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"We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away." ~ Zhuangzi
When we as Atman - our undifferentiated consciousness - are one with everything as Brahman - the ultimate undifferentiated reality - we begin to understand enlightenment
I love the way you combine Tao philosophy and Sanskrit terminology. Thank you for this pocket satsang I literally carry close to the heart while walking.
Thank you brother, an excellent illumination once again, I know the pieces fit caus I watched them fall away ✊🏽 How many thousands of years have a plethora of mystics been hammering through the craniums of the masses trying to explain this simple fact in every language and every which way, yet still the giant sleeps and argues with itself with anger and violence. The world is lucky to have a messenger such as yourself that simplifies the great works for all to ingest, well those that crave the fruits of peace and oneness anyway, thank you bro 🙏
I have struggled through so many spiritual teachings in books and really I understand more from 10 minutes of your videos than years of reading. I have passed on your channel to my family it’s great .😊
Have you gone through zen books yet or the classic Alan watts. Zen is quite easily understandable as it’s all jokes.. zen itself is one big joke.. not to be taken seriously.. 😂
Once again beautiful. You really went a distance with your teachings and quality of content. I love your channel Jason. I Hope one day we meet in flesh. 🙏🏻
The path goes like this: first you apply discrimination (viveka) up to the point to realize the one reality in which there is only consciousness and then, no discrimination is possible because everything is That, including you.
Maya is not pure illusion. But illusion is a function of maya. It is innate property of it. Measurement, differentiation, conditioning and bias is all of its functions. It's not an object but it's built into functions itself. That's what I experience it like.
J man hello, liked your clip here, the part where you point out the knowledge that we contain turns out to be cage of self identity, was especially nice
We interpret “Reality” through our conditioned self schema…sometimes closer, sometimes further from the Truth … Loving kindness enables us to become closer…
I feel that Taoism is the most practical path. It works with systems within the body that are built in by nature. It's knowledge comes from direct experience. Not books.
what if the first kosmos is eternal because its something like everybody is like dr. manhattan... and so would it seem like virtual reality, or COULD it be taken as real? there IS more than one kosmos for sure, like real kosmos. sim plus.
thank you guruji .... the jar is nothing but thoughts feelings emotions mind and its physical body . indian gurus told this many times but you explained in very new way with video, and i learned something new today. now its imprinted in my mind. thank you again and again .
You're drawn to it because it is real wisdom, completely true. It is from source, direct experience. That's what wisdom is, direct experience completely, right now, always now, only not now when imagining. Great vid! Thank you! Be kind ;)
Neti neti - another interpretation relates to self inquiry, hence when you investigate what you are, or what That is (I am That), you look at the world and ALL its elements with this attitude “not this not that” meaning “this is not it, that’s not it”, and you practice it until you “touch” something that you recognize as “alien”. And this “something” is essentially a no-thing. But of course all interpretations turn out to be equally valid.
May we embody those teachings! This is where we originate from, we distanced so much, we gain the experience of life, we experienced the shadow, now we know we can't be the shadow, so the opposite pole is the source, so we must be divine. All the confusion is caused by the fact that we don't fully embrace our divine origins, we don't believe we are worthy of such a holy bringing. Yes, we are!
Thank you for your contribution in clarifying this utmost matter of being fully human. I have found the enso symbol to be useful in comprehending my ego driven mind (inside) and cosmic mind ( boundless)…the opening enables us to access the cosmic mind…which is always available to us…and has proven Itself…
Alright! Knowledge seems as our prison and our way out. Neti neti confusion, deception thing . And how does it matter really, as it makes just all rubbish food for thought to feed the hungry ghosts inside. The fun part is to enjoy the process of collecting and feeding our beast from a distance (I owe it to the spiritual practise), to lighten up our existence, to radiate healing light for the World, as Jason asks gracefully🙏🤗🍔❤we may try to contribute to the updated human Ching of transformation and conscious evolution
Thanks for this remarkable reminder of such an important teaching of Taoism. I need these booster shots. I always get something from your interpretations brother.
I think he’s. . And I’ll fumble. He’s talking about just” being”. Not expecting this outcome or that. Allowing yourself to accept what is at that moment. Not fighting it and going along with it. Cliche as it is. He’s talking about being in the present moment. 😂
Come to a reality. Or make your reality. There is both. I think 🤔 fun video. Which is your golden cage. Yesterday I listened to someone say when you say it’s this way it’s automatically not that way. Reality is slippery I think.
Thank You for explaining the Neti Neti the way you explained. That is very helpful. To adopt and pass along that Point of View would be a priviledge. Namaste!
