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Vincent J. Fortunato
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 14 ก.ค. 2015
Mental Distancing Part 1 Video #5
This is Video #5 of a sequence of videos in which I am going to step you through some basic meditation exercises that might assist you in realizing your true nature and in opening your 'zen' (or 'non-dual') eye.
In this fifth video, after a brief summary of the key points of the previous four videos, I am going to have you explore your own thoughts and the emotions and feelings that arise along with them. Identification of our thoughts is the cause of suffering (or stress, or dis-ease). Pain happens; but suffering is optional. So, this video discusses how you can work with those 'sticky' thoughts.
Keywords: Non-duality, Zen, Buddhism, spirituality, Awakening
Please visit www.dragonspearl.org
In this fifth video, after a brief summary of the key points of the previous four videos, I am going to have you explore your own thoughts and the emotions and feelings that arise along with them. Identification of our thoughts is the cause of suffering (or stress, or dis-ease). Pain happens; but suffering is optional. So, this video discusses how you can work with those 'sticky' thoughts.
Keywords: Non-duality, Zen, Buddhism, spirituality, Awakening
Please visit www.dragonspearl.org
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Mental Distancing - Part 1 - Short Video #3: Awareness
มุมมอง 245ปีที่แล้ว
This is Video #3 of a sequence of videos in which I am going to step you through some basic meditation exercises that might assist you in realizing your true nature and in opening your 'zen' (or 'non-dual') eye. In this third video, I focus on awareness. Keywords: Non-duality, Zen, Buddhism, spirituality, Awakening, mindfulness, meditation. Please visit www.dragonspearl.org
Mental Distancing Part 1 - Short Video #2 - Thoughts
มุมมอง 297ปีที่แล้ว
This is Video #2 of a sequence of videos in which I am going to step you through some basic meditation exercises that might assist you in realizing your true nature and in opening your 'zen' (or 'non-dual') eye. In this second video, I focus on creating separation between awareness and thoughts. Keywords: Non-duality, Zen, Buddhism, spirituality, Awakening, mindfulness, meditation. Please visit...
Mental Distancing Part 1 - Short Video #1 - Perception and Awareness
มุมมอง 300ปีที่แล้ว
This is Video #1 of a sequence of videos in which I am going to step you through some basic meditation exercises that might assist you in realizing your true nature and in opening your 'zen' (or 'non-dual') eye. In this first video, I focus on perceptions other than thought as well as in becoming aware of awareness. Keywords: Non-duality, Zen, Buddhism, spirituality, Awakening, mindfulness, med...
A talk about identification - extended version
มุมมอง 316ปีที่แล้ว
If you take offense easily, do not watch this video! This is an extended version of the video "A talk about identification." It is 27 minutes long. Watch this one if you wish to view the entire video. Watch the "1st half version" if your time is limited. This is a talk about the cause of suffering: identifying with the thoughts, beliefs, and ideas that we think of as our 'me'. When we identify ...
A talk about identification (1st half)
มุมมอง 205ปีที่แล้ว
If you take offense easily, do not watch this video! This is the first half of a talk about the cause of suffering: identifying with the thoughts, beliefs, and ideas that we think of as our 'me'. When we identify "as" something or someone, we put limits around what it is we really are (sometimes referred to as our true nature). This video is about 16 minutes long. If you want to watch the whole...
Mental Distancing - Part 3
มุมมอง 172ปีที่แล้ว
In Mental Distancing Parts 1 and 2, I talked about, first, separating the observer of thoughts from the thoughts themselves; and second, separating from the witness or observer. In Mental Distancing Part 3, I go even further and talk about dropping the distinction and separation between observer and observed entirely. Zen; Buddhism; non-duality; Advaita; Spirituality Visit www.dragonspearl.org.
What is it like always?
มุมมอง 376ปีที่แล้ว
Isn't always always now? Zen; Buddhism; Spirituality; Non-duality; Advaita
A talk about "I am"
มุมมอง 384ปีที่แล้ว
In some respects, Descartes had it partially correct when he said "I think, therefore I am." (He actually said "Cogito, ergo sum" which can also be also translated as "thinking, therefore existing.") In a way, he was right that existence follows thought. However, he was incorrect in thinking that the "I am" follows thought. The "I am" is itself a thought. It is the first thought. Existence aris...
