Oh again you have answered my grumbling. I’m 80. My body is no longer 50. It takes courage to move it out of bed. I judge myself harshly for not being able to face the day in joy, as I know IT within. But then I do my practice and peace returns. 🙏
"It's Better , (Or More Important), to Understand, Than to Be Understood " ! Good Reminder.....I first Came across that in AA literature, it's So True ❤
Despite years of spiritual studies I can still have a 'knee jerk' reaction which typically leaves me feeling bad for days and days. As I've had to focus on this I've saved this to my (phone) weekly reminders. Please consider doing the same. "The post event mental rumination from an outburst is never worth it. It can go on for days. Be quick to see ‘the gap’ and learn to ‘widen’ it. A reaction is impulsive, while a response arises from presence and awareness.Strong emotions often accompany knee-jerk reactions. Recognise these feelings as temporary energy waves that will pass.
Can awakening (or rather, our practices) cause us to dull our minds? I have noticed that increasingly, I cannot think of a word or name when I am describing something. I also find myself in the middle of a thought or contemplation and suddenly whatever I'm thinking about just slips through my mental "fingers" and is gone. Could this be a result of my meditation practice which is to let thoughts and feelings come and go? (In other words, a meditation without focus upon breath or a mantra, etc.) Or might I instead be experiencing early onset dementia? (I'm 47 and watching as my 77 y/o mom is losing her short term memory and I'm curious if my observable cognitive decline are the early signs of dementia.) I'm just curious to hear your thoughts and understand you are not offering a diagnosis or advice.
Emotions, pains still happen, but they are no longer perceived as positive or negative.They are just happenings like everything else in the space of being. When the labelling factor which is the mind dissapear then there is nothing anymore to judge these happenings as good or bad. Same with pain. Pain might be there, but it is nothing but another happening, neither good or bad. The pain is impersonal because mind is not there to claim it as its own. So therefore suffering is not there. Suffering comes only when mind claims doership over happening experiences. So as an example.Lets say before realization someone tells us: I don`t like what you said to me. The usual stream of thoughts appearing as a reaction to that would be probably of resistance to what was being said, like ``I didn`t really say anything that bad, what is that person talking about``, then perhaps ackowledgement/realization that the person spoken to was hurt.So appology may happen but argueing may happen also. In this way that cycle of mental story building as a result to certain situations can continue for days or even weeks to come creating suffering. After realization the same series of events may happen also. Appology may happen or argueing may happen. But the responses are not personal anymore. There is no one doing anything.They come by itself. The responses are simply natural play of organisms in case of human beings. During and after the event happened there is inner silence, so it is like the very happening after the exchange of organisms took place is quickly forgotten on the spot. But it is not quite like it. Its more like, because situation that happened was not judged to begin with by the mind, the correct response came by itself out of silence and the whole situation after the exchange was instantly dissolved. Its kind of like we forget what we have had for breakfast few days ago and don`t think about it any longer, the same is applied to any situation after realization .Situations or events of all kinds happen but then the spontaneus reponses to them come by itself out of silence and when the happening is over, the whole thing dissolves internally in silence. So in a way its like life is being constantly erased behind us as we move along.
after spiritual awakening will the compassionate kind person still be calm against wrong doings and injustice of negative which extremely affects the life of innocent, when we let it slide or be calm they take advantage of that.. how to handle such situations talking doesnt work, we cant avoid them due to circumstances
Thank you for your videos, they are really helpful! Would you say it’s normal, once we start awakening, to feel much less identification with that « I » (as in « me ») construct, but still to struggle to open to others. Is it normal to still feel vulnerable?
Oh again you have answered my grumbling. I’m 80. My body is no longer 50. It takes courage to move it out of bed. I judge myself harshly for not being able to face the day in joy, as I know IT within.
But then I do my practice and peace returns. 🙏
"It's Better , (Or More Important), to Understand, Than to Be Understood " ! Good Reminder.....I first Came across that in AA literature, it's So True ❤
Thank you both very much❤
Nothing changes, the emotions still come but are ignored to a greater extent.
Love this discussion. Oh I so appreciate you both. Much gratitude ❤️❤️❤️
🎯💯❤️🙏... absolutely love the honesty in this video. TY!
