I am not a nillist .Genesis 10 New International Version The Table of Nations 10 This is the account of Shem, Ham and Japheth, Noah’s sons, who themselves had sons after the flood. The Japhethites 2
To be fair, if you put all you have in a boat business, then you understand the risk. Not much different from going on all in on a penny stock. And probably he died inside for some time like every sane person would before building himself back up.
I suppose, "philosophically," would it be any different than losing your entire work over any period of time? Would a length of time not just be an extended period of what would otherwise have been an instantaneous one? I don't know. That's just where my mind went.
He apparently lies to himself, then lectures us on how to live our lives/how we should look at the world? Mandela was a strait up political 7errorist with a capital T. No one seriously can deny this who o owes the history of SA. Woke lies are still lies. Just because a lie benifiets non White people doesn’t mean it’s true or good. We’re sooo social communists.
Unless you are the target of unwarranted persecution, eradication. Something I'm sure Marcus Aurelius didn't have to worry about. Happiness is a state of mind yes but like a wave it comes and goes and could never be static because to be so would invalidate all other states of emotion. Imagine wanting to feel sadness and only being able to feel happy.
@@itsmeurboilots people with mental illnesses can become happy.Exodus 5 New International Version Bricks Without Straw 5 Afterward Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘Let my people go, so that they may hold a festival to me in the wilderness.’” 2
I never learned stoicism, I just adopted parts of it eventually after feeling embarrassed for those who overreacted in public. I’ve literally been hired for a job, because the business owner said I was more “even keeled” than the other applicants. I have used it to defeat depression early on and have been able to help a few others defeat depression. The easiest way to teach it, is using the line in this video about controlling how things effect you, vs worrying about trying to control everything that happens to you. Yes, you must attempt to control the world around you, to survive. But when things beyond our control happen, do not let it break you.
@@mikerubin22 only if they ask . Why? Are you a bully? I’d be happy to bully you and show you what it feels like. Seriously though, it’s not really all that deep. Just don’t let shit overwhelm you. Focus on what you can control. I’m not a fixer, I just happen to have known a few depressed people who this helped.
I have been listening to this for 1 year now. Everytime I come here to listen. Practicing it has completely transformed my life perspective and how I react to situations.
DEAR HEAVENS.. I am a female over 70 and THIS IS THE VERY BEST UTUBE VIDEO I HAVE EVER HEARD ON STOICISM..THIS IS THE ONLY VIDEO WORTH Wtching..keep it in you phone..you will not regret it. THANK YOU!!
There are people who will begin to be enlightened and whose lives will gradually change upon watching this video. I'm grateful for hard work and good intentions of this content creator.
@@いつか-u5c it is. So what? You don't think this took a lot of effort? Even if he just explained ideas that are already existing, he summarized them, included his own opinions and also talked about his experiences with philosophy and spirituality and how it affected him, ego death for example.
What a privilege to discover such a thoughtful, broad-minded and insightful young philosopher. Thank you for choosing to share your experience with the world of philosophy with others through this channel. You have a relaxed spirit and a gentle heart and so you are qualified to convey the many ways in which practical understanding can nourish and strengthen rational existence. Good work. Keep it up! I look forward to hearing more from you. :)
Yea buddy, you're in a flow state when you make these videos. This video has brought tears to my eyes more times than I'd like to count. Thank you, sir.....
I actually use your and other similar videos to enter a flow state. Listening to philosophy or history while cleaning, working, or organizing somehow sends me there.
I thought I was alone in that regard....yeah, seems like my mind goes from muddled chaos to finding myself effortlessly moving through my chores without resistance....I don't get it, and it still takes me by surprise every time🤷♀️
My whole life ive always found it hard to understand how people get so angry with things in life and im now realising its becuase im stoic. People have also told me that things unfaze me and i never get angry and ive always thought something was wrong with me but this vid has now put a word to how i view everything
Isn't that a wonderful feeling? To find that the things the 'general public' point out in you as a character flaw, something that they see as something you should change and makes you feel a little bit self aware of being 'different' and not as a quality that sets you apart. This affirmation of my natural way I see and respond to the world, as a quality of charcter that makes me at peace with myself and accepting of the fact that I am different, in a good way. And it's ok if others don't get it.
Thought provoking videos like this are why I’m here. Your videos make the wheels turn in my brain and I love it. More of us should be thinking deeper than what is simply on the surface.
The way you described Stoicism really resonated with me. I thought maybe I wasn’t emotional enough but now I realize I have a stoic mindset. Whenever I upload a video to RUclips I expect the worst, to lose a subscriber or not get any views. So when I gain a subscriber or get a couple likes on a video it makes me feel incredible. When you expect the worst, any other outcome feels phenomenal and fills you with gratitude. And to expect the worst and still go through with an action builds character and tolerance to the world
I have to agree with you about the complete "philosophy" statement. However, I would like to state that all the negativity nihilism gets I view as "passive nihilism", where one is ambivalent to everything. On the contrast though what I call "active nihilism", is more closely related to Zen Buddhism, The act of letting things go the act of not caring as much especially about what other people think of you, it requires taking some action, where as "passive nihilism" is when you become stagnant and stuck. The art of not caring has a fine line to it, but if you're doing it as a means of growth and coming from statements like "What other people say about me is none of my business.", it is powerful.
Everything we experience in life is from the perspective of the mind. Our mind has the power to make us happy or to make us suffer. When it's filled with chaotic, negative thoughts, we suffer. We have to understand that it's our mind working in tandem with the present moment that dictates reality. The quality of one's life depends on the quality of one's thoughts. -Aurelius
I feel like everyone should see this video. But in the words of Reinhold Messner “Most people forget that from the beginning of we are approaching death, life is absurd, but we can fill it with idea, enthusiasm, we can fill our lives with joy.
I am very thankful for this video. It really has helped me rethink life, feel much better and get me out of a limbo like state in life. Thank you and keep up the great work🙏
Such a great video. I can't even imagine the amount of effort you put in this, but i believe it was enlightening experience for you as well. Thank you for sharing this for us and i hope you will keep on doing a great job.
35:05 Doing a psychedelic indused ego death is lige playing that dark childrens game where you get your friend to push down on your lungs while your back is against the wall. When you come up, your friend takes the position. The cop out lies within the trust that the *two entities* share between each other, so that you can "get high" off of the near death experience. - the "buddy" represents the independent variable of you trip objectively being the good or bad variety. - the asphixiation symbolises how horrifying ego death feels like. - and I guess, the children represent how we must all approach boundry defying near death experiences with a heavy dose of humility, as children at heart?