Commentary on Adyashanti's book "Resurrecting Jesus"
มุมมอง 184ปีที่แล้ว
A wonderful book. Highly recommended. Zen; Buddhism; Non-duality; Advaita; Spirituality; Jesus
Commentary on the Verse of the Kesa
มุมมอง 65ปีที่แล้ว
Verse of the Kesa: Vast is the robe of liberation; A formless field of benefaction; I wear the Tathagatha's teachings; Saving all sentient beings. Zen; Buddhism; Non-duality; Spirituality; Advaita Visit www.dragonspearl.org.
Grief
มุมมอง 131ปีที่แล้ว
Grief is perhaps the most difficult of all human emotions. In this video, I explore grief at the personal, collective and "divine" levels. Zen; Buddhism; Non-duality; Spirituality; Advaita; Grief Visit www.dragonspearl.org.
Mental Distancing - Part 2
มุมมอง 155ปีที่แล้ว
In Mental Distancing Part , I talked about noticing that that there is a witness or observer of thoughts and by extension, that what you are is not your thoughts, but the observer or witness of your thoughts. In this video, I talk about noticing that the witness, too, is a thought. And thus, mental distancing now involves distancing yourself from the idea of an observer or witness of your thoug...
Mental Distancing - Part 1
มุมมอง 363ปีที่แล้ว
You've all heard of social distancing. In this video, I'm going to talk about mental distancing. Mental distancing (Part 1) is the practice of noticing that there is the noticing of thoughts. It is an important first step in the awakening process. Zen; Buddhism; Non-duality; Advaita; Spirituality Visit www.dragonspearl.org.
Post Awakening: Clearing out conditioned patterns
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Post Awakening: Clearing out conditioned patterns
Being a Better Person (Or "How to stop identifying with the person you think you are)
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Being a Better Person (Or "How to stop identifying with the person you think you are)
Doctor, doctor, it hurts when I do this! Then don't do that! A guest talk by Dr. Vinnie Boombatz.
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Doctor, doctor, it hurts when I do this! Then don't do that! A guest talk by Dr. Vinnie Boombatz.
Daily Observation: Waking up as the Character
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Daily Observation: Waking up as the Character
Peeling away the layers of conditioning
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Peeling away the layers of conditioning
Diffusing the Post-Awakening Time-Bomb: Put on your shoes
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Diffusing the Post-Awakening Time-Bomb: Put on your shoes
whaaaat. Of course this makes so much sense as a metaphor
Top pointing. Much clear light to "you". Many thanks. Muito obrigado.
More pseudo-mystical bollocks 🤪🙄
Non-duality vs duality, Totality vs Individuality, etc. are all relative conceptualizations. The realization is not about experiencing the non-duality. If you 'experience' anything, there's still the mind and its object of experience; therefore, the mind will project its idea/conceptualization of so-called "Reality". Everyone 'talking' about non-duality only understands it at the relative level- intellectual understanding. True Enlightenment is Being that you already are. It's not about just knowing or understanding. Knowing and understanding are activities of the mind. That's why true Realized Masters of the past have emphasized the No-Mind ' Non-Conceptual State that can only be reached when All is Let Go. No more thinking-mind to cloud what Is. Simply Thusness (Wisdom) radiates only when the thinking-mind (ego) has been dissolved.
BEAUTIFUL = Be-you-to-the-full
I see form on both sides. Form of Hand. Only representation is different
That's because it is a metaphor! What you are looking with is emptiness itself, which is none other than just this.
There is nothing between your ears
Beautiful. Thank you
Thank you for your comment!
Hi Vincent. Regarding our minds function, are our minds tools required for a separate material world, or should these tools only be used to resist a separate material existence? So let us imagine consciousness fills our body mind and we filter from it all experience. What is consciousness trying to do by looking in on itself then? What function are we finite minds meant to have or know of? Most actions that take place in the material world such as even giving credence to the idea that we live in material world, in which we must exist and function, only serves to further separate us from being. How can we bring our dual existence into complete harmony with the non-dual ultimate reality. "Just being" is not sufficient to address this seemingly impossible question or dual state of being. "Just being" in the perfect sense would prevent consciousness from looking in on itself, as by being, we would then return to pure consciousness and nothing else ever. And we understand, that is not what consciousness is trying to do as evident in our experience of life. Thank you.
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Yes but how can something be created out of nothing ?
