Dear Jackson, in my lifetime I had friends and teachers from different traditions Kabbalah, Sufism, Advaita, Magic. I have seen them developed high realizations and many siddhis (powers) and none of them done a single retreat. On the other hand, people I know from Dzogchen done decades of training and retreats but no results no even clairvoyance, they all claim they will acheive results in Bardo (after death) which is exactly like what religions do they promise results after death !! Could it be that Dzogchen is just a fantasy like religion ?? And the real problem is that when I try to advise them to try other traditions they become inflammatory and toxic so the only thing I can do is to pray for them and wish them good luck.
Its a good video and some good question poses, but here is a question concerning the body: If my body gets hungry, then I must identify to that hunger and make action to feed it. If my body is in pain, then I must identify that I am in pain and I am my body needs healing therefore there is good reason to identify with the body? I cannot deny this can I? If not then what happens with untreated hunger and pain? Concerning the identification or non-identification to the mind and to the awareness, if I reason to a point I am not the mind and that I am this empty awareness and stick with it, then can it really change anything for me or anyone other than what reading and learning can do ie meaning I do not really change anything because when push comes to shuv my body is hungry or in pain and needs healing then will I not be taken by the same instincts I would have before this new 'realization' of mind and awareness? I am still a self with a body that needs to be identified with, even if I can lay the thoughts to rest, I am still an instinctive body and still capable to act in whatever the instincts may dictate for self survival, anger, lust, agression etc. So what point is all this advaita stuff and understanding it if I am still connected to my body and my instinctive animal behaviours?
Well, there is no “you” to be identified with a body or as awareness; it’s an illusion. On Auto-Pilot All that’s happening in the universe, including our thoughts, ideas, decisions, choices, reactions, intentions, plans, goals and actions; are happening on auto-pilot. Although it “seems” and feels like there is a real “ghost in the machine” of body, brain and mind “who” independently and freely, self-determines which and what thoughts to think, which decisions to make, which choices to choose, how to react, what to intend and does intend, what ideas to plan on, what goals to make and acts with independent freedom to act and with personal deliberation; there is no such entity findable within the body, brain, mind or anywhere else. All that’s happening is on auto-pilot, just like the rest of nature and the universe is. This understanding is called “dependent origination”. The thought and feeling of free will and self-determined capacity is itself arising on auto-pilot; it’s part of the human animal’s psychic make-up stemming from evolutionary developments embedded in our DNA. We are programmed by our genetics to believe we exist outside the natural dependencies of all the interdependent processes in nature. The universe is a single, fully integrated system in which we are inescapably only a very small part, but with a very big ego and an over abundance of hubris regarding our independence and causative powers to act freely in any moment. It’s more fundamental than just the topic of free will and causative powers existing or not; it’s a question of “is there really any real causative agent as an independently existing personal self in “in there” at all?” Humans before the age of 18 to 24 months, don’t seem to exhibit a sense of personal selfhood as conveyed mentally as an “I” or “me” construct. The appearance of a defined sense of self felt as “I” or “me”, arises and always appears on “auto-pilot” as no entity exists to activate it, control it or to bring about its cessation. The “me” illusion along with its sense of autonomy and free-will, is occurring due to dependent factors like DNA, neurological functions associated with the “default mode network” of the brain and memory; all of which are out of its control. The self isn’t an entity-agent, rather it’s merely a product or process produced by brain activity. Every thought, decision, choice, feeling, emotion, sensation and perception is occurring on “auto pilot”, because no actual pilot is flying the plane. It’s ‘auto-pilot’ all the way down baby, from top to bottom; no independent gods, spirits, souls, beings, gurus or Buddhas can intervene in this perfectly tuned-system. The universe is fully integrated and interdependent with no separate or disconnected parts. Why not call it the Tao? Or because Knowing Awareness, your impersonal true nature, is itself not dependent, not part of the dependencies nor part of the universe, nor able to affect the dependencies of the universe, we could say this metaphysical view is most like Samkhya. Any imagined free-willed action or intervention, is itself occurring on auto-pilot, and is not outside of the total dependencies integral to the Whole. Seeing this clearly, can really deflate or suddenly pop the fake balloon of the egoic self; and that event too occurred on “auto-pilot”, through no effort of a self which isn’t there. What occurs after the “pop” is quite ordinary: winds blow, leaves rustle, hunger arises, pizza is ordered or perhaps tonight, sushi.😉
Question is not whether you are your body or not, the emphasis here is are you only your body or mind or mind+body or more that that? If yes then what is it? If no then, morals, ethics, dos n don't are prescribed for you in Abrahimic religion and in UN Human Charter. Subscribe to that and lead a peaceful life.
This instruction is so clear, almost impossible to miss the recognition .Thanks for sharing.
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Excellent, nice and eloquent explanation and description of awareness !!! Thank you !!
