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It feels like you're predominantly in your head in this. It lacks balance, soul, fullness, body...feels like isolated, bypass spirituality. It feels like you haven't done any or enough dark work: inner and outer. "The world is illusion; Brahman alone is real; The world is Brahman" comes to mind. The world is illusion *as something separate from Brahman* but the world still is. Our culture induces us to say "I'm glad *_horrible experience_* happened because *_realization/understanding/etc_* came through it. In truth, the horrible experience was horrible *and* the realization/understanding/etc. is fortunate. One does not negate the other. In my sense, Life/Universe/Divine... is doing its thing in us however it's doing it so it feels like it's going to go where it's going no matter what happens. It's going to use everything to its own ends. There's wisdom in your film/piece here and it seems some of it may be from direct seeing. It just doesn't feel fully fleshed out.
I have trouble reconciling this quest for wisdom and the genocide currently happening in Gaza and Darfur, the acceleration of extraction (oil, coal, gas, timber, precious minerals) and poisoning of the earth... Part 3 addressing these issues would be welcome.
Thanks! Edited: I just wanted to add that I wanted to gift this money because my journey with addiction recovery is about to go to the next challenging phase and I am so grateful for all of the wisdom and peace your teachings have brought me.
My mom chose to leave this life when I was 7 years young. I asked why for some time with a deep pain. As a teenager I thanked her for her sacrifice for I would not be who I am today, so connected to the sea of spirit that is We.
severe trauma is the spark that ignites the fire and explosion of our spiritual life...be grateful for your apparent "mis-fortunes"...they can change you...for the better...
@@mustangmikep51once you have turned the mirror around and address the trauma barriers that have created your reality,you will then begin a deep journey you will love. We are all love bliss energy. Just my thoughts.
This video found it's way to me on a day when I needed it most. I'm truly astonished. I have been a practicing witch for many years and somehow I know everything that was said in this video to be true but when you lose someone who you raised, taught right from wrong, fed from a baby, took care of even in their floundering around in their adult life, it's very easy to slip into the questions that every human mind asks. Why him, why now, why, why, why. Today would have been his 51st Birthday and instead of calling him I found this on my screen this morning when I opened my phone and while listening i began to cry. Not sad tears but tears of knowing. Thank you so much for sharing this.
16:10. You speak about LONELINESS. YES, there is a difference ! I use the word: SOLO and ONENESS. I can’t feel alone! Thank you for such beautiful TRUTH and GUIDANCE.
I’ve started listening to you sometimes when I am doing my housework you’re in the background I seem to be taking in every single word that you say this world is beautiful. I am grateful that I have found your teachings. They seem to have a calming effect on me which is very similar to my own energy I feel at peace thank you ❤
Wonderful video Todd, I’ve lived with these understandings a long time and I feel as I get older that I’m just coming home and everything makes more sense as I see the falling away of previous understanding. Thank you ❤
Darkness gives Light a place to shine like the page gives the word a place to express. Foundations are Built upon. Everything, All definded became One created Light divided became Two. Two became One Multiplied became All. We are All One with the Divine Creator. Electromagnetism, Plasma, Energy in-motion resonating at different degree's in perpetual motion. On the road to find out. Thank you Todd.
Thank You- I truly needed to hear this tonight-all you say I had been aware of one time - many times - but' life got in the way' many times - and now @73 I am in a position to appreciate it all again - you helped to kinda bring me back to what is ...........a moment to moment experience each moment coming with a gift .....each unique gift of that fleeting moment.......🌹♥🌹
So beautiful...storytelling,visuals,meaningful lessons and messages...absolutely beautiful...the simplest thinking...being completely still...smelling the coolness of the air around you...seeing the wonder of life through the radiance of sunlight, hearing the sounds of growth and human even animal or plant energy just being what they are is special. Thank you for your honesty
I appreciate the gentle,calming words and well articulated wisdom, it’s easy on the ears and heart, and truth resonates deep on the soul level. I listened to your videos for 1.5 hours while walking the dogs, lying on the cool grass under a big oak tree, and watching the huge bright moon, with warmth, blessings and gratitude for slow simplicities. 🙏
Thank you for sharing this truthful wisdom. Slowing down and being still is where this wisdom can be accessed it is not something we believe but what we know as our deepest truth. We are not alone because we are all one.
