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During my kundalini awakening, I had an open vision. I saw my life and my beliefs laid out on the sky like icons on a screen and at the same time I understood it all to be an illusion. It wasn’t real. It was my matrix. Talk about a paradigm shift.
All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts,
I went through a neurological event where I thought I was going to die. During the event and afterwards while recovering, I suffered from de-realization and de-personalization. I felt like I was viewing myself from outside of my body for a few months. It was somehow equally scary and comforting at the same time. Scary because I didn't feel like I was in my body and was a passenger that didn't have full control. Comforting because I feel like that protected me from a lot of pain I would have felt if I was completely conscious in my body. I felt like I was in limbo. I 💯 felt like I was in a movie and feel certain there is something we can't fully understand. There is something spiritual that is directing us that I only got a glimpse of.
There seems to be a struggle between the freedom of our natural state and the tension of our conditioning which we generally identify with. Perhaps you had a very clear view of that freedom which lasted for a very long time where most of us only get to experience rarely, and briefly, before the memories and habits of our conditioning comes flooding back. Most of us don’t even appreciate these moments of clarity much less realise the battle that is taking place.
If you don't have a self of yours, then you don't exist as a man born into this world. If we born into this realm as a man we have an ego. It is a must for you to be existed in this world. When you don't have the ego it is we called as death. Ego is the persona, ego is the self of us, ego is an entity, and identification with ourself. The being behind the ego is the pure consciousness which on a particular level of abstraction still has the experience of separation, but on a certain level of abstraction it stops to be a separated self. It becomes to the ONENESS. This is how I see it... Greetings from Hungary!
Modern research on Near Death Experience by Raymond moody, reincarnation memories by Ian Stevenson/Jim trucker and past lives regression by Brian Weiss all independently but coincidentally show that our consciousness survive death, we live many lives and our thoughts and actions matter in the hereafter. So be kind and helpful to others, be virtuous, meditate and cultivate ourselves to higher spiritual levels. Cheers.
Much needed reminder. Woke up from a dream this morning into the movie of name and form. Saw this video and remembered my true nature bless bless bless!!
I had been putting off watching this video till I was in a more introspective state , something bad happened today to me but when I watched this video I understood some things in retrospect.. It has truly helped me .
what i think is so remarkable is how we separate things into good and bad thinking that it's a universal conclusion but actually there's a different sorting going on in the heads of each person according to how they've been conditioned. that really makes me question all my own conclusions/sortings of good/bad and whether i need to be doing all this labeling in the first place! Thanks again for these insightful posts!
Surprisingly I have noticed this in my meditation hour ago. sometimes hard to imagine the coincidence. I saw my life just like a movie on a screen. I realised nothing would matter in life and in fact nothing do. Except looking after my body and mind to help family and other beings in this physical existence. Anything beyond looking after this body with food, medicine, cloths and shelter is really useless. Holidays, big houses, new cars, movies and all the sensual things just fueling the delusion and continue our misery. Shantha! Shantha! Shantha! Shantha!
"Life is but a stage", Shakespeare, As You Like It. A modern metaphore is that life is like a massively multiplayer online game. "Good" games keep one immersed in the illusion ;-). But contemplating the similarity between immersion in a game and the game of like can help break the illusion of life. At least for me.
"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." Love your channel. A joy that someone's words can bring so much peace and bring one back to a peaceful centre in an incredibly polarised world. To see reality as a theatre, an appearance in consciousness is beautiful. 😊
thnx sir. this is correct in advaita terms but totally incorrect in dwaita/ tattvavada philosophy of sanathan dharma which clearly states we are real and what we experience is real. Self control is a different matter
@@Hermit-lo7bw thanks for the reply! 1st point from your statement is that if suffering is real then the world is real. i.e it is not an illusion. Next point is that the jeeva will have to suffer according to the level of the suffering but this is all mitigated by the advancement he has in spiritual terms. Varagya and bhakti are key
there is no point pretending that the jeeva does not suffer. That is a lie . even kIng Vikram Aditya and King Harischandra , both profoundly spiritual giants , suffered. Only holding the key helps overcome that difficult timespan
@@18Ram I suppose it depends on our definition of reality. To me, absolute reality is defined by that which does not change with time. In other words, it does not come and go like an appearance does. Seen as all phenomena are impermanent, I consider their reality as relative or conventional. It has its place within the world of name and form. If we take the view that the Absolute Reality (we can call it Brahman) is one without a second (Advaita), then it cannot be subject to time and space like the things of this world. If Brahman is not an object, it cannot be governed by the law of cause and effect. It is freedom itself, unconditioned, uncreated, unborn. Thou art that! The implication of this argument is that from the very beginning, not a single thing exists (except as a temporary appearance). If Brahman is all there is, then whatever appears must be an illusion whose apparent existence depends on a mere vibration within the field of awareness. We can say manifestation is a modification of the undefinable, boundless reality much like a wave is just a limited expression of the ocean-its true source and identity. The notion of separation is just a concept fabricated by the dualistic mind that creates a division where there is none. It divides the essentially indivisible in order to know or discriminate between one thing and another thus creating the world of duality. I am not denying the reality of the dualistic world because to do so would be to ignore the unifying nondual reality behind it, or rather, the reality in which the world appears. It is only because the world appears and disappears that is it said that it is an illusion. Suffering also is not always present. therefore, from the POV of the Absolute, it too is an illusion. However, what causes suffering is not whether we believe the world to be real or not but the ideas we have regarding our true identity. As a concession to those who are heavily identified with their body and mind, I like to point out the absence of an individual entity or person and emphasize the impersonal aspect of our being that does not suffer personal tragedies even though it is aware of every emotional state. Suffering is an objective experience I am aware of but that in itself is not a problem. What is problematic is when I identify myself with that pain or claim it as my own. If I am aware of suffering and don’t identify with it by saying “I am angry, sad, lonely, etc.” then an opportunity may open up a deeper reality that previously went unnoticed. To make contact with this presence that is aware and all-knowing is to meet our true self-the true self of no self. At this point, clarity sets in where the Jiva is known to be none other than Brahman. Only Brahman is! The Jiva may be troubled by life, or rather, the thoughts they have about life but Brahman remains unmoved and untouched. Detachment and devotion are indeed two powerful yogas that can help a seeker gain confidence and courage to go deeper into self-discovery.
