'mind' Identifies With The Body - Non duality with Terrence

A participant comments about how close the 'me' seems to be to experience and how the mind has a very strong identificaion with the body. The mind wants to label who sees and what is seen. It labels everything with subject/object. But if we look at our Direct Experience, there is only see-ING, hear-ING, tast-ING. No 'me' is necessary for that. - Terrence
Excerpt from Virtual Satsang with Terrence Stephens.
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Terrence is an Australian born teacher and guide of Non-Duality. Like us all, Terrence had his own personal back ‘story’ (a ‘me’) which has included sexual abuse as a child, living in a dysfunctional and broken family followed by drug addiction, divorce, depression and anxiety with suicidal thoughts.
During his journey, he consulted various psychologists and therapists and pursued a variety of spiritual paths and self-help groups. Nothing seemed to relieve the deep-seated experience of separation and isolation.
Then one day in 1986 he chanced to meet Sailor Bob Adamson who had settled in Melbourne following his 12 months with Nisargadatta Maharaj in Bombay. Here Terrence gained an intellectual understanding of non duality. However, it was many years later that his sense of self (me) finally collapsed.
What resulted was no more searching, no wanting and no desires and a state of being carefree. It was in this state of collapse that his true nature was revealed; awakening from the dreamed fictitious personal character.
Since then Terrence has been pointing the way to non dual realisation or awakening. Profoundly direct and yet delivered with compassion, warmth and fun!
If you're interested in non dual teachers such as Adyashanti, Rupert Spira, Mooji, Eckhart Tolle, Greg Goode, Lisa Cairn, Tony Parsons, Robert Wolf, Jean Klein, Francis Lucille, Stephan Bodian, Fred Davis, Jean Klein, Scott Kiloby or Loch Kelly, and you're interested in non dual experience or non duality realisation or awakening then take a listen to Terrence Stephens and visit www.terrencestephens.com.au
Intro song is Far Behind by Jam Morgan

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  • @arthurlockwood8735
    @arthurlockwood873511 ай бұрын

    Thanks again keep us all going. In life nice 👍👌

  • @debtickner
    @debtickner Жыл бұрын

    Experiencing watching again! Great stuff 🙏🏻👌🏻

  • @builderbob3149
    @builderbob31496 ай бұрын

    👍

  • @philmuchbetter
    @philmuchbetter Жыл бұрын

    This is such a potent pointing Terry. At last there is simply seeing instead of seeking. Finally I've seen through this 'idea' of self. Thought is free to be just thought, exactly as it always ever has been! That's all 😁 Much love. 🙏

  • @TerrenceStephens

    @TerrenceStephens

    Жыл бұрын

    You’re so very welcome 😊🙏

  • @ketwals2723
    @ketwals27232 жыл бұрын

    Awsome how its expressed...love it ♡ Thanks heart ♡

  • @RickWilleyOMC
    @RickWilleyOMC Жыл бұрын

    The headless way of Douglas Harding & Richard Lang.

  • @Robert-yi8hh
    @Robert-yi8hh2 жыл бұрын

    Hello again. I wrote a comment in your recent (today) video. Again, the amnesia pointer is a great pointer. With amnesia, all thoughts, facts, information, memories about the "person" is wiped off, hence, the loss of personal identity. However, the lobotomy is also a great pointer too. Why? If, in addition to amnesia, all knowledge of the person, of the body, and of the world, including language (not able to speak), is removed right now, what happens? What are you seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching with absolutely no knowledge of anything? What was the newborn, who has no knowledge of anything, seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching? Does the newborn "experience" the seeing, hearing, touching, tasting, smelling? Is the newborn conscious OF or aware OF anything? What was consciousness like prior to the mind? Why is it called "pure consciousness?" Are you conscious? Obviously. Why can't you be just conscious and not be conscious OF things? It is simple that if you are reading this, then you ARE conscious. You can't deny this fact. You are also conscious OF the computer screen in front of you, yes? Why can you NOT be conscious OF the screen while being conscious? Can conscious-ness (being conscious) NOT be conscious OF? It can't. Why? Conscious-ness itself is not split. Conscious-ness is just conscious-ness. Being conscious OF is split. To be conscious OF means there has to be an object "separate" from you. The key here is "separate" or dualistic. What makes duality? The mind (thoughts, knowledge, information, etc.). Again, the questions and the words are made by the mind. Everything outside of you, all objects and subjects, including your body, is all appearances made by the mind/knowledge. The mind/knowledge "is the beginning and an end" (duality or polarity or 2 points) while conscious-ness or aware-ness have no beginning and no end (non-duality, no birth and no death, singularity, zero point). Thank you. 🙏

  • @TerrenceStephens

    @TerrenceStephens

    2 жыл бұрын

    Hi Robert, just following up on our engagement in the group yesterday, I first wanted to check that you weren’t offended in the directness of our communication, I was even surprised to hear blah blah blah come out of my mouth but there it was, I’d be happy to offer a complementary 1:1 between us if you’d like? Simply go to the website and make a booking, enter the code TERRY100 and that will allow you to book without paying, let’s talk my friend 🙏

  • @jimrich4192

    @jimrich4192

    11 ай бұрын

    A local sage once asked this character "What will still be here if you/Jim/a body dropped dead right now?" I said "Some form of Consciosness." He just smiled. Now I'd say; "I, me will still be alive & well (without a body) BUT i cannot describe nor explain how that works - for now!"

  • @HariMSamy

    @HariMSamy

    10 ай бұрын

    Terrence, My question is if you don't even label seeing as seeing (and hearing as hearing etc ), Will there be even seeing or any sensing at all? Looks like even for that mind is required (if that is the label we choose to give to this labelling process). What are even act (seeing) and objects (seen) unless there is a labelling of them. Could it be that the whole thing is a creation, including seeing and then labelling ?

  • @ravanti5780
    @ravanti57802 жыл бұрын

    The frustration for me is that the "I" can't be seen by the you, the I can't be seen so I'm feeling rather invisible, theres noway to validate myself in your eyes, its like not having a reflection from the mirror that your standing in front of

  • @TerrenceStephens

    @TerrenceStephens

    2 жыл бұрын

    Can you see how deeply dualistic your statement is? There’s an “I” “me” “you” “I’m” no wonder there’s confusion, either continue watching more of the online KZread videos I have or come join us in Satsang, the first one is complementary, that’ll at least give you an idea as to what you’re hearing expressed resonates for you or not, book on the website, it’ll take way to long to unpack using this platform 🙏

  • @ravanti5780

    @ravanti5780

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@TerrenceStephens love your work, thank you

  • @jimrich4192
    @jimrich419211 ай бұрын

    Who/what is the "You" that is already & always still? Are there 2 "Yous"...a busy one & a still one? At this very moment, which one are YOU? 😂

  • @TerrenceStephens

    @TerrenceStephens

    11 ай бұрын

    There is not two 😁🙏