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  @martinspiering581755 минут бұрын

  A really helpful "meta-pointer"! 👏 I think one reason that the direct-path teachings were traditionally closely guarded is because they can increase craving for direct/unconditioned experience (a big confusion if there ever was one), as you say (or else spark delusions of grandeur among some). Spending a good chunk of time developing concentration and equanimity (e.g., with breath, mantra, or metta meditation) still seems to be the best antidote (though, I'm open to other ideas--noting or awareness practices throughout the day might also work).

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  @professordeb2 сағат бұрын

  🙏🏻❤️🙏🏻

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  @bananaallin3597Күн бұрын

  it is related to learning based in rewards of the psychologist skinner?

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  @AwakehereandnowКүн бұрын

  @@bananaallin3597 similar yes but this is more looking at experiential knowing as opposed to psychological models

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  @bananaallin3597Күн бұрын

  @@Awakehereandnow thanks Simón . Do u have some suggestions for reading about that ?

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  @AwakehereandnowКүн бұрын

  @@bananaallin3597 This Being, That Becomes: The Buddha's Teaching on Conditionality by Dhivan Thomas Jones is a great book.

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  @johnwalker46423 күн бұрын

  Nidanavagga, The Book of Causation: 12 Nidanasamyutta, Connected Discourses on Causation...there is a lot of activity prior to being born.

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  @n-xsta3 күн бұрын

  Thank you ❤

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  @halcyon28643 күн бұрын

  Are you a secular Buddhist or following a certain school of Buddhism?? Thank you for your answer. With loving kindness 💜

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  @Awakehereandnow3 күн бұрын

  I guess secular now, following my intuition but had teachers in Thai forest tradition, zen and currently if any more formal practice is closer to dzogchen. ❤

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  @halcyon28643 күн бұрын

  @@Awakehereandnow 🙏 Thank you, much appreciated. Be careful with intuition though, the mind is a very cunning thing if the ego has not been subdued and under complete control. 😊

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  @Awakehereandnow3 күн бұрын

  ​@@halcyon2864 oh yeah I know this. The intuition I mean is not that of the mind but that of being. Thanks for all of your support 🙏

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  @halcyon28643 күн бұрын

  @@Awakehereandnow ok, intuition same as the knower or observer the opposite of the seen or the observed. Just being aware of being aware which is the direct knowledge or Buddha nature or whatever other names we care to use, Self, Atman, pure Consciousness, cosmic Energy, Brahman, God the list is endless, being beyond intellectual concepts, words, definitions etc etc. Thank you, just discovered your beautiful channel and very grateful for it. 😊 💜🙏

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  @xdfckt25643 күн бұрын

  The Islamic invader Khilji raided the Nalanda University during his Islamic conquest of India in 1190 AD. Not finding the Quran there enraged him so much he razed it to the ground and burned it. The place kept burning for 3 straight months. It was built in 427 AD. The guy who coined the concept of zero studied there. It had hostels for each student and faculty and was supported by kings of Java and India. Both Buddhist and Vedic knowledge was debated, discussed and curated there.

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  @Awakehereandnow3 күн бұрын

  Thanks for sharing this. ❤

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  @martinspiering58173 күн бұрын

  Great exposition of dependent origination--thank you! 🙏I really liked the reference to Nagarjuna, who helped thoroughly dispel the notion of "things" intrinsically existing from their own side (rather than depending on causes and conditions). When it comes to insight practice of dependent origination (and of emptiness/sunyata) in addition to suttas, "Seeing That Frees: Meditations on Emptiness and Dependent Arising" by the late, great Rob Burbea offers an extremely rich and vast terrain of exploration for liberation (from clinging due to ignorance).

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  @Awakehereandnow3 күн бұрын

  I love Rob Burbea, thanks for the recommendation ❤

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  @MacShrike4 күн бұрын

  The light that you shine on these subjects is helping me tremendously. @very-much-happier-person-making-a-deep-bow-and-blowing-kisses:Emoticon (couldn't find that one in the selection)

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  @Awakehereandnow4 күн бұрын

  Thank you so much. I'm really glad it helps. Trying as I can to demystify this often tricky path of awakening. Contented-deeply grateful-openhearted-appreciation emoji right back at ya. Maybe something like 🙏🥰🐻😆❤️🌈

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  @bananaallin35974 күн бұрын

  17:51

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  @thebaryonacousticoscillati56794 күн бұрын