I believe that concepts beyond the empirically-supported Four Noble Truths constitute creative speculation, which can nonetheless be beneficial for mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual well-being. Upon understanding the Four Noble Truths, individuals can develop their own belief systems, provided they prioritize loving kindness and peace. While some prefer adhering to established teachings or traditions, there's nothing inherently wrong with that approach, as long as it promotes overall wellness.
Thank you, Todd, for your strength of heart and wisdom. Your teachings can be difficult to live out in the midst of some real BS, but the more I soak them in, the more I am able to quickly regain the beautiful power in all that you teach. I appreciate your writing, videos, and healing support.
I am one with nature and all that gives life. I am not at home with ALL humans. There are too many that have no conscience and will truly NEVER learn from their many mistakes that cause much harm and suffering. It is truth and not a formation, that not all humans are capable of change.
I made my dishes by hand for 18 years. Now i live with family of 5 and i use a dishwasher machine, i think i did my part of being present for 18 years dishing by hand.
Sometimes in life one's bow dangles in one hand unconsciously while the arrows are available in the quiver as the opportunity slips away. I wrote this in my journal in 2018
Thank you for reminding us just simple awareness and embracing the present moment is the key. We all have the ability to do this 🙏 I would also like to thank Macaque Healing for this beautiful musical soundtrack. I just love your music.
Todd says, (at the very end of his 'Returning to Oneness' video, 5/6/'24) "As long as we have BREATH we have life." It sounds like he is referring to the physical body's breath. But I'm sure he means the "breath" of all life, the breath of the process of life which never ends.
But why sometimes universe is unfair with good people , we used to see evil people money minded , jealous people, flourish among themselves ,,, this all giving me a sense of questioning myself that what I have done wrong that I am not able to get the things done right . Now a days I am getting jealous to see people happy ,isolated ,centred amoung themselves , I feel betrayed by the universe , every time !!! whenever I thought everything gonna be fine. again universe gave me a shock take away my all happiness give me a grief of the lifetime , these things suffocating me .
I feel you on this subject. What I am learning, what I am practicing is LETTING GO of the life I believe I should have. The Universe is ALWAYS giving us it's blessing regardless of how big or small it is. Having everything you wanted isn't a bad or good thing it's what you have this moment.
Maybe that's where you start. You feel as if you are a good person so therefore you deserve a good life like the other good people around you. But it seems that being a "good" person brings about pain and suffering, which is perhaps valid to feel dissalusioned with. Is it not then ok to be a "bad" person perhaps? If you enjoy stealing, but you are reprimanded to feel shame for doing so by even so called "good" people, are you not just following what you deemed good and what makes you feel good, and it is the "others" around you or even society that makes you feel ostracized for being true to your sense of good and your heart? The answers will not come easy, but once you come to understand that actually being good, especially to yourself first and foremost will not outwardly look like good to others, maybe a larger conversation in your soul can be examined about how we define what makes a person "good" in our currently world predicament. Find peace brother whether you understood a word I said or not. So long as this video exists, so too will this comment
how can you truly understand and appreciate what its like to be a part of the LIGHT ...unless you have 1st experienced the DARKNESS? Welcome to planet Earth folks.....learn what you came here to learn....but try having some FUN too! Namaste.
i am recognizing humanity is slowly ruminating on the value of simple, slow, mindfulness… over rushing, complexities and the dreaded soul sucking, multi-tasking nonsense 😖🥴😳… just being a Being, present and open.. cease all the wars and increase unity and community..