Great insight! Life is a sequence of events, which appears to be a movie in our own minds. I would add something which you failed to mention: Your life is a movie, and you are the chief script writer. Having the courage to write your own script is the basis of your free will.
@@robertjsmith I've learned that people who deny free will usually are those who are afraid to take control of their lives. If you don't believe in your free will, just quit your job, or if you can't, are you a slave? If you sold yourself into economic slavery, that was a choice of your own free will.
The contents of our chitti (subconscious) is the chief script writer. Since the contents/intentionof that writer are hidden from us, it must be the one in charge. We can however be its apprentice and so begin to guide the storyline whilst becoming friends with the chief writer, guiding it to become more pure in its intention, so that the Divine takes over from both us and Chitti. Then we don’t need to write, just enjoy.
👍 Liked your interpretation of Maya as illusion of measurement. It’s amazing that like any instrument we ourselves or nature constructs, we (our gross and subtle bodies) can be calibrated 😊
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Thanks, Jason. I very much appreciate your offerings. I was provided a similar metaphor in meditation once, that of fibre optics [without the cable covering!]. I was 'told', 'you're actually the light, but believing you're the data' LOL In other words, you're 'context', not 'content'.
Life without Maya would actually be difficult for most people. But the trick is in recognizing the imagery of all actions or Karma, aligning ourselves with Brahman and dedicating all our Karma to that power. That frees us from ownership of our actions and the chaos so we can simply float through life while enjoying the movie.
😂👎👎Mine is sort of the same, but with eyes wide open. I don't believe everything this guy says, but there is definitely some truth. It's crazy what you can figure out on your own unfiltered observance. It gets better the more you know yourself and learn to trust the unknown.
Great insights, I agree. My favourite Rumi quote is 'Life is one great big cosmic laughter.' Thankyou for the video and deeper insights on this, that I never was aware of.
I may not an expert. But I noticed when I meditate on an object (say breath), after a while I move the focus to the gap between breaths ( not forcefully. this usually happens naturally after a while). And you end up in these gaps after a while. It is just empty and pure nothingness. You will not find yourself(personality) in that nothingness. I felt that is the reality or brahman.
The concepts of 'enlightenment' and 'awakening' are some of the most misleading concepts being offered in the spiritual marketplace right now. The whole point is to be clear about what you are in reality and who you believe yourself to be. Am I the limited, deficient, defective, person I think I am? If the answer is. yes; then I will seek out whatever and whoever promises satisfaction and salvation. All in an attempt to fix 'myself' or feel whole and complete. Some even start chasing ideas about liberation or enlightenment. People have never stopped being what they are but their true identity goes unappreciated because our focus is ever on the person we think we are. It is like only seeing the clouds that come and go but ignoring the empty sky in which they appear and disappear. The 'elephant in the room' is that you are already present and aware. To say, "I am" is not a theory but a fact! Everything added to the naked sense of "I am" such as "I am a man, old and poor, king or beggar" can be questioned but not the consciousness verbalized as "I am." Our natural state of freedom is already present here and now. Brahman is not something extraordinary but the most ordinary that when viewed from our natural state of pure being makes everything extraordinary.
@Hermit-lo7bw. I am expecting enlightenment is when you no longer have any concept. everything just is, like a drop of water in the ocean. Then again, my expectation is also a concept. Without experience enlightenment itself nothing is making sense. So, any teaching that does not give me the experience, it is meaningless.
