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I wanna start with a little quiz mainly
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for the over seventies so most of you probably won't know the art side of this
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what happened 50 years ago on the 23rd
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of June remember 50 years ago 1967 it
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was the Summer of Love remember this this is the fiftieth this is the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love and
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I'm an old aging hippie 23rd of June
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1967 was the first ever global television broadcast and it was called
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one world and one of the presentations
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on that program were the Beatles live during the final recording of all you
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need is love which to me is like it's really a thermal agent if he had to
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allow me this it's like that to me was really significant the first global television broadcast was the Beatles
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singing to the world all you need is love and in a way that sort of become
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the anthem of the time and it's something which is 50 years later we hear that song and we all go yes
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all you need is love tim was talking yesterday about love so many teachers who said that it's about love it's all
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about love and there's a line in that song which they sing so fast that we miss it
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nothing you can do but you can learn to be you in time nothing nothing you can do but you can
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learn to be you in time it's easy all
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you need is love and what are we doing
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here in time 50 years later we're learning to be you we're learning to be
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ourselves and what I want to start with just looking at in a sense what happened
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there where we've come from today and I think we've been on this incredible
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spiritual journey which started in the 60s it's more than just a spiritual journey it's a cultural journey because
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that was the real beginning of the feminist movement the women's movement it was the beginning of alternative
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health yoga coming in organic food the
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game is gay liberation homosexuality was decriminalized last month fifty years
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ago in England and it was really the beginning the sickness of the whole
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spiritual Renaissance that we are have been in the last 50 years I call it the
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awakening project Ken Wilber talked about as the the Atman project that man being the Indian word for self the
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rediscovery of who we are and of course the Beatles two months later two months
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after this global broadcast to the world all you need is love the next great headline they made was teaming up with
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the Maharishi and starting to meditate the whole sixties had been powered not
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whole sixties but part of the Revolution had obviously been that whole psychedelic revolution that have been going on and then there was the whole
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movement it's like okay yes you can get incredible states of consciousness with
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psychedelics and they great opening and yet there was this sudden realization
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those guys out in India those guys out in India they know something too and it
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was like okay we leave behind that let's go to India and see what they know and I was part of that and I jumped in my VW
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bus and we drove to India we did we just got in a VW a Volkswagen bus and we
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drove to India which was an amazing journey in itself so that was really one
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of the seeds that really brought meditation into the world if they hadn't started we would have happened anyway if the Beatles hadn't started TN I think
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things would have got going a lot lot slower it was inevitable it was coming but they sort of they accelerated the whole process of awakening and almost I
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feel if they had a spiritual mission they were sort of building up to that and that then their their peak was 67
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then leaving that message all you need is love and let's try meditation and here we are we've been through the Guru
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phase everybody flocking to India fighting goes gurus coming here then we went through the whole workshop phase
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some of you remain but remember that ESTs and actualizations and all that stuff going off on long intensive stuff to really get down and be true to
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ourselves then we had that the Buddhist wave really through the eighties Tibetan Buddhism starting coming in also it was
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there the whole time of being recognized now of course you know mindfulness is the big buzzword in corporations were
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talking about we must all be mindful and non-duality is like here now the edge of
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that whole wave that's been building over the last 50 years we are now in a talking about non-duality which is always always being
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the essence of all the great spiritual teachings it's always been there that core essence but it's been dressed up in
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all this other paraphernalia and rituals and dogma I mean what's what's happened
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in the past is I'm talking the distant past here there's been somebody had an
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awakening experience great personal enlightenment Awakening something happened whether it was through accident
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lots of meditation some spiritual darshan who knows but they had an awakening experience and discovered that
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love that essence of self for themselves and obviously wanted to share it it's
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really it's it's so life transforming but also so lovely and delicious that they wanted to share that with other
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people and so they started telling their friends or whatever it was and their friends became followers and they perhaps got 90% of it or 80% of it but
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bits they didn't quite get and bits they didn't quite understand and when they told their friends they a little bit in which wasn't there initially or their
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interpretation and then their friends went on and got 90% of that and added a bit of their own stuff in and then it
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got translated into another language and some of the words got translated wrong and then in another culture and it got different we've got a little different
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interpretation and ended up as what we call religion I think every religion
