The way that I practice being aware of being aware is when I'm walking from point A to point B. When I'm walking to work, I empty myself of thoughts and simply let the awareness of my surroundings to come in. When I'm walking to down the hall to meet with a colleague, whatever. Associating it with a particular activity like that has made it almost automatic for me. And now it's spilling over into a lot of other things--when I'm making dinner, cleaning the apartment, etc. I also find that it makes my sits that much deeper and more peaceful.
Thank you! I watched until the end! I laughed when you said “run away” from the practice/meditations. My ego wants to prioritize so much before the meditations. Thank you for pointing that out. I would love if that helps me not to do that. However, I am noticing definitely more consistency and release from expectations of how I want my day to go and just seeing what Goddess does with me and it being all ok. So I appreciate your teachings so much.
Thank you. It's amazing to realize, that you are just another manifestation of God to help "my" manifestation of God on "my" deep awakening to "my" true nature. Mind blowing. Thank you ❤
I watched it until the end. When you asked us to feel that nothing mattered for this moment, it was such a relief to me, and I had a memory of lying on my back as a child in a pool by myself looking up at the blue sky and a bird flying way above and and I remembered that natural sense of peace which I have not felt for years. Thank you for this video. I have saved it to my Best playlist.
The RUclips algorithm introduced me to this video. I'm really glad it did. More and more I have been craving to simplify my practice, to be aware and surrender to what is. It's a slow and arduous process, detaching from the mind, but it does feel like the most important thing I will ever do. This was really helpful, thank you!
It is interesting, I’ve noticed a resistance in me when it comes to sit down meditation. It’s like my mind knows what’s coming and gets defensive, and takes on this sort of fight or flight state.
That resistance has to be ego mind, desperate to keep us away from the truth of Who I Am. Thank you mighty companion here. Reading your words and listening to beloved Sunny are really helping to dissolve em - at last Amen 🙏🏻❤️🕉❤️🙏🏻
Can very much relate to that ! I would rather listen to talks than sit and just be.. understanding now that it's mind resistance..keep going, every effort counts 😊👍🏻
That's normal at first bro the ego is like oh hell no ❤ keep it going sit to be still and just watch it helped me to wait watching with my eyes closed and waiting for the colors to start bursting it's subtle and right after that if you keep still , keep your awareness you'll slip into the hypnogogic state(in-between wake and sleep) that's the key right there, do that stay aware you can leave your body if you want or just sit and watch the silence will speak volumes to you. If you do wanna leave your body just will your self up and out the technique I originally used was telling myself over and over and over I am going to have an out of body experience, i am going to slip into the hypnogogic state the in-between waking and sleeping once I hit that state it will trigger me to lift up and out of this body ,I will take my waking conscious with me where ever i go. I kept doing that and it became so incredibly easy to get out of my body then I became completely aware , I became aware in waking, dreaming, and deep sleep. I'm telling you this cuz it works from my experience, you can make it your own experience. I hope this reaches you with love light and life❤
I did watch till the end, and I have to agree with many of the comments. It was a relief. I got a moment of clarity getting away from my rapid Firefox that slowed through my head from moment to moment along with us attending the motions. It was a great sensation of clarity.
I resonated with the tips you suggested of how to incorporate being aware throughout the day. You explained everything so well and also how to go about it as well! Thank you again! Also I stayed until the end and it was worth it and the 30 something minutes went by so fast for me!
Your video is such a beautiful introduction to awareness of awareness - an important topic in many ways; thank you, Sunny! I've been working for over five years now on consciousness, meditating every day for 20 minutes and more in total silence… - and changing into this "new perspective" which you described was life-changing. I've even been able to resolve severe depression, which I had for many years before, by exploring this beautiful emptiness "inside" - essential in these times of media publishing severe bad news day by day in the Western world. Not thinking seems impossible at first-it needs a lot of training. A very helpful hint: First, look at an object-ideally a natural thing, e.g., a flower-keeping your eyes relaxed without moving them. Then look for "the one" who is looking… - and observe without judging anything.
I started this day with a determination to deepen my practice of simple awareness. I opened youtube to find this video at the top of my feed. I am so grateful! I watched till the end, subscribed, and joined the support group. I'm so happy for this universal flow! Thank you so much!
This journey has been so crazy for me. I wrecked my car which started my desire for sobriety which had brought me to you after a long circuitous route. I've had trouble with anger and shame, fear and hopelessness not knowing how my life is going to end upafter all these years wasted drinking. But i was in bars since i was a kid. So i don't know what to do or how to be. It's been challenging for sure. But i have hope that i found you for a reason.
I have been following moojji and your guidance resonates with his teaching which is also based on Ramana Maharshi’s guidance. Being aware of the innate effortless continuum of awareness throughout the day is a great approach, thank u for sharing ❤
Thank you Sunnnnyy!! 😀 It hits home when u say..turn away from sense exp n turn to the Self...and..when u say.. V use so many excuses to avoid sitting down to practice... And the best part i lk is ur encouragement to get to practice..wt simple, not so heavy trick ideas...😊 Thank U!
yessss, "I" is already aware and aware... but from this video I found that being aware of being aware still have different "depth" or let me say "intensity". And when I have the thought of being aware I am aware of the thought, NOT awareness itself. There is a state of peace, colors and love that unfolds in moments of total awareness. My goal is to get lost in this state... forever...