Ah, now you get to the heart of the inquiry! Keep in mind that although I used the word nothing (as in "There's nothing there), think of it this way, "there's no thing there"! So, what is this no thing that IS everything? This is the inquiry. Keep meditating.
@@vincentfortunatoI was trying to find the logic behind it .It is just a metaphor .
@@vijiind Exactly. It is just a metaphor.
Dr. Boombatz really knows his stuff! And his collegue explaining Nonduality via a very special visual metaphor is absolutely outstanding (also because I - whoever that is - had the same idea)! Finally some nondual fun!
Hey, Dr. Boombatz here. Thank you for your comment! Now I got to get back to dissecting this brain.
@@vincentfortunato good luck! i guess there is nothing but void .... .
@@felice9907 And yet, the void Is everything. That's why it's called non-duality. Not one; not many. Not nothing; not everything. But both simultaneously. That's the paradox.
@@vincentfortunato like in your visual metaphor, one year ago - that blue hand made of countless little pins ... .
@@felice9907 Yes!
Beautiful Thank you 🙏🏻
Where have I heard this before? :)
Hey, I know you!
@@vincentfortunato yes you do :)
aware of my awareness.. 👏👏.. i probably have a bit of a heightened awareness working for myself; had need to be for many decades and now, things are much better, but it’s still there, kinda like a habit.. just simply being aware of our senses sensing is pretty cool.. detaches us from them.. we are the noticer🥳🙌🥳and we are noticing the noticer😄😵💫😵💫👏👏👏👏
Amazing , I totally resonate with what you are saying ❤🙏🙏🙏
Thank you for your comment!🙏
Incredible, you explained beautifully,thank you so much ,immense gratitude ❤🙏🙏🙏
Thank you for your comment! 🙏
Thank you for disseminating the teaching of nonduality and word itself.
Thank you for your comment!
How do I gain more control over the unity? How can I summon tsunamis and waves
Now that's just your ego talking. And it is the egoic function (as I call it) that creates the separation into duality in the first place. Look beyond thoughts of 'me' and 'outside of me'. What's left?
@@vincentfortunato you’re right 😔🙏🏽
Oh well, that's the end of capitalism.
THIS is completely AMAZING!! what an absolutely breathtakingly brilliant visual of this situation we find ourselves in on this earth, in this eternal Infinity🙌🙌🙌… completely outstanding!! Defffffintely new subscriber!! brilliant brilliant brilliant.. thank you, truly👏👏💕🔥💕🔥💕
Thank you for your comment! Now, how do you live your life knowing this?
@@vincentfortunato hmmm… well… i guess with much more freedom; more ease; waaay less worry and waay more joy?!!! maybe, Vincent, you will create a follow-up video addressing this??!!👏👏👏😃
@@lesleyM84 I recommend exploring some of the other videos, especially those on mental distancing. But thank you for the encouragement.
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@@vincentfortunato lol this is cool I been seeing 8 everywhere
What should I do with this knowledge, will it help pay bills, heal or end wars?
You're gonna do what you're gonna do; but there's no one doing it! 😀
It's all about perspective. It's like "I'm always here and you are always there" but you can say the same from your perspective. Therefore we are both here and there at the same time.
A koan that I like very much is this: Look for the place where the inside of you meets the outside of you.
Seeking control is an endless journey to a destination never reached. Seeking to fully comprehend the extent to which all Complex Truths break are Simple Illusions is an endless journey to a destination never reached. Ignorance is bliss. Enjoy the journey, not the destination. What if near death experience was the closest you ever get to the experience of death?
That's the cosmic joke! There's nothing to attain; nothing to find. It's all just this.
This video should of been short cut to enlightenment LOLLLL
Well done. Thank you.
Thank you for your comment!
Love the joy you having while explaining it😁
It's so simple! 😂
😮 because it's so obvious...its easy to miss it!
Closer than close.
Love it❤❤❤
And I thank you for sharing ...
Great video ... we should all watch this every morning.
It's like all of reality is awareness being aware of itself. Its consciousness looking at itself from every angle.
In “non-duality”, is there good and evil, truth and falsity?
No, neither is there up or down; you or me; right or left. Distinctions are the function of the mind that creates separation between the observer and observed. Also, don't confuse non-duality with "not two [or many]" and forget that it is "not one" either. Just this: Hearing, seeing, tasting, smelling, etc. Even thinking.
