For a 25 year old belonging to generation next (relative to me) and a culture having many differences from traditional cultures of South Asia, this presentation is astounding and worth saluting. May Tathagata bless you.
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I can hardly imagine the level of development that “you” or “your” mind achieved especially considering your very young age. I have been studying several profound buddhist teachings and contemplating about their meanings in thousands of meditation hours. But putting all those phenomenal “facts“ together into this video and showing the proper images to point out the meaning of the teachings that are rarely deeply understood is just a MASTERPIECE!!! There is no other word that comes to my mind for describing your work better… You have my deepest respect although even what is called respect is empty of its own existence. Just PHENOMENAL what you did. Many many many thanks my friend.
The thing is you can’t really study it, you have to practice it to understand. All your frequencies have to be on certain level for a prolonged amount of time
@@iAmNothingness I completely agree. The realization doesn’t come only from studying. But without certain level of intellectual understanding of emptiness and non-self one will never come even close to meditative experience of consciousness. Therefore in my opinion you need both. Studying and practicing to be able to make progress… Your videos are a wonderful and amazing inspiration for continuing on the journey. Thank you so much.
Thank you for the clarity of this video. From a grandmother living in the Bay Area, California. I have passed the video onto friends. Looking forward to watching more.
The screen metaphor makes me think of Chuang Tzu who said consciousness should be like a mirror - receive everything and keep nothing. Excellent perspective that’s helped me live peacefully regardless of what’s happening in and around me. It doesn’t surprise me at all that this was a fantastic video that helped me flesh out my understanding of reality. Your work has been the perfect supplement to my spiritual journey. Great work again, Simeon.
Emptiness or shunyatha of Buddhism doesn't Equate to "Consciousness". The correct definition for Consciousness is brahman the "Poornam" of Advaita vedanta or Non-dualism.
This is an incredible and insightful piece of work. I have devoured shelves of books on Buddhism and Buddhist philosophy (and I guess I am a Buddhist given I do all the bells and smells) and I have rarely encountered something that so succinctly conveys the teachings of the Bhudda. A masterwork 🤩
I'm currently studying Abhidhamma, a doctrine of higher teaching in Buddhism about reality. It is one of the most mind blowing and revolutionary teachings I've learned. I highly recommend everyone to read about it. It's quite complicated but it's kind of like a missing piece of the puzzle in Buddhism (I've so much more to learn tho!).
@@charliecheng3340 Not gonna lie I feel a shift in perception and in life after the lesson. It helps a lot in the understanding of Sunyata (which I still struggle to understand up till now). I'm currently in chapter 2 (Cetasika/Mental Factors). It's getting more complicated but here we go haha
@@adhiantos glad you have patient . It’s going to be very rewarding. We have a good teacher U Silananda a follower of Mahashi. Unfortunately, he passed away many years ago . So I just listen through his CD
Abhidhamma will helps you to understand the shunyata. By teaching shunyata Nagarjuna distinguished that Abhidhamma philosophers are wrong in particular way.
@@charliecheng3340 I hope so too! So far it's been eye opening. I'm studying it here in Indonesia. It's an online weekly class. Our instructor is from Indonesia but he studied in Myanmar. We also have a teacher from Myanmar too.
It's interesting to see someone from Bulgaria has this deep understanding of Emptiness in Buddha teaching. Wow. I'm so glad that Buddhism practitioner can now be found anywhere in the world.
I don’t know how to thank you fully but ultimately you know the truth and there is no one to whom i can personally being thankful. I just want to say my vibes are for you. Amazing work and the representation is so precise. 🙏🙏🌸♥️♥️
It took me 2.5 hours to complete this video. Why?- because there are something I couldn’t understand. Though I got the gist of what this video is about but there are somethings that I can’t wrap my mind around.
@@deepthiprasad1812 the things which are described in the video is out of our mind. Our mind is not capable of knowing the truth. It doesn’t have the ability to grasp the truth because it’s just a false identity (EGO) which thinks materialistic world is the real world. In actual we are just witnessing the Raslila ( Dance of the Devine) through this body and there is no one (EGO) to experience it. Truth cannot described in words as there are already so many scriptures around the world for us but still we don’t get the message because we try to understand them on the level of mind. They are there to guide us towards the truth. I can suggest you couple of movies and philosophers from where you can begin. Samadhi part 1,2 & 3 Inner world and outer world. Listen to Eckhart Tolle Alan Watts Carl Jung Osho Ramana Maharshi Jiddu Krishnamurti UG Krishnamurthi Ram das Mooji and there are many more if you are willing to learn.
I totally agre with you. Some of my friends don’t like buddhism because they think it’s close to nihilism but it’s because they have a shallow understanding. Thank you for this educational vid! ❤❤❤
I used to have that same perception of Buddhism. But now I understand it better, and I've also realized that it wouldn't make sense for millions of people to follow a religion that makes them unhappy and unfulfilled.
What an amazingly precise video, well edited, your taste in music is insane to boot. Very special for a 25 year old to nail buddhist thinking right on the head like you do. The world is your oyster, my friend. Keep it up. Subscribed.
I love this topic. Using simple breathing techniques, not expecting anything, I've left my body and every perception but sight, and lost all sense of self. It took many years to understand it. Because there was silence and no words or thoughts there.
Thank you for making this video Simeon. In 1982 I have experienced Sunyata myself and it stayed with me for several days. True meditation and fastening I came into a trance after passing a high Tibetetan lama followed by munks of western origin. The experience that seemed a relevation to me changed my life . Now I am 60 years of age and it still affects me.
Dear One, I am very grateful to you for producing this wonderful art that helps us to understand Dharma. I have been quietly learning about Sakyamuni's teachings for a little more than a year now, and one thing I have noticed is there is a terrible thirst for English language content about Dharma. Thank you so much for helping to extinguish that flame! :) Please keep up your amazing work. Cheers, A Fellow Lover of Wisdom
Broke through on DMT back in 2012. I cried coming back . Oneness cannot be understood by writing alone. It can only be experienced. The stunning conclusion of all conclusions. Namaste
Just be very, very careful when you talk of 'breaking through'. I make absolutely no judgement as to the authenticity of your claim, but there is need for huge caution when believing that such a thing has happened. The path is full of tricks and deceptions. The very fact that you make the claim is reason enough itself to be cautious. There is also a huge difference between 'Oneness' and 'Non-Duality'. Oneness may carry an experience - Non-Duality does not. Hence, it is said that a genuine 'breakthrough' carries no claim because the idea of such becomes meaningless. If you can, try to find a master who can verify your 'experience' - such people do exist. Just be careful.
@@SolveEtCoagula93Breaking through really is common with hallucinogenic substances but it is not enough to grasp oneness. It is only a short and overwhelming experience 🐸🙏 Still it can be useful
@@SolveEtCoagula93i believe i had a similar experience as the gentleman above. Can you please share some thoughts on the difference between oneness and non duality?
@@ervisballa5 In a one way it is easy - in another it is the hardest thing to try to do - especially via this medium. However, I'll try and if it's still not clear please get back to me. In simple terms, God, no matter what that means, is a concept that can be referred to via words, concepts and ideas. Words that are often used are Creator, All knowing, Infinite, Love, Completeness, the Absolute, and so on. Sometimes, in a more mystically sense, God is referred to as being a state of wholeness in which all things are seen and experienced to be the same thing. Everything that exists, all Creation and the Creator are one and the same. In other words, 'everything is One'. Before the unifying experience of Oneness, we have a sense of separation from God. There seems to be an individual identity - which is called a 'self', or an 'I'. During the experience this separation vanishes and all things, God and self, are seen to be the same thing. Oneness. On the other hand, Non-Duality is beyond all words, all expressions, all concepts, all ideas, all qualities. Non-Duality is where Oneness arises from. The Oneness of God needs 'some thing' in order to be 'One'. Non-Duality has 'no thing' because it is beyond this concept. The Oneness of God (and Creation) is an experience - Non-Duality is not an experience. The concept of 'experience' cannot be applied to the Non-Dual. The Oneness of God maybe 'achieved' or 'attained'. Non-Duality does not carry these concepts. The Oneness of God may arise and fall - it maybe an experience that arises and passes. Non-Duality does not arise, since it is not an experience. When I say that Non-Duality is beyond Being and non-Being, beyond Existence and non-Existence, beyond breakthrough and non-breakthrough, beyond all concepts, I am saying nothing about non-duality. I am only pointing in its direction. Once 'awakened' to your True Nature (Non-Duality) there is nothing more to be said. The best explanation comes from the Zen saying, 'Do not confuse the finger for the moon it points at'. God is the finger, Non-Duality is the moon. (There is a book called, Zig Zag Zen, in which the topic psychedelics and awakening is examined by people with experiences of both. A summary would be, psychedelics 'may' help alert people to the existence of 'altered states' and may act as a trigger to further exploration. But, there is little support for the idea that they produce what might be called a true awakening.)
