The mind always wants something to do, trying to convince us that there's some problem to solve and something to figure out before we can be at peace.

@81gamer81

Ай бұрын

And such is its task. Let it do its thing. Thoughts need attention to affect you. You give them power. Thoughts are not good or bad, thinking makes them so - Shakesspear (I think)

@kannan1610

16 күн бұрын

Nice & aptly put!

The last video we ever need to watch on non-duality 😅 Goodbye KZread

@AlexShailer

4 ай бұрын

😂

Trust Alex to awaken us to our true nature, in his keeping it real and no-fuss wholesome way. There really is no "way" other than this video. Such profound knowledge delivered so simply and effectively.

I swear you should get an award for this 😂. The most simple,direct and well explained pointing i've ever heard

@AlexShailer

18 күн бұрын

Haha thanks 🙏

14:45 My mind is telling itself it has awaken after seeing that window open.. Thank you so much! ♥

Brilliant, Truth as close as one can get. I love the part that points out once you recognize your original mind that is just the beginning, awakening doesn’t solve all your problems. We have a life time of mind habit. With awakening all seeking energy is gone, and a new chapter begins. In all situations standing at the center of reality is now the game and with all games you win some and lose some but the essential you is untouched. Peace to all and good luck.

@Illuminated333

12 сағат бұрын

If you are awakened you realize you have no problems. Problems are made up.

So effortlessly and eloquently spoken, a true gift. Namaste 💫

the realization of what i am, i always was, and will be to come. i am.

I hope you awaken the world Amazing ❤

Wow it’s like you were talking right to me. Great video

so beautifully expressed. thank you for sharing this Wisdom.... YOU ROCK! Yes.

@AlexShailer

5 ай бұрын

Appreciated!

Thank you Alex! Happy New Year!

The best video I’ve heard so far! So simple yet so hard to do. Thank you kindly ❤️

Don’t seek nor avoid, take what comes 🙏🏻

beautiful.. enjoyed it. thanks :)

So. Very. Good. Thank you, Alex Shailer! 🙏

Beautiful pointings! Thank you Coleco and Happy New Year 2024!

Back to the basics. simple and clear. The really isn't much more to say.❤👍

Thank you🙏. I very much appreciate your pointing....it helps me becoming aware of just being in this moment. Love your guidance.

Thank You!

Maravilhosooo! Sem palavras, Gratidão Alex!!

Subscribed thank you, simple and direct i love this!

@AlexShailer

5 ай бұрын

Appreciated!

Nice work! Many thanks!

Wow loved this!!

@AlexShailer

5 ай бұрын

So glad!

Thanks for good Help

Wow! Thank you.

@AlexShailer

5 ай бұрын

Welcome!

Thank you.

Omg! This video addressed EXACTLY what I needed to know because it’s EXACTLY what I’m experiencing right now! Divine timing, thnk you Alex I’m so happy I stumbled on your channel 🙏✌️🫶💫

This is so helpful. Thank you!

Thank you 🙏🏼

I almost skipped watching after the first 20 sec. I am glad I didn’t. This really resonate within me. Thanks.

Thank you for sharing this. This has been showing itself more and more to me over the last year, and now I understand what it points towards. It's the most beautiful teaching ever, and so ridiculously simple. It's too simple really. Thank you!

@AlexShailer

5 ай бұрын

Yes, beautiful!

Thank you so much 🙏🌻

great vid thank you.

Seriously impactful. liked and subscribed.

@AlexShailer

5 ай бұрын

Welcome!

Thanks for this brother.

Wow, I love your videos, you manage to express so simple but so essential, no romance, no filosophy, no spiritual language, that creates even more confusion. I found you recently, and I m so glad, because you asweared my questions, my doubts, and to the tricks of my mind, so effectively. Sorry for the english, ...🙈

Wow. You appeared in my feed randomly and I’m so grateful. Everything you said was so clear and direct - I appreciated the examples you gave of how the mind convinces itself there’s something more to attain. Thank you 🙏 ❤

@AlexShailer

5 ай бұрын

Appreciated. Welcome!