@@thoang101 I think that is a very healthy way of looking at it. I too believe that unless I can directly experience and confirm it for myself, anything I hear is just theory. Too many seekers are hoping ‘enlightenment’ be given to them from outside and are placing their trust in mere speculative ideas about what ‘enlightenment’ is and is not. No teacher or teaching can make someone ‘awaken’ to reality. Nothing we read, hear or do will free us from suffering. The concepts around ‘enlightenment’ and ‘awakening’ are not only exaggerated but are misleading seekers everywhere. Reality to be real has to be here and now, not in some future time after a prolonged series of spiritual practices or years of meditation. In Buddhism, we are told that we are already Buddha, which means to be awake. In Advaita, we are told that all is Consciousness. So here we have it-awareness or consciousness is where it's at. Can I verify this to be true here and now? The good news is all of us can because it is our natural state. We have never taken a single step away from the aware presence or conscious being that we are. Who is not aware that they are present and aware? Nobody! I would like to encourage everyone to place their direct experience as the gold standard for truth and stop seeking the next guru, the next retreat, the next book, or dharma talk, etc. to ‘enlighten’ them. The most important thing is to gain clarity into WHO I am as a person and WHAT I am as impersonal being. The person is an appearance that comes and goes. It is a mask we put on that has many faces. Something that comes and goes in time cannot be considered as absolute reality. It is to be thought of as relative reality. Only that which is always present, never changing can be considered to be the truth of what we are, and it is not personal. So, I invite you to ask yourself, “What is the reality of this moment?” The reality here is that I am present and aware. Whatever I add to the naked feeling of consciousness which is verbalized as “I am” is debatable and can be questioned but not the feeling of aliveness. Once this understanding is super clear, we can follow any nondual path we feel drawn to.
Jason, I have been following you for awhile now (about 9 months). I really appreciate the videos and the work you do. I feel this video was one of the best so far that I had viewed ! Thanks again for you guidance and work..greetings from New York..
Once you realise who you are, you realise there is no job for you to do, you don't need to be better than anybody else - the only thing you have to do is take care of your body and celebrate how magnificent you truly are...
Great for people who live far, far away from war and chaos. However many people need to deal with very real survival. Right and wrong? War is wrong, whether people miles away from war think its an illusion or not.
Hi Jason, I really needed to hear this today. Thank you so much. With all the things happening in my life these days, this made me step back and see a little more clearly and breathe. Words don’t do justice to the depth of my appreciation for you. Much love to you friend ❤️
*All In All* Your the screenwriter, the director, the producer, the cinematographer, the editor, the sound and the lighting and of course *the star of the show* and actually the audience… *all at once* . PS. It’s more like two movies. Think of *The Truman Show* meets *The Matrix* and you’re most of the way there. Just saying.
Jason as usual this is so good. As I listened to this I couldn’t help but think of how we can use this to reimagine how we can heal from trauma. As you know there is so much talk now on trauma but what I have in many of my sessions with clients is that there is such an attachment to the trauma that healing never happens. Not belittling what has been done to one and what that did to them. But I can’t help but think that at some point a shift is required where we don’t see ourselves as the trauma. We lose the identification that we’ve even been traumatized. It feels like a thin line for sure because we also don’t want to bypass what has happened. And at the same time the danger of feeling like you’re moving through a revolving door only to end up in the same exact space. It is all a movie. Thank you friend ❤
“Maybe you had too much too fast, or just overplayed your part.” ~Grateful Dead Once we overplayed our part in the grand movie called “society”, we’ve become way too serious and a fraud. That’s when trouble starts.
I agree the ideas is Maya. But what about emotions. When someone says someti don't like, emotions are being experience. No matter how much I tell myself this is Maya, it's still there.
Thoughts, feelings, emotions, and sensations are still there but what is absent is the self or the idea you have about who you are; that is the illusion or Maya that we should be clear about. People think experience is happening to them when in reality, experiences appear within the space of awareness and you are that which is aware of them. To say, "I am sad," is incorrect. There is an awareness of a sad feeling but ask yourself if that which is aware of it, is itself sad? Sadness may be real but what is unreal is the "I" that identifies with sadness by claiming "I am sad." You are not sad, you are that which knows sadness but is not that feeling or any other emotion you may experience. If I am aware of thoughts and emotions, then they are objects and I must be the subject. I cannot be an object and a subject at the same time.
Interesting video and thought which makes me ask a few things: 1: IF Life is a Movie, and Individual is the Man Character, then we can also change the script or the character arcs that play out? 2: Would this idea be likened to being a character in a First person game? With NPC's and such? Or Multiplayer world?
Scripts are changing all the time whether you believe you are in control or not. The fact is, free will is an illusion, and in any case, whatever character you change into is still just an imaginary person in an imagined play. It does not free you from suffering which is what everyone is seeking. The point of spirituality is to stop playing roles or pretending to be something we are not and actualize our potential by being an expression of reality. This means clarity regarding our true identity and operating from that true standpoint.
I always wonder if the mind is also an illusion, consciousness is always a reality, it exists but the mind plays this movie on this screen of consciousness.
