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33:41 these words are so true.."so once the space becomes bigger, the space between each thought, we have more of a chance then, to really start to investigate....'what's going on here'?" Once I realized this personally, it changed me permanently.....There can be no turning back from this realization. SJ...you've captured and expressed this so eloquently in these few words. My extreme-most gratitude to you.
I love the way you approach the meditation openly inviting contemplation e.g. "some things we can consider together", feels more accessible than more linear or rigid instructions for me these days
Slowly I am becoming able to spend more and more time being still for longer periods keeping my attention without falling asleep. - I pray this is making real progress.
Just hearing your voice puts me an immense relaxation thank you thank you so much for all these wonderful videos you’ve gotten me through so much I can’t thank you enough for all the wonderful Ness wow thank you thank you thank you❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🙏🏼❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
First descovered meditations for awakening on the app. And to descover these. To know more so as to continue to deepen this practice is incredible. Thankyou
During this meditation Khalil Gibran's poem: "The fear" rised in me "It is said that before entering the sea a river trembles with fear. she looks back at the path she has traveled, from the peaks of the mountains, the long winding road crossing forests and villages. and in front of her, she sees an ocean so vast, That to enter there seems nothing more than to disappear forever. but there is no other way. the river can not go back. nobody can go back. to go back is impossible in existence. the river needs to take the risk of entering the ocean because only then will fear disappear, because that's where the river will know it's not about disappearing into the ocean, but of becoming the ocean." Thank you for helping disolve suffering into peace and wisdom. 🙏🏽
Yes dear Sister my thoughts push me around and are often a violence. My worried mind latches on to insecurities, and I am usually overwhelmed. In recent years the idea of living Peace has come to me and has been such a hope. You embody that Peace. Your highly skillful highly compassionate guided meditations and readings go Straight To My Heart ! Thankyou for sharing with us. God bless, from Geelong Australia.
Thank you for this meditation.It helps me to keep my focus . Blessings to you for taking up this work of helping to guide others on the Path .Hari Om Tat Sat
Suddenly, quietly almost imperceptible a seismic shift took place. The psychological planets fell into their proper orbits. Doubtless, the movement will continue. After all, sabe sankhara aniccha and the mind is also Sankhara. But it will be more gentle and hopefully in the direction of stillness. Thank you from deep down inside🙏
I’ve heard you narrate other great enlightened individuals’ teachings. But this is the first one I’ve heard by yourself. It’s profound and peaceful. I particularly like the picture on the screen. It’s pretty much what my monkey mind feels like..Thank you so much Samaneri ❤
I have been doing _"Somatic Experiencing"_ therapy for some time now, and this meditation really meshes in with this work. I found at one point that the image of a tree came to mind, where thoughts are the most of visible parts, with a lot of movement, but that feelings are more subterranean, not always well defined and quite often below our awareness, our roots. The connection between feeling/sensation and thought is a really fertile area for contemplation. Most of our thoughts I think come from an intuitive attempt to resolve the subterranean world of feeling. Seeing the objective absurdity of our thought certainly helps, but it is the _roots_ of the thought, the causes, that have to be exposed and dealt with. Jayasāra, I'm so very happy with your guidance and inspiration: first Ryōkan, then Ilie Cioara, now this. I now see that your technique is as highly coloured and varied as Creation itself.
First of all your voice is beautiful. These guided meditations are much better than the teachings from the gurus becaues they are not riddled with comments like, "you don't know yourself" or "be silent", which is something that makes people feel deficient and frustrated. The comments try to help but just another version of the Christian calling out the sinner who can't stop sinning. The thoughts come up from outer material or an event through analysis, judgement, care, worry, expectations, etc. It is the matter or event that we psychologically disengage from and then the thought will stop. We have to deal with the matter but not seriously. When bugs bunny was getting chased by Elmer, he said, "I can go along with a gag" lol
Leaving at last the noisy fracas at the beachside, I laid down, at last, on a private dune and found a noisy fracas inside this old heart; after a while, I could not but smile at the fragments of a life, driftwood and seaweed and twigs and a disoriented crab scuttling nowhere, which so compelled my fear and longing for a lifetime, for many lifetimes perhaps. It feels like it is time to swim…🙏
It’s the voice (cadence, accent, vibratory something-or-other). I swear, if Samaneri Jayasara said I should go jump in the lake, no questions asked, I might have to give it some serious consideration. I’m not minimizing the message, but these things matter. Think about it, the C-scale, the first (and easiest to master) series of notes one learns on the keyboard, it’s just, well, the scale of C. But change the cadence and it’s “joy to the world the Lord has come.” Still, this is one of Samaneri’s most compelling clips (can I say ‘clips’?). Who among us have ever been so cavalier as to think our thoughts don’t amass an ontological weight with (at least) the density of Osmium (I looked it up), much less gossamer?