@@ervisballa5 Let me start by saying that we enter a verbal and conceptual minefield when talking about these ideas. There is little consensus about either 'Oneness', or 'Non-Duality', so opinions will vary. But, for what it's worth . . . . . . Oneness is a state about which the human, rational mind can have some type of appreciation. Such appreciation will be limited, but even so we can use words and concepts to gain some type of understanding of what this means. Non-Duality, however, is beyond the rational mind. As such, no words or concepts can begin to approach it. Words can point towards it, but they are just that - pointers. And, as the Zen phrase goes, do not confuse the moon for the finger that points at it. I'll give a more concrete example: Imagine an ocean upon which there are no waves nor any type of disturbances. Then a wave arises, grows and moves across this ocean. If the wave became conscious, it might think that it is separate from the ocean. That, somehow, its existence has nothing to do with all the surrounding water. This of course is false and, when the energy which supports the wave dies away, the wave will fall back into the ocean. The wave and the ocean are one. They are made of the same substance, water, and even though appearances may temporarily cause the wave to believe otherwise, eventually it will fall back into the ocean and experience the Oneness that it really has with the ocean. From a Non-Dual perspective, however, we enter a world of apparent contractions. Neither the wave nor the ocean exist - nor do they not exist. They neither have Being nor Non-Being. They are nowhere and everywhere. They are timeless and yet contained within time. They are neither wet, nor dry, but are both. They are beyond all opposites and yet are all opposites. No matter what words, or ideas we use, we cannot pin down, nor understand with the rational mind what the ocean and the wave are. We have entered the world of the Zen Koan, the world which lies beyond anything we can express, or relate to. All we can do is point and say, there is such a thing, but what that thing is, I cannot say. I'll finish with some words from the great Christian mystic, Meister Eckhart. He stated that the Ground of Being, the Godhead, is as far above God as God is above the world. In other words, Non-Duality is as far removed from Oneness, as Oneness is removed from the world of separate appearances.
Emptiness of Views - I love this. Every straight line is shabby. The world weaves us and we weave it. This is a really touching video. Thank you. If I found a word to describe it, it would have to be your word, or a word floating on the wind.
Hi, Simeon! I am Diogo from London. I am very impressed with the quality of your video. It's content shows that you've been studying this topic on it's depth. Thanks for taking your time for doing such a magnific work.
Thank you for sharing not only this video but for also providing sources for further investigation. I also enjoyed the soundtrack and appreciate you listing the tracks. This channel is a gem and your content resonates with me in way that I cannot express! Thank you so much!
Sorry it has taken me so long to respond back but it's not easy coming up with suggestions, considering the music you like, that you are not already familiar with. You should check out Cylob's albums " Bounds Green" and "Cylobean Sunset". There is a group that makes what could be considered sound collage that may be interesting to you. They are called Negativland. Videogame soundtracks and scores are another good resource for atmospheric soundscapes. Let me know if this is of any help. I watch your videos often and some I have watched many times. I have been familiar with many of the concepts you discuss for a very long time and can only think of a few people that share your rich understanding of topics such as shunyata or the five aggregates. How do you apply these ideas within a Christian worldview? How does the unconscious or collective unconscious manifest itself with respect to Christianity?
I first became aware of this insight by a British/ American man called Alan watts. His explanations of this subject are insightful. So, i find myself here in search of a deeper and more explanatory review of what i may say no- thingness is. Or emptiness is. This video is exceptional ! I see the connections between the Dao and Buddhism. Not that im saying one is better than the other but that one compliments the other. A non dualist sense of self and environment as an organic union. Thankyou. ❤
Namah Tathagata Buddhay /\ A most important topic. But complicated one. Wonderfully explained! "With the cessation of forms and names, consciousness ceases .." Imagine a simplified universe. Just two beings who have basic consciousness - they dont need to eat or sleep. Have no desires. All their consciousness can do and does is become aware of the other being. They look like two squares in space. And all they can or do or ever want to do is just "look at each other". And THAT's it This is a universe - reduced to its bare components - NEEDed for consciousness to be. If you remove a single component, consciousness would cease to be. If you remove both squares, there is just space. There would be no consciousness - as there would be nothing to be "conscious" of. It would be voidness. If there is only one square, there would be no consciousness. As the square would just experience "space", but would never become self aware at all, thus consciousness would be identical with space - voidness. Only when another object comes into being, the square would become conscious, as through "moving" (as recognition of movement too would be only evident with reference to the fixation of other object), it will recognise itself (as observer) and the other (as observed). Since this is "most essential" requirements of consciousness "to be", which means if you remove a any of the 3 or 4 elements (space, two squares, time), conscientiousness would not exist, it is only through "forms and names" - formations and compartmentalizations in space (these conditions) can a elementary awareness agent (elementary Consciousness - prior to a cognizing mind) can be. Outside this abstract throught example, we can infer it from nature everywhere. A lions body is, through natural selection, designed to hunt a deer. Deers escaping the lion leads to further natural selection, which makes lions stronger. Lion gets its characteristics, forms, nature (no prey, no predator) not from itself - but from a "other". Among humans too, different races get their physical attributes from their geography. On atomic level, changes are more readily perceptible - atoms are in perpetual state of "disturbance", and can only gain some stability through uniting with "other" atoms. In some cases, like in wave particle duality of light, its nature is hauntingly observer dependent - when we don't see it, it becomes a particle, when we see it, it becomes a wave. Therefore, since a thing does not have its characterstics by itself, but only through "causes and conditions" (when causes and conditions change, it changes), it lacks a intrinsic essence of its own. All things in nature are this way. And hence by Shunyata, it means the falsity of a intrinsic or inherent nature (flower nature of flower does not come from flower - it comes from things other than flower). The perceived reality says "a things nature is its own intrinsic produce, or a thing is produce of its own intrinsic nature", Perceived reality does not suggest "A things nature is not a produce of its, or a thing is not a produce of its own nature, but of something else". Only through analysis and insight can we say this. And through that we can see that things, hence, in their own nature or essence, are empty. No such thing as intrinsic or self nature. " That is so, because this is so. If this changes, that changes" - Lord Nagajuna says - " Since all things get their nature and essence from mutual interdependence, all things lack intrinsic nature and are empty " Namah Lord Nagarjuna /\
My teacher helped me to understand emptiness by saying one word....produced...everything is produced. That one word finally helped me to understand emptiness. I thank her for her kindness and wisdom and I thank you for producing such a wonderful video ❤
When i was 25, i had been practicing for 3 years, had read and absorbed the Heart Sutra, and was doing a number of practices from Nagarjuna. Then, i understood in some sense what you are describing here, and so i "knew" about sunyatha, and most especially the "emptiness of views". However, your upaya is much better then mine!! Your description, and your connecting this with Jung, Christ, and others so explicitly is refreshing and welcome. Please continue. I suspect you have great things to do.