❤Wow, truly honest and inspiring words! Thanks!😊❤ Just want to add something, if you dont mind. Awareness of awareness does not mean that you are going to loose your awareness. It is kind of the opposite in my experience. 😊❤😊Awareness of awareness is like the sun that is trying to shine on itself but eventually realises that he/she/it is ALREADY THE SUN! ❤😊❤🎉❤❤😊😊😅😅😂😂😊😊❤❤❤❤ So shining on itself is impossible. He/she/it is is already it!❤😊❤ The sun is already itself. There is no need to shine on anyone or anything. The sun analogue is a wonderful one, I think! 😊 Being aware of being aware is like the sun becomes aware of that it is the source of all energy and life itself. The sun could not care less if bacteria, cell, plant, animal and human on planet Earth is living or dying. In that sense source/life/awareness/love/god/brahman/allah/jehovah/supreme consciousness or call it whatever one may wish to, "does not care" and is in a way, disconnected from the existing things it gives energy to. But in reality the sun meataphor does not fully work. Because in reality, - so does our experience proves it, - "the sun" which is pure "Supreme consciousness" or pure "Awareness of awareness" or "The I am" is all there is ALL THERE IS!! ❤❤❤ Objects, thoughts, believes, body-mind-concept, feelings, separate-beings, perceptions, etc, never are separated out from it! ❤ Non-duality is the highest experience and "state of mind" that can be experienced. And it is the hardest experience to put into words. Buddhism have some branches, where they say: in their path the final goal is that one shall even loose Awareness of awareness / I-am-ness / Beingness / I am-ness itself. But I would not agree with that 100%. The most beautiful "moment" in one's life is when one is finally self-realised. A pre-enlightened being can not do it, so cell, bacteria, animal, human-child can not attain self-realisation. They are in pre-seperatedness-consciousness. Then there is self-realised-consciousness. Then there is post-enlightened-consciousnes. But I would not worry too much if I was you. The truth will get reaveled to you, self-realisation is part of natural evolution. It is in its true and beautiful clarity if you just keep going on the spiritual path will happen naturally. The trick is to stay openminded to the real and authentic experiences instead of sticking strictly to ideologies, dogmas, philosophy, paths, religious and cultural belief system. "I am that that is aware and I am aware that I am awareness" and realising that "All is one" and that "All is one-consciousness ": is the brightest and most liberating thing that can ever "happen" within any Being, - who previously ever thought that it was a separated small thing, a separated Being.❤😊❤
Hi❤ Just reading through your comment one more time, and I'm just realising you are saying very similar experiences that I was sharing!🙏💝 So basically we were saying the same thing!🤗 Sorry for the misunderstaning. 🙏😁💓💓💓💓💓
Lately I have been living more in my heart and feel as though that I am awareness is also love. It’s hard to explain but love seems to be another form or the same form as awareness and beingness.
Thanks Sunny, I've listened to this talk several times. I have been doing sit down practice for a week. It's working. Just enjoying the experience hit me today. I can let go of all the fleeting thoughts in my mind and just be. I liked the quotes also. I'm starting to really enjoy the silence, little by little. You say love the silence, and it's becoming true for me. Gracias
Empty vessel with experiences appearing a disappearing. Doer has feeling of contraction. Riding the wave of life. Awareness of all these things. Very helpful.
I never find you teachings too long. This lesson I found particularly important for me as I still hav a problem letting go. In general I have gotten better but that final letting go (ego) will not give in. Saying I can’t have both and that I must give up a lessor for the greater resonated greatly and I will continue searching for the truth. I feel I am so close and his hand is teaching out for me to hold but I can’t quite do it yet and feel discouraged that this is the case. But then I hear “you are exactly where you’re ment to be” and feel keep going.
Knowledge does not help in this case. I read every book krishnamurti but failed to get it. I revisited this domain of spirituality after a long time after watching similar videos by great teachers mainly by Osho. This is much easier when we practice. As you watch your own mind it can be frustrating because it jumps to different things without you being aware. As you continue to do this you slowly realize that the mind is actually running the show rather than "you". And then you will realize that there is nothing you can do about this. And if you are lucky this awareness jumps in once a while and shows that you are lost in thought. For a regular person this awareness only happens in retrospect after you are lost in thought stream. Slowly you will or may realize that it is this thought stream that runs the life and you are a mere spectator. What makes this very difficult is some of the thought is actually needed or useful for our survival and some of it is negative, obssessive or plain random stuff. But you still need to have a practice day in and day out and believe in something called grace. This is so difficult that an element of grace is required because you cannot do expecting something in return. You have to leave it to the grace of god or existence. Sorry for a long chatter.
Thank you for this very useful video. I have been trying to meditate at least once a day. I am devote of Ramana Maharishi and had the great fortune of having His darshan when I was a small child. I would like to join your community but don’t know how to do so. Thank you once again
very enlightening! That is a pun: I have been searching for 'enlightenment', but I can see now how this search in itself can become a distraction from the simplicity and truth of what you are saying. Thank you, Sunny.
I love that your practice has come to becoming aware of awareness and living it. I started to practice listening to sound and only sound. I think this can also lead to a deeper awakening, not that there is an end goal but it opens up a deeper, richer beaness. lol If that makes sense? It's truly amazing how attachment to thought takes over my life!! It's just a thought! Thanks Sunny, great lesson!