  I approach it as an aesthetic: what flavour do I like, and then, why? It's not like I want to then be them (I've never really wanted to be anything but "myself") but would I find a conversation with them entertaining. For instance, I quite like Jason Gregory's stuff, and Eckhart Tolle seems a jolly fellow, quite amusing. Alan Watts is always very satisfying. Spiro I find repelling but he's probably a nice chap, for all I know. Then there's others who just spout drivel (IMHO). Your stuff is quite engaging too 😁

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  @thebaryonacousticoscillati56794 күн бұрын

  I once read/heard (I no longer remember which) that the desire to be free from suffering was the ultimate suffering. That small phrase has had more effect on me than oceans of (very fine) texts about all of it...

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  @cosmogang4 күн бұрын

  Perfect timing as always. Thank you 🙏

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  @alienoverlordsnow17864 күн бұрын

  🙂❤👍✌ Social conditioning leading to delusion, leading to attachment, leading to craving, leading to dissatisfaction, leading to suffering. Its depressing that we are bound to suffer, but at least we can see that there is a way out, even if it does currently seem impossibly difficult.

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  @Awakehereandnow4 күн бұрын

  Yes it's a tangled web but working simply with felt experience and noticing how we are propelled is the key. Gentle moment by moment awareness to gradually unbind us. ❤

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  @willieluncheonette58435 күн бұрын

  "Enlightenment is a simple realization that everything is as it should be. That is the definition of enlightenment: everything is as it should be, everything is utterly perfect as it is. That feeling...and you are suddenly at home. Nothing is being missed. You are part, an organic part of this tremendous, beautiful whole. You are relaxed in it, surrendered in it. You don´t exist separately - all separation has disappeared. A great rejoicing happens, because with the ego disappearing there is no worry left, with the ego disappearing there is no anguish left, with the ego disappearing there is no possibility of death any more. This is what enlightenment is. It is the understanding that all is good, that all is beautiful - and it is beautiful as it is. Everything is in tremendous harmony, in accord."

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  @Awakehereandnow5 күн бұрын

  Responding to a video warning of the pitfalls of explaining enlightenment with an explanation of enlightenment. Touche 😊❤

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  @willieluncheonette58435 күн бұрын

  @@Awakehereandnow Lol....I love your egoless response.

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  @nirodha355 күн бұрын

  Which Guru does this? And beware of all those gurus bound by KZread 😉

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  @halcyon28645 күн бұрын

  It looks like you are enlightened after your little giggle you had at the beginning of the video. 😊 With metta 💜 🙏

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  @leemac98796 күн бұрын

  strangely enough I'm spiritually awake but still find some people Intolerable my Love bucket is on vapours sometimes hmm maybe I'm not awake ? I'll take the test again with Guru shazamataz ...yeh good ol shaz he'll give me a discount.

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  @frequency_1596 күн бұрын

  Nicely put. Thanks for sharing. 🙏

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  @TerriblePerfection6 күн бұрын

  That's why I love the diamond sutra. If I understand it correctly (questionable!), it describes both the impossibility of explaining enlightenment and the necessity of sharing it! 😵‍💫

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  @Awakehereandnow6 күн бұрын

  I love the diamond sutra. Has played a big part in my life and awakening 💎

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  @hansenmarc7 күн бұрын

  Personally, I find maps like Buddhism’s ten fetters model very useful in helping me see which delusions I’m still clinging to. That said, I agree that too many gurus will say “I know nothing” and in the next breath say “it is clearly seen that…”. Or they’ll say to look not into thoughts and beliefs, but only into direct experience. Then they’ll spin a fantastic yarn about how your true self is pure awareness or consciousness and all of us are refractions of the one universal consciousness. Really? You got all that from direct experience? That’s funny. In my direct experience there’s awareness, but no indication whatsoever that there’s anything universal about it.

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  @Awakehereandnow7 күн бұрын

  Beautifully put. The 10 fetters like you said point to beliefs that bind us to conditions and therefore really handy to help orient practice but they do not say a word about what enlightenment is, or what's it's like or what it means. That's the beauty of the Buddha dharma, he pretty much never explains what enlightenment is ❤

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  @hansenmarc6 күн бұрын

  @@Awakehereandnow I’m not as familiar with the dharma as I would like, but I get your point. Indeed, the Bahiya sutta is the only example I can think of where the Buddha describes what enlightenment is like, and even that was couched in terms of practice. The heart sutta also seems to describe somewhat the experience of enlightenment, but it wasn’t written by the Buddha as far as we know.

