The self in the chooser. "Between stimulus and response there is a space. and in that space is our power to choose" -Viktor Frankl. It seems that the Buddha was wrong. One man missing the self when looking for it does not mean that it does not exist.

So sorry that your quotation of Evan Thompson’s statement in his book ‘Why I Am Not A Buddhist’ at the end of the video is not a good example at all, because it reflects Evan’s misunderstanding of Buddhism.

Intro song? Feel like i’ve heard something alike in a radiohead song.

Thanks!

He nirvanished?

Parenting may and should not be job.

Thank you for sharing this overview of Dependent Origination (Conditions Arising)-profound, deep and complex. What makes Dependent Origination complex and mystifying is the fact that there is a past to present to future interaction and overlapping of actions, causes and interaction of experiences. So the Buddha is guiding us through the Four Noble Truths and the Middle Way Noble Eightfold Path to a personal breakthrough wisdom or enlightenment ending our ongoing self-deluded suffering. PAST DORMANT An underlying gross and corrupt misunderstanding (ignorance) of life and reality as self or individual in nature (the many actions giving the illusion of the ‘one’ or self) has us wandering, lost (samsara) and suffering. From a corrupt self-deluded misunderstanding comes a streaming of deluded mental formations PRESENT ACTIVE From corrupt mental formations comes a present consciousness. From a corrupt present consciousness comes a body/mind identification. From a corrupt body/mind self-identification comes sense media (eyes, ears, nose, tongue, touch and mind). From corrupt sense media comes sense contacts(eye, ear, nose, tongue, touch and mind consciousness episodes). From corrupt sense contacts comes feelings (pleasant, painful and neutral). From corrupt feelings comes craving after to fulfill a self-identification. From corrupt craving comes self attachment. From corrupt self-attachment comes commitment and becoming. FUTURE TRANSGRESSING From corrupt commitment and becoming to act out comes birth as actions. From birth as actions play out in order to fulfill a self-identification comes dissatisfaction, aging and death suffering. The Accomplished One (Arahant) penetrates self-corrupt misunderstanding and ignorance to discern Dependent Origination (Conditions Arising) causes and effects history, and doesn’t fall back to a deluded self-referenced identification and an extreme one-sided self-focus: Did I exist in the past? Did I not exist in the past? What was I in the past? How was I in the past? Having been what, what did I become in the past? Or will I exist in the future? Will I not exist in the future? What will I be in the future? How will I be in the future? Having been what, what will I become in the future? Do I exist? Do I not exist? What am I? How am I? This being-where has it come from, and where will it go? (SN 12:20: II 25-27).

In order for death to occur, birth must happen as a condition. What a truth so soothing because of its unparalleled simplicity and certainty.

Talking about Love, I LOVE that you use the NIRVANA band font.

An advanced Tibetan lama who was the 10th incarnation of his line or something like that (I only know his adopted Western name, Jack), told my dad, when he asked him about death, "People have these belief systems...like, Heaven, really? But to me, it's just like changing your clothes." He also made other comments like how "When you've died so many times, it's not a big deal anymore" or how rebirth was like picking out a new car. "You see a new body, you like it, you decide this is the one you want." So it seems that to him, rebirth wasn't a belief but a reality, a lived experience. My dad also has a ton of other very cool stories about him, mostly about what a great guy he was.

Judaism.

Beautiful video ❤

I am no one.

* or to balance from within, most likely it quickly settles back into being, mixed together and purified of bad karma, because in the ether the vortex lasts for a short time. Good karma is also the direction of the common vortex, which during the transition eliminates the weaker bad karma when they merge. Good karma is directionally determined by the direction of the progression of time, determined by the growth of the past (left-right handed), growth-time which runs perpendicular to it.

For example, after death, the self merges into a common universal consciousness, which grows and therefore forms new selves (vortices) on the edges, *** in order to balance its growth-new common form from the outside. There are a huge number of possible or further coherent explanations.

I do not agree that if one caves into suffering and wallows in it is ''weak'', context is very important and it isn't as black as white as that when it comes to human psychology. Genetics, upbringing, and the way the body and nerves react to certain stimuli and interactions has a lot to say as well. Some are more sensitive than others and that is not in the negative sense when I am saying it but in a neurotic sense. It's very possible that this wasn't the intention of Nietzsche at all to convey it in that manner but I would still clarify that context is always important. I do believe that suffering is a very good guiding force but also a very traumatizing one depending on how one handles it and how the mind consciously and subconsciously reacts to it. It isn't a shaming contest, unfortunately we are all suffering to different regards even if it is necessary.

Thank you for this video!❤🙏🏻

Continue to pull at the thread you are following. Do not be swayed. Do not be fooled by detractors. Reflect, but forge ahead.

I Can imagine, and only that the will to power is nothing but a mere force of willing to something that only trough contemplation aside of it we can call "power". And what is this power? It is really a power? There is really a power to will ? If we are willing to power we can set some duality here and for me Budhism can be more coherent than Nietzsche, even Schopenhauer.

WHO IS IGNORANT??

I think the concept of a self is in its nature paradoxical, I mean here the self being the center and the circumference at the same time. I think, deep down in the more reality of things we have opposites. the unification of opposites leads to wholeness. Existence emerges from the chaos of opposites, for instance you can't find an object, phenomena or even a concept without an opposite to it. For example, the opposite of heat is cold, the opposite of dryness is wetness, the opposite of up is down, and so on. the universe (whole) is made of opposites. It is the center and the circumference together that makes the whole circle. finally, I want to clarify my concept behind words. the whole circle is wholeness, mandala or God; for some it's also self. The center is self and opposite to circumference. the circumference is self but opposite to center. Self is both center and circumference. And this duality or opposition is paradoxical but leads to wholeness through unification.