A very refreshing, encouraging and inspiring talk. The three words that stood out for me began with ‘s’ - simple, sacrifice and surrender. Wonderful! So basic but not easy - until emptiness is embraced. Thank you 🙏🏼
I have started to have awakening and your explanation and instruction how to become aware is great and best advice heard over all other people I have been following
Excellent, excellent video. Really really well said all around. The most significant book that really started my whole journey (or should I say - when I became AWARE that I was on my journey) was called "Being Aware of Being Aware" by Rupert Spira. It's really a great book, and you delivered with such clarity so many of the ideas that opened my eyes years ago.
Such a great teaching. Thank you for the pointers of becoming empty, at least 10 times daily. This feels more right than ‘trying’ to be present all day. Thank you 🙏
Very well articulated. If one has had a glimpse of awareness versus thoughts, one can appreciate every word of this video and all of the examples. One needs to be ready. And most haven't experienced it. I try to tech people in practice sessions, observing their inner movements from "thought mode" to "awareness mode" . And also to recognise how they slip from awareness into thoughts. And ask them to revert to the sense of I AM. Excellent video. Thank you. ❤
Thankyou for such lovely simple direct teaching. I have stumbled across this video tonight after a number of times practicing being just Awareness today at work and during my lunch break on Scunthorpe High Street. I am trying to not become so immersed in the content of the experience I experience. I also sometimes use Douglas Hardings pointing experiment by becoming 'Headless.' I then can just be the open empty space of awareness. It is work in progress but I understand that if just practice it becomes more habitual and natural. I am happy to let it happen as it happens and am careful not put expectations or expect any progress or improvement as that will just take me to the lesser away from the greater but to just let it happen as it does. Thank you again.
There is a predestined unfolding of events that happen. If someone becomes a seeker that is predestined depending on his prior karma. Whether he or she will be successful in his spirituality is also predestined. The seeking reaches and culminates in the truth when it stops. Whether one will be able to let go of the body and mind idea and practice the path is also predestined. That usually will commence with absolute silence both verbal and mind wise.
Thank you, will listen again. I have the book on Astavakra, would recommend to everyone. I live in Richmond UK. Anyone wanting to start a small group with like minded individuals, post in the reply below.
Thank you so much for this great and very clearly expressed video again Sunny. All your video-teachings are certainly watched to the end, and also your email advices to me are always read. I even take notes. I am grateful for all your teachings, and for the help, tips and hints you share with us from your own experience.. Your teachings have become more and more precice, clear and easier to understand, more to the point, with not too much elaboration in them anymore... I appreciate very much your deep and sincere intentions and considerations, which I can sense in all of your videos, to make yourself understood as clearly as possible, to drag us out of this, our limited sense of personhood, into our essential being of who and what we truly are. Now, after some years of watching you, there are actually no questions left , nevertheless thanks for always offering your help and support in different ways. It's now a matter of remembering more and more this, our true being, and establishing it in meditation and, if I don't forget, during the day, by taking brief moments of de-focusing from the objects, as you once mentioned, and thereby returning to the silence of our shared Being., .
This was a great video Sunny, I love you break it down followed by a short guided meditation. Then the tips. This was fantastic timing for me, I had just finished a really really amazing teaching of the Tibetan book of the dead. He broke it down so simply n masterfully. Using a chart kinda like you do, I think you both went to the same art school 😅. ❤ your channel it has helped me immensely these last 3 yrs since my sudden awaking . Look forward to every video u make
Thank you. Very good teaching, the fact that the awareness is already present, and we don’t have to “do” anything to make it happen resonated with me, I have been “doing “ a lot of spiritual work for the past two years, I meditate for several hours a day, but I spend much of the time trying to attain awareness, hopefully this pointing sinks in deeply with me, and I begin to recognize that it is already there.
Loved this, it really caught my attention especially the guided meditation I felt so present! Watched a couple of times and will watch again! First video of watching you - thankyou!
I listened to the entire episode. I always do. How could I not with content like this. I don’t think I’ve ever bailed on one of your videos in the first listen
Wow I love the mediation, made me a little teary eyed. I'm new to this, and I've been searching videos about this topic and I found you and Anila Reddy, you both have same teaching about awareness and i hope you can collaborate with her one day. And just joined your group btw. I started learning about law of assumption first and now I'm discovering this which way more calming. I want to continue practicing this. Thank you ❤
This video helped me a lot! It helepd me experience what i really am. Undoudtedly, i know what is awareness, but not deep enough to feel my very being. While listening to your talks regarding awareness something happened which came so natural and experiencially what i really am. It is beyond words, as Sadhguru would explain it. I know i am awareness and i know what consciousness is , but this time i am feeling it more natural and in the present moment that no thoughts came out! Now i know what i really am experiencially! Thank you so much! Maybe i was hypnoticed by the looks of your eyes! I can see deep presence in your eyes.
I'm always recommending your videos because they're some of the best meditations and exercises on RUclips imo. It's only me or is it becoming easier to be aware these days? Every 'wrong thing' that threatens to "ruin my day"-those little petty incidents-seems to appear like a 'Matrix agent' testing my awareness and patience. I try to address problems as quickly as possible, so I don't give it more attention than necessary. And I said attention, I didn't say emotion. I don't want to give a fraction of a second of my emotions to react. At least, I'm trying to identify this with awareness. Of course, it's not 100% of the time, but it's increasing quite well with more meditation and self-observation. Thanks for everything, Sunny!
Thankyou Sunny🙏❤️your words of wisdom and encouragement are always welcome to my heart and soul. This video is a blessing, I am very grateful, listened to every word. 🙏🤗🙏
This video resonnated with me and gavevme the confidence, that my highest purposecan be realised. I am willing to give up thoughtfulness which causes suffering and embrace awareness of being aware. No vocabulary can express my gratitude tp you Sunny❤.❤❤❤
I usually lose awareness when I start having a conversation with someone. Or watching RUclips etc. So I place little postIt notes all over the place (on my mirror, on my door, on my TV etc to make sure I'm aware).
