BEING AT ONE WITH LIFE - sensing rather than thinking can dissolve separation

[@lynnpollock5553]

It's so nice to hear a being in the body of a woman sharing what I have been learning from Ekart Tolle, who has been a great teacher and still is.

[@collettewhiteman]

❤️Eckhart ❤️ 🙏

[@daynawillbanks7985]

It clicked with your pointing today. The mind draws hard lines around the direct experience! So clear the way the mind is always running a commentary on an experience making it subject object. Just being with what is prior to the mind describing the scene. Thank you

[@collettewhiteman]

Beautiful ❤

[@barbarasullivan8772]

Lovely!

[@collettewhiteman]

😊🙏

[@aaron_2327]

Yes it is stunning and you notice deeper patterns and connections that’s beyond what we call observable, we can only express it in this reality through art and poetry. You also realise that everything is conscious and aware of you, and I’ve had a few mystical experiences where the spirit of the landscape communicated with me. We don’t realise that forests, mountains etc.. actually have an intelligence of their own.

[@collettewhiteman]

Beautiful 😍

[@michaeltaylor2079]

The suffering is in the story; perfectly stated. 🙏🏻

[@collettewhiteman]

😊🙏

[@PaulClearfire]

Super useful, Colette, thank you. Lately I've been caught up in trying to distinguish what is the product of the apparently separate self and what is just being. Just a few moments into watching this video and that's all cleared up now. :-) thanks!❤

[@collettewhiteman]

Thats great to hear Paul, thanks 😊

[@PaulClearfire]

@collettewhiteman I just posted a response video on my Diary of Awakening playlist. After watching this video, gone through my morning today, sinking into being, I'm noticing that there are things getting done, chores, dishes, laundry, being with my kids and family... and even the doing is simply arising. I don't yet have the language to accurately express what this is like. Peaceful.

[@collettewhiteman]

@@PaulClearfire ah yes, the mind isn’t claiming everything. You almost notice after the event that you have got lots done, because there isn’t a commentator. It’s all just unfolding, flow like. No doer, just doing. 😊👍lovely

[@PaulClearfire]

@@collettewhiteman Yes, that's it exactly. There is no I that is doing, there is just doing arising in awareness. Flow glow :-).

[@michaeltaylor2079]

Your method is fascinating to me. It is so obvious you are deeply contemplating, nothing is contrived. 🙏🏻

[@collettewhiteman]

😊🙏

[@Nadine_Franke]

Thank you Colette❤️

[@collettewhiteman]

You are so welcome xxx

[@jpslaym0936]

Collette, I just wanted to convey that you’re providing a unique and clearly authentic perspective thats enlightening esp. from another human rather than an NHI that hasnt lived the dense 3d separation experience and progression to non-duality. Its a markedly more useful transfer of understanding. E.g. “you are the experience, the thoughts are appearing to you not in you” No ascended master has coalesced that concept more succinctly. TY!

[@collettewhiteman]

😊🙏

[@DonButz0301]

Wonderful This is the First Time , I understand separation 👏🏾

[@collettewhiteman]

Ah thank you 🙏 that’s great 😊👍

[@simonjones6128]

Nice Collette. Almost all people believe life is about going somewhere doing something when it's simply about beingness. I have been asked many times to explain this. but they simply give you. The Look. They run through life like hungry ghost's but they are oblivious too it. 9:41 9:41 9:41

[@elisabethk7103]

🙏🙏🙏WONDERFUL❤❤❤ THANK YOU❤❤❤ SO MANY SWEET TEARS AND THE HEART VIBRATING, THANK YOU, THANK YOU 🙏🙏🙏

[@collettewhiteman]

❤🙏❤️🙏

[@kevinmai2947]

Beautiful

[@flintpixie]

Thank you for this beautiful sharing - really touched my heart

[@collettewhiteman]

😊🙏❤️

[@entertainmenttemple661]

Wow! You look stunning! The hair and the colour just blazingly beautiful 🤩

[@collettewhiteman]

😊🙏❤️thank you x

[@africagoddess4378]

Uu just explain everything simple and understandable thank you so much ❤

[@collettewhiteman]

😊🙏

[@11TheLittleReader11]

This was glorious. Thank you so much. ♥️

[@collettewhiteman]

Glad you enjoyed it! 🙏❤️

[@j.africaslastdance3969]

You are getting better at this, and it's some kind of wonderful to watch! Keep on truckin' and I'm going to sense my way into this, I swear to God!

