
As a longtime student of Truth/Reality/Advaita, I have only recently found your channel, and what a blessing this is! Please do not change your voice…it is the perfect vehicle for your messages of wisdom. Your soothing intonation and gentle pace convey the deep love you are sharing and draw the restless mind back to its source. Beautiful. Profound. Clear. A true treasure! A million thank you’s. 🙏🌟❤️♾
A first though came while listening to this... where were you 40 years ago when I so needed to hear this ? Then the answer followed softly... Here.... Right Here 💙🙏 Bless you precious friend.
Rarely does anyone get here by the front door. Some crash through the windows, other fall down the chimney! I hope all is well now. Afterall, it is always good to be home.
I'm listening to the unravelling playlist, I've just found you - or maybe you found me? You're voice is beautiful - I love it, your accent, your words, the message. Thank you ❤ and thank you for sharing yourself with us, with me.
Lots of awakening /.peak experiences after getting sober 10 years ago and using 12 steps first. Burning bush experience at 6 months sober that removed decades of fear, shame, hatred, guilt and shame, and many sense. Not sure if I’m just sticking to the story being advertised by the mind or not. That story being constantly reidentificatiion as the contents of the mind and all the attendant suffering happening to no but of course but that no one feels like someone. I’ll never get the torture, harm and outright murder of people and animals. eating other living beings after horrendous and cruelty. Absolutely incomprehensible, to me anyway. I’ve met the killer in me in relation to the psychopath who raped and beat my mother to near death and harmed my whole family. Pedophiles, serial killers, war mongers, killers of other living beings, perfect strangers thousands of miles away for money, pride in imaginary symbols like flags, political agendas, money of course, genocides for profit, which include women and children. No one in 10 years, 100 or 5,000 can clear that up. Where was the love when I was being sexually abused, where people are tortured, harmed and hurt. God is love? This is love? I don’t understand 😔 This god is insane and should be killed but it’s all just emptiness dancing and nothing ever actually happened but as a painful narration in the mind. This god is very sick if it thinks child rape, adult rape, lies, cheating, stealing, murder, genocide of countries, nations and people is “ok” because it’s “just emptiness dancing.” Unconscionable harms done all living beings and for what, Love? Really? That’s an odd love. How about the hell realms worse than here? Eternal torture, suffering and torment for eternity because god is “love?” I don’t understand. I cannot reconcile this insanity. Can you. Do you have a story line, a narrative that will quiet this? I’ve asked a few time here to you and many other “teachers” whatever that is. No one can answer. The past is gone, never happened now as anything but memories, but the memories are knives 🔪 repeatedly stabbing, cutting and stabbing some more these unanswerable questions. I guess god is a rapist, murderer, pedophile, killer and tortures people sometimes? That’s insane if there is only “love” and “god is love.” Help me understand at the horrors, because I don’t. 2-8th grade was catholic school and they abused us with programming fear, guilt and Shame for even being born. We are “guilty, disgusting, shamefilled abominations. “God is so disgusted by us he cannot even look at us kids.” I was quite awake as a kid until then. Then I was put back to sleep by the church indoctrinations and have stayed there for 4 decades. Hell, being repeatedly ripped apart and sewn back together for another round of torture and torment for the rest of time. It’s terrifying to me as an adult and as a child it ruined my mind, moods and emotions. Still plagued by it all. absolutely child abuse on every level. No one ever answers but it helps me to get it out. Forgive me, “lower than a snake in nature and should be killed because I’m unworthy of love and kindness from the god that hates us and thinks we are gross and disgusting. Hell fire awaits upon death of the body. There’s no escape but hell is here now but the feelings that come with the thoughts. Someone please, say something helpful. 🥺 I don’t deserve this. I’m kind, loving, deeply caring and understanding, why should I go to another hell worse than this. Makes no sense at all but my head and mind say “oh yes, eternal torture awaits you. You’re so disgusting and unworthy of gods love or anyone else’s.” How sad, pathetic and dis’s disappointing the running programming of this innocent little boys mind, carrying over into adult hood 46 years later. 💔😔😭