Thank you Sunny! This post certainly illuminates my situation. I'm going to follow your guidance. I hope the divine algo helps you reach as many souls as possible.
Thank you very much for this talk!, Very clear ,lovely spoken. I watched the video to the end and I think now restarting with meditating twice a day again, maybe I’ll join the community.
In my experience I can do both to be aware of being aware and to think simultaneously. Thoughts are like fishes in a pond they are part of its nature. You need not to be empty minded to be aware of awareness itself. Not only that you can be self-aware inside your dreams at night too.
Thank you! Its important to point out the negative aspects of thinking. Sometimes a narrative feels almost unressitable, especially if its about awakening or a glimpse or something like that. The mind finds that interesting and tries everything to pull me in. I am in the process of getting used to having less inner narrative.
Loved this talk ...the three tips tht u gave at d end are wonderful...I hv been trying to sit in meditation everyday in d morning but wth thoughts as v common but never reached tht silence but I can imagine how tht will feel.... really want to experience tht n all personal desires looks v small compared to tht although still hv a long way to go before I can b totally free of them....but I truly want to focus on this simple noticing of beingness....
Thank you Sunny! I did listen to the end and found this very helpful. I am trying especially now, having established a good daily meditation practice, to be more aware of Awareness and my own 'I am' through the day. Fortunately, my job isn't too mentally demanding and is quite procedural, so I'm trying to keep thinking to a minimum and cultivate just being aware more and more. It is making life more joyful and reducing stress considerably. Self awareness is helping me so much, so I'm grateful for all you are teaching us. 🙏
you should go thru desires.. they are a lot of fun if you do it right. osho had the right approach. renunciation is a path fraught with failure because essentially the ego will suppress the desire and it will live on. Buddha had everything, all the riches and other fun things, before he moved towards the spiritual path. He had experienced it already so there wasn't curiosity or much left there. It's actually the healthiest way to enlightenment. Renunciation and suppression and rejection or desires is fraught with failure and traps. Attachments and desires have to be let go to get to enlightenment, that's absolutely correct, but it's how you do that matters and whats likely to work.
This was a very important video for me personally at this moment. Thank you so much Sunny ❤ The pointer "you're not the doer" was such a relief to hear since I am searching for a new place to live and a familymember is dying and other things going on in my life situation right now! Blessed to hear that the lessons are in fact something to be grateful for ❤
What a great teaching 🙏 Every word resonates with me so deeply. I like the way you emphasize surrender as the way to live - but that's one area I struggle with the most. How to reconcile surrender with conscious, intentional living as prescribed in the Gita? Aren't discrimination and choice-making essential to live consciously? If it's so, can the life still be one of total surrender?
Being aware of being aware that you are doing certain tasks is gonna get you into trouble. Being aware of your day to day decisions to tweak is recommended but being aware that you are being aware that you are talking to a person ie, being aware in a situation where your flow stops is detrimental to yourself. Just meditate and the meditational awareness is gonna kick if you seek for it:)
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Awareness of awareness is not task as it sounds - well said Sunny
The way that I practice being aware of being aware is when I'm walking from point A to point B. When I'm walking to work, I empty myself of thoughts and simply let the awareness of my surroundings to come in. When I'm walking to down the hall to meet with a colleague, whatever. Associating it with a particular activity like that has made it almost automatic for me. And now it's spilling over into a lot of other things--when I'm making dinner, cleaning the apartment, etc. I also find that it makes my sits that much deeper and more peaceful.
Thank you! I watched until the end! I laughed when you said “run away” from the practice/meditations. My ego wants to prioritize so much before the meditations. Thank you for pointing that out. I would love if that helps me not to do that. However, I am noticing definitely more consistency and release from expectations of how I want my day to go and just seeing what Goddess does with me and it being all ok. So I appreciate your teachings so much.
The Beautiful Beings of Gaia would like to thank Sunny Sharma for his service. We are forever grateful.
Thank you. It's amazing to realize, that you are just another manifestation of God to help "my" manifestation of God on "my" deep awakening to "my" true nature. Mind blowing. Thank you ❤
I watched it until the end. When you asked us to feel that nothing mattered for this moment, it was such a relief to me, and I had a memory of lying on my back as a child in a pool by myself looking up at the blue sky and a bird flying way above and and I remembered that natural sense of peace which I have not felt for years. Thank you for this video. I have saved it to my Best playlist.
Problem is the world doesn't share your feeling that nothing matters. We still have to deal with shit that happens to us.
I truly Searching for this. Thank u so much. 😊
The RUclips algorithm introduced me to this video. I'm really glad it did. More and more I have been craving to simplify my practice, to be aware and surrender to what is. It's a slow and arduous process, detaching from the mind, but it does feel like the most important thing I will ever do. This was really helpful, thank you!
Welcome to the channel! I hope the videos help you simplify your practice. Also join our community :)
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4:25 tradeoff: Awareness v thinking 6:40 7:55 9:35
15:30 guided meditation
24:20 tips
It is interesting, I’ve noticed a resistance in me when it comes to sit down meditation. It’s like my mind knows what’s coming and gets defensive, and takes on this sort of fight or flight state.
That resistance has to be ego mind, desperate to keep us away from the truth of Who I Am.
