Nonduality: Experiencing Your "Truest" Nature

[@susanfoster4141]

Something that is nothing, just had to watch this again. 1 to 0 in no time and wow on the 10 seconds of absolute truth! experiential noticing brought recognition that this character was never truly believed in and yet a feeling of "playing along with the dream"..but more and more sense of presence and 'the bottom falls out'...Thankyou!! for showing 'm'e true, true nature...welcome to the edge

[@FredDavisNonduality]

Thank you, love! Great to hear from you!

[@rosannastewart3174]

It’s like a single point which itself is absolute Nothingness but from which all and infinite possibilities are held and from which the entire manifest universe pours forth. That is what You are/It is

[@FredDavisNonduality]

Yes! Potentiality.

[@rosannastewart3174]

Fred! I'm so glad you talked about this! I hear so much about presence and witnessing and all of that which I get but it never felt like the bottom line of Truth so when I really look all I can find inside is just like a void it feels like a black hole kind of just nothingness, not presence not witnessing just the Source of all of that, whatever that is haha! thank you for your work!!

[@FredDavisNonduality]

And thank you for your comments, Rose. They are right on point!

[@sandycarter5300]

(Taking a moment to sort this through)...the essence of this body is consciousness... except that there is never a cohesive, continuing body/mind; there is never organized "matter"; it's a virtual reality made up of thought. All there ever is to the so called "body" are the particular sensations, etc., arising each seeming moment. To say the essence of this body is consciousness must then mean that all there ever is to the "body" is the apparent consciousness of the apparently arising sensations/feelings coming from impersonal, false consciousness. It can't be real or true because what this supposed consciousness is cognizant of doesn't exist. The red isn't in the "rose", and the eye only sees images on the retina; consciousness doesn't have "matter" arising within it. It can only give rise to thought. Sensations are never occurring in matter because there isn't any. There's never an actual objective body or objective anything. It's all arising in impersonal/ universal consciousness.

[@FredDavisNonduality]

I follow what you're saying, but I think it's yet a bit heady. Look for the one who has laid all of this out.

[@joefulton]

Thank you

[@FredDavisNonduality]

You're welcome, Joseph!

[@jeanbaptisteponsot]

Great video and great work Fred, you're very good! But when you say:"it's only experiential to an illusion", i would say that it's already too much because this "Absence" is the end of experience, the Nirvana (which means extinction in Sanskrit), the freedom from all concepts. And paradoxically, this is where liberation is: not in this ultimate illusory experience, but when it is seen that we can never experience anything because It is, because there is only the Absolute, because the Absolute is impossible only in dreams. But "you know" that! It was just a pretext to greet you and celebrate :)

[@FredDavisNonduality]

The mere opening of the mouth is "too much." I get that. So once you DO you have to accept that nothing than can be said is true, but endeavoring to do try is the Achilles heel of every authentic teacher. ;-)

[@jeanbaptisteponsot]

@@FredDavisNonduality Well said and you're wright. Maybe i expressed myself badly. All i wanted to say is that we desperately want to EXPERIENCE the oneness, the vastness, This! While, paradoxically, the "liberation" is to see that we can never experience anything. Glory of the impossible! You point it perfectly in your video:"I am" is the first story. Thank you sincerely for your great work. I'm a writer and even if there are no more questions, you bring clarity, at the relative level, in the way to celebrate it, and that's a precious gift. Gratitude from Paris :)

[@hermansohier7643]

Knowing that you are is who you are.

[@FredDavisNonduality]

:-)

[@lynnwoudberg9447]

Thank you for this much needed clarity Fred. Your teaching is such a gift. Humility and gratitude have found a home in me. X

[@FredDavisNonduality]

This is great to hear, Lynn. Carry on! :-)

[@chaindrums]

Beautiful, thank you so much. I got stoned out of my mind. Absence of me so full. Present and yet absent. The more I meditate the less I know, thank you, thank you, thank you.

[@FredDavisNonduality]

You are SO very welcome!

[@haroldfarcar4358]

Fred Davis “you” are awesome !

[@Fnelrbnef]

The question is- does something have to click inside to brain for this to happen? Some people say you're it already. But people have been told this being seekers and still not seen it. And then it just happens. I don't think this message works unless that something happens inside the brain. But that's just my theory. Haven't happened to me, that's for sure:D "Me".

[@FredDavisNonduality]

Nothing needs to be done to FIND IT because you always already ARE IT. However, most people need some very serious reminding that most of us will never come to see on our own. Hence the role of teachers. I don't talk about any kind of spiritual "path," because no path is needed to simply NOTICE that you're already here, and already IT. I have a video called, "Stop Seeking and Start Noticing." You would be well served to go watch it.

[@Fnelrbnef]

@@FredDavisNonduality Okay, but. I'm not arguing here, I mean no disrespect. But you know these MRI-scans of people's brains? It shows people who been practicing zen and stuff, their brains look different. Lights up different. And how do you KNOW that things in the brain must'nt change? Didn't you feel some lock turning over when your shift happened? I believe practise of this does play a role, very few just out of the blue fall into nonduality as far as I know. Most have been seekers. But I'm not claiming anything. I know I am that, but I can't see it, and there must be a cause. For instance, people who take LSD, they speak of oneness. It alters the brain. But I'll watch the video. And I enjoy your videos in general, ftr.