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started off from that same very very similar core revelation core spiritual awakening and then over time the truth
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just got gradually lost I sometimes call it truth decay the truth gradually
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decays over time bits get added in rituals get added on it gets absorbed by the culture of the time
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and ends up with these things that look totally different and so people then start arguing you know is the hindu
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version right was the catholic church version right they're both wrong as
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religious because they've lost touch with what is that essential teaching and
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what is significant I think about the this last 50 years is we've been
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stripping away all that stuff that's been added on getting down to what is
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that essential teaching getting down getting down to the core and that's that's what I think makes this the most
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significant spiritual time in the whole of human history because what's
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happening now is totally different we are again many people discovering that
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essence for themselves but now it's not being sort of contained or understood
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within a particular cultural framework of you know whatever it is Eastern Orthodoxy or some Taoist formula it's
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not being understood within a particular framework we have access to all the
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world's religions present-day and past and we do that I'm sure many of you up we go and you know read what the
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Upanishads were saying two-and-a-half thousand years ago or what some of Buddha's followers were saying or what Sufi teachers were saying or what
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teachers today are saying we have access to all the world's spiritual traditions and so we can actually begin to see
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what is that common essence we need to see that common element there were stripping things away rather than adding
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in stuff were taking away all the stuff that's been added on and of course what's really made that so much easier
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today is the media we could we had access to all these teachings whether it's through books for a long time it
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was books and then another thing that happened in the 1960s was cassette tapes we could actually take recordings around
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with us and listen to them in your car while you were driving and then the Walkman came along we could put that put it in that pocket and listen to teachers
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then of course CDs videos came in there's no videos back then videos were
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now now we don't need to even cut the videotape around all the DVD with streaming online we can have access to
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all that's happening in potential in this spiritual renaissance it's so so
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accessible and I think we often overlook just what a precious time this is to
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better have this access to global wisdom all of the global wisdom so easy and
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this is part of it coming here we have a wealth of wisdom from many different
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traditions from all of us each of us are on our own journey and we all have
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something to share in this journey and what is happening now is rather than
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there being some awakened being who is sharing his or her awakening with
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everybody we are all waking up together and you see this now just now we don't
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need to go to India you know you come here there's so many teachers that you know names I'm sure we all know some of
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them people who here who had their own awakening experience and sharing that so
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we never in our midst as a culture we have the awakened masters emerging all
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of whom have come here through their own individual work their own journey their own practice and so our whole culture is
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waking up when I say a whole culture of course I don't mean everybody in our culture's a lot of people are still very
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fast asleep but I mean this this movement this spiritual renaissance that we're all in one way or another engaged
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in we're all waking up in that way and so what I want to look at just very
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briefly is what I see is the essence of
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what's being rediscovered the emphasis on rediscovery nothing nothing new is
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happening but we are rediscovering for ourselves that essential spiritual
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message and the first thing and it's now
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it's so obvious is you know what are we looking for behind everything we do what
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we're altom utley looking for is give it different words to be happy to be a
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peace fulfillment satisfaction we're looking for an inner state we're looking
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for a better state of mind a better state of being to put in most generic form we're looking to feel okay inside
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now that I'm sure for most of you is no great revelation 50 years ago that was
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we were so trapped in the system that said you know life is about whatever it
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was getting a refrigerator color television color it didn't exist in getting more things that that's where happiness lay now that conditioning is
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still there but we're realizing no that that's not true it's not through what you have or do
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but what we're looking for is is that we're looking for happiness peace of mind we give it many many different words but that's that's ultimately what
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we're looking for and what our culture does is take us away from it ultimately
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it takes us in the opposite direction so
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our culture hypnotizes us into the belief that you just had the right things you'll be happy and it seems to
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work it seems to work but it's really covering up something much deeper and
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this is I think what the Buddha realized so clearly is the reason we're unhappy
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is because we think there's something missing there's something wrong we think we lack something that's why we're
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unhappy not because we haven't not because we need the things to make us happy but it's the we create this
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content we create this content and I know our whole culture every advertisement you see in one way or
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another is making you discontent they say you cannot be happy as you are with your current credit card here's
