HOW TO AWAKEN PURE AWARENESS!

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КОМЕНТАРІ • 61

  • @desertportal353
    @desertportal353 4 роки тому +4

    Sincere thanks Burt. You have just described the very purpose, the reality and method of art. True art is pure awareness aware of itself. Painting, drama, poetry photography - whatever the media - it is awareness manifesting itself as itself through itself.

  • @TenzinLundrup
    @TenzinLundrup 4 роки тому +4

    "Infinite spirit goes before me and opens the way. Infinite wisdom tells me what to do and what to say."

  • @MrChrizyzel
    @MrChrizyzel 6 років тому +5

    Thank you so much for this knowledge. You deserve more subscribers.

  • @immarisabel3452
    @immarisabel3452 3 роки тому +2

    this is the most clear explanation I've found so far! thank you!

  • @chicanegra9423
    @chicanegra9423 3 роки тому +1

    Love you!Thank you💜 i am on my path to awake..This was so helpfull and i sow it in right time.

  • @hermansohier7643
    @hermansohier7643 4 роки тому +2

    It will always be with you is not totaly correct,because there's no one else than awareness .

  • @robertbindler2481
    @robertbindler2481 6 років тому +1

    Burt this one is your best video many thanks so cristal clear thanks to you with Love ❤️ Robert

  • @TheWorldTeacher
    @TheWorldTeacher 4 роки тому +10

    🐟 15. THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN SPIRITUAL AWAKENING, LIBERATION, AND ENLIGHTENMENT:
    AWAKENING:
    Any person who has experienced a state of cosmic awareness can rightly be called a "buddha" (a Sanskrit/Pali term for "an awakened being"). During such temporal experiences (that is, they begin at some point in time and then end at a subsequent point in time, even if at the time of death), there is usually a dissolution of the subject-object dichotomy, or at least a radical shift in perception of life.
    Awakening means to see clearly that one’s persona is but a character in a dream of The Absolute, and that one is essentially that Flawless Awareness. Therefore, it is not to be taken literally - that the person wakes from the "Cosmic Dream" in the same way that a human wakes from a night dream. It simply implies that the person realizes that he/she is one of the multitude of dream characters and that individual free-will was purely an illusion.
    This is a relatively common phenomenon. In fact, there are most probably MILLIONS of persons currently on earth who have experienced some kind of awakening, where they directly perceive themselves to be more than a mere body-mind complex. The experience can be either totally spontaneous, or it can follow many decades of intense spiritual practice. However, there is no direct causal link between religious practices and an awakening experience, despite what most religionists believe.
    It is common for newly-awakened persons to confuse and conflate relative and absolute truth. That is to say, when a neophyte buddha is speaking of relative concepts, they invariably use absolute terms.
    For instance, they may make such statements as: "You don't exist"; "Nothing ever happened"; "There is no right or wrong"; "I am not my body"; "We are One"; and "I am you and you are me". Hopefully, such persons will come to see that there is no need to speak about everything from the Absolute perspective. Verily, it is unbeneficial to the persons with whom they are conversing (unless, of course, those third persons are thoroughly deluded materialists, who are unable to see beyond the physical realm).
    Unfortunately (for spiritual-seekers) there are a multitude of awakened or partially-awakened persons who mistakenly believe that they are somehow enlightened masters, and proceed to embark on a teaching career. The fact is, many (if not most) of these bogus "gurus" are actually afflicted with a narcissistic mentality, and ought to be exposed for the fraudsters that they are.
    Awakening to one’s true nature does not automatically promote one to being a saint, since one’s unique characteristics, flaws and obsessions may endure.
    LIBERATION:
    "Liberation" means "freedom". Thus, a liberated soul is a person who has become emancipated from the five kinds of suffering (blame, shame, pride, regrets/expectations, and anxiety).
    Not all liberated persons are automatically enlightened (at least not to the degree necessary in order to be labeled as such), but there is a strong correlation between the two states of being.
    Awakening experiences are not a prerequisite to being liberated from suffering.
    A liberated person is scarce, because very few understand the true nature of suffering, and of those who do understand the distinction between psycho-physical pain and ACTUAL psychological suffering, it is difficult to surrender to one's circumstances, free of obsessive thinking and judging.
    ENLIGHTENMENT:
    Of those who have experienced a state of "oneness" and are free from mental suffering, there are EXTREMELY rare souls who are spiritually-enlightened (at least to such an extent to be worthy of the term). If the term were to be taken literally, a person may be enveloped in light (or "see the light") to varying degrees, just as the ocean is more illumined by direct sunlight than it is by moonlight.
    Every person who has ever lived can be ranked according to their level of enlightenment. Even if one understands that there is more to existence than gross matter and individual consciousness, one could claim to be more enlightened than a gross materialist.
    If one were to approach a rocket scientist, one would expect him to fully understand his field of expertise. He would understand advanced physics, chemistry and know precisely how to design and launch spacecraft into outer-space.
    Similarly, an enlightened sage is one who understands life. He knows how this phenomenal world came to be, how the law of action and reaction actually works, how to become liberated from temporal sufferings, and should be able to logically answer any question posed to him by a spiritual seeker (what to speak of highly-intelligent members of the scientific and philosophical communities).
    An enlightened person has shunned all belief systems and relies solely on objective, verifiable concepts, knowing that even the most accurate concepts are relative, and that the ultimate truth is Absolute.
    A fully-enlightened person is almost invariably a member of the Holy Priesthood (a prophet, to be more precise), and necessarily possesses a genius or near-genius level of intelligence.
    Needless to say, an enlightened person adheres to a strict code of morals and ethics such as avoidance of pornography, illicit sexual activity, gambling, intoxicants, and animal products.
    To be fair, there are many examples of persons who seem to be very awakened and/or enlightened, yet engage in base pursuits such as those mentioned above, due to their genetic make-up and conditioning. However, this paragraph is devoted to highly-evolved beings who literally radiate holiness - those who even the vilest souls can recognize to be elevated far above ordinary, animalistic humanity.
    Those seemingly-enlightened individuals, who actively support objectively-evil ideologies, such as socialism, communism, democracy, feminism, and carnism, are of no practical benefit to society (quite the opposite, in fact).
    Out of a billion persons, there may be one or two enlightened masters. These self-realized world-teachers are almost totally shunned by society, for, as Lord Jesus once proclaimed: "I am the enemy of the world because I am telling the world that it is evil".
    “You have to let it happen, just like you have to let yourself go to sleep - you can’t try to go to sleep. You have to let yourself digest your food - you can’t try to digest it.
    And so, in the same way, you have to let yourself wake-up (become liberated).”
    "A flow of water suddenly does a whirlpool and then it goes on. The whirlpool is a definite form but no water stays put in it.
    The whirlpool is something the stream is doing, and in exactly the same way, the universe is doing each one of us."
    Professor Alan W. Watts,
    British-American Philosopher.