I've come back to listen again, and i may have something to contribute. :-) "When you think about a color, you 'see' it" I am aphantasic. That means I do not 'see' things when I imagine them. If I close my eyes, I only see darkness, or perhaps small motes. And yet, when I imagine a thing, I DO have a sense of it, but it is...pure mind. That is to say I can do very complex 'visualization', to the point of designing mechanisms and wooden objects...and yet I 'see' nothing. The best way I have found to describe this is 'i can recreate the conditions that occur when I see, except for actual sight, in mind'. This one truth hampered my understanding for decades, since I would read the word 'visualize', and yet my experiences were different than the authors...and I didn't know that. But now, I can say that there is something to 'experience' that is beneath 'seeing' which is capable, with some effort, of accomplishing similar things as seeing in the minds eye. I do not know what to call it, but it is essentially 'seeing without sight'. So, with great respect to the yogacara school, I will say that there is something to sensing, behind sensing, that is real and exists and can be used to recreate sight engrams without reproducing them in sight. This is the best I can do, since there isn't any way to isolate my experience from your experience, however i will also say that this experience is subtlely complex upon examination, and could be a sort of mental extraction rather than a true experience. However...I can say with some confidence that seeing, and more broadly 'sensing', must have a component of memory that indexes, but does not reproduce, the experience and which can and is used to manipulate the recreation of those sense memories. And it is rich enough to substitute for them in mind.
I’m so happy this video came out I’ve been investigating these ideas but haven’t found a teacher who explained in a format I was accustomed to. I look forward to watching this 😊
Superb! Truly profound. The greatest explanation of Sunyata I've ever seen. This video really is what the Heart Sutra conveys, or reversely, the Heart Sutra itself summarizes this video with its a few hundred words. Sunyata truly is the most effective way to guard against the cunning ego to arise secretly in the paths of the seekers.
Thanks again for making this video, my first donation was no where near appropriate considering the effort you have put into this masterpiece. Have a great day from Scotland and I look forward to your future work. Apologies for my original attempt to send you a ‘Bravo’ in Bulgarian. When I reversed the translation it came back as ‘Fine Wine’ 😂 which made me laugh. Just shows the limitations of language vs the more direct transmission of metta ❤
I appreciate this, my friend, you are being very kind and generous! Have a great day from Bulgaria and thank you (благодаря [blagodaria] in Bulgarian) :)
Excellent, and I particularly enjoyed hearing of the conflicting philosophies! Really appreciate the effort you put into these, the results are captivating and professional dialogues!
These approaches to seeing and experiencing the world are prescriptions for overcoming various tattvas described in Shaivite philosophy, which originated in India. In my opinion, what is described as no self translates to no ego and there is only one Self which is awareness. This awareness is shared by everyone simultaneously. It’s only identification with your ego and mental conditioning that causes you to feel like you are separate from the one Self. Whatever teaching resonates with you is the best for you.
Thank you for your efforts to create this dense yet lucid explanation of Emptiness. May we all grasp this truth in our lifetimes and be released from suffering.
The best introduction to sunyata i've ever seen in youtube. You basically cover 5 major views. I hope your audience understand, or intrigued enough to further understand it. Give this video to me like before the pandemic, I might've skipped it for being too "mind-twisting" ^^
You see how the pandemic shut down mans desires. animals nature began to return to balance the world again "eden" veiled by greed .Return to the source.
That warning at the beginning is incredibly well-said. I certainly experienced that, taking 'Emptiness' as a nihilistic void concept. I've seen other translations render it as 'Fullness' - which is interesting.
Excellent lecture, thank you. When you talked about wiping the dust from the mirror, I couldn't help thinking of Hui-Neng, who became the Sixth Patriarch of the Chan Buddhist tradition and wrote: "There is no bodhi tree, nor stand of a mirror bright. Since all is void, where can the dust alight." This was in response to another monk's words: "Our body is the bodhi tree, and our mind a mirror bright. Carefully, we wipe them hour by hour and let no dust alight."
Brilliant work. I had the same reaction as another viewer who left a comment... At the age of 25 (I am twice as old) you surely have a deep and profound understanding of these teachings/philosophies/views. The way you created the video to speak to contemporary viewers/minds, and the way you took ancient Buddhist teachings (e.g. Tathagathagarbha) and related them to our screens/the internet, etc., was an excellent "expedient." The editing, too, here is really brilliant, by the way, and nice musical borrowings, too. This is not only a really wonderful way to introduce people to what exactly is/isn't meant by "Emptiness" (well, um, perhaps not "exactly," exactly...), but it was also a rather pleasant, even (dare I say?) entertaining view/listen for this seeker of Wisdom who has read or listened to many Buddhist and Hindu/Yogic teachings for more years than you yourself have existed as "Simeon" on this plane of existence! What I am trying to say, basically, is: thank you for your excellent and "enlightening" work. May people quickly wake up to the dangers of dualistic thinking so that we can avoid the horrible (and seemingly inevitable) escalation of global war in '24/'25. 🙏
Thank you for the kind comment and feedback! Yes, I find our technological progress allows us to expand our dictionary of metaphors and describe with new (albeit insufficient) precision what the old masters were pointing to with the language of their time. And yes, the war crimes we are witnessing today are horrifying... I feel it is more urgent than ever to practice these teachings in our daily lives and spread them by example.
@@seeker2seeker Every individual who awakens to what he/she is / what we all really are and stops acting according to compulsions and a dualistic misunderstanding about the nature of life and the world, one person closer to having a world that is not always constantly at war with itself. Thank you for your great and “enlightening” work!
Emptiness in Buddhism isn't nihilism or literally void or zero. Emptiness in Buddhism means nothing exists on its own. Every one, every thing depends on other this is what emptiness is ..... Correct me if I am wrong
This is absolutely correct ! "Things arise in mutual dependence, and hence lack an intrinsic nature and essence. Therefore, things are empty" - The Great Nagarjuna
Friend of mine gave me a small book called Nisshitsu Buddhist stories. Thought it was a casual story book but was blown away by the wisdom. Ever since reading that book, i am totally into Buddhism. Thanks for this video. ❤
Great work explaining emptiness, from multiple angles, in an easy to understand way. Will definitely recommend this as an introduction to others. It clears you put a lot of time and effort into this, the overall editing and content is top tier. Looking forward to more videos.
This video is truly a masterpiece, thank you so much for sharing your wisdom and knowledge. Best wishes from Norway brother. Stay conscious and enjoy the emptiness 🙏
Seeing this video cannot be unseen. All those who seek relief from pain of death of loved ones will be left with a release of sorts when this video is seen in a calm and complete manner. Pls pls pls dont skip or watch incomplete parts of this video. The wholesome coverage of emptiness in this video has healed a major wound in my mind from the distorted way Emptiness or No-thingness was taught by Landmark Forum leaders.
What an excellent teacher! It seems so strange to me that now we can watch videos such as this for an hour and learn what took me decades to understand.
Excellent video, such a clear explanation of such a difficult topic. Thank you, you did a good job with this one, though your other videos are such as good.
I have to watch this a couple of times. I feel like my brain is playing twister and is now in the shape of a pretzel. Incredible information so interesting. I don’t think I’ve ever been more interested in a subject in my life or even spent this much time trying to learn something and I’m 43 great job on these videos. I’ve been watching for a couple of days now And plan to continue
You got it absolutely right, now this kind of insight and understanding is not possible from people of this land where Buddha Nagrajuna and Asanga were born.❤
Hi Buddha said all the living being has the Buddha nature and it is the true , the fact. The difference is that not all the living being have Chance to learn Buddha’s teaching . Namo Amitabha 🙏
@@seeker2seeker This is a big conspiracy against Buddhist, some foreign rulers have destroyed Buddhist sangha and Buddhist University from 10th century and established a new religion called Hindusim in the place of Buddha and captured and converted all its places to Hindu religion temples. Most people don't even know who buddha was, forget about knowing his teaching and philosophy. Buddha's followers were treated very badly and kept at the lowest level of the society.
@@timothyblazer1749 well, to him, he is saddened by the fact that Buddhist were driven out. But forgets that, if that hadn't happened. India would be a Islamic nation right now.
I amazing how you’ve tried to explain the unexplainable. You’re an amazing 25 year male Bulgarian videographer/essayist/youtuber/ student of philosophy. So much of what you’re talking about goes along with the meditation technique of vipassna, which I practice :) Buddha himself used this technique for his liberation and taught Dhamma.