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something better but you know you must be dissatisfied with something and then we're going to offer you something better it's creating discontent this sad
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joke is the mind in its natural state is
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content but we create the discontent we
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overlay it with artificially created discontents I think a wonderful
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illustration of this I loved is what what the Internet has shown us is when
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you go shopping on the Internet you know you go and buy yourself a new piece of clothing a new jacket or something you
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go online you find the right price the right style the right color everything
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and you've finally press by now and you feel good it's another three days before
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it actually arrives so it isn't the jackets made you feel good it's the by pressing by now has made you feel good
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and the reason you feel good is now that one particular lack that one particular discontent is now no longer bothering
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you something else is going to come up probably when the jacket arise you realize it isn't quite the color you thought it was going to be and you move back into discontentedly but the point
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is we are making ourselves discontent which is you know part of the essence of
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non-duality is there's nowhere we need to go to find happiness we have to stop trying to go there have to stop trying
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to find it it's tough or trying to find it that gets in the way of our living it
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and this is probably the second thing that's almost universal in every
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teaching is how our thinking gets in the way by thinking I mean that internal
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conversation we have with ourselves most of the time I say most the time some of us it's probably 99.99% of the time
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there's there's a chatter going on it's your own voice talking to you about what's going on and how nice that person is and that's that and what's the
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weather going to be like tomorrow and God isn't the food good here and you know that conversation that goes on all the time that's going on that's hiding
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that natural state of contentment which is why so many traditions have said in
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one way or another we have to transcend thinking you have to go beyond the thinking mind because what you're
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looking for is within you the kingdom of heaven is within you but of course our whole culture keepers looking out there
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for it the third common elements are just about
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every tradition is how when we get caught in our thinking because most of
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our thinking most of it is about us me what I need what I don't want what's good well I think the president should
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be doing or whatever it's all about us in some way or another and so we create in our thinking we create this sense of
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being a separate individual self with this image of ourselves based upon our
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physical body that's going through this world with its on its own particular hero's journey with all its ups and
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downs and we identify with that constructed sense of self that we we
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live in their thinking and again what all the traditions are saying in one way or another we have to let go of that or step out of it or not take it so
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seriously again that's got corrupted and people say oh you've got to get rid of your ego it's not about getting rid of it it's
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about seeing it for what it is and not being caught up in it and be able to
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come back and reconnect with that deeper sense of beingness that sense of I
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that's always always there but we don't normally notice and why that sense of I
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just when we say the word I am is that I that knows and I am that that's that
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deeper sense of self that sense of being that sense of presence which as Tim was pointing out last night cannot be defined you're kind of put any labels on
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it but we all know it all so well it's that same sense of being I that was there yesterday that was there 20 years
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ago all my life my personality well that may have changed to some extent but that sense of being me
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never changes and that's what they're all pointing to - coming back
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recognising that the teaching that I've
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really been loving at them not as teaching this it's a very simple statement on this which I find so
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profound which is are the the opening lines of Patanjali Yoga Sutras and any
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of you who do know do yoga most yoga schools give lip service to this I was
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at a yoga ashram recently where everybody was wearing t-shirts and this phrase was all across the front of their
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t-shirts and it's that line in Sanskrit which is yogas chitta vritti nirodha
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some of you may know it but don't worry I've explained it this is the first line
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of the Yoga Sutras written by Patanjali sutras in Eastern traditions the word
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Sutra means thread and you have to ever get you go back thousand years two thousand years three thousand years
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particular and some of these things were first written down they weren't really so they weren't written down when they were first discovered the whole
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tradition was all everything was passed on by word of mouth and so what the teachers did would collapse their
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teaching into these sutras that everybody could remember this these particular four words these particular four words ourselves all about learning
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these sutras and then what you did afterwards as you pass the sutras on was you could unpack them and by unpacking
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the sutras a whole meaning discourse teaching came out of it so the first
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line it is actually the first line it's the second line of Patanjali yoga sutras the first line of yoga sutras for those who are really academic about it the
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first line says here begins the teaching on yoga the second line philosopher ganti yogas
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chitta vritti nirodha yoga it's the first one what is yoga mean I think many of you know the root meaning of yoga is
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to yoke back to tie back to bring unity and the way that's often translated is
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about always becoming one with God about coming one with the universe
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it's about finding oneness with something that Yoga is about joining I
