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I waste waaay tooo Much time on the internet.. but I do spend a good amount of this time listening to wonderful people, Spiritual Teachers and wholesome information and I do Love Nature programs too etc. I enjoy your work, manner and your wisdom in this channel and I share your work often times. So thank and Bless you always Jason.
No matter what folk believe or don't, priority #1 of all sentient beings is to recover their awareness from the media and internet attention seekers. By far the best way is using some of the techniques in Jason's video and practice regularly. As a minimum just use a higher level of non-judgemental awareness when watching your favourite polarizing opinion based shows and just watch without becoming engaged. You'll soon see through the nonsensical manipulation - in the same way as random thoughts appear and disappear when observed with awareness.
Good one Jason. It's so easy to see we are being manipulated; like gamblers in a O2-controlled casino being fed drinks regularly and given small $ wins on an intermittent schedule of reinforcement. We all fall for it to some extent. But we must remember to think for ourselves and not become puppets, propelled by the divisive either/or, +/- tricks. Best response is definitely to look to nature, animals, plants, etc which are inherently impartial & dispassionate. The saying: "Rx: Equanimity = Moderation" fits well here. Thank you so much my friend! 👍☯🕉
Ive never seen you so passionate, Jason. Because it's so rare, it was very impactful. I am convinced that there are only 3 things we control (1) What we pay attention to (2). How we interpret our experience and (3.) How we respond to our experience. If you don't focus on these 3 things, you do not have free will and are merely being manipulated while operating on automatic pilot. I want to hear more about the 3rd meditation practice (peripheral field)
As usually, I love your wisdom. The Attention Economy - WOW!!! I see this even in myself and then I catch myself. We need more awareness of this in every home to save lives of the young and even adults. Thank you Jason💚
I’m so glad I stumbled on to your channel. I have been practicing meditation and I was searching for zen guided meditation and found your video from two years ago. Thank you. I’m also going to learn zazen
I have a few podcast I enjoy. Yours is at the top of the list. Unfortunately every channel I like is challenged by the Algorithms. Your right, generally social media now feeds dear, greed, social justice insanity. Here in the USA, podcast created by ex gangsters and killers has no problem building views. I can only hope their will be a change in consciousness or at least an interest in positive messages.
Me too we can't run from life but we can let go - You know In the Tao this is a form of brief meditation and I've experienced a sense of heaven on earth letting go Somehow just about the only quote in the Bible that says ' and a child shall show the way' is true I just had to comment we don't embrace life in passing anymore Getting a bit social is understanding of life and balance as we go along well for me even if people say I am wrong (well if not scary)
Such a great video on the lessons from the eastern traditions to live life in an effective and practical way. Thank you so much for bringing it home with this one! Be blessed brother and sister! Keep up the great play!
Thank you so much Jason the way you teach and explain is so wonderful. This is such an excellent teaching and so much needed especially in today's society. ❤
Another great vid, Jason. The three most Zen beings I've known paid no attention to the news or social media - My Japanese Zen teacher, my Pearl Harbor survivor uncle, and my Westie. This vid has encouraged me. once again, to "turn off and tune out."
Thank you Jason the last time I went to a Vipassanna retreat was in 2016 and have been toying with signing up for another one. After listening to this wonderful video I will put myself on the list. 👍❤👍
hi jason any chance you could do a new top five book review, read a few books of your old review ,nonduality,lord siva's song and more. found them great reads...peace and love.
Definitely interested to see a video exploring your take on those three meditation practices in more detail.. especially the Dzogchen peripheral field one, I have not heard of that practice before
I've written a note 81- Enlightenment isn't a state we attain, it's one we revert back to.(know that you aren't bound to form, that even freedom limits) 84- Since birth we're insisted on conceptually learning, our view now obstructed from being, knowing arises, an infinite search. Our conditioned state affects our natural ability. Enlightenment, now obscured.(In knowing, it's infinite. while our capacity is not.) 117- Most see a right & wrong (separating this from that), instead I see a spectrum blurring lines. ("It helps no one to be reductive">X.R.A)
Great video Jason and very ‘enlightening’. My cell phone is mostly switched off all the time except when it is needed. Any social media I use is mostly to keep up with certain personal interests, family and friends. Politics and causes are very dualistic and I rarely keep up with the news. After the headlines depression can set in quickly, if I took notice of it, so I revert to something. I would be very interested in knowing of the various meditation techniques. May the new year be a happy one for you. Blessings and love sent.
So many Buddhist "temples" in NYC where I live have lectures on social justice and gender ideology. Big red flag. But great video. People are more unhappy than ever, yet they defend the world we currently live in as something great and progressive.