[@Fnelrbnef]

@@FredDavisNonduality I mean. It could be? Right? Have someone checked science? There's a possibility awakness manifests itfelf by accident in the brain. After sertain mental trainings in used against itself in order to stretch the mind. Or am I just desperate here? Maybe I don't know what I'm talking about... ;) Good day terr you there dear sir

[@aletagroat7861]

I love your videos, Fred. I love your “in your living room” presentation, just talking, Oneness to Oneness. I’m glad you aren’t sitting on a throne, not that there’s anything wrong with that. Not that there’s anything wrong with anything!! I also love your accent, especially the way you say “on.” Thanks for sharing!

[@FredDavisNonduality]

Thanks, Aleta! I'm glad you like my style - it's the only one I have!

[@ketchup5344]

I want to go back to my sauce (I left it in the supermarket...)...Thanks Fred-you cheer me up and thats no bad thing. Keep up the great work 👍

[@FredDavisNonduality]

Thanks, David!

[@Bassisi]

Is the question ” What is it that is experiencing/having this sens of being?” Pointing in the right direction? Much love to you, Fred!

[@FredDavisNonduality]

Yes. :-)

[@garycrowley1]

Thank you, Sir Fredness. Always an "E-Ticket" ride...thank you!

[@FredDavisNonduality]

Thank YOU! I love it that we're friends. :-)

[@JarJarKinky]

There was a spark here of source seeing what it is by seeing what it's not (manifestation). Doesn't happen too often at this location. The clearing continues. Thanks, Fred!

[@FredDavisNonduality]

Hey, Daniel! You're welcome. The Book of Unknowing and the The Book of Unveiling are both primarily on the clearing process. There are audio books available for both of them here: UNKNOWING: smile.amazon.com/Book-Unknowing-Enlightenment-Embodiment/dp/B01IAHG11Q/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8 UNVEILING: smile.amazon.com/Book-Unveiling-Awakening-Abidance-ebook/dp/B011ACIJ6S/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

[@robbin4720]

This teaching is my undoing. Sense of absence, absence of sense. Thanks Fred.

[@FredDavisNonduality]

Hey, Robbin! As always, it is my pleasure. ♥

[@organaut]

Ab - sense = Pre- Sense. Prior to sensation . this feels like that is what we are . So easy to recognise and re-member now yet difficult to describe in words accurately this actual feeling. That’s probably why the only thing, it seems I am allowed to share around are my musical traits which is probably for the best (at least for now while I’m still un-learning) , wheras YOU have the given grace for this teaching to flow through YOU and doing an excellent job and helped a lot, thank you so much Fred. In MY case it is apparent that “the lord doth put a muzzle over my mouth” (so I can’t go around talking a load of garbage like some kind of news reporter and mess things up for everyone and especially the close family and friends ,in other words) 😂

[@FredDavisNonduality]

LOL! You are blessed. My family and friends got an earful! And then I noticed the crowd thinned considerably. :-)

[@organaut]

Fred Davis Ha Ha. Yes it can go down like a lead balloon 😂

[@kerrybrogan616]

Great from the heart. Thank you

[@FredDavisNonduality]

Splendid!

[@natachaOPN]

Good to be with you/me, Deadening Sri Baba Fredji. That I Am IS Awakening and not Sleeping-Beauty ;-) Namasté

[@natachaOPN]

great exercice : "I am two" = contraction/contracting.

[@natachaOPN]

Yes you're right : not "true nature" nor "un-true nature" (both / either or / paradoxes).... Truest is well put ! ;-)

[@kathleensutherland6593]

Oneness has slipped into Noneness. Sorry I missed the event. I've been absent-minded recently!

[@FredDavisNonduality]

LOL I missed it too!

[@aquietsky]

When I look at a tree (example) I forget the sense of Being. When only Beingness is noticed everything else ceases to exist. Could you please comment on this? Thank you.

[@FredDavisNonduality]

I look. I forget. Who are you talking about?

[@jonn7291]

Thanks Fred.

[@FredDavisNonduality]

You betcha, Jon!

[@FredDavisNonduality]

Just to put it out there to everybody, I got word that both a man and his wife woke up from this video last night.♥

[@hermansohier7643]

Fred,the feeling to be is conciousness,how can they be two?So,i am is conciousness,the impersonal feeling that you are.I think it's a question of naming things that confuses me .Shri Nissargadatta Maharai said;Unto the absolute nothingness ,the i am ,who's also nothing , appears ;.I asked myself a thousand times what he ment by that,because he said that they where the same .

[@FredDavisNonduality]

Always remember that Maharaj - and I as well - are always speaking to a specific unit under specific circumstances. What he meant when he said something to Person A, might not be what he'd say to Person B. In this teaching, as a pedagogical strategy, we are taught that they are not the same, even though there is only Onething/No-thing, and neither one of them is a thing! LOL! I differentiate them by calling one (Source) Awakeness and the other one (Expression) Consciousness. It's actually the same thing that Maharaj taught to those who could hear it.

[@FredDavisNonduality]

PS If we're going to study/live nonduality, we want to get comfortable with the nature of paradox.

[@hermansohier7643]

@@FredDavisNonduality This seeking started 14 years ago,but you are by far the most clear person i ever heard.A few wees ago ,i went to see my old house,but it was gone,and i realised that the nothingness that was there was the same nothingness that was there before.The biggest surