Consider that the seed of happiness is contained within suffering and the seed of suffering is contained within happiness. Such is the nature of Consciousness. In this apparent game, the only identity you can hold onto as exclusively yours is the Unborn, the one that never appeared or disappeared, never touched by happiness or suffering.
I had 2 NDE's and was shown and remembered that I agreed to this life. I had agreed to face some of the worst of human unconscious evil, which I did. I was adopted at 14 months old into a crime family that was heavily involved in a Freemason cult that ran a child porn production/trafficking ring and I was trafficked from age 2 into my 20's and experienced some of the worst of human evil's. I saw and experienced things many people would never believe. In my NDE's, I saw that the challenge, in the face of this, was to remember who we ALL are and are part of, while embodied and then do my best to live from that state of BEING. It's ALL about Love, that's what we essentially are. I saw than nobody is ever left behind. Their was no judgmental "God" handing out rewards and punishments. There was no time, everything was simultaneous. After my NDE's, I had a few other profound experiences. In one, I had a very vivid dream that I was jogging on a path. It was my path, nobody else was on it. I could see other's on their own path, on their particular journey. The people who were the worst abusers in this life, the ones I had perceived had hurt me the worst, were along the sides of the path, cheering me on the loudest with the greatest love. This dream perplexed me for so long as I struggled with the various narratives I had been completely merged with. It absolutely went against all the judgements, conclusions and perceptions of the "me". The dream showed me reality. It was ALL love. The "me" was trapped in narratives of good and evil etc.
@@annemurphy8074 Everything appears to be happening in the dream state, and everything appears to be happening in the waking state. Nothing is happening. There are no you, me, or others. Check out the book, "The Unborn Gita" by Pradesh Apte. It is based on the teachings of Nisargadatta.
@@prior2yourstoryHave you realized, directly, who you really are? In my NDE's I realized there is no you, me and other's in the "separation" sense. The egoic mind separates everything, isolating it to stand alone. That is an illusion. Everything is part of the ALL that is. It's also nothing because pure awareness or consciousness is not a "thing or object" that can be identified or understood. It could be said to be the "space" that everything else arises from and falls back into yet it's ALL one and it exists. It's "real". Even a dream is "real" in a sense that it is experiential phenomena, it is known, like an object. But what is it that knows? This question can't be answered, only pointed to.
Suffering is always given the analogy such as the winter cold while children play, or personal suffering. Harder to explain the freedom game and explain “divine unfairness” as an experience of avatar surprise, when innocent individuals are forcibly made to suffer, violent torture or animal abuse occurs.
It is always easy to say, when you know it is an existential Truth. However/And, I feel with you, of course, big time, as I do for all suffering Beings, of which are almost numberless. Om Shanti Om
Yes, this is just the same game of making up stories. It is an contra-awakening sentiment in my mind. When you are not suffering and have trouble relating to that reality you should not belittle, trivialize and relativize it like that but simply stay silent on the matter.
I might be wrong, but the question pops out which is "How do I stop playing?" And the answer must be: "In order to stop playing you have to see the play." Am I right?
Dear Francis. Thanks for posting those inspiring videos. Regarding this subject, I still have some ideas that puzzle me and I will try to make a clear explanation about them. First: There are no independent beings. Everything that is is a manifestation of Consciousness, or in other words, is Consciousness in action. Second: We perceive suffering, but based on the previous point, there are no sufferers. Third: That suffering manifests itself sometimes in the form of child abuse, rape and torture. Fourth: Despite no being is suffering (second point) I feel and immediate rejection for these manifestations of suffering. This is not a rational process, this is not based on a judgement of a given situation, it is an automatic rejection. So it is to me as Consciousness (in the form of this that I call 'myself') rejecting itself. Fifth: I usually can see that Truth has a twin companion in the form of Beauty. And Truth is a twin companion of Consciousness. Therefore, and if we agree that child abuse, rape and torture are far from 'Beauty' then, 'a fortiori', it seems to reinforce this contradiction of 'Consciousness rejecting itself'. I would really appreciate if you can help me to understand the problem in this argument. Thanks.
I had the same question. If everything is just a dream, is it ok to eat meat , it is ok to do harmful things to humans and other living beings. Are these just bad dreams. Is it ok to have/ create such bad dreams. I would be very grateful for an explanation as well.
@@MegaUpstairs Good question. How can consciousness create an apparent changing world for you during your dream sleep? Same as during the waking dream. Everything is an appearance in consciousness... you, me, time, space, the world, the joy, and the suffering.
Consciousness does not reject itself; only an appearance in consciousness rejects itself by identifying with the apparent body/mind instead of consciousness. It all goes back to finding out who you are first and foremost. Then all the rest falls into place.