In spiritual circles, it is understood that what comes and goes is an appearance only. In other words, "an illusion" as you say. Mind which is nothing other than thoughts and images does indeed come and go. No thought or image is always present. Reality is considered to be that which does not change and is ever-present. For this reason, consciousness or awareness is often referred to as reality. However, I would like to point out that though consciousness has not changed throughout our life, making it more real than a thought, feeling, or any other experience, it too is not always present. In deep sleep, for example, consciousness is absent. What is present, however, is the infinite potential that manifests originally as consciousness which is the inexhaustible possibility. Our true identity is before consciousness.
Nicely explained thank you. I wish my movie was one of those old cowboy films with Clint Eastwood. Instead it’s got me in it, most disappointing. No Oscars here. And the fat person at the front has blocked off half the screen and eaten all the popcorn. There’s never a Japanese waleing ship around when you need one.
Hi i can recommend 52 RUclips video of "upanisad ganga" On chinmaya mission.. Because i liked it.. And if u want u can also listen to some vedios of Osho(bagwan rajnish) ... By the way ur understanding of these spiritual scriptures are very good... 😊
And also I want to tell something that this is dwapar yuga... As per swami krishnagiri mention in the holy science.. Due to some misunderstanding every one is telling this is kaliyuga... And i also prefer u to read "the holy science"
Shiva means that wich is not physical this works for myself as its very appropriate as a description of self wich realy can't be explained shiva beingness mahhadev means lord supreme like brahman lord supreme shiva just works for me if you know the nirvana shakatatam mantra by sounds of isha it has English subtitles with it you will see how appropriate it is shivoham for myself shiva is consciousness adiyogi the source of yoga not a god in the physical sense but beyond the senses like atman brahman there is no separateness Allah God consciousness are all same thing from different perceptions shiva is seen in many different ways in India the way I see shiva came through sadguru mooji baba also calls it shiva beingness beyond the body mind shivoham I may be right i may be wrong but it feels right to myself
A simple definition is that which does not change and is ever-present. Within the human experience, it would be consciousness or awareness. Everything that appears and disappears is considered unreal such as thoughts, feelings, sensations, etc. which manifest within the space of consciousness.
Thank you for your videos. I have a silly question…. I’m not sure if it’s the editing but I don’t think so. At some points there is movement around your head as if you edited but it doesn’t seem like it. Has anyone else noticed this? I know it’s a weird question and maybe it’s the blue background but it happens quite often and I just wanted to know if it’s my eyes or is this an edit? Thanks in advance.
Truth doesn't need memory. I do not need to think about or remember the reality of this moment or the fact that 'I am,' because the truth is not in time.
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I think its more like a dream than a movie.
During my kundalini awakening, I had an open vision. I saw my life and my beliefs laid out on the sky like icons on a screen and at the same time I understood it all to be an illusion. It wasn’t real. It was my matrix. Talk about a paradigm shift.
all the world is a stage-Shakespeare
All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts,
Shakespeare also said “don’t make thoughts your prison “
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@@SL3315 cosmic law fulfills
I went through a neurological event where I thought I was going to die. During the event and afterwards while recovering, I suffered from de-realization and de-personalization. I felt like I was viewing myself from outside of my body for a few months. It was somehow equally scary and comforting at the same time. Scary because I didn't feel like I was in my body and was a passenger that didn't have full control. Comforting because I feel like that protected me from a lot of pain I would have felt if I was completely conscious in my body. I felt like I was in limbo.
I 💯 felt like I was in a movie and feel certain there is something we can't fully understand. There is something spiritual that is directing us that I only got a glimpse of.
There seems to be a struggle between the freedom of our natural state and the tension of our conditioning which we generally identify with.
Perhaps you had a very clear view of that freedom which lasted for a very long time where most of us only get to experience rarely, and briefly, before the memories and habits of our conditioning comes flooding back.
Most of us don’t even appreciate these moments of clarity much less realise the battle that is taking place.
"The True Man has no self." - Zhuangzi
If you don't have a self of yours, then you don't exist as a man born into this world. If we born into this realm as a man we have an ego. It is a must for you to be existed in this world. When you don't have the ego it is we called as death. Ego is the persona, ego is the self of us, ego is an entity, and identification with ourself.
The being behind the ego is the pure consciousness which on a particular level of abstraction still has the experience of separation, but on a certain level of abstraction it stops to be a separated self. It becomes to the ONENESS. This is how I see it...
Greetings from Hungary!
Modern research on Near Death Experience by Raymond moody, reincarnation memories by Ian Stevenson/Jim trucker and past lives regression by Brian Weiss all independently but coincidentally show that our consciousness survive death, we live many lives and our thoughts and actions matter in the hereafter.
So be kind and helpful to others, be virtuous, meditate and cultivate ourselves to higher spiritual levels. Cheers.
We are the main characters in our movie.