We do not know to be social anymore Nor how to NOT Measure one another These of themselves kill that we are all different and that we all can't measure life period If your mind is aware of Infinity then why would you be serious about measuring life this much? And if you let go of things life could only get better for the self and others because we are limited Of ourselves Thanks for this one great*
Idolatry! Whatever one chooses to identify as or with, that is a form of idolatry. Rules, like the Ten Commandments, were expressed for a reason! Now the error of history passing them along is the concept of "obey or be punished". The punishment for idolatry is you will be stuck in samsara, you will suffer. You can never realize true freedom. No one should judge anyone who is stuck, which truly are the vast majority of us. Compassion is knowing in your heart everyone wants to realize freedom no matter how messed up they seem. Everyone is here to learn.
Hey Jason love the video. Maybe some ideas for future videos; a video on micro cosmic orbit practice (if you have any experience on this meditation practice). Also a video on Thích Quảng Đức who was the monk who set himself on fire during the Vietnam War but stayed still without showing any signs of pain due to his meditation. I'm curious if you know how he was able to do so and what meditation practice he did and how long that would take to get there. I know you have an extensive knowledge in meditation so I'd love to hear your take on these!
I have thought of this guy and others who have done the same. I question why they did so, because participating in a protest is choosing a side. It is not wu wei.
Btw, I always look forward to your videos and watch/listen with great appreciation. Thank you Jason. 🙏🏽 I don't know if I've asked before, but could you suggest a good interpretation/English translation of the Bhagavad gita? And of the vedas, would that be the best book to start with?
Check out Swami Tadatmananda's channel on RUclips. He has a full video series covering the Bhagavad Gita as well as a summary series. I think he's one of the best. I think you can also download his translation.
Hi Jason. You mention sometimes how things have changed since 2010. There is also a term that is frequently used since then, known as "The new normal". It seems like something has happened since 2010. What has happened since then? Well, interestingly and coincidentally the year 2012 happened, and the Ancient Mayan prophecies of December 21 2012 being some kind of end to an era. I'm not an expert on it at all, but it really does feel like things have changed since 2012. I think the Ancient Mayans might have been onto something very important, and I think a lot of what we're seeing could possibly be related to it. The Ancient Mayans seem to have had a calendar and astrological system of vast eras of time very similar to the Ancient Indian teachings of the Yugas that you talk about. Interestingly, Native North, Central, and South Americans, including the Ancient Mayans, if traced all the way back are descendants of peoples from India who traversed the world thousands of years ago and somehow managed to make it to the Americas, and then establish the Native American Indian societies, including the Ancient Mayan civilization.
I've started noticing the mind steering of the media. I knew msm was doing it, but ca 2,5 years ago I became aware that the alternative media was also doing it while watching it. It felt like a tug of war, like both sides were controlled and purposely creating hatred, diversion and polarization. Then I noticed the same with awakened and/or (semi) spiritual awakened youtubers, again the mind steering. Some content providers like news channels are hard core, but others like spiritual or informative channels the steering can be very subtle. They almost do it the same way politicians (that portray to be the good guys) do it, they discuss one subject and slide other information not concerning the subject in their speech. It seems all innocent, but when you listen closely the other information that seems to be irrelevant is the part that is important but because the subtle inbringing ends up in the subconscious mind programming your world views. We are watching plays on tv and the internet and at the same time we are being played.
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Thanks!
I imagine that only a small percentage of the population can appreciate your material, but for those who do I say thank you.
I think more and more people understand that Mainstream Media is one sided and has big influence
Great ! Love from India ,🙏
Just what I needed today, "Thank You" 🙏☮ 😊
I waste waaay tooo Much time on the internet.. but I do spend a good amount of this time listening to wonderful people, Spiritual Teachers and wholesome information and I do Love Nature programs too etc. I enjoy your work, manner and your wisdom in this channel and I share your work often times.
So thank and Bless you always Jason.
I’ve said this before, but this is the most grounded spiritual channel on RUclips. I needed this video today. Thanks!
Really good one, Jason, resonates so powerfully! Thank you!
No matter what folk believe or don't, priority #1 of all sentient beings is to recover their awareness from the media and internet attention seekers. By far the best way is using some of the techniques in Jason's video and practice regularly. As a minimum just use a higher level of non-judgemental awareness when watching your favourite polarizing opinion based shows and just watch without becoming engaged. You'll soon see through the nonsensical manipulation - in the same way as random thoughts appear and disappear when observed with awareness.
I agree with you. I’m so glad I found this channel.
Or in other words, just use your bullshit detector. You’re born with it.
Very good reply about recovering our awareness from the external world.
