Well done Dr. Cooke; you’ve gone where angels fear to tread.

Jim opens with “This is it,” and I burst into laughter 🤣❤

@Sethan777

6 ай бұрын

It, is this 😁

@Nicki-zv3do

6 ай бұрын

Because it’s so blatantly obvious 😅

@toyin2376

6 ай бұрын

He left no crumbs.

@baronbullshyster2996

5 ай бұрын

It is perfect

@mementomori5374

5 ай бұрын

It is what it is no shit sherlock

One of the best interviews with Jim ever heard. The clarifications of the non message really quite illuminating and to no one! Thank you Dr. Cook

Jim has the greatest style in Radical Non Duality! 😁☯👍

Such a refreshing message. All the practices summed up in three simple words. This is it.

Absolutely love Jim Newman!

Thanks for this, I've watched many interviews with Jim Newman and the host here asked many insightful questions and managed to get quite a lot more out of Jim than most interviewers.

@trinidad111

5 ай бұрын

I noticed this too having seen hours of Jim speaking in interviews and talks. Really good interview. Apparently…lol

Great interview. Well done and thanks.

Great chat Really enjoyed listening to Thanks 👌🏻

Well done. Excellent interview!

Beautiful

The 'self' doesn't fall away. There's simply just a clear realization that it's completely illusory. Never existed to begin with.

@bluebird6966

5 ай бұрын

Exactly. How can something that's already not there disappear 😄

@snakedogman

5 ай бұрын

So perhaps better to say the idea/illusion of being/having a self falls away.

@vinceofyork1757

Ай бұрын

@@snakedogman it is only ignorance that falls away.

Well done! 😊

As it is ❤

How can the person wants something if it doesn't exist ? It's the believe in a person that does it and there's no one wanting or not wanting anything .

I just love the message and Jim's eloquent delivery but I too must agree that not being able to hear the questioner as well as a brief summary of the question is fruckstrating!!

Imagine awakening during the weekly bar fight outing though 😄

Love them both! 💖💖💖💖💖💖 This is it!!

Thank you, Jim. Yes, there is no Ping-Pong. There's just "Ping".😂

Since Jim, as far as I know, doesn't offer us an email address, just a phone number (I'm not going to call him for something as trivial as what follows) I'm going to offer him a suggestion here. I enjoy watching the various and sundry "meetings," but only the monologues at the beginning. Once people start asking questions and commenting it's often as not very difficult to hear what they are saying. If there was a microphone available for them the "message" would reach a much wider audience and hopefully teach a lot of people how to stop wasting their time and/or following teachers of bogus teachings.

@Freeman-ij5xy

2 ай бұрын

Where can you find his phone number?

@theflyoverlandcrank

2 ай бұрын

On his website

@birdwatching_u_back

2 ай бұрын

I agree! Not that the questions hinder anything, but they can make it more confusing than it really is. Jim actually has some compilations of just his introductions-I’ll link some here :) kzread.info/dash/bejne/pqdlt6Oqj7PenZM.htmlsi=-EK7nhxsIm7k4KJs kzread.info/dash/bejne/n2GVq8WwZq7YeLA.htmlsi=oX5oOAcOcdW5IoyX kzread.info/dash/bejne/nGZqyZKQgMu9f8o.htmlsi=VZ3jMEmmYnNQ09Af kzread.info/dash/bejne/pIlp1qucZ5fJf9I.htmlsi=V9op08F7xvPXaPwa kzread.infoxfEeERAgi8o?si=aaGgCsLA3QrLuZBY

Great interview! This host was really able to drill down, as much as is possible with this subject, to the root of Jim's uncompromising sharing of nonduality. This allowed a much deeper discussion. It was obvious that you are very familiar with Jim's message and that you did your homework which enabled you to ask more insightful questions than most. Though it's understandable why they do so, I have grown weary of interviews in which a good portion is spent having the guest go through their 'awakening story'. You simply touched on it briefly for context, then moved on.

BOOM!!!

There’s a Book by David Carse called Perfect Brilliant Stillness. I listen to on audible. It’s well worth it if anyone is interested in what ever this is.