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  @Awakehereandnow6 күн бұрын

  @@hansenmarc thanks for your lovely response. Yeah the heart sutra is much younger than early Buddhist texts, and likely originated in china. 🙏

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  @kazuno17747 күн бұрын

  Thank u, genuinely.

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  @aidanjohnwalsh21298 күн бұрын

  Who?

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  @spandawaves8 күн бұрын

  And mostly if it can be put into words or even more ridiculously giving steps and prescriptions, for sure ,did not happened and they didn't experienced anything

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  @oscaroscar79048 күн бұрын

  I mean you can just say something like " if a chair is not a chair, then its not a chair" Einstein, einstein dident say that and i did and it dosent mean anything but the way people suddenly belives something beacuse it ryhmes or just because someone is a genius at lets say carpeting and think that must mean they are a genius at everything often suprises me

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  @Giatros899 күн бұрын

  Do the 10 fetters fall in this category?

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  @Awakehereandnow9 күн бұрын

  The 10 fetters do not describe enlightenment but point to what keeps us chained (fettered) to conditioned suffering. The Buddha pretty much never answered questions about what enlightenment was like, or how it appeared.

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  @dethtrain9 күн бұрын

  Know your own mind, not someone else's right?

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  @mr.pringle84669 күн бұрын

  He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know. Lao Tzu

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  @SelfAugment9 күн бұрын

  This is absolutely correct, but you should always seek the advice of gurus and consciously choose whether it's relevant to you or not. Rejecting advice just because it's confidently delivered and may be false is foolish. Take all things on board and decipher whether it's right for you or not.

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  @polkadotzebraart38059 күн бұрын

  There is no point in getting guidance from an unenlightened being. Even then all that is needed is a surrender, openess and the universe will take you apart. There is nothing to do, no learning, just undoing.

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  @cristina642710 күн бұрын

  We can only show the path and our enlightment in fact.

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  @anoshya10 күн бұрын

  Interesting. I’ve been studying spiritual literature for 40 years and never mention God as it minimises it …. At times I sense that the Ultimate cannot be explained but possibly experienced ..the Zen Masters were correct when asking “ Are you Sure?”

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  @daegabmusic5910 күн бұрын

  🙏🌞♥🎹

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  @kenkaplan365410 күн бұрын

  One other thhing. Words can help in te right context. I have a friend who is briiliant with language. His short posts illuminate to a degree that iit causes some envelopment of c onnection in waysI had not been able to access on my own. He doesn't say what "it Is" because that is impossible, but he creates a deep feeling of spaciousness and letting go. So there are no rules. There are arenas where words matter a lot. Journey of Souls is a profoud book that opens one to a framework of the reincarnation cycle as expressed through soul contracts. There are ways this creates freedom from victimhood. It is a layer. But it would not have hasd quite the value if I hasd not had direct experience of it. But you are right. In the end the only thing that matters is one's own experience of what this is, what truth there may be.

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  @ceeemm190110 күн бұрын

  Doh.....

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  @simoninsilence142710 күн бұрын

  One aspect of the reality of living with the impact of childhood trauma - the shame and the 'trust issues' - can be a concerted, chronic effort not to have cultivated friendships. In the extreme, then, there are no friends to turn to for help.

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  @kenkaplan365410 күн бұрын

  You know. I was the direct disciple of a Sat Guru for 20 yeaes while he was in the body. I have been extremely close to 3 more and deeply impacted by a bunch more. Of course the secret (one of them) is it's all the same Guru coming through different forms. And of course who is Guru? None of them, not one, ever explained or even got near the term "enlightenment". Their concern was devotion to God, beiing the embodiment of Grace and Divine assistance in whatever form was needed, and the living conduiit to help one connect to the truth within. The reason they never talked about enlightenment or even never used the term is it was irrelevant as no words could convey what is is, whatever it was had to be experienced and I still don 't know what it means nor do I care. We must be careful in how we use language. What a real Guru is, is very different from many Western conceptions of Guru or misguidedly applying the term to people who are not it. There are (supposed) *teachers* who might prattle on about this, but they asre not Gurus. If we can help people make this important distinction, to underrstand what is really going on, what and who Guru really is, then we have done the world an important service. i have book in me on this ( a memoir). Thanks for reminding me. The presence of Guru in the world messes with idea of supremacy of non duality. It is just a lens.