Thank you
Thx a lot i needed right this....very helpful
Good one Jason. It's so easy to see we are being manipulated; like gamblers in a O2-controlled casino being fed drinks regularly and given small $ wins on an intermittent schedule of reinforcement. We all fall for it to some extent. But we must remember to think for ourselves and not become puppets, propelled by the divisive either/or, +/- tricks. Best response is definitely to look to nature, animals, plants, etc which are inherently impartial & dispassionate. The saying: "Rx: Equanimity = Moderation" fits well here. Thank you so much my friend! 👍☯🕉
Jason my G 🙌☀️💚
Look at Joan Halifax. Totally agree, Jason.
She is completely disrespectful to Buddhism.
yea, I got very frustrated about it all too man. You just want everyone to be free ! :)
Ive never seen you so passionate, Jason. Because it's so rare, it was very impactful. I am convinced that there are only 3 things we control (1) What we pay attention to (2). How we interpret our experience and (3.) How we respond to our experience. If you don't focus on these 3 things, you do not have free will and are merely being manipulated while operating on automatic pilot. I want to hear more about the 3rd meditation practice (peripheral field)
Thank you for discussing this, Jason.
Amazing content thank u! Couldnt agree more
Thank you Jason ,bless you .💜🙏
Another great video Jason... If all is Brahman, then Brahman is me! And there is only ME!
Again, another brilliant video 👏. Thank you 🙏.
Grateful to have you in my algorithm 🙏
As usually, I love your wisdom. The Attention Economy - WOW!!! I see this even in myself and then I catch myself. We need more awareness of this in every home to save lives of the young and even adults.
Thank you Jason💚
Thank you Jason Nice up presentation. Yes it would be nice for you to do a deep or dive on the three meditational practices. Much appreciated. ❤️🙏
I’m so glad I stumbled on to your channel. I have been practicing meditation and I was searching for zen guided meditation and found your video from two years ago. Thank you. I’m also going to learn zazen
Thank you.
I have a few podcast I enjoy. Yours is at the top of the list. Unfortunately every channel I like is challenged by the Algorithms. Your right, generally social media now feeds dear, greed, social justice insanity. Here in the USA, podcast created by ex gangsters and killers has no problem building views. I can only hope their will be a change in consciousness or at least an interest in positive messages.
You are absolutely right, thanks for this great wisdom.
This video was wonderful! ❤
A great video, thank you! The attention economy keeps us in the yang. I know from personal experience that this has led to burnout and stress.
Me too we can't run from life but we can let go - You know In the Tao this is a form of brief meditation and I've experienced a sense of heaven on earth letting go Somehow just about the only quote in the Bible that says ' and a child shall show the way' is true I just had to comment we don't embrace life in passing anymore Getting a bit social is understanding of life and balance as we go along well for me even if people say I am wrong (well if not scary)
Great video 🔥
Can always count on useful content here, Thank you for taking the time and sharing 😊
Reading your book Fasting The Mind. Thank you so much for your wisdom 🙏
Loved this, thank you Jason. Yes please, more on the 3 meditation practices 🤍💫
Such a great video on the lessons from the eastern traditions to live life in an effective and practical way. Thank you so much for bringing it home with this one! Be blessed brother and sister! Keep up the great play!
What great commentaries on the state of society in the US. THANKS FOR THIS AND THE PRACTICES.
Thank you so much Jason the way you teach and explain is so wonderful. This is such an excellent teaching and so much needed especially in today's society. ❤
Very helpful
Another great vid, Jason. The three most Zen beings I've known paid no attention to the news or social media - My Japanese Zen teacher, my Pearl Harbor survivor uncle, and my Westie. This vid has encouraged me. once again, to "turn off and tune out."
Thank you Jason the last time I went to a Vipassanna retreat was in 2016 and have been toying with signing up for another one. After listening to this wonderful video I will put myself on the list. 👍❤👍
hi jason any chance you could do a new top five book review, read a few books of your old review ,nonduality,lord siva's song and more. found them great reads...peace and love.
Thought provoking. I’d never considered social justice from the perspective you shared.
Thankyou Jason ,Great video ,much appreciated
Thank you ❤I appreciate you ❣️
Fantastic! There is a lot of wisdom to digest and implement from this talk. Than you so much. Very inspiring…
Definitely interested to see a video exploring your take on those three meditation practices in more detail.. especially the Dzogchen peripheral field one, I have not heard of that practice before
Great as always good sir!
Well saod brother
Good vedio, thank you Jason
I've written a note
81- Enlightenment isn't a state we attain, it's one we revert back to.(know that you aren't bound to form, that even freedom limits)
84- Since birth we're insisted on conceptually learning, our view now obstructed from being, knowing arises, an infinite search. Our conditioned state affects our natural ability. Enlightenment, now obscured.(In knowing, it's infinite. while our capacity is not.)