❤ Thanks

How much longer can we do this separation boogie? It’s getting spooky 👻 out here in me land. May total recall bestow us soon.

There’s no ping pong. - Jim

The refutation of a relativistic model for recognizing disparities in stress levels and how that is likely to contribute to (non)self-related insight comes across as extremely privileged to me. And yet I can’t deny that what he says is ultimately true. I think it’s best seen as a framework that fills in a niche, and it seems to work for some people. I’m reminded of the Dzogchen system, where while there is a deep understanding of the unity of emptiness/form, there is still an emphasis on dualistic preliminary practices, because they don’t want to give people a pointing out instruction that doesn’t transmit clearly enough to have the importance of the insight received. I think Douglas Harding said somewhere “the voice of the devil says ‘so what?’” But if it works, it works 🤷‍♂️. Paradox.

@vinceofyork1757

Ай бұрын

Dzogchen teachings on emptiness are second to none when it comes to nondual understanding. ❤

Kind of like there is no way to be water, when you are water.

How do I find meetings please ? 💚

How do you square non-duality with the evident need to nurture this body and mind, else cease to exist? Is it an add-on once survival needs have been met?

@cps_Zen_Run

5 ай бұрын

@5030, Biological needs. Evolutionary hormonal excretion. We remain animal. With the desire to survive and reproduce. Peace.

@chrispmar

5 ай бұрын

Nothing appears as everything, including apparent duality and all that comes with that. Only an apparent "me" sees and lives and experiences duality, experiences a subject/object world which necessarily creates contradiction and paradox with all ideas that challenge it's fundamental validity.

Just a humble Buddhist contribution: " The reality is non-dual, whole, undivided AND it doesn't really exist! (meaning it lacks any kind of 'svabhava', any kind of substance out which it is made of!!🤔".

@CJ-ff1xq

5 ай бұрын

Boom. It lacks *inherent* existence. Yet, there's still something we experience. It's empty but not non-existent.

@cheoresono3896

5 ай бұрын

@@CJ-ff1xq Words don't come easy at this level of verbal communication. Seems like the left brain keeps having difficulties to interpret and especially to transfer the phenomena, which right hemisphere possibly capable of grasping, onto other brains.

@CJ-ff1xq

5 ай бұрын

​@@cheoresono3896 True, but many masters were very clear and able to describe the state even in words. For example, the Buddha himself, Nagarjuna (who even gave logical proofs and analysis), Vimalamitra, Longchenpa etc. If words had no purpose in this context, the Buddha wouldn't have bothered even teaching in the first place.

@cheoresono3896

5 ай бұрын

@@CJ-ff1xq I realize I couldn't manage until now to make my point fully understandable by writing about it, thus by using words, letters and symbols. This is probably the core of the trouble we are (or "i am", if you prefer that way) experiencing in our debate. Even for the most skillful communicators, including Shakyamuni Gautama himself, words they are using are merely pointers or signifiers.. Not the truth itself which is pointed at.

@cheoresono3896

5 ай бұрын

Let me try to put it this way: Suppose I'm an alien from outer space. I've never seen, touched, tasted, smelled or encountered in anyway a banana. I ask you kindly to give me a full account by exclusively using language, of how a banana tastes.. Do you think you could give a complete answer to my question?

kindly share your skin routine 🤪

Good interview. But i think he could have pushed jim more i thought he was agreeing with him too much and not making jim talk more

@cps_Zen_Run

5 ай бұрын

"Pushing “ would be the Ego trying to establish superiority. No place for ego in nonduality. Peace

@santoshmangat9221

5 ай бұрын

@@cps_Zen_Run I didn't mean pushing literally. What I meant was he should have asked more incisive questions to extract more replies from jim otherwise does not open up that much. It requires ironically very good intellect to debate with jim which I think he was doing but when too much reverence comes then it cannot be done which is the case with most people taking interviews You should debate very strongly but peacefullly

@ShadaeMastersAstrology

3 ай бұрын

@@santoshmangat9221I agree.