12:47 exactly! howww could there have never been no things?!! no beginning just an eternal, infinite Being-ness.. 🤯☺️☺️.. mental acupuncture(!!😃😃!!)affords the freedom to recline into the Divine and unwrap the present 🎁 , the present is presenting.. ☺️☺️experience it, move through it, experience the next, move through it to beyond, the next and the next, always with the release.. my life’s work!! 🥴😳☺️☺️
I AM the creator, who I am is the creation. I AM there, for who I am... and others too I AM salvation so therefore who I am sets free I AM that which is, I am who will be Thou shalt not kill or rape Thou shalt not steal Thou shalt not covet for thy neighbor's house Thou shalt not commit adultery Thou shalt not bear false witness Honor thy father and mother Keep the day of rest holy I AM who I am, I am love and clarity I AM life, so I am that which is rest
A spiritual teacher used to say that fish is born out of water, it is made of water, it roams around in water and it does not know the water. I ask if it is possible to know water or to simply become it, one with it? If it could be known, then fish can not be in oneness.
I can agree with so much that you say here and elsewhere. It makes so much sense. However, one thing I have a big problem with is when you say that this life is not real, and it never existed this rock is not real, and it never existed, but if I drop this rock on my head, I will find out how real it is. I am just trying to say that I do not understand this concept of non-existence, though our body may die and decay or burn the atoms that made up that body will always exist, those atoms will always exist. If anyone can help me with this problem or direct me to a good place where I can better understand this non-existence please let me know. Thank you.
Too often, we let our thoughts dictate who we are. But we are so much more than our thoughts. We have an infinite source of happiness and inner peace within. Connect to your true self, expand your joy, and let go of stress and worry with my weekly Path to Peace newsletter. Join in the discussion about the deep questions on how to live a life of meaning, presence and purpose at www.eastwesticism.org/newsletter
Amen brother I’m on this path too , to oneness . Coming home .
It feels like you're predominantly in your head in this. It lacks balance, soul, fullness, body...feels like isolated, bypass spirituality. It feels like you haven't done any or enough dark work: inner and outer. "The world is illusion; Brahman alone is real; The world is Brahman" comes to mind. The world is illusion *as something separate from Brahman* but the world still is.
Our culture induces us to say "I'm glad *_horrible experience_* happened because *_realization/understanding/etc_* came through it. In truth, the horrible experience was horrible *and* the realization/understanding/etc. is fortunate. One does not negate the other. In my sense, Life/Universe/Divine... is doing its thing in us however it's doing it so it feels like it's going to go where it's going no matter what happens. It's going to use everything to its own ends.
There's wisdom in your film/piece here and it seems some of it may be from direct seeing. It just doesn't feel fully fleshed out.
I have trouble reconciling this quest for wisdom and the genocide currently happening in Gaza and Darfur, the acceleration of extraction (oil, coal, gas, timber, precious minerals) and poisoning of the earth... Part 3 addressing these issues would be welcome.
Thanks!
Edited: I just wanted to add that I wanted to gift this money because my journey with addiction recovery is about to go to the next challenging phase and I am so grateful for all of the wisdom and peace your teachings have brought me.
Sending light and love. I see you as God sees you, whole and well.
You are not alone...best wishes, my friend❤🙏
Blessings on your journey to recovery 🙏🏿
Mine as well, grateful to hear that
Jesus know your name,He calls You -You are HIs
My mom chose to leave this life when I was 7 years young. I asked why for some time with a deep pain. As a teenager I thanked her for her sacrifice for I would not be who I am today, so connected to the sea of spirit that is We.
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You so beautiful...
severe trauma is the spark that ignites the fire and explosion of our spiritual life...be grateful for your apparent "mis-fortunes"...they can change you...for the better...
@@mustangmikep51once you have turned the mirror around and address the trauma barriers that have created your reality,you will then begin a deep journey you will love. We are all love bliss energy. Just my thoughts.
@@SusanSolt-ys4jl you have some beautiful thoughts susan...!
This video found it's way to me on a day when I needed it most. I'm truly astonished.
