Spiritual Awakening is Bullshit
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What do you do after enlightenment? Chop wood and carry water.
Anthony Salvatore after the ecstacy, the laundry.
Nah, probably get pizza
Live in woods and grow a big ass beard
Sash
Lumberlightenment. Sassy.
@SkinLeg Pockets people lose it without it also. Hope she's in a better place now.
I had similar experiences, turned out to be psychosis.
damn u good?
The difference between a spiritual awakening and a psychosis is that you don’t respond to it with a delusion (i.e. become the next saviour or something/someone special). Also, when you talk to god it’s called prayers, if god talks back to you, it’s a psychosis.
I've experienced both Kensho and psychosis and I can tell you, they are nothing alike. If you ever experience them in the future, you'll know the difference as easily as distinguishing between sugar and salt.
I can attest to that
@@SaurusMediaOfficial Any recommendations on experiencing kenshō?
Whats that old saying? Before enlightenment chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, go on Opra , make 15 million.
Thank you Eckhard Tolle.
😂😂😂😂😂
My friend became more narcissistic and conceited after he became "enlightened"...He said, "I have to dumb down 98% of my conversations now!"
That happens, unfortunately.
Ego is a side effect of losing one's ego LOL
BAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!! OH YEAH!!!! EXACCTTLLLYYY!!! Lmfao!! Thank you for the giggle @VCR!!
@@carpo719 LMFAOOOOOOO!!
There is truth to that, you do have to watch what you say enlightenment is
Like the most beautiful box covered in beautiful rapping with a ribbon 🎀, that you wish you didn't open, it's a box of nothing, with beautiful words like oneness and isness, love peace and harmony, you don't want enlightenment, when you are alive, enlightenment is for the chosen few, and to be experienced after death, being alive and enlightend is depressing. You don't want or need enlightenment, eat good food fruit and veg, exercise and a good routine, love the only possession you have your physical body, and the rest will look after itself, and enjoy the small things,
And I think many confuse awakening with bliss or “happiness”...and modern western Buddhism does nothing to dispel that delusion.
exactly i was depressed not happy
Congratulations, you have found the definition of awakening
@@animationcreation7078 When you are depressed as hell, it is a good sign, and many people call that "dark night of the soul". Took me f-ing 3 years, but I learned a lot about myself. Maybe the more f-uped you are before, the longer the dark night. I don't know.
And I am still f-uped, but I work on that.^^
Well said. I had a deep "spiritual experience" about 27 years ago where it felt like God came into my life and it hasn't left me. It never really gave me any special powers, I still needed that root canal from the dentist.
No one has special powers. People do have skills
Sal C
God loves the dentist, too.
Transport King
Of course there is a God. How else would there be enough tooth decay to keep the dentists in business?
Always remember you are a living flesh, you need the things the body needs, its natural and also we are under a system, if you can see in your mind that we are souls experiencing being a human. After spiritual awakening it will still turn back to your ego, but this time a new version of your ego, you'll realize again you are in these reality that need a root canal.
@@pauljordan3227 Actually, some people do but it's not a big deal and the ones who do do not generally make it known, especially in the US.
I saw that your audio was out of sync and I became enlightened.
GAZER GAZER DATS TUFF
Spiritual so is fucking mental.
I didn't know I was going after some kind of spiritual experience by trying to stay present all the time. Thank you for grounding it in the reality.
Thanks!
Wow, this was just what I needed right now, some practical down to earth explanation. Just checked out one of those way too out there "spritual teachers " video. It just left my head spinning. There should be more videos on RUclips that are that are more practical like this. Thank you, I feel loads better
Brad I love this video because I feel the same. I feel awakened but I tend to avoid a lot of "awakened people I've come across because they seem fake to me. They seem like they are trying so hard to be on a other plane that they are avoiding there " bradness" or whatever their name is , ..and not being present in life. My favorite quote ( i heard on my kids video Kunfu Panda)...yesterday is history, tomorrow a mystery but today is a gift that is why it's called " the Present". Anyways thanks for being Real
That's a great quote. Thank you!
On the topic of that great gift that is life... I tend to think a natural exploration of the oneness experience would lead others to see CONNECTION to other people as the ultimate point of this life and the most incredible gift.
Yes, most people on RUclips are like that, sadly. That's why I now follow channels like Hardcore Zen more and more.
It's funny, as long as you are not seen through the bullshit in the spiritual world, you have not experienced enough. When you finally let the carrot go, you see all the masters, teachers, non-teachers and so on and through their bullshit. Well, maybe not all, but most of them.