I was thinking to myself a few days ago while driving that ....." we were all here even when earth didn't look like this. We were here but in a different form to adapt to that environment at the time and as earth evolved into what we it's now, we changed our form to hiw we look now to adapt" and like hec said in the video, energy/soul does not die, its transferred.
I call it Theory of Autonomous Creation and we created the environment that we live today, the oceans, the mountains, islands, cities, all of the surface of earth and also our best companion ,the moon, that keeps us balanced and steady. We created through collective consciousness. It was our only God (not our creator) moment and why we haven't seen since. We've been at each other's throats since our beautiful shaping of Earth.hink it has a bit of Quantum Mechanicsinvolved. If we ever decided to come together as humans again, we would all understand what God is. Someday we pray. 🙏 🌏☀️🌜⭐️✌️ ☀️
As a stoic more than 15 years i can say you perfectly describe what stoicism is. I even cry i little because it's a beautiful video. I am sure you are proud of your self. Thank you so much for your effort you put in this video.
Man this was truly an incredible presentation and content that has a large amount of insight and wisdom. Well done. It is my goal which I've been working on knowingly to grow and become fully competent in Stoicism by the age of 50 years old but of course continue growing and learning until my last days very end. Even at 47 and lived what seemed 3 lifetimes over the last 7 years which ironically was the first time I truly got to know myself. My awakening at 38 I shall never forget. Part of me wishes to this day I would never have awoken. The other part is hyper aware that I'm super aware and so on. It definitely changes you and you are unable to see life the same way you always had and for me it literally happened overnight. I went to bed my old self and awoke the next morning to a set of silent unsaid unspoken instructions that I answered silently as I sat straight up in my bed but agreed and answered yes to instructions that were never said yet understood. Phenomenal content and it definitely didn't go unnoticed. I think it will take and impact all people different but one thing they will need is to have or be In process of having an awakening and totally and literally seeing thy ego appear to come out and I remember seeing it float away like a balloon but feeling no panic and being at peace. Some really great insight and I'm happy to have watched and listened to your awakening as it's not often I ever hear it spoken and I have tried before to those I know and they look at me as if one of these. I'm crazy. The look at me and their eyes read mass confusion to which I quickly change the subject with and or they will try to understand but I've realized that even if good with words, something's words cannot explain and can only be learned from real life experience. Thanks for sharing!
@Christopher Garza just say it instead of looking like you need help with spelling. I'm sure you're bashing my post. Most do who in the end struggle to have good intent so man up and spell it rather than look like you need my help with spelling. What you abbreviate does nor won't change my post or will it change the difference between the truth and the one too scared to spell out his bashing he feels the need. Say it. I do not care. Envy is weak so speak your truth instead of abbreviating it. If it's the truth I'll be the first one to retract and apologize. "AUARM"
Thank you for this thought-provoking exploration of reality. It's fascinating how our perception shapes our understanding of what is real. The concept of subjective reality opens up endless possibilities for philosophical inquiry. It reminds me of the quote, 'Reality is not a fixed construct but a fluid interpretation.' Keep up the great work!
Where have you been?? the way you speak and the approach with words given in this video absolutely wonderful you say this so eloquently that’s understandable. I’ve always felt this way, but I just never was able to say it in this manner. Thank you.
We must let go of things and focus on the things will be alright without the things that we lost. Let go of the material stuff and learn to control that ego of ours which happens to take control of us.
I have experienced ego death through toad medicine (Buffo Alvarius). It has been the most amazing experience... Philosophy has helped me ground myself on this new journey. My beliefs about the world, universe and humanity have completely changed.
A wonderful way to come across a young philosopher who is so perceptive, intelligent, and open-minded. We appreciate that you have chosen to use this channel to tell people about your experiences in the field of philosophy. You are well-suited to explain the various ways that practical knowledge can support and enhance reasoned existence since you have a calm disposition and a kind heart. Excellent work. Go on! I'm interested in hearing more from you since I just remembered a wise proverb that goes, "You already have everything you need to live a happy life. Just change the way you think." I've learned a lot. ❣️❣️
Thank you aperture your videos are very educational and entertaining and I’ve started to study many different philosophy’s mainly stoicism. My girlfriend broke up with me a couple days ago and I’ve watched this video twice since then thank you for helping me and teaching me❤️
Personal experience The more you except the negative outcome The more bad will happen It's 50/50 Better to expect positive results Our minds control ALL our personal reality
Naw I expected an ad on this video because RUclips are greedy pigs who hate nice things, so I put on my adblock just incase. I expected a negative outcome so I stopped it from happening, is good if you're proactive about your pessimism.
4:07 I never feel like it's a bad experience when that happens usually I'm in awe of the power of nature, and also know that this is a rare moment, I mean usually I still go inside but not before enjoying it a little.
Zeno became depressed with the loss in his business and to come out of his depression he started reading philosophical books. Once he visited a bookstore and chanced upon a book on Socrates, the philosopher written by historian Xenophon. He started reading it and was very interested in the world of philosophy and philosophers. He asked the shopkeeper as to where he could find such men as mentioned in the books. Zeno was referring to finding the philosophers in flesh and blood. Incidentally at that time one famous philosopher of that town was passing by the bookstore. The shopkeeper immediately pointed towards that man and told Zeno that he was the philosopher type. In those days of Athens it was quite possible to find philosophers roaming the streets as ordinary men with their students. Athens was the hub of philosophy and their resultant schools and academies. Zeno immediately talked to him, became his disciple and started learning philosophy from him. He kept on learning philosophy from different schools of thought but still he could not satisfy his intellectual thirst. He thought there is something lacking in the philosophical world which can be of immense help to society. Thereupon he started thinking upon those issues that ultimately gave birth to the stoicism school of philosophy. Zeno talked about practical wisdom and how we must listen to our human nature and balance our actions with reasons. To bring himself closer to the people and to propagate his philosophical thoughts, Zeno started delivering free lectures in the open marketplace. People started listening to him and slowly he became famous in Athens. The name Stoicism comes from the word “Stoa '' which means open place. This is because Zeno used to talk about his philosophy in the open marketplace. Sometimes some people leave their imprint so deep that every moment of their action becomes memorable. This is an incredible story of self determination on how an individual converted his precarious situation (financial and mental catastrophe) into an intellectual revolution. Zeno of Citium is one of the leaders of the philosophical world who provided a fresh insight into the practical wisdom of philosophy. He is one of the few we can credit with the “leadership of the mind” in the annals of humanity’s intellectual journey.