Nicely explained! ❤
Much needed reminder. Woke up from a dream this morning into the movie of name and form. Saw this video and remembered my true nature bless bless bless!!
The term used by the ancient Rishis/Sages is "Leela".
I had been putting off watching this video till I was in a more introspective state , something bad happened today to me but when I watched this video I understood some things in retrospect.. It has truly helped me .
"And for everyone who thinks that life is just a game, do you like the part you're playing?"-Arthur Lee from 1967's "Forever Changes" LP.
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Our life is a movie,we all are actors and lord Krishna is a superstar
what i think is so remarkable is how we separate things into good and bad thinking that it's a universal conclusion but actually there's a different sorting going on in the heads of each person according to how they've been conditioned. that really makes me question all my own conclusions/sortings of good/bad and whether i need to be doing all this labeling in the first place!
Thanks again for these insightful posts!
No need but when dealing with people or trying to communicate an idea: words, names, labels, definitions are convenient.
Yea! Thank you, dear creator, you.👏🏻🌸
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Thank you Jason. This clip really resonates with my current path. 😊
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Surprisingly I have noticed this in my meditation hour ago. sometimes hard to imagine the coincidence. I saw my life just like a movie on a screen. I realised nothing would matter in life and in fact nothing do. Except looking after my body and mind to help family and other beings in this physical existence. Anything beyond looking after this body with food, medicine, cloths and shelter is really useless. Holidays, big houses, new cars, movies and all the sensual things just fueling the delusion and continue our misery. Shantha! Shantha! Shantha! Shantha!
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"Life is but a stage", Shakespeare, As You Like It. A modern metaphore is that life is like a massively multiplayer online game. "Good" games keep one immersed in the illusion ;-). But contemplating the similarity between immersion in a game and the game of like can help break the illusion of life. At least for me.
"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream."
Love your channel. A joy that someone's words can bring so much peace and bring one back to a peaceful centre in an incredibly polarised world. To see reality as a theatre, an appearance in consciousness is beautiful.
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thnx sir. this is correct in advaita terms but totally incorrect in dwaita/ tattvavada philosophy of sanathan dharma which clearly states we are real and what we experience is real. Self control is a different matter
At some point, we must realize that though suffering is real, there is no sufferer.
@@Hermit-lo7bw thanks for the reply! 1st point from your statement is that if suffering is real then the world is real. i.e it is not an illusion.
Next point is that the jeeva will have to suffer according to the level of the suffering but this is all mitigated by the advancement he has in spiritual terms. Varagya and bhakti are key
there is no point pretending that the jeeva does not suffer. That is a lie . even kIng Vikram Aditya and King Harischandra , both profoundly spiritual giants , suffered. Only holding the key helps overcome that difficult timespan
@@18Ram I suppose it depends on our definition of reality. To me, absolute reality is defined by that which does not change with time. In other words, it does not come and go like an appearance does.
Seen as all phenomena are impermanent, I consider their reality as relative or conventional. It has its place within the world of name and form. If we take the view that the Absolute Reality (we can call it Brahman) is one without a second (Advaita), then it cannot be subject to time and space like the things of this world. If Brahman is not an object, it cannot be governed by the law of cause and effect. It is freedom itself, unconditioned, uncreated, unborn. Thou art that!
The implication of this argument is that from the very beginning, not a single thing exists (except as a temporary appearance). If Brahman is all there is, then whatever appears must be an illusion whose apparent existence depends on a mere vibration within the field of awareness. We can say manifestation is a modification of the undefinable, boundless reality much like a wave is just a limited expression of the ocean-its true source and identity. The notion of separation is just a concept fabricated by the dualistic mind that creates a division where there is none. It divides the essentially indivisible in order to know or discriminate between one thing and another thus creating the world of duality.
I am not denying the reality of the dualistic world because to do so would be to ignore the unifying nondual reality behind it, or rather, the reality in which the world appears. It is only because the world appears and disappears that is it said that it is an illusion. Suffering also is not always present. therefore, from the POV of the Absolute, it too is an illusion. However, what causes suffering is not whether we believe the world to be real or not but the ideas we have regarding our true identity.
As a concession to those who are heavily identified with their body and mind, I like to point out the absence of an individual entity or person and emphasize the impersonal aspect of our being that does not suffer personal tragedies even though it is aware of every emotional state. Suffering is an objective experience I am aware of but that in itself is not a problem. What is problematic is when I identify myself with that pain or claim it as my own.
If I am aware of suffering and don’t identify with it by saying “I am angry, sad, lonely, etc.” then an opportunity may open up a deeper reality that previously went unnoticed. To make contact with this presence that is aware and all-knowing is to meet our true self-the true self of no self. At this point, clarity sets in where the Jiva is known to be none other than Brahman. Only Brahman is! The Jiva may be troubled by life, or rather, the thoughts they have about life but Brahman remains unmoved and untouched.
Detachment and devotion are indeed two powerful yogas that can help a seeker gain confidence and courage to go deeper into self-discovery.