@@chandruambi As long as you play the game as a person it's not OK to eat meat and cause suffering. Once you are awake you can see beyond it but then you will automatically stop causing suffering in most cases. There is a story about a Zen master who buys fish for his elderly mother though. You may want to look that up.
I was curious so I looked up the song Etonnez moi Benoit. It's a pop song from 1968 by Francoise Hardy. She's bored with her boyfriend and so she's asking him to surprise her and then makes a long list of possibilities including some pretty kinky stuff. The chorus repeats how boring their life is. ( I'm of an age that I remember a self-help book recommending that women spice things up by answering the door, when their husbands come home from work, wearing just Saran Wrap. I'm glad we've come a long way since then) but more importantly I would like to address this implication that what Francis is saying is somehow flippant. No in fact in my mind it's actually honest, clear-eyed and completely unsentimental. It also ages me to refer to EST, which was a program people would subject themselves to back in the day. The most famous aspect of it was that they would trap you in a room and you could not leave even if you had to go to the bathroom. You opened yourself up to a form of torture to break you down. So I would venture to say that, no, this is not what Francis is doing. There is no message that this is for everybody, however. For some it may be very hard. Your choice.
@10:40 The discovery- Observing people, to me, it seems that it doesn't always happen. Maybe I don't know what is in someone's heart of hearts or mind but I haven't seen evidence that people discover the truth before they die. Curiously, some are even practicing religious ( I have people of all faiths in my circle, same difference on how close they are on the Truth). Latter is also so regardless of age. I know some 19-20 year olds that seem closer to God/Truth than 40, 70, 80 year olds. Feel a bit bad about being judgemental but yet I have questions about this so I say so.
Oh, wow, I am surprised at the ignorance in this video. I would just invite everyone to carefully and critically consider what he is saying and to see if it has merit.
So beautiful, brought tears to my eyes; tears of Joy 🕊
"Consiousness playing the game of Ignorance"- thank you for this Truer way of seeing. Thanks Francis💕
Consider that the seed of happiness is contained within suffering and the seed of suffering is contained within happiness. Such is the nature of Consciousness. In this apparent game, the only identity you can hold onto as exclusively yours is the Unborn, the one that never appeared or disappeared, never touched by happiness or suffering.
I had 2 NDE's and was shown and remembered that I agreed to this life. I had agreed to face some of the worst of human unconscious evil, which I did. I was adopted at 14 months old into a crime family that was heavily involved in a Freemason cult that ran a child porn production/trafficking ring and I was trafficked from age 2 into my 20's and experienced some of the worst of human evil's. I saw and experienced things many people would never believe. In my NDE's, I saw that the challenge, in the face of this, was to remember who we ALL are and are part of, while embodied and then do my best to live from that state of BEING. It's ALL about Love, that's what we essentially are. I saw than nobody is ever left behind. Their was no judgmental "God" handing out rewards and punishments. There was no time, everything was simultaneous. After my NDE's, I had a few other profound experiences. In one, I had a very vivid dream that I was jogging on a path. It was my path, nobody else was on it. I could see other's on their own path, on their particular journey. The people who were the worst abusers in this life, the ones I had perceived had hurt me the worst, were along the sides of the path, cheering me on the loudest with the greatest love. This dream perplexed me for so long as I struggled with the various narratives I had been completely merged with. It absolutely went against all the judgements, conclusions and perceptions of the "me". The dream showed me reality. It was ALL love. The "me" was trapped in narratives of good and evil etc.
@@annemurphy8074 Everything appears to be happening in the dream state, and everything appears to be happening in the waking state. Nothing is happening. There are no you, me, or others. Check out the book, "The Unborn Gita" by Pradesh Apte. It is based on the teachings of Nisargadatta.
@@prior2yourstoryHave you realized, directly, who you really are? In my NDE's I realized there is no you, me and other's in the "separation" sense. The egoic mind separates everything, isolating it to stand alone. That is an illusion. Everything is part of the ALL that is. It's also nothing because pure awareness or consciousness is not a "thing or object" that can be identified or understood. It could be said to be the "space" that everything else arises from and falls back into yet it's ALL one and it exists. It's "real". Even a dream is "real" in a sense that it is experiential phenomena, it is known, like an object. But what is it that knows? This question can't be answered, only pointed to.
Francis is such an amazing teacher
I agree. Many many thanks for his vedios
Suffering is always given the analogy such as the winter cold while children play, or personal suffering. Harder to explain the freedom game and explain “divine unfairness” as an experience of avatar surprise, when innocent individuals are forcibly made to suffer, violent torture or animal abuse occurs.