Okay... You got me.. Well done sir 👏 As a well studied Mahayana buddhist, I have seen a lot of non duality videos and they are just not "there", I almost shut it off when you were talking about the "one Ness" and then you flipped it around and I'm like OHH HE'S GOT IT, AND HOLY SHIT THIS IS AN INCREDIBLE VISUAL REPRESENTATION. Nice work, me.
Thank you for your comment!
@@vincentfortunatoFuukkk,.,.hahahaha 💚🙏
Good metaphor and great presentation. Saved this. Thank you.
I have started to feel like everyone is me ....I am feeling it...I am not feeling through nothingness yet
What you are IS nothingness. The ego, however, cannot experience that nothingness that you are. It must fall away to directly realize your true nature.
@@vincentfortunato I has a non local experience once were I was everywhere and nowhere, I also simply disappeared once through meditation, so Objectively I have experienced this but they were both fleeting. I suspect its impossible to be in the state in this place by design
@@MrNiceHk Yes, having that non-local experience is wonderful. However, more than likely, you had a 'me' free moment. Now that the 'me' is back, it wants more of the experience. It is the 'me' that is grasping onto what requires the absence of the 'me'. It is impossible for the self (ego, 'me') to be in a non-local state. A good book to read is Adyashanti's "The End of Your World". It is possible to live one's live in a state of non-locality. Adyashanti calls that abiding awakening. What happens is that there is a recognition that life is living itself through the character. Bills are paid; the lawn is mowed; dishes are washed.
even if the whole non-dual bs was real I still have to clean my dirty laundry and dishes in the sink anyway 🤣 so for practical purposes, we might as well ignore the whole non-dual bs
@@aiya5777 I agree. It's all bs. Just pointers. But if there is suffering, then those pointers might lead someone to actually see what's really going on.
Gratitude 🙏
Great pointers, Thank you 🙏
But that emptiness is full of something - Consciousness
It's not even that.
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I want to ask if if your body dies, your consciousness is gone? I ask this because many enlightened people say that "Self/Awareness/Consciousness/" is immortal. But how can the consciousness of physical death exist? I don't know English and can only use a translator If you can't read it, forget it❤❤
There is a famous interaction between a Zen monk and his teacher. The monk asks "Is there life after death?" The teacher replied, "I don't know, I'm not dead yet!" Although the question you ask is an interesting one (and one I think about from time to time), the real focus of your attention should be on the life being lived right now, especially the boundless awareness that exists prior to thought and which contains everything.
You are a Zen master
You just explained the concept of zero equaling infinity (I think, am I wrong? 🤨🤔).
If you equate them with Form and emptiness, then yes, they are the same. And that's what we are: the no-thingness that IS everything.
BRILLIANT VISUALIZATION AND EXPLANATION!!!’ 👏
Thank you for your comment.
That is not Non Duality because if you are part of a whole then by default you are recognizing the existence of “parts” the same happen when you say “one with every thing” Duality is just NOT TWO
The example used is a metaphor, so don't overthink it. However, you point to the paradox highlighted in the Heart Sutra: Form IS emptiness; emptiness IS form. As human beings, we perceive ourselves separate from the universe that we also perceive; not realizing that (a) we are that universe perceiving itself and (b) that universe does not exist without consciousness (or awareness), and vice-versa. (Ask yourself, where do your perceptions arise?) The appearance of "parts" is merely an illusion emphasized through our use of language and how our brains construct the universe. To survive as an apparent biological organism requires such differentiation. One way to think about it is that we are little pieces of planet earth (and by extension, the universe) that became mobile and self-aware. But we are the earth itself. We are the universe itself. And both (earth and the universe) require some semblance of consciousness, whether the organism is conscious of that consciousness or not.
Funny thing is I can't find my awareness. I just know that I'm aware of this and that, but I can't pay attention to the attention or aware of awareness. That makes me think maybe this awareness is just a concept, just another thought not a real thing.
Hi Vincent. Why does this feel a bit uncomfortable to think about?
Because the mind wants to understand something that is impossible to understand. This is why eastern traditions emphasize direct experience; not cognitive understanding. Let go of that need to understand and that uncomfortable feeling will go away and perhaps be replaced with equanimity.
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Positive and negative always coexist and it all depends on which side you choose to stand.
Someone once stated: "Nothing matters; but everything counts." From the perspective of the absolute, there is no positive or negative. From the perspective of the relative, and knowing that the entire universe and your true nature are one and the same, how you live your live affects everything.