This is like Exurb1a and Lemmino made a video together. It's so fucking good man, so fucking good. All the time you took, paid off. REALLY FUCKING GOOD
Wow that start caught me off guard. I just started reading "Mastering the stoic way of life" and than I click play and you begin to talk about Zeno and the storm he was in lol
you would learn that it was just a bunch of idiots trying to out word and manipulate the art of language like I can today actually. I very well am able to debate and pick apart things due to philosophical reasoning
Goosh! I am never one who believes in stoicism but this right here is an eye opener.this was actually worth watching.You must have invented so much time in putting together this video which is absolutely astounding.kudos for a job well done.
I destroyed my ego with DMT. The "unknown," as you described it, was oddly familiar. It felt like this life was the death, and that place was my home. It completely changed my understanding of life and its purpose.
My life was rescued by stoicism. Many thanks for this channel. I appreciate you bringing to my attention that my suffering is unique to me. I refuse to allow my pain to bring another person's misery. Life is difficult enough without our being able to understand another person's suffering. However, we can at least choose not to be involved. Knowledgeability guts Fairness and modality.
Stoicism saved my life. Thank you to this channel. Thank you for reminding me that my pain is mine and mine alone. I will not let my suffering cause further suffering for another. Life is hard enough and we can not know the pain of another. But we can at the very least not contribute to it. Wisdom Courage Temperance and Justice ❤
Well said. I draw strength from your awareness and acceptance of responsibility for your own feelings and pain, but your awareness for NOT putting it onto other people and make them responsible for fixing you, understanding your pain, adjusting their lives to accommodate you. Your insightful awareness and acceptance that others have their own pain and path to follow, and don't need yours on top of it is very powerful. It's a hard thing to release the world of obligation for your emotional response to things. But once you get it, it is very freeing. Good job. Thank you for sharing your wisdom.
I'd say stoicism almost got it right. Instead of doing it for ourselves, do it for the sake of it. Helping others is helping yourself. Just as caring for yourself before you care for others enables you to help others. Just as by feeling good by helping others we can allow ourselves to be helped so that others can feel good. These principles lead past the simple boundaries of contentment and discontentment, and give rise to purpose and intent. To those who chase freedom, or pleasures, or creation, or knowledge, or fairness, we are all after something. Be it a sense of power, a means to feel secure, the desire for love, or anything you can imagine. For one of the best philosophical frameworks for life that I've found, take the ideas of buddhism, stoicism, absurdism, and everything by Alan Watts and Carl Sagan. You'll go down the path of wondering that if anything can have meaning, then nothing really does. You'll learn that the bottom line, the whole reason for everything, is love.
"Just as by feeling good by helping others we can allow ourselves to be helped so that others can feel good" what a great perspective. I have never thought about it like that. I tend to be of a mindset, "i need to do it all myself" not sure if it is to prove something to myself, or if i am hesitant of asking for help in fear of judgement or upsetting someone. But i love to help people, it feels good. and i never thought of letting others help me and allowing them to feel that same feeling.
A great wayto discover such a thoughtful, broad-minded and insightful young philosopher. Thank you for choosing to share your experience with the world of philosophy with others through this channel. You have a relaxed spirit and a gentle heart and so you are qualified to convey the many ways in which practical understanding can nourish and strengthen rational existence. Good work. Keep it up! I look forward to hearing more from you I have remembered a great saying,Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking." - Marcus Aurelius Really great ideas, very informative, I have learned a lot
I've just started preparing for a philosophy and ethics graduate certificate at Harvard Extension School. I'm excited to start learning and writing more about the subject of philosophy and how we define what life is as we interpret it. Thanks for the taking the time and effort to put this video together.
This is a VERY GOOD video. “FEAR DEATH NOT -FOR NOTHING IS LEFT OF EVIL THAT ISN’T ALREADY BEING ENDURED BY US IN THIS LIFETIME ❤ Death is just another Birth to another Time and another Lifetime in Another Dimension” ~Brandie Yuen
Indeed, perspective is everything. We should do things for ourselves. We must also let go of so many things like material and ego, in other to focus on things that would help us in future. We must learn how to be supportive and help others in this life. We must be humble and ready to accommodate others because this life is so beautiful and so large to accommodate everyone. Philosophy teaches us about life and it's existence and we must continue to learn and take things easy in this life. Life is too precious, so, cherish it, love it and leave it to the fullest. Remember, your perspective is always everything, be conscious it and you will do well in this life. This is an amazing video. A good one to watch over and over again. I wish that a good number of people could come across this particular video, watch and share it to their lived ones and most importantly and learn more things about life and it's existence. Thank you so much for this great video and please, post more of it.
I fell asleep listening to this video today, June 2nd. 23. Around 1 pm, after dealing with the courthouse 😅. Best sleep of my life since I found avgn. I find myself listening again. I hope to be half as good as diogenes and half as powerful as Marcus. But what I wish for most is for my yin and yang to meet like the way they did
48:47 Things like this all depend on how you word then. You could twist it to something like enjoy all the pleasures now so you can continue to enjoy the days to come. That didnt come out exactly how it was in my head but i think you get it.
What an amazing video. I can't even imagine the amount of effort you put in this, but i believe it was enlightening experience for you as well. expertly crafted video. script is perfect. music fits each theme and overall lessons are portrayed to you is a delightful way.Optimistic nihilism always felt like the complete “philosophy” of nihilism. Life is beautiful, life is futile. Enjoy it all. Very interesting and amazing work please keep it up
I don't particularly follow any philosophy I just go with the flow of life. I expect good and bad things to happen. I don't believe in disregarding any of my emotions and feelings. If I'm happy then I'm happy if I'm sad then I'm sad. If I want to get jump up and down with excitement then I will and if I want to cry and complain then I will. I accept all of who I am and what I experience. I am loner who can be social but I need to be alone alot because at my core that's me.
Wow, this is so amazing, we learn everyday. We have so many stages of life, sometimes favorable and sometimes opposite, but what matters is the way you handle it.
It's funny because I discovered stoicism for myself without ever hearing about it when I was 14. Introvert. Got bullied. Etc. And then I got very selfaware and reflective. I just imagined that every person I ever met could drug me, rape my relatives, torture me, torture and destroy everything I love. So at this point every person that doesn't do it, will just do neutral or good things to you. Now I'm happy at 28 because nothing can faze me anymore. I conditioned myself to solving problems. But I never experience a problem for myself. Just events to approach or solve
Your comment kept my mouth open of shock as this video did..because i am a 14 year old girl who knew about the mindset of stoicism before watching this video and going deep in philosophy..it feels so weird to see other people who are experiencing the same pattern that you are doing when it seemed so rare and deeeeep.
