Joe, thanks for trying to wake us up, but I dont get how the view that each one of us is awareness, is supposed to indicate that we are the whole universe. It seems to me that whether we are a person, or whether we are awareness, we are still confined to this body with its sensory apparatus. In other words, we may not be the body, but we may as well be the body, because our experience is that of being alive and being in a body. I can visualize and pretend that I am the universe, but I will be doing it from this body, not from the universe. Just a thought. I do agree that having the attitude and the perspective that we are the universe witnessing the body, would make our problems seems less serious, but I suppose knowing it via awakening is what you mean, and how to make that happen didnt come through in your vid despite the enticing title.
Thank you. You cant make it happen, it is what is happening. What you are doing is understandable as the habits are so deep and ingrained. But for instance, if you close your eyes and imagine the body, that image is not the body. Then when you look at the sensations, the seat of a chair, the feet on the floor, these are all lables added to what essentially is an unnamed, shapeless sensation. None of that is the body. The body is an idea. The "body" is a concept and when you begin your inquiry with "confined to this body with its sensory apparatus" then you have closed all options. Instead ask "What sees in a dream?" It's not the eyes for sure. What hears in dreams? It is not the ears. Similarly, imagine yourself in Paris. What body is needed to travel there? If you are at the point where the body is your limitation you have seen through a lot as I agree the body is the most convincing of all perceptions but it is just a perception and it is a perception of many micro appearances we have grouped as one thing. This is necessary or we could never leave childhood. It is a tool of awareness to know itself but now it is time to investigate and enjoy doing do. Here is the best place to begin. Look at what happens when you go in to deep sleep beyond dreaming. Your body completely vanishes but AWARENESS does not because you know you have been asleep. You are in a non-conceptual void. This is the bliss of knowing oneself. Sat Chit Ananda. This is why sleep is so joyful. No body, no mind, no perceptions at all. No senses, No world. Just being. Now when you want up that space does not vanish, the world, your body and mind appear within it and as it. This happens every single day or you life. Investigate that and you will see what i said is already happening. There is nothing to make only your self to realise. Great question.
Thank you Joe for sharing your knowledge, i love these down to earth explanations, a joy to listen to. Feels like what i heard is just relax into experience, notice the dance of life and stop trying to hold onto certain experiences
Wonderful. I really liked your explanation in another video, when you said that awareness of the breath etc. only makes sense, when one is aware of one's mind at the same time. That really made something click for me. Now I have one question: Why on earth do you keep on dropping that trampoline on your toe? I mean, it's nice that now it makes you aware of your aliveness, but still ... Yeah, I know. I could have asked, how to keep an eye on one's mind when there are 1.000 monkeys playing football on that pitch constantly. But still: that trampoline thing bothered me.
This is a really fun question. Thanks. In my experience liberation does not improve any other quality apart from freedom as whatever appears. If I would want to be less clumsy I would beed to practice that just like anyone else. I would develop good habits around using my mini-trampoline. I would need to be more mindful when I use it. I might wear some protective shoes. I might have a cheat sheet of how not to hurt my toe with a trampoline and follow the steps each time. But none of that even if done successfully has anything to do with liberation. Liberation is perceptual openness of all experience in each moment. This is mistaken as mindfulness but it is not! Mindfulness narrows than down to a certain set of behaviours of which dropping a trampoline on my toe is not one of them. But liberation is the total welcoming of whatever appears as the bllissful display of ones own nature. I could focus on the trampoline thing and if indeed that was my career, it would make sense to. Or I could do something else that is more important to me. I choose the latter. Indecently, I have not dropped it on my toe in a long while. Thanks for asking!
@@joebestbliss Thank you Joe, for your explanation and the pointing to a bigger reality than perceivable by mindfulness. 🙏🏻 I wish you and your Sangha all the best. By the way: there’s a good thing in that trampoline meme as well: if ever your life will become a Hollywood movie, the comic relief part of the script will write itself.
