Non Duality - How Do I Know The "I Am"
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2025
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This is a set of very pertinent and important questions GP received and thought was worthy of a video.
To the best of your ability, what would you answer a person with the following questions;
How does one experience, “I am that”?
What would one do to know that they are experiencing “I am that”?
What is blocking us from seeing and accessing our true power?
Is “I am that”, something one does in the brain or something one feels?
How does one learn to know this?
Thank you G! You are the best non dual teacher I have come across. I’m so grateful you showed up in my RUclips feed and I clicked and listened to you. Forever grateful! ❤
Thank you so much Valerie. That is a very high compliment and I deeply appreciate it!
This is the best and clearest - thank you for sharing this freely and giving so much examples to point out : )
You are very welcome
Loving your videos. Very Chill.
I am so glad you are
Thank you for your answers. I had an experience years back. Am seeing myself. The one that sees had nobody, is just like an empty space.
A Beautiful explanation, and another shift in my self Realisation. Thank you. 🙏🙏
So glad this is blessing you
Thank you so much for your simple and direct message. It is refreshing to hear about non-duality without having to contend with a load of eastern spiritual jargon that I am unfamiliar with.
A retired doctor and myself had a conversation some years ago about the nature of consciousness. He subscribed to the "emergent property" hypothesis. I asked him what separates conscious from non-conscious objects. He theorised that consciousness is a fundamental property of matter and that the more complex an object was, the more likely we would be to recognise it as conscious. In other words, there was no line to be drawn between conscious and non-conscious objects.
Since I have been watching videos such as yours (and other inspiring non-dualists) it seems more useful to regard matter as being a property of consciousness and that objective scientific minds have it all backwards. There is still no line to draw between conscious and non-conscious because there was never any separation in the first place.
I will follow your advice and take a closer look at the experience of "I am".
You put it brilliantly Chris. Scientist assume that consciousness must be an emergent property because they assume that matter is the substance of everything. Although more and more are becoming vocal about admitting that consciousness is qualitative different (especially neuro-scientists).
But science gets closer. I mean that now believe that all "matter" is actually space modulating itself. Now, if they can just stop and take a look at hat is recognizing all of this and e may have a mass conversion to non-duality on our hands.
@@GPWalsh Thanks for your kind compliment - however, maybe this is unhelpful as it increases the false identification with my ego :-)
My current situation is that I fully accept, intellectually, that non-duality is the only explanation that fits my observations. I know enough to pass myself off as a guru to the unenlightened - not that I would ever consider doing such a thing. It's just that I don't experience oneness directly. I know that there is no method, nothing to aim for and nothing to be found so I have decided to stop seeking and, instead, just observe without judgement or expectation. What will happen, will happen.
Your hope of a mass conversion to non-duality taking place would be a turning point in the evolution of humanity. Just the thought of it gives me a very warm feeling inside.
Made me smile
Conciseness is simply yet another perception, based on neural results and internal feedback. To know, one must show the experience to be true by means other than and in addition to the personal one.
It is not possible to know consciousness other than through the personal subjective one. Consciousness cannot be examined objectively. Classical analysis or the scientific method does not apply here. Only one's own experience can reveal its true nature. You can't confer with anyone. It relies completely on your own inner authority.
Man that was sooooooo clear
I am very glad Youssef. Thank you
Can we take it as the lifeforce which gives the sense of beingness in our organism..
Yes, as long as you recognize that you yourself are that life force.
It seems to me that there are two things that could be the I Am. The awareness (kind of a void) and being (the sense of aliveness in the body). I am aware of the aliveness in the body but it also seems like it is an aspect of the I Am. Are they both me?
Yes, they are not 2. The body doesn't exist separate from awareness and so it IS awareness. We only believe it to be something that exists externally that is being perceived. In fact it is not. There is only awareness.
@@GPWalsh thank you so much
The shape of water is determined by the container, what determines the form that consciousness takes?
The container. But the container is of its own making
it is both the container AND the water and how the atomic forces work to wet the sides of the vessel (coating and height of the water level, and things like temperature and density).
Great video and questions, I just have a stumbling block maybe you can help I can't distinguish between the I am and or a thought that is saying to other thoughts to be quite, because I feel like its just another thought tricking me into believing it's the I am so I'm kinda caught in a trap to quote elves.. ha so if you could clarify it would be great. One more thing please could you talk about the doer I'm having trouble with that too.. sorry it just if there is no doer how are things done who or what decides that I will go to work today or maybe stay home. Thank you
The I Am is the one watching all the thoughts. So the thoughts that are loud and unruly and the thought that sya be quiet are all seen. That seer is the self. Abide there
Thank you Sir 🙏🏻
You are very welcome
So the ultimate experiencer is the pure consciousness which is my true self?