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actually see it as something different it is about oneness it is about yoking coming back but I say this the end of
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separation the end of that sense of separation that we have of me being a
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separate individual little self struggling to get through this world with all my likes and dislikes and what are people going to think of me blah
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blah blah blah blah that's that individual self which is separate it's got separated from that sense of - that
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sense of beingness so yoga for me is is the it's oneness but it's the oneness
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that comes when the separation that we live in dissolves chitta means
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consciousness ritty means whirling the whirlpool the whirling of consciousness
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which is the thinking world we spend so much of our time in that whirling around
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there thinking about this thinking about that that whirling of consciousness and
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new Rhoda means ceasing and it's interesting how a translation of those
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four words has evolved over the last 50 years ago you go back to looking at
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translations of these Indian texts written you know back in the early part of the 20th
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and it was about you know yoga comes from the restraining of the whirling of myself when the restraining of thought
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you have to stop it thus you have to cease thinking you have to control the mind you have to stop it which as
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anybody who's tried to do that you know is virtually impossible and might you might succeed if take years and years
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and years and years I tried to stop it now modern translations about it's about
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allowing that to cease so the end of separation comes the end our inner separation comes when we allow that
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whirling of mind stuff the thinking to cease and now even more modern translations said it's not even ceasing
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that has freedom from freedom from the whirling of mind stuff freedom from the thinking the end of separation comes
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when there is freedom from the thinking so that's the first line which I say it's just about in every yoga school then the second two lines get
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interesting the next line says then there is abiding
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in the true nature of the Noah then there is abiding in the true nature of
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the Noah of that which knows the self the Noah that sense of I which is aware
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of every single experience we've ever had when the whirling of mind stuff ceases then there is abiding in the true
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nature of the self in the true nature of the I am and then the third line is
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almost always to my mind mistranslated
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third line says otherwise there is identification with the whirling of mind
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stuff that's where it actually says the way it's nearly always translated is
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otherwise the knower the self identifies with the thoughts
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but anybody who's really gone into non-duality in any depth you know that
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Noah that true sense of I the I am doesn't identify with anything it is just what time is called the silent
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witness it is that which is knowing experience it doesn't identify with anything the identification is happening
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within the whirling of mind stuff within the thought system there is the identification within that thinking mind
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you think I am this little small little vulnerable fearful hopeful excitable
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personality that's all within the whirling of mind stuff that nowhere consciousness doesn't identify with that
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so when we when we go beyond the whirling of mind stuff the end is the
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end of separation and we come to know the true nature of I that's what it's
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saying so simply and so how do we do
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that and I think what has happened in this journey of the last 50 years in our
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culture is as we began to dive into it
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it's got simpler and simpler and simpler
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and simpler easier and easier and easier you know one way of framing the whole
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you know non-dual philosophy I don't particularly like using us with one way
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of framing it is there's nothing to do there's nothing we actually have to do
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we have to stop the doing that takes us away from it that's almost part of you know if it's a first dogma of
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non-duality there's nothing to do there's nowhere else we are trying to get to that's
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that's the simplicity of what's coming out of all this it just gets simpler and simpler and
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simple and you know this is the theme which is in a part of so many of the people here who have things to share is
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their own way of their own simplicity of what it's all about and I think it's
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simpler it just gets easier and easier and easier if there's nothing to do that cannot be hard what becomes difficult is
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when we try to say well what do I need to do in order not to do anything and there's a lot of lot of that around and
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in fact most of these traditions or the practices are all about finding ways
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through around this whole conundrum of how to let go how to completely let go
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and as I was saying this morning in the meditation you know the biggest battle people having meditation is how to stop
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thinking I must go I must stop my thoughts know just step out of them and that's what I would like to sort of
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offer you here this afternoon as a simple practice that I find probably the
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simplest practice I've come across for myself and for the moment I probably say
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something different another year but for the moment the most profound and
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valuable practice is to realize we can
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all anytime we choose we can pause we
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can stop thinking for a moment we could just pour them whatever you're doing now wherever your mind is going it may not
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be following me but if it isn't then just hear this bit wherever your mind is going whatever it's thinking about bla bla bla bla bla
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stop it's going to come back again probably about two seconds later it will come back and you'll be off on some