    • @spiritual_zen7554
      @spiritual_zen7554 3 роки тому +1

      Rip wAtts

    • @TheWorldTeacher
      @TheWorldTeacher 3 роки тому

      @@spiritual_zen7554
      kindly repeat that in ENGLISH, Miss.☝️

    • @kathyashby6019
      @kathyashby6019 2 роки тому

      @@TheWorldTeacher
      RIP (means - Rest in Peace)
      Alan Watts

    • @TheWorldTeacher
      @TheWorldTeacher 2 роки тому

      @@kathyashby6019, Good Girl! 👌
      Incidentally, Slave, are you VEGAN? 🌱

  • @ZenfulHaze
    @ZenfulHaze 4 роки тому +2

    Again, Thank you.
    What a being, I bow to you fully thanking.

    • @TheWorldTeacher
      @TheWorldTeacher 4 роки тому

      DemonsMayCry
      😇 Add 👉🏻 Swāmī Mahāprabhu 👈🏻 to your Facebook friends list if you are a spiritual seeker.
      Swamiji is able to answer ANY of your questions, as he is God’s Personal Representative on Earth. 😇

  • @hamzapopal2868
    @hamzapopal2868 6 років тому

    Thank you so much for helping me with my thoughts😊😊😊😊😊😊

  • @mereunetulburat8022
    @mereunetulburat8022 6 років тому

    Thank you Burt!

  • @eldnah-n8o
    @eldnah-n8o 2 роки тому +1

    Maya, the illusion of matter. Everything we call real is not real. Multiplicity is only apparent, in truth, there is only one mind.

  • @desertportal353
    @desertportal353 5 років тому +3

    Beautiful, thank you Bert - @ 10:34. And as Leonard Cohen knows it still.....
    "I'll try to say a little more
    Love went on and on
    Until it reached an open door
    Then love itself
    Love itself was gone." ~Leonard Cohen

  • @bpotter9769
    @bpotter9769 Рік тому

    Very nice 👍 well explained
    Thank you 😊 🙏

  • @Ymiraku
    @Ymiraku 6 років тому +10

    Burt you are getting better at making what you are saying clearer and with little room for doubt or confusion.

  • @nwoslothbite3077
    @nwoslothbite3077 4 роки тому +1

    Thanks Burt

  • @bs5167
    @bs5167 2 роки тому

    Thank you 🙏🏼

  • @terrylionheart4662
    @terrylionheart4662 5 років тому

    Thank you 💜🙏

  • @lawreence-5234
    @lawreence-5234 2 роки тому

    Thank you so very much... 🕉️

  • @cancelcasey
    @cancelcasey 4 роки тому

    Much love

  • @highvibefreqzshow5967
    @highvibefreqzshow5967 5 років тому +5

    I am not a human being, but in this present moment I am being human.

    • @mildreddavis1684
      @mildreddavis1684 4 роки тому

      Yes/say
      A be-ing enveloped in a hue mani [Sanskrit words and meanings] vessel/body suit of flesh....an etheric forces mani fest at ions/channels as a human being.