Thank you mighty companion here. Reading your words and listening to beloved Sunny are really helping to dissolve em - at last
Amen
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And you are aware of that
Can very much relate to that ! I would rather listen to talks than sit and just be.. understanding now that it's mind resistance..keep going, every effort counts 😊👍🏻
I try and try again. Now I am really serious about it and the voice (ego) gets so mean and loud.
That's normal at first bro the ego is like oh hell no ❤ keep it going sit to be still and just watch it helped me to wait watching with my eyes closed and waiting for the colors to start bursting it's subtle and right after that if you keep still , keep your awareness you'll slip into the hypnogogic state(in-between wake and sleep) that's the key right there, do that stay aware you can leave your body if you want or just sit and watch the silence will speak volumes to you. If you do wanna leave your body just will your self up and out the technique I originally used was telling myself over and over and over I am going to have an out of body experience, i am going to slip into the hypnogogic state the in-between waking and sleeping once I hit that state it will trigger me to lift up and out of this body ,I will take my waking conscious with me where ever i go. I kept doing that and it became so incredibly easy to get out of my body then I became completely aware , I became aware in waking, dreaming, and deep sleep. I'm telling you this cuz it works from my experience, you can make it your own experience. I hope this reaches you with love light and life❤
Sinking into my awareness is the best way of describing my awakening
You are so peaceful. Your words, persona, just peaceful and happy! Thank you for existing and showing up. 💜🌟
Good meditation is when you inhale say to yourself I am not my body and when you excel say, I am not my mind
Exhale??
Sounds great not so great when you actually lose your mind though..
I did watch till the end, and I have to agree with many of the comments. It was a relief. I got a moment of clarity getting away from my rapid Firefox that slowed through my head from moment to moment along with us attending the motions. It was a great sensation of clarity.
Dropping the ego mind through awareness has to be the greatest teaching for a human to apply!! ❤ Yet 95% of humans don’t do it!!
It’s so hard. Mine says thief all the time
The simplest yet most difficult accomplishment.
So really right 👍 my friend peace ✌️
More like 99, 9 %
Actually it’s more true that most ppl aren’t interested
I resonated with the tips you suggested of how to incorporate being aware throughout the day. You explained everything so well and also how to go about it as well! Thank you again! Also I stayed until the end and it was worth it and the 30 something minutes went by so fast for me!
Your video is such a beautiful introduction to awareness of awareness - an important topic in many ways; thank you, Sunny! I've been working for over five years now on consciousness, meditating every day for 20 minutes and more in total silence… - and changing into this "new perspective" which you described was life-changing.
I've even been able to resolve severe depression, which I had for many years before, by exploring this beautiful emptiness "inside" - essential in these times of media publishing severe bad news day by day in the Western world.
Not thinking seems impossible at first-it needs a lot of training. A very helpful hint: First, look at an object-ideally a natural thing, e.g., a flower-keeping your eyes relaxed without moving them. Then look for "the one" who is looking… - and observe without judging anything.
I started this day with a determination to deepen my practice of simple awareness. I opened youtube to find this video at the top of my feed. I am so grateful! I watched till the end, subscribed, and joined the support group. I'm so happy for this universal flow! Thank you so much!
Welcome to the channel! Glad you found the video helpful. See you in the group :)
This journey has been so crazy for me. I wrecked my car which started my desire for sobriety which had brought me to you after a long circuitous route. I've had trouble with anger and shame, fear and hopelessness not knowing how my life is going to end upafter all these years wasted drinking. But i was in bars since i was a kid. So i don't know what to do or how to be. It's been challenging for sure. But i have hope that i found you for a reason.
To me, this is one of your most direct and impactful teachings and pointers. Certainly my favorite thus far. Namaste 🙏
I agree!!
It's not his teaching...he's just another jackass like us. He's borrowed Ramanas from some online site he found.
I have been following moojji and your guidance resonates with his teaching which is also based on Ramana Maharshi’s guidance. Being aware of the innate effortless continuum of awareness throughout the day is a great approach, thank u for sharing ❤
Embrace the unfolding, thank you, wonderful wisdom!
Thank you Sunnnnyy!! 😀
It hits home when u say..turn away from sense exp n turn to the Self...and..when u say.. V use so many excuses to avoid sitting down to practice...
And the best part i lk is ur encouragement to get to practice..wt simple, not so heavy trick ideas...😊
Thank U!
yessss, "I" is already aware and aware... but from this video I found that being aware of being aware still have different "depth" or let me say "intensity". And when I have the thought of being aware I am aware of the thought, NOT awareness itself. There is a state of peace, colors and love that unfolds in moments of total awareness. My goal is to get lost in this state... forever...