Stoicism was described to be turn negative experiences to positive thought. This philosophy is great and I love the fact that it is a way of life that is unavoidable. This is because what will happen will happen. This educative video is knowledgeable and has really changed my mindset. We should do things for ourselves and the fact that free things comes with a cost.
Nietzsche was doing what one should when thinking about something. The pros and cons. The positive and negatives. Which will leave one feeling ambivalent. Torn. Stop overthinking and over analyzing. Its putting expectations on things. Most of which, are unrealistic. Kegley's Principle of Change… It is easier to behave your way into new way of thinking than to think your way into a new way of behaving. And dude, this was a very broad video. It went into many awesome aspects of the conscience. Bravo💪👏👌 The death of the ego or transcending the ego is something I feel we are all going through right now. It's scary when the veil is lifting. You start to question your sanity. You start to disassociate from the reality or story you have been telling yourself. Detaching from all these attachments is uncomfortable, at the least. You start to see attachment is the root of suffering. And desire. The ego attaches to these material things as a way to give the identity some definition. We dont own these things these things own us. Its only when you lose everything that you can do anything. Forgive me for blowing these comments up but this video had stimulated a brain storm.
The description of ego death is what I experienced when I almost died from losing 2 liters of blood in less than 20 minutes. I could never articulate beyond that the room was dark. The experience changed my perception of life and myself.
Good and pleasurable video, I miss the idea (for me experience) of reincarnation. I see life as an eternal school. Life is based on thoughts, thoughts are like invisible quantum particles. They exist from the past can come from others made by the body (hormones) and created and controlled by the mind. Life is transformation. Our cells are reused our mind reused - transformation is creation.
Thanks for sharing your experience with ego death. This is something that I have a goal, but not through psychedelics but actually "self-inquery" a form of meditation that involves looking for the one who is aware, the one who seems like it is the "I thought." There's a fairly large and growing community of "spiritual seekers" who are basically trying to "wake up" from the illusion of separateness. Although not a recent phenomenon, it has gotten more and more popular in the West I guess starting with Alan Watts and Ram Das in the 60s and 70s, and more recently by people like Ekhart Tolle, Adya Shanti, Gangaji, and there forerunners earlier in the 20th century (Ramana Maharshi, Nisargadatta Maharaj, and Jiddu Krishnamurti) among many others. I'm guessing you are very familiar with most of these folks. I'm not a spiritual person, I became an athiest as a teen and have always been very science-oriented, but recent exposure to some of the teachers to talk about this stuff, as well as scientists who suggest there is evidence for some of it (Sam Harris, Donald Hoffman, Bernardo Kastrup, etc.), have made me decide to explore this area. But it is much more challenging to do it via just meditation/self inquiry, then it is with taking a psychedelic - or so I've heard!
Hey there! We seem to have some of the same spiritual teachers. For a long time I was sort of in between atheist and agnostic, believing something was possible but that with so many differing opinions, certainly one can not KNOW. Come to find out, it isn't about knowing. It's about feeling. Psychedelics aren't a necessity for ego death. They are one of multiple vehicles, and likely just the one with the highest horsepower. If you haven't read the Tao Te Ching, it can be done in one sitting, and if done without any external distractions, you will feel it.
Stoicism is one of the best ways to really understand and know how life is , that is I really appreciate your job and it will benefit human beings in many aspects, well done job 👋
0:25 “how would you feel if your entire work was lost in an instant?”
Zeno invented Hardcore mode 💀
I guess you would have to learn how to get over it.
Things happen
I am not a nillist .Genesis 10
New International Version
The Table of Nations
10 This is the account of Shem, Ham and Japheth, Noah’s sons, who themselves had sons after the flood.
The Japhethites
2
To be fair, if you put all you have in a boat business, then you understand the risk.
Not much different from going on all in on a penny stock.
And probably he died inside for some time like every sane person would before building himself back up.
I suppose, "philosophically," would it be any different than losing your entire work over any period of time? Would a length of time not just be an extended period of what would otherwise have been an instantaneous one? I don't know. That's just where my mind went.
altho you have reason to get upset over hardcore because that was in your control
"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking." - Marcus Aurelius
He apparently lies to himself, then lectures us on how to live our lives/how we should look at the world? Mandela was a strait up political 7errorist with a capital T. No one seriously can deny this who o owes the history of SA. Woke lies are still lies. Just because a lie benifiets non White people doesn’t mean it’s true or good. We’re sooo social communists.
This is absolutely true, but I feel mental illness throws a spanner in the works. Something else to think about!
Unless you are the target of unwarranted persecution, eradication. Something I'm sure Marcus Aurelius didn't have to worry about. Happiness is a state of mind yes but like a wave it comes and goes and could never be static because to be so would invalidate all other states of emotion. Imagine wanting to feel sadness and only being able to feel happy.
I would say the same thing if everyone wanted my power and title, lol.
@@itsmeurboilots people with mental illnesses can become happy.Exodus 5
New International Version
Bricks Without Straw
5 Afterward Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘Let my people go, so that they may hold a festival to me in the wilderness.’”
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I never learned stoicism, I just adopted parts of it eventually after feeling embarrassed for those who overreacted in public. I’ve literally been hired for a job, because the business owner said I was more “even keeled” than the other applicants. I have used it to defeat depression early on and have been able to help a few others defeat depression. The easiest way to teach it, is using the line in this video about controlling how things effect you, vs worrying about trying to control everything that happens to you. Yes, you must attempt to control the world around you, to survive. But when things beyond our control happen, do not let it break you.
With this i feel weaker
Like just why i cant do it
wow, aren't you just so much better then everyone else; I bet you go around beating up bullies who later thank you for straightening them out as well
@@mikerubin22 is this a test lol
I'm watching this depressed not wanting to leave my bedroom
@@mikerubin22 only if they ask . Why? Are you a bully? I’d be happy to bully you and show you what it feels like. Seriously though, it’s not really all that deep. Just don’t let shit overwhelm you. Focus on what you can control. I’m not a fixer, I just happen to have known a few depressed people who this helped.
I have been listening to this for 1 year now. Everytime I come here to listen. Practicing it has completely transformed my life perspective and how I react to situations.
"we're just the universe trying to understand itself" Damn, that's honestly beautiful.
yup, that's Carl Sagon's quote. "We are a way for the universe to understand itself"
That makes the universe look mad and stupid
@@ivantravel brotha projecting on foenem grave
We are so much more than that, but it does sound kinda cool ig.
