Enlightenment: The Ego, what is it? How to transcend it.

[Guish]

[GarethBKK]

Here's a two-part video of Adyashanti (a most lovable Zen teacher) discussing two of the Buddha's teachings. The first is the 'Middle Way', where Adya talks of letting go of grasping and pushing i.e. finding the stillness where grasping at things has been let go of, and nothing is rejected. All is accepted as is.

The second part talks about 'No-self'. I see so many sincere spiritual seekers not let go of self. So many glimpses of awakening to the presence of all that is, but a stubbornness that it must be happening to someone. To discover all, there must be an end to personhood. This is all happening, but it's not happening to anyone. The inference that there is a 'me' has to be let go of.

Adya does an excellent job of explaining that the following are all inferences, which upon examination are unfindable.

There's thoughts. There must be a 'me' they belong to.
There's feelings. They must be mine.
There's a life. It must belong to me.
There's a body. It's my body.
There's an identity. It must be mine.
There's a belief. That belief must belong to somebody. Therefore, it's mine.

Mooji talks regularly of the end of personhood. Sri Ramana Marhashi's 'Who am I?' enquiry is to drive to the point where 'I' no longer holds any truth. In Part 2 of this video series, Adya puts things as simply as is possible. Hope it helps.

Part 1 (11:51)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=HoaAGBoy09c

Part 2 (11:48)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=fkG2k7Smmeo

[greybeard]

Thanks Gareth
There are quite a few Adya videos far back in the thread---these that you posted are excellent.
Love Chris

[greybeard]

Mention of pushing away, pulling is also in this Mooji meditation video.
Its relatively short.
Chris

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=f3CZfmSX580

[Guish]

Posted by GarethBKK (here)
Here's a two-part video of Adyashanti (a most lovable Zen teacher) discussing two of the Buddha's teachings. The first is the 'Middle Way', where Adya talks of letting go of grasping and pushing i.e. finding the stillness where grasping at things has been let go of, and nothing is rejected. All is accepted as is.

The second part talks about 'No-self'. I see so many sincere spiritual seekers not let go of self. So many glimpses of awakening to the presence of all that is, but a stubbornness that it must be happening to someone. To discover all, there must be an end to personhood. This is all happening, but it's not happening to anyone. The inference that there is a 'me' has to be let go of.

Adya does an excellent job of explaining that the following are all inferences, which upon examination are unfindable.

There's thoughts. There must be a 'me' they belong to.
There's feelings. They must be mine.
There's a life. It must belong to me.
There's a body. It's my body.
There's an identity. It must be mine.
There's a belief. That belief must belong to somebody. Therefore, it's mine.

Mooji talks regularly of the end of personhood. Sri Ramana Marhashi's 'Who am I?' enquiry is to drive to the point where 'I' no longer holds any truth. In Part 2 of this video series, Adya puts things as simply as is possible. Hope it helps.

Part 1 (11:51)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=HoaAGBoy09c

Part 2 (11:48)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=fkG2k7Smmeo

Enjoyed it, it was a very clear way of communicating. We still need to use" I" to communicate with others but deep down, the I is referring to the absolute and not our ego/identity.

[Rich]

Posted by GarethBKK (here)
letting go of grasping and pushing i.e. finding the stillness where grasping at things has been let go of, and nothing is rejected. All is accepted as is.

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Prior to all attention. ~Jac

[GarethBKK]

Posted by greybeard (here)
Thanks Gareth
There are quite a few Adya videos far back in the thread---these that you posted are excellent.
Love Chris

Indeed, Chris. I'm fairly sure it was a post on this thread that pointed me to Adya some years ago. I've read all his books. In the experience of all of this, who is guiding who? Fascinating. I'm here daily and highly appreciative of all who post here. There is a lot of love.

[greybeard]

Posted by GarethBKK (here)

Posted by greybeard (here)
Thanks Gareth
There are quite a few Adya videos far back in the thread---these that you posted are excellent.
Love Chris

Indeed, Chris. I'm fairly sure it was a post on this thread that pointed me to Adya some years ago. I've read all his books. In the experience of all of this, who is guiding who? Fascinating. I'm here daily and highly appreciative of all who post here. There is a lot of love.

Mooji is whom I watch the most of at the moment, however I find that when im inclined to back to earlier "favourites" I now get what they are saying--laughing.
With love
Chris

[Wind]

A week or two ago I bought Adyashanti's book called Falling into Grace: Insights on the End of Suffering. I haven't managed to start it yet, but I will. These days some shorter videos are easier for me to digest. Lately I have also done something which I haven't usually done and that is that I have meditated almost every day, at least for a five minutes at a time. The best time for me is the silent morning or late night. I think I should make it a routine and not be too lazy about it. It brings inner peace and comfort, science also says that meditation indeed brings good health too and that's what we truly need. Inner & outer equilibrium.

Don't take the world upon your shoulders.
You don't have such a responsibility.
Your responsibility is to find and be your Self.
Nobody can save this world. Leave all to God.
Also it is good to know and have this attitude
that nothing in this world belongs to you—not even 'you'.
Everything is Him alone.
When you know this, all suffering and sorrows will go.
The space that remains is your true Self—who is He.