I’ve done this meditation 5 days in a row, mostly morning and night both. The thought occurred: “Is the voice in my head a thought, is it heard or both?” I held it the question for some time and all that answered was “Both, and because it is observable, I am not that.” My mind is unsatisfied with that answer.
@@SamaneriJayasara thank you. Years of conditioning I suspect make identification with the mind and especially the pain body real enough. Tough, habitual, deeply grooved, long standing neuro-pathways.
Dear Friend, i seem to work backwards. I first find myself in an emotional state and then use my thoughts to try and identify the source of it and discover why that emotional state is there. I dont believe its any more beneficial to do this and dont understand it. Sometimes i cant find the mind source of the emotional state as it presents itself. Sometimes the emotional states are just general. The discomfort of this world.
Yes Jannie, that's the problem with intense emotional states and thoughts. We often believe we can think our way out of them but we just keep going around and around in circles or dig a deeper pit to fall into. Here the encouragement is to let them go (especially from that sort of analytical response) and to trust in the Awareness as Source and as the healing power. Truly it is - but it does take some trust and patience - and practice of course. Sending you much peace....
Suggestion: It may be helpful to look at thoughts and emotions as two sides of the same coin, so to speak. Thoughts evoke emotions and emotions evoke thoughts seamlessly. When you notice that, they have a unified, (non-dual) nature. The conceptual mind relies on a splitting, (hence the Western dualism) of subject and object, but in reality that is not so. At first, if you can notice that, they are like a wheel going around with a certain momentum, (karma?). If you do comprehend that, then you can know that you are merely observing a process that is set into motion in an apparent duality that implies a unity. That realization can happen with gradual practice or in a flash. That way, it may be easier to put them down or aside and just be the natural state of awareness, which is your original, default condition always. Then, they merely appear to arise and subside like ocean waves. Keep in mind that we make concessions to words and meanings to express the inexpressible and non-duality is "suchness"d or "that thou art". You are already here and now as that. The ocean waves, for instance, are modulations of the ocean itself that rise and fall back into the vastness of the water. When that is known, there will be no mistake. Emotions, (feelings) and thoughts, (intellect) are a matter of perspective and so, they are the same thing seen from two ways of experiencing reality. From there, actuality can become evident. I hope that made some sense ;) Tashi Delek
I can relate to you Jannie. Whole my life if been so enmeshed tried to figure out. I found out (through teachings) it's helpful to in a way see thoughts as a stream, a river, almost literally still lucid. Getting out of river so to speak sitting at banks of the river "I'm" not any longer in it. The vast openness of awareness is seen this river (thoughts, emotions) are there. But the enmeshed quality isn't any more.
The most important thing to recognize is that when we relax fully and let all emotions and thoughts come and go in their natural way, the mind will settle in its own perfect essence. Don’t over think anything. Let it be as it is and fly on.
Thank you for this beautiful meditation. A question : isn't the idea of gradually letting go of thoughts until we find peace, itself also a delusion of becoming?
Ultimately yes. But until the mind is purified enough to realize this fully, the practice entails a certain letting go... However, letting go happens naturally and automatically anyway when one sees through the delusion of thoughts and their empty, substanceless nature.
I love your work, I would like to know what it means when after meditating 2 to 3 hours a day for a year I feel depressed pretty much all the time. I don't have drive to go to generate income because it seems all for nothing... I was hoping meditation will give me a lightness in spirit but I feel heavy and dark. Wanted to know if you have any thoughts about that?
