Experience can never be anything but your human body experiencing, and attention (consciousness, God, etc.) itself includes what you call mind. So really, yes, you are stuck. The question is: what then? The contemplative state naturally arises when you've 'given up.' It's a beautiful thing. Feel all your feelings ❤
This is because of of deep identification with the mind. You are Not the body or the mind/ego, but the Timeless Witness/Awareness…. Misidentification is rooted in a lifetime of conditioning that you are your mind!(Advaita 101)
So what?.. Let it be, keep on looking at it until mind become no-mind. When the I disappear into itself. Just like when the shadow disappear into the object that causes the shadow... When Sun of the Self (Atma) is at its zenith.
To Dear Sunny, Deep gratitude for this (and all) meditation video. Profoundly helpful and effective for seeing behind thoughts. Thank you for sharing with us your gift of imparting these spiritual Teachings. You are a gentle soul with a rare ability to speak beautifully about realizing the Self. Blessings to you!
Dear Sunny, have already commented on this video, but want to say more. I keep coming back to it, it is such a wonderful demonstration of the most simple, basic steps of self enquiry which i have been really struggling with. This video is enormously helpful, thank you again so much. 🙏
Hi Sunny, this video is so helpful. I would love for you to continue it, or make more like it if you have anything else to say. It is so helpful the way it brings you right to keeping on experiencing being the knowing. Thank you Sunny!! 🙏
Just 5 min passed of your video & already stopped & hit the Like button!!! Yess I am the Knower of my thoughts, I am the Knower of my experience!! 🆓 Thank you in advance Sunny 🙏 cant wait to see the rest of your video!! 🤩
Dear Sunny, Aren't you using the mind to explain what you are experiencing? So how can you differentiate what is and what is not the mind without using the mind?
Yes, and it starts of with a "Don't think about a pink elephant" style approach that plants what you DON'T want into your subconscious and continues with "are you not.." The subconscious responds to commands and directives in a very neutral manner. This would be better for journalling while awake I'm thinking, which isn't meditating (where you empty your mind of thoughts, detachedly viewimg them as passing clouds). 🙃
Hi, i really like your videos, one think i cannot understand about these "you're not your mind/not the thinker" things, is that if we are just the awareness of these thoughts, then what we decide to think about, what we feel that we are "a good person, kind, friendly" is not us too. Cause these are thoughts too. Even what we decide to do, how we behave, its all fake... its not "us". If you want decide how you want to act, you have to identify yourself with good or bad things, cause who decides what is good or bad? Thats a thought too. So you have to identify yourself with the good thoughts that makes you happy.
I notice different thoughts coming and going. I am not my thoughts. I am awareness? I just want to keep it simple and not complicate things. I read some questions here and it confuses me more
Is clear that I am not my thoughts , my mind. What comes up is that I have these thoughts. Are mine. Like my car . If it is dirty, is my fault! I inquire where is this me , who possess the thoughts? But the guilt for the arguing thoughts is still there. What should I do in this case?
Subtle thoughts sneak in or come up and take me over many times until I notice and snap out of it. If in my head I try to speak slower and more purposeful with my thoughts I can much easier become aware of them and not let them take over, but it’s hard to keep doing.
Let’s try my methods if it works , keep doing it if not leave it alone .. my hope is sunny may articulate it more .. Every time a thought comes up … just say I have no reason to believe in this story … this is not my story , I have nothing to do with this story , .. I don’t have to creat believe and follow these stories … You have no reason believe in this story ..( movement of you lips needed ) I have no reason to believe in this story ( mouth closed ) Please it helped me a lot … articulate it more
I agree…….I have done the same thing and it really does help. I am not my past programs, etc. and it helps me to see patterns that I have picked up from grandparents, parents siblings, experiences, etc……..
it is self-evident MIND can and does analysis itself, it's own thinking. EXAMPLE ("Well, I can fix that a different way..."). There need be no OBSERVER or AWARENESS besides the mind itself. All the teachings that, "I am not the mind," may be just nonsense. The mind, seeing problems, can train itself to 1. Have no way life must go. 2. Do your best for the joy of doing your best. 3. Regardless of the outcome, receive it with thankfulness. "Just an idea for youse-all."
I definitely sense something too subtle to describe, and I can rest in it for what seems, comparatively, a short duration. Is this entirely self-confirming, or is there a way to test or verify it objectively?
Hello Sunny thank you so much for such a clear pointing. So who I am , the knowing awareness doesn’t mind or care anything about the known experiences? The awareness doesn’t mind the suffering of the individual body mind and allows for any range of experiences without saying no to anything that arises in experience. Is there a place for a ‘no’ in awareness?
Correct. But settling as the observer, dissolving mind identification frees the mind and the witness dissolves too. The Observer is an intermediary stage . Using the mind to let go the mind.
The statement of I am the observer is just a thought. But as soon as it arises, there is duality again. But what happens in the gaps between thoughts? Where is there an I? It is pure presence which was never lost, but forgotten.
