What a priviledge it is to have these wonderful talks available on youtube. Many thanks to Culasasa and the people that support him

RIP Culadasa. Thanks for all you brought to this world! Your life had meaning.

The insights: Impermanence, emptiness, the casual interdependence of all phenomena, the nature of suffering, the illusoriness of a separate self and the culminating insights that actually brings awakening.

“You don’t know nothing, and nothing is all you have to know “ best quote from Dr. Paul Yates talks.

Wow. This fellow is fantastic in the way he explains things. I've listened to many of the guru type teachers and he is the very best. Thank you John Yates!

@frilanstranslator

5 жыл бұрын

I agree. He is very good at transmitting this stuff to western-oriented minds.

@pippolinokissene

4 жыл бұрын

Goenka also is not bad ;)

@AspergersversusNeurotypicals

3 жыл бұрын

totally agree, time to relax.

@gavrielpavlovics3282

3 жыл бұрын

@@pippolinokissene or quite the exact opposite ;)

@pippolinokissene

3 жыл бұрын

@@gavrielpavlovics3282 :D

when he said that there is an awakened part in all of us, but it is embedded in this powerful left-brain encasing that was essentially formed by evolution, that was just a pure gem of a revelation for me! It answers such a profound paradox of the conflicted human nature... hands down this video gave me the biggest insight into the state of our nature in my whole life.

"You can't win, and you can't break even. But you can get out of the game."!👍🏼

@nortega1981

3 жыл бұрын

Not even getting out, becoming the game, the player, the table it sits on, and the will that makes everything be. When you dissolve into wholeness you become void, null, complete at the same time, but that's not "you", and yet it is.

@itsame1277

3 жыл бұрын

A good observation which pretty much sums up the aim of Buddhadarmma and meditation

I was planning to watch a few minutes but ended up watching the whole thing. It's just explained so amazingly well.

@riwinvantoor4010

3 жыл бұрын

Me too

Best lecture of what spirituality is I have ever seen. It has been three years since I have heard this, and is incredible. Best lecture of Culadasa. Metta y que Dios os bendiga a todos.

Dear everyone, This is all you need. :)

Am watching in from Malaysia. wow !Thanks Dr JOHN YATES.

Emptiness is self,that is the profound truth,

Brilliant video ;-) Thank you.

Thank you for your enlightening lessons.

I find this talk to be one of the most interesting on KZread

Please create a beautiful audiobook for ‘Contemporary Dharma: A blueprint for the Salvation of Humanity’. It’s a fantastic way to absorb the teachings!

Absolutely enlightening speech! I feel grateful for the wisdom shared so eloquently.

13:48 impermanence 21:10 emptiness (everything is a process of the mind) 27:33 (nothing stands outside of the) causal interdependence of all phenomena 32:30 the nature of suffering 42:13 Illusoriness of a separate self

@stanislavnikolskiy6122

9 ай бұрын

Thanks 🙏🏻

Thank you for sharing your wisdom with the world. I am so grateful. 🙏

Such a welcome beacon of tranquil wisdom. Living Dhamma. I am eternally grateful that our cones of interdependence crossed. Thank you, thank you, thank you Culadasa.

Anyone else thinks he looks Yoda? 😊

@awai6756

5 жыл бұрын

First thing i said to myself when i got the TMI book.

@codinginflow

5 жыл бұрын

He even says that in the book :D

What a great video!!! Thank you for sharing your insights! Greetings from Vienna/Austria P.s.: Your book is great!!

The best satsang, thank you!

Great ❤❤❤

On a long retreat, I once heard what I'm sure was the mournful call of a mourning bird. The call suggested that the "bird" understood emptiness. It had a deep knowing sadness quality. A flood of joy arose and the words "All is empty, all is beautiful" summed up the insight.

@WickedG5150

2 жыл бұрын

How long was that particular retreat?

@Golf36

2 жыл бұрын

@@WickedG5150 2 months

Thank you :D you cleared up a dozen questions i could never get answers too -- contradictions from mistranslated teachings. You clarified all of them. maybe i'll wake up enlightened, who knows?

Sadhu sadhu sadhu

talking about the insights is actually counter productive because it creates expectations for the meditator which blocks it's progress

Great video.

Real life Yoda right there.

Interesting that in my life on two occasions, I've experienced the loss of the sense of self. The first, occurring during a period of great emotional upheaval, most thoroughly occurred after a number of visits to a psychiatrist. During the first few weeks of my consultation, I thought I was "progressing" yet didn't realize it was really "the calm before the storm." There was naturally a period of traumatic angst at the loss but the shrink himself was at a loss to explain what the hell happened other than to say in effect, "well, that's just the way it is." Not until years later(and prior to the second time when it occurred during a ten day meditation retreat) did I finally realize that our identification with a particular narrative or story is essentially bound up with this self(as in "my story" or "my crisis") and through the loss of that narrative as a way of perceiving the world will come an accompanying loss of the self, though the process is neurochemical.