I struggled with the problem of misery for several decades. First, from a religious perspective, then from an atheistic one, and finally from the nondual standpoint. One of the first videos I posted was on this mental journey: ua-cam.com/video/LOE3mloxYwc/v-deo.html This is the way to arrive at an answer for yourself: Set aside all ideas of God and hell that were forced upon you, and only consider your first hand view. What you're describing is itself hell. Any other hell is just hearsay and imaginary. All these lives are being lived out in Samsara. But for brief moments, especially in those awakening experiences, you knew Nirvana. The same Samsara was seen as Nirvana. What was the difference? Was it not simply that you lost the sense of being an individual / forgot your ideas of 'self' and 'others'? You were still conscious and present, just unaware of being present as a separate observer or any particular thing. Once you've seen how Samsara and Nirvana are split by such a fine line, the inquiry on suffering should be entirely on that line. Is it that there are individual living things that experience suffering? Or is it that the activities of all these organisms are being suffered as experience? This is the crucial distinction that leads to an insight called the 'End of Suffering'. You should see for yourself that there are no separate selves, no individual sentient entities, no conscious things. There is Sentience/ Awareness and within that ground reality all experience appears, pleasant or unpleasant. Since there are no conscious agents plotting to do evil and inflicting pain, who is to blame and what should be punished? It is the brutality of 'natural selection' that has shaped these organisms. They are just flawed biological machines. And yet, experiencing each life, residing in each heart is the Beloved, the Awareness that is I. The sense 'I Am', known throughout the life of each organism is pointing out this Awareness as the true I. When that belief in being a meek individual fell and all was well, what was left of you? That is truly You -- the Awareness. The Supreme Reality. The Supreme Reality does not do anything, nor reject anything; its presence just makes everything possible.
@@untangle-your-mind Thank you. I don’t know why I didn’t get notified if your response until now. Thank you. In rereading my original comment, I was clearly in quite a mood at that moment. Those moods come and go. Thankfully they go. There is in those times tremendous grief, sadness and fear. Obviously right? Yikes. I feel for this “me” plagued by such things. In fact it’s good for me to say that because I suddenly feel a deep sense of compassion for myself. I have always been able to be exceptionally loving and kind towards others but not towards myself. I tried to be atheist too. Didn’t work. NonDuality has driven me to the gates of insanity in and off for years too. Idk. I sure appreciate your videos and supportive thoughts and comments. ❤ Thank you
Thanks for another superb teaching that is so simple and effective . Just slow down , stop caring and feel the Love.😃😃
Perfect one line summary of the message here 😂🙏.
I've never had a awakening experience, but this message was just what I needed to hear this week. Thank you 🙏
Well even the "awakening experiences" are overrated! Anything that is dependent on time, is not going to be there to help when needed most. Finding peace in that which comes naturally, from your own identity, that is what matters.
❤️🙏❤️
Have been a lover of honey for years... as Nisargadatta used to say cultivate a mind of honey.. then it won't be susceptible to every jolt on the road like an old churn of water would be... there is a lovely poem I found at a good friend's house donkey's years ago now.. it is called 'Slow me down Lord'... I modified it to reflect the non dual teaching and committed it to memory. Committing things to memory takes an ownership of them so that over time they become one's own... decorating the inside of the head is important... interior 'de corp' ...there being no monopoly on wisdom. Nisargadatta used the terms 'affectionate detachment' and 'dispassionate aloofness' ... such poetic expressions... the words in themselves conjure up a unburdening of baggage a complete letting go... thank you once again for giving us such a new and enlightening insight into our shared essence... i.e. the love which we all are as Nisargadatta says... not one to go searching for ... just to be it... such a beautiful overwhelmingly feeling... every blessing to you for the gifts you grace us with.
One of Nisargadatta's pointers that I returned to many a times simply said, "Affectionate Awareness is the key." Whatever hole the mind has dug itself into, just that backing off from the obsessive thinking to being aware, detached yet affectionate, brings an immediate calm. Slows the me-ing right down!
True Awakening ❤
Thank you for listening ❤️.
I've been studying spirituality for 50 years. Yet some of the language you come up with just seems wonderful to me, even though I've been exposed to the ideas for many years. It's a shame so few people seem to be here to hear/read it. (I always read the transcript) For example, "Plant your feet in this timeless moment called Now.and refuse to move" and "Who is it who wants to impose its will upon Reality? Who has these compulsions and aversions?" I will be astonished if your channel doesn't grow. Keep going!
Thank you Suzanne. You have been here almost since the beginning of the channel and it's always nice to hear from you. Let's see how far this goes!