Great persistence in questioning!
Easy to say when your not suffering
That is when surrender comes into play.
Everybody experiences pain. Suffering is a choice though.
It is always easy to say, when you know it is an existential Truth.
However/And, I feel with you, of course, big time, as I do for all suffering Beings, of which are almost numberless.
Om Shanti Om
Yes, this is just the same game of making up stories. It is an contra-awakening sentiment in my mind. When you are not suffering and have trouble relating to that reality you should not belittle, trivialize and relativize it like that but simply stay silent on the matter.
@@onreact That's bullshit.
I have chronic illness eye pain and it's debilitating. I can't say it's a good thing for me
There is always a choice, however the fruit is precious; the freedom to is veiled by a thick clothe of dirt.
I might be wrong, but the question pops out which is "How do I stop playing?" And the answer must be: "In order to stop playing you have to see the play." Am I right?
Thank you 🙌 Thanks for the analogy.
Feeling like a happy child opening your MeTubes
Muchísimas gracias!!! 🤗❤️🙏
Dear Francis. Thanks for posting those inspiring videos. Regarding this subject, I still have some ideas that puzzle me and I will try to make a clear explanation about them.
First: There are no independent beings. Everything that is is a manifestation of Consciousness, or in other words, is Consciousness in action.
Second: We perceive suffering, but based on the previous point, there are no sufferers.
Third: That suffering manifests itself sometimes in the form of child abuse, rape and torture.
Fourth: Despite no being is suffering (second point) I feel and immediate rejection for these manifestations of suffering. This is not a rational process, this is not based on a judgement of a given situation, it is an automatic rejection. So it is to me as Consciousness (in the form of this that I call 'myself') rejecting itself.
Fifth: I usually can see that Truth has a twin companion in the form of Beauty. And Truth is a twin companion of Consciousness. Therefore, and if we agree that child abuse, rape and torture are far from 'Beauty' then, 'a fortiori', it seems to reinforce this contradiction of 'Consciousness rejecting itself'.
I would really appreciate if you can help me to understand the problem in this argument.
Thanks.
I had the same question. If everything is just a dream, is it ok to eat meat , it is ok to do harmful things to humans and other living beings. Are these just bad dreams. Is it ok to have/ create such bad dreams. I would be very grateful for an explanation as well.
@@MegaUpstairs Good question. How can consciousness create an apparent changing world for you during your dream sleep? Same as during the waking dream. Everything is an appearance in consciousness... you, me, time, space, the world, the joy, and the suffering.
Consciousness does not reject itself; only an appearance in consciousness rejects itself by identifying with the apparent body/mind instead of consciousness. It all goes back to finding out who you are first and foremost. Then all the rest falls into place.
It is all an illusion. There is no birth, no death, no person, no good, and no bad. NO exceptions.
@@chandruambi As long as you play the game as a person it's not OK to eat meat and cause suffering. Once you are awake you can see beyond it but then you will automatically stop causing suffering in most cases. There is a story about a Zen master who buys fish for his elderly mother though. You may want to look that up.
I was curious so I looked up the song Etonnez moi Benoit. It's a pop song from 1968 by Francoise Hardy. She's bored with her boyfriend and so she's asking him to surprise her and then makes a long list of possibilities including some pretty kinky stuff. The chorus repeats how boring their life is. ( I'm of an age that I remember a self-help book recommending that women spice things up by answering the door, when their husbands come home from work, wearing just Saran Wrap. I'm glad we've come a long way since then) but more importantly I would like to address this implication that what Francis is saying is somehow flippant. No in fact in my mind it's actually honest, clear-eyed and completely unsentimental. It also ages me to refer to EST, which was a program people would subject themselves to back in the day. The most famous aspect of it was that they would trap you in a room and you could not leave even if you had to go to the bathroom. You opened yourself up to a form of torture to break you down. So I would venture to say that, no, this is not what Francis is doing. There is no message that this is for everybody, however. For some it may be very hard. Your choice.
@10:40 The discovery- Observing people, to me, it seems that it doesn't always happen. Maybe I don't know what is in someone's heart of hearts or mind but I haven't seen evidence that people discover the truth before they die. Curiously, some are even practicing religious ( I have people of all faiths in my circle, same difference on how close they are on the Truth). Latter is also so regardless of age. I know some 19-20 year olds that seem closer to God/Truth than 40, 70, 80 year olds. Feel a bit bad about being judgemental but yet I have questions about this so I say so.
Audio is too low☹️
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Oh, wow, I am surprised at the ignorance in this video. I would just invite everyone to carefully and critically consider what he is saying and to see if it has merit.