Thank you 🙏 I dropped into infinite awareness ♥️

👌👋👋👋Thank you !!!

Much Love♾️❤️♾️

@AlexShailer

5 ай бұрын

Much love!

👏👏👏 Thank u so much. So to the point❤

Blunt direct pointing and simple and with none of mind ads. 😌🙏

Great Alex, I love the way you explain the unexplained infinite consciousness.

The function of the mind is to think and to doubt. And, to keep going. 🤣 Seeking is mind-driven. When you wake up, this is seen. 🥰 Thank you for sharing.

Alex love you man!

Thanks!

@AlexShailer

6 сағат бұрын

Thankyou Neela!

Great distillation of the never ending search for "me".. the real "Me" . Non-Duality has created an industry searching for this and you have done it in 17+ minutes. The meaning of life is not 42 (inside joke) but playing and starring in your own movie with way better special effects than anything Hollywood could offer, even AI will struggle surpassing this dream. Lots of help online to process the trauma collected over a lifetime as you strip away the layers of little me. Thank you Alex. Happy New Year !

@AlexShailer

5 ай бұрын

Happy new year!

Thanks, awakened👍

Now, I understand the terminus POINTER! Thanx. Great content.

🙏🏻namaste That was genius!!!!!

Great video. Scripture does state that you use the mind to come to the realization of that which is beyond the mind but I generally agree with you. For me it feels like Im thinking about it, trying to find it with my mind until the point where I realize that I am lost in these thoughts and that they are only illusion which I am Only Observing. And that is when the mind settles down in the realization that no thought is of any relevance since all of them are just the observation. Its like the mind runs around until it fins a neutral point of unconditional stability. Knowledge leads it out of itself. And after that life goes on but you are of the awareness that everything that is happening is unrelated to me and so it does not matter in any way. Its happening but its not happening to me. And in that state the mind is constantly very relaxed which starts to bring up the very pleasurable sensations of that detachment. God is making this for me and it feels really good even when its nothing.

@AlexShailer

5 ай бұрын

Perfect! If a pointer like "Awareness" doesn't mean anything to you, it doesn't matter. It's about whatever is right for you. And it is true, that you can use the mind (or more accurately, the faculty of attention) to go beyond the mind. So I never discourage anyone from doing so. But if we are to be completely honest, we have to tell the Truth, which is that its already present. Both things are true AT ONCE. The mind can never understand that.

@user-tm4nb8iy8c

5 ай бұрын

The first part of your comment is absolutely incorrect

" I think therefore I am " R. Descartes ~ " i don't identify with my thoughts therefore I am not " A. E. Neuman

awareness says: very nice video

ohhhh. Amazing🥰🤩❣

I love this relax into the truth ❤

Edibles and a stern right hander. God bless

@AlexShailer

5 ай бұрын

Ha! Well... that's what Consciousness is doing! God Bless.

@mdmanrecords

5 ай бұрын

Happy new year mate 👍

I liked what you said.👌

👁️🌹👁️ nicely said 😊

Agree. Nicely said. What interests me intellectually is what if anything we take away from this life. Rupert Spira suggests nothing can be added to consciousness whereas Bernardo Kastrup suggests some of life’s lessons are absorbed.