Hi Jason, you said we should remove our agenda 'the glass bottle' to have unlimited possibility, but if we have unlimited possibility, aren't we suppose to also be able to experience this'agenda' that we set path on? Thanks
Definition of 'spiritual work'? Not this not that seems similar to the futility proposed by Alan Watts between the so-called higher self desiring change to the lower self. Not a gotcha comment.
Well said! The word I see most in Zen to describe ‘separation between this and that’ is ‘discrimination’. I find it interesting that exactly the same term (discrimination) is used as a technical term applied in pattern recognition and perceptual artificial neural networks.
Wonderful teaching ,thankyou ,I would indeed love to realise this truth ,and thus be able to help ,however my scatty mind is far from still and as a gardener I weed out this and leave that ....what a waste of a life ,here's aspiring to getting it one day trully
If you are on a tree surrounded by a hungry pack of wolves who want to eat you, how do you apply that wisdom? Does the enlightened person just throw themselves to wolves?
When you say Maya means measurement, and remember the budha say Maya is an Illusion an then remember that quantum physics say that if you try to measure the state of an electron you alter its state making the measure in effect illusory... i think "what a strange concept!!
The space with in the pot is part of the space of the universe and never ever seperate from it and the differenciation of space with in and out of the pot is due to the Maya/ignorance of the pot....
‘No man has ever seen [Reality] with these two eyes’ - Jnanachaksu as a door, Upeksha as its mediator, Tao beyond ‘this or that’ and the idea thereof. Ah, what of embodiment or not!? Moksha is Mother’s Tao, please let me think nothing other than That if “I” is/am involved in Your lila 🙏
this & that also refers to the experience of Self as a subject amongst objects.☝🏽 when the idea of you as a subject experiencing objects is forgotten, 'What Is' is all that remains..& 'What Is' is what many of us would call love. namaste✨
Thank you for this helpful insight. It points to, for me, the over-rated value we sometimes give to silence, at the price of an under-rated value for stillness. Stillness = still point too, from my experience. Stillness can and does exist even when silence is absent.
Hi Jason. Once again I want to start by saying thanks for sharing your knowledge of the wide range of ancient eastern teachings that you have. It is interesting how they overlap from teaching base to teaching base, ancient text to ancient text, one region of the east to another region of the east, one time period to another time period. This is no surprise to me as the clear view of what is has always been there from the beginning and it is no surprise that there has always been men and women in all the ages of people that would work to open themselves up to it. And, no matter what region or time or culture that comes through even though they had to work within the receptive framework of each to express what they experienced when they experienced the clarity of the mindless state. It is in the translation from the mindless state to the minded state that things get difficult and where all the variations in the teachings arise. So thank you for sharing all those variations and what they mean to you. That said, I often find myself loosing interest as each ancient teaching is touched upon and compared to the other. At times like that I find myself wanting to hear more about what your own experience has been relating to these teachings. For example, this episode started out strong talking about the still point then drifted to talk about non-differentiation as it has been expressed through at least two other teachings, if not more. I agree that it takes a practice of non-differentiation to begin to find the still point but the still point itself ...... well that's something different, without non-differentiation, yes, but much much more. Being fully non-differentiated is required to enter the still point but once there it ceases to be about non-differentiation. So I find that I am very interested in what your own experience within the still point is and still don't really know what that has been. As always, my best to you and thank you for what you do.
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"We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away."
~ Zhuangzi
When we are one with everything, complete undifferentiated consciousness is attained, vice versa.
Happy that you are attuned to such point of consciousness state. All love
When we as Atman - our undifferentiated consciousness - are one with everything as Brahman - the ultimate undifferentiated reality - we begin to understand enlightenment
I love the way you combine Tao philosophy and Sanskrit terminology.
Thank you for this pocket satsang I literally carry close to the heart while walking.
Thank you brother, an excellent illumination once again, I know the pieces fit caus I watched them fall away ✊🏽 How many thousands of years have a plethora of mystics been hammering through the craniums of the masses trying to explain this simple fact in every language and every which way, yet still the giant sleeps and argues with itself with anger and violence. The world is lucky to have a messenger such as yourself that simplifies the great works for all to ingest, well those that crave the fruits of peace and oneness anyway, thank you bro 🙏
Aren't we so lucky that big mama loves us so much that she keeps inventing new languages, and new messengers until all of her children come home.
Peace ✌🏾 to the intelligence and balance in the room - and to all who read this 🙏🏾
AUM Shanti
Yes , God's blessings and love
I have struggled through so many spiritual teachings in books and really I understand more from 10 minutes of your videos than years of reading. I have passed on your channel to my family it’s great .😊
Have you gone through zen books yet or the classic Alan watts.