[@collettewhiteman]

It’s a sense of Self. The closest, most subtle, sense of checking in. What’s here, what is already here, when I don’t take one step away from right here ❤️

[@RicKuklinski]

I really like what you're doing.

[@collettewhiteman]

That’s lovely, thank you 😊

[@Benjaminsmallwood]

I was able to help a woman once who suffered all her life from " disassociative disorder " . When the truth entered her she cried out " my mind, my body ,and my soul were all seperated, now they are together " then ,free forever from the " noise " inside her, she cried out " I am Gods kaleidoscope " . Thru being and experiencing ,perhaps the Cause of all being gets to experience creation from creations point of view. I wonder.

[@collettewhiteman]

Stunning ❤️ thank you for sharing

[@Benjaminsmallwood]

Your quick and heartfelt response brought tears to my eyes. Thank you. I am a 60 year old stone Mason, whose body is worn from labor but my heart is is filled with joy and gratitude.

[@collettewhiteman]

@@Benjaminsmallwood another stunning sharing ❤️🙏 you touched my heart too.

[@georgeshirtcliffe7361]

Hi I've just discovered your short statements on experience, beiingness, consciousness, etc. Wonderful and insightful pointers to non-dual awareness.

[@collettewhiteman]

🙏thank you George 😊❤️

[@GeertMeertens]

We make the same mistake in every dream: we identify with the person and regard the rest as other(s). Each time it takes awakening to be able to realize the personal perspective was erroneous. It always is. Ponder the personal perspective in the dream called life.

[@collettewhiteman]

👍x

[@hansenmarc]

When for you there will be only the seen in reference to the seen, only the heard in reference to the heard, only the sensed in reference to the sensed, only the cognized in reference to the cognized, then, Bāhiya, there is no you in connection with that. When there is no you in connection with that, there is no you there. When there is no you there, you are neither here nor yonder nor between the two. This, just this, is the end of stress. -Bahiya Sutta

[@Lizzyliz1111]

An awakened British woman? Yay so relatable and feels close to home 🥰

[@collettewhiteman]

😊❤️

[@TommeeKnocker]

The mind is so narrow, a tunnel through the day, we notice so much more at rest, like the singing of birds, or the patterns in grass from the wind, I have also noticed that the negativity arising in others from the trap of the mind is becoming more obvious, as well as those that seem to move more from heart, though I feel I must take care to not let complainers become too much my complaint, and remain grateful for the air that I breath.

[@jackiek4159]

Thank you! How do we get back to this when feeling fear and symptoms and not feeling like we can get back to experiencing as the thoughts keep being persistent? 🙏🏻💕✨

[@collettewhiteman]

It’s about attention. Resting consistently in effortless being ( just being) which is effortless but does require some level of commitment because of habit, helps create distance from thoughts, so it easier to not pick up invitations from the conditioned mind. Once we have picked up an invitation, it’s as if we have to ride it out. Once we are back in being ( you never leave it’s the attention that does) it’s good to not be mad that you picked up an invitation, as that’s another invitation. At some point the way the invitations are delivered is clearly seen. This is all the a game of duality really, infinite being is always just resting, shining, being. It’s to see that you are that, the background of being.

[@sarahmuschel4812]

@@collettewhitemanhow to rest in being? Is it open attention?

[@collettewhiteman]

@@sarahmuschel4812 I would offer open focus into what’s here already or closed focus into the world of story. When you are in the story it’s a very real experience but what is experiencing ? It’s the Self, it never leaves being. It can play in the world of doing. 😊

[@leneandersen-s9y]

I see what you say, and know it is true 💚. But my mind comes in the way time after time. I so much longing for that freedom of experience of oneness, I feel it is so close, but it's like I am trying to hard, and my trying is i getting in the way, and I can not find a way to stop it.. I guess I have been looking for 25 years, readig Eckart Tolle, Yoga books, meditate and so on😅 Now i read "A coarse i miraceles", and I also know what I seek is inside me/as me, the truth just is - but I cant seem to make that flip... Is that what you help people with? Love from Lene in Norway 🌷🙏