At least that was my experience. I was like a drug addict, and an imagination of holiness was my drug. So many so-called enlightened people use you in that way.
Man, and even some tell you, they have no ego anymore. That is the joke on top.
unfortunately ego is something on this plane anyways that we just have to deal with. I do believe in the power of prayer and even if you are not Christian there is a quote that Jesus made that rings true.... "In the Bible, Jesus says, "When you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men … but when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your father who is unseen" (Matthew 6:5-8). "
I've had transcendental experiences - I can say it always felt completely new but yet deeply familiar. Personally however I feel that these experiences are supposed to only happen occasionally and not to be pursued "as a way of life". I have begun to see greater joy in the mundane aspects of life and being grounded in physical reality.
Completely agree. Jordan peterson says that these kind of experiences destabilise The psyche, so too often of those and its detrimental to mental health
@@RaduP3 no doubt about that - even the really pleasurable ones can overwhelm the psyche.
@@alr.3137 Yes, perhaps also one can become attached to these experiences and suffer in the attempt to, as you say, pursue these experiences more and more. I would think also that because they are few and far between, the latching on to them will lead to one making the attempt to re-create these experiences in memory, which leads to them circling within their own fictions.
correct. there is a reason why we don't constantly live in that state. it is because the ego is necessary for survival. The ability to separate one from the outer world is HOW the universe experiences itself.
@@Fuar11 I don't think we need the ego to be on earth. Ego makes us suffer.i think it's finding peace with ourselves as and how we see the world. Ego makes us compete etc when really when we awaken we realise we can live in a collaborative creative peaceful world and not egoistic distructive one. Know what I mean...? :)
I just think this is one of your best videos/talks … meaningful, brutally direct and fun.
You described my experience and my perspective perfectly. 💯
3:41 I'm glad you said that. There's something about you that seems very different, so I'm excited to have found this channel.
I've watched a lot of Brad videos, but this may be my favorite. He does a good job of putting some clarity around something that is highly personal and ultimately indescribable. How many Zen books do you have to read for you to get that indescribability? (I've lost count, myself. Starting with A Glimpse of Nothingness in 1973).
You mean that "dropping part", right? Yes, he says it very direct, right. I like that too.
When people ply you for interpretation of certain hypothetical scenarios in the grand scheme of life and zen- I just read the “what if neither a clear mind nor a cloudy mind comes?” Zen anecdote you once brought up. It’s like, what is the intention here? Are they looking for practical answers in daily living, or looking for the Grand Answer to All Things? (Keep up the good work sir.)
Thanks! It's always hard to know exactly what people are really asking when they ask some things. I try to avoid answering hypothetical questions because they call for speculation. "What would you do if happened?" Well... I honestly don't know. I can speculate. But I can't be sure my answer is correct.
That sense of being a “me”, rusts into being unique, being special, even after experiencing something banal and common place. It’s always lurking there in the shadows, ready to make a fool of us. The Tibetan teacher the late Chogyam Trungpa talks about this too. Thanks Brad, first YT video of yours I’ve seen.
Thanks!
Do you consider kensho to be useful?
Can you derive learning from It to engrain into your normal life? If so, how would you go about It?
It is another moment
Inimitable again, Brad; in your wit, insight and down-to-earth moral truthiness. Gasho.
First comment I ever made. The Buddha was very clear about what the Supreme enlightenment was. A lot of Zen practitioners believed that true liberation is just a perception of Satori or emptiness. The Buddha just called people who have reached the states of mind a body Witness. The base of nothingness and perception of non perception were the Budda's two main studies before his attainment. He took them as far as they could go and then considered them unworthy of the brahmas, monks and holy Seekers. The reason that one cannot stay in this state is because of what the Buddha called the defilements. Wanting or craving, aversion or hatred, sleepiness or dullness, restlessness or worry or regret and doubt or what the Buddha believed to keep trapped in notions of self and in the bonds of Maya. He also went to say that the Nirvana that he obtained was not subject to birth, old age, sickness and death. I studied Zen and practice zazen for years without making any progress, until I actually went back to the Pali Canon and studied the true teachings. With my deepest respects I must say I think you're caught in the same cycle.
The path to enlightenment, if you must call it that, is not easy. What I see here is opinion and misunderstanding. Once the doorway is open, you cannot go back, it will bring more turmoil. Having an opinion about a spiritual experience is the first clue that it is nothing more than the ego creating a "spiritual" journey setting you up for failure and then vicious judgement. These are the most dangerous people. There is nothing for the seeker in books and retreats if you set "enlightenment" as a goal... this is ego... and it will fail. Rather let the process unwind as it will, in this lifetime or the next. It is not anything magical, it is just you going back to you. Once there, keep quiet... live life with a sense of knowing. The conundrums of self and humanity are irrelevant to the wise. You are not the doer nor the reaper of what is to be done... but that wisdom that you now have... be careful with how you use it. Better to be silent
@@danielcampos9628
When people don't understand another person and their comments! 😏
It's sad. Really really f**** sad.