I have been a practicing witch for many years and somehow I know everything that was said in this video to be true but when you lose someone who you raised, taught right from wrong, fed from a baby, took care of even in their floundering around in their adult life, it's very easy to slip into the questions that every human mind asks. Why him, why now, why, why, why.
Today would have been his 51st Birthday and instead of calling him I found this on my screen this morning when I opened my phone and while listening i began to cry. Not sad tears but tears of knowing.
Thank you so much for sharing this.
Thank you Todd for the reminder of what I am. I am what you are. I just need reminding like a child playing life! Peace ✌️
16:10. You speak about LONELINESS. YES, there is a difference ! I use the word: SOLO and ONENESS. I can’t feel alone! Thank you for such beautiful TRUTH and GUIDANCE.
I’ve started listening to you sometimes when I am doing my housework you’re in the background I seem to be taking in every single word that you say this world is beautiful. I am grateful that I have found your teachings. They seem to have a calming effect on me which is very similar to my own energy I feel at peace thank you ❤
We are stardust, we are golden
We are billion-year-old carbon
And we've got to get ourselves
Back to the garden 💯❤🩹
Joni❤
Thank you sir, your words hit substantially during my dark time.
Wonderful video Todd, I’ve lived with these understandings a long time and I feel as I get older that I’m just coming home and everything makes more sense as I see the falling away of previous understanding. Thank you ❤
The most beautiful thing I ever heard
Loved every second of this film
This is quite possibly the most profound & beautiful statement on life I’ve ever heard my friend ❤
Amazing thank you Todd
Love and happiness to All
May we all live in joy and peace xxxx
Deserves a million views. 🙏👏❤️
🙏🏻
@@traceyomalley3797 it deserves 8 billion views...one for each human but i understand what you mean :)
DEEPLY processing what words were spoken. So enriching and enlighten at the same time. Peace.🙏🏿
No words for the truth and the beauty of this video. Thank you for sharing 🙏
Darkness gives Light a place to shine like the page gives the word a place to express. Foundations are Built upon. Everything, All definded became One created Light divided became Two. Two became One Multiplied became All. We are All One with the Divine Creator. Electromagnetism, Plasma, Energy in-motion resonating at different degree's in perpetual motion. On the road to find out. Thank you Todd.
This is the best film on spirituality. Thank you
Very calming, inspiring,mind opening.Thank you.
Thanks Todd, for every single word and thought.
Needed this today wonderful thank you.
Thank You- I truly needed to hear this tonight-all you say I had been aware of one time - many times - but' life got in the way' many times - and now @73 I am in a position to appreciate it all again - you helped to kinda bring me back to what is ...........a moment to moment experience each moment coming with a gift .....each unique gift of that fleeting moment.......🌹♥🌹
So beautiful...storytelling,visuals,meaningful lessons and messages...absolutely beautiful...the simplest thinking...being completely still...smelling the coolness of the air around you...seeing the wonder of life through the radiance of sunlight, hearing the sounds of growth and human even animal or plant energy just being what they are is special.
Thank you for your honesty
I can’t tell you how much I needed this wisdom
Beautiful... thank you 🙏♥️
There's something magical about every film that you make for us. thank you for creating all these videos and giving us for free. Love from India. 🩷️
Ty for letting us witness your ego death and profound words of knowledge
i love you brother ❤ ive calmed my mind so much
I appreciate the gentle,calming words and well articulated wisdom, it’s easy on the ears and heart, and truth resonates deep on the soul level. I listened to your videos for 1.5 hours while walking the dogs, lying on the cool grass under a big oak tree, and watching the huge bright moon, with warmth, blessings and gratitude for slow simplicities. 🙏
Amazing testimony, thank you
I so love and appreciate you Todd.
Beautiful
Thank you for sharing this truthful wisdom. Slowing down and being still is where this wisdom can be accessed it is not something we believe but what we know as our deepest truth. We are not alone because we are all one.
Hearing this was uplifting and I’m on a very similar journey. Thank you for sharing your wisdom. #ReturnToOneness
thank you Todd, from the heart❤️💫
Thank you, Todd.