    • @TheWorldTeacher
      @TheWorldTeacher 4 роки тому +1

      🐟 15. THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN SPIRITUAL AWAKENING, LIBERATION, AND ENLIGHTENMENT:
      AWAKENING:
      Any person who has experienced a state of cosmic awareness can rightly be called a "buddha" (a Sanskrit/Pali term for "an awakened being"). During such temporal experiences (that is, they begin at some point in time and then end at a subsequent point in time, even if at the time of death), there is usually a dissolution of the subject-object dichotomy, or at least a radical shift in perception of life.
      Awakening means to see clearly that one’s persona is but a character in a dream of The Absolute, and that one is essentially that Flawless Awareness. Therefore, it is not to be taken literally - that the person wakes from the "Cosmic Dream" in the same way that a human wakes from a night dream. It simply implies that the person realizes that he/she is one of the multitude of dream characters and that individual free-will was purely an illusion.
      This is a relatively common phenomenon. In fact, there are most probably MILLIONS of persons currently on earth who have experienced some kind of awakening, where they directly perceive themselves to be more than a mere body-mind complex. The experience can be either totally spontaneous, or it can follow many decades of intense spiritual practice. However, there is no direct causal link between religious practices and an awakening experience, despite what most religionists believe.
      It is common for newly-awakened persons to confuse and conflate relative and absolute truth. That is to say, when a neophyte buddha is speaking of relative concepts, they invariably use absolute terms.
      For instance, they may make such statements as: "You don't exist"; "Nothing ever happened"; "There is no right or wrong"; "I am not my body"; "We are One"; and "I am you and you are me". Hopefully, such persons will come to see that there is no need to speak about everything from the Absolute perspective. Verily, it is unbeneficial to the persons with whom they are conversing (unless, of course, those third persons are thoroughly deluded materialists, who are unable to see beyond the physical realm).
      Unfortunately (for spiritual-seekers) there are a multitude of awakened or partially-awakened persons who mistakenly believe that they are somehow enlightened masters, and proceed to embark on a teaching career. The fact is, many (if not most) of these bogus "gurus" are actually afflicted with a narcissistic mentality, and ought to be exposed for the fraudsters that they are.
      Awakening to one’s true nature does not automatically promote one to being a saint, since one’s unique characteristics, flaws and obsessions may endure.
      LIBERATION:
      "Liberation" means "freedom". Thus, a liberated soul is a person who has become emancipated from the five kinds of suffering (blame, shame, pride, regrets/expectations, and anxiety).
      Not all liberated persons are automatically enlightened (at least not to the degree necessary in order to be labeled as such), but there is a strong correlation between the two states of being.
      Awakening experiences are not a prerequisite to being liberated from suffering.
      A liberated person is scarce, because very few understand the true nature of suffering, and of those who do understand the distinction between psycho-physical pain and ACTUAL psychological suffering, it is difficult to surrender to one's circumstances, free of obsessive thinking and judging.
      ENLIGHTENMENT:
      Of those who have experienced a state of "oneness" and are free from mental suffering, there are EXTREMELY rare souls who are spiritually-enlightened (at least to such an extent to be worthy of the term). If the term were to be taken literally, a person may be enveloped in light (or "see the light") to varying degrees, just as the ocean is more illumined by direct sunlight than it is by moonlight.
      Every person who has ever lived can be ranked according to their level of enlightenment. Even if one understands that there is more to existence than gross matter and individual consciousness, one could claim to be more enlightened than a gross materialist.
      If one were to approach a rocket scientist, one would expect him to fully understand his field of expertise. He would understand advanced physics, chemistry and know precisely how to design and launch spacecraft into outer-space.
      Similarly, an enlightened sage is one who understands life. He knows how this phenomenal world came to be, how the law of action and reaction actually works, how to become liberated from temporal sufferings, and should be able to logically answer any question posed to him by a spiritual seeker (what to speak of highly-intelligent members of the scientific and philosophical communities).
      An enlightened person has shunned all belief systems and relies solely on objective, verifiable concepts, knowing that even the most accurate concepts are relative, and that the ultimate truth is Absolute.
      A fully-enlightened person is almost invariably a member of the Holy Priesthood (a prophet, to be more precise), and necessarily possesses a genius or near-genius level of intelligence.
      Needless to say, an enlightened person adheres to a strict code of morals and ethics such as avoidance of pornography, illicit sexual activity, gambling, intoxicants, and animal products.
      To be fair, there are many examples of persons who seem to be very awakened and/or enlightened, yet engage in base pursuits such as those mentioned above, due to their genetic make-up and conditioning. However, this paragraph is devoted to highly-evolved beings who literally radiate holiness - those who even the vilest souls can recognize to be elevated far above ordinary, animalistic humanity.
      Those seemingly-enlightened individuals, who actively support objectively-evil ideologies, such as socialism, communism, democracy, feminism, and carnism, are of no practical benefit to society (quite the opposite, in fact).
      Out of a billion persons, there may be one or two enlightened masters. These self-realized world-teachers are almost totally shunned by society, for, as Lord Jesus once proclaimed: "I am the enemy of the world because I am telling the world that it is evil".
      “You have to let it happen, just like you have to let yourself go to sleep - you can’t try to go to sleep. You have to let yourself digest your food - you can’t try to digest it.
      And so, in the same way, you have to let yourself wake-up (become liberated).”
      "A flow of water suddenly does a whirlpool and then it goes on. The whirlpool is a definite form but no water stays put in it.
      The whirlpool is something the stream is doing, and in exactly the same way, the universe is doing each one of us."
      Professor Alan W. Watts,
      British-American Philosopher.

  • @ultracalicokittycat
    @ultracalicokittycat 6 років тому

    Wonderful

  • @isawthailand
    @isawthailand 4 роки тому

    🙏 Namaste and thank you 🙏

  • @awesomezion
    @awesomezion 6 років тому

    Love you ❤️

  • @chicanegra9423
    @chicanegra9423 3 роки тому

    Infinit Spirit goes before me and opens the way -Infinite Wisdom tells me what to do and say 💜

  • @FreeFlow__
    @FreeFlow__ 6 років тому +2

    Thanks. What about these tensions and contractions that come after realization?

  • @finnzevo
    @finnzevo 6 років тому

    Very Spiritual..Pure Awareness,I have too Experienced the light...