This is why we've war after war after war and MANY MANY conflicts between us human beings.
We sometimes do NOT understand each other. Not even a simple comment
Let me tell you my friend......you've been looking in the wrong direction all the time for what you are looking for.
By your comment from just now, I know this for a fact!
Some people are simply not ready, or unfortunately they may never be.
@@kreasenchetty
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@@SaRa-cs5nc That's a pretty condescending thing to say.
Right View. It is the beginning of the end.
I once knew an enlightened zen master. He owned a little pottery store in a little town in Washington where he sold his pottery. I was introduced by a friend. My folks and I weren't interested in buying anything, we were just hanging out with this friend who wanted to see his awesome zen friend. The zen master asked if we were going to buy anything. No. To which he said: then I have no time for you. When we left he didn't even say bye, nice to meet you, or anything. Then he started talking to our mutual friend, who later raved about how much of a blissful awesome open-minded guy he is. Our mutual friend also revealed he owed the guy some money as he was doing an investment plan to buy some pottery. Thus, I learned that a sign of a true enlightened person is someone who only gives you the time of day, and is otherwise rude, if you are putting money in their pocket!
Mate, thanks so much for your thoughts. Really.
I've watched a lot of vids on RUclips of these enlightened folk and, for me at least, you really helped balance my perspective on it all.
Really appreciate it.
I'm glad I could help.
So now what is your perspective?
It is a mental perspective
i like you're teaching style, although i'm not really sure wether this is meant as 'teaching'. Anyways, i could use some lessons, i'm not new to this, but i'm at a point where i want to deepen this practice in my life. I feel a pull to find a form in life where i spend my time facing being, it is a kind intuition that has a kind personality feel to it. It has made me sober up my life and face struggle more sober aswel. Emotions are stronger, but more transparent because of it. Got any tips for someone who is looking to deepen this path over time? perhaps some pitfalls? of maybe some bullshit call i could use? I'm looking for other peoples perspective on this.
Practicing with a community can be useful. Try visiting a few places and see if there's one you like. As for pitfalls -- don't necessarily believe your own thoughts, and don't believe anything you can't make sense of. My blog is at hardcorezen.info and it has an FAQ section that might be useful. Good luck!
Thanks for the reply =). I have a retreat planned in the summer in a place nearby, the practice vipasanna in the tradition of a burmese master, ba khin. I'm really looking forward to that, i'll apply your advice by trying to make friends there. Other question, is this (not youtube, but teaching) the way you make a living? If yes, how did you build that for yourself?
All those legends about the Buddha don't make it easier. All that mystical crap about nature bowing to Siddhartha after he awakened following that night of battling Maya and all those demons... When you're young and susceptible you can really get sucked in. Sometimes I think that realisation is realising none of that stuff is real. Like you go to your teacher and tell him most of this stuff is just junk and he (or SHE 🤣) winks at you and hands you your diploma. Like there's some big hazing going on and if you get the joke you pass.
Tell me about it
I love this one! Great to hear some truth spoken in a humorous and honest way! I will check out your books! Thank you.
Love it man! Being a "seeker" is one thing. When one "finds", then what? Someone still has to do the dishes. You got a subscribe and like from me.
Well said, Dogen and I approve this message. The point is not to spend all day in bliss, but to not perpetuate suffering. Knowing that which is seeing through my eyes is that which is seeing through your eyes, is to be freed from the suffering of the illusory self, and to free others from their suffering also. Bliss is ok once a day around 5 am, though.
Uma vida sem sofrimento é a maior ilusão e vocês vendem isso essa ideia de libertar do sofrimento apenas para ganhar dinheiro em cima dessas distorções da realidade
Asim e
I agree with u.... being spiritual or religious in the real world is just like being left alone in a wild forest and learning french to survive.
What brand are those "really good" pens?
Truth! i was "Enlightend" only to find i was the only one that was dumbfounded and i was going through puberty
audio and video are out of sync starting at about 2:16
I know! I spent ages trying to fix that. Finally, I semi-fixed some of it and just left the rest as it was. You will also note that the whole thing re-synchronizes at about 5:40 or so after a painfully obvious edit. I recorded the video in 3 segments. The middle segment was out of synch for reasons I cannot fathom. But the 1st and 3rd segments were fine.
