Direct Pointing - What is 'I', 'me'? - The illusion of the seperate self - Advaita / Non-Duality

A guided meditation / introspection into Direct Experience.
What is 'I', 'me'? - Contemplating the nature of the separate self, with views from around Ryde on the Isle of Wight.
Video, Words and Narration by Christian Shadlock
/ isleofwightnonduality
/ christian.shadlock

Пікірлер: 57

  • @aghoradoc
    @aghoradoc2 жыл бұрын

    This is so simple, sp basic, and therefore, perfect. As a psychiatrist, I have now referred it to a number of my patients. It enhances the work we are trying to do together. Thank you, Christian.

  • @Quaterzau
    @Quaterzau10 ай бұрын

    One of the greatest meditations here. What a pitty, there is only one video.

  • @MultiMb1234
    @MultiMb12343 жыл бұрын

    I downloaded this to mp3 and put it on "loop" and meditated with it for an hour. One of the best - simple and to the point.

  • @tttttttt8482

    @tttttttt8482

    2 жыл бұрын

    How its going ?

  • @MultiMb1234

    @MultiMb1234

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@tttttttt8482 ever-deepening SEEING. Sprinkle a little of this on top: kzread.info/dash/bejne/l2aqz61_nt3JY9I.html

  • @Susan-ol4ys
    @Susan-ol4ys2 жыл бұрын

    Superbly done thank you

  • @TheLetsbegin
    @TheLetsbegin11 жыл бұрын

    Absorbing experience without labelling. Mind analyses in-order to use/gain from the experience. Senses register automatically. Where they come from or where they go nobody knows for sure. Speculation will arise from sun up till sun down. Good work Christian. Thank you for pointing "this" out.

  • @robertjsmith
    @robertjsmith7 жыл бұрын

    Thank's Christian, Love this.

  • @paulrobinson5739
    @paulrobinson57399 ай бұрын

    Lovely pointers thank you

  • @lubyone
    @lubyone10 жыл бұрын

    beautiful christian. wind pointed me to this work .......love to you. xxx

  • @GetMeThere1
    @GetMeThere16 жыл бұрын

    This is very nice. Very helpful. Thanks very much for putting it up.

  • @GodHelpMe369
    @GodHelpMe3693 ай бұрын

    As much as it can't be found, when it happens, you'll find yourself asking: "How did I miss it?"

  • @KAZU6244
    @KAZU62448 жыл бұрын

    Thank you very very much from Japan!!

  • @vioricadoina
    @vioricadoina11 жыл бұрын

    Congratulations! Well done! Your voice is lovely!

  • @golgipogo
    @golgipogo5 жыл бұрын

    Well done.

  • @hgracern
    @hgracern4 жыл бұрын

    Lovely xxx

  • @LanceEads
    @LanceEads Жыл бұрын

    Wow!

  • @unconditioned1
    @unconditioned110 жыл бұрын

    Sensei!!!!!!!!

  • @TimRowe

    @TimRowe

    10 жыл бұрын

    I love The Isle of Wight. We used to visit every year when my Grandparents lived there. "My" I is single, but there are two in "Isle of Wight." :)

  • @claudedupont8233
    @claudedupont82334 жыл бұрын

    the knower and the known are not separated it is the knowing presence only separated(illusion) by the human mind

  • @Traumatose
    @Traumatose4 жыл бұрын

    Oh wow...

  • @bengolfen11
    @bengolfen114 жыл бұрын

    well done*

  • @juanmartinelli903
    @juanmartinelli9036 жыл бұрын

    Christian do you have more pointers

  • @JJ_Khailha
    @JJ_Khailha4 жыл бұрын

    Who is this person you’re asking to self enquire and who could chose to do so?

  • @ajayshukla3274
    @ajayshukla32744 ай бұрын

    Hi, Where r u? U seem to have disappeared. 🙏

  • @MagdiNonDuality
    @MagdiNonDuality Жыл бұрын

    No. Appearances, sights do not appear in experience as you state in this video. They appear in consciousness (which is not an experience). When we say 'I perceive' and we believe (and feel) that there is a person who is doing the perceiving, that is purely a belief. What we refer to as ignorance. We are projecting a SEPARATE, PERSONAL, LIMITED perceiver. It is an add-on. This does mean there is no "I". Let's take a closer look. The 'I' which perceives is not separate from the perception. In fact, it is creation/perception as one. The term 'I' in "I perceive" refers to consciousness. It is a manner of speech in the human realm. There is no me. This does not mean that there is no perceiving element, a perceiving aspect, consciousness. You say 'there is seeing itself, pure experience alone'. That is the idealist view which says everything is mind. You are denying the materialist view which says there is a real world out there. The way to reconcile your POV and the materialist POV is to realize the reality of consciousness includes all realities, since there is only one reality, which is consciousness. You are mistaken in saying there is no seer. What is more correct to understand is that there is no separate seer. There is a seer. I see this screen. The 'I' which sees this screen is a) the screen is not separate from the seer, b) the seer and the seeing are one, c) the seen, the seer and seeing are one. This is the play of consciousness. I hear. Why are you denying 'I hear'? The hearing takes place in consciousness, which has no location, no form, no size, no dimensions. You say 'there is pure experience alone', do you mean it is hanging in the air and there is no knowingness? That would be foolish to deny knowingness, awareness, consciousness. It sounds like neo-advaita. This video is the idealist POV. It falls short in overlooking consciousness.