Maybe I am not ready to absorb this information and this is resistance but I have questions. My understanding is that we are all here for a purpose, we are each an individuation of the whole so that the whole can experience all that this planet has to offer. The whole is all that is, we are all connected. We make soul contracts before we come into these meat suits, things that will happen to us in order for us to learn things like compassion etc. So my feeling would be that the inability to walk was a soul contract in order that you can grow as a person, and indeed you did. If there is no self, or individuation of the whole, who is looking through your eyes at your face in the morning? Who is talking in your head? Where are your ideas about the Universe and how it shows up for you coming from? I know we live in a holographic Universe created by our own thoughts and beliefs and we can change our world if we change our thoughts. If there is no self where are those thoughts coming from??? Personally I think I'll prefer to believe the messages of the ascended masters and the thousands of channelled beings on the Planet right now. Again, I have an open mind and perhaps I am just not ready to believe that life is as dull and pointless as this man paints it. Much love to you all. Have a blessed day 🙏🙏🙏

@Freeman-ij5xy

2 ай бұрын

Oh yes, the added befuddlement of stumbling across spirituality. My"self" and many others have found spirituality to be the ultimate recipe for selfing. The me bites into spirituality more so than it bites into any other method of seeking. You will find this out. Unfortunately It will not be a result of these words, because what's listening to these words does not want to hear what I'm saying. You will continue believing into the spiritual stories until you don't. You will have a flash of insight like everyone else that every single spiritual story on the planet is nothing but a vortex for the me to get stuck in. I dare say........ Good luck.

Dommage que Jim Newman ne soit pas traduit

The Maps Not The Territory ❤😊

If there is no one who knows anything, then how do you know that this is "apparent"?❤

@elliotdance7790

4 ай бұрын

I've had that same thought....

@ccr7712

3 ай бұрын

It just seems to be apparent, many of these speakers make the same mistake, and present what they say as facts, there is no knowing of anything . So all this may be even possibly complete nonsense , that we are brainwashing our selfs in to .

@Koort1008

Ай бұрын

Can you find anything that is not a thought, feeling, belief, or concept? All is an appearance that appears to an appearance that appears to appear.

In a way, there IS a "pong", but it's nothing more than an echo of the "ping", and as such, the ping and the pong are not separate in any way.....or something. 😂