Despite years of spiritual studies I can still have a 'knee jerk' reaction which typically leaves me feeling bad for days and days. As I've had to focus on this I've saved this to my (phone) weekly reminders. Please consider doing the same. "The post event mental rumination from an outburst is never worth it. It can go on for days. Be quick to see ‘the gap’ and learn to ‘widen’ it. A reaction is impulsive, while a response arises from presence and awareness.Strong emotions often accompany knee-jerk reactions. Recognise these feelings as temporary energy waves that will pass.
Thank you for these episodes. They clarify my experience in surprising and delightful ways!
Thank you Brother!🙏♥️🙌This is very helpful & inspirational!
To me negativity is part of omnipresence and this helps it to dissipate - not always an easy task!
I sooo love this. This is how i feel ❤
Thank you
No “body” ever awakens! There is but one ALL, one NOW, one INFINITY, hence one SELF, that being the ONE that truly IS.
Can awakening (or rather, our practices) cause us to dull our minds?
I have noticed that increasingly, I cannot think of a word or name when I am describing something. I also find myself in the middle of a thought or contemplation and suddenly whatever I'm thinking about just slips through my mental "fingers" and is gone.
Could this be a result of my meditation practice which is to let thoughts and feelings come and go? (In other words, a meditation without focus upon breath or a mantra, etc.)
Or might I instead be experiencing early onset dementia? (I'm 47 and watching as my 77 y/o mom is losing her short term memory and I'm curious if my observable cognitive decline are the early signs of dementia.)
I'm just curious to hear your thoughts and understand you are not offering a diagnosis or advice.
Here’s the answer to your question ruclips.net/video/CsE8TZUjXAM/видео.htmlsi=m741t65lCYNPBbUS
@JagjotSinghNonDuality Thank you for your helpful pointers - I really appreciate your taking the time and effort to address this question with me.
What did she mean (?) -" life is a bit of a horror show after awakening." I'm interested to know more about this.
Emotions, pains still happen, but they are no longer perceived as positive or negative.They are just happenings like everything else in the space of being. When the labelling factor which is the mind dissapear then there is nothing anymore to judge these happenings as good or bad. Same with pain. Pain might be there, but it is nothing but another happening, neither good or bad. The pain is impersonal because mind is not there to claim it as its own. So therefore suffering is not there. Suffering comes only when mind claims doership over happening experiences.
So as an example.Lets say before realization someone tells us: I don`t like what you said to me. The usual stream of thoughts appearing as a reaction to that would be probably of resistance to what was being said, like ``I didn`t really say anything that bad, what is that person talking about``, then perhaps ackowledgement/realization that the person spoken to was hurt.So appology may happen but argueing may happen also. In this way that cycle of mental story building as a result to certain situations can continue for days or even weeks to come creating suffering. After realization the same series of events may happen also. Appology may happen or argueing may happen. But the responses are not personal anymore. There is no one doing anything.They come by itself. The responses are simply natural play of organisms in case of human beings. During and after the event happened there is inner silence, so it is like the very happening after the exchange of organisms took place is quickly forgotten on the spot. But it is not quite like it. Its more like, because situation that happened was not judged to begin with by the mind, the correct response came by itself out of silence and the whole situation after the exchange was instantly dissolved. Its kind of like we forget what we have had for breakfast few days ago and don`t think about it any longer, the same is applied to any situation after realization .Situations or events of all kinds happen but then the spontaneus reponses to them come by itself out of silence and when the happening is over, the whole thing dissolves internally in silence. So in a way its like life is being constantly erased behind us as we move along.
after spiritual awakening will the compassionate kind person still be calm against wrong doings and injustice of negative which extremely affects the life of innocent, when we let it slide or be calm they take advantage of that.. how to handle such situations talking doesnt work, we cant avoid them due to circumstances
Why does Jacqueline have such a strong Indian accent?
Ok so these people claim to have realized the Self like Ramana Maharshi and people believe them? That's interesting.
Thank you for your videos, they are really helpful! Would you say it’s normal, once we start awakening, to feel much less identification with that « I » (as in « me ») construct, but still to struggle to open to others. Is it normal to still feel vulnerable?