  • @tttttttt8482
    @tttttttt84822 жыл бұрын

    The location of the thoughts is inside the head. I would answer.... If it's wrong, Could you clarify, please?

  • @tttttttt8482

    @tttttttt8482

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@robertjsmith thoughts are mine i would say

  • @robertjsmith

    @robertjsmith

    Жыл бұрын

    @@tttttttt8482 look at here and now experience,not what thought says

  • @claudedupont8233
    @claudedupont82333 жыл бұрын

    Where is the seeing taking place?

  • @eyeeye7356

    @eyeeye7356

    3 жыл бұрын

    in nothing, like 'everything' else :)

  • @BakerWase
    @BakerWase7 жыл бұрын

    This is awesome, but I feel I am too lost in thought to actually experience it directly. Any advise on how to "calm" the mind would be appreciated. Thanks for this video though, its great. Points awareness exactly to where I assume the implied centre of cognition resides, which never the less is NOT there. ahahah Its a great discovery!

  • @starshaderevenant

    @starshaderevenant

    7 жыл бұрын

    mind is calmest for me right after I wake up. zero activity haha

  • @BakerWase

    @BakerWase

    7 жыл бұрын

    Nick Bernier hmmm, I'll give it a try first thing tomorrow morning, cheers man :)

  • @01ycart

    @01ycart

    6 жыл бұрын

    how is going ;) ?

  • @2000yearOldYogiAspirant
    @2000yearOldYogiAspirant4 жыл бұрын

    Did he die?

  • @edzardpiltz6348

    @edzardpiltz6348

    3 жыл бұрын

    No, he was never there to begin with. It was just a terrible misunderstanding. 😁😘

  • @NBT2469

    @NBT2469

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@edzardpiltz6348 😂😂😂😂

  • @alankuntz6494
    @alankuntz64945 жыл бұрын

    inquire into these questions you're saying don't think or analyze. It's not possible to do that without some thinking and some analysis.

  • @robertjsmith

    @robertjsmith

    4 жыл бұрын

    it is possible,thought says i am thinking ,where is the i am in your here and now actual experience other than thoughts?

  • @869475397

    @869475397

    2 жыл бұрын

    Being needs nothing. No permission from you. No thought. ❤️

  • @rseyedoc
    @rseyedoc5 жыл бұрын

    The irony of being named Christian...

  • @Mike-md7op

    @Mike-md7op

    2 жыл бұрын

    Not ironic at all. The truth is one, and thus all Orthodox religions contain it, veiled behind their differing forms. Really, all the truths of non-duality are all contained in Christ's statement's "The Kingdom of Heaven is within you", "Love your neighbor AS YOURSELF" and "There is only one that is good, that is, God". You might be interested in the great Christian mystic Meister Eckhart.

  • @alankuntz6494
    @alankuntz64944 жыл бұрын

    There are a lot better, more articulate nondual pointers out here than this.

  • @holivega

    @holivega

    4 жыл бұрын

    Can you give an example?

  • @TheoSakoutis

    @TheoSakoutis

    4 жыл бұрын

    Alan Kuntz If you would be so kind as to provide a link or two that would be appreciated

  • @alankuntz6494
    @alankuntz64945 жыл бұрын

    Hearing happens with your ears and seeing happens with your eyes. That's the location

  • @israeliguitar

    @israeliguitar

    4 жыл бұрын

    Alan Kuntz That is what you know to be happening using your memory and the thinking mind. But is your experience?

  • @robertjsmith

    @robertjsmith

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@kidyounot3387 so is there a thinker of thoughts?

  • @TheoSakoutis

    @TheoSakoutis

    4 жыл бұрын

    Alan Kuntz It's understood that hearing and seeing belong to the senses. The function of the pointing exercises is to bring the experience where there is no separation experienced between senses (the body or "I") and what is being sensed. The body is never actually experienced in the moment. It is only ever experienced in time. When there is awareness of time or location, dual mode is in operation..

  • @hubertusgoerke9230

    @hubertusgoerke9230

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@kidyounot3387 So it does NOT happen?

  • @hubertusgoerke9230

    @hubertusgoerke9230

    4 жыл бұрын

    I am sure you won't catch your ears hearing nor your eyes seeing.

  • @alankuntz6494
    @alankuntz64945 жыл бұрын

    👎