@AlexShailer

5 ай бұрын

I believe we do. I love Rupert but I don't agree when he says '"Localized consciousness dissipates into the wider medium after death" or something like those lines. There is enough 'Out of body' and NDEs and people literally dying and coming back and saying localized awareness continued. There is no good reason to say it dissipates after this life and there may be many lifetimes and layers of reality

@iainthebruce

5 ай бұрын

​@@AlexShailer Sure, but is this not conflating the dream with the absolute. With OBE's etc, you are talking about levels of localised consciousness or densities that are still within the dream. The only objective reality is the indivisible, boundless, timeless, unmanifest potentiality. Ultimately, what would it be that 'absorbs' these lessons or that references this 'localised awareness'? Knowledge, known experience or memory only has perceived value within the 'appearance' and within the concept of time. That, within which and from which, the 'appearance' seems to arise and dissolve, is itself without attribute. No division, no other, no referencer or knower. Having said that, your video was excellent and i really enjoyed your delivery and focused pointing. Great work, looking forward to more. Liked and subbed.

There is no mind. There are only thoughts with a sense of someone claiming them. “My mind, my thoughts”.

Waw... what a true confession. Simple but the mind didn't fight it, as you predicted. Maybe because it was prepared by other guides ( to avoid the word teacher ) and here, now it received the truth. Simple, naked, unconditional, natural ;) Ironic how the other non-dual use phrases as: it is this ( implying that exists, also ), it's what appearing ( indirectly implying dissapearing ). Thanks Alex

It was so great, for a moment i felt like im a consciousness having a human experience than i started to think again 😅

@AlexShailer

5 ай бұрын

Haha, welcome home!

@yurperfect

5 ай бұрын

But you are still consciousness aware of the mind thinking... Always, already, perfect, alive, alert, awareness...and nothin' you can do about it ❤❤

The “creative nothing “, Max Stirner,1844/2017 Landstreicher translation- “The Unique and Its Property “, is still as good as it gets.

I would say you have hit the nail on the head Alex , except that there isn't any nail.

@AlexShailer

5 ай бұрын

haha I get you! Oh wait... I don't "get" anything lol

@superduperdom

5 ай бұрын

There is a lot of mass debating in non-duality, and the confusion between a conceptual understanding and the felt sense of it is pervasive, the difference between reading the menu and eating the meal. Equally everybody has a unique journey, one person’s intuition might tell them to meditate, another to do therapy, or spend time in nature, or take psychedelics, or listen to a teacher on KZread telling them they are already it.

@starkeyrob

5 ай бұрын

@@AlexShailer So even pure consciousness has a sense of humor.

Well said. Where are you at, looks a bit tropical.

@AlexShailer

5 ай бұрын

Mexico

We are the Consciousness perceiving Itself. One whole unfragmented/non local/timeless Consciousness can be pure Love and Harmony, but for such Entity to be able to expand/reverberate infinitely Its Love and Harmony It must had to fragment/localize/time fixate Itself in dual nature (material expression revealed in us material living beings) so that by, awakening from our own duality, we could bring higher Orders of reverberation/vibration to such Oneness Love and Harmony. We were made separate, our minds keep to separate and categorize things as long as we live, its aim is rational understanding and complexification of its own content and perception, a closed vicious and untrue never ending cycle, our work is thus to stop such mental cycle and by SURRENDER of mind and body (the only thing that one must really DO) make coherent our perception/awareness with every internal and external thing that arise in our minds - LOCAL MIND HARMONIZED WITH THE HIGHER MIND THROUGH THE FULL AWARENESS OF WHAT IS (without subjective/local interference).

Well put

@animamundi9652

5 ай бұрын

And nice clickbait title 😂

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May the Porterhouse of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen

The mind will do whatever it wants..

There is nobody to awaken 😂😂 ❤ 🎉🎉🎉🎉

We do need to train the mind to be still in order to see through the illusion. Distraction is a hinderance to seeing the true nature of reality. Also why did we need to “forget ourselves to experience a limited self in a limited world”? What’s the point? Why not just not come here in the first place?