"When you know illusion, you become unattached, without exercising any technique. When you detach from illusion, you wake up, without going through any process. Shakyamuni Buddha opened up a thousand gates and ten thousand doors all at once; someone who is spiritually sharp will immediately act on that. .." Tsu-hsin (eleventh century) Cleary, Thomas. Teachings of Zen . Shambhala Publications. Kindle Edition. “Even if you learn things pertaining to buddhahood, that too is misuse of mind. You have to be free of preoccupations; you have to be normal.” Nevertheless, even so, it is undeniably hard to find people. Not just now-it has always been hard to find people. It was hard even in ancient times; how much the more so nowadays when people who study things are all drawn into weeds by ignorant old baldies! That is why it is said, “Our eyes were originally right, but went wrong because of teachers.” Ch’eng-ku Cleary, Thomas. Teachings of Zen . Shambhala Publications. Kindle Edition.

30:56 A very similar point of view is held in one of the most complex theories of mind and consciousness - IIT. Giulio Tononi says in his talks that: "To exist means to have the immanent ability of constraining your past and future possible states" and it has to do with the concept of information, the thing that slowly transforms all the scientific disciplines from quantum physics to evolutionary biology and cognitive research.

Right on

Red is the color at the end of the visible spectrum of light, next to orange and opposite violet. It has a dominant wavelength of approximately 625-740 nanometres. It is a primary color in the RGB color model and the CMYK color model, and is the complementary color of cyan.

@ironsword3611

2 жыл бұрын

Someone missed the point.

If people want an overview: the five insights are in the video at 3:31.

even if theres just process any given moment of it begins and ends. subtle impermanence is a moments lack of enduring into the next moment through its own power, therefore is destroyed simply only by being produced

What I got from this lecture was that 'Awakening' is often seen as a primarily spiritual experience but what I think Yates is saying is that it can also be seen as a purely cognitive experience or shift in awareness. Dr. Yates are you saying the idea is to no longer identify with the conceptual self as 'I', and see ourselves as a holistic part of the whole? So I think you say In our normal conditioned perceptual awareness we see ourselves as a 'Separate Self' and identify with the 'I', the 'I' it creates a sense of separation from others and the world. So, then by by quieting/conditioning that part of the mind which we see ourselves as separate, through meditation we eventually rid ourselves of the identification with 'I', thus creating the 'awakening' to 'no-self,' which then shifts the paradigm of our view of world and Self? Further, you also mention this 'me-mine' identification also gives rise to craving and desire through which we mistakenly believe we can satisfy through external means and bring happiness and joy, but that is an illusion. The only true lasting joy and happiness must come from within, and that process begins with the elimination of identification with Self. Am I correct? PS: Love your book The Illuminated Mind - looking forward to your next book!

@writteninthesky

3 жыл бұрын

The Ego pursues happiness, the Self dwells in joy.

Causal interdependence may explain those times my experience was that everything was exactly as it should be. All was perfect. These times happened spontaneously. I would ask those I was with, if they felt it, but they didn't.

It's interesting that he is defining a mind, the thing we ascribe knowing to, as personal. Lots of folks seem to think the mind is infinitely impersonal? Maybe it's simply a different way of describing the same thing. One person interprets what he receives the other what he creates or thinks he creates as an individual.

Is this talk available for download? If so, could a link be provided? Thank you.

hi culadasa! i see your health is fine and i'm glad that The Process for now is as it is :) many thanks for your book and i'm waiting for next. Causality for me is clear as the sunny day but the "I" process that dont want to die really hopes to someday know the origin of time and existence of the universe itself. i get that the proceses that made me "me" are part of the large part of many other processes but it would be awesome to know the First cause in the world:)

@btanonymous

7 жыл бұрын

It seems likely that there was never a first cause. Have you thought about that in any depth? It's any interesting thought.

@ConspiracyCraftersStudio

7 жыл бұрын

Well it's hard to think about such things and come to any reasonable conclusions. I'm sensing only that behind this question there is still a hope for finding an individual, permanent, timeless existance :)

@JayK108

5 жыл бұрын

There's gonna be a second book?

What do you call it when you find a person you didn't know existed, and that person suddenly puts into a lecture the entirety of your insights on the nature of mind, perception and reality ?