Seeing the whole world in every part of the world is disorienting. I can’t even consciously leave my body without clinging for a reference point after a few seconds. It makes sense that my self wants to be someone somewhere, but how this creation forms from no one nowhere is beyond me. But I’m now here. Thank god ❤🙏🏼
I encourage everyone who hasn’t to study the translations of nagarjuna and such teachers of antiquity one must mediate daily and train the mind. A little intellectual understanding and emotional expectance is just the beginning. Other types of teaching, science, and religions really can’t even start the journey. Filled with concepts of beliefs, hope and fear for better or for worse cling to ideas and emotions. Never give up in training the mind to the place of ultimate awareness beyond self and other…..😊
Hello! I am so impressed not only by the quantity and quality of the content, and the way the author explains it for we novices, but by the care the creator puts into the quality of the video itself. Kudos! I have subscribed to this channel, and thank you, Simeon!
There is a certain echelon of thought that few videos reach. Referencing Nagarjuna, C++, 2001: A Space Odyssey and Wittgenstein's Tractatus demonstrates that this is one of them. You've a new subscriber 🙂
The goal is enlightenment. All these teaching are guidelines to the goal. Practice is the key,and for me the most difficult. In a busy western society we are bombarded with so many obstacles,I understand why many become hermits. I will continue to strive to practice correctly😊
This left me feeling wonderful, and also inspired in me a lot of engaging ideas that sprouted up while and after watching that I will enjoy pondering on for quite some time. Thank you so much!
There are many ways I could and maybe should phrase my gratitude for your making of this video, but I hope that you read these forthcoming two words and , though again they are not enough but in some way, can grasp my immense appreciation by me saying "Thank You!". 🙏🏾♥️
I amazing how you’ve tried to explain the unexplainable. You’re an amazing 25 year male Bulgarian videographer/essayist/youtuber/ student of philosophy. So much of what you’re talking about goes along with the meditation technique of vipassna, which I practice :)
If I had to be locked in a room with only one video to watch for the rest of my life - it would be this one. You have given us not only an excellently produced teaching but have given meaning to one of the deep mysterious of Buddhism. Of course, right now, for me, such an awareness is only academic but your video convinces me that it is possible to attain the ultimate and become truly aware of what you, the Buddha, and all the master are saying. A very powerful teaching. Thank you so much!
Thank you for the kind and encouraging words, my friend... I am certainly not among the masters, but if I find good ways of passing on their teachings to more people, that will be my job done. This work really would be impossible without the people who find ways of supporting it... thank you for being one of them!
terrific enlightening and such a clarity of Shunyata expressed so rationally, artfully, and powerfully. its a MasterClass in imaging Emptiness from different perspectives. I appreciate your love of the dharma/dhama and hope to see more of your inspiring work online! Thank u!
Thank you so much🙏 Yes, the dream of life is needed for awareness to be Aware. Your awareness makes the tree outside scatter all it's beautiful leaves. With Gratitude.
@@seeker2seeker I ran this video past one of my Christian friends and he disagreed with most points pretty strongly, yet in a previous video I believe you identified as Christian. I'm working to consolidate Jesus teachings with eastern philosophy and wonder if you have any thoughts on this? Thank you
Thank you for this video. It conveys what I have been looking for in a clear manner. This video has explained some questions I had regarding the traditional Buddhist idea of no self and the teachings of Ruppert Spira. This video is masterful as another respondent mentioned. I have listened only one time so far, but I know I will come back to this many times and will share with others interested in Buddhism. The pictures, music and dialogue and presentation of ideas could not be better.
Thanks so much for the info. You did an awesome job on the video. You gave me new insight which I desperately needed at this time in my life. Your a wise soul for such a young man. Thanks again 😊
Thankyou for this, I keep coming back to it time and time again. It’s so profound, and you laid it out so well. Thankyou for all the time and effort you spent making it!
Absolutely beautifully done...cuts swiftly through many layers of confusion and BS. Maybe even better than Watts' The Way of Zen....forgive me Allen. Really really wonderful contributions sir, thank you.
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What Carl Sagan once said came to mind: “To truly make a sandwich from scratch, you must first create the universe.”
Beautiful!
Nice. Was thinking you first need to learn to grow wheat, but I think Carl Sagan obviously is a big picture guy.
Well then...
I guess I can't just go to my kitchen and make one anymore.
It was Apple Pie not a Sandwich -'If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe'. Yeah, Im that guy.
Actually, I think it was an apple pie, but the point remains the same.
Thank you so much. It is incredible that you are just 25 years old. You must have been truth seeker for many past lives. ❤
Thank you, my friend!
For a 25 year old belonging to generation next (relative to me) and a culture having many differences from traditional cultures of South Asia, this presentation is astounding and worth saluting. May Tathagata bless you.
This video is absolutely incredible, but to truly grasp its content, I'd have to watch it at least 1,000 times. Thank you for sharing it with us ❤
Thank you, I'm glad it left such an impression on you!
Totally agree ! Amazing scope, depth, and clarity. Beautiful. As you say, I'll be re-watching this for a very long time. Gave me goosebumps !
Search for "Your own sense of yourself is an imagination - Dhamma talk | Ajahn Sumedho | 21.03.2021" a simpler way to realize emptiness.
For emptiness to truely be grasped, it must be let go ✊✋
Or you could sit in zazen for 10000 hours and experience it yourself.
I am definitely watching many times,this is the most clear and profound teachings on emptiness I have found. Infinitely grateful.
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@bgab-hw5qp All we need is more paganism, accept JESUS CHRIST as your Lord and Savior while you can - you won't get another chance to get saved if you miss the rapture! Read biblical end times prophecy, listen tp Dr. Ron Rhodes on end times chronology.
I can hardly imagine the level of development that “you” or “your” mind achieved especially considering your very young age. I have been studying several profound buddhist teachings and contemplating about their meanings in thousands of meditation hours. But putting all those phenomenal “facts“ together into this video and showing the proper images to point out the meaning of the teachings that are rarely deeply understood is just a MASTERPIECE!!! There is no other word that comes to my mind for describing your work better… You have my deepest respect although even what is called respect is empty of its own existence. Just PHENOMENAL what you did. Many many many thanks my friend.
The thing is you can’t really study it, you have to practice it to understand.
All your frequencies have to be on certain level for a prolonged amount of time
@@iAmNothingness I completely agree. The realization doesn’t come only from studying. But without certain level of intellectual understanding of emptiness and non-self one will never come even close to meditative experience of consciousness. Therefore in my opinion you need both. Studying and practicing to be able to make progress… Your videos are a wonderful and amazing inspiration for continuing on the journey. Thank you so much.
One could say that instead of respect, the "you" and "me" between which respect is "given" is empty of a separate/"its own" existence.
thx
@bgab-hw5qp true, genuine, deep Buddh("ism") isn't about development of sects.
Thank you for the clarity of this video. From a grandmother living in the Bay Area, California. I have passed the video onto friends. Looking forward to watching more.
Thank you for the encouragement - I’m glad you enjoyed the video! :)
The screen metaphor makes me think of Chuang Tzu who said consciousness should be like a mirror - receive everything and keep nothing. Excellent perspective that’s helped me live peacefully regardless of what’s happening in and around me.
It doesn’t surprise me at all that this was a fantastic video that helped me flesh out my understanding of reality. Your work has been the perfect supplement to my spiritual journey. Great work again, Simeon.
I appreciate this, thank you for the comment! Always happy to be your spiritual bartender ;)
@@seeker2seeker keep ‘em coming!
Yes the great work.
Emptiness or shunyatha of Buddhism doesn't Equate to "Consciousness". The correct definition for Consciousness is brahman the "Poornam" of Advaita vedanta or Non-dualism.
amazing insight... i've been wanting to know how to say this eloquently and wow zhuang zi said it first
This is an incredible and insightful piece of work. I have devoured shelves of books on Buddhism and Buddhist philosophy (and I guess I am a Buddhist given I do all the bells and smells) and I have rarely encountered something that so succinctly conveys the teachings of the Bhudda. A masterwork 🤩
I thought we were supposed to reador learn books hmm...😦
This is the only answer for the quantum physics dead end.