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this video is important to alert people to the lines of thinking to avoid but it does nothing for the earnest seeker who already understands this and is still confounded by how to simply be what they are. i'm afraid that's where the "meat" is. no attack on the video btw. we just need to be sure that we understand all the subtleties (not just conceptual even though only concepts are able to communicate anything - whether they be verbal or nonverbal concepts....so maybe there is where the confusion may be arising?) before we claim to be able to guide someone else in their own path. let us try to take the posture of a fellow investigator of truth sharing discoveries rather than possibly someone that has found "the real way" "the essential way" "the clear and obvious way", "the effortless way", etc. everybody on youtube take it easy. ha ha. much love to all.

@AlexShailer

5 ай бұрын

When you say "already understands this" and "is still confounded", what that says to me is: "has thoughts about it, but never followed the pointer"... and that's the point of the video. You must stop trying to understand it intellectually, and instead, use the facility of your attention to look at the Awareness that is aware of all these thoughts. You must stop trying to look into your mind. That is contracted focus. Soften your attentional focus and see everything at once. Now stay there as long as possible. Don't get bored straight away and start thinking about it again.

@pairadeau

5 ай бұрын

we're saying the same thing. i presume this video was an attempt to understand/relay it intellectually. if you claim "no...the pointer herein are to do exactly the opposite i.e. that you can't understand it intellectually" please realize that this is also a concept. that was my only point. cheers good friend. @@AlexShailer

What if I just trust that its unfolding naturally and focus on my creative goals while 'doing' spiritual practices like meditation as a form of spiritual hygiene rather than to get awakening? Still, certain things are being experienced. Like creative block, overthinking, catastrophising, anxiety and more. I would like a....smoother experience. I mean its all awakened either way, but I would much prefer to be awakened in a peaceful way? I guess thats unfolding too and I don't need a teacher. But why did I come across this then? I guess this just presses my buttons. Still, my experience is 'better' than it ever has been and getting better quicker, so, thats good.

@AlexShailer

5 ай бұрын

Yup! That's great. I still meditate A LOT, do breathwork every day, and do the 'practice' of resting as awareness'. It all helps with many things.

Duality personified.

The expressions that bother me most are "everything appears and disappears", "nothing happens" or "is and is not at the same time", "there is no cause and effect", "there is no evolution". Obviously I get tied up in words and the confusion and stress becomes even greater when I apply these expressions to everyday life, on a personal level, and I end up thinking that there is no point in doing anything because there is no cause and effect, or that nothing happens anyway, or that everything is pointless since I cannot influence reality or what happens. Extrapolating these dictates to everyday life is dangerous, it can lead to depression.

@AlexShailer

3 ай бұрын

These things are relevant and real in the relative world of form. They are pointed to as 'not real' to distinguish the temporary form from what is ultimately real: unchanging awareness, or beingness. Non-Duality isn't about ignoring the relative realm or saying it doesn't matter. With Self-realization, the world and the individual can be engaged with, whilst knowing one's true nature as awareness/beingness as larger than and beyond it.

@balajelraluca3389

3 ай бұрын

@@AlexShailer thank you! I also found other videos of yours that explains these things very well! 👍

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He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found. Bottom line; this is true from absolute perspective, but the ‘apparent’ reality for most of us is that we ARE still operating from the Person level, and actually DO need a practical approach (while knowing the absolute)

Practice what you preach child.

Unmasking your true awareness...open the third eye.

If there’s trauma or repression, you can’t just drop that belief. This is not helpful to so many people, it will just get them into a bypass where they lose their humanity.

@AlexShailer

22 күн бұрын

Exactly, which is why I've never said that and why I've made several videos on the topic

Stay awake for 40 years and then go back to sleep

@youarewhatyourelookingfor4496

5 ай бұрын

Maybe you’re asleep now and when you die, that’s when you wake up

@mohitchandnani2559

5 ай бұрын

​@@youarewhatyourelookingfor4496 No condition required honestly, the more you seek the more you are trapped in illusion. Although death could help you realise that the illusion still continues.

@SarahDale111

5 ай бұрын

​@@youarewhatyourelookingfor4496The death of a dream character happens in the dream. The dream doesn't end. Some dream characters have "near-death" experiences. They experience existing without a body. They are still identified as a me. It all takes place in the same dream. The dream character can't ever wake up. It can only come to the understanding that it is a character in a dream.

Hi Alex, your explanation about the debate around the words only exist because we are talking to so call "seekers" which is the trap we all fall into in the beginning. So unless the explanation is fully exposed like yours ( great job by the way!) the apparent seeker will take the conscience as an invisible source, a base, a knowing to calm down his fear, a kind of parachute to avoid a brutal truth. Then you can see ,like here in France a lot of teachings about people who ARE conscient of cousciousness , BEING in a state without state and so on . Even it's not wrong it's only an experience: Is there a perceived without a perceiver ? Really? Is there a no-thing when nobody and nothing is there to testify? Really ? Experiencing consciousness is not a useless experience, there's nothing wrong with that but it's only an experience , a very nice experience of understanding, of revelation maybe, who "contains" the experiencer, silent, hiding in the bush in camouflage gear . At the same time you're not wrong and ultimately all of this is ONE and experiencing consciouness still the whole, yes . But using carefully some words or giving the full explaination to the listeners like you did is useful to avoid to many next teachers to go in the wrong way . Forgive my writting mistakes . " Liberation is liberation from conscouness " Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj JM

BUT........

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hello me

so you have already experienced no mind state?

@AlexShailer

3 ай бұрын

Yes but so have you, between every thought. This is about revelation that than a state.

@polarbear8188

3 ай бұрын

not really dude. it's been months that i do self inquiry. i even count how many times my mind start to move, while i watch inside myself everyday. i still dont get answer about who am i. i go nowhere@@AlexShailer

@polarbear8188

Ай бұрын

with all due respect, i listen to this probably 30-40 times before sleep and while meditating, i still find this sound horse shit, and im still denying it. where did i do wrong? ​@AlexShailer

Hilarious! There is no more time, ladies and gentlemen. Time is running out. Get your awakening now! What, you need time to think? Lol

Dude language is not just dualistic, thinking is dualistic, you wake up, do you get up or not?, is dualistic or not? You could also lay there for 5 more minutes, 3 choices, you could lay there for 10 minutes and get up, multiple choices. Man woman, dual, up down, left right, angry happy, dark light, hot cold, empathy apathy, mother father, good bad, rational emotional. How do you rationalise this?

Amazing. Awakening is not something that happens "in" the mind. Duh! I'm not sure why I thought that the mind was relevant to it at all.

@AlexShailer

5 ай бұрын

Haha don't worry I did the exact same thing at first

If you've been on this path for some time and you start realizing that non duality is just nihilistic evasion, you are not alone. Maybe take a look at Robert Saltzman, Maharishikaa or other people talking about this problem that seems to have become an epidemic.

@AlexShailer

5 ай бұрын

Maybe you need to look through my channel so you can see that it's not that at all, and that I've addressed this several times.

@swerremdjee2769

5 ай бұрын

It is that, just with awaking put behind it🙂

@jurekbarabanov5840

Ай бұрын

Imagine Ramana Maharshi defending his point in the comments section 😅😅😅

Mind talking to mind

God, but he does ramble on incessantly. Get to the point, but if you get to the point, you cannot sell your services. So typical.

Non dual awakening🙂, non duality is nihilism

nobody awakens to anything so why bother speaking about it unless your trying to convince yourself in other words who do you think your trying to teach ?

@AlexShailer

4 ай бұрын

You didn't listen to the entire video, I can tell.

another non duality chump talking about thought instead of the deeper parts of the mind that are more important

@AlexShailer

5 ай бұрын

It sounds like you haven't looked at the rest of my channel. I've been making videos on all aspects of the mind for years 😂

@mikelisteral7863

5 ай бұрын

@@AlexShailer ive only watched a million youtube videos not a trillion lol