Joe , Eckhart Tolle talks about how there are 4 states of consciousness and dreamless sleep is one but you’re not aware while you are in dreamless sleep. He says the Unmanifested is not liberating until we enter it consciously. Which needs to be known directly or not at all. So to be conscious in dreamless sleep and know ourselves as awareness in dreamless sleep is different than entering dreamless sleep and not being aware we are in that void of dreamless sleep? Also in this video you say “I am all my thoughts” Are we not taught we are not the thoughts? Thank you 🙏🏻
Great questions. They deserve a video. 1) You are aware during dreamless sleep. Otherwise, you wouldn't know that you have slept. You only realize dreamless sleep when it ends. Deep sleep is self-aware, pure consciousness, which I refer to as a non-conceptual void. It only consists of pure consciousness, which makes it so enjoyable. We love this state more than anything else, even without realizing it. Next time you wake up from sleep, ask yourself, "How did I know I was asleep?" The answer is because you were conscious the whole time, but there was simply nothing to be conscious of, only self-awareness. Sat Chit Ananda - also known as the bliss of knowing oneself. That's what deep sleep is. I admire Eckhart Tolle, but he sacrificed depth for reach. I believe it was a wise decision in his case as he introduced non-dual teachings to more people than anyone else in history. However, his teachings leave people on the brink of liberation, rather than pushing them into the abyss! No one person can do it all. This is a team effort, including you.
The second question is crucial. I have a map of awakening, which includes Separateness, Openness, Witness, Beingness, Awareness, and Knowingness. What you are referring to are the teachings of Advaita Vedanta and Netti Netti. The approach of "I am not this, I am not that" serves to highlight your Beingness and dissolve the self. Once the self is dissolved, you reassess the world and realize that all these things you are not, are also empty. If they're empty and you're empty, then everything is solely Awareness. Thus, I am my thoughts (which are empty), my body (which is empty), and my emotions (which are empty). This shift from Beingness to Awareness is the transition from the inward path to the outward path, culminating in Knowingness - the understanding that I am the knower of nameless experiences. This represents complete liberation. However, suffering tends to end at Beingness and some choose to halt their journey there. Every teacher as a sweet spot. I like teaching from awareness. Its really fun! On that note, your questions are wonderful and it's exciting for me to engage with someone possessing such a profound awakening intent. Thank you.
Joe, thanks for trying to wake us up, but I dont get how the view that each one of us is awareness, is supposed to indicate that we are the whole universe. It seems to me that whether we are a person, or whether we are awareness, we are still confined to this body with its sensory apparatus. In other words, we may not be the body, but we may as well be the body, because our experience is that of being alive and being in a body. I can visualize and pretend that I am the universe, but I will be doing it from this body, not from the universe. Just a thought. I do agree that having the attitude and the perspective that we are the universe witnessing the body, would make our problems seems less serious, but I suppose knowing it via awakening is what you mean, and how to make that happen didnt come through in your vid despite the enticing title.
Thank you. You cant make it happen, it is what is happening. What you are doing is understandable as the habits are so deep and ingrained. But for instance, if you close your eyes and imagine the body, that image is not the body. Then when you look at the sensations, the seat of a chair, the feet on the floor, these are all lables added to what essentially is an unnamed, shapeless sensation. None of that is the body. The body is an idea. The "body" is a concept and when you begin your inquiry with "confined to this body with its sensory apparatus" then you have closed all options. Instead ask "What sees in a dream?" It's not the eyes for sure. What hears in dreams? It is not the ears. Similarly, imagine yourself in Paris. What body is needed to travel there? If you are at the point where the body is your limitation you have seen through a lot as I agree the body is the most convincing of all perceptions but it is just a perception and it is a perception of many micro appearances we have grouped as one thing. This is necessary or we could never leave childhood. It is a tool of awareness to know itself but now it is time to investigate and enjoy doing do. Here is the best place to begin. Look at what happens when you go in to deep sleep beyond dreaming. Your body completely vanishes but AWARENESS does not because you know you have been asleep. You are in a non-conceptual void. This is the bliss of knowing oneself. Sat Chit Ananda. This is why sleep is so joyful. No body, no mind, no perceptions at all. No senses, No world. Just being. Now when you want up that space does not vanish, the world, your body and mind appear within it and as it. This happens every single day or you life. Investigate that and you will see what i said is already happening. There is nothing to make only your self to realise. Great question.
The things I perceive are also awareness (me).
Thank you Joe for sharing your knowledge, i love these down to earth explanations, a joy to listen to. Feels like what i heard is just relax into experience, notice the dance of life and stop trying to hold onto certain experiences
That's it! Then try it in more and more circumstances!