I'm currently studying Abhidhamma, a doctrine of higher teaching in Buddhism about reality. It is one of the most mind blowing and revolutionary teachings I've learned. I highly recommend everyone to read about it. It's quite complicated but it's kind of like a missing piece of the puzzle in Buddhism (I've so much more to learn tho!).
Trying to listen to Abhidhamma will help if you meditate two weeks prior to attending the presentation. The abstract become real
@@charliecheng3340 Not gonna lie I feel a shift in perception and in life after the lesson. It helps a lot in the understanding of Sunyata (which I still struggle to understand up till now). I'm currently in chapter 2 (Cetasika/Mental Factors). It's getting more complicated but here we go haha
@@adhiantos glad you have patient . It’s going to be very rewarding. We have a good teacher U Silananda a follower of Mahashi. Unfortunately, he passed away many years ago . So I just listen through his CD
Abhidhamma will helps you to understand the shunyata. By teaching shunyata Nagarjuna distinguished that Abhidhamma philosophers are wrong in particular way.
@@charliecheng3340 I hope so too! So far it's been eye opening. I'm studying it here in Indonesia. It's an online weekly class. Our instructor is from Indonesia but he studied in Myanmar. We also have a teacher from Myanmar too.
It's interesting to see someone from Bulgaria has this deep understanding of Emptiness in Buddha teaching. Wow. I'm so glad that Buddhism practitioner can now be found anywhere in the world.
Sunshine reaches all corners of the world.
Buddha's wisdom is like that also it seems.
I don’t know how to thank you fully but ultimately you know the truth and there is no one to whom i can personally being thankful. I just want to say my vibes are for you. Amazing work and the representation is so precise. 🙏🙏🌸♥️♥️
Thank you, I appreciate this!
It took me 2.5 hours to complete this video. Why?- because there are something I couldn’t understand. Though I got the gist of what this video is about but there are somethings that I can’t wrap my mind around.
@@deepthiprasad1812 the things which are described in the video is out of our mind. Our mind is not capable of knowing the truth. It doesn’t have the ability to grasp the truth because it’s just a false identity (EGO) which thinks materialistic world is the real world. In actual we are just witnessing the Raslila ( Dance of the Devine) through this body and there is no one (EGO) to experience it. Truth cannot described in words as there are already so many scriptures around the world for us but still we don’t get the message because we try to understand them on the level of mind. They are there to guide us towards the truth.
I can suggest you couple of movies and philosophers from where you can begin.
Samadhi part 1,2 & 3
Inner world and outer world.
Listen to
Eckhart Tolle
Alan Watts
Carl Jung
Osho
Ramana Maharshi
Jiddu Krishnamurti
UG Krishnamurthi
Ram das
Mooji
and there are many more if you are willing to learn.
I totally agre with you. Some of my friends don’t like buddhism because they think it’s close to nihilism but it’s because they have a shallow understanding. Thank you for this educational vid! ❤❤❤
I used to have that same perception of Buddhism. But now I understand it better, and I've also realized that it wouldn't make sense for millions of people to follow a religion that makes them unhappy and unfulfilled.
What an amazingly precise video, well edited, your taste in music is insane to boot. Very special for a 25 year old to nail buddhist thinking right on the head like you do. The world is your oyster, my friend. Keep it up. Subscribed.
So glad to hear from a extremely vivid point of view, you create masterpieces brother! May your legacy live forever. Love from India!
Thank you, my friend!
I love this topic. Using simple breathing techniques, not expecting anything, I've left my body and every perception but sight, and lost all sense of self. It took many years to understand it. Because there was silence and no words or thoughts there.
Hmmm. Can you describe the transitions from normal everyday sensory consciousness that took place? Do you meditate with open eyes?
Thank you for making this video Simeon. In 1982 I have experienced Sunyata myself and it stayed with me for several days. True meditation and fastening I came into a trance after passing a high Tibetetan lama followed by munks of western origin. The experience that seemed a relevation to me changed my life . Now I am 60 years of age and it still affects me.
Thank you for the video! The visuals are stunning and the way you elucidate the point of view of the Buddha is insightful!
I’m glad you enjoyed it!
Dear One,
I am very grateful to you for producing this wonderful art that helps us to understand Dharma.
I have been quietly learning about Sakyamuni's teachings for a little more than a year now, and one thing I have noticed is there is a terrible thirst for English language content about Dharma.
Thank you so much for helping to extinguish that flame! :)
Please keep up your amazing work.
Cheers,
A Fellow Lover of Wisdom
I recommend the Buddha's words. Buddhawajana
You have a gift of explaining in words that which cannot be explained in words . Thank you 🙏 blessings from Ireland 🇮🇪 👍🙏
Broke through on DMT back in 2012. I cried coming back . Oneness cannot be understood by writing alone. It can only be experienced. The stunning conclusion of all conclusions. Namaste
Just be very, very careful when you talk of 'breaking through'. I make absolutely no judgement as to the authenticity of your claim, but there is need for huge caution when believing that such a thing has happened. The path is full of tricks and deceptions. The very fact that you make the claim is reason enough itself to be cautious.
There is also a huge difference between 'Oneness' and 'Non-Duality'. Oneness may carry an experience - Non-Duality does not. Hence, it is said that a genuine 'breakthrough' carries no claim because the idea of such becomes meaningless.
If you can, try to find a master who can verify your 'experience' - such people do exist.
Just be careful.
@@SolveEtCoagula93Breaking through really is common with hallucinogenic substances but it is not enough to grasp oneness. It is only a short and overwhelming experience 🐸🙏
Still it can be useful
@@SolveEtCoagula93i believe i had a similar experience as the gentleman above. Can you please share some thoughts on the difference between oneness and non duality?
@@ervisballa5 In a one way it is easy - in another it is the hardest thing to try to do - especially via this medium. However, I'll try and if it's still not clear please get back to me.
In simple terms, God, no matter what that means, is a concept that can be referred to via words, concepts and ideas. Words that are often used are Creator, All knowing, Infinite, Love, Completeness, the Absolute, and so on.
Sometimes, in a more mystically sense, God is referred to as being a state of wholeness in which all things are seen and experienced to be the same thing. Everything that exists, all Creation and the Creator are one and the same. In other words, 'everything is One'.
Before the unifying experience of Oneness, we have a sense of separation from God. There seems to be an individual identity - which is called a 'self', or an 'I'. During the experience this separation vanishes and all things, God and self, are seen to be the same thing. Oneness.
On the other hand, Non-Duality is beyond all words, all expressions, all concepts, all ideas, all qualities. Non-Duality is where Oneness arises from.
The Oneness of God needs 'some thing' in order to be 'One'. Non-Duality has 'no thing' because it is beyond this concept.
The Oneness of God (and Creation) is an experience - Non-Duality is not an experience. The concept of 'experience' cannot be applied to the Non-Dual.
The Oneness of God maybe 'achieved' or 'attained'. Non-Duality does not carry these concepts.
The Oneness of God may arise and fall - it maybe an experience that arises and passes. Non-Duality does not arise, since it is not an experience.
When I say that Non-Duality is beyond Being and non-Being, beyond Existence and non-Existence, beyond breakthrough and non-breakthrough, beyond all concepts, I am saying nothing about non-duality. I am only pointing in its direction.
Once 'awakened' to your True Nature (Non-Duality) there is nothing more to be said.
The best explanation comes from the Zen saying, 'Do not confuse the finger for the moon it points at'. God is the finger, Non-Duality is the moon.
(There is a book called, Zig Zag Zen, in which the topic psychedelics and awakening is examined by people with experiences of both.
A summary would be, psychedelics 'may' help alert people to the existence of 'altered states' and may act as a trigger to further exploration. But, there is little support for the idea that they produce what might be called a true awakening.)
@@ervisballa5 Let me start by saying that we enter a verbal and conceptual minefield when talking about these ideas. There is little consensus about either 'Oneness', or 'Non-Duality', so opinions will vary. But, for what it's worth . . . . . .
Oneness is a state about which the human, rational mind can have some type of appreciation. Such appreciation will be limited, but even so we can use words and concepts to gain some type of understanding of what this means.