'these enlightened people having barfights'hahaha

The ego = Once you know Father Christmas isn’t real, you can never get back to believing he’s real again ??? - I’m finding that there’s something else going on, nothing to do with reading a book ??? - It’s strange, it’s like it’s not in the words but maybe it wouldn’t be happening without the words ??? - It’s definitely not in the ideas and yet maybe it wouldn’t be happening without the ideas, maybe it would be, people go on silent retreats !!! And that’s the system itself - The things/objects are over (Cloak) emphasised and the awareness is under-played - (Thus awareness is not being conscious, it’s what we’re conscious of - To tell you your trapped by inferring that there is a you which could be free to think there’s a better way - But there’s an ideation of an image called selfing - The mental state points to the after as being the before - (Language emphasis there is an us and uses the subjective experience to make an object of ideation IE: Your the all that’s been thinking about) But there isn’t a self doing the selfing that implies there’s a self doing it - There’s a mechanical system doing: Thus is reinforcing the nouning that your not - Not. ‘Knot’ Mamma has died in the night - Looking from the bondage of self (As self) - Contracted energy or pseudo eye strap from chest to head over cloaked by a superimposed phantom which orchestrates the Trinity which actuates the body. It may have a real importance to being wrong because it will be right about how wrong it believes you are, so your wondering why your messing things up because then it can be right about how wrong you are. It says I can’t afford to lose anymore time that I was sinking (Bewildering supported by those who propagate it) Therefore, that which is traveling lighter does not get that the self doesn’t exist. You identify someone that’s like you because it’s not you they like. The Para Sight casts us as the affect - Looking through eyes at shadows of who we used to be.gets dumbfounded by believing what it’s believing to be true. Because no one can see Stanley as not being you-r-debt - A magic trick could have one quality which is (You see the after but you don’t see the before, so if you see the after you think that the rabbit came out of the hat, and if you saw the before, you saw the rabbit was hiding behind the hat - So the after the rabbit came out of the hat (Negate both) - For the trick to work it has to have us starting at the after not seeing from the before. Awareness covered or obfuscated by a seeing. So the mental state points to the after as being the before - But I would say we are of spirit which would be the before (According to scriptures, which is to remember), not that one can proclaim), and we take ourselves to be something that’s the after which is the mental image. Thus the character is waiting for conscious presence to awaken in its presence (But the character is the imagined dreaming and is the blocking agent of this, thus it is awakeness which wakes up in the absence of the character and not the awakeness which wakes up ‘To’. the absence of a character) - And that mental image is supported by memory, because when you remember something about the past your pictured as a body - If you would paint the anxiety, the painting anxiety would be pictured as a body - Therefore your anxious about as you as a body is going to be doing later - And you have or there is a lot of negative ideas that are causing the anxiety because you’ve relied on something that’s projecting you to be doomed next year - So there’s a faith in it, and that faith in it - The occupation with the future condition (All just manufactured), now is producing an effect now. IE: You’re feeling uncomfortable now yet there’s no reason in a sense why, other than faith in the thoughts about next year - If you see this it doesn’t hold water, there is selfing that says there’s been a self - So we now try to get out of what we’re not in, or even discuss what’s not happening (Maya talking about it’s self) - So self gets caught in a cycle of self trying to get out of self, and why it can’t is because it’s ‘Knot’ Inn. (If seeing not in) - Our true eye is (Para Brahman or Atman) - According to scriptures - Spacious Awareness When the big camera looks through the little camera it forgets it is the big camera and takes itself to be that which it’s looking through the little cameras cheap plastic shady lens which only has one role of film. It reinforces its more than this little camera as it holds great regard - The body (As the little lens), cannot get that I am not that - Because it doesn’t see that I am. ‘Knot’ that. The only way it can think is that I am this camera - ‘I was always Late’Ant’Ly A’Veil’Abel - Cane as the person can change the before. The knowledge ‘I am’ or beingness is an illusion. The beingness is a superimposition - A cloak of illusion Over the absolute. Nisargadatta Maharaj But Any Thing hasn’t heard what he said. Maharaj The black prince only makes sense because it is seen against a white background. Demons aren’t what you were thinking. What’s your looking for ? IE: Haven’t we been established, the sanity has replaced the insanity that preceded the first drink ! They found him last night, I can’t believe it, I thought he was gone forever. If they take off in the fog they’ll never land it. You think you want freedom, but if you know what freedom means, you will run away from that. The Matt and Satin finish is yet to be de-term-Inn’ed. How far into this clock have ever been I hadn’t had a drink since then.

@Nicki-zv3do

6 ай бұрын

That was more confusing that confusion 😂

are you calling the Supreme Being, the Original Face, the real I *This*

radical ajata vadian

Flower picking , and bar fights just happen 😅

a similar approach is necessitarianism as defended by amy karofsky.

@FirstPersonHood

6 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing.

@jonashjerpe7421

6 ай бұрын

No, Jim is not talking about a philosophical position at all. He strives to illuminate the mystery of what is. Not a theory. Nec is quite different. It's a philosophical position about the nature of reality.

There’s another “radical nonduality speaker” named Dawn Garland whose talks are really lovely, and she’s actually mentioned occasionally that, in the few empirical studies that have been done on this kind of awakening, there actually seems to be a correlation between extreme suffering beforehand and the awakening taking place. It’s not that the suffering *causes* the awakening, or is the “path to it”; it’s just how it often seems to work out. I have some ideas on why this might be the case, but it has nothing to do with anyone “intentionally making their way to enlightenment” or anything of the sort, lol