[@collettewhiteman]

Hello, that is great that there is the recognition that it’s close, that it’s within and also that it’s a heart based longing ❤️ What normally happens on a 1-1 is I get all the I thoughts down on paper, help someone to drop out of their head, into the core of their being. Once they are established there and it’s by asking a few questions that I can see where they are answering from, that the pervious ( I ) thoughts can be looked at and potentially seen through. It has to be your seeing, it’s often just the realisation that we can’t find this (I ) that seems to have been running the show. The habit is to go to the mind for answers but I am able to see that and point back to the ground of being for the truth. You are very welcome to reach out for a 1-1 Personal pointing is very helpful. Trust yourself inner knowing and go with someone you resonate with xxx 😊

[@leneandersen-s9y]

I will start whith writing down all the I thougts. Then I will most likelydende book 1 to 1 whith you. 👏💚 ​@@collettewhiteman

[@heshamaljazi4513]

So clear and direct. Thank you so much 🙏🏻

[@collettewhiteman]

😊🙏❤️

[@cuttingthrough4718]

Simple and clear.

[@collettewhiteman]

🙏❤️

[@GRunner6S]

There is no space between me and life lived directly. I am one with life lived directly. I am that and that is I am. I am everything. I am nothing. I'm a verb! I'm a thought, thoughting!

[@collettewhiteman]

Beautiful 😍

[@johnnywlittle]

3:40 it’s as if the view is coming to you rather than you’re looking at the view - you are the view

[@marlaanderson7191]

Excellent

[@collettewhiteman]

😊💗🙏🏻

[@CindyTrickett-ej4sc]

Thank you! ❤

[@collettewhiteman]

You are so welcome! 🙏

[@InfiniteNothing]

This is 🔥

[@collettewhiteman]

🙏😊

[@kenjones102]

As the ocean waves, you can wave back, or not!

[@johnpaulson996]

Even the word sadness is a concept from the past. Feel the feeling, but let go of the label.

[@collettewhiteman]

😊❤

[@christinechapman9764]

Really, really good. ❤

[@collettewhiteman]

😊🙏❤️

[@carstengoldbknielsen1764]

❤

[@stevecharles4265]

And soon you will find that we are all one and life goes on within you and without you. George Harrison.

[@collettewhiteman]

💗

[@stevecharles4265]

​@@collettewhitemanthe whole verse by George dear Collette......when you see beyond yourself, you may find the peace within and you will see that we are all one and life goes on within you and without you. ps love your videos so much Collette 🙏❤️😽

[@stevecharles4265]

​@@collettewhiteman❤️

[@collettewhiteman]

@@stevecharles4265 Beautiful thanks for sharing 💗🙏🏼💗🙏🏼💗

[@stevecharles4265]

@@collettewhiteman ❤️😽❤️

[@roberttravers7587]

Great video!🌝🌞

[@collettewhiteman]

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[@bernadettemolloy9148]

Very good thank you ❤

[@collettewhiteman]

😊🙏

[@JoshRoxSox]

Can you please make a few vids on stabilizing in this perception after we see our true nature. I think (at least ime) thats the most important part after noticing our true nature if that makes sense ❤❤❤❤❤ Thanks sm for you videos! :)

[@collettewhiteman]

@@JoshRoxSox 👍🏼🙏🏼💗

[@Christopherbarett]

Really nice pointer, thank you!

[@collettewhiteman]

😊🙏

[@alfreddifeo9642]

🙏

[@collettewhiteman]

😊👍

[@venkateshwarlumundrathi-qx4iq]

Ma'am how and when do the separate experiencer collapses and becomes one with experience?

[@collettewhiteman]

When there isn’t a sense of drawing a hard line around anything. When you see things just as they are, prior to the mind creating a framework. A fixed point of view. How ? By being with what is, which is prior ( the brief space before the mind starts commentating ). So settle into the silence spaces, snuggle down with the space, the background of experience. Don’t be too faithful to the commentator, it’s just offering suggestions that you’ve chosen before. 😊👍

[@venkateshwarlumundrathi-qx4iq]

Being with what is is impossible ma'am because the mind is too quick to judge, comment, resist, lable . Therefore missing the inner space.