Non-Duality, however, is beyond the rational mind. As such, no words or concepts can begin to approach it. Words can point towards it, but they are just that - pointers. And, as the Zen phrase goes, do not confuse the moon for the finger that points at it.
I'll give a more concrete example:
Imagine an ocean upon which there are no waves nor any type of disturbances. Then a wave arises, grows and moves across this ocean. If the wave became conscious, it might think that it is separate from the ocean. That, somehow, its existence has nothing to do with all the surrounding water. This of course is false and, when the energy which supports the wave dies away, the wave will fall back into the ocean.
The wave and the ocean are one. They are made of the same substance, water, and even though appearances may temporarily cause the wave to believe otherwise, eventually it will fall back into the ocean and experience the Oneness that it really has with the ocean.
From a Non-Dual perspective, however, we enter a world of apparent contractions. Neither the wave nor the ocean exist - nor do they not exist. They neither have Being nor Non-Being. They are nowhere and everywhere. They are timeless and yet contained within time. They are neither wet, nor dry, but are both. They are beyond all opposites and yet are all opposites.
No matter what words, or ideas we use, we cannot pin down, nor understand with the rational mind what the ocean and the wave are. We have entered the world of the Zen Koan, the world which lies beyond anything we can express, or relate to. All we can do is point and say, there is such a thing, but what that thing is, I cannot say.
I'll finish with some words from the great Christian mystic, Meister Eckhart. He stated that the Ground of Being, the Godhead, is as far above God as God is above the world.
In other words, Non-Duality is as far removed from Oneness, as Oneness is removed from the world of separate appearances.
Emptiness of Views - I love this. Every straight line is shabby. The world weaves us and we weave it. This is a really touching video. Thank you. If I found a word to describe it, it would have to be your word, or a word floating on the wind.
Hi, Simeon! I am Diogo from London. I am very impressed with the quality of your video. It's content shows that you've been studying this topic on it's depth. Thanks for taking your time for doing such a magnific work.
Thank you, Diogo!
Buddhism is truly awesome. Thank you
Because?
WoW ! The art of simplifying something so complex into such an engaging video... Grateful I found it on youtube !
Thank you for sharing not only this video but for also providing sources for further investigation. I also enjoyed the soundtrack and appreciate you listing the tracks. This channel is a gem and your content resonates with me in way that I cannot express! Thank you so much!
Thank you, it makes me so happy you've noticed and enjoyed the music, I put lots of thought into it :)
@@seeker2seeker We have similar taste in music so I noticed it immediately. 🎶 ☺
@@krozal6892 Ah, great! Any suggestions for music I may use in future videos?
@@seeker2seeker Hmmmm... let me think about it but I'm sure I can come up with some ideas for you to check out
Sorry it has taken me so long to respond back but it's not easy coming up with suggestions, considering the music you like, that you are not already familiar with. You should check out Cylob's albums " Bounds Green" and "Cylobean Sunset". There is a group that makes what could be considered sound collage that may be interesting to you. They are called Negativland. Videogame soundtracks and scores are another good resource for atmospheric soundscapes. Let me know if this is of any help.
I watch your videos often and some I have watched many times. I have been familiar with many of the concepts you discuss for a very long time and can only think of a few people that share your rich understanding of topics such as shunyata or the five aggregates. How do you apply these ideas within a Christian worldview? How does the unconscious or collective unconscious manifest itself with respect to Christianity?
I first became aware of this insight by a British/ American man called Alan watts.
His explanations of this subject are insightful.
So, i find myself here in search of a deeper and more explanatory review of what i may say no- thingness is. Or emptiness is.
This video is exceptional !
I see the connections between the Dao and Buddhism. Not that im saying one is better than the other but that one compliments the other.
A non dualist sense of self and environment as an organic union.
Thankyou. ❤
Zen in the combination of Taoism and Buddhism. I love both traditions and practice elements of both.
Namah Tathagata Buddhay /\
A most important topic. But complicated one. Wonderfully explained!
"With the cessation of forms and names, consciousness ceases .."
Imagine a simplified universe. Just two beings who have basic consciousness - they dont need to eat or sleep. Have no desires. All their consciousness can do and does is become aware of the other being. They look like two squares in space. And all they can or do or ever want to do is just "look at each other".
And THAT's it
This is a universe - reduced to its bare components - NEEDed for consciousness to be. If you remove a single component, consciousness would cease to be.
If you remove both squares, there is just space. There would be no consciousness - as there would be nothing to be "conscious" of. It would be voidness. If there is only one square, there would be no consciousness. As the square would just experience "space", but would never become self aware at all, thus consciousness would be identical with space - voidness. Only when another object comes into being, the square would become conscious, as through "moving" (as recognition of movement too would be only evident with reference to the fixation of other object), it will recognise itself (as observer) and the other (as observed).
Since this is "most essential" requirements of consciousness "to be", which means if you remove a any of the 3 or 4 elements (space, two squares, time), conscientiousness would not exist, it is only through "forms and names" - formations and compartmentalizations in space (these conditions) can a elementary awareness agent (elementary Consciousness - prior to a cognizing mind) can be.
Outside this abstract throught example, we can infer it from nature everywhere. A lions body is, through natural selection, designed to hunt a deer. Deers escaping the lion leads to further natural selection, which makes lions stronger. Lion gets its characteristics, forms, nature (no prey, no predator) not from itself - but from a "other". Among humans too, different races get their physical attributes from their geography. On atomic level, changes are more readily perceptible - atoms are in perpetual state of "disturbance", and can only gain some stability through uniting with "other" atoms. In some cases, like in wave particle duality of light, its nature is hauntingly observer dependent - when we don't see it, it becomes a particle, when we see it, it becomes a wave.
Therefore, since a thing does not have its characterstics by itself, but only through "causes and conditions" (when causes and conditions change, it changes), it lacks a intrinsic essence of its own.
All things in nature are this way. And hence by Shunyata, it means the falsity of a intrinsic or inherent nature (flower nature of flower does not come from flower - it comes from things other than flower). The perceived reality says "a things nature is its own intrinsic produce, or a thing is produce of its own intrinsic nature", Perceived reality does not suggest "A things nature is not a produce of its, or a thing is not a produce of its own nature, but of something else". Only through analysis and insight can we say this. And through that we can see that things, hence, in their own nature or essence, are empty. No such thing as intrinsic or self nature.
" That is so, because this is so. If this changes, that changes" - Lord Nagajuna says - " Since all things get their nature and essence from mutual interdependence, all things lack intrinsic nature and are empty "
Namah Lord Nagarjuna /\
My teacher helped me to understand emptiness by saying one word....produced...everything is produced. That one word finally helped me to understand emptiness. I thank her for her kindness and wisdom and I thank you for producing such a wonderful video ❤
When i was 25, i had been practicing for 3 years, had read and absorbed the Heart Sutra, and was doing a number of practices from Nagarjuna. Then, i understood in some sense what you are describing here, and so i "knew" about sunyatha, and most especially the "emptiness of views". However, your upaya is much better then mine!! Your description, and your connecting this with Jung, Christ, and others so explicitly is refreshing and welcome. Please continue. I suspect you have great things to do.
Thank you for these kind and encouraging words, my friend, they touch me deeply. I will keep trying my best!
I've come back to listen again, and i may have something to contribute. :-)
"When you think about a color, you 'see' it"
I am aphantasic. That means I do not 'see' things when I imagine them. If I close my eyes, I only see darkness, or perhaps small motes.
And yet, when I imagine a thing, I DO have a sense of it, but it is...pure mind. That is to say I can do very complex 'visualization', to the point of designing mechanisms and wooden objects...and yet I 'see' nothing. The best way I have found to describe this is 'i can recreate the conditions that occur when I see, except for actual sight, in mind'.
This one truth hampered my understanding for decades, since I would read the word 'visualize', and yet my experiences were different than the authors...and I didn't know that.
But now, I can say that there is something to 'experience' that is beneath 'seeing' which is capable, with some effort, of accomplishing similar things as seeing in the minds eye. I do not know what to call it, but it is essentially 'seeing without sight'.
So, with great respect to the yogacara school, I will say that there is something to sensing, behind sensing, that is real and exists and can be used to recreate sight engrams without reproducing them in sight. This is the best I can do, since there isn't any way to isolate my experience from your experience, however i will also say that this experience is subtlely complex upon examination, and could be a sort of mental extraction rather than a true experience.
However...I can say with some confidence that seeing, and more broadly 'sensing', must have a component of memory that indexes, but does not reproduce, the experience and which can and is used to manipulate the recreation of those sense memories. And it is rich enough to substitute for them in mind.
I’m so happy this video came out I’ve been investigating these ideas but haven’t found a teacher who explained in a format I was accustomed to. I look forward to watching this 😊
This video describes truth better than any other that I have heard. Now it is up to us to realize it.
Your understanding of Buddihsm exceeds beyond millions Buddist in the world. I feel lucky to have a chance watching this video. Deeply appreciate.
Superb! Truly profound. The greatest explanation of Sunyata I've ever seen. This video really is what the Heart Sutra conveys, or reversely, the Heart Sutra itself summarizes this video with its a few hundred words. Sunyata truly is the most effective way to guard against the cunning ego to arise secretly in the paths of the seekers.
Thanks again for making this video, my first donation was no where near appropriate considering the effort you have put into this masterpiece. Have a great day from Scotland and I look forward to your future work. Apologies for my original attempt to send you a ‘Bravo’ in Bulgarian. When I reversed the translation it came back as ‘Fine Wine’ 😂 which made me laugh. Just shows the limitations of language vs the more direct transmission of metta ❤
I appreciate this, my friend, you are being very kind and generous! Have a great day from Bulgaria and thank you (благодаря [blagodaria] in Bulgarian) :)
Excellent, and I particularly enjoyed hearing of the conflicting philosophies! Really appreciate the effort you put into these, the results are captivating and professional dialogues!
I am mind blownd rn. This is beyond beautiful!
Thank you so much for your videos. They are scripted and produced beautifully, but ultimately they are a fresh spring of deep insight. Thank you 😊
These approaches to seeing and experiencing the world are prescriptions for overcoming various tattvas described in Shaivite philosophy, which originated in India. In my opinion, what is described as no self translates to no ego and there is only one Self which is awareness. This awareness is shared by everyone simultaneously. It’s only identification with your ego and mental conditioning that causes you to feel like you are separate from the one Self. Whatever teaching resonates with you is the best for you.
This was excellent. Madhyamaka and Yogacara have been floating around in my head without a clear definition. This was helpful
Thank you for your efforts to create this dense yet lucid explanation of Emptiness. May we all grasp this truth in our lifetimes and be released from suffering.
Thank you, my friend, and thank you for the support. Amen!
The best introduction to sunyata i've ever seen in youtube. You basically cover 5 major views. I hope your audience understand, or intrigued enough to further understand it. Give this video to me like before the pandemic, I might've skipped it for being too "mind-twisting" ^^
Thank you for this donation and your support!
You see how the pandemic shut down mans desires. animals nature began to return to balance the world again "eden" veiled by greed .Return to the source.
What a great donation ie INR 2lakths.
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That warning at the beginning is incredibly well-said. I certainly experienced that, taking 'Emptiness' as a nihilistic void concept. I've seen other translations render it as 'Fullness' - which is interesting.
This presentation is excellent . so well explained in a living language. Grateful🙏
Excellent lecture, thank you. When you talked about wiping the dust from the mirror, I couldn't help thinking of Hui-Neng, who became the Sixth Patriarch of the Chan Buddhist tradition and wrote: "There is no bodhi tree, nor stand of a mirror bright. Since all is void, where can the dust alight." This was in response to another monk's words: "Our body is the bodhi tree, and our mind a mirror bright. Carefully, we wipe them hour by hour and let no dust alight."
Thanks! Exceptional presentation, making dense concepts available to understand ... or allow approaching understanding! MANY THANKS!
Thank you for this generous donation, I'm glad you found the video useful!
Brilliant work. I had the same reaction as another viewer who left a comment... At the age of 25 (I am twice as old) you surely have a deep and profound understanding of these teachings/philosophies/views. The way you created the video to speak to contemporary viewers/minds, and the way you took ancient Buddhist teachings (e.g. Tathagathagarbha) and related them to our screens/the internet, etc., was an excellent "expedient." The editing, too, here is really brilliant, by the way, and nice musical borrowings, too.
This is not only a really wonderful way to introduce people to what exactly is/isn't meant by "Emptiness" (well, um, perhaps not "exactly," exactly...), but it was also a rather pleasant, even (dare I say?) entertaining view/listen for this seeker of Wisdom who has read or listened to many Buddhist and Hindu/Yogic teachings for more years than you yourself have existed as "Simeon" on this plane of existence! What I am trying to say, basically, is: thank you for your excellent and "enlightening" work. May people quickly wake up to the dangers of dualistic thinking so that we can avoid the horrible (and seemingly inevitable) escalation of global war in '24/'25. 🙏
Thank you for the kind comment and feedback! Yes, I find our technological progress allows us to expand our dictionary of metaphors and describe with new (albeit insufficient) precision what the old masters were pointing to with the language of their time. And yes, the war crimes we are witnessing today are horrifying... I feel it is more urgent than ever to practice these teachings in our daily lives and spread them by example.
@@seeker2seeker Every individual who awakens to what he/she is / what we all really are and stops acting according to compulsions and a dualistic misunderstanding about the nature of life and the world, one person closer to having a world that is not always constantly at war with itself. Thank you for your great and “enlightening” work!
If there is any religion that would cope with modern scientific needs, it would be Buddhism.”
- albert einstein
Einstein's religious stance was weird. Was he a deist?
@@Kamisama77 He was an atheist. He did not like any God that played dice with humans.
You are a true hero! May you be well and without suffering.
Emptiness in Buddhism isn't nihilism or literally void or zero. Emptiness in Buddhism means nothing exists on its own. Every one, every thing depends on other this is what emptiness is .....
Correct me if I am wrong
This is absolutely correct !
"Things arise in mutual dependence, and hence lack an intrinsic nature and essence. Therefore, things are empty" - The Great Nagarjuna
This is a valid statement, Only when multiple things exist. What if only one thing exists. On which it is depended on?
yes... emptiness should be taken as always empty your cup... to perceive everything.. receive everything keep nothing
Friend of mine gave me a small book called Nisshitsu Buddhist stories. Thought it was a casual story book but was blown away by the wisdom. Ever since reading that book, i am totally into Buddhism. Thanks for this video. ❤
Great work explaining emptiness, from multiple angles, in an easy to understand way. Will definitely recommend this as an introduction to others.
It clears you put a lot of time and effort into this, the overall editing and content is top tier.
Looking forward to more videos.
This video is truly a masterpiece, thank you so much for sharing your wisdom and knowledge. Best wishes from Norway brother. Stay conscious and enjoy the emptiness 🙏
Seeing this video cannot be unseen. All those who seek relief from pain of death of loved ones will be left with a release of sorts when this video is seen in a calm and complete manner. Pls pls pls dont skip or watch incomplete parts of this video. The wholesome coverage of emptiness in this video has healed a major wound in my mind from the distorted way Emptiness or No-thingness was taught by Landmark Forum leaders.
Thank you my friend, I am happy you have found the video of value!
But you don't even exist.. there are no others too... there is NOTHING.
How come you are commenting on this forum?
Thank you for this very clear and precise explanation of Emptiness and Buddhist teachings. You’re doing an amazing job! Much gratitude & love 🙏🏻✨✨💗
What an excellent teacher! It seems so strange to me that now we can watch videos such as this for an hour and learn what took me decades to understand.
Absolutely magnificent. It brought so many realizations and thank you for sharing
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Excellent video, such a clear explanation of such a difficult topic. Thank you, you did a good job with this one, though your other videos are such as good.
I have to watch this a couple of times. I feel like my brain is playing twister and is now in the shape of a pretzel. Incredible information so interesting. I don’t think I’ve ever been more interested in a subject in my life or even spent this much time trying to learn something and I’m 43 great job on these videos. I’ve been watching for a couple of days now And plan to continue
Absolute gem ! Wow thank you its by far the best explanation Thank You 🙏
Glad you enjoyed it!