Wow! Thank you Jason for this slap in the face to reality
Great insight! Life is a sequence of events, which appears to be a movie in our own minds. I would add something which you failed to mention: Your life is a movie, and you are the chief script writer. Having the courage to write your own script is the basis of your free will.
Free will is an illusion
@@robertjsmith I've learned that people who deny free will usually are those who are afraid to take control of their lives. If you don't believe in your free will, just quit your job, or if you can't, are you a slave? If you sold yourself into economic slavery, that was a choice of your own free will.
@@evacuate_earth where is the “self” that either has or doesn’t have free will ?
The contents of our chitti (subconscious) is the chief script writer. Since the contents/intentionof that writer are hidden from us, it must be the one in charge. We can however be its apprentice and so begin to guide the storyline whilst becoming friends with the chief writer, guiding it to become more pure in its intention, so that the Divine takes over from both us and Chitti. Then we don’t need to write, just enjoy.
@@The-R-Evolution are thoughts in anything ?
Thank you namaste
Thanks. This helps me with some of my anger issues today, ty Jason.
Nice! I needed to hear this today. Thanks Jason, I like your channel.
- Cheers always and very best regards to you and yours for 2024 : ) 🙏
Oh, the theater 🎭 of it all: military brass call battle planning “the theater 🎭 as well”❤.
The only things thing really out there is bits of vibrating quantum foam. All this sound and fury is in our heads.
Great explanation! Thank You 🙏😊
👍 Liked your interpretation of Maya as illusion of measurement. It’s amazing that like any instrument we ourselves or nature constructs, we (our gross and subtle bodies) can be calibrated 😊
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When you see this truth as actual fact and not just a concept it is amazing..
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I was provided a similar metaphor in meditation once, that of fibre optics [without the cable covering!]. I was 'told', 'you're actually the light, but believing you're the data' LOL In other words, you're 'context', not 'content'.
or perhaps better yet, 'the light image-ining you're the data' :P
Thank you! 🕉️💜🙂
Life without Maya would actually be difficult for most people. But the trick is in recognizing the imagery of all actions or Karma, aligning ourselves with Brahman and dedicating all our Karma to that power. That frees us from ownership of our actions and the chaos so we can simply float through life while enjoying the movie.
Well articulated, mate 🙏🏽
My movie got a score of 20 on Rotten Tomatoes.
😂👎👎Mine is sort of the same, but with eyes wide open. I don't believe everything this guy says, but there is definitely some truth. It's crazy what you can figure out on your own unfiltered observance. It gets better the more you know yourself and learn to trust the unknown.
Brilliant 👏
Great insights, I agree. My favourite Rumi quote is 'Life is one great big cosmic laughter.' Thankyou for the video and deeper insights on this, that I never was aware of.
Jason this is a very well valued message when I needed to hear this purposeful message
Shanti, Shanti, Shanti 🎉🎉🎉
let say if you have pure understanding of this movie, how does this knowledge contribute to enlightenment. How do you see or experience Brahman?
I may not an expert. But I noticed when I meditate on an object (say breath), after a while I move the focus to the gap between breaths ( not forcefully. this usually happens naturally after a while). And you end up in these gaps after a while. It is just empty and pure nothingness. You will not find yourself(personality) in that nothingness. I felt that is the reality or brahman.
The concepts of 'enlightenment' and 'awakening' are some of the most misleading concepts being offered in the spiritual marketplace right now. The whole point is to be clear about what you are in reality and who you believe yourself to be. Am I the limited, deficient, defective, person I think I am? If the answer is. yes; then I will seek out whatever and whoever promises satisfaction and salvation. All in an attempt to fix 'myself' or feel whole and complete. Some even start chasing ideas about liberation or enlightenment.
People have never stopped being what they are but their true identity goes unappreciated because our focus is ever on the person we think we are. It is like only seeing the clouds that come and go but ignoring the empty sky in which they appear and disappear. The 'elephant in the room' is that you are already present and aware. To say, "I am" is not a theory but a fact! Everything added to the naked sense of "I am" such as "I am a man, old and poor, king or beggar" can be questioned but not the consciousness verbalized as "I am."
Our natural state of freedom is already present here and now. Brahman is not something extraordinary but the most ordinary that when viewed from our natural state of pure being makes everything extraordinary.
@Hermit-lo7bw. I am expecting enlightenment is when you no longer have any concept. everything just is, like a drop of water in the ocean. Then again, my expectation is also a concept. Without experience enlightenment itself nothing is making sense. So, any teaching that does not give me the experience, it is meaningless.
@@thoang101 I think that is a very healthy way of looking at it. I too believe that unless I can directly experience and confirm it for myself, anything I hear is just theory.
Too many seekers are hoping ‘enlightenment’ be given to them from outside and are placing their trust in mere speculative ideas about what ‘enlightenment’ is and is not. No teacher or teaching can make someone ‘awaken’ to reality. Nothing we read, hear or do will free us from suffering.
