If you haven’t watched, “I Understand All This Intellectually, It’s Just Not My Experience,” read this.
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This is seriously the best non-dual video I’ve ever watched, and I’ve watched hundreds. It suddenly became so obvious and simple. Of course this moment, just as it is, has to be oneness if that’s all there is! I was thinking, why do other teachers make it so complicated? Then I went back to some of the videos I used to watch and what they’re saying is just so clear now.
My mind was making the teachings complicated. Even when Adyashanti would say “this is it,” I thought he was experiencing some special kind of “this.” There was an experience of identifying with thought that came back within a day or so, but I have come back to this video for clarity again. It’s been seen that when suffering arises, it’s from a belief in the thought that things should be other than what they are right now. If I am saying something is wrong with this moment, then I am saying something here is not part of Oneness, which would make no logical sense, so that is something the mind can actually grasp (it might not like it, but there is no other option).
There seems to be a playing out of the habit of seeking in this unit. I have been a spiritual seeker since I was a teenager, so that was my identity. Now, it feels like there’s nowhere to get to anymore. I never had a career or purpose I was passionate about; this seeking was always my only drive. It’s strange to feel that sense of identity slipping away and feel the insecurity of not knowing. After watching this video the first time, there was a pull to continue watching other spiritual videos to suppress a fear that arose of losing the realization. However, it almost feels like the mind is trying to create a new identity of someone who has “got it.” I feel like I need to sit in the insecurity of not knowing, feeling that fear and not doing something to get rid of it. I think sticking to one teacher might be helpful instead of reverting to the habit of grasping everything I can get my hands on, even though that feels scary.
Thanks so much for this teaching, Fred!
~Janel
April 26, 2017 @ 4:20 pm
Wow. I think they got the message. If there was one video I would choose to wake someone up, it would be this one.
April 26, 2017 @ 5:08 pm
Thanks, Daniel!
April 26, 2017 @ 4:58 pm
Janel has retired! I hope she joins our retirement community. Ours has special support for those recovering from seeking. Which is to say, it reminds us to remember we’re retired and to enjoy our retirement! Which means, like Toto sings in its their song Africa “Gonna take some time to do the things we never had”. Or in my case new ideas and people that I entertain, that even make for a “happier dreaming” – which even that finally makes sense!
Now, Mike
April 26, 2017 @ 5:07 pm
Thanks, Mike! 🙂
May 11, 2017 @ 6:48 pm
….yes as Fred put it…looking for some kind of secret hand shake!