    • @TheWorldTeacher
      @TheWorldTeacher 4 роки тому

      Finn Kimball
      🐟 15. THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN SPIRITUAL AWAKENING, LIBERATION, AND ENLIGHTENMENT:
      AWAKENING:
      Any person who has experienced a state of cosmic awareness can rightly be called a "buddha" (a Sanskrit/Pali term for "an awakened being"). During such temporal experiences (that is, they begin at some point in time and then end at a subsequent point in time, even if at the time of death), there is usually a dissolution of the subject-object dichotomy, or at least a radical shift in perception of life.
      Awakening means to see clearly that one’s persona is but a character in a dream of The Absolute, and that one is essentially that Flawless Awareness. Therefore, it is not to be taken literally - that the person wakes from the "Cosmic Dream" in the same way that a human wakes from a night dream. It simply implies that the person realizes that he/she is one of the multitude of dream characters and that individual free-will was purely an illusion.
      This is a relatively common phenomenon. In fact, there are most probably MILLIONS of persons currently on earth who have experienced some kind of awakening, where they directly perceive themselves to be more than a mere body-mind complex. The experience can be either totally spontaneous, or it can follow many decades of intense spiritual practice. However, there is no direct causal link between religious practices and an awakening experience, despite what most religionists believe.
      It is common for newly-awakened persons to confuse and conflate relative and absolute truth. That is to say, when a neophyte buddha is speaking of relative concepts, they invariably use absolute terms.
      For instance, they may make such statements as: "You don't exist"; "Nothing ever happened"; "There is no right or wrong"; "I am not my body"; "We are One"; and "I am you and you are me". Hopefully, such persons will come to see that there is no need to speak about everything from the Absolute perspective. Verily, it is unbeneficial to the persons with whom they are conversing (unless, of course, those third persons are thoroughly deluded materialists, who are unable to see beyond the physical realm).
      Unfortunately (for spiritual-seekers) there are a multitude of awakened or partially-awakened persons who mistakenly believe that they are somehow enlightened masters, and proceed to embark on a teaching career. The fact is, many (if not most) of these bogus "gurus" are actually afflicted with a narcissistic mentality, and ought to be exposed for the fraudsters that they are.
      Awakening to one’s true nature does not automatically promote one to being a saint, since one’s unique characteristics, flaws and obsessions may endure.
      LIBERATION:
      "Liberation" means "freedom". Thus, a liberated soul is a person who has become emancipated from the five kinds of suffering (blame, shame, pride, regrets/expectations, and anxiety).
      Not all liberated persons are automatically enlightened (at least not to the degree necessary in order to be labeled as such), but there is a strong correlation between the two states of being.
      Awakening experiences are not a prerequisite to being liberated from suffering.
      A liberated person is scarce, because very few understand the true nature of suffering, and of those who do understand the distinction between psycho-physical pain and ACTUAL psychological suffering, it is difficult to surrender to one's circumstances, free of obsessive thinking and judging.
      ENLIGHTENMENT:
      Of those who have experienced a state of "oneness" and are free from mental suffering, there are EXTREMELY rare souls who are spiritually-enlightened (at least to such an extent to be worthy of the term). If the term were to be taken literally, a person may be enveloped in light (or "see the light") to varying degrees, just as the ocean is more illumined by direct sunlight than it is by moonlight.
      Every person who has ever lived can be ranked according to their level of enlightenment. Even if one understands that there is more to existence than gross matter and individual consciousness, one could claim to be more enlightened than a gross materialist.
      If one were to approach a rocket scientist, one would expect him to fully understand his field of expertise. He would understand advanced physics, chemistry and know precisely how to design and launch spacecraft into outer-space.
      Similarly, an enlightened sage is one who understands life. He knows how this phenomenal world came to be, how the law of action and reaction actually works, how to become liberated from temporal sufferings, and should be able to logically answer any question posed to him by a spiritual seeker (what to speak of highly-intelligent members of the scientific and philosophical communities).
      An enlightened person has shunned all belief systems and relies solely on objective, verifiable concepts, knowing that even the most accurate concepts are relative, and that the ultimate truth is Absolute.
      A fully-enlightened person is almost invariably a member of the Holy Priesthood (a prophet, to be more precise), and necessarily possesses a genius or near-genius level of intelligence.
      Needless to say, an enlightened person adheres to a strict code of morals and ethics such as avoidance of pornography, illicit sexual activity, gambling, intoxicants, and animal products.
      To be fair, there are many examples of persons who seem to be very awakened and/or enlightened, yet engage in base pursuits such as those mentioned above, due to their genetic make-up and conditioning. However, this paragraph is devoted to highly-evolved beings who literally radiate holiness - those who even the vilest souls can recognize to be elevated far above ordinary, animalistic humanity.
      Those seemingly-enlightened individuals, who actively support objectively-evil ideologies, such as socialism, communism, democracy, feminism, and carnism, are of no practical benefit to society (quite the opposite, in fact).
      Out of a billion persons, there may be one or two enlightened masters. These self-realized world-teachers are almost totally shunned by society, for, as Lord Jesus once proclaimed: "I am the enemy of the world because I am telling the world that it is evil".
      “You have to let it happen, just like you have to let yourself go to sleep - you can’t try to go to sleep. You have to let yourself digest your food - you can’t try to digest it.
      And so, in the same way, you have to let yourself wake-up (become liberated).”
      "A flow of water suddenly does a whirlpool and then it goes on. The whirlpool is a definite form but no water stays put in it.
      The whirlpool is something the stream is doing, and in exactly the same way, the universe is doing each one of us."
      Professor Alan W. Watts,
      British-American Philosopher.