@@ivantravel so comforting
DEAR HEAVENS.. I am a female over 70 and THIS IS THE VERY BEST UTUBE VIDEO I HAVE EVER HEARD ON STOICISM..THIS IS THE ONLY VIDEO WORTH Wtching..keep it in you phone..you will not regret it. THANK YOU!!
Thank you!! I will❤
There are people who will begin to be enlightened and whose lives will gradually change upon watching this video.
I'm grateful for hard work and good intentions of this content creator.
The amount of time you must have put into this video is astounding. Amazing job and a job well done Sir.
This is a copy.
@@thepilgrim1581a copy of what
@@ABeautifulEarthForOurChildren this is a compilation of his videos.
@@いつか-u5c it is. So what? You don't think this took a lot of effort? Even if he just explained ideas that are already existing, he summarized them, included his own opinions and also talked about his experiences with philosophy and spirituality and how it affected him, ego death for example.
Hear hear!!
What a privilege to discover such a thoughtful, broad-minded and insightful young philosopher. Thank you for choosing to share your experience with the world of philosophy with others through this channel. You have a relaxed spirit and a gentle heart and so you are qualified to convey the many ways in which practical understanding can nourish and strengthen rational existence. Good work. Keep it up! I look forward to hearing more from you. :)
Yea buddy, you're in a flow state when you make these videos. This video has brought tears to my eyes more times than I'd like to count. Thank you, sir.....
I totally cried like a baby listening to this while trying to get ready for work. A good cry though.
Flow state sigma mango hawk tuah phonk
I actually use your and other similar videos to enter a flow state. Listening to philosophy or history while cleaning, working, or organizing somehow sends me there.
I thought I was alone in that regard....yeah, seems like my mind goes from muddled chaos to finding myself effortlessly moving through my chores without resistance....I don't get it, and it still takes me by surprise every time🤷♀️
My whole life ive always found it hard to understand how people get so angry with things in life and im now realising its becuase im stoic. People have also told me that things unfaze me and i never get angry and ive always thought something was wrong with me but this vid has now put a word to how i view everything
Isn't that a wonderful feeling? To find that the things the 'general public' point out in you as a character flaw, something that they see as something you should change and makes you feel a little bit self aware of being 'different' and not as a quality that sets you apart.
This affirmation of my natural way I see and respond to the world, as a quality of charcter that makes me at peace with myself and accepting of the fact that I am different, in a good way. And it's ok if others don't get it.
Thought provoking videos like this are why I’m here. Your videos make the wheels turn in my brain and I love it. More of us should be thinking deeper than what is simply on the surface.
YAHbsolutely true in-DEED.
Have a YAHsome day. ❤
The way you described Stoicism really resonated with me. I thought maybe I wasn’t emotional enough but now I realize I have a stoic mindset. Whenever I upload a video to RUclips I expect the worst, to lose a subscriber or not get any views. So when I gain a subscriber or get a couple likes on a video it makes me feel incredible. When you expect the worst, any other outcome feels phenomenal and fills you with gratitude. And to expect the worst and still go through with an action builds character and tolerance to the world
Optimistic nihilism always felt like the complete “philosophy” of nihilism. Life is beautiful, life is futile. Enjoy it all
You forgot to say that life always comes with pain. Some of us can't enjoy it, only endure it.
@@mwh0588 All of us can enjoy it, most of us would rather not. So our options are avoidance, or endurance.
I have to agree with you about the complete "philosophy" statement. However, I would like to state that all the negativity nihilism gets I view as "passive nihilism", where one is ambivalent to everything. On the contrast though what I call "active nihilism", is more closely related to Zen Buddhism, The act of letting things go the act of not caring as much especially about what other people think of you, it requires taking some action, where as "passive nihilism" is when you become stagnant and stuck. The art of not caring has a fine line to it, but if you're doing it as a means of growth and coming from statements like "What other people say about me is none of my business.", it is powerful.
@@homelessrobot how can I enjoy liver cancer?
@@mwh0588 associate the pain with some positive effect. How do you think people enjoy exercise and ball torture and spicy food?
Everything we experience in life is from the perspective of the mind. Our mind has the power to make us happy or to make us suffer. When it's filled with chaotic, negative thoughts, we suffer. We have to understand that it's our mind working in tandem with the present moment that dictates reality.
The quality of one's life depends on the quality of one's thoughts. -Aurelius
Pain is unavoidable suffering is optional
I feel like everyone should see this video. But in the words of Reinhold Messner “Most people forget that from the beginning of we are approaching death, life is absurd, but we can fill it with idea, enthusiasm, we can fill our lives with joy.
100's of books of wisdom is packed in here. Take notes! Incredible research and work. Thank you from Hungary!
Life is a roller coaster. When you're down, remember that you'll be back up if you hang on.
I am very thankful for this video. It really has helped me rethink life, feel much better and get me out of a limbo like state in life. Thank you and keep up the great work🙏
Such a great video. I can't even imagine the amount of effort you put in this, but i believe it was enlightening experience for you as well.
Thank you for sharing this for us and i hope you will keep on doing a great job.
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Doing a psychedelic indused ego death is lige playing that dark childrens game where you get your friend to push down on your lungs while your back is against the wall. When you come up, your friend takes the position. The cop out lies within the trust that the *two entities* share between each other, so that you can "get high" off of the near death experience.
- the "buddy" represents the independent variable of you trip objectively being the good or bad variety.
- the asphixiation symbolises how horrifying ego death feels like.
- and I guess, the children represent how we must all approach boundry defying near death experiences with a heavy dose of humility, as children at heart?
I was thinking to myself a few days ago while driving that ....." we were all here even when earth didn't look like this. We were here but in a different form to adapt to that environment at the time and as earth evolved into what we it's now, we changed our form to hiw we look now to adapt" and like hec said in the video, energy/soul does not die, its transferred.
I call it Theory of Autonomous Creation and we created the environment that we live today, the oceans, the mountains, islands, cities, all of the surface of earth and also our best companion ,the moon, that keeps us balanced and steady. We created through collective consciousness. It was our only God (not our creator) moment and why we haven't seen since. We've been at each other's throats since our beautiful shaping of Earth.hink it has a bit of Quantum Mechanicsinvolved. If we ever decided to come together as humans again, we would all understand what God is. Someday we pray. 🙏 🌏☀️🌜⭐️✌️
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Remember, your perspective is always everything - and your perspective has got infinite reach.
As a stoic more than 15 years i can say you perfectly describe what stoicism is. I even cry i little because it's a beautiful video. I am sure you are proud of your self. Thank you so much for your effort you put in this video.