So what about samadhi after experiencing Nirvana? Is is - as masters says - when ones self isn’t experienced and then objects aren’t separated from us (everything is what it is), so they aren’t objects anymore as they were before the nirvana experience. Does Soto tradition not mention that? In Rinzai there is a lot about it I think
In general, the Soto tradition doesn't describe experiences of samadhi or nirvana, at least not in the way it seems like you're referring to. Dogen talks about "jijuyu zanmai" or "the samadhi of receiving and using the self" in his essay Bendowa. That's about the closest thing I can think of in which samadhi might be described as a special state or condition. He also has an essay called "Zanmai-o Zanmai" or "The Samadhi That is King of Samadhi." In that essay, ordinary zazen is described as the highest samadhi.
wwzc.org/dharma-text/zanmai-o-zanmai-samadhi-sovereign-samadhis
Brilliant. I'm gonna have to look into getting your book(s)
I have neurological perspective on this. I thinks it's more phenomena. What else could it be? The choice we have is amygdala or no amygdala? Adrenaline or no adrenaline?
enlightenment used to be for people who had no interest in day to day life.i was thought that spirituality was for the chosen ones who had no interest in sansar(world).there is saying in nepal,"ghar gari khana nasake shadu ban".meaning if ur not a household guy become a shadu(sage).but in the western culture it has become cool to call oneself englightened and awakened.
wow. nice talk! thanks. i'm really glad i've found you and your channel, seems like you're taking a fresh and anarchistic and empowering standpoint on spirituality. looking forward to reading your books. with love, marcus.
Thank you so much Zen! :) You know this enlightment thing and the evolution of the soul and that all humanish thing that we have to deny in order to reach this just lead me a complete depression and I was constantly losing the personality I had, the person I've became during my life. So please anyone who seeks enlightment, please realize that even the want of enlightment goes against the rules of this enlightment. Motivation is our core factor to experience this life and ourselves. Follow your own nature. This state is not approachable in this physical realm and this will only make your personality decay slowly and slowly. What matters now is the YOU , your ego and the chance to experience things the way YOU experience it. You only live once this life, even if your soul has a lot to live. Let me finish with my favourite quote from the Assassin's Creed series.
"Nothing is true, everything is permitted." - live your life by your own beliefs with intention to make your and others' life better, follow yourself and become more and more yourself, there is no actual truth which one person can declear
❤
A verdade é Cristo meu irmão
Cristo is what you become after your transformation
It's always so paradoxical. As soon as you've "awakened" you realize how "asleep" you really are and that you never really get "there." It seems enlightenment is merely the acceptance of what is truly here and now, and what is. Good, bad, ugly, amazing, it doesn't matter. Painting a more dramatic illusion over what is to make it more palatable or more "profound" is basically to remain asleeo in a dream world of illusion. God is all, including the mundane and menial. Great video.
Spiritual awakening is simply an “Ah ha!” moment- a subtle but definite realization about an aspect of your nature. You remember yourself in action and your mind most of the times. You start to have a different interaction with everyday things. It’s silent and joyous and over time it becomes your rhythm.
Thank you for sharing more light on the matter, although your title was a little misleading.
Great video! Is your nice german pen a Stabilo?
IT IS!!!
Nice! I want to try those out. @@HardcoreZen
I know so many people who had profound mystical/awakening experiences (myself included). You treasure them and they may even help to shift your perspective on life, but the real work of spiritual practice is not over.
Straight up!
It's called suffering from delusions.
@@SanFran51 delusions about what
Waking up is just stop dreaming to find out the dream never really happened.
Good morning.
Iam always afraid of people who tell me what the universe wants.
But i try to stay open.
i used to want to get back to my enlightenment experience. then i realised that yeah, its interesting, you can learn some stuff but its not important really. if anything its just good to get it out of the way. id say thats probably the most useful thing about having one :P.
i'd also say that me having one was a bad idea and it led to trouble later in life for me. I was 17 when i had it and i used an object based meditation. it was only the second or so time i had ever meditated and i went really hard. i didn't know what i was doing and then before i knew it i was floating down the street and all the rest.
however! years later (after id stopped meditating for about 5 years) it led to another experience completely randomly where at university a lecturer told me something about the nature of sound (i did a music production degree) and it literally blew my mind. as in, i didn't have a chance to take the info he gave and map it into my 'idea' about reality. what he said just BOOM - changed my reality in-front of my eyes. I thought i was loosing my mind essentially. this didn't happen to anyone else. i later read in a buddhist book about hearing things not at an intellectual level and i knew then that it was probably because id messed around with that experience when i was younger.
luckily, i didn't need to leave UNI as it didnt happen again. but i was really scared, lol. so its a cautionary tale.
anyway g2g
Hmmm. Interesting!
