Being someone quite intellectual I chose to balance that out with the devotional way, but in order to avoid all the cultish pitfalls, I opted for bhakti to a dead guru, namely Sri Nisargadatta. No group, no living person there, just a symbol to channel the devotion toward, so as to lessen this obsession with myself.. and it eventually led to awakening, after which my devotion emptied out, or rather it shifted to being about the Satguru, and no longer pointed outward. Devotion helps lessen ego inflation, whenever there is some success, it is attributed to the guru's grace and not to my ego, which was previously my biggest stumbling block.

At first mountain time is mountain time. Then it’s not mountain time. Then mountain time is mountain time.

“The sound you hear right now is the sound you hear in every empty forest in every universe and multiverse. Hear that sound.” This hit me hard. 😮 And I was waiting for you to say something like that.

😂" I dont want to 'should ' all over you." Thank you. Angelo ❤

@Ballsmasher69420

2 ай бұрын

Had a laugh on that too 😂😂😂

Wow, I am from Germany and I will buy your book! Reading books in German is a bit easyer for me! Thank you so much!🙏🥰

@yasminel-hakim4348

Ай бұрын

looking forward to the German edition too 😊

One of the greatest tricks the universe pulls is to make [more] enlightened people look no different from the rest of us to the rest of us. No one gets to be "exalted" in their awakening. No one is guaranteed money or fame or even recognition. Many, I'm sure, have died in prison. Not everyone gets to be Nelson Mandela, or Jesus, as far as being "resurrected" -- politically or otherwise -- and deified. It's quite rare and probably not super comfortable, to be honest. It shows the extent to which it's just not about that. And when you realize it, you genuinely don't care what your "portion" is because everyone's "portion" is everything. It's really beautiful. You really can rest. And look back on history and recognize and appreciate all the people who "got it" and transmitted light to the rest of us in their own way.

@renko9067

2 ай бұрын

❤

@buddhasdojo9368

2 ай бұрын

Beautiful. ✨💫🌟 Thank you. 🙏🌹🌸🌷♥️

"Noticing sorta prevents identification, if you're doing it in real time." "Noticing a sensation is a thought." This is one of my favorite things about listening to these rapid fire q&a sessions. I'll catch these brief little statements that you've made which seem to be purpose-built antidotes to various doubts that have arisen. Witnessing the system create purpose built little antibodies to the familiar doubts it's awesome. Then next time it arises the antibodies are deployed, doubt neutralized and the whole thing is released like wave after wave washing away a sandcastle to reveal the pristine landscape that was already there. Delightful.

There is so much I can't grok in your pointings but I keep listening to them thinking something's seeping into my consciousness. Hope I'm right. ❤

@sonamgray5643

2 ай бұрын

No hope, no right, just be with this.

@VeritableVagabond

2 ай бұрын

Rest in the gap between thoughts and stay there. Over and over and over. Retreats help immensely because you have the space to be non distracted

All I feel is gratitude of having cross your path... and of course, love love love as the song goes 💙🙏

Wow!! I listened to, "My stroke of insight" Jill Bolte Taylor ❤❤❤ yes, it is one of the best TEDtalks ever!

@SimplyAlwaysAwake

Ай бұрын

Isn't it??

What the world is missing is Love/ Agape love… pure and perfect spirit, what we are. Born as pure and perfect spirit/ love.

Yeah I relate to the addiction part. Fortunately mine is/was video games which is not nearly as destructive for me and others as say alcoholism but I did go back to it in phases throughout the last year where realization naturally deepened. Returning to those addiction patterns a lot of shame and doubt was revealed alongside it. Which turned out to be a totally great thing cause I just couldn't really avoid feeling it, perhaps a bit here and there but the going up into mind just didn't really work well anymore. Couldn't disassociate fully with again came with another layer of frustration. So I was really uncomfortable playing my games 😂, not being able to avoid the sensations as I used to. Didn't feel great then and I couldn't really tell myself "this is a good thing" either but now there is a just rightness to it as you like to say, good term by the way. I know video games are a popular and sometimes overlooked addiction, hence I wrote it out here. I have no idea if it comes back for me or not, in the past I was very certain on me being done with that but got humbled beautifully.