Yes in a sense. But it isn't really an experience. It is the recognition of the experiencer which cannot be experienced because it is One.
Thankyou for this video. So in essenvce the ' i am' is the observer of thoughts. There are many affirmations that start with 'I Am' how can i make sure i am using them properly to become what i want without my mind tricking me?
If you are using "I am" as an affirmation then always say the very best you can think of. Also become conscious of all the places you say "I am" followed by something that you really don't want.
GP Walsh regarding 'places' do you nean the external environment or me internally?
GP Walsh i also heard that thinking or saying what you 'dont' want instead of what you 'do' want will attract lack?
Just concern yourself with what you are saying to yourself. The external will take care of itself.
Whatever you assert for yourself becomes your experience. So do watch what you assert. But don't be afraid of it. Just let yourself be self-aware.
How to realize that the aware i am is not a localise being?
Spend time with it. Try to put attention of the aware I Am, free from preconceived notions. Let it reveal itself. Thinking can't grasp this. So just study the actual thing.
Thanks GP for answering,let it reveal itself...Great
I am interested in the emergent property you talked about in this video. In certain conditions, a property emerges, e.g., no components of an airplane can fly, but the airplane can. What is the nature of this phenomenon?
Whoa! That is a big question. The nature of this is emptiness. It is totally mysterious. It cannot be grasped by our modern ontological view since it is reductionist and materialistic in approach. The ontology of consciousness is that everything is consciousness and consciousness can be known as 2 states. the state of pure, formless being and the state of manifest form or knowing. It is a substance that can take any form but itself is not made of anything.
Of course, even referring to it as 2 states is reductionist but that is the intellectual framework that we all live in (and suffer under). We cannot grasp the oneness, the strange "place" where one is many and nothing is something. Not nothing becomes something but nothing IS something.
Not only can none of its components fly, you can deconstruct it and not find a single airplane. When scientists speak of emergent properties (or in biology self-organizing systems) what they are really saying is "We don't have a frickn' clue how or why but we are determined to not look like we don't know."
Thanks for your answer! I understood the property emerges in consciousness, it is made of consciousness. But it also reminds me the importance of conditions. I used to think every phenomenon is caused by something else, now I think a phenomenon emerges in consciousness when the conditions are right.
That is true. But the conditions themselves are nothing more than an arising phenomena. There is only one cause and that is you!
I can deconstruct an airplane, but how do I deconstruct a feeling or sensation?
No need to do that. They are the essential building blocks of all experience. Everything experienced is nothing but sensation, feeling and thought. The only thing left is to see them as simply different qualities of the same substance and that substance is consciousness. Consciousness as pure being is emptiness. Consciousness as experience is sensation, feeling and thought (sat, chit, ananda). Every form derives from that.
I'm not sure what you mean by matter can't be found?? I've heard this said a few times. What does it mean. We can see material objects. Aren't they made of matter?
We see objects. What they are made of is totally a matter of conjecture. Matter is an assumption. To quote the Dali Lama "Matter is a metaphysical assumption. Not a scientific fact."
All you see, feel, touch, smell ect. is always only a projection of and in your own mind. If you have paid at least some attention in biology class, you should actually know this. Matter is an idea to help explain our experience of a world - it's a concept, not a real substance. 😘
'When the sense of distinction and separation are absent, you may then call it love.' --I am That--
Ahhh! But what does it mean? Do you see it, feel it, know it, think it, flow it? Or does it do you?
Do you know why, and accept, all that you do?
Evil, how do you explain it? Is there anything that justifies evil?
And THAT which is following you in the video is precisely THAT which can't be known and yes, as you state is the REAL you.
I bet he plays bass 🤣✌
Hahahaha no I play piano and percussion. That bass belongs to my partner at MasterHeart and the senior facilitator who also teaches classes with me. He is a world class jazz bass player.
GP Walsh aaah, nice one. Let's face it, non duality and music=best things in the world. There are two more things but Im a long haired rock singer so I hardly need to mention those!! Keep up the good work dude-it's very valuable 👍✌
No need at all. been there!
GP Walsh 🤣🤣🤣👍