I rushed the end of that story because i was eating into my morning zazen time before work, lol.
yeah, Enlightenment is a waste of time. So isn't zazen. All you need to do is conform to the teachings of your society, and follow your ancestors wisdom. That's how a good person knows right from wrong. What good is navel gazing? What good is Nirvana? You don't even need Buddhism. That's not our culture.
@@ou-rb2gv 'All you need to do is conform to the teachings of your society, and follow your ancestors wisdom. That's how a good person knows right from wrong.'
This is clutching onto concepts and views, obstructions of consciousness.
In my experience, the only thing you can rely upon is reality, and reality is obvious at all times no matter how many thick books you read. And even if you tried to believe in some kind of Divine Deeper Dimension, you always know (somewhere in the back of your mind) that you are fooling yourself, trying to trick yourself into seeing something as Real that is actually just another dream in the virtual reality of your thoughts and emotions. And that kind of bullshitting yourself will show in your everyday life by making dealing with your actual tasks and challenges even more difficult. Your everyday life as it is is as "enlightened" as it gets, and it is much more precious than you may be inclined to believe. Practice zazen every day for 5, 10 or 20 years, and that dream of a Better Deeper Parallel Reality will vanish, and your screwed up everyday life will be sufficiently divine - because it is real as opposed to all your dreams and wishful thinking. (Of course, I might be wrong about all of this.)
Carl Kellner .....datz insightful!...
Yes! I appreciate you.
Clearly u don’t know the power of the mind. What u see in the mind is real,for u we hold our own reality
Keep sitting daily. One day you too may move beyond your ordinary ego and discover something other than that. Yes there's something that exists beyond your thoughts, lol.
Not going to read the other comments, but I really enjoyed these insights. Authentic and sincere 🤓
Just found your channel and happy I did. Your little talks seem some how more real and relevant coming from what to me is just a regular guy and not some robed monk from who knows where. Look forward to more good stuff.
How do we know the universe wants anything.
For it was written by Tommy I mean vishrant the god Guru accended master three yr in a row voted best Guru on the market money back guarantee 😂😂
Reading accounts of Ramana Maharshi do you think he was a fraud or continually ‘awake’?
Spot ON!!! I love the Hasidic story of Zusye. Zusye said: "When I come before Hashem (God) Hashem will not ask me why I was not Abraham, Issac, or Moses. He will ask me why I was not Zusye." Beautiful. Thank you, Brad.
What about has your life changed through wanting to change and become good from bad or wrong if you like ??
Take a kid to the beach. Make sure they are happy (fed, thirst quenched, peed), get them building a sand castle. Within minutes that kid is fully in the moment. We all were when we were little. Tap into that. Help them build that sand castle.
Yes, and striving towards that, striving towards a fulfilling individual experience is what you should do instead of denying your individual nature to reach enlightenment. There is beauty in finity.
How does anyone who experienced "enlightment" can be sure that it was not some kind of self hypnosis or trick of your mind or even some kind of "hickup" of your mind? An analogy could be steroscopic images. If you learn how to cross your eyes, it takes a bit of practice and patience, suddenly you can see a 3D image ... maybe meditation practice is like "crossing" your mind and sometimes strange, weird mind stuff happens in your brain. I don't want to be cynical, and I am not, but the brain and conscious is not really fully understood, and sometimes stuff happens with your mind and it does not necessarily mean anything special. I totally agree, that the normal state of mind, everyday, that's the important stuff, and this I learned from reading your book and others...
It's really hard to explain how one knows. The analogy I usually use is of dropping a bowling ball on your foot. You would know that it happened. The phenomenon I'm talking about is every bit as real as that. And, like with the bowling ball on your foot, it leaves a lasting impression that you can't deny.
right, I thought about that. Sometimes a bowling ball is dropping on your foot and sometimes just a brick... How could you tell the difference? The impression (pain, deformed foot) is the same, but it is left to interpretation what actually happened. Just curious, but I don't want to drive this analogy too far. And with all respect, I never intend to invalidate your or others experiences, I am just very, very curious ;)
It's difficult to explain. Analogies are all I can come up with. I think the reason the "awakening" analogy has lasted so long is that it's a good metaphor for how it feels. It's similar to the feeling of having a really, realistic and convincing dream and then waking up and realizing it was just a dream. You might even have a moment when you're not sure which was which when you wake from a particularly realistic dream. But then things come together and you don't need any more convincing which was which. It's sort of like that.