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other journey whatever it is but we have that power to pause just for a moment we
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can step out of that habitual in a dialogue with ourselves and what do we
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notice when we do that I might someone ask anybody say if I might summarize
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what usually comes up firstly we become aware of the present oh there's the
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sound of that fan I hadn't noticed oh there's this there's something else oh I've got an itch in my body the present
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reveals itself again people say oh I've got to be more pressing there's nothing you can do to be present you've got to
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stop doing the things that take you out of the present and what takes us out of the present is their thinking their thinking is always about the past or the
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future or something in some way or another so when you pause your thinking just in that moment of pausing you
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become more present we become more present to your experience in that
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moment in the world but that's just that's just the beginning that's
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slightly entry point then in that
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pausing noticing how what does it feel not what do you noticing how does it
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feel when you pause like that and again the sort of words that people come up
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with very often it's like oh there's a sense of relief or sense of ease or it's
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okay or some people may talk about other there's a greater sense of spaciousness
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or a sense of clarity great a sense of my own presence my own being
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or as you go deeper like oh yes Here I am you recognize here is that sense of i
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am-ness which has been there all the time it's there so what we're doing when we're pausing is beginning to come back
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to true nature and as you do this and we
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just do it in our own way but just just pausing noticing how it is what we
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notice is it's actually enjoyable it's
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actually what we've been looking for all along which we hoped the new jacket would get us but was covered up by the
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wanting it the missing it the need when we pause that pause of thinking for the wanting we begin to get in touch with
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what it is we're actually looking for all along the happiness the ease the peace of mind where if we want to call
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it and it's lovely and so the next part
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of the practice is to actually save on that to enjoy it to actually pause oh
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yes this feels and allow ourselves to
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sink into savoring it recognizing that sense of feeling good
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and to actually love it we can actually
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begin to love our own inner sense of beingness when we stop thinking just at that moment we just come back to that
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ease that delicious quietness stillness spaciousness we want to call it then
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take time to actually love to really love it because the more we do
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that the more we value it the more attractive it becomes the less we are
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drawn off into all these stories that society is continually telling us about
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what we need to be happy so this I think
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is probably the most valuable
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application of love that we can apply in ourselves there's many many other areas
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of love but to actually love our own essence is reinforcing our connection
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with that experience because you in that
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sense that that i am-ness which is always there that is the beloved that is
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what we're looking for the beloved is not out there something to find out there the beloved is our own true nature
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you are the beloved so we begin to love our own nature we are learning to love
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the beloved and so to come back to the
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Beatles nothing you can do nothing you
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can do but you can learn to be you in
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time it's easy all you need
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All You Need is Love: Peter Russell

Science and Nonduality
Science and Nonduality
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https://www.scienceandnonduality.com/ Fifty years ago, as our culture began a collective journey of conscious awakening, the Beatles recorded their anthem, "All You Need is Love." Since then, we've been distilling the wisdom of the world's spiritual traditions, stripping away the trappings of time and misunderstanding, to reveal their common truths. In the process, the teachings have become simpler and simpler, and the path easier and easier, bringing us ever closer to the essence of non-duality. Today, as we learn to drop back effortlessly into our own Being, we are reminded, once again, that all you need is love—love for own essential nature. Weaving his unique blend of scientific rationale, global vision, and intuitive wisdom, Peter brings a sharp, critical mind to the challenge of self-awakening. The next great frontier of human exploration, he shows, is not outer space, but inner space—the awakening of the human consciousness. http://www.peterrussell.com/ He has degrees in theoretical physics, experimental psychology, and computer science from the University of Cambridge in England, and has written ten books in this area, including The Global Brain Awakens, Waking Up in Time, and most recently, From Science to God: A Physicist’s Journey into the Mystery of Consciousness.

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I like this guy and how he talks of the simplicity of things. My humble little view in this vast field of finding self awareness/peace/love etc is that there is much, too much talking and intellectual musings when the joke is just getting the mind quiet enough for the self to go ...........ahhh the relief ! :)
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What a great simple clear explanation of our predicament as humans. Freedom and peace of mind is so simple and accessible. You don’t have to spend hours a day meditating. A few minutes a day is good but the realization and knowing of the true self is key. Discovering the observer or witness within oneself and operating from the seat of awareness is essential. Michael Singer’s Untethered Soul provides all one needs to know and do to wake up. It is so simple when you strip away the religious traditions and cultural conditioning, and attempts over the century by individuals to control peopl’s mind with their own values and useless rituals. Teachers who present themselves as gurus are to be avoided. Use the teachings that serve you but don’t give up your authority to some guru or anyone for that matter. Peter Russell does a beautiful job of condensing and simplifying the essence of what leads to freedom and allows the soul to grow and evolve while on this earthly plane of existence. Riding in this vehicle (the body with its mind and heart) and experiencing it’s joys and trials is an adventure but always remember what and who you are.