Man this was truly an incredible presentation and content that has a large amount of insight and wisdom. Well done. It is my goal which I've been working on knowingly to grow and become fully competent in Stoicism by the age of 50 years old but of course continue growing and learning until my last days very end. Even at 47 and lived what seemed 3 lifetimes over the last 7 years which ironically was the first time I truly got to know myself. My awakening at 38 I shall never forget. Part of me wishes to this day I would never have awoken. The other part is hyper aware that I'm super aware and so on. It definitely changes you and you are unable to see life the same way you always had and for me it literally happened overnight. I went to bed my old self and awoke the next morning to a set of silent unsaid unspoken instructions that I answered silently as I sat straight up in my bed but agreed and answered yes to instructions that were never said yet understood. Phenomenal content and it definitely didn't go unnoticed. I think it will take and impact all people different but one thing they will need is to have or be In process of having an awakening and totally and literally seeing thy ego appear to come out and I remember seeing it float away like a balloon but feeling no panic and being at peace. Some really great insight and I'm happy to have watched and listened to your awakening as it's not often I ever hear it spoken and I have tried before to those I know and they look at me as if one of these. I'm crazy. The look at me and their eyes read mass confusion to which I quickly change the subject with and or they will try to understand but I've realized that even if good with words, something's words cannot explain and can only be learned from real life experience.
Thanks for sharing!
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@Christopher Garza just say it instead of looking like you need help with spelling. I'm sure you're bashing my post. Most do who in the end struggle to have good intent so man up and spell it rather than look like you need my help with spelling. What you abbreviate does nor won't change my post or will it change the difference between the truth and the one too scared to spell out his bashing he feels the need. Say it. I do not care. Envy is weak so speak your truth instead of abbreviating it. If it's the truth I'll be the first one to retract and apologize. "AUARM"
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@@TheDiveWatcher damn dude you’re going hard. Mr defensive over here. TLDR means “too long didn’t read”…
This is so fascinating, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS VIDEO AND ALL THE WORK YOU’ve DONE,
I’m taking back my thoughts and stop being led to know where..
Thank you for this thought-provoking exploration of reality. It's fascinating how our perception shapes our understanding of what is real. The concept of subjective reality opens up endless possibilities for philosophical inquiry. It reminds me of the quote, 'Reality is not a fixed construct but a fluid interpretation.' Keep up the great work!
Where have you been?? the way you speak and the approach with words given in this video absolutely wonderful you say this so eloquently that’s understandable. I’ve always felt this way, but I just never was able to say it in this manner. Thank you.
We must let go of things and focus on the things will be alright without the things that we lost. Let go of the material stuff and learn to control that ego of ours which happens to take control of us.
I think this is one of the best videos on RUclips this year, wow.
I've been subbed for a while now, and I like the direction you're growing in. I enjoyed this video. Thanks.
expertly crafted video. script is perfect. music fits each theme and overall lessons are portrayed to you is a delightful way.
Kudos to the maker of this video for making the background music not noisy and intrusive.
I have experienced ego death through toad medicine (Buffo Alvarius). It has been the most amazing experience... Philosophy has helped me ground myself on this new journey. My beliefs about the world, universe and humanity have completely changed.
May I ask what ego death through toad medicine means?
@@winnygpooh5003 Apparently toads have their own medicine.
A wonderful way to come across a young philosopher who is so perceptive, intelligent, and open-minded. We appreciate that you have chosen to use this channel to tell people about your experiences in the field of philosophy. You are well-suited to explain the various ways that practical knowledge can support and enhance reasoned existence since you have a calm disposition and a kind heart. Excellent work. Go on! I'm interested in hearing more from you since I just remembered a wise proverb that goes, "You already have everything you need to live a happy life. Just change the way you think." I've learned a lot.
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Stoicism is todays modern way of saying "It is what it is"
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C'est la vie ...
your channel /videos have helped me tremendously over the past 2-3 years thank you very much i am a better person !!
Thank you aperture your videos are very educational and entertaining and I’ve started to study many different philosophy’s mainly stoicism. My girlfriend broke up with me a couple days ago and I’ve watched this video twice since then thank you for helping me and teaching me❤️
Personal experience
The more you except the negative outcome
The more bad will happen
It's 50/50
Better to expect positive results
Our minds control ALL our personal reality
Naw I expected an ad on this video because RUclips are greedy pigs who hate nice things, so I put on my adblock just incase. I expected a negative outcome so I stopped it from happening, is good if you're proactive about your pessimism.
4:07 I never feel like it's a bad experience when that happens usually I'm in awe of the power of nature, and also know that this is a rare moment, I mean usually I still go inside but not before enjoying it a little.
I can relate, it is as if the universe wants you to pause, restart, or become more aware.
This is top 3 videos on RUclips, I love philosophy and want to share it with those I love, and this is the perfect stepping stone.
I knew you'd tripped recently as soon as you began discussing consciousness :D Great video. You've got a new subscriber!
Zeno became depressed with the loss in his business and to come out of his depression he started reading philosophical books. Once he visited a bookstore and chanced upon a book on Socrates, the philosopher written by historian Xenophon. He started reading it and was very interested in the world of philosophy and philosophers. He asked the shopkeeper as to where he could find such men as mentioned in the books. Zeno was referring to finding the philosophers in flesh and blood. Incidentally at that time one famous philosopher of that town was passing by the bookstore. The shopkeeper immediately pointed towards that man and told Zeno that he was the philosopher type. In those days of Athens it was quite possible to find philosophers roaming the streets as ordinary men with their students. Athens was the hub of philosophy and their resultant schools and academies.
Zeno immediately talked to him, became his disciple and started learning philosophy from him. He kept on learning philosophy from different schools of thought but still he could not satisfy his intellectual thirst. He thought there is something lacking in the philosophical world which can be of immense help to society. Thereupon he started thinking upon those issues that ultimately gave birth to the stoicism school of philosophy. Zeno talked about practical wisdom and how we must listen to our human nature and balance our actions with reasons.
To bring himself closer to the people and to propagate his philosophical thoughts, Zeno started delivering free lectures in the open marketplace. People started listening to him and slowly he became famous in Athens. The name Stoicism comes from the word “Stoa '' which means open place. This is because Zeno used to talk about his philosophy in the open marketplace.
Sometimes some people leave their imprint so deep that every moment of their action becomes memorable. This is an incredible story of self determination on how an individual converted his precarious situation (financial and mental catastrophe) into an intellectual revolution. Zeno of Citium is one of the leaders of the philosophical world who provided a fresh insight into the practical wisdom of philosophy. He is one of the few we can credit with the “leadership of the mind” in the annals of humanity’s intellectual journey.