[@collettewhiteman]

@@venkateshwarlumundrathi-qx4iq I would offer that you are the background in which everything arises. The attention goes towards the ever changing. If you make a habit of resting in the space of being. Over and over, the attention is retrained to rest in being. Self inquiry into who is being pulled into the mind, to see through the way we identify with thoughts would be helpful also. 👍

[@younusxp]

Are we the experience or are we the knowing?

[@collettewhiteman]

Non conceptual knowing. 😊👍 not a person knowing, just ‘knowing’ or ‘Being’

[@younusxp]

@@collettewhiteman il keep trying to “be”…to just be that ..being.

[@collettewhiteman]

@@younusxp when you draw, is there a sense of just being with what’s happening ?

[@younusxp]

@@collettewhiteman yes! :) But most of the time I don’t recognize that…it just happens.

[@younusxp]

Maybe the awakening is also just a happening no amount of videos or meditations or pointers will do it huh?

[@JonnyChaos]

Does it feel a lot different to experiencing as a person?

[@collettewhiteman]

@@JonnyChaos Not hugely, because what has fundamentally been experiencing, doesn’t change, it’s what we have been falsely believing falls away. There is a relaxation of the nervous system, as if we’ve unplugged from the denser mode of experiencing, so more of a fluid flow like feeling. The resistance to what’s happening gradually stops being experienced. You can still have a personal experience but you know it’s the universe or One Self experiencing. You eventually see others as the same essence as you. Mind chatter potentially still goes on in the background as if it’s a tv left on in another room, but there is no interest. You see actions are spontaneously happening, it was just a mental overlay of a mind made self, mentally claiming everything. What am I doing today, I am getting up, I remembered my keys etc. It’s a good question and a video on this would be a good idea. Thanks for asking

[@JonnyChaos]

@@collettewhiteman thanks. I just wondered because I'm not sure if I've had glimpses or not, or if it's just my mind saying 'that felt a bit different', or 'I'm pretty sure I had it then' . I just wanted see if it's known without any question when it is finally seen and you become identified with the true Self rather than still having to question it.

[@collettewhiteman]

@@JonnyChaos It’s something that can be directly and undeniably experienced, when we drop the mental overlay ( mind commentating). just like you said, there was potentially an experience of directly noticing this space of just being, as soon as the mind comments and we accept the comment as being ours, valid or true ( we are then are in the mental realm) which limits the experience. Appears to cover what’s been seen. It doesn’t but that is the experience. Now the important thing to recognise I would offer is…,who is saying that’s a bit different, that’s a bit odd? …. Can you find that one….. Don’t go to the mind here, stay with the space….look …… This is a good thing to do with someone who can guide you as they can catch the mental answers and keep pointing you back to being and bingo 👀 you’ve had chance to see it without jumping up to the commentator. It just takes enough noticing for it to be recognised, registered, for the penny to drop. 😊👍🏼

[@life13525]

yet your personal relationships did not dissolve?

[@collettewhiteman]

No the idea of separation dissolves. So you see everyone as you 😊

[@life13525]

I hear of so many that the more the realisation deepens/embodies, that the old way of relating and connecting falls away, can't be done/sustained anymore (old values fall away)..with an at the same time ongoing deepening of integrity/authenticity into one's human life, kind of.deepening on a human level and that comes with consequences...not for you?? Adyashanti calls it the awakened relativity...where mountains are again mountains etc.

[@collettewhiteman]

@@life13525 It’s just revealed in many ways. Even this question can feel as though it’s coming from me. This me ( life) is fluid so it can shape into some sort of story of a me and you, but also be experienced as no me and you.

[@life13525]

Thx for responding Colette..was asking about relationships because David Bingham once told me he no longer meets much with people who believe they are just human seperate beings...no more interest...probably different for everyone...here also old connections have been falling away without intention and I am grieving this...

[@collettewhiteman]

@@life13525I’m offering up embodiment, would you say you feel embodied? The sense of impersonal self having a full embodied experience. Never becoming personal. It’s just that self realisation can feel like we are awareness and hang out in that expansive mode of experiencing. When we experience from a bodily perspective there is more of a shared human experience through the heart, ❤️ whilst always knowing its life experiencing.