~ Mooji

[Guish]

[greybeard]

A Simple and Profound Introduction to Self-Inquiry by Sri Mooji

In this Satsang, Sri Mooji re-introduces Self-Inquiry in a very profound but very clear and simple way for everyone. This Satsang is recommended for all to watch – new and 'old' to inquiry.

"We don’t need to know many things – we just become confused; you just need to know the right thing – the thing you need to know now. You don’t need 50 keys to open 1 lock. You need the RIGHT key. You can have a thousand keys, and you’ll just be a thousand times confused, more lost. You just need the right key. So today I’m hoping that we have found the right key to open the mystery into our own nature. When you say, “I am….”, which ‘I’ are you referring to? When you say, ‘I’, what does it mean? This is the birth of inquiry."

Don’t be frightened by the inquiry; it is your friend. It is a tool in the pocket of your heart.


It not short but packed with that which is helpful.
Chris

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ntSgWktJ2nE

[Wind]

The only real goal and subject of one's life should be Truth, God.
When this is your subject, then everything becomes subject.
Everything is swallowed up in and by That.
But if you make an object your subject,
then you will drift because all objects are ephemeral.
They are time-bound, whereas the Self is timeless.

~ Mooji

[Wind]

Coming of grace

"So lofty is the goal to be reached but so low is his present position, that it would be unnatural for him not to feel at times shaken by despair or oppressed by futility. Such moods, when humanity's life seems pointless and his own purposeless, when labour becomes tedious and pleasure depressing, will come over him from time to time. These dry periods, when mystical life seems boring and unreal, dull and dreary, are to be expected. They are normal experiences in every aspirant's career and their remedy is in God's hands in His good time. He is being tantalized so as to make him prize the divine visitation all the more. Most of the seekers are tried in this way. Then it also shows how helpless he is. For the last word lies with divine Grace. Yet all this is no excuse for ceasing self-effort, and so he will have to go on with his meditations and prayers and studies. For it is their activity which induces the Grace to descend."

~ Paul Brunton

[Guish]

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=_EYXKTOPTrI

What is freedom?

Emptiness and yet immense vastness.
Being everything and nothing at the same time.
Effortless effort
Simplicity in living, divinity as one's being
Serenity inside insanity
Lotus in the mud
Vehicle of pureness
Nonreactive and yet very active
Actions without thoughts
Actions without intentions
Actions without temptations.
No holiness inside this emptiness.

[greybeard]

Tom Campbell: Solving the "Hard Problem" of Physics and Consciousness

Published on 28 Apr 2015

Stephen Hawking is seeking "one simple equation" to bridge Quantum Mechanics and Relativity; The Grand Unified Theory.

Tom Campbell, physicist, proposes a simple identity; R=I. Reality equals Information.

Tom derived a Big Theory of Everything in his book MY Big TOE.

Tom Campbell states,"The 'Hard Problems' of physics exist because of the lack of understanding of our reality."

The idea that our reality is a virtual reality (a computed simulation) is slowly gaining acceptance among mainstream physicists, but logic says that a computed simulation can not compute itself.

The leap forward required, however, to continue on with the findings that our beginning started in what Edward Fredkin refers to as "other" (non-physical) somehow continues to stop short of the goal.

Here's why according to Tom Campbell:

"Consciousness has nothing to do with the physical process."

http://www.mybigTOE.com Tom's website

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=_ZvScmqbXKo

[Rich]

There was an analogy given that your reality is like the movie screen, and this is so.
It is simply there to reflect back to you the projection of your beliefs.
But just as, the pictures that you see on the screen are just ghostly images, just a ghostly illusion,
so too are your projections, they have no more substance than the beam coming from the projector
through which you can easily pass your hand.
Now when you pass your hand through the projection beam, what do you get on the screen?
A shadow...and in that shadow there is no more reflection from the outside.
Suddenly, the shadow from your hand on the screen reveals the truth, there is nothing out there - that just comes from you.
So embrace your shadow as the revealer of the truth, that there is nothing outside yourself - all within.

~Bashar (transcribed from audio)

[Rich]

As you blend with all that is, you become all that is, and realize there never has been anything, but you. ~Bashar

[greybeard]

Hi EmEx
Yes just as you have said and Ramana used the film story years ago , with the addition that you are actually in the film as well, though you think you are only the observer.
You also posted this truth "As you blend with all that is, you become all that is, and realize there never has been anything, but you. ~Bashar"

The Bagavad Gita which was written many thousands of years ago says--more or less.
I dont remember quotes that well now.

God wrote the play
God produced the play
God directed the play
God is the actor in the play
God is the witness of the play

Much love
Chris

[Rich]

Posted by greybeard (here)
God wrote the play
God produced the play
God directed the play
God is the actor in the play
God is the witness of the play

Chris, I was thinking is all of Life not simply the attempt to know ones Self?
It can be attempted but never done, that's why it's called The Ever Unknowable Source.

[greybeard]

Posted by EmEx (here)

Posted by greybeard (here)
God wrote the play
God produced the play
God directed the play
God is the actor in the play
God is the witness of the play

Chris, I was thinking is all of Life not simply the attempt to know ones Self?
It can be attempted but never done, that's why it's called The Ever Unknowable Source.

Yes You are the totality all of it--in other words you are life.
Knowing/being the One Self comes down to Grace.
Even the effort to know is down to Grace.

Its a mystery to the unenlightened.

Love Chris