@BrentDavis75
Thank you. A message that I needed to hear. I love the way you express this "gnosis". đź’š
@IAM-Misanthrope
It feels so easy and peaceful to experience living now. Now that myself is out of the way.
@JM-jd7yp
I watched this video a few days ago and I thought I would come back to it and view the comments. I just think this all comes down to what you cling to. I was once told that kind words are not always nice words. I realise that in the past people had given me harsh lessons that were deeply kind. It's about intention...just like medicine. I think that at times the ego can be so deceitful in the pursuit of control it can manipulate you at such a subtle level. Ultimately being good is about intention and wisdom. If you cling to an image of the 'good you' you are still reinforcing your separate self. Being devoid of the ego and its games is a natural force for good... it is just flow...it is a return to the source. Thank you Heather for doing a video on a much misunderstood topic that other teachers often avoid. I wish you well.
@ShawnAlexander-to2sf
I agree 100% Heather. After the election I was feeling frustration for a short time and my teacher, Acharya Shree Yogeesh said 3 magic words to me and it was as if the universe was speaking directly to me at that moment and I haven’t been bothered at all since. He said, “ LET IT GO”. So simple. Not every time I begin to become aware of a trigger I hear those 3 words.
@gb-tm9vg
For me there are a couple of things I, for lack of a better word, meditate on daily. One is the sense that all we, our human selves perceive is but a cosmic joke. The 2nd is based on what I believe was William Shakespeare's observation that the world is but a stage. Everything we perceive are players or props on the stage. Entertaining or frightening perhaps but always make believe. Just like a movie.
@goggin1224
Not taking a stance is taking a stance.
@AaronJDes
For me when I experienced that I wasn't myself and neither was anyone else I was overwhelmed with joy and compassion and love. And the outcome of that was if I take care of myself than I take care of everyone else, and further, this love I feel is everyone's love. Politics became very simple for me. We should treat everyone and everything with compassion and love. Wherever that falls on whatever political spectrum someone else can decide.
@ravanti5780
The belief that I'm a person I'm human being is label, its no more true than that's a tree that's a Bird, its all awareness consciousness and even that is a label, labeling embellishes the feelings of separation, I don't know if this is realavant to this video but I felt inspired to write this, love you love your videos, I keep listening you and reading the transcripts, thank you so much for all you do
@suesullivan8464
thank you for this. this "I" is pretty deeply afraid of not being a good person, and has been conditioned to believe that being perceived as good = safety. Add to that conditioning the role of parent to a trans young adult, and helpless anger and leaping to take a stance and defend apparent others has been activated again and again in recent weeks. The thought of not having an opinion about the chaos of this moment feels energetically painful and a betrayal of those I care about, even as I can faintly sense how what I am reacting to is actually empty of actors and unknowable in apparent outcome. I'll sit with this. I deeply appreciate the pointing.
@DrDavidThor
__ Sometimes I think of the I Am consciousness (aka “God”) as me riding one of those giant worms in Dune.
@slowknowing
It all emerged from the mind. Nothing to do but allow it to emerge and take its course until the five senses disperse into reality.
@ProfoundFamiliarity
I certainly have negative thoughts and feelings about "not being enlightened", not meditating enough, not grasping things about reality, not having had enlightenment or other experiences. Not having great shifts in my experience, or realizing my true nature.
@Bayl9r8m
Sabia que la voluntad de Dios, es hacer de la tierra un paraĂso?
@Rbuntosh365
If there is no separate individuality how can there be reincarnation? I am not sue I am asking this correctly. But what is the relationship between no separation and reincarnation? If I am appearing as a separate self in this illusion and this same "self" reappears later for another human experience..isn't their a certain individually about that? In explaining the truth, this is a sticking point for me. Thanks.