Zen is quite easily understandable as it’s all jokes.. zen itself is one big joke.. not to be taken seriously.. 😂
Beautiful interception between Zhuangzi and Vedanta!
Once again beautiful. You really went a distance with your teachings and quality of content. I love your channel Jason. I Hope one day we meet in flesh. 🙏🏻
The path goes like this: first you apply discrimination (viveka) up to the point to realize the one reality in which there is only consciousness and then, no discrimination is possible because everything is That, including you.
Maya is not pure illusion. But illusion is a function of maya. It is innate property of it. Measurement, differentiation, conditioning and bias is all of its functions. It's not an object but it's built into functions itself. That's what I experience it like.
Such privilege for audience to absorb multiple philosophies each footage. Underlying oneness requires no separation nor categorization
Truly magnificent! Thank you and bless you beloved! Shanti Shanti Shanti! 💖🙏💐
Thank you Jason. You're a great we'll of insight. I always look forward to hearing what you have to say.
Another great video. Thank you Jason. What is real? Life is the only reality. Life gives existence to all that exists. Life is God...
Really a good one Jason! Brings to mind Alan Watts' concept of how we try to place a grid over the wiggly world. Thanks dear one! 💖☯
J man hello, liked your clip here, the part where you point out the knowledge that we contain turns out to be cage of self identity, was especially nice
Thanks very interesting. Or my awareness was focused on what you were saying with out me being aware of it.
Thank you 😊 Peace by Peace ✌🏻 ❤
Sometimes analogies leave me cold BUT the jar analogy....sublime! Danke schoen my friend. You are appreciated.
We interpret “Reality” through our conditioned self schema…sometimes closer, sometimes further from the Truth …
Loving kindness enables us to become closer…
I feel that Taoism is the most practical path. It works with systems within the body that are built in by nature. It's knowledge comes from direct experience. Not books.
what if the first kosmos is eternal because its something like everybody is like dr. manhattan... and so would it seem like virtual reality, or COULD it be taken as real? there IS more than one kosmos for sure, like real kosmos. sim plus.
thank you guruji ....
the jar is nothing but thoughts feelings emotions mind and its physical body . indian gurus told this many times but you explained in very new way with video, and i learned something new today. now its imprinted in my mind.
thank you again and again .
Becoming enlightened is like finding the very thing that you intended to never find.
Just amazing... Bless you 🙏🏽🙏🏽✨️
Ching ching love it awesome description Jason❤
Soo true...You see yourself in everything...🙏
Thank you for sharing!
Thanks for making 'it' so clear.
12 min this and that zuang zhi double walk
excellent commentary. Thanks.
You're drawn to it because it is real wisdom, completely true. It is from source, direct experience. That's what wisdom is, direct experience completely, right now, always now, only not now when imagining. Great vid! Thank you! Be kind ;)
Neti neti - another interpretation relates to self inquiry, hence when you investigate what you are, or what That is (I am That), you look at the world and ALL its elements with this attitude “not this not that” meaning “this is not it, that’s not it”, and you practice it until you “touch” something that you recognize as “alien”. And this “something” is essentially a no-thing.
But of course all interpretations turn out to be equally valid.
I must be over thinking my head is hurting lm trying to listen and read comments going to take a nap
Thanks Jason this is so precious pranam
Beautiful truth
Neti neti after rrr is natu natu
well said.
Peace and love to you Jason ❤️
May we embody those teachings! This is where we originate from, we distanced so much, we gain the experience of life, we experienced the shadow, now we know we can't be the shadow, so the opposite pole is the source, so we must be divine. All the confusion is caused by the fact that we don't fully embrace our divine origins, we don't believe we are worthy of such a holy bringing. Yes, we are!
I didn't get that wh is d point
Thank you for your contribution in clarifying this utmost matter of being fully human. I have found the enso symbol to be useful in comprehending my ego driven mind (inside) and cosmic mind ( boundless)…the opening enables us to access the cosmic mind…which is always available to us…and has proven Itself…
Thank you for simplifying for me and others who have trouble listening and reading at same time 😊
Thank you for the post!
I appreciate you all!
Thank you for your continued service ❤ 🌎
Thankyou so much
Thank you jason
Thank you 🙏👁❤
Thanks!
Thank you for kind support, my friend.
👊🙏🙏
The pivot of the Dao
Alright! Knowledge seems as our prison and our way out. Neti neti confusion, deception thing . And how does it matter really, as it makes just all rubbish food for thought to feed the hungry ghosts inside. The fun part is to enjoy the process of collecting and feeding our beast from a distance (I owe it to the spiritual practise), to lighten up our existence, to radiate healing light for the World, as Jason asks gracefully🙏🤗🍔❤we may try to contribute to the updated human Ching of transformation and conscious evolution
It is great to let everything go. But we are actors in this life. It is very hard not to act.