I would say that enlightenment is not necessarily something you gain but more it's the consequence of losing things... relieving yourself of all of the things that we have picked up over the years that bombards our minds and weighs us down... my particular meditation is about silencing the mind coming the heart unlearning the things that are unnecessary to know at that particular moment and knowing how to retrieve that information when necessary... I suppose that if your mind isn't weighed down by so many thoughts and contemplations it works better it's more in tune with the body and things that once seemed impossible become possible.. imagine if there's absolutely nothing on your mind and for whatever reason you need to regulate your heartbeat; having your entire brain work on that one goal could make achieving that goal much easier than it would be if you were trying to do so while worrying about multiple things. (work family bills whether you should save money and eat in or spring for some sushi)
btw. I watched the new Blade Runner recently and it had maybe some Buddhist tendencies, notions... I felt that the idea that the self is an illusion was very prominent in the film. Also, that you are not your memories was a strong theme. And that the very moment, the here and now, was represented by scenes related to snow... Highly recommended, I wonder if the director Villeneeuve is into Buddhism, maybe. It was not your typical SciFi ... don't know if you still do those movie - buddhism investigations
Just heard again: a great reply.
Kwong Roshi said something like "it's like a circle, and you come back to your starting place: to Beginner's Mind". Also, you can't be more "you" than "you".
Suzuki Roshi said someplace: the quality of your zen experience when you let go of your self, is exactly the same as for Dogen or Bodhidharma or for Buddha. Even if you are a relative beginner. He said, of course there is some difference in maturity or depth, but it is the same quality.
I myself lost my spiritual virginity (a fantastic metaphor) in an est course (really!) in around 1980. That repeated, deeper in the est 6day course, and to some extend in all their other courses. But then they made the mistake of teaching us to sit (I think it was for 10 minutes) and my Aikido teacher really had us doing zazen. I stopped all the est stuff as I could see that it left "traces" and that the zen teachers were "the real thing". Did daily sitting and sesshins at least once a year for quite a while. Each sesshin I would have a profound experience. But, I realized that I would have the same experience with every sitting. The problem was getting my butt down on the cushion and maybe going thru 5 minutes of pain/frustration. At this point my attitude is just like Brad: it's like brushing my teeth, and if I delay sitting I just don't feel right. "Enlightenment experiences" are of no interest
in comparison to just being at home in our bodies and our lives and our own problems and Karma. Maybe it opens a door, ok great, but you need simply to be back here engaged as fully as possible. I think that is easier and more possible if one is able to sit sesshins, so I wish I still had time for that. But if not, daily sitting is just right.
I think it could be possible that staying in any one state or believing any ideology or spiritual idiom too strongly for too long will cause problems. Yes we are all connected but we are all still separate. Where the mind goes energy flows, but we all each have our own free will. Let’s say you go to a restaurant with some friends and a waitress spill a pitcher of lemonade on your head, it could be a terrible night for you while some of your friends are laughing and others are checking to see if you’re ok, and the waitress herself is apologizing. If we were all as connected as some spiritual “gurus” wouldn’t we all have the same thoughts during that experience. Or let’s say you’re watching a movie with friends maybe one person is really tuned in to the soundtrack while another is watching the screen form tiny details, someone else may be texting, and you may be thinking of something completely different. If we really had the power to influence people’s thoughts so profoundly wouldn’t we all be having the same thoughts? Idk to me too much spirituality makes people fall back into an almost infantile state of mind believing everything to be their fault or their responsibility will make them become ocd or have a form of toxic positivity, or even worse a total god complex. Take everything with a grain of salt and don’t believe everything that anyone tells you
Thanks for making this video 🙏🏼
Can it be healthy to try to preserve a perpetual remembrance of an experience?
No. I think it's better to forget most of the time.
The question of why the experience of "god-consciousness" ends is ... Buddhism 102: all things are impermanent.
What about Tao Te Ching? Or zen?
What about it?
@@HardcoreZen how can I contact you?
@@rain0069 bw@hardcorezen.info
@@HardcoreZen thanks ,I wrote a book not sure if it's any good although I would love to share it
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very good vid. have you heard of the institute of the study of peak states? you might find their work interesting
Interesting name for that institute. I'll look them up. Thanks.
I’ve been on the 5d ascension bs for a while - it was cool though.
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What's that?
mood
It's made up balony nonsense
do it again while baked, you'll get it
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This reminded me of a quote by Carl sagan, "wr are a way for the cosmos to know itself"
I was searching "is awakening real? "Does awakening really exit?" "Is spirituality real?"
it dose promise just do dmt
@Isabella Landreth
That’s not any spiritual “awakening” like most people think enlightenment is, just different neural connections being made in your brain because of the DMT; perfectly natural and explainable, not metaphysical or spiritual.