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  @heinmolenaar67508 күн бұрын

  All gurus are fake. They only have second-hand shit bookknowledge. They all have a very heavily conditioned mind. Just like everyone else. Therefore their consicousness is the same as everyone else. The conditioned mind is not the enlightened mind.

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  @the_absolute_light7 күн бұрын

  I’d go a little further and add there’s no such thing as a ‘real’ guru as opposed to an unreal. It’s too unconditional. What one might project as a ‘fake guru’, even the seemingly corrupt ones, could very well spark a glimpse in someone, because anything at all can be a conduit for enlightenment. It does not exclude anything, yes, even including ‘fake gurus’. ‘Real guru’ and ‘fake guru’ are only projections.

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  @heinmolenaar67507 күн бұрын

  You talking nonsense ​@@the_absolute_light

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  @the_absolute_light7 күн бұрын

  @@heinmolenaar6750 what I said is perfectly clear over here. Perhaps you could ask questions for more clarity over there.

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  @kenkaplan36547 күн бұрын

  @@the_absolute_light Ultimately that has value in that what Guru really is, is not restricted to form or in particular any one form. But the term has specific meaning. In the context used here, because the Guru function or aspect is in everyone does not negate that their are forms that authentically meet the criteria and those that don't. My point was quit applying it inapprpriately. Rupert Spira is not a Guru. Jeff Foster is not a Guru. Neither were/are Ram Dass or Wayne Dyer or Depak Chopra. Ramana Maharshi was. Neem Karoli Baba was. The task of Guru is to awaken one to the truth. If one believes Jim Jones wil get you there, one is free to follow that path. There may be a soul lesson of great importance there in the absolute, but in this context you are not engaging an authentic Guru. One more point. Something has to be the origin, the generative point in form. All these teachers today and maany others swim in a matrix created by real Gurus, be it be Jesus, Krishna, Shankara, Buddha, Babaji or many others. There is an importance to venerate those who laid foundations yet understood that foundation was created for awakening to truth and freedon, not attachment.

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  @apocalypseon11 күн бұрын

  I have itchy ears as a response to stress. Crying has reduced. Chest tightness. Feelings o guilt, and shame. Like Im doing something wrong. Has also reduced. I never thought of myself as a traumatised person. But Im definitely experiencing the symptoms now as an adult. I could relate with a good many of your descriptions, including uncontrollable emotion.

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  @martinspiering581711 күн бұрын

  Great word of caution. Reality is utterly simple, but the intellect doesn't do simple, so it often falls for stories and misdirection.

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  @AshleyStuart11 күн бұрын

  People may get frustrated when you can't describe it and I've seen that in the comments sections of many videos I've come across but you really can't put any of this into words. And by not being able to put it into words, it means the mind can't warp it too because what the mind thinks enlightenment is and what is actually is are two totally different things.

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  @bindumadhavan84911 күн бұрын

  Freedom to be you Thanks

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  @annedaniels91111 күн бұрын

  Spot on again. 🙏

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  @annedaniels91111 күн бұрын

  Thank you Simon, your work is deeply valued 🙏

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  @simoninsilence142711 күн бұрын

  And here I am, writing to you to authentically ask for a pointer to work that encourages the framing you offer in this post...(in the hope that this message doesn't undermine itself!)

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  @kenkaplan365410 күн бұрын

  For me, the pointer is connection to what is within by whatever means you choose. If one demands a label, a conception of the mind, one blocks access to the very thing. There is no right or wrong way or experience here. My life has taught me if connection is established (usually through intention and/or forms of meditation), that which is begins to draw one deeper in a revelatory way over time. There are things that are clear to me now and energies accessible I could not understand or connect to even 5 years ago. Is it "enligtenment"? I don't know what that means nor do I care. Probably not. But it does contain authentic illumination. Just "be here now." Who or what is the real doer? Not the ego or mind.

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  @SelfAugment9 күн бұрын

  @@simoninsilence1427 the pointer is it's down to you to take on board what you feel valuable from people by trying it out, and if you try it and it doesn't work, move on. Dont just accept what gurus tell you without trying it for yourself and seeing that it works. The power is in your hands. Don't give 100% of it away to gurus without question and never test whether what they're saying actually works.