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Awesome Peter. What a giant leep we have taken since 1967. I am so happy that it's still going on and now stronger than ever. I was in India in 1970 and it set me on a miraculous cource.... Namaste.
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Best speech, Peter. Every so often I listen to it again. Always the same feeling. Thank u. Namaste.
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O how I love this man!
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Maybe if we stop trying to be perfect we actually would be. By trying to be something you acknowledge that you're not. Love is the most perfect thing we can do. God is love.
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Peter, you are a wonderful spirit! I would hug you and tell you I'm glad to have you as a fellow in this time we have now on Earth. I'm sixty-seven and I remember the 60' but I have to tell that I may understand all the thing only now. Thanks for all your words, but above all thank you to be in this wonderful adventure we all have together!
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Beautiful
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namaste, great speech & so true! peace
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Brilliant video! Liked & shared with friends 🤓✌️❤️💯🌱🦄
Peace!
A good day
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Damn that was lit
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Our original state is bliss.
Noted very good.
When you've seen beyond yourself Then you may find peace of mind is waiting there And the time will come when you see we're all one And life flows on within you and without you
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💙~~~~~~~#Namaste~~~~~~🔆
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This was enjoyable. It seems to me that the sense of identification is a third aspect to who we are and it can reside with the mind stuff or the universal consciousness or witness. In that there is the holly trinity, father (universal truth/witness) Son (suffering of sin/identification of mind stuff) the holly ghost (identification of the self, which can shift and appear hidden inside the others.
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What HP Lovecraft said.
Now the time is near. Who are you? Who am I?
Love is sooooo corrupted as a word..as an idea..because the majority of humanity is trapped in likes and dislikes thinking that that had to do with love..Reverence for life and acknowledge our souls as eternal worthy s is what we as humans seem to chronically miss.. Not desire but the need hurts us.. Desire is the power that brought and brings creation into creation.. Desire is not the problem.. lacking is what makes us feel a need..materialism is just the simple and quick fiks we all know this. Until we start to experience reverence for life that is in all and through all and around all we feel incomplete ..causing a deep hurt and dispair in many humans...Love beyond like and dislike..🙌🙏🌟.
"All you need is love" is wrong, to do it properly, you also need lubricant.
Has non duality any place or existence in Islamic philosophy?
And what are the very things we see in the Christian ethos? The phrase "I am" for one and that "God is love" - is that not what he's saying to us? God is in us... We've had these notions for thousands of years, predating Christianity, but was reinforced by Christ himself.
Fifty years later and the world population is nearing towards half, then a quarter, then a tenth. Progressives are not progressive, its more about a lack of systems thinking.
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What is love?
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What HP Lovecraft said.
Now the time is near. Who are you? Who am I?
Love is sooooo corrupted as a word..as an idea..because the majority of humanity is trapped in likes and dislikes thinking that that had to do with love..Reverence for life and acknowledge our souls as eternal worthy s is what we as humans seem to chronically miss.. Not desire but the need hurts us.. Desire is the power that brought and brings creation into creation.. Desire is not the problem.. lacking is what makes us feel a need..materialism is just the simple and quick fiks we all know this. Until we start to experience reverence for life that is in all and through all and around all we feel incomplete ..causing a deep hurt and dispair in many humans...Love beyond like and dislike..🙌🙏🌟.
"All you need is love" is wrong, to do it properly, you also need lubricant.
Has non duality any place or existence in Islamic philosophy?
And what are the very things we see in the Christian ethos? The phrase "I am" for one and that "God is love" - is that not what he's saying to us? God is in us... We've had these notions for thousands of years, predating Christianity, but was reinforced by Christ himself.
Fifty years later and the world population is nearing towards half, then a quarter, then a tenth. Progressives are not progressive, its more about a lack of systems thinking.
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What is love?
Top is selected, so you'll see featured comments