Yes, that is correct if we are an observer we are observing things(which come and go).If we have investment in what is observed.. we tend to identify with that. Dispassion keeps us as the observer itself. Please correct if its wrong.I am awareness in this body. However I am watching things with filter.
one thing i wanted to ask @sunny. Whenevr i see a bad immoral thought arising , i go to fight with it and suppress it . I have a belief that bad thought is bad karma so I have to defeat it. And I keep on doing this in circles. Thoughts dont stop and I also am busy fighting them . How to come out of this.
Hi Sonny l love this video…l once realised my self, but within three days l gave into my mind…l do realise that this will help me to get back into my real self many thanks..l so love your stuff it deeply resonates with my self
I appear to be living through this thinking…..but am I, really the thinker of these thoughts? I don’t have to identify with this. …thank you ❤ the only thing certain is I am the knower of this thinker, all the thoughts and ideas and not the thinker. Endless Gratitude 🙏🏼
“To be, or not to be, that is the question” BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
I still feel that this subtle awareness is just mind and that it’s looking at itself
Experience can never be anything but your human body experiencing, and attention (consciousness, God, etc.) itself includes what you call mind. So really, yes, you are stuck. The question is: what then? The contemplative state naturally arises when you've 'given up.' It's a beautiful thing. Feel all your feelings ❤
This is because of of deep identification with the mind. You are Not the body or the mind/ego, but the Timeless Witness/Awareness…. Misidentification is rooted in a lifetime of conditioning that you are your mind!(Advaita 101)
So what?.. Let it be, keep on looking at it until mind become no-mind. When the I disappear into itself. Just like when the shadow disappear into the object that causes the shadow... When Sun of the Self (Atma) is at its zenith.
This meditation leads me to the question, "Who is the doer?"
To Dear Sunny,
Deep gratitude for this (and all) meditation video. Profoundly helpful and effective for seeing behind thoughts. Thank you for sharing with us your gift of imparting these spiritual Teachings. You are a gentle soul with a rare ability to speak beautifully about realizing the Self. Blessings to you!
Thank you for these videos Sunny, you are greatly appreciated.
Most definitely! ❤🙏😊🤗
Thank you both!
@@selfinquiryschool Keep up the wonderful work! 🙏🙂
Dear Sunny, have already commented on this video, but want to say more. I keep coming back to it, it is such a wonderful demonstration of the most simple, basic steps of self enquiry which i have been really struggling with. This video is enormously helpful, thank you again so much. 🙏
Beautiful :) happy it’s resonating
Hi Sunny, this video is so helpful. I would love for you to continue it, or make more like it if you have anything else to say. It is so helpful the way it brings you right to keeping on experiencing being the knowing. Thank you Sunny!! 🙏
This was extremely helpful. Many thanks.💕🙏💗
Very helpful, as always, thank you Sunny ❤
Thank you Holly, I am happy it resonated!
Just 5 min passed of your video & already stopped & hit the Like button!!! Yess I am the Knower of my thoughts, I am the Knower of my experience!! 🆓
Thank you in advance Sunny 🙏 cant wait to see the rest of your video!! 🤩
Thank you Sevi for your love and support as always🙏
@@selfinquiryschool we should thank you for your valuable, amazing teachings!! Grateful for ever!! 🙏
Thank you sunny ❤
Hi Sunny, thanks for the video, amazing content as always ❤️
I'm happy it resonated Jerome! Thank you
Very effective, thank you!
🙏 👍 ❤ THANK YOU SUNNY.
Sunny i like the way you approach non duality,please keep posting.
Again thankfully have help me🆗🙏👍🏴
Dear Sunny,
Aren't you using the mind to explain what you are experiencing?
So how can you differentiate what is and what is not the mind without using the mind?
Yes, and it starts of with a "Don't think about a pink elephant" style approach that plants what you DON'T want into your subconscious and continues with "are you not.."
The subconscious responds to commands and directives in a very neutral manner. This would be better for journalling while awake I'm thinking, which isn't meditating (where you empty your mind of thoughts, detachedly viewimg them as passing clouds). 🙃
Thank you sir for your videos...
God bless u sir
Please say how to break loop of negative thoughts of same
By practicing what I mentioned in this video my friend! )
7777 visualisations now. The universe is sending a sign. Thank you Sunny
i lost myself to realize i was never lost in the fist place .the greatest illusion the self and the rabbit hole, there is nothing needed to be done
THANK YOU BROTHER
GREAT PRACTICE❤
GREAT JOB
Thank you so much for this guidance!
Make sure to download the Self-inquiry Guide for Free: www.awakenwithsunny.com/self-inquiry-guide
Hi, i really like your videos, one think i cannot understand about these "you're not your mind/not the thinker" things, is that if we are just the awareness of these thoughts, then what we decide to think about, what we feel that we are "a good person, kind, friendly" is not us too. Cause these are thoughts too. Even what we decide to do, how we behave, its all fake... its not "us". If you want decide how you want to act, you have to identify yourself with good or bad things, cause who decides what is good or bad? Thats a thought too. So you have to identify yourself with the good thoughts that makes you happy.