Do you have any feedback on the narration? Volume, pace, pronunciation, and inflection, etc.
UA-cam is a whimsical place with the amount of content and the big channels. What I see is that some of the biggest channels on spirituality are run by people who've made spirituality a career. And the second big category is completely AI generated content! These are the channels where everything from the voice, to the text, the thumbnails and titles is being churned out using AI. It is absurd and funny and tragic at the same time!
So the aim here is just to be as authentic as possible. These videos are not scripted. I just have some key points and structure in mind and speak to it. The kind of lines you quoted just come out spontaneously when the words come from the Heart. And I like to use my own voice because I hope the tone and inflection can pass on the conviction and emotion behind it to the listener.
First of all, thank you so very much for concretely showing the way out. I need exactly your message.
As to the voice, I love it and I hope you keep it authentic as you are. We don't need more robots! ❤🙏
Thank you! I am glad to be of service. ❤️🙏
@untangle-your-mind it is indeed your true voice that strums the heart, and It hears and knows Its true voice. It recognizes its Beloved and hears love calling through all the forms, and technology of space and time. Beloved continue to ring the eternal bell with your arms of love and call me home into heart again.
As a longtime student of Truth/Reality/Advaita, I have only recently found your channel, and what a blessing this is! Please do not change your voice…it is the perfect vehicle for your messages of wisdom. Your soothing intonation and gentle pace convey the deep love you are sharing and draw the restless mind back to its source. Beautiful. Profound. Clear. A true treasure! A million thank you’s. 🙏🌟❤️♾
A first though came while listening to this... where were you 40 years ago when I so needed to hear this ? Then the answer followed softly... Here.... Right Here 💙🙏 Bless you precious friend.
❤🙏👏♥️🙏👏♥️🙏👏♥️
My awakening destroyed me. 20 years later and I’m still seeing it’s nuances unfolding in my life. Thanks for the reflections.
Rarely does anyone get here by the front door. Some crash through the windows, other fall down the chimney! I hope all is well now. Afterall, it is always good to be home.
You must have had a bad kundalini awakening. Normal awakening is beautiful.
I’m still sweeping up the glass shards.. but they are exquisite in themselves. I know I keep repeating this but my gratitude knows no bounds🙏❤️
I'm listening to the unravelling playlist, I've just found you - or maybe you found me? You're voice is beautiful - I love it, your accent, your words, the message.
Thank you ❤ and thank you for sharing yourself with us, with me.
I really appreciate the work you put into the videos, the music, the pictures, videos. You're amazing ❤
Thank you, and well met. Somehow, this message finds many voices to carry it to the earnest mind 🙏❤️.
A wonderful video. Great voice. Magic.
Beautiful. The coin spins. Integrating both sides is seeing no separation. Living in two worlds yet not two.
Thank you! Time to call off the search and enjoy life!
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Profound and insightful. Calm and full of wisdom. Thank you for the content.
Thanks
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Lots of awakening /.peak experiences after getting sober 10 years ago and using 12 steps first. Burning bush experience at 6 months sober that removed decades of fear, shame, hatred, guilt and shame, and many sense.
Not sure if I’m just sticking to the story being advertised by the mind or not. That story being constantly reidentificatiion as the contents of the mind and all the attendant suffering happening to no but of course but that no one feels like someone.
I’ll never get the torture, harm and outright murder of people and animals. eating other living beings after horrendous and cruelty. Absolutely incomprehensible, to me anyway. I’ve met the killer in me in relation to the psychopath who raped and beat my mother to near death and harmed my whole family.
Pedophiles, serial killers, war mongers, killers of other living beings, perfect strangers thousands of miles away for money, pride in imaginary symbols like flags, political agendas, money of course, genocides for profit, which include women and children. No one in 10 years, 100 or 5,000 can clear that up.
Where was the love when I was being sexually abused, where people are tortured, harmed and hurt. God is love? This is love?
I don’t understand 😔
This god is insane and should be killed but it’s all just emptiness dancing and nothing ever actually happened but as a painful narration in the mind.
This god is very sick if it thinks child rape, adult rape, lies, cheating, stealing, murder, genocide of countries, nations and people is “ok” because it’s “just emptiness dancing.”
Unconscionable harms done all living beings and for what, Love? Really?
That’s an odd love. How about the hell realms worse than here? Eternal torture, suffering and torment for eternity because god is “love?”