I'm sorry to read of your suffering and depression here. I shall try to respond as best I can to your question, bearing in mind it is a little difficult without understanding more about the context and your specific circumstances. I guess the first thing to acknowledge is that it is not meditation per se that is causing the depression, but rather you have become acutely aware of it through the consistent and regular practice of meditation. My guess is that some feelings of depression were there before but below the surface. We often miss these uncomfortable feelings when we are busy in our lives and we often attempt to cover them up anyway so that we don't have to feel them by being busy or indulging in drugs, alcohol, sex, etc. When we settle and stop in meditation they have a chance to come to the fore. It is actually a good thing that these feelings are now clearly felt and perceived, but we have to learn to reflect wisely on them and if we shift our attitude towards them in our meditation practice, and start to see them with right view, they can and will eventually dissolve. A new shift is more than possible, it is inevitable. I am happy to respond in greater detail to your difficulties but this comments thread is probably not the best space. If you write to me at vivekahermitage@gmail.com with a little more background information I can respond further from there when I can. Sending all good wishes your way, Jayasara
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It’s just your voice in my head cheering me on throughout the day. I know you don’t know me but I know you’re encouraging me!
33:41 these words are so true.."so once the space becomes bigger, the space between each thought, we have more of a chance then, to really start to
investigate....'what's going on here'?" Once I realized this personally, it changed me permanently.....There can be no turning back from this realization. SJ...you've captured and expressed this so eloquently in these few words. My extreme-most gratitude to you.
I love the way you approach the meditation openly inviting contemplation e.g. "some things we can consider together", feels more accessible than more linear or rigid instructions for me these days
So grateful for this meditation and the whole web site. Can't put it into words.
This is SO helpful and beautifully done...I finally 'got it'...the witness state and the 'flimsiness' of thoughts...thank so much! 🙏🙏🙏
Oh my - wowed by this - by you
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I woke up this morning with my Sky of Mind filled with fireworks! This was the perfect teaching for me this cloudy/smoky morning. Much LOVE!
Best video on the internet. Thanks!!!
I managed to really calm down to that huge growler in my head with this
Amazing. Brilliant expose of the illusion of thought & therefore my emotional stress. To hear this reality is a game-changer.
Thank you SJ 🙏🏼
Slowly I am becoming able to spend more and more time being still for longer periods keeping my attention without falling asleep. - I pray this is making real progress.
Just hearing your voice puts me an immense relaxation thank you thank you so much for all these wonderful videos you’ve gotten me through so much I can’t thank you enough for all the wonderful Ness wow thank you thank you thank you❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🙏🏼❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
My heart rests when I hear your voice.
Thank you
First descovered meditations for awakening on the app.
And to descover these.
To know more so as to continue to deepen this practice is incredible. Thankyou
Wow so powerful 🙏🦋💗
Thank you for this gift - I hope 🤞 you record more
This is what helps me sleep at night. Xx
During this meditation
Khalil Gibran's poem:
"The fear"
rised in me
"It is said that before entering the sea
a river trembles with fear.
she looks back at the path she has traveled,
from the peaks of the mountains,
the long winding road crossing forests and villages.
and in front of her,
she sees an ocean so vast,
That to enter
there seems nothing more than to disappear forever.
but there is no other way.
the river can not go back.
nobody can go back.
to go back is impossible in existence.
the river needs to take the risk
of entering the ocean
because only then will fear disappear,
because that's where the river will know
it's not about disappearing into the ocean,
but of becoming the ocean."
Thank you for helping disolve suffering into peace and wisdom.
🙏🏽
Yes dear Sister my thoughts push me around and are often a violence. My worried mind latches on to insecurities, and I am usually overwhelmed. In recent years the idea of living Peace has come to me and has been such a hope. You embody that Peace. Your highly skillful highly compassionate guided meditations and readings go Straight To My Heart ! Thankyou for sharing with us. God bless, from Geelong Australia.
Thank you for this meditation.It helps me to keep my focus . Blessings to you for taking up this work of helping to guide others on the Path .Hari Om Tat Sat
I simply don't have the words to adequately express how grateful I am to have found this guided meditation. Thank you SJ.
Beautiful reflections!
Many thanks. Wonderful as ever
Thank you, sincerely.
Thank you Mother. You are such a blessing! ❤️🙏
Suddenly, quietly almost imperceptible a seismic shift took place. The psychological planets fell into their proper orbits. Doubtless, the movement will continue. After all, sabe sankhara aniccha and the mind is also Sankhara. But it will be more gentle and hopefully in the direction of stillness. Thank you from deep down inside🙏
Love your mediations. Your voice n cadence are priceless. Om Namah Buddha!
Give it all to God as the saying goes.
I need to make a donation. I am so grateful for you. Your content, your delivery, your sensitivity ❤
Thank you for the guidance and the effort.