❤Wow, truly honest and inspiring words! Thanks!😊❤ Just want to add something, if you dont mind. Awareness of awareness does not mean that you are going to loose your awareness. It is kind of the opposite in my experience. 😊❤😊Awareness of awareness is like the sun that is trying to shine on itself but eventually realises that he/she/it is ALREADY THE SUN! ❤😊❤🎉❤❤😊😊😅😅😂😂😊😊❤❤❤❤ So shining on itself is impossible. He/she/it is is already it!❤😊❤ The sun is already itself. There is no need to shine on anyone or anything. The sun analogue is a wonderful one, I think! 😊 Being aware of being aware is like the sun becomes aware of that it is the source of all energy and life itself. The sun could not care less if bacteria, cell, plant, animal and human on planet Earth is living or dying. In that sense source/life/awareness/love/god/brahman/allah/jehovah/supreme consciousness or call it whatever one may wish to, "does not care" and is in a way, disconnected from the existing things it gives energy to. But in reality the sun meataphor does not fully work. Because in reality, - so does our experience proves it, - "the sun" which is pure "Supreme consciousness" or pure "Awareness of awareness" or "The I am" is all there is ALL THERE IS!! ❤❤❤ Objects, thoughts, believes, body-mind-concept, feelings, separate-beings, perceptions, etc, never are separated out from it! ❤ Non-duality is the highest experience and "state of mind" that can be experienced. And it is the hardest experience to put into words. Buddhism have some branches, where they say: in their path the final goal is that one shall even loose Awareness of awareness / I-am-ness / Beingness / I am-ness itself. But I would not agree with that 100%. The most beautiful "moment" in one's life is when one is finally self-realised. A pre-enlightened being can not do it, so cell, bacteria, animal, human-child can not attain self-realisation. They are in pre-seperatedness-consciousness. Then there is self-realised-consciousness. Then there is post-enlightened-consciousnes. But I would not worry too much if I was you. The truth will get reaveled to you, self-realisation is part of natural evolution. It is in its true and beautiful clarity if you just keep going on the spiritual path will happen naturally. The trick is to stay openminded to the real and authentic experiences instead of sticking strictly to ideologies, dogmas, philosophy, paths, religious and cultural belief system. "I am that that is aware and I am aware that I am awareness" and realising that "All is one" and that "All is one-consciousness ": is the brightest and most liberating thing that can ever "happen" within any Being, - who previously ever thought that it was a separated small thing, a separated Being.❤😊❤
Hi❤ Just reading through your comment one more time, and I'm just realising you are saying very similar experiences that I was sharing!🙏💝 So basically we were saying the same thing!🤗 Sorry for the misunderstaning. 🙏😁💓💓💓💓💓
I'm glad I subscribed, allowing you to bring this to me. Thanks
Lately I have been living more in my heart and feel as though that I am awareness is also love. It’s hard to explain but love seems to be another form or the same form as awareness and beingness.
Thanks Sunny, I've listened to this talk several times. I have been doing sit down practice for a week. It's working. Just enjoying the experience hit me today. I can let go of all the fleeting thoughts in my mind and just be. I liked the quotes also. I'm starting to really enjoy the silence, little by little. You say love the silence, and it's becoming true for me. Gracias
Empty vessel with experiences appearing a disappearing. Doer has feeling of contraction. Riding the wave of life. Awareness of all these things. Very helpful.
I never find you teachings too long. This lesson I found particularly important for me as I still hav a problem letting go. In general I have gotten better but that final letting go (ego) will not give in. Saying I can’t have both and that I must give up a lessor for the greater resonated greatly and I will continue searching for the truth. I feel I am so close and his hand is teaching out for me to hold but I can’t quite do it yet and feel discouraged that this is the case. But then I hear “you are exactly where you’re ment to be” and feel keep going.
I recommend you to read “the end of your world” by Adyashanti. It would be helpful in that state.
@@NoRaengs99 thank you
Knowledge does not help in this case. I read every book krishnamurti but failed to get it. I revisited this domain of spirituality after a long time after watching similar videos by great teachers mainly by Osho. This is much easier when we practice. As you watch your own mind it can be frustrating because it jumps to different things without you being aware. As you continue to do this you slowly realize that the mind is actually running the show rather than "you". And then you will realize that there is nothing you can do about this. And if you are lucky this awareness jumps in once a while and shows that you are lost in thought. For a regular person this awareness only happens in retrospect after you are lost in thought stream. Slowly you will or may realize that it is this thought stream that runs the life and you are a mere spectator. What makes this very difficult is some of the thought is actually needed or useful for our survival and some of it is negative, obssessive or plain random stuff. But you still need to have a practice day in and day out and believe in something called grace. This is so difficult that an element of grace is required because you cannot do expecting something in return. You have to leave it to the grace of god or existence. Sorry for a long chatter.
Have u experienced it?
I think if you can shut up for a few days. You realize it.
Thank you for writing what you experienced. You have explained what I am experiencing but could not put it into words.
I’ve listened to many self-realization or awakening teachings. I find yours to be simple, clear and direct. Thank you.
Thank you for this very useful video. I have been trying to meditate at least once a day.
I am devote of Ramana Maharishi and had the great fortune of having His darshan when I was a small child.
I would like to join your community but don’t know how to do so.
Thank you once again
very enlightening! That is a pun: I have been searching for 'enlightenment', but I can see now how this search in itself can become a distraction from the simplicity and truth of what you are saying. Thank you, Sunny.
I love that your practice has come to becoming aware of awareness and living it. I started to practice listening to sound and only sound. I think this can also lead to a deeper awakening, not that there is an end goal but it opens up a deeper, richer beaness. lol If that makes sense? It's truly amazing how attachment to thought takes over my life!! It's just a thought! Thanks Sunny, great lesson!
A very refreshing, encouraging and inspiring talk. The three words that stood out for me began with ‘s’ - simple, sacrifice and surrender. Wonderful! So basic but not easy - until emptiness is embraced. Thank you 🙏🏼
I have started to have awakening and your explanation and instruction how to become aware is great and best advice heard over all other people I have been following
Excellent, excellent video. Really really well said all around. The most significant book that really started my whole journey (or should I say - when I became AWARE that I was on my journey) was called "Being Aware of Being Aware" by Rupert Spira. It's really a great book, and you delivered with such clarity so many of the ideas that opened my eyes years ago.