@AtomkeySinclair
Non-dual informs polarity of itself, revealing a state of situational alignment. We still have to interoperate with the world, but from a perspective of seeing the gradient of opposites as a single aspect of any given realization. The classic example most begin with is the hot and cold distinction. We commonly will say these are opposites. But we know they are not. When asked to explain why, we say they are the same because they are on the same scale of alignment = temperature. So they are the same, be them infinitesimally close to each other, or equally distant. We can even demonstrate the effect in the body. Attempting to explain that same thing with abstraction is more difficult. In this case, people want to compare bad and good, and then they conflate evil with these comparisons. Bad and good are functions of decision. They are on a certain alignment of evaluation that splits between judgment and discernment. So is evil, but differently. Evil cannot be bad because it cannot be discarded. So if evil is not opposite good, what is? Good apples are kept, bad ones discarded. But evil has its own polarity called virtue. These cannot be conflated with good or bad. They are fundamental archetypal aspects of abstraction. These beginning steps of realization create a feedback of psychosis that is difficult to move through and integrate into normal life. After all, everything that is revealed turns what was once accepted to be certain, as completely foreign. Upon non-dual awakening, all of the former opposites are revealed for their alignments. We find ourselves ridiculously ambivalent - but with the certainty that any other option further contributes to the illusion. From then on it is difficult to communicate with dual people, because they are hardened against letting that go. The ego won’t release its need for polarity. So we find ourselves just looking at the other being, nodding our heads, smiling… and waiting……….
@DrDavidThor
__ I haven't voted in 66 years. A position that can set up its own moral bluster for a Puritan like me. My son the Palestinian activist is vexed that I'm no longer a Palestinian activist. Huh. The West sided with Jews against the Germans and the Jews ended up BEING the Germans in Palestine, so to speak. So where's the incentive? Activism tends to be re-activism, and in that sense it sets up a daddy as the "power" and then re-acts. It's reactionary. It's a way of sending one's power elsewhere. Or trying to. Of course it fails, for all the reasons Heather has been at pains to point out in the last year and that can be summarized as: there's nowhere to go. We're already here. I Am the power, so how could there be a daddy above me? I wish I'd heard, as a young person, more people talk about Jesus the way Heather has here.
@tabula_rascal
Seems like the character still plays out, including expresion of its unique perspectives, and dance in the collective appearance, even as self is realized. For this "me," political action simply becomes much more internally peaceful and unconcerned about outcome. Adyashanti calls this dancing out one's dance. Thich Naht Hanh spoke of Engaged Buddhism. I also heard a lot of nondual wisdom from Charles Manson. The nondual frame is above morality, but the characters can play any role in the morality play. None are ultimately special, "I" agree.
@chrispmar
So, it's not that "releasing the idea of right and wrong" is the RIGHT way. Or, IS it? Sort of, maybe? Or is it that we just can't speak the "truth" with words because language will always express a contradiction when trying to speak of the "ultimate truth" that is beyond conceptualization?
@lassespolin1951
Ramana would perhaps add that whatever we come up with its only mental concepts without intrinsic value? ChatGPT sade: Exactly. Ramana Maharshi would likely point out that all these ideas—whether it's lila, karma, bhakti, or even the concept of enlightenment itself—are just mental constructs. They exist only within the mind and dissolve upon direct realization of the Self. From his perspective, the ultimate truth is beyond thought, beyond any framework the intellect can grasp. Ramana often emphasized Who is asking these questions? If one sincerely investigates the questioner, rather than entertaining philosophical ideas, the mind itself dissolves into the Self, leaving no need for further speculation. In his view, any conceptual explanation is like drawing maps of a place one has never been. The only thing that truly matters is direct experience—the being that remains when all concepts are dropped. At the same time, he was compassionate towards seekers at different levels. He knew that concepts could serve as temporary pointers, but he always guided people beyond them. Even the idea that "we must return to the Source" implies separation, which is only an illusion from the standpoint of truth. So yes, from Ramana’s perspective, all these discussions may be engaging but ultimately have no intrinsic reality. The real task is to be still (summa iru) and abide as the Self.
@heatherralstonnonduality