Awsome video ❤ Viewing everything through detachment brings me such peace. Even the littlest things are joyous. I find myself laughing at petty thoughts that try to take my attention.
Mind training - A course in Miracles emphasises this. repeating the habit of perceiving truth vs illusion. Love yourself unconditionally. youare always innocent. bc the reasons you may think youre not worthy are all illusion.
It really is extraordinary how answers to deep questions come to me when most needed through beautiful and articulate agents. Thank you for this timely video 🙏
Thanks for sharing this Ari - it literally couldn't have come at a better time. I've been feeling some lack of self love lately and your thoughts and insights are so spot on.
_ Mind Training! What is mind if not the activity of thoughts and the associated feelings and emotions? Thus, in essence, there is no such entity as mind. _ "And you retreat into your mind..." What is this "you" and "mind"? Total confusion. Words, words, words, and more words - leading nowhere! _ First find out who this "you" is. Then perhaps the rest will become naturally clear. As long as there is a "you" there, can there be love?
@@wladicus1 You can’t “non-dual” away the experience of pain. You are getting lost in the semantics of spiritual concepts rather than listening to the essence of what’s being said.
@@aragornlohr_ Of course "you" cannot "non-dual" away the experience of pain. That is what "you" is all about. _ And yes: This "you", or "I" or "me" is always lost in semantics. Words - just air passing over vocal cords, tongue and through teeth and fading into the nothing they came from. _ The question remains: "Who is this "you"? As long as there is a separate "you", how can there be love?
Wise young man, but not everyone is born into the same type of circumstances. A rough life in the USA or Europe is nothing compared to what other people go through, not that some aren’t bad off in those places. Just saying…. The suffering we bring onto ourselves isn’t shit compared to what can happen. If Someone forced you to do a nasty job all day long till your body felt like it was breaking… would you be able to simple brush it off and smile? Ever been homeless… I’m sure GOD or whatever you want to call it, could make it happen ever so quickly. Imagine having zero dollars and your family and friends just think you are crazy… so ur on your own. It’s 1000x harder to believe that suffering is our own problem when in these situations. Love yourself all you want, that won’t make food and shelter come your way.
When one awakens, one realizes, knows they are not their ego. The deeper one realizes this the more conscious they are. Beware, most are still their ego. One can tell if they react to things, take driving for example. They talk very little as they have no interest talking about themselves. That is ego. I did this, I did that. Bla bla bla. You are not your thoughts or your body. Is one loses a body part, they are still the same no?
@@cgab12 God is all there is. We are in God, it is in us. This takes a lot of ego deflation to know this. Most are under the illusion of the ego. It is what the story of Adam and Eve is all about. The original sin. Choosing to do what the ego wants. In Christianity the ego is the devil. The devil isn’t separate thing. The spirit of the devil is conceit. Knowing better, it is what the ego does. It is where all fear comes from. All the major religions say this, just in a different cultural way. Once the ego is deflated enough one identifies with everything as a whole. Such as Christ did. As little ego as possible so one identifies what is the absolute truth. He describes it as one with God. (So have a few others). If any interest, check out Dr Davies Hawkins map of consciousness or Eckhart Tolle’s two books, The power of now, then read A New Earth. Also one can watch the Samadhi movies in order. It takes careful review and the ego is a worthy opponent. Also Aaron Abke videos. Start with the ego explained. Best of luck should you choose to do so. I have zero reason to convince anyone, there is no rush to consciousness (awakening), we are all destined to do so in time.
I am sorry but spirituality is not at all about mind training. It is beyond mind. You can train your mind to be more silent/loving/open etc but it s not it. If it is just mind training, it means that one day you can loose the skill of being "spiritual", just When you stop the training for some time. The Real thing is pernament, not because you trained your mind so greatly, but because it is natural, even more natural than natural. Training your mind for self-Love or Silence or whatever won't do it, because this is the whole problem: mind training. Other name for mind training is hypnosis or manipulation. Spirituality is of course not about it. I know that you mean well my friend, Maybe it is just about the word: training. For me, and for most people training is like a dyscipline, like an effort. Spirituality is ofcourse not about that. Other name for effort is desire. Enlightenment is a state free from desires, which means free from effort. Other name for desire is ego. Look: "I"=ego=desire/effort=suffering. I also don t understand your self-love teaching. I think I know What you mean but I am not sure. The most important thing to realise is that there is no self to love, because the self is not existential. When there is no self only emptiness/presence/God/Bliss remains. This Bliss can also be called love. As solng as there is any kind of self, no matter how beautiful, love doesn't have enough space to flower.