Such a great teaching. Thank you for the pointers of becoming empty, at least 10 times daily. This feels more right than ‘trying’ to be present all day. Thank you 🙏
Very well articulated. If one has had a glimpse of awareness versus thoughts, one can appreciate every word of this video and all of the examples. One needs to be ready. And most haven't experienced it.
I try to tech people in practice sessions, observing their inner movements from "thought mode" to "awareness mode" . And also to recognise how they slip from awareness into thoughts. And ask them to revert to the sense of I AM.
Excellent video.
Thank you. ❤
Thankyou for such lovely simple direct teaching. I have stumbled across this video tonight after a number of times practicing being just Awareness today at work and during my lunch break on Scunthorpe High Street. I am trying to not become so immersed in the content of the experience I experience. I also sometimes use Douglas Hardings pointing experiment by becoming 'Headless.' I then can just be the open empty space of awareness. It is work in progress but I understand that if just practice it becomes more habitual and natural. I am happy to let it happen as it happens and am careful not put expectations or expect any progress or improvement as that will just take me to the lesser away from the greater but to just let it happen as it does. Thank you again.
So simple. Thank you! Namaste
This video, like every video I’ve watched that you’ve done, is brilliant. Thank you, Sunny!!
There is a predestined unfolding of events that happen. If someone becomes a seeker that is predestined depending on his prior karma.
Whether he or she will be successful in his spirituality is also predestined. The seeking reaches and culminates in the truth when it stops.
Whether one will be able to let go of the body and mind idea and practice the path is also predestined. That usually will commence with absolute silence both verbal and mind wise.
Thank you, will listen again. I have the book on Astavakra, would recommend to everyone.
I live in Richmond UK. Anyone wanting to start a small group with like minded individuals, post in the reply below.
Thank you so much for this great and very clearly expressed video again Sunny.
All your video-teachings are certainly watched to the end, and also your email advices to me are always read. I even take notes.
I am grateful for all your teachings, and for the help, tips and hints you share with us from your own experience.. Your teachings have become more and more precice, clear and easier to understand, more to the point, with not too much elaboration in them anymore...
I appreciate very much your deep and sincere intentions and considerations, which I can sense in all of your videos, to make yourself understood as clearly as possible, to drag us out of this, our limited sense of personhood, into our essential being of who and what we truly are.
Now, after some years of watching you, there are actually no questions left , nevertheless thanks for always offering your help and support in different ways.
It's now a matter of remembering more and more this, our true being, and establishing it in meditation and, if I don't forget, during the day, by taking brief moments of de-focusing from the objects, as you once mentioned, and thereby returning to the silence of our shared Being.,
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This was a great video Sunny, I love you break it down followed by a short guided meditation. Then the tips. This was fantastic timing for me, I had just finished a really really amazing teaching of the Tibetan book of the dead. He broke it down so simply n masterfully. Using a chart kinda like you do, I think you both went to the same art school 😅. ❤ your channel it has helped me immensely these last 3 yrs since my sudden awaking . Look forward to every video u make
Hi Brian! Grateful for your words and very happy that the messages have been resonating with you powerfully :)
Thank you. Very good teaching, the fact that the awareness is already present, and we don’t have to “do” anything to make it happen resonated with me, I have been “doing “ a lot of spiritual work for the past two years, I meditate for several hours a day, but I spend much of the time trying to attain awareness, hopefully this pointing sinks in deeply with me, and I begin to recognize that it is already there.
Very helpful, very practical and spoken by one who is constantly awake.
So many times i wish I had your great ability to illuminate the nature of awareness with words ...thank you for doing this
Loved this, it really caught my attention especially the guided meditation I felt so present! Watched a couple of times and will watch again! First video of watching you - thankyou!
I listened to the entire episode. I always do. How could I not with content like this. I don’t think I’ve ever bailed on one of your videos in the first listen
This really hits the spot, thank you
Wow I love the mediation, made me a little teary eyed. I'm new to this, and I've been searching videos about this topic and I found you and Anila Reddy, you both have same teaching about awareness and i hope you can collaborate with her one day. And just joined your group btw. I started learning about law of assumption first and now I'm discovering this which way more calming. I want to continue practicing this. Thank you ❤
This video helped me a lot! It helepd me experience what i really am. Undoudtedly, i know what is awareness, but not deep enough to feel my very being. While listening to your talks regarding awareness something happened which came so natural and experiencially what i really am. It is beyond words, as Sadhguru would explain it. I know i am awareness and i know what consciousness is , but this time i am feeling it more natural and in the present moment that no thoughts came out! Now i know what i really am experiencially! Thank you so much! Maybe i was hypnoticed by the looks of your eyes! I can see deep presence in your eyes.
This was very helpful. Thank you.
I'm always recommending your videos because they're some of the best meditations and exercises on RUclips imo.
It's only me or is it becoming easier to be aware these days? Every 'wrong thing' that threatens to "ruin my day"-those little petty incidents-seems to appear like a 'Matrix agent' testing my awareness and patience. I try to address problems as quickly as possible, so I don't give it more attention than necessary. And I said attention, I didn't say emotion. I don't want to give a fraction of a second of my emotions to react. At least, I'm trying to identify this with awareness. Of course, it's not 100% of the time, but it's increasing quite well with more meditation and self-observation.
Thanks for everything, Sunny!
Very nice! And thank you for sharing the videos!
This is the essence of "being present".