@@loganleatherman7647 white ppl moment
LOOOOOOL WTFFFFDUUUDE !! Hahahahahahahahahahahaha I remember when Nigeria did juju in the football pitch with Ghana it was hilarious !! My gosh from one side of the goal to the other and the stadium was SILENT !!! Hahahahaha
I always wonder about P'ang, he is sort of an anomaly, I wonder if he was there or not, or both or neither. He seems to be high in a way but also is totally 'aware', perhaps I shouldn't use that word, rather say he seems aware without awareness? like non differentiating mind that sees nothing yet I wonder how he can function. Not sure, not sure
Did he read hindu vedant or osho?
"convince yourself you're fully in this experience at all times." Keywords: convince yourself!
Just revisited this and it is beautiful
it's like a md5sum of all your cells and memories and then your enlightenment experience.
We need to get Brad interviewed on Buddha at the gas pump. That would be a blast.
Okay you spoke strictly on "enlightenment". "Spiritual awakening" is a method of coping with psychosis or schizophrenia.
Hahaha yea 😂
Spiritual Awakening is psychosis. They only made it sound Spiritual to stop you from going nuts.
I used to believe that, then when your in a room with 3 or more people and your thinking the same thing at the same time... and you have had more then one experience it bugs you out. Or some one walks by you and and you pick up a random sentence in your head and then that person says that exact sentence...
You tend to view things differently I have been bugged out by the experience to the highest degree. I also don't follow any of the spiritual terminology or want to be part of it
You mean losing this feeling of being a self in a skull? It is possible to lose it permanently
I don't understand when you say had an experience like an experience like a moment. Not my experience at all it is a continuous experience it may get stronger or weaker but go away that's not happening for years now. I could not turn it off if I wanted to.I don't get what you are saying.
How are you doing now?
great stuff!
He doesn't "think" it's possible. Don't think, that's the point
Oh you got me there!
I'll go one further. Don't exist. Deep, eh?
Me and my mother watched this. three quarters of the way through my most pressing question was are you vegetarian? my mother is, I'm not... but thinking of eating the thing that is looking back at me with the eyes of the universe... suddenly sounds less than appealing. kind of like autophagy
I am a vegetarian and my reason for becoming one is kind of what you stated. However, I have come to believe that even plants are also, in their own way, looking out with the eyes of the universe. Still, I have to eat something.
Not all Buddhists are vegetarians. My two Zen teachers were not. But both of them thought it was a good thing to be vegetarian and encouraged me to continue. I'm still not entirely certain how to take that.
That's why I don't look in the eye of the things I eat!!!
Not too shabby. Some good stuff "in there".
There is no answer to a general status of spirituality. It has to be a peesonal experience that makes you grow as a human being.
I agree and everyone has different experiences. I have had supernatural experiences like for example a candle flying across the room...a 45 record repeating itself again on a manual turntable that I never touched... etc..and have had other Buddhists try to take that away from me, because it is different from their experiences....or it does not jibe with what they read etc...
Thank you for this. From my personal experience the new age is a new cage and keeps your mind in a loop of chaos. Be free and live and try your best not to worry if you can .❤
very thorough.thx
when you say God consciousness is this the same as when someone is in the now the present and sort of is in their own bubble?? if so; would you say that someone in a god consciousness state slips out of this state my particular way of looking at it is we can say being in the now and forever a moment remembering something from the past or thinking about something you must do in the future therefore you're not in the now.... but what if that moment Slips Away just as fast as it came and you do not even notice ,, let's say it's kind of like you're in this present moment you slip out of it but you're not conscious of the fact that you slipped out of it nor are you aware of the fact that you slipped back into it... now if this is the case would you say that person Staind in the now or God consciousness or something else...? I would say awareness has a lot to do with being in the now not being aware of the past or the future not being aware of faultlessness or when thoughts come into your mind
people who do need to watch this video won't.
Thanks!
So, it’s not bullshit for a short period, as in a few weeks, maybe a month. If you’re not careful, it turns to schizophrenia. That shit happens to ppl with kundalini awakening all the time, and it happened to me. Lots of pain spurred it on. Dark night of the soul type shit, divorce, suicidal thoughts, abandoned by family type shit. I was looking at knots of wood in a bed frame and seeing a universe of beauty, no drugs involved. No prior conditions. Just so so so so much pain. I began to get moments of what the Hindus call “bliss” that would last hours in place of the anxiety I used to feel for hours at a time. I didn’t stay in that state, but if I would have been in an even worse state (as in, homeless and exposed to the elements), I’d be in a daze on the street now
So basically you had a trip.