Or...one could do the 'Headless Way' pointing experiment.....Great video JP 💙🙏
Gassho. Wonderful
Thank you so much for the video 🌷
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How can attention be turned backwards? What is that action like? What to look for?
It’s a metaphor!
Om ah hum!
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Dear Jackson, in my lifetime I had friends and teachers from different traditions Kabbalah, Sufism, Advaita, Magic. I have seen them developed high realizations and many siddhis (powers) and none of them done a single retreat. On the other hand, people I know from Dzogchen done decades of training and retreats but no results no even clairvoyance, they all claim they will acheive results in Bardo (after death) which is exactly like what religions do they promise results after death !! Could it be that Dzogchen is just a fantasy like religion ?? And the real problem is that when I try to advise them to try other traditions they become inflammatory and toxic so the only thing I can do is to pray for them and wish them good luck.
Its a good video and some good question poses, but here is a question concerning the body: If my body gets hungry, then I must identify to that hunger and make action to feed it. If my body is in pain, then I must identify that I am in pain and I am my body needs healing therefore there is good reason to identify with the body? I cannot deny this can I? If not then what happens with untreated hunger and pain?
Concerning the identification or non-identification to the mind and to the awareness, if I reason to a point I am not the mind and that I am this empty awareness and stick with it, then can it really change anything for me or anyone other than what reading and learning can do ie meaning I do not really change anything because when push comes to shuv my body is hungry or in pain and needs healing then will I not be taken by the same instincts I would have before this new 'realization' of mind and awareness?
I am still a self with a body that needs to be identified with, even if I can lay the thoughts to rest, I am still an instinctive body and still capable to act in whatever the instincts may dictate for self survival, anger, lust, agression etc.
So what point is all this advaita stuff and understanding it if I am still connected to my body and my instinctive animal behaviours?
Well, there is no “you” to be identified with a body or as awareness; it’s an illusion.
On Auto-Pilot
All that’s happening in the universe, including our thoughts, ideas, decisions, choices, reactions, intentions, plans, goals and actions; are happening on auto-pilot.
Although it “seems” and feels like there is a real “ghost in the machine” of body, brain and mind “who” independently and freely, self-determines which and what thoughts to think, which decisions to make, which choices to choose, how to react, what to intend and does intend, what ideas to plan on, what goals to make and acts with independent freedom to act and with personal deliberation; there is no such entity findable within the body, brain, mind or anywhere else.
All that’s happening is on auto-pilot, just like the rest of nature and the universe is. This understanding is called “dependent origination”.
The thought and feeling of free will and self-determined capacity is itself arising on auto-pilot; it’s part of the human animal’s psychic make-up stemming from evolutionary developments embedded in our DNA. We are programmed by our genetics to believe we exist outside the natural dependencies of all the interdependent processes in nature.
The universe is a single, fully integrated system in which we are inescapably only a very small part, but with a very big ego and an over abundance of hubris regarding our independence and causative powers to act freely in any moment.
It’s more fundamental than just the topic of free will and causative powers existing or not; it’s a question of “is there really any real causative agent as an independently existing personal self in “in there” at all?”
Humans before the age of 18 to 24 months, don’t seem to exhibit a sense of personal selfhood as conveyed mentally as an “I” or “me” construct.
The appearance of a defined sense of self felt as “I” or “me”, arises and always appears on “auto-pilot” as no entity exists to activate it, control it or to bring about its cessation.
The “me” illusion along with its sense of autonomy and free-will, is occurring due to dependent factors like DNA, neurological functions associated with the “default mode network” of the brain and memory; all of which are out of its control. The self isn’t an entity-agent, rather it’s merely a product or process produced by brain activity.
Every thought, decision, choice, feeling, emotion, sensation and perception is occurring on “auto pilot”, because no actual pilot is flying the plane. It’s ‘auto-pilot’ all the way down baby, from top to bottom; no independent gods, spirits, souls, beings, gurus or Buddhas can intervene in this perfectly tuned-system. The universe is fully integrated and interdependent with no separate or disconnected parts.
Why not call it the Tao?
Or because Knowing Awareness, your impersonal true nature, is itself not dependent, not part of the dependencies nor part of the universe, nor able to affect the dependencies of the universe, we could say this metaphysical view is most like Samkhya.
Any imagined free-willed action or intervention, is itself occurring on auto-pilot, and is not outside of the total dependencies integral to the Whole.
Seeing this clearly, can really deflate or suddenly pop the fake balloon of the egoic self; and that event too occurred on “auto-pilot”, through no effort of a self which isn’t there.
What occurs after the “pop” is quite ordinary: winds blow, leaves rustle, hunger arises, pizza is ordered or perhaps tonight, sushi.😉
Question is not whether you are your body or not, the emphasis here is are you only your body or mind or mind+body or more that that? If yes then what is it? If no then, morals, ethics, dos n don't are prescribed for you in Abrahimic religion and in UN Human Charter. Subscribe to that and lead a peaceful life.
well stated :)
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