Can you make a Video about:how to lose interest in thoughts/daydreaming?
I notice different thoughts coming and going. I am not my thoughts. I am awareness? I just want to keep it simple and not complicate things. I read some questions here and it confuses me more
When to take action towards your goal then? And when to let go all effort?
Sunny , how do these thoughts flow to you and through you. You are amazing ❤
Is clear that I am not my thoughts , my mind. What comes up is that I have these thoughts. Are mine. Like my car . If it is dirty, is my fault!
I inquire where is this me , who possess the thoughts? But the guilt for the arguing thoughts is still there. What should I do in this case?
That guilt is also just another thought. Just drop it.
Muchísimas gracias!!!❤🙏😊
Subtle thoughts sneak in or come up and take me over many times until I notice and snap out of it.
If in my head I try to speak slower and more purposeful with my thoughts I can much easier become aware of them and not let them take over, but it’s hard to keep doing.
You are not something that thinks. You do not “do” thinking. You are simply aware, and thoughts appear and disappear in your seeing.
@@selfinquiryschoolhow
Let’s try my methods if it works , keep doing it if not leave it alone ..
my hope is sunny may articulate it more ..
Every time a thought comes up … just say
I have no reason to believe in this story … this is not my story , I have nothing to do with this story , .. I don’t have to creat believe and follow these stories …
You have no reason believe in this story ..( movement of you lips needed )
I have no reason to believe in this story ( mouth closed )
Please it helped me a lot … articulate it more
I agree…….I have done the same thing and it really does help. I am not my past programs, etc. and it helps me to see patterns that I have picked up from grandparents, parents siblings, experiences, etc……..
it is self-evident MIND can and does analysis itself, it's own thinking. EXAMPLE ("Well, I can fix that a different way..."). There need be no OBSERVER or AWARENESS besides the mind itself. All the teachings that, "I am not the mind," may be just nonsense. The mind, seeing problems, can train itself to 1. Have no way life must go. 2. Do your best for the joy of doing your best. 3. Regardless of the outcome, receive it with thankfulness. "Just an idea for youse-all."
I definitely sense something too subtle to describe, and I can rest in it for what seems, comparatively, a short duration. Is this entirely self-confirming, or is there a way to test or verify it objectively?
How can you objectify that which observes? What are you in relation to it? Are you not aware AS that? :)
Hello Sunny thank you so much for such a clear pointing. So who I am , the knowing awareness doesn’t mind or care anything about the known experiences?
The awareness doesn’t mind the suffering of the individual body mind and allows for any range of experiences without saying no to anything that arises in experience. Is there a place for a ‘no’ in awareness?
It seems as though you are the mind right now ahahahahahahahaha love
Hi. So few this mean that we do not willfully create any thoughts? Are all thoughts automatic?
Quick question to you, how can we experience anything beyond mind when we are questioning things from our mind.
Who is the entity that has the thoughts and who is the reactions 🤔
I am not thinker - I am that.
Am I a concept?
the false you/ego is a concept :D but YOU are beyond all that.
@@maxi04 Yes, but that's not the small/false you, the Ego-Identification. It's the boundless you, the one which was never born.
Devotion to self sounds very narcissistic…. Is not to be God.. need better language.. like Christ in us the hope of glory
I have a question if I am the observer does that not mean that I observing something? Thus isn’t that duality between the observer and the observed?
Correct. But settling as the observer, dissolving mind identification frees the mind and the witness dissolves too. The Observer is an intermediary stage . Using the mind to let go the mind.
The statement of I am the observer is just a thought. But as soon as it arises, there is duality again. But what happens in the gaps between thoughts? Where is there an I? It is pure presence which was never lost, but forgotten.
@@stephanscharf5524 thanks for reminding the pointer gap between thinking.
Yes, that is correct if we are an observer we are observing things(which come and go).If we have investment in what is observed.. we tend to identify with that. Dispassion keeps us as the observer itself.
Please correct if its wrong.I am awareness in this body. However I am watching things with filter.
@@shivtv6639 you're welcome 🙂
Thanks 😊
Great stuff!
one thing i wanted to ask @sunny. Whenevr i see a bad immoral thought arising , i go to fight with it and suppress it . I have a belief that bad thought is bad karma so I have to defeat it. And I keep on doing this in circles. Thoughts dont stop and I also am busy fighting them .
How to come out of this.
Brither practice what I mentioned in the video
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Hi Sonny l love this video…l once realised my self, but within three days l gave into my mind…l do realise that this will help me to get back into my real self many thanks..l so love your stuff it deeply resonates with my self
Happy the video resonated! Stay consistent with the practice :)
I appear to be living through this thinking…..but am I, really the thinker of these thoughts? I don’t have to identify with this. …thank you ❤ the only thing certain is I am the knower of this thinker, all the thoughts and ideas and not the thinker. Endless Gratitude 🙏🏼
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Helped a lot all your teachings thank you only I don't know how to join your other teachings❤
Thank you so much ❤️ 💙 💜 💖 💗 💘
Thankyou Sunny