Im tired of spiritual people, some make business like they were more elevated them others. And some have a kind of posture wich is arrogance.
People have different reactions to stress....mine was to become super analytical and looking for meaning and clues to what I should do to be happy....which sounds good on paper...but I was looking for meaning in things like etymologies of words and numbers, I should have been looking for meaning in the human cultural artifacts that have been designed to solve problems like lack of housing and stability. Things like you know, a job and hygiene. But I was raised to see myself as being in but outside of "the world", and no one ever spoke to me about a career or college, so I just saw my identity as needing to survive in alternate ways, which led to me being homeless and staying positive and out of panic attacks by being obsessed about "spiritual" things. Not an ideal scenario by any means but I was doing the best I could being dealt a shitty hand, and at least it made me super environmentally conscious and spend a lot of free time picking up trash lol
It's so interesting to see things that are like core tenets in 12 Step stuff come up in what you say Brad.
Like, granted, it's in a different bent a little bit & you're meaning & using the words in different ways... But "Spiritual awakening is bullshit" is a sentence that made me raise an eyebrow for a second...
Great stuff!
Godzilla FAQ? looks like a great book
It's pretty good. Japan's Favorite Mon-star by Steve Ryfle is my fave, although it doesn't have many illustrations. Monsters Are Attacking Tokyo by Stuart Galbraith is also brilliant. So is Eiji Tsuburaya: Master of Monsters by August Ragone.
Awakening and a "spiritual experience" are not the same. You haven't dissolved the self. It sounds more like you had an experience of the arising and passing away.
That was a great teaching !
I did go through such thing as in the topic of the video. But later I realized that it was my mind playing tricks on me.
You Sir, are fuckin AWESOME!!! Right on!!!! ♥️
I've reached ecstacy conciousness but it was fleeting and cant get back there. I dont think we are supposed to stay in that state...it makes existence meaningless..but if you want to get high as shit you should do Kundalini Breath of Fire breathing
I've done a small amount of Kundalini. Enough to get me a little high, not ecstasy but high-ish. It wasn't what I was interested in.
I reach the zen state through regular meditation. I'd warn others not to continually seek it out because you can become addicted and meditate too much
The problem is people are seeking things that we all already are
I got you J
I shifted from a narcissistic person to a person now can truly comfort being with myself, I don’t see other people on their journey that is lesser than me. True awakening is not bull shit, but it takes a person truly take their inner strength to drop their ego at all levels, to go back to be with their own true self. Yes many people are still sleeping walking, but they will get there on their own timing. A person who thinks spiritual is to make them more superior is still not truly awakening, they are still in their ego mind. Even as they are like this way, we should not judge them, they are on their journey, they will eventually realize their ego really doesn’t make them any more superior, because people can sense their energy . A true awakening person has that certain in their eyes and energy, they will have love and compassion for every one, because we all came from shadowed self, we have have darkness and light in each of us. You judge people’s problems only reflecting your own problems. Spiritual awakening is to drop ego, fear , hate and anger. If you see a person call them self “ spiritual “, all you need to know is how they truly in their own energy. If they are not quite there yet, they are in their delusional of their spiritual state, it’s ok, all you need to do is leave them alone, do your own self work.
you are awesome!! thank you
This z the whole problem wid chasing experiences!....Dey r many and dey r varied...and all of dem start and end....what z important z dat one never ceases to be dis presence of awareness at no time.....and datz what one should realise at this point when one has exhausted most of the experiences!..all experiences come and go,but awareness remains as it z....the experience of cessation of thought and conceptualisation z given so much importance coz it comes the closest to dis realisation,as in dat state all objects have disappeared,and only pure awareness remains,widoud the subject~object split!.....when one returns from diz cessation state ,which again z just a state,one should continuously actualize dat realisation dat awareness z da foreground of all experience!....
yes, it is a glimpse in to how you will feel at the time of separation from the body. that is how I would explain the Experience!!!
I feel People use it as an addiction from reality!!!
The truth is no real spiritual person would ever come up to tell his experiences even anonymously. So what we hear about these so called awakenings is not true
It took me over a year to make a couple of videos explaining complete enlightenment and it's not fun
Bro everything is fake in this world
@@scottkraft1062 That was not complete enlightenment, that was a death experience, followed by a dark night of the soul. No experience remain, everything is changing, except that what you are.
For the most people the question should be:
Is there a life before death ?