Really enjoyed listening to this while waiting for my son’s ACL surgery and my dad’s heart stent surgery happening today. Thank you!
Hope everything went well
A beautiful piece of work, well done good sir!!
This is like Exurb1a and Lemmino made a video together. It's so fucking good man, so fucking good. All the time you took, paid off. REALLY FUCKING GOOD
Wow that start caught me off guard. I just started reading "Mastering the stoic way of life" and than I click play and you begin to talk about Zeno and the storm he was in lol
One of my all time favourite vidoes on RUclips. Thank you.
This video is insightful. We hope to see more videos discussing more philosophical topics.
It reminded me of Eternalized's video, I like both of them. Refreshing to see stoicism getting popular.
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Philosophy is food for the soul :)
you would learn that it was just a bunch of idiots trying to out word and manipulate the art of language like I can today actually. I very well am able to debate and pick apart things due to philosophical reasoning
Nana!
Thank you sir for sharing!
I needed to hear that!!!
I'm grateful.
This was an excellent body of work! Shout out to everyone involved in creating this video
This video is astounding I have learned so much and built on knowledge I already have, thank you for taking the time to craft such a sick vid
I truly needed this video today.
Thank you, friend.
I went homeless 4:48 for 15 years and learned to love living outside.
I really appreciate the hard work you do making these nice videos
Goosh! I am never one who believes in stoicism but this right here is an eye opener.this was actually worth watching.You must have invented so much time in putting together this video which is absolutely astounding.kudos for a job well done.
I love this. Thank you for making this. Very well spoken and easy to listen to. I appreciate this video and I am grateful for you.
I destroyed my ego with DMT. The "unknown," as you described it, was oddly familiar. It felt like this life was the death, and that place was my home.
It completely changed my understanding of life and its purpose.
I loved this video. Thanks for making great philosophy content.
My life was rescued by stoicism. Many thanks for this channel. I appreciate you bringing to my attention that my suffering is unique to me. I refuse to allow my pain to bring another person's misery. Life is difficult enough without our being able to understand another person's suffering. However, we can at least choose not to be involved. Knowledgeability guts Fairness and modality.
Almost an hour and a half with seriously quality content...thanks man🌌🙏
Stoicism saved my life. Thank you to this channel. Thank you for reminding me that my pain is mine and mine alone. I will not let my suffering cause further suffering for another. Life is hard enough and we can not know the pain of another. But we can at the very least not contribute to it. Wisdom Courage Temperance and Justice ❤
Well said.
I draw strength from your awareness and acceptance of responsibility for your own feelings and pain, but your awareness for NOT putting it onto other people and make them responsible for fixing you, understanding your pain, adjusting their lives to accommodate you.
Your insightful awareness and acceptance that others have their own pain and path to follow, and don't need yours on top of it is very powerful.
It's a hard thing to release the world of obligation for your emotional response to things. But once you get it, it is very freeing.
Good job. Thank you for sharing your wisdom.
love your voice, nice listening to it while trying to calm down from a stressful day, keep going pls
I'd say stoicism almost got it right. Instead of doing it for ourselves, do it for the sake of it. Helping others is helping yourself. Just as caring for yourself before you care for others enables you to help others. Just as by feeling good by helping others we can allow ourselves to be helped so that others can feel good. These principles lead past the simple boundaries of contentment and discontentment, and give rise to purpose and intent. To those who chase freedom, or pleasures, or creation, or knowledge, or fairness, we are all after something. Be it a sense of power, a means to feel secure, the desire for love, or anything you can imagine. For one of the best philosophical frameworks for life that I've found, take the ideas of buddhism, stoicism, absurdism, and everything by Alan Watts and Carl Sagan. You'll go down the path of wondering that if anything can have meaning, then nothing really does. You'll learn that the bottom line, the whole reason for everything, is love.
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"Just as by feeling good by helping others we can allow ourselves to be helped so that others can feel good" what a great perspective. I have never thought about it like that. I tend to be of a mindset, "i need to do it all myself" not sure if it is to prove something to myself, or if i am hesitant of asking for help in fear of judgement or upsetting someone. But i love to help people, it feels good. and i never thought of letting others help me and allowing them to feel that same feeling.
If you havent i would read meditations by Marcus Aurelius, He has a very good way of looking at Stoicism
You got it ryt there love!😅😅
Thanks!
“Enjoy present pleasure in a way that does not injure future pleasure.” - Seneca
A great wayto discover such a thoughtful, broad-minded and insightful young philosopher. Thank you for choosing to share your experience with the world of philosophy with others through this channel. You have a relaxed spirit and a gentle heart and so you are qualified to convey the many ways in which practical understanding can nourish and strengthen rational existence. Good work. Keep it up! I look forward to hearing more from you
I have remembered a great saying,Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking." - Marcus Aurelius
Really great ideas, very informative, I have learned a lot
I've just started preparing for a philosophy and ethics graduate certificate at Harvard Extension School. I'm excited to start learning and writing more about the subject of philosophy and how we define what life is as we interpret it. Thanks for the taking the time and effort to put this video together.
This is a VERY GOOD video.
“FEAR DEATH NOT -FOR NOTHING IS LEFT OF EVIL THAT ISN’T ALREADY BEING ENDURED BY US IN THIS LIFETIME ❤ Death is just another Birth to another Time and another Lifetime in Another Dimension” ~Brandie Yuen
The only thing we can thank “god” for
The crazy part is how most people discover or seek out stoicism AFTER they have been deeply hurt.
And why is that crazy? You don't go looking for an oncologist or a cardiologist unless you feel something is not "right." Same concept.
Indeed, perspective is everything. We should do things for ourselves. We must also let go of so many things like material and ego, in other to focus on things that would help us in future. We must learn how to be supportive and help others in this life. We must be humble and ready to accommodate others because this life is so beautiful and so large to accommodate everyone. Philosophy teaches us about life and it's existence and we must continue to learn and take things easy in this life. Life is too precious, so, cherish it, love it and leave it to the fullest. Remember, your perspective is always everything, be conscious it and you will do well in this life. This is an amazing video. A good one to watch over and over again. I wish that a good number of people could come across this particular video, watch and share it to their lived ones and most importantly and learn more things about life and it's existence. Thank you so much for this great video and please, post more of it.
I fell asleep listening to this video today, June 2nd. 23. Around 1 pm, after dealing with the courthouse 😅. Best sleep of my life since I found avgn. I find myself listening again. I hope to be half as good as diogenes and half as powerful as Marcus. But what I wish for most is for my yin and yang to meet like the way they did
divorce eh?