117- Most see a right & wrong (separating this from that), instead I see a spectrum blurring lines. ("It helps no one to be reductive">X.R.A)
Great video Jason and very ‘enlightening’. My cell phone is mostly switched off all the time except when it is needed. Any social media I use is mostly to keep up with certain personal interests, family and friends. Politics and causes are very dualistic and I rarely keep up with the news. After the headlines depression can set in quickly, if I took notice of it, so I revert to something. I would be very interested in knowing of the various meditation techniques. May the new year be a happy one for you. Blessings and love sent.
So many Buddhist "temples" in NYC where I live have lectures on social justice and gender ideology. Big red flag. But great video. People are more unhappy than ever, yet they defend the world we currently live in as something great and progressive.
Great content
Fortunately the sun exploded! Boom! 🎇🎉🎇🎉🎆 And we all went home for tea...
We do not know to be social anymore Nor how to NOT Measure one another These of themselves kill that we are all different and that we all can't measure life period If your mind is aware of Infinity then why would you be serious about measuring life this much? And if you let go of things life could only get better for the self and others because we are limited Of ourselves Thanks for this one great*
Idolatry! Whatever one chooses to identify as or with, that is a form of idolatry. Rules, like the Ten Commandments, were expressed for a reason! Now the error of history passing them along is the concept of "obey or be punished". The punishment for idolatry is you will be stuck in samsara, you will suffer. You can never realize true freedom. No one should judge anyone who is stuck, which truly are the vast majority of us. Compassion is knowing in your heart everyone wants to realize freedom no matter how messed up they seem. Everyone is here to learn.
I think your confusing contradictory concepts
I studied the brahmasutra
And it's really fantastic scripture
Please make a video on brahmasutra
Very beautiful talk. Can you touch on the nimita, the light and the light tunnel created when meditating please?
Hey Jason love the video. Maybe some ideas for future videos; a video on micro cosmic orbit practice (if you have any experience on this meditation practice). Also a video on Thích Quảng Đức who was the monk who set himself on fire during the Vietnam War but stayed still without showing any signs of pain due to his meditation. I'm curious if you know how he was able to do so and what meditation practice he did and how long that would take to get there. I know you have an extensive knowledge in meditation so I'd love to hear your take on these!
I have thought of this guy and others who have done the same. I question why they did so, because participating in a protest is choosing a side. It is not wu wei.
Btw, I always look forward to your videos and watch/listen with great appreciation. Thank you Jason. 🙏🏽
I don't know if I've asked before, but could you suggest a good interpretation/English translation of the Bhagavad gita? And of the vedas, would that be the best book to start with?
Check out Swami Tadatmananda's channel on RUclips. He has a full video series covering the Bhagavad Gita as well as a summary series. I think he's one of the best. I think you can also download his translation.
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Creeps indeed and life has become creepy in general....I have to get out of this as my Buddha nature has been depleted! 💩😂🕉️🙏
can you make a video on dzogchen ? it's not easy to understand.
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Hi Jason. You mention sometimes how things have changed since 2010. There is also a term that is frequently used since then, known as "The new normal". It seems like something has happened since 2010. What has happened since then? Well, interestingly and coincidentally the year 2012 happened, and the Ancient Mayan prophecies of December 21 2012 being some kind of end to an era. I'm not an expert on it at all, but it really does feel like things have changed since 2012. I think the Ancient Mayans might have been onto something very important, and I think a lot of what we're seeing could possibly be related to it.
The Ancient Mayans seem to have had a calendar and astrological system of vast eras of time very similar to the Ancient Indian teachings of the Yugas that you talk about. Interestingly, Native North, Central, and South Americans, including the Ancient Mayans, if traced all the way back are descendants of peoples from India who traversed the world thousands of years ago and somehow managed to make it to the Americas, and then establish the Native American Indian societies, including the Ancient Mayan civilization.
I've started noticing the mind steering of the media. I knew msm was doing it, but ca 2,5 years ago I became aware that the alternative media was also doing it while watching it. It felt like a tug of war, like both sides were controlled and purposely creating hatred, diversion and polarization. Then I noticed the same with awakened and/or (semi) spiritual awakened youtubers, again the mind steering. Some content providers like news channels are hard core, but others like spiritual or informative channels the steering can be very subtle. They almost do it the same way politicians (that portray to be the good guys) do it, they discuss one subject and slide other information not concerning the subject in their speech. It seems all innocent, but when you listen closely the other information that seems to be irrelevant is the part that is important but because the subtle inbringing ends up in the subconscious mind programming your world views. We are watching plays on tv and the internet and at the same time we are being played.
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"Teacher, leave them kids alone!"
You might want to reach out to The Annointer and see if you can have a conversation with her on your channel. She is an Enlightened spiritual master.
I hope you're not serious? But I'm guessing you are, so that is sad.
If I turn off my phone, I cannot watch your videos here 😢
Lol well said
Dharmapilled. went out to touch grass... i mean snow
Thank you