A temple is a long thought
Much longer than a cloud
A wonderful hour. Thank you darling SJ.
So helpful, so kind! Thank you.
Thank you.
I’ve heard you narrate other great enlightened individuals’ teachings. But this is the first one I’ve heard by yourself. It’s profound and peaceful. I particularly like the picture on the screen. It’s pretty much what my monkey mind feels like..Thank you so much Samaneri ❤
Thank you so much Sister
Om Shanti. Stay blessed
I have been doing _"Somatic Experiencing"_ therapy for some time now, and this meditation really meshes in with this work. I found at one point that the image of a tree came to mind, where thoughts are the most of visible parts, with a lot of movement, but that feelings are more subterranean, not always well defined and quite often below our awareness, our roots. The connection between feeling/sensation and thought is a really fertile area for contemplation. Most of our thoughts I think come from an intuitive attempt to resolve the subterranean world of feeling. Seeing the objective absurdity of our thought certainly helps, but it is the _roots_ of the thought, the causes, that have to be exposed and dealt with. Jayasāra, I'm so very happy with your guidance and inspiration: first Ryōkan, then Ilie Cioara, now this. I now see that your technique is as highly coloured and varied as Creation itself.
Thankyou so much 💓🙏
Thank you, sister❤️.
what to say......thank you, thankyou, thank you !
Thank you so very much, again!!!
Thank you eternally for this SJ
a online
transcription of these jewels would be an instant chapter in a e-book....
First of all your voice is beautiful. These guided meditations are much better than the teachings from the gurus becaues they are not riddled with comments like, "you don't know yourself" or "be silent", which is something that makes people feel deficient and frustrated. The comments try to help but just another version of the Christian calling out the sinner who can't stop sinning. The thoughts come up from outer material or an event through analysis, judgement, care, worry, expectations, etc. It is the matter or event that we psychologically disengage from and then the thought will stop. We have to deal with the matter but not seriously. When bugs bunny was getting chased by Elmer, he said, "I can go along with a gag" lol
Thank you 🙏🏻 💕
Namaste darling, god bless, thankyou for your immense service 😊😅😮😢🎉😂❤❤❤❤❤all is SHIVA
Excellent. ❤
Love your voice
Thank you so much for this meditation 🌷
Thank you for sharing🙂
Completely. Thanks.
It’s not going to stop till you give up
Wonderful 👁❤👁🙏
Leaving at last the noisy fracas at the beachside, I laid down, at last, on a private dune and found a noisy fracas inside this old heart; after a while, I could not but smile at the fragments of a life, driftwood and seaweed and twigs and a disoriented crab scuttling nowhere, which so compelled my fear and longing for a lifetime, for many lifetimes perhaps. It feels like it is time to swim…🙏
Very helpfull 🙏
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This is really helpful. Thank you 🙏✨
GOOD
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THAN
KYOU
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It’s the voice (cadence, accent, vibratory something-or-other). I swear, if Samaneri Jayasara said I should go jump in the lake, no questions asked, I might have to give it some serious consideration. I’m not minimizing the message, but these things matter. Think about it, the C-scale, the first (and easiest to master) series of notes one learns on the keyboard, it’s just, well, the scale of C. But change the cadence and it’s “joy to the world the Lord has come.”
Still, this is one of Samaneri’s most compelling clips (can I say ‘clips’?). Who among us have ever been so cavalier as to think our thoughts don’t amass an ontological weight with (at least) the density of Osmium (I looked it up), much less gossamer?
She has a beautiful calming voice a soft Aussie accent ❤
❤☀️♥️☀️♥️☀️♥️☀️♥️☀️
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Thinking
between child and cloud
Imagining Tilda Swinton as the Ancient One from Doctor Strange
I’ve done this meditation 5 days in a row, mostly morning and night both.
The thought occurred:
“Is the voice in my head a thought, is it heard or both?”
I held it the question for some time and all that answered was
“Both, and because it is observable, I am not that.”
My mind is unsatisfied with that answer.
Keep looking deeper...you will see that Ultimately there are no thoughts or voices in Reality.
@@SamaneriJayasara thank you.
Years of conditioning I suspect make identification with the mind and especially the pain body real enough.
Tough, habitual, deeply grooved, long standing neuro-pathways.