🙏🙏🙏

The powerful urge to escape he mentions at around 5:40 is called Samvega

For the illusion of things and craving for them, Even if we establish that my possession of a new car is a mind constructed fantasy, i am still enjoying the amazingness of this car as fleeting as it is. I can enjoy that feeling for many years if i am mindfull and greatfull for it. I dont want to argue here but i want to understand why we call them illusions and not a source of happiness if i can make good use of this car and thrive off of it with my family. Without this car, my life isn't the same, i am unable to travel, and substract myself from easy displacement on a daily basis. Cars have dramatically improved human's wealth and we can't really deny it (lets not talk about the pollution aspect, it's irrelevant here ) Thanks

@pedridemperi9872

11 ай бұрын

Who is the 'I' that is thinking about the car? Who (or what) is referring to 'I'..?

@pedridemperi9872

11 ай бұрын

A concept of yourself is being portrayed as a reality when it is not and never could be. I am not saying you are wrong. I am not saying anything. I am not yet I am. I am a polarity of each and every pole.

@pedridemperi9872

11 ай бұрын

It is not the car that is the illusion. It is not the feeling that is an illusion those are reality. It is the 'I' that is an illusion brooding over these things. Remove the mask of 'I' and who is standing there instead? Me? Myself?..or the One. The space. The Dao.

@pedridemperi9872

11 ай бұрын

Finally ...there is an 'I'.. a great I AM. All in all. That is who you are when you are set free. Blessings

When will your book be available?

Regarding 'what is out there', you might check out the physicist Tom Campbell's YT channel or his book, and that what we really live in is a kind of virtual reality, as the latest quantum experiments (delayed choice quantum eraser) seem to show...

Did he get to suffering? Can anyone direct me to the time on this KZread or alternatively to another presentation talking about the nature of suffering?

18:45 Culmination of insight is processed unconsciously.

Intuition: the act or process of coming to direct knowledge or certainty without reasoning or inferring : immediate cognizance or conviction without rational thought : revelation by insight or innate knowledge : immediate apprehension or cognition.

@writteninthesky

3 жыл бұрын

Intuition: memory...from another dimension.

OM

But still it is a teaching.

Omg the dukkha nanas are so painful😣

@spiritualanarchist8162

7 жыл бұрын

& The annoying thing with me is that 'wisdom fleets like clouds , Dukkha sticks like gum '...;-)

@gardensofthegods

5 жыл бұрын

I have gone in and out of it for 8 years and it turned my life upside down.. it caused me be a disappointment to some of my loved ones.. Each time I came out of it was wonderful and there was this beautiful light in my mind.. and it was as if all obstacles were removed.. I was smarter , faster thinking , it was incredible how my natural gifts and talents were starting to Blossom and things came easy for me.. then usually , very quickly I would feel myself slipping back into that horrible state of feeling uncomfortable in my own skin and extremely awkward and uncoordinated , very self-conscious and it was as if my IQ had plummeted.. this affected my decision making .. sometimes I would be in it for a whole year and come out for a whole year.. to the exact date.. the first time it happened it was like a really cruel joke.. sometimes I would come out and be free of it for only 1/2 year.. sometimes I was in it for as little as 1/2 year or 9 months. This time was not as bad.. but it has wreaked real havoc .. and I'm still not all the ways out of The Dark Night.. this time it is strange because normally it takes a couple days to come out... not sure what is happening this time around... about three weeks ago one night I had that beautiful light in my mind again where I felt illuminated and realized I'm coming out of it and yet it only lasted for maybe less than 20 hours and the light was not ignited again . . It's very hard for me to move my life forward. One person who teaches yoga on the internet suggested that I need to do yoga. I cannot afford to pay him $90 a month for classes. He is probably right.. I heard that if your lower chakras are blocked then that is a real problem when the third eye is opening and can keep you in the DN . I know my heart chakra is blocked because I have not had a real true good cry in 8 years.. back then 4 of some of my closest friends died within 13 months.. while I had tears in my eyes and felt a little bit choked up.. I have never really been able to grieve for them or any of the other people I loved and who loved me ..and died . Two evenings ago my mother died... and even though I feel like my soul was crying and felt like my heart was broken... I did not have the kind of cry for her that should have happened... I had a fair amount of tears in my eyes and felt a bit choked up.. but it is as if I cannot really cry even for her. I also know my throat chakra is blocked because whenever I have been in the DN my voice doesn't sound right and it is impossible to sing .. it is as if there is a little pebble or something stuck in my throat . I'm struggling financially really bad .. this is a real problem . people talk about the map.. I am really struggling with navigating out of the maze of the DN . people say it means you are resisting... but I am not resisting . I feel like I'm so close.. it's like I am standing on the other side of a glass door looking out at a beautiful world... but the glass door is locked and I don't have the key... and in the meantime my life is falling apart .