I believe that concepts beyond the empirically-supported Four Noble Truths constitute creative speculation, which can nonetheless be beneficial for mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual well-being. Upon understanding the Four Noble Truths, individuals can develop their own belief systems, provided they prioritize loving kindness and peace. While some prefer adhering to established teachings or traditions, there's nothing inherently wrong with that approach, as long as it promotes overall wellness.
Thank you for another beautiful video chalked full of wisdom! Wishing peace for all. 🥰😇
Love the way you tell our story, go on my friend, we are many to understand the illusion. kisses
Thanks
Loved this. So many pointers to what is real. Thank you.
Thank you for this, profoundly beautiful….❤ With deep respect 🙏🏻
Our true home is within us and it's so beautiful ❤
Wow!!!! Just amazing!!! Thank you
I NEED this reminder!!!! Thank you dear brother.🙏🫠🩵☮️
Beautiful!
So peaceful 😊 and true
The content and views here is mind blowing, completely beautiful
Thank you, Todd, for your strength of heart and wisdom. Your teachings can be difficult to live out in the midst of some real BS, but the more I soak them in, the more I am able to quickly regain the beautiful power in all that you teach.
I appreciate your writing, videos, and healing support.
God bless you, Todd
May this go viral thankyou my friend 🙏🏻💚
Outstanding work and teachings, Todd...TY❤🙏
Thank you Todd, got your latest book as well. There's always good vibes in your videos.
The world within is a beautiful place to be ❤️ bless you and thank you…
Wonderful, thank you. I love all your pictures and videos . They are georgous
Peace and Love Brother
Feeling blessed 🙏
Thank you for your continued inspiration. ❤
Thank you so much for your generosity 🙏
I am one with nature and all that gives life. I am not at home with ALL humans. There are too many that have no conscience and will truly NEVER learn from their many mistakes that cause much harm and suffering. It is truth and not a formation, that not all humans are capable of change.
Thankyou. I appreciate your voice. I appreciate your message.
Loved your latest doco ❤
Thank you. Love all.
I made my dishes by hand for 18 years. Now i live with family of 5 and i use a dishwasher machine, i think i did my part of being present for 18 years dishing by hand.
Thank you❤
Thank You!
Very powerful- thank you 🙏
Sometimes in life one's bow dangles in one hand unconsciously while the arrows are available in the quiver as the opportunity slips away. I wrote this in my journal in 2018
Very deep. Not sure I understood everything but will watch it again!.
Thankyou beautiful film🙏🏻🌈
❤thanks Todd,very deep
Tao. Oneness . You. Me. We. All.
It’s awesome 🙏🏼 every word is beautiful ❤I cried when I was listening to this 🥹🥹
Thanks God I found your channel, you are amazing 🙌🏻🤗💝💝
Thank you for reminding us just simple awareness and embracing the present moment is the key. We all have the ability to do this 🙏
I would also like to thank Macaque Healing for this beautiful musical soundtrack. I just love your music.
Beautiful, I love your videos. Thank You for sharing them.
Thanks Todd ! Im about to jump into a busy day ahead. Your video made it a great day already🤗
One word WOW !!!!
Todd says, (at the very end of his 'Returning to Oneness' video, 5/6/'24) "As long as we have BREATH we have life." It sounds like he is referring to the physical body's breath. But I'm sure he means the "breath" of all life, the breath of the process of life which never ends.
JOY which is singular-is an inside journey❤🎉😅
But why sometimes universe is unfair with good people , we used to see evil people money minded , jealous people, flourish among themselves ,,, this all giving me a sense of questioning myself that what I have done wrong that I am not able to get the things done right . Now a days I am getting jealous to see people happy ,isolated ,centred amoung themselves , I feel betrayed by the universe , every time !!! whenever I thought everything gonna be fine. again universe gave me a shock take away my all happiness give me a grief of the lifetime , these things suffocating me .
I feel you on this subject. What I am learning, what I am practicing is LETTING GO of the life I believe I should have. The Universe is ALWAYS giving us it's blessing regardless of how big or small it is.