This channel is a true gem! I m so glad I found it.Thank you Simeon!
You got it absolutely right, now this kind of insight and understanding is not possible from people of this land where Buddha Nagrajuna and Asanga were born.❤
Thank you! But... really? Why is that so?
Hi Buddha said all the living being has the Buddha nature and it is the true , the fact. The difference is that not all the living being have Chance to learn Buddha’s teaching . Namo Amitabha 🙏
@@seeker2seeker This is a big conspiracy against Buddhist, some foreign rulers have destroyed Buddhist sangha and Buddhist University from 10th century and established a new religion called Hindusim in the place of Buddha and captured and converted all its places to Hindu religion temples. Most people don't even know who buddha was, forget about knowing his teaching and philosophy. Buddha's followers were treated very badly and kept at the lowest level of the society.
@@seeker2seekerI would guess he means he has a low opinion of India and Nepal.
@@timothyblazer1749 well, to him, he is saddened by the fact that Buddhist were driven out. But forgets that, if that hadn't happened. India would be a Islamic nation right now.
I amazing how you’ve tried to explain the unexplainable. You’re an amazing 25 year male Bulgarian videographer/essayist/youtuber/ student of philosophy.
So much of what you’re talking about goes along with the meditation technique of vipassna, which I practice :)
Buddha himself used this technique for his liberation and taught Dhamma.
Thank you for the support and the kind words, my friend!
Seeing the whole world in every part of the world is disorienting. I can’t even consciously leave my body without clinging for a reference point after a few seconds. It makes sense that my self wants to be someone somewhere, but how this creation forms from no one nowhere is beyond me. But I’m now here. Thank god ❤🙏🏼
I encourage everyone who hasn’t to study the translations of nagarjuna and such teachers of antiquity one must mediate daily and train the mind. A little intellectual understanding and emotional expectance is just the beginning. Other types of teaching, science, and religions really can’t even start the journey. Filled with concepts of beliefs, hope and fear for better or for worse cling to ideas and emotions. Never give up in training the mind to the place of ultimate awareness beyond self and other…..😊
Yes practice is needed.
The conversation around conscious awareness was amazing and made my head explode, in a good way 🤯 ❤
What an incredibly masterful representation of the dharma, thank you for bringing this to us
You've saved me a lot of further difficulty in grasping Emptiness. Thank you so much!
Hello! I am so impressed not only by the quantity and quality of the content, and the way the author explains it for we novices, but by the care the creator puts into the quality of the video itself. Kudos! I have subscribed to this channel, and thank you, Simeon!
Thank you for these kind and encouraging words, my friend!
Sadhu sadhu sadhu Well done. Keep up your good work. Will definitely share with all who seeks for the truth.
There is a certain echelon of thought that few videos reach. Referencing Nagarjuna, C++, 2001: A Space Odyssey and Wittgenstein's Tractatus demonstrates that this is one of them. You've a new subscriber 🙂
The goal is enlightenment. All these teaching are guidelines to the goal. Practice is the key,and for me the most difficult. In a busy western society we are bombarded with so many obstacles,I understand why many become hermits.
I will continue to strive to practice correctly😊
This left me feeling wonderful, and also inspired in me a lot of engaging ideas that sprouted up while and after watching that I will enjoy pondering on for quite some time. Thank you so much!
There are many ways I could and maybe should phrase my gratitude for your making of this video, but I hope that you read these forthcoming two words and , though again they are not enough but in some way, can grasp my immense appreciation by me saying "Thank You!". 🙏🏾♥️
Thank you for your dedication and weeks of hard work so we can experience your experience.
Absolutely beautiful summary of an incredibly complex teaching! Excellent work my friend 🙏❤🙏 Thank you for sharing 🕉
I amazing how you’ve tried to explain the unexplainable. You’re an amazing 25 year male Bulgarian videographer/essayist/youtuber/ student of philosophy.
So much of what you’re talking about goes along with the meditation technique of vipassna, which I practice :)
So beautiful! As a student of Vedantic Non dualism and Buddhism, I love the concept of Tathagatagarbha.
Be happy. Thank you 🙏
Our tendency to complicate things by extending a simple idea by rationalization is the real problem of man.
If I had to be locked in a room with only one video to watch for the rest of my life - it would be this one. You have given us not only an excellently produced teaching but have given meaning to one of the deep mysterious of Buddhism.
Of course, right now, for me, such an awareness is only academic but your video convinces me that it is possible to attain the ultimate and become truly aware of what you, the Buddha, and all the master are saying.
A very powerful teaching. Thank you so much!
Thank you for the kind and encouraging words, my friend... I am certainly not among the masters, but if I find good ways of passing on their teachings to more people, that will be my job done. This work really would be impossible without the people who find ways of supporting it... thank you for being one of them!
terrific enlightening and such a clarity of Shunyata expressed so rationally, artfully, and powerfully. its a MasterClass in imaging Emptiness from different perspectives. I appreciate your love of the dharma/dhama and hope to see more of your inspiring work online! Thank u!
Thank you for these kind words, my friend!
This brought me much peace. Thank you. Thank me. Thank everyone. Thank no one.
Highly educational and thoroughly enjoyable video. I learnt a lot from it, thank you!
Thank you so much🙏
Yes, the dream of life is needed for awareness to be Aware.
Your awareness makes the tree outside scatter all it's beautiful leaves.
With Gratitude.
Absolutely outstanding! I can't believe how well you are able to explain this, and beautiful videography. Thanks so much
Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it!
@@seeker2seeker I ran this video past one of my Christian friends and he disagreed with most points pretty strongly, yet in a previous video I believe you identified as Christian. I'm working to consolidate Jesus teachings with eastern philosophy and wonder if you have any thoughts on this? Thank you
@@greggirard9075 What points did you friend disagree with? Perhaps you can mail them to me and I'll try to reply with something useful :)
@@seeker2seeker thanks! Is there an email?
@@greggirard9075 Yes, you can have a look at the 'About' section on the channel page (I am not pasting it here for security reasons)
Well. Congratulations. This is the best of sums of Budism I have ever seen before. Surprisingly perfect. Thank you.
As everyone has noted a strikingly well done explanation.
I love this. Thank you for the time you took to put together such a beautiful clarification. 🙏🏽🦋
I truly appreciate your efforts in understanding the subject and producing this video.🙏🙏
Well done - clear, orderly, generous and satisfying. Thank you.
Incredible stuff ❤
Love your voice
Also: only someone who really has understood can explain that clear and simple!
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Thank you for this video. It conveys what I have been looking for in a clear manner. This video has explained some questions I had regarding the traditional Buddhist idea of no self and the teachings of Ruppert Spira. This video is masterful as another respondent mentioned. I have listened only one time so far, but I know I will come back to this many times and will share with others interested in Buddhism. The pictures, music and dialogue and presentation of ideas could not be better.
Thanks so much for the info. You did an awesome job on the video. You gave me new insight which I desperately needed at this time in my life. Your a wise soul for such a young man. Thanks again 😊
This much wisdom at such a young age.... Amazing...Keep up the good work......🙏🙏
This is an incredibly helpful video for understanding the basics of a concept I knew very little about. Thank you very much for sharing!
Glad it was helpful!
Realy love it, many many thanks !!! a practitioner Soto Zen here, linked to his Christian tradition and reader of the great master Eckhart !
Thankyou for this, I keep coming back to it time and time again. It’s so profound, and you laid it out so well. Thankyou for all the time and effort you spent making it!
Thank you for the appreciation, my friend!
Absolutely beautifully done...cuts swiftly through many layers of confusion and BS. Maybe even better than Watts' The Way of Zen....forgive me Allen. Really really wonderful contributions sir, thank you.
Thank you so much ! The best and the clearest explanation of emptiness I have ever encountered. May your journey be an easy one. 🙏🙏🙏
Thank you so much for showing the ultimate truth in such a clear manner. May you enjoy the bliss of nibbana! From Sri Lanka.