  • @kimulm0619
    @kimulm0619 10 місяців тому

    Ty 😇💙

  • @InnerLuminosity
    @InnerLuminosity 4 роки тому

    Beutiful soul! New sub here

  • @terryhoole6727
    @terryhoole6727 4 роки тому +1

    I am not infinite. I am a teapot tall and spout my left arm in and my right arm out👍

  • @leticiafarooq3836
    @leticiafarooq3836 6 років тому

    Hi Burt 👋

  • @Fnelrbnef
    @Fnelrbnef 4 роки тому +1

    You are such a beautiful man!

  • @Acquisition1913
    @Acquisition1913 6 років тому +5

    Burt's strongly recommended 24 hour a day key affirmation - 10:35

  • @HenkRenders
    @HenkRenders 3 роки тому

    Burt you talk about conciousness and the soul as individual things, I wonder what you mean is it "I"that is a timeless being or is being a timeless and spaceless phenomenon? which is not divided?

  • @sirredeyejedi
    @sirredeyejedi 10 місяців тому

    If you’re asking yourself this then that’s you’re first mistake. How can you awaken what you already are. This is not something you have to earn or awaken. It is yourself and recognition of this will reveal all to you. Experience don’t question. Stay safe

  • @thundermaggie182
    @thundermaggie182 6 років тому +4

    Thanks for the very informative video! Just a clarification -- what do you mean "if that something that you focus on remains present then it becomes a creative thing"? (3:40)

    • @simcitybigworldmedia
      @simcitybigworldmedia 6 років тому +3

      basically most objects in your surroundings hold memory tags of the past and you can get caught in thought , but when viewing a new object that doesn't hold any memory tags becomes a new experience, it becomes creative like burt said

    • @Acquisition1913
      @Acquisition1913 6 років тому +2

      this matches my concept to ultra declutter all living spaces by 90%.

    • @thundermaggie182
      @thundermaggie182 6 років тому

      Thanks for the response. What does the new object create?

  • @paoloianau
    @paoloianau 4 роки тому +1

    First time 1 million people after you say 10 million I repeat, was it a mistake? I was aware

  • @Finessence1111
    @Finessence1111 6 років тому +1

    🙏🏼

  • @pdvidz2266
    @pdvidz2266 5 років тому

    Does awareness feel angry or sad or nothing?

  • @leewawson344
    @leewawson344 5 років тому

    💙~~~~~ #WingsofLove ~~~~~💙

  • @TasteMyStinkholeAndLikeIt
    @TasteMyStinkholeAndLikeIt 4 роки тому

    Wait, so I'm asleep right now?

  • @Gosia-zv5fi
    @Gosia-zv5fi 4 роки тому

  • @db8799
    @db8799 Місяць тому

    How old are you?

  • @startsd4596
    @startsd4596 2 роки тому

    🕉️ 🙏🙏

  • @miket1591
    @miket1591 2 роки тому

    10:30

  • @markjones5832
    @markjones5832 4 роки тому +1

    Black's law dictionary definition for human a monster uncapable of owning anything a fiction.