Enlightment does not need long interpretation. It need you to be aware of the moment, non interfering in mind and body phenomenor and detachment of these phenomenor. Then there will not be any problem to gain enlightment. Enlightment is to be a nobody(contemplate, note, aware, and detach) not to be a BUSYBODY(thinking, assume, interfearing with mind and body phenomenon) Busybody cannot become awaken. BUDDHAM SARANAM GACCHAMI

You seem to define causality as an absolute truth, but we cannot deny that causality itself, for us, is only a thought appearing in our consciousness. Even causality is being perceived, so why should we differentiate it from the color green or any other perception? I would love to hear your opinion. Thank you for everything and sorry for my bad english

@riteoffinality

5 жыл бұрын

Good question. Have a look at 'madhyamaka' and 'yogacara' philosophy, might be helpful with this, because the notion of absolute truth gets greater scrutiny

Emptiness is an ontological state. (If we are to describe it) It is not merely epistemological. There is ultimately nothing "out there". Everything is Mind. (No, not your personal, solipsistic mind) This is fundamental Zen. If you state that there is "something" out there and we are just "interpreting" the nature of that "thing" in our own minds, that is something like a Kantian view who distinguished noumenon and phenomenon. But this view is not buddhism. The Kantian view merely scratches the surface. "Causal interdependence" seems to be a mixture of "karma" and the buddhist doctrine of "dependent origination". But ultimately, there is nothing "causal". There is nothing before, nothing after, nothing that precedes, nothing that follows. Dependent origination should teach us that there is no independent "self nature". But that does not imply that there are "parts" that make up some "whole". There are no parts either. The dependent parts also do not exist.

fyi 21:50 the singular of qualia is quale

Hi there, I am watching this in Hong Kong. 😂😂

Can you name the 5 ultimate insights in a comment please

@blasdelezoyolavarrieta7346

4 жыл бұрын

Emptyness, Impermanence, Causal Interconectedness, Suffering and No Self

Why is he wearing a bed sheet? Is it to make himself look more Indian?

Did he just imply that self is qualia?

@Scarecrowking

5 жыл бұрын

That's pretty much basic, I mean that's how it's defined in Patanjali's insights on yoga for example, an age old text

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realising emptiness is dreadful i felt worse than dying

Mans literally looks like yoda 💀

I find it fascinating that a seemingly intelligent person can believe himself to be enlightened. Enlightenment cannot be gained by any form of mental or physical exercise or discipline.

@golgipogo

Жыл бұрын

Agreed.

@pedridemperi9872

11 ай бұрын

Enlightenment is non existent. It is another concept.

36:12 49:24 54:48 1:02:34 44:18 .....the truth is?

ìf there is no red there is no enlightement

Most of this is optional technical info relating to cognitive science and metaphysics, and an understanding of it isn't required in order to obtain relief from suffering, nor does it lead to awakening.

You start the video off by saying "I thought I'd like to....." I'm curious how you interpret the "I" in that sentence, if there is no such thing as the self.

@adityaprasad465

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks to emptiness, every single word ever spoken does not correspond to a "real thing" but a process. It is possible to use words without taking them literally.

@writteninthesky

3 жыл бұрын

@@adityaprasad465 👌💫🙏

@oolala53

11 ай бұрын

A convention. Or I as consciousness.

Talking. Saying nothing. Cant spit it out because it's wooly, vague and based on no clear philosophical grounding. This is not to say there isn't an underlying philosophy. There is every reason to believe we are a separate entity and nothing to say separate entities cant accept and come to terms with the wisdom of their mortality as a necessary teleology. He advocates running away by denying the hard fact of being, existing, experiencing and ceasing. Constantly running from the reality of being.

@VeritableVagabond

5 жыл бұрын

Awakening is real. You awaken to the lack of an inherent separate self taking ownership of the happenings such as thoughts and emotions and life events. This attachment that the self generates is the root of suffering and thus, when one comes to realize the impermanence of phenomena, they come to understand that everything is a process. Culadasa talks of the 4 noble truths. The first is knowing suffering and that is what we become intimate with through practice of observation & meditation, not running away or avoiding it. In fact avoiding suffering begets more suffering and this is not what this man is talking about.

@writteninthesky

3 жыл бұрын

@@VeritableVagabond 👌...what you resist, persists and expands.🤭

Nope, although stuff is in connection through space, not all stuff has connective causal interdependence. Often a mistake by many in false self judgment is to put 2 + 2 together and get 5 million. Disentangled one may find happiness independent of conditions.

@btanonymous

7 жыл бұрын

Have you read about quantum entanglement or the single electron theory? Interesting scientific way to look at "everything is interconnected"

@markbrad123

7 жыл бұрын

Saw a TV show on QE.

I think he rambles .... just get to the point

This man looks sad thought

Buddhism: No self Hinduism: All self