@simpelman

2 ай бұрын

I think intense suffering motivates people to find a way out, or solution. So, as a nice quote in above KZread discussion is said: 'So you agree that suffering IS SEEKING?' and Jim Newman said -Yes-, if I remember well. I learned a lot from this conversation. The self cannot steer itself into enlightenment, because it doesn't even exist. But people just happen to be in a place. - - I guess Dr. James is far too intelectual and analistic to reall grab it. Albeit, he really asks the right questions. The next step is to really DO it, and not think it. It is like explaining how to ride a bicycle or to skate or swim, just by explaining it with words. Well, I did experience mysef this unveiling of the illusion of being a person who controls his life with his will, feeling seperate from the world, suffering about not gettting there, blaming myself (lol) for faults, trying harder etc. In the end, it feels one is walking in the world as it is a movie, POV style, without being the steering captain yes, I was always afraid, if I I I I was not in control, I would do crazy stuff and say crazy stuff, but things were said and done effortlessly, without braking the law. Remember this horror film where the hand has a will of its own, strangling people or oneself. I had a fear of letting go, because of this concept, lol. But one's true nature, well it is not yours anyway is benine in itself. So, the true nature is benine. I got there by completating about cause and effect, free will, and how things happen, just because. So nobody is guity of sins. All this is a kind of misconceptions. It seems we are living in a very big game of intelligence beyond ourselves, thinking about it. Are we living in an animation? Kind of thing. This seems so far out for the common man. Basically, conscious is not yours, and things happen in this big wave-field of energies and intellegence, moving us randomly like atoms, still it cannot be otherwise. That kind of feeling I got when I was 'enlightened'. Strangely enough, I am back to 'normal'now, is that even possible? Seeing the other side of things. It is quite boring really, because you profoundly realise, nothing really matters, and there is nothing to do. The only good thing was, every second was a second of wonder and beauty. But kind of sad too, because 99.9 % of people are not like you, so you kind of feel lonely. So Jesus came back to earth, kind of thing. Jesus was an enlightened man, considering his words and deeds in hindsight.

@birdwatching_u_back

2 ай бұрын

⁠@@simpelman All of that sounds pretty scary and complicated. I used to think the stuff Jim was saying was scary and complicated; if you’re interpreting it as some kind of spiritual cosmology, some kind of “way out,” or some kind of state of existing, then yeah, that’s what it sounds like. But it’s just a lot more straightforward than that; when he says “nothing needs to happen,” he means it literally. There’s no trick being played, no one needs to “take the last step” and do anything. It’s just much too simple, much too normal. Nothing esoteric about it at all, he’s just a guy who answers questions. With the suffering thing, if anything I think it’s that people burn themselves out, and their mental logic just gets so warped and convoluted that it just can’t hold together anymore. Spirituality really can make some people pretty psychotic-it did that to me. You have to do a reality check at some point; and again, this isn’t something that you ever really willingly choose to do, because, as Jim says, in a way it’s the last thing you want. Not to get anything out of the immense effort you’ve put into deluding yourself into believing “I don’t exist,” or deluding yourself into believing “someday I’ll be enlightened.” There’s no enlightenment at all. :)

😂😂😂😂😂

There cannot be Nonduality without Duality, they're the opposite ends of one stick, or two sides of the same coin. Characters like Jim Newman bother me because if he was truly nondual he couldn't function at all, he would sitting there drooling like he had a full lobotomy. Jim has memory and memory is thought, thoughts are fully dualistic in nature because it's what the mind knows as 'Now' and the 'Past' (dual).. Certainly being fully Non-dual, he wouldn't remember a split second ago so he couldn't speak or understand what was being said.

@qMartink

5 ай бұрын

you haven't yet understood the message

@snakedogman

5 ай бұрын

Thoughts about the past or the future... still happen in the now :)

@chrispmar

5 ай бұрын

What appears as dualistic is merely that, an appearance, without any substantiality to it. There's only This, without a second.

@Koort1008

Ай бұрын

Nonsense.

james is so stuck in the story of the illusionary character ... hilarious ... onces u brainwashed with this college rubbish you cant open up.. the message resonates with his inside but as soon as his mind kicks in he is lost

@user-nh8zt9wl3c

21 күн бұрын

Spiritual psychosis