Thank you ❤❤❤ that explains a lot of the conflict that has been manifesting. I really haven’t been allowing others to be where they are and I found myself trying to explain that story they are telling is creating their reality. Especially when I see it as less than beneficial for their growth. But who am I to say that that’s not the right story for them. I’m not the arbitrator of anyone else’s experience. It’s a tricky balance because a lot of the abilities that have been coming through are mediumship guidance - and I think I identified with that as a person whose role is that. Wild lol - roller coasters are fun.

man, smoking is such a mental experience, if youre very present you notice smoking actually tastes like shit. The mental experience goes away that is the craving, and the whole ritual of smoking will go away so you'll probably kick the habit

Thanks for always leaving goldmines behind for us to treasure. MAN

Watched this on after it was love. This one was really good. Still haven’t got my set/up to be notified of lives.

Hello, I recently had an experience where I grasped intuitively that all of my concepts and thoughts are just ‘me.’ (I’m describing an experience, not making any claims about the world.) I’m under the impression that instead of trying to get in between thoughts, I should just try to see it all, structured and unstructured thoughts, sensations, actions, etc. as just something that is happening here. I use the word ‘here’ because unlike previous experiences, I didn’t get any sense that I am the universe, or anything like that. I just got the sense that MY universe is made of transient smoke that has no intrinsic nature (this is true of thoughts, this present moment, the ego, all of it). They only exist in relation to each other, and there is no depth to them. There is nothing to discover about them individually. Of course, this includes the construct of “me” as well. My questions are these: Is this progress, or does it constitute some sort of wrong turn. If it is a wrong turn, what should I do to correct it? (I know this isn’t the end goal, I just want to be moving in the right direction.) I suffer from anxiety. It it wise to try to use the insight that none of this is real to dispel my anxiety, or would that be counter-productive, as it amounts to buying into the illusion? Can I alternate between just seeing it all as ephemeral smoke without trying to change it and at other times try to challenge aspects of it directly to combat my anxiety? Advice from anyone in the community would be welcome. I feel like I'm at a crossroad and I don't know which way to go.

@pamelaolson5259

2 ай бұрын

Anxiety is a flavor of fear. Fear is an emotion. Emotions are not problems. They come and go, if we let them. Resistance to emotions is the problem -- this causes emotions to stick around well past their sell-by date. You don't need to "dispel" or "combat" your anxiety. Sit comfortably somewhere. Invoke your anxiety. Call it forth. Welcome it. Feel it. Talk with it like you'd talk with a child who is afraid of the dark or of bad dreams. That's all it is. I know it feels very, very real. And maybe very big. Explore it. See what it really is. Without fear of it (a second arrow, as they say in Buddhism). Don't fear your fear. Allow your fear. Accept your fear. Let it express itself, with no agenda. True expression is not wallowing or acting out. Wallowing and acting out are only ways to muddy the waters and keep the fear intact. Fully allow the fear, here and now. Consider that it might be a friend, a messenger, a doorway.

@drylinlewis

2 ай бұрын

@@pamelaolson5259 Thank you for that.

@rosebrandt6264

2 ай бұрын

@@pamelaolson5259 Thank you so much for posting this. I always try to remember this truth, but when the rubber hits the road it can be elusive. Your post is so succinct and to the point that its easy to grasp even in fear. I've been going through a big challenge this week, and this message has allowed an organic movement from intense fear to love and acceptance. Bless you :)

Your notes on addiction are very helpful. I thought addiction was akin to avoidance but I realized accepting addiction is part of the being with everything as well as routing past it when it feels right to do so. Thank you

Anne from Arizona. Thank you for all you do. I never seem to catch you live but that's OK.

Ballsmasher is a member now? Wow! 😍

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🙏🙏🙏

Ballsmasher, relentlessly smashing mind identification in the balls 😵‍💫😆

@SimplyAlwaysAwake

2 ай бұрын

Lololol

1:46:38

❤🙏☮