The concepts around ‘enlightenment’ and ‘awakening’ are not only exaggerated but are misleading seekers everywhere. Reality to be real has to be here and now, not in some future time after a prolonged series of spiritual practices or years of meditation. In Buddhism, we are told that we are already Buddha, which means to be awake. In Advaita, we are told that all is Consciousness. So here we have it-awareness or consciousness is where it's at. Can I verify this to be true here and now? The good news is all of us can because it is our natural state. We have never taken a single step away from the aware presence or conscious being that we are. Who is not aware that they are present and aware? Nobody!
I would like to encourage everyone to place their direct experience as the gold standard for truth and stop seeking the next guru, the next retreat, the next book, or dharma talk, etc. to ‘enlighten’ them. The most important thing is to gain clarity into WHO I am as a person and WHAT I am as impersonal being. The person is an appearance that comes and goes. It is a mask we put on that has many faces. Something that comes and goes in time cannot be considered as absolute reality. It is to be thought of as relative reality. Only that which is always present, never changing can be considered to be the truth of what we are, and it is not personal.
So, I invite you to ask yourself, “What is the reality of this moment?” The reality here is that I am present and aware. Whatever I add to the naked feeling of consciousness which is verbalized as “I am” is debatable and can be questioned but not the feeling of aliveness. Once this understanding is super clear, we can follow any nondual path we feel drawn to.
Let it roll baby, and play your part.
Thanks Jason....Just what I was looking for today.
Jason, I have been following you for awhile now (about 9 months). I really appreciate the videos and the work you do. I feel this video was one of the best so far that I had viewed ! Thanks again for you guidance and work..greetings from New York..
Thank you! Great presentation as always!
Maya was my girlfriend but we had to break up. Thanks Jason great message.
Excellent video. Magnificent metaphor to point to the Ultimate Reality
Once you realise who you are, you realise there is no job for you to do, you don't need to be better than anybody else - the only thing you have to do is take care of your body and celebrate how magnificent you truly are...
Love this-thank you, Jason.
Great for people who live far, far away from war and chaos. However many people need to deal with very real survival. Right and wrong? War is wrong, whether people miles away from war think its an illusion or not.
Hi Jason, I really needed to hear this today. Thank you so much. With all the things happening in my life these days, this made me step back and see a little more clearly and breathe. Words don’t do justice to the depth of my appreciation for you. Much love to you friend ❤️
That's just fantastic. I also like to tell myself that life is a dream. Like in a dream you can have a lucid or unconsious one.
Thank you for your great work 🙏❤️🙏
*All In All* Your the screenwriter, the director, the producer, the cinematographer, the editor, the sound and the lighting and of course
*the star of the show* and actually the audience… *all at once* .
PS. It’s more like two movies. Think of *The Truman Show* meets *The Matrix* and you’re most of the way there. Just saying.
DMT. Whoops. 🍏
Thank you… we all need to be constantly be reminded - that it’s not real. 🙏🌏💕😊
Namaskarams🙏🙏🙏 सो perfectly explained 🙏amazing👍 🙏thank you🙏🌹 so much 🙏love and Respect from Bangalore🙏🙏🙏
And everything is light just like a movie is
Jason as usual this is so good. As I listened to this I couldn’t help but think of how we can use this to reimagine how we can heal from trauma. As you know there is so much talk now on trauma but what I have in many of my sessions with clients is that there is such an attachment to the trauma that healing never happens. Not belittling what has been done to one and what that did to them. But I can’t help but think that at some point a shift is required where we don’t see ourselves as the trauma. We lose the identification that we’ve even been traumatized. It feels like a thin line for sure because we also don’t want to bypass what has happened. And at the same time the danger of feeling like you’re moving through a revolving door only to end up in the same exact space. It is all a movie.
Thank you friend ❤
Mind is the projector, ego is the screen.
What is so divine about it ?
my life is a movie, and I am the main character.
“Maybe you had too much too fast, or just overplayed your part.”
~Grateful Dead
Once we overplayed our part in the grand movie called “society”, we’ve become way too serious and a fraud. That’s when trouble starts.
what the hell is elon musk doing in the thumbnail
I agree the ideas is Maya. But what about emotions. When someone says someti don't like, emotions are being experience. No matter how much I tell myself this is Maya, it's still there.
Thoughts, feelings, emotions, and sensations are still there but what is absent is the self or the idea you have about who you are; that is the illusion or Maya that we should be clear about.
People think experience is happening to them when in reality, experiences appear within the space of awareness and you are that which is aware of them. To say, "I am sad," is incorrect. There is an awareness of a sad feeling but ask yourself if that which is aware of it, is itself sad? Sadness may be real but what is unreal is the "I" that identifies with sadness by claiming "I am sad." You are not sad, you are that which knows sadness but is not that feeling or any other emotion you may experience.
If I am aware of thoughts and emotions, then they are objects and I must be the subject. I cannot be an object and a subject at the same time.
Nice 👍💖
Exactly! I'm totally agree with you.