@@Neo1234567890111 The point is not that there is a causal relationship between “mind training” and enlightenment. You are totally correct: truth is, by its nature, beyond the thinking/associative mind. We cannot anticipate when we will have glimpses of our true nature. They are a product of grace, a mystical force which is entirely within us, yet to the limited perspective of the human body/mind feels just beyond our grasp. What we can do, however, is curate an inner environment which is most conducive for these experiences to occur. This is what I believe spiritual practice is for (even if such practice is merely a temporary tool, a scaffold on our inner “journey” to the home we’ve never left). Exercising our attention in particular ways - i.e. shifting our attention from self-limiting thoughts to thoughts of oneness, of love, of the Creator, etc. - helps open our hearts and minds to the mysterious force of grace, to those satori experiences which give us a taste of some of the deepest potentials of continued spiritual practice. It is indeed true that there is no “doer” of this practice - in fact, the very inner force which makes self-limiting thoughts, ego-identification, etc. so compelling is the belief that there is a separate doer, that there is duality, however you want to phrase it - yet it is also true that much of our spiritual growth comes from embracing our humanness for all its messiness and distortion of reality, even if there is an understanding that our true nature is beyond the human. Regardless of whether we believe there is a “doer”, it is undeniable that there is a constant flow of attention which reinforces certain perspectives on the world and hence on our being - a flow of attention that we have the ability to influence and play with for both “spiritual” and “non-spiritual” purposes. I have personally found that there is only so far the non-dual semantics of “no-self” can go before I just return to self-love, because I have found self-love to be a practice which most effectively cuts through the veneer of being a “spiritual seeker” and simply opens my heart to life, which is to me the simplest way of explaining to people what spirituality is really for. That’s all I mean when I talk about self-love: embracing every component of my experience, seeing all experience as myself, seeing every little contour of life as a perfect mirror, and cherishing all the raw impressions and sensations I can, prior to the mind’s labeling and interpretation of them. When I try to distract myself from brushing my teeth because it’s too boring or whatever, for instance, I am indeed not loving myself because I AM the toothbrush, I AM the water flowing from the sink, I AM the sound of the bristles moving against my teeth, and though this language clearly does not capture the full essence of the truth (no language can), I see the recognition that there is no self and the recognition that everything is Self to be the exact same recognition, just phrased in different language. You are right that the ultimate goal is total non-identification with thought, but many traditions have explored how the impulse of identification itself can, paradoxically, help tease us out of identification altogether. And it’s also about having the discernment and sensitivity to understand whether I am approaching a particular moment/experience through acceptance or resistance, and adjusting my attention accordingly. You can meditate on love like a mantra or you can simply allow inner resistances to be released on their own, and both approaches are useful for me at different times. There is no one size fits all practice and there are many practices and ways of approaching this, and my video only touches a sliver of what are an infinite amount of “paths up the mountain”. So I think we’re coming at this from the same frame of understanding, but maybe I can be a little more clear with my language in future videos, because people who are really really into the concept of non-duality don’t always connect with my videos in the way I think they can.
@@aragornlohr Thanks for the response man! Now when you explained it to me, I have no issue I completely agree. I just wrote this comment because I saw in few people whom I know that their way of "self-love" was literally "ego-love". I just wanted to be sure what are you preaching. Have fun in life and continue making videos!
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Awesome video :) Thank you so much for this expression 💗
❤❤❤❤thank you
So well said. Thank you.
Awsome video ❤ Viewing everything through detachment brings me such peace. Even the littlest things are joyous. I find myself laughing at petty thoughts that try to take my attention.
Love yourself🥹 thank you so much❤....has resonated
That's a fine distillation, young man. No need to say more. 🙏🏻
This is exactly what I needed to hear. Thank you friend 🙏❤️
Mind training - A course in Miracles emphasises this. repeating the habit of perceiving truth vs illusion. Love yourself unconditionally. youare always innocent. bc the reasons you may think youre not worthy are all illusion.
Hey man, I just wanted to thank you for contributing to a healthier earth❤.