Yes!!!! Exactly!!! I was just helping a friend with exactly this today!!! Right on!!!! Watched to the end perfect!
Thankyou Sunny🙏❤️your words of wisdom and encouragement are always welcome to my heart and soul. This video is a blessing, I am very grateful, listened to every word. 🙏🤗🙏
I watched until the end. Pure gold! So grateful I found you.🙏
wow! thank you ❤
We are one. Each, a lens of the eye of the universe. 🙏🏻
Great video to "come across". Always has seemed to become a yask to just be aware of awareness. You make it seem easier. Thank you.
I watched it till the end Fantastic
This video resonnated with me and gavevme the confidence, that my highest purposecan be realised.
I am willing to give up thoughtfulness which causes suffering and embrace awareness of being aware. No vocabulary can express my gratitude tp you Sunny❤.❤❤❤
Thank you so very much Sunny! This video was very helpful! I also appreciate you sharing your experience as well! Thank you again!
I usually lose awareness when I start having a conversation with someone. Or watching RUclips etc. So I place little postIt notes all over the place (on my mirror, on my door, on my TV etc to make sure I'm aware).
Thank you Sunny! This post certainly illuminates my situation. I'm going to follow your guidance. I hope the divine algo helps you reach as many souls as possible.
You Doing a great job may God bless you
Extremely useful. Thank you!
Big truth. Beautiful
Thank you very much for this talk!, Very clear ,lovely spoken. I watched the video to the end and I think now restarting with meditating twice a day again, maybe I’ll join the community.
Watched until the end and enjoyed! I will be applying to join the community. ❤
Can't wait to have you join us in the group!
Until the end! Thanks a lot, just what I needed. I'm serious every day about this and would like to join the community ❤
Thank you, watched till the end
This video was very helpful to help me to be aware of awareness. Thank you for the teachings ❤❤❤
Watched till the end . Am a Follower of Mooji ..
Thank you from the depths of being🙏
In my experience I can do both to be aware of being aware and to think simultaneously. Thoughts are like fishes in a pond they are part of its nature. You need not to be empty minded to be aware of awareness itself. Not only that you can be self-aware inside your dreams at night too.
very clear and connected to ramana's teachings. shanti
I used to watch you before and learned about awareness from u and I had lost your channel name so glad I found u.
Hi Sunny. I listened to the whole session and loved every moment of it. Om shanti.💜🙏
Great video, thank you
Yes sunny is a gift to mankind
Have been listening to your videos recently and they all have some or the other teachings for me to incorporate. Keep up the great work. Thanks 🙏🏻
Thank you! Its important to point out the negative aspects of thinking. Sometimes a narrative feels almost unressitable, especially if its about awakening or a glimpse or something like that. The mind finds that interesting and tries everything to pull me in. I am in the process of getting used to having less inner narrative.
Loved this talk ...the three tips tht u gave at d end are wonderful...I hv been trying to sit in meditation everyday in d morning but wth thoughts as v common but never reached tht silence but I can imagine how tht will feel.... really want to experience tht n all personal desires looks v small compared to tht although still hv a long way to go before I can b totally free of them....but I truly want to focus on this simple noticing of beingness....
Thank you Sunny! I did listen to the end and found this very helpful. I am trying especially now, having established a good daily meditation practice, to be more aware of Awareness and my own 'I am' through the day. Fortunately, my job isn't too mentally demanding and is quite procedural, so I'm trying to keep thinking to a minimum and cultivate just being aware more and more. It is making life more joyful and reducing stress considerably. Self awareness is helping me so much, so I'm grateful for all you are teaching us. 🙏
Fabulous teaching. Thanks Sunny! 🙏
you should go thru desires.. they are a lot of fun if you do it right. osho had the right approach. renunciation is a path fraught with failure because essentially the ego will suppress the desire and it will live on. Buddha had everything, all the riches and other fun things, before he moved towards the spiritual path. He had experienced it already so there wasn't curiosity or much left there. It's actually the healthiest way to enlightenment. Renunciation and suppression and rejection or desires is fraught with failure and traps. Attachments and desires have to be let go to get to enlightenment, that's absolutely correct, but it's how you do that matters and whats likely to work.
This was a very important video for me personally at this moment. Thank you so much Sunny ❤
The pointer "you're not the doer" was such a relief to hear since I am searching for a new place to live and a familymember is dying and other things going on in my life situation right now!
Blessed to hear that the lessons are in fact something to be grateful for ❤
Happy to hear Malena♥
Awesome video, clearly resonates withe.
Finished reading I AM That You know the rest....
Hurt in my head 😢 enough. Everyday sound of silence. My doctor told me that to be switch of your mind 👍 peaceful 🙏
Very practical and very useful. Thanks God bless you.
really appreciate it and you Sunny. 'I am the doer' is the ego!
What a great teaching 🙏 Every word resonates with me so deeply. I like the way you emphasize surrender as the way to live - but that's one area I struggle with the most. How to reconcile surrender with conscious, intentional living as prescribed in the Gita? Aren't discrimination and choice-making essential to live consciously? If it's so, can the life still be one of total surrender?
Being aware of being aware that you are doing certain tasks is gonna get you into trouble. Being aware of your day to day decisions to tweak is recommended but being aware that you are being aware that you are talking to a person ie, being aware in a situation where your flow stops is detrimental to yourself. Just meditate and the meditational awareness is gonna kick if you seek for it:)
Beautiful, thank you so much
Watched till end. Thanks very good ❤
Thank you for this message. I love every bit of it