Having everything you wanted isn't a bad or good thing it's what you have this moment.
See Todd’s film on gratitude. Most helpful. 👍🏻
Maybe that's where you start. You feel as if you are a good person so therefore you deserve a good life like the other good people around you. But it seems that being a "good" person brings about pain and suffering, which is perhaps valid to feel dissalusioned with.
Is it not then ok to be a "bad" person perhaps? If you enjoy stealing, but you are reprimanded to feel shame for doing so by even so called "good" people, are you not just following what you deemed good and what makes you feel good, and it is the "others" around you or even society that makes you feel ostracized for being true to your sense of good and your heart?
The answers will not come easy, but once you come to understand that actually being good, especially to yourself first and foremost will not outwardly look like good to others, maybe a larger conversation in your soul can be examined about how we define what makes a person "good" in our currently world predicament. Find peace brother whether you understood a word I said or not. So long as this video exists, so too will this comment
Thank you!!!!🙃🎶🎶🎶🙏🙏
Love You 🙏🏻 Thanks ❤️
Thank u Todd 🙏😌🥹
You are the next Alan watts. Hugs 🫂
how can you truly understand and appreciate what its like to be a part of the LIGHT ...unless you have 1st experienced the DARKNESS? Welcome to planet Earth folks.....learn what you came here to learn....but try having some FUN too! Namaste.
❤
another pearl from Perel☺️✨🕊✨🕊✨💙✨🦋✨💙✨🦋☘️☘️☘️
i am recognizing humanity is slowly ruminating on the value of simple, slow, mindfulness… over rushing, complexities and the dreaded soul sucking, multi-tasking nonsense 😖🥴😳… just being a Being, present and open.. cease all the wars and increase unity and community..
12:47 exactly! howww could there have never been no things?!! no beginning just an eternal, infinite Being-ness.. 🤯☺️☺️.. mental acupuncture(!!😃😃!!)affords the freedom to recline into the Divine and unwrap the present 🎁 , the present is presenting.. ☺️☺️experience it, move through it, experience the next, move through it to beyond, the next and the next, always with the release..
my life’s work!! 🥴😳☺️☺️
Thanks!
Thank you so much for your generosity 🙏
🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥
Well done! Thx
Great movie
Todd, have you ever been homeless or close to it?
🙏🏽 ♥️♥️
what music is playing at 12:28
How can something that “ goes on forever” (an infinite expanse) “ expand and contract”?
I AM the creator, who I am is the creation.
I AM there, for who I am... and others too
I AM salvation so therefore who I am sets free
I AM that which is, I am who will be
Thou shalt not kill or rape
Thou shalt not steal
Thou shalt not covet for thy neighbor's house
Thou shalt not commit adultery
Thou shalt not bear false witness
Honor thy father and mother
Keep the day of rest holy
I AM who I am, I am love and clarity
I AM life, so I am that which is rest
"Be still, and KNOW..."
YAHsome❤in-DEED.
Dont get the bit that we are never born and never die😢
Time is a funny thing
Time is a funny thing
A spiritual teacher used to say that fish is born out of water, it is made of water, it roams around in water and it does not know the water.
I ask if it is possible to know water or to simply become it, one with it?
If it could be known, then fish can not be in oneness.
but reason why spirit manifest could be the desire to know itself since the first thought is also "I"
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💜💜💖💖🙏 So It Is
I can agree with so much that you say here and elsewhere. It makes so much sense. However, one thing I have a big problem with is when you say that this life is not real, and it never existed this rock is not real, and it never existed, but if I drop this rock on my head, I will find out how real it is. I am just trying to say that I do not understand this concept of non-existence, though our body may die and decay or burn the atoms that made up that body will always exist, those atoms will always exist. If anyone can help me with this problem or direct me to a good place where I can better understand this non-existence please let me know. Thank you.
I wish I could I'm stuck on that bit too 😮
@@carolinebielby5924 🙏
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