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It really is extraordinary how answers to deep questions come to me when most needed through beautiful and articulate agents. Thank you for this timely video 🙏
Never deny that you are in pain. Look deeply at your pain...
You cannot be anything more than what you are right now.
Thanks for sharing this Ari - it literally couldn't have come at a better time. I've been feeling some lack of self love lately and your thoughts and insights are so spot on.
I’m glad to hear this helped, Eric. All of my videos function to remind myself of things I need to remember as well
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Thank you for doing your podcast. I’m a 69-year-old woman who is amazed by you and who appreciates the love of the universe in all things. ✨
@@stjoelydiaI really appreciate that. Thank you (:
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can you pls make a video abt books u recommend?
Tbh I’ll probably make a community post about this soon. Seems like the info will be more accessible that way
@@aragornlohr okay thank you so much!!
_ Mind Training! What is mind if not the activity of thoughts and the associated feelings and emotions? Thus, in essence, there is no such entity as mind.
_ "And you retreat into your mind..." What is this "you" and "mind"? Total confusion. Words, words, words, and more words - leading nowhere!
_ First find out who this "you" is. Then perhaps the rest will become naturally clear. As long as there is a "you" there, can there be love?
@@wladicus1 You can’t “non-dual” away the experience of pain. You are getting lost in the semantics of spiritual concepts rather than listening to the essence of what’s being said.
@@aragornlohr_ Of course "you" cannot "non-dual" away the experience of pain. That is what "you" is all about.
_ And yes: This "you", or "I" or "me" is always lost in semantics. Words - just air passing over vocal cords, tongue and through teeth and fading into the nothing they came from.
_ The question remains: "Who is this "you"? As long as there is a separate "you", how can there be love?
My dear novice Enlightenment is notFOR MIND IT IS FROM MIND
@@omsharadcs Of course. The point of this video is that sometimes in our spiritual journey, we have to work with the mind rather than fear it.
Wise young man, but not everyone is born into the same type of circumstances. A rough life in the USA or Europe is nothing compared to what other people go through, not that some aren’t bad off in those places.
Just saying…. The suffering we bring onto ourselves isn’t shit compared to what can happen.
If Someone forced you to do a nasty job all day long till your body felt like it was breaking… would you be able to simple brush it off and smile? Ever been homeless… I’m sure GOD or whatever you want to call it, could make it happen ever so quickly. Imagine having zero dollars and your family and friends just think you are crazy… so ur on your own. It’s 1000x harder to believe that suffering is our own problem when in these situations. Love yourself all you want, that won’t make food and shelter come your way.
Awaken to what?
The recognition of your true nature as the Creator, as consciousness, as god, etc. whatever you want to call it
When one awakens, one realizes, knows they are not their ego. The deeper one realizes this the more conscious they are. Beware, most are still their ego. One can tell if they react to things, take driving for example. They talk very little as they have no interest talking about themselves. That is ego. I did this, I did that. Bla bla bla. You are not your thoughts or your body. Is one loses a body part, they are still the same no?
If I’m God, how is it that I do not know my true nature?
@@cgab12 God is all there is. We are in God, it is in us. This takes a lot of ego deflation to know this.
Most are under the illusion of the ego. It is what the story of Adam and Eve is all about. The original sin. Choosing to do what the ego wants. In Christianity the ego is the devil. The devil isn’t separate thing. The spirit of the devil is conceit. Knowing better, it is what the ego does. It is where all fear comes from. All the major religions say this, just in a different cultural way. Once the ego is deflated enough one identifies with everything as a whole. Such as Christ did. As little ego as possible so one identifies what is the absolute truth. He describes it as one with God. (So have a few others).
If any interest, check out Dr Davies Hawkins map of consciousness or Eckhart Tolle’s two books, The power of now, then read A New Earth. Also one can watch the Samadhi movies in order. It takes careful review and the ego is a worthy opponent.
Also Aaron Abke videos. Start with the ego explained. Best of luck should you choose to do so. I have zero reason to convince anyone, there is no rush to consciousness (awakening), we are all destined to do so in time.