Wonderful. I really liked your explanation in another video, when you said that awareness of the breath etc. only makes sense, when one is aware of one's mind at the same time. That really made something click for me.
Now I have one question: Why on earth do you keep on dropping that trampoline on your toe? I mean, it's nice that now it makes you aware of your aliveness, but still ...
Yeah, I know. I could have asked, how to keep an eye on one's mind when there are 1.000 monkeys playing football on that pitch constantly. But still: that trampoline thing bothered me.
This is a really fun question. Thanks. In my experience liberation does not improve any other quality apart from freedom as whatever appears. If I would want to be less clumsy I would beed to practice that just like anyone else. I would develop good habits around using my mini-trampoline. I would need to be more mindful when I use it. I might wear some protective shoes. I might have a cheat sheet of how not to hurt my toe with a trampoline and follow the steps each time. But none of that even if done successfully has anything to do with liberation. Liberation is perceptual openness of all experience in each moment. This is mistaken as mindfulness but it is not! Mindfulness narrows than down to a certain set of behaviours of which dropping a trampoline on my toe is not one of them. But liberation is the total welcoming of whatever appears as the bllissful display of ones own nature. I could focus on the trampoline thing and if indeed that was my career, it would make sense to. Or I could do something else that is more important to me. I choose the latter. Indecently, I have not dropped it on my toe in a long while. Thanks for asking!
@@joebestbliss Thank you Joe, for your explanation and the pointing to a bigger reality than perceivable by mindfulness. 🙏🏻
I wish you and your Sangha all the best.
By the way: there’s a good thing in that trampoline meme as well: if ever your life will become a Hollywood movie, the comic relief part of the script will write itself.
thanks and yes it's a funny meme. Thanks for commenting, I love to talk with people who are really interested in this subject. it's quite rare! :)
Form is emptiness. Emptiness is form,
Joe , Eckhart Tolle talks about how there are 4 states of consciousness and dreamless sleep is one but you’re not aware while you are in dreamless sleep.
He says the Unmanifested is not liberating until we enter it consciously. Which needs to be known directly or not at all. So to be conscious in dreamless sleep and know ourselves as awareness in dreamless sleep is different than entering dreamless sleep and not being aware we are in that void of dreamless sleep? Also in this video you say “I am all my thoughts” Are we not taught we are not the thoughts? Thank you 🙏🏻
Great questions. They deserve a video. 1) You are aware during dreamless sleep. Otherwise, you wouldn't know that you have slept. You only realize dreamless sleep when it ends. Deep sleep is self-aware, pure consciousness, which I refer to as a non-conceptual void. It only consists of pure consciousness, which makes it so enjoyable. We love this state more than anything else, even without realizing it. Next time you wake up from sleep, ask yourself, "How did I know I was asleep?" The answer is because you were conscious the whole time, but there was simply nothing to be conscious of, only self-awareness. Sat Chit Ananda - also known as the bliss of knowing oneself. That's what deep sleep is.
I admire Eckhart Tolle, but he sacrificed depth for reach. I believe it was a wise decision in his case as he introduced non-dual teachings to more people than anyone else in history. However, his teachings leave people on the brink of liberation, rather than pushing them into the abyss! No one person can do it all. This is a team effort, including you.
The second question is crucial. I have a map of awakening, which includes Separateness, Openness, Witness, Beingness, Awareness, and Knowingness. What you are referring to are the teachings of Advaita Vedanta and Netti Netti. The approach of "I am not this, I am not that" serves to highlight your Beingness and dissolve the self. Once the self is dissolved, you reassess the world and realize that all these things you are not, are also empty. If they're empty and you're empty, then everything is solely Awareness. Thus, I am my thoughts (which are empty), my body (which is empty), and my emotions (which are empty). This shift from Beingness to Awareness is the transition from the inward path to the outward path, culminating in Knowingness - the understanding that I am the knower of nameless experiences. This represents complete liberation. However, suffering tends to end at Beingness and some choose to halt their journey there. Every teacher as a sweet spot. I like teaching from awareness. Its really fun! On that note, your questions are wonderful and it's exciting for me to engage with someone possessing such a profound awakening intent. Thank you.
his moma knew hi was taking druuugs
Runs in the family :)