I don’t understand. I cannot reconcile this insanity.
Can you. Do you have a story line, a narrative that will quiet this?
I’ve asked a few time here to you and many other “teachers” whatever that is. No one can answer. The past is gone, never happened now as anything but memories, but the memories are knives 🔪 repeatedly stabbing, cutting and stabbing some more these unanswerable questions.
I guess god is a rapist, murderer, pedophile, killer and tortures people sometimes?
That’s insane if there is only “love” and “god is love.”
Help me understand at the horrors, because I don’t.
2-8th grade was catholic school and they abused us with programming fear, guilt and Shame for even being born.
We are “guilty, disgusting, shamefilled abominations. “God is so disgusted by us he cannot even look at us kids.”
I was quite awake as a kid until then. Then I was put back to sleep by the church indoctrinations and have stayed there for 4 decades.
Hell, being repeatedly ripped apart and sewn back together for another round of torture and torment for the rest of time.
It’s terrifying to me as an adult and as a child it ruined my mind, moods and emotions. Still plagued by it all. absolutely child abuse on every level.
No one ever answers but it helps me to get it out.
Forgive me, “lower than a snake in nature and should be killed because I’m unworthy of love and kindness from the god that hates us and thinks we are gross and disgusting.
Hell fire awaits upon death of the body. There’s no escape but hell is here now but the feelings that come with the thoughts.
Someone please, say something helpful. 🥺
I don’t deserve this. I’m kind, loving, deeply caring and understanding, why should I go to another hell worse than this.
Makes no sense at all but my head and mind say “oh yes, eternal torture awaits you. You’re so disgusting and unworthy of gods love or anyone else’s.”
How sad, pathetic and dis’s disappointing the running programming of this innocent little boys mind, carrying over into adult hood 46 years later. 💔😔😭
I struggled with the problem of misery for several decades. First, from a religious perspective, then from an atheistic one, and finally from the nondual standpoint. One of the first videos I posted was on this mental journey: ua-cam.com/video/LOE3mloxYwc/v-deo.html
This is the way to arrive at an answer for yourself:
Set aside all ideas of God and hell that were forced upon you, and only consider your first hand view. What you're describing is itself hell. Any other hell is just hearsay and imaginary. All these lives are being lived out in Samsara.
But for brief moments, especially in those awakening experiences, you knew Nirvana. The same Samsara was seen as Nirvana. What was the difference?
Was it not simply that you lost the sense of being an individual / forgot your ideas of 'self' and 'others'? You were still conscious and present, just unaware of being present as a separate observer or any particular thing.
Once you've seen how Samsara and Nirvana are split by such a fine line, the inquiry on suffering should be entirely on that line.
Is it that there are individual living things that experience suffering? Or is it that the activities of all these organisms are being suffered as experience? This is the crucial distinction that leads to an insight called the 'End of Suffering'.
You should see for yourself that there are no separate selves, no individual sentient entities, no conscious things. There is Sentience/ Awareness and within that ground reality all experience appears, pleasant or unpleasant.
Since there are no conscious agents plotting to do evil and inflicting pain, who is to blame and what should be punished? It is the brutality of 'natural selection' that has shaped these organisms. They are just flawed biological machines. And yet, experiencing each life, residing in each heart is the Beloved, the Awareness that is I. The sense 'I Am', known throughout the life of each organism is pointing out this Awareness as the true I.
When that belief in being a meek individual fell and all was well, what was left of you? That is truly You -- the Awareness. The Supreme Reality. The Supreme Reality does not do anything, nor reject anything; its presence just makes everything possible.
@@untangle-your-mind
Thank you. I don’t know why I didn’t get notified if your response until now.
Thank you.
In rereading my original comment, I was clearly in quite a mood at that moment.
Those moods come and go. Thankfully they go.
There is in those times tremendous grief, sadness and fear. Obviously right? Yikes. I feel for this “me” plagued by such things.
In fact it’s good for me to say that because I suddenly feel a deep sense of compassion for myself.
I have always been able to be exceptionally loving and kind towards others but not towards myself.
I tried to be atheist too. Didn’t work.
NonDuality has driven me to the gates of insanity in and off for years too.
Idk. I sure appreciate your videos and supportive thoughts and comments.
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Thank you
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Sentient jelly beans
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