@@cgab12look into A Course In Miracles❤
I am sorry but spirituality is not at all about mind training. It is beyond mind. You can train your mind to be more silent/loving/open etc but it s not it. If it is just mind training, it means that one day you can loose the skill of being "spiritual", just When you stop the training for some time. The Real thing is pernament, not because you trained your mind so greatly, but because it is natural, even more natural than natural. Training your mind for self-Love or Silence or whatever won't do it, because this is the whole problem: mind training. Other name for mind training is hypnosis or manipulation. Spirituality is of course not about it. I know that you mean well my friend, Maybe it is just about the word: training. For me, and for most people training is like a dyscipline, like an effort. Spirituality is ofcourse not about that. Other name for effort is desire. Enlightenment is a state free from desires, which means free from effort. Other name for desire is ego. Look: "I"=ego=desire/effort=suffering. I also don t understand your self-love teaching. I think I know What you mean but I am not sure. The most important thing to realise is that there is no self to love, because the self is not existential. When there is no self only emptiness/presence/God/Bliss remains. This Bliss can also be called love. As solng as there is any kind of self, no matter how beautiful, love doesn't have enough space to flower.
@@Neo1234567890111 The point is not that there is a causal relationship between “mind training” and enlightenment. You are totally correct: truth is, by its nature, beyond the thinking/associative mind. We cannot anticipate when we will have glimpses of our true nature. They are a product of grace, a mystical force which is entirely within us, yet to the limited perspective of the human body/mind feels just beyond our grasp.
What we can do, however, is curate an inner environment which is most conducive for these experiences to occur. This is what I believe spiritual practice is for (even if such practice is merely a temporary tool, a scaffold on our inner “journey” to the home we’ve never left). Exercising our attention in particular ways - i.e. shifting our attention from self-limiting thoughts to thoughts of oneness, of love, of the Creator, etc. - helps open our hearts and minds to the mysterious force of grace, to those satori experiences which give us a taste of some of the deepest potentials of continued spiritual practice. It is indeed true that there is no “doer” of this practice - in fact, the very inner force which makes self-limiting thoughts, ego-identification, etc. so compelling is the belief that there is a separate doer, that there is duality, however you want to phrase it - yet it is also true that much of our spiritual growth comes from embracing our humanness for all its messiness and distortion of reality, even if there is an understanding that our true nature is beyond the human. Regardless of whether we believe there is a “doer”, it is undeniable that there is a constant flow of attention which reinforces certain perspectives on the world and hence on our being - a flow of attention that we have the ability to influence and play with for both “spiritual” and “non-spiritual” purposes. I have personally found that there is only so far the non-dual semantics of “no-self” can go before I just return to self-love, because I have found self-love to be a practice which most effectively cuts through the veneer of being a “spiritual seeker” and simply opens my heart to life, which is to me the simplest way of explaining to people what spirituality is really for. That’s all I mean when I talk about self-love: embracing every component of my experience, seeing all experience as myself, seeing every little contour of life as a perfect mirror, and cherishing all the raw impressions and sensations I can, prior to the mind’s labeling and interpretation of them. When I try to distract myself from brushing my teeth because it’s too boring or whatever, for instance, I am indeed not loving myself because I AM the toothbrush, I AM the water flowing from the sink, I AM the sound of the bristles moving against my teeth, and though this language clearly does not capture the full essence of the truth (no language can), I see the recognition that there is no self and the recognition that everything is Self to be the exact same recognition, just phrased in different language. You are right that the ultimate goal is total non-identification with thought, but many traditions have explored how the impulse of identification itself can, paradoxically, help tease us out of identification altogether. And it’s also about having the discernment and sensitivity to understand whether I am approaching a particular moment/experience through acceptance or resistance, and adjusting my attention accordingly. You can meditate on love like a mantra or you can simply allow inner resistances to be released on their own, and both approaches are useful for me at different times. There is no one size fits all practice and there are many practices and ways of approaching this, and my video only touches a sliver of what are an infinite amount of “paths up the mountain”. So I think we’re coming at this from the same frame of understanding, but maybe I can be a little more clear with my language in future videos, because people who are really really into the concept of non-duality don’t always connect with my videos in the way I think they can.
@@aragornlohr Thanks for the response man! Now when you explained it to me, I have no issue I completely agree. I just wrote this comment because I saw in few people whom I know that their way of "self-love" was literally "ego-love". I just wanted to be sure what are you preaching. Have fun in life and continue making videos!
Sorry I stepped on your thread.
Another load of bull.