Thank you 🙏 for this! Most concise teaching. So threatening to my “Self” that after THREE replays I could nor remember the word “knowing”afterwards!!! 😳

You recognize you are the knowing

Jackson, thank you so much for your videos. I've spent the better part of my life struggling with these questions and trying various disciplines to strengthen or enlighten my "self". How wonderful to understand no one here, only knowing and thoughts arising and passing away. There is peace, love and happy openness now. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

I am happy, that I have discovered your talks, Jackson .... Part 5 I'll spare for tomorrow morning :-) Now i understood more clearly what my Thai-teachers meant when they said you are the Pooh Rooh - means - the One who knows -- thanks! Sometimes it needs different words to point into known directions to get an clearer understanding - as you also mention, in the Vedanta they say: I am that. So coming more from the experience, that the Knower is always there but is not the thing of experience, makes it clearer through the experience .... greetings from Germany, Dhammo

I totally agree! Longchenpa's texts, especially Spaciousness: the Radical Dzogchen of the Vajra-Heart, makes "rigpa" appear instantly after a few paragraphs. Like a (beneficial) virus that reprograms the mind, like you said.

Love and Non-Duality In real unconditional love, the only true love, there exists no separate “me” and no separate “you”. That means real love isn’t between two separate parts coming together. The notion of being a separately existing self is already a denial of non-duality or our oneness. The notion of there being another separate part to love, is also a denial of non-duality. It’s an implied exclusion from the Whole. When the mind is absent the fictional thoughts of a “me”, a “you” and “others”, unconditional love is our non-dual state. It’s our “oneness” that transcends any notion of separation, isolation and self-oriented exclusion. Our “oneness” isn’t a coming together of separate parts now forming a whole, but rather primordial oneness is the absence of any “notion” of being a separate part, apart from the Whole. Being a separate and existing self, is just a self-centered mental construction. It would be quite nice to have Santa stop in to enjoy a cup of hot chocolate with you, in front of your Christmas tree; but Santa exists only as an idea in your head. Likewise, are you really loving someone “else”, or is your love only for the “other”, that exists only in your head? Are you really in love with someone else, or just in love with an image that seems to fit perfectly (for now) in your own egoic heart and head? Imagine before a metaphysical “Big Bang”, before any thoughts of identity, phenomena or separate entities arose. There was just an unbroken, perfect symmetry of undisturbed Wholeness; a condition of unconditional love and undivided Beingness. Then the “Big Bang” happened through out the empty space, as the thought “I am” occurred, that felt like a “me”. From the thought “me” arose the notion of “you” and “others who exist apart from me”. But these were just thoughts, no actual separate selves or entities ever actually arose. But with these thoughts of true “separation”, the broken symmetry left a feeling of loss, that something was now missing. What was missing was that experiential state of “unconditional love”, where its symmetry was never broken up into imaginary separate parts that deny our single Ground of changeless Being. Relax completely with eyes closed and sense a falling down into your heart, that’s the real meaning of “falling in love”, where true love is found in the all inclusive space of your “own” absence. It’s only the thoughts of “me”, “you” and “others” that hold us apart, even though we have never been “two”.

I had the experience you describe with the curry--with me it was sunlit trees that would set it going.It happened many times over a series of weeks and seemed to be the result of a summer long diet of mostly bananas.Then I came down with something like scurvy and had to give up the diet and lost the power of blissful seeing.

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Great!!!

An retreats planed for 2020?

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So I'm probably overthinking things and getting too caught up in details, but given the non-existence of the imaginary "me" and the presence of a self-realized "knower", there seems to be the implication of a kind of unidirectional interaction with the outside world. Thoughts are known, sounds are known, sights are known, etc., and all of these arise sort of external to the knower. But is this knowing also the origination of outward action? For example, Jackson's mouth is moving and there is an emination of highly insightful speech about dzogchen. How do the thoughts directing your speech relate to the pure knower that is self-realized to be the true Jackson? Does the speech simply arise, and the knower is sort of a witness, post hoc, just like the other students of the retreat? Or are they somehow directed by the knower? I guess I can't wrap my head around what would be directing coherent speech with no self there to direct it. Immense thanks for these talks!

@benrhodes8987

6 жыл бұрын

I guess the answer to my own question is that nothing is directing the speech, it is not centered around or directed by anything, and that only seems like a problem because we are typically oblivious to the fact that it has always been that way, even during the delusion of the self?

Great series but at the end you did not seem to address togal. i am interested on what you have to say. Is it in your book?

@ejackpete3

10 жыл бұрын

Greg, you have to visit my groups on Facebook for thogal instruction. Please visit my website www.wayoflight.net

You mentioned Lonchenpa is the book you referred to "'Spaciousness" translated by Keith Dowman?

@ejackpete3

10 жыл бұрын

Its one of many...

@tbraga

4 жыл бұрын

Spaciousness: the Radical Dzogchen of the Vajra-Heart

minute 18

Where does romance come into this? I mean you have a wife, so presumably you love her in a romantic way. So how does that work out if you believe that your love for her is empty? How is romance coherent if the love between you and your wife is really just a bunch of thoughts and feelings with no real selves involved? You can't honestly believe you love your wife is you don't believe in your wife or yourself.

@ejackpete3

8 жыл бұрын

There is no reason to make an issue about anything... Whatever happens is equal to whatever is not happening. 😊

@mandaravasundari1197

3 жыл бұрын

Our egoic mind, which is really emptiness, is KICKING AND SCREAMING to hear this material. Form is emptiness, emptiness is form. It’s 100% diametrically opposed to EVERYTHING we ever thought we knew. I was subconsciously blocking the word “knowing” after I watched this THREE TIMES!! I appreciate your comment! :)