Interesting video and thought which makes me ask a few things:
1: IF Life is a Movie, and Individual is the Man Character, then we can also change the script or the character arcs that play out?
2: Would this idea be likened to being a character in a First person game? With NPC's and such? Or Multiplayer world?
Scripts are changing all the time whether you believe you are in control or not. The fact is, free will is an illusion, and in any case, whatever character you change into is still just an imaginary person in an imagined play. It does not free you from suffering which is what everyone is seeking.
The point of spirituality is to stop playing roles or pretending to be something we are not and actualize our potential by being an expression of reality. This means clarity regarding our true identity and operating from that true standpoint.
I always wonder if the mind is also an illusion, consciousness is always a reality, it exists but the mind plays this movie on this screen of consciousness.
In spiritual circles, it is understood that what comes and goes is an appearance only. In other words, "an illusion" as you say. Mind which is nothing other than thoughts and images does indeed come and go. No thought or image is always present.
Reality is considered to be that which does not change and is ever-present. For this reason, consciousness or awareness is often referred to as reality. However, I would like to point out that though consciousness has not changed throughout our life, making it more real than a thought, feeling, or any other experience, it too is not always present. In deep sleep, for example, consciousness is absent. What is present, however, is the infinite potential that manifests originally as consciousness which is the inexhaustible possibility. Our true identity is before consciousness.
Existence is a relative truth.
All the world’s a stage, Rush
The Sacred without the Profane is ,,,,, ??
The Profane without the sacred is ,,,,??
You need both, right??
It’s all in your opinions.
Thank you!
We are the Poter the pot and the Clay of the pot !
The world is a drama, staged in a dream - Guru Nanak Dev Ji
>begin to see plot points
>They get mad at me
>tortured via bad geometry
>Donnie darko gay
Nicely explained thank you.
I wish my movie was one of those old cowboy films with Clint Eastwood.
Instead it’s got me in it, most disappointing.
No Oscars here.
And the fat person at the front has blocked off half the screen and eaten all the popcorn.
There’s never a Japanese waleing ship around when you need one.
perhaps the good part is around the korner
It’s here, it’s always been here, and always will but it is also round the corner, it’s everywhere
Thanks!
Hi i can recommend 52 RUclips video of "upanisad ganga" On chinmaya mission.. Because i liked it.. And if u want u can also listen to some vedios of Osho(bagwan rajnish) ... By the way ur understanding of these spiritual scriptures are very good... 😊
And also I want to tell something that this is dwapar yuga... As per swami krishnagiri mention in the holy science.. Due to some misunderstanding every one is telling this is kaliyuga... And i also prefer u to read "the holy science"
Thank u jason 🙏🙏
Great explanation ❤❤❤
Shantha!Shantha!Shantha!Shantha!
Shiva means that wich is not physical this works for myself as its very appropriate as a description of self wich realy can't be explained shiva beingness mahhadev means lord supreme like brahman lord supreme shiva just works for me if you know the nirvana shakatatam mantra by sounds of isha it has English subtitles with it you will see how appropriate it is shivoham for myself shiva is consciousness adiyogi the source of yoga not a god in the physical sense but beyond the senses like atman brahman there is no separateness Allah God consciousness are all same thing from different perceptions shiva is seen in many different ways in India the way I see shiva came through sadguru mooji baba also calls it shiva beingness beyond the body mind shivoham I may be right i may be wrong but it feels right to myself
Mine is the shittiest movie ever then..
🤣I feel that. My life is like a never-ending horror movie.
Im not even participating anymore, I know this shit isn't real. I'm a goddamn abridged character.
I'm the only one that wants to be the sour apple, that's the joke.
Time to change that!!
you watching sir Dr Deepak Chopra RUclips channel. what is consciousness explain Deepak Chopra!!!!???❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
So, let's define "real", as usual, language is the barrier. Buddhist teaching: meditation to delete words and language from our minds
A simple definition is that which does not change and is ever-present. Within the human experience, it would be consciousness or awareness. Everything that appears and disappears is considered unreal such as thoughts, feelings, sensations, etc. which manifest within the space of consciousness.
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Chadananda Roopa Shivoham Shivoham
Thank you for your videos.
I have a silly question…. I’m not sure if it’s the editing but I don’t think so.
At some points there is movement around your head as if you edited but it doesn’t seem like it. Has anyone else noticed this?
I know it’s a weird question and maybe it’s the blue background but it happens quite often and I just wanted to know if it’s my eyes or is this an edit?
Thanks in advance.
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All the stage is a Shakespeare - World
How does one recognize what is true when one doesn't remember what is true?
Truth doesn't need memory. I do not need to think about or remember the reality of this moment or the fact that 'I am,' because the truth is not in time.
YEAH I KNOW RATINGS ARE AT AN ALL TIME HIGH
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My life is a movie where I am the director.......to a certain degree
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The film comes from your past life karmas.
Life is illusionary high voltage psychological drama