✨🌟🌼🧡🙏🏻🧡🌼🌟✨
Dear Friend, i seem to work backwards. I first find myself in an emotional state and then use my thoughts to try and identify the source of it and discover why that emotional state is there. I dont believe its any more beneficial to do this and dont understand it. Sometimes i cant find the mind source of the emotional state as it presents itself. Sometimes the emotional states are just general. The discomfort of this world.
Yes Jannie, that's the problem with intense emotional states and thoughts. We often believe we can think our way out of them but we just keep going around and around in circles or dig a deeper pit to fall into. Here the encouragement is to let them go (especially from that sort of analytical response) and to trust in the Awareness as Source and as the healing power. Truly it is - but it does take some trust and patience - and practice of course. Sending you much peace....
Suggestion: It may be helpful to look at thoughts and emotions as two sides of the same coin, so to speak. Thoughts evoke emotions and emotions evoke thoughts seamlessly. When you notice that, they have a unified, (non-dual) nature. The conceptual mind relies on a splitting, (hence the Western dualism) of subject and object, but in reality that is not so.
At first, if you can notice that, they are like a wheel going around with a certain momentum, (karma?). If you do comprehend that, then you can know that you are merely observing a process that is set into motion in an apparent duality that implies a unity. That realization can happen with gradual practice or in a flash.
That way, it may be easier to put them down or aside and just be the natural state of awareness, which is your original, default condition always. Then, they merely appear to arise and subside like ocean waves.
Keep in mind that we make concessions to words and meanings to express the inexpressible and non-duality is "suchness"d or "that thou art". You are already here and now as that. The ocean waves, for instance, are modulations of the ocean itself that rise and fall back into the vastness of the water. When that is known, there will be no mistake.
Emotions, (feelings) and thoughts, (intellect) are a matter of perspective and so, they are the same thing seen from two ways of experiencing reality. From there, actuality can become evident.
I hope that made some sense ;)
Tashi Delek
I can relate to you Jannie. Whole my life if been so enmeshed tried to figure out. I found out (through teachings) it's helpful to in a way see thoughts as a stream, a river, almost literally still lucid. Getting out of river so to speak sitting at banks of the river "I'm" not any longer in it. The vast openness of awareness is seen this river (thoughts, emotions) are there. But the enmeshed quality isn't any more.
The most important thing to recognize is that when we relax fully and let all emotions and thoughts come and go in their natural way, the mind will settle in its own perfect essence. Don’t over think anything. Let it be as it is and fly on.
Thank you very much for all of your insights. Such a kind way to start this day. I will reread and consider all your wisdom.
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Thank you for this beautiful meditation. A question : isn't the idea of gradually letting go of thoughts until we find peace, itself also a delusion of becoming?
Ultimately yes. But until the mind is purified enough to realize this fully, the practice entails a certain letting go... However, letting go happens naturally and automatically anyway when one sees through the delusion of thoughts and their empty, substanceless nature.
@@SamaneriJayasara thank you 🙏 ❤️
I love your work, I would like to know what it means when after meditating 2 to 3 hours a day for a year I feel depressed pretty much all the time. I don't have drive to go to generate income because it seems all for nothing... I was hoping meditation will give me a lightness in spirit but I feel heavy and dark. Wanted to know if you have any thoughts about that?
I'm sorry to read of your suffering and depression here. I shall try to respond as best I can to your question, bearing in mind it is a little difficult without understanding more about the context and your specific circumstances. I guess the first thing to acknowledge is that it is not meditation per se that is causing the depression, but rather you have become acutely aware of it through the consistent and regular practice of meditation. My guess is that some feelings of depression were there before but below the surface. We often miss these uncomfortable feelings when we are busy in our lives and we often attempt to cover them up anyway so that we don't have to feel them by being busy or indulging in drugs, alcohol, sex, etc. When we settle and stop in meditation they have a chance to come to the fore. It is actually a good thing that these feelings are now clearly felt and perceived, but we have to learn to reflect wisely on them and if we shift our attitude towards them in our meditation practice, and start to see them with right view, they can and will eventually dissolve. A new shift is more than possible, it is inevitable. I am happy to respond in greater detail to your difficulties but this comments thread is probably not the best space. If you write to me at vivekahermitage@gmail.com
with a little more background information I can respond further from there when I can. Sending all good wishes your way, Jayasara
@@SamaneriJayasara Thank You I have sent an email.
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