Have u ever had the thought it’s harder to act then to just be yourself
Allow the mind to dissolve the wall. Then you can walk through it a lot easier
Thanks for this remarkable reminder of such an important teaching of Taoism. I need these booster shots. I always get something from your interpretations brother.
I think he’s. . And I’ll fumble. He’s talking about just” being”. Not expecting this outcome or that. Allowing yourself to accept what is at that moment. Not fighting it and going along with it. Cliche as it is. He’s talking about being in the present moment. 😂
Come to a reality. Or make your reality. There is both. I think 🤔 fun video. Which is your golden cage. Yesterday I listened to someone say when you say it’s this way it’s automatically not that way. Reality is slippery I think.
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Thank You for explaining the Neti Neti the way you explained. That is very helpful. To adopt and pass along that Point of View would be a priviledge. Namaste!
Hi Jason, you said we should remove our agenda 'the glass bottle' to have unlimited possibility, but if we have unlimited possibility, aren't we suppose to also be able to experience this'agenda' that we set path on? Thanks
Needed to be reminded to practice this! Thanks so much, really helpful!
Definition of 'spiritual work'? Not this not that seems similar to the futility proposed by Alan Watts between the so-called higher self desiring change to the lower self. Not a gotcha comment.
Beautiful thank you for bringing this to light for me, for us one 😊
My God, I'm seeing this lately. The oneness and infinite nature of everything. It's awe inspiring in my day to day. Thank you dear God for sadahna
Well said! The word I see most in Zen to describe ‘separation between this and that’ is ‘discrimination’. I find it interesting that exactly the same term (discrimination) is used as a technical term applied in pattern recognition and perceptual artificial neural networks.
Wonderful teaching ,thankyou ,I would indeed love to realise this truth ,and thus be able to help ,however my scatty mind is far from still and as a gardener I weed out this and leave that ....what a waste of a life ,here's aspiring to getting it one day trully
If you are on a tree surrounded by a hungry pack of wolves who want to eat you, how do you apply that wisdom? Does the enlightened person just throw themselves to wolves?
Qing makes me think of Lakshmi the Cow and how cows have a potentially advantageous essence and receptivity to subtle energies per se
When you say Maya means measurement, and remember the budha say Maya is an Illusion an then remember that quantum physics say that if you try to measure the state of an electron you alter its state making the measure in effect illusory... i think "what a strange concept!!
The space with in the pot is part of the space of the universe and never ever seperate from it and the differenciation of space with in and out of the pot is due to the Maya/ignorance of the pot....
‘No man has ever seen [Reality] with these two eyes’ - Jnanachaksu as a door, Upeksha as its mediator, Tao beyond ‘this or that’ and the idea thereof. Ah, what of embodiment or not!? Moksha is Mother’s Tao, please let me think nothing other than That if “I” is/am involved in Your lila 🙏
this & that also refers to the experience of Self as a subject amongst objects.☝🏽 when the idea of you as a subject experiencing objects is forgotten, 'What Is' is all that remains..& 'What Is' is what many of us would call love. namaste✨
Thank you for this helpful insight. It points to, for me, the over-rated value we sometimes give to silence, at the price of an under-rated value for stillness. Stillness = still point too, from my experience. Stillness can and does exist even when silence is absent.
Hi Jason. Once again I want to start by saying thanks for sharing your knowledge of the wide range of ancient eastern teachings that you have. It is interesting how they overlap from teaching base to teaching base, ancient text to ancient text, one region of the east to another region of the east, one time period to another time period. This is no surprise to me as the clear view of what is has always been there from the beginning and it is no surprise that there has always been men and women in all the ages of people that would work to open themselves up to it. And, no matter what region or time or culture that comes through even though they had to work within the receptive framework of each to express what they experienced when they experienced the clarity of the mindless state. It is in the translation from the mindless state to the minded state that things get difficult and where all the variations in the teachings arise.
So thank you for sharing all those variations and what they mean to you. That said, I often find myself loosing interest as each ancient teaching is touched upon and compared to the other. At times like that I find myself wanting to hear more about what your own experience has been relating to these teachings. For example, this episode started out strong talking about the still point then drifted to talk about non-differentiation as it has been expressed through at least two other teachings, if not more. I agree that it takes a practice of non-differentiation to begin to find the still point but the still point itself ...... well that's something different, without non-differentiation, yes, but much much more. Being fully non-differentiated is required to enter the still point but once there it ceases to be about non-differentiation.
So I find that I am very interested in what your own experience within the still point is and still don't really know what that has been.
As always, my best to you and thank you for what you do.
🙏🙏