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Things like this all depend on how you word then. You could twist it to something like enjoy all the pleasures now so you can continue to enjoy the days to come. That didnt come out exactly how it was in my head but i think you get it.
I think im always in a flow when im doing something my mind gets distracted by the task where im in a zone especially when im enjoying it
What an amazing video. I can't even imagine the amount of effort you put in this, but i believe it was enlightening experience for you as well.
expertly crafted video. script is perfect. music fits each theme and overall lessons are portrayed to you is a delightful way.Optimistic nihilism always felt like the complete “philosophy” of nihilism. Life is beautiful, life is futile. Enjoy it all. Very interesting and amazing work please keep it up
But we still want those short surreal Aperture videos about Life, Cosmos, and Philosophy. Love those❤❤❤❤❤
The content is amazing! Helped me gain deeper understanding of complex philosophical concepts in a simple and easy to understand manner.
I don't particularly follow any philosophy I just go with the flow of life. I expect good and bad things to happen. I don't believe in disregarding any of my emotions and feelings. If I'm happy then I'm happy if I'm sad then I'm sad. If I want to get jump up and down with excitement then I will and if I want to cry and complain then I will. I accept all of who I am and what I experience. I am loner who can be social but I need to be alone alot because at my core that's me.
Then that's your philosophy
Taoism
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@@Reggie-rk1ue I gotta look into that
Wow, this is so amazing, we learn everyday. We have so many stages of life, sometimes favorable and sometimes opposite, but what matters is the way you handle it.
It's funny because I discovered stoicism for myself without ever hearing about it when I was 14. Introvert. Got bullied. Etc.
And then I got very selfaware and reflective.
I just imagined that every person I ever met could drug me, rape my relatives, torture me, torture and destroy everything I love.
So at this point every person that doesn't do it, will just do neutral or good things to you.
Now I'm happy at 28 because nothing can faze me anymore.
I conditioned myself to solving problems. But I never experience a problem for myself. Just events to approach or solve
Jesus loves you!✝ “Come to me all you who are weary and burdened and I will give you rest.”
Your comment kept my mouth open of shock as this video did..because i am a 14 year old girl who knew about the mindset of stoicism before watching this video and going deep in philosophy..it feels so weird to see other people who are experiencing the same pattern that you are doing when it seemed so rare and deeeeep.
I appreciate your work, thank you 🙏
i met this video heading towards nihilism and then i ran into stoicism it is in the timing that i find meaning....thank you very much
Stoicism was described to be turn negative experiences to positive thought. This philosophy is great and I love the fact that it is a way of life that is unavoidable. This is because what will happen will happen. This educative video is knowledgeable and has really changed my mindset. We should do things for ourselves and the fact that free things comes with a cost.
Nietzsche was doing what one should when thinking about something. The pros and cons. The positive and negatives. Which will leave one feeling ambivalent. Torn.
Stop overthinking and over analyzing. Its putting expectations on things. Most of which, are unrealistic. Kegley's Principle of Change… It is easier to behave your way into new way of thinking than to think your way into a new way of behaving.
And dude, this was a very broad video. It went into many awesome aspects of the conscience. Bravo💪👏👌
The death of the ego or transcending the ego is something I feel we are all going through right now. It's scary when the veil is lifting. You start to question your sanity. You start to disassociate from the reality or story you have been telling yourself. Detaching from all these attachments is uncomfortable, at the least.
You start to see attachment is the root of suffering. And desire. The ego attaches to these material things as a way to give the identity some definition. We dont own these things these things own us. Its only when you lose everything that you can do anything.
Forgive me for blowing these comments up but this video had stimulated a brain storm.
The description of ego death is what I experienced when I almost died from losing 2 liters of blood in less than 20 minutes. I could never articulate beyond that the room was dark. The experience changed my perception of life and myself.
Great video, this hits deep and that how you know this is a great video
Great job thanks for putting in the time with this 🤙
REBT was hands down the most helpful of any therapy
Still listening, but just wanted to say so far this has been put together beautifully.
I still cry for my losses yet I try to make the best out of it
Focus on the Good
I hear you 🙏🏿
One thing about philosophy is you can read or listen to one thing one day, the next will have the oposite message.
Good and pleasurable video, I miss the idea (for me experience) of reincarnation. I see life as an eternal school. Life is based on thoughts, thoughts are like invisible quantum particles. They exist from the past can come from others made by the body (hormones) and created and controlled by the mind. Life is transformation. Our cells are reused our mind reused - transformation is creation.
Thank you bro. Your content is much appreciated.
Thanks for sharing your experience with ego death. This is something that I have a goal, but not through psychedelics but actually "self-inquery" a form of meditation that involves looking for the one who is aware, the one who seems like it is the "I thought." There's a fairly large and growing community of "spiritual seekers" who are basically trying to "wake up" from the illusion of separateness. Although not a recent phenomenon, it has gotten more and more popular in the West I guess starting with Alan Watts and Ram Das in the 60s and 70s, and more recently by people like Ekhart Tolle, Adya Shanti, Gangaji, and there forerunners earlier in the 20th century (Ramana Maharshi, Nisargadatta Maharaj, and Jiddu Krishnamurti) among many others. I'm guessing you are very familiar with most of these folks. I'm not a spiritual person, I became an athiest as a teen and have always been very science-oriented, but recent exposure to some of the teachers to talk about this stuff, as well as scientists who suggest there is evidence for some of it (Sam Harris, Donald Hoffman, Bernardo Kastrup, etc.), have made me decide to explore this area. But it is much more challenging to do it via just meditation/self inquiry, then it is with taking a psychedelic - or so I've heard!
Hey there! We seem to have some of the same spiritual teachers. For a long time I was sort of in between atheist and agnostic, believing something was possible but that with so many differing opinions, certainly one can not KNOW.
Come to find out, it isn't about knowing. It's about feeling.
Psychedelics aren't a necessity for ego death. They are one of multiple vehicles, and likely just the one with the highest horsepower.
If you haven't read the Tao Te Ching, it can be done in one sitting, and if done without any external distractions, you will feel it.
I've heard about Tao , thanks stranger I'll give him a read
after 8 insights per chapter i am exhausted with inner peace. thank you
This video is absolutely beautiful amazing work man
Awesome video. Very well written and presented.
Stoicism is one of the best ways to really understand and know how life is , that is I really appreciate your job and it will benefit human beings in many aspects, well done job 👋
Incredible video
Definitely worth watching more than once