I'm curious what your analytics say about how many people clicked away from the video at the beginning when you warned them.

So according to you ,if I accept the buddha's teachings then I will be from Old age, suffering and Death. But what about the suffering that I have now? Mental sufferings will be elimiated, right. But what about suffering from diseases?

"Pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses our understanding." K Gibran.

is mindfullness the key to deal with shadow and repression? Allowing whatever comes to come, but without clinging to it or focusing on it?

To detach from the world and only love God is to love the world and all life and creation. It's a by product of loving God.

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As a minister in the revolution and evolution of religion, here is my favorite Jung quote: "Life really does begin at 40; before that everything is just research." What I have come to believe, as someone who has lived 6 separate and distinct lives in this one body, is that we THINK way too much. There is no need for debate. We are each the sovereign center of our own universe. Namaste.

consciousness/Consciousness: “that which knows”, or “the state of being aware”, from the Latin prefix “con” (with), the stem “scire” (to know) and the suffix “osus” (characterized by). To put it succinctly, consciousness is the SUBJECTIVE component in any subject-object relational dynamic. The concept of consciousness is best understood in comparison with the notion of sentience. Cf. “sentience”. As far as biologists can ascertain, the simplest organisms (single-celled microbes) possess an exceedingly-primitive form of sentience, since their life-cycle revolves around adjusting to their environment, metabolizing, and reproducing via binary fission, all of which indicates a sensory perception of their environment (e.g. temperature, acidity, energy sources and the presence of oxygen, nitrogen, minerals, and water). More complex organisms, such as plants, have acquired a far greater degree of sentience, since they can react to the light of the sun, to insects crawling on their leaves (in the case of carnivorous plants), excrete certain chemicals and/or emit ultrasonic waves when being cut. At this point it is imperative to consult the entry “sentience” in the Glossary of this Holy Scripture. According to this premise, the simplest forms of animal life possess sentience, but no noticeable semblance of true consciousness. As a general rule, those animals that have at least three or four senses, combined with a simple brain, possess a mind but lack an intellect. Higher animals (notably mammals) have varying levels of intelligence but only humans have a false-ego (sense of self). Thus, human consciousness is constituted of the three components: the mind, the intellect, and the pseudo-ego (refer to Ch. 05). There is a rather strong correlation between brain complexity and level of consciousness, explaining why humans alone are capable of self-awareness. In this case, “self-awareness” is not to be confused with “self-recognition”, which is a related but quite distinct phenomenon, found also in several species of non-human animals, in which an animal is able to recognize itself in a mirror or some other reflective surface. “Self-awareness” refers to the phenomenon where a human over the age of approximately three years, is conscious of the fact that he or she knows (that is, aware) that he or she is aware. Obviously, in the case of a child, he or she may need to be prompted in order to first be acquainted with this understanding. For example, an adult could perhaps ask the child: “Do you know that you have a toy car?” “Yes!” “And do you KNOW that you know you have a toy car?” “Umm...I think so...yes!”. As far as biologists can ascertain, no other animal has the brain functionality to scrutinize its own existence/being, and to ponder the prospect that it may not exist in the future, nor that it may not have existed at any time in the past (let alone higher notions, such as contemplating the meaning of its life, metaphysics, meta-ethics, or to design advanced technology, as do we Homo sapiens sapiens). In contemporary spiritual circles (as well as in several places within this book), the capitalized form of the word usually, if not always, refers to Universal Consciousness, that is, an Awareness of awareness (otherwise known as The Ground of All Being, et altri). Please note that this usage (“Consciousness”) is merely a concession to both the English language (which lacks a single-word equivalent of “Brahman/Tao”), and to the so-called “ultra-spiritual/neo-advaita” community (which invariably uses the terms “Consciousness” and “Awareness”, interchangeably, in their capitalized forms, as a moniker for The Absolute/Brahman/Tao).

I’m Reading about dreams. Dreams are a representation of our shadows. So interesting. There’s something called dream yoga, or lucid dreaming. Interesting stuff. 🙏🙏🙏

Brilliant. Thank you.

The collective unconscious is what Hindus adheres to birth and rebirth concept. When u reach the depth of it then there is no birth. It is not new

The past 2 years have been the deepest I've dove into myself, equally willingly and unwillingly. Moving over these peaks and valleys, I have found solace through teachers like yourself. Thank you with much loving compassion.

Excellent content. Note that the body is only the most obvious example of rūpa (image of body) but includes any, all forms "I" may identify with: my hair, my shoes, my job, even my world.

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Is the collective unconscious STILL controversial??? Is so, I say ugh to the pace so slow ❤

you don't have to say Dutka in every single sentence. Its distracting

Excellent summary. Music was a distractor to the commentary!

I think Budha solved his own life problem not human life problem, because as the Budha passed human problem still exist. Men have been trying to listen and then copy paste what Budha have to say but that doesn't work.

This video beautifully explains Carl Jung's profound insights into embracing our shadow. The 3 steps to wholeness were presented so clearly, making it easier to reflect on our own inner journey. Thank you for sharing such transformative content-it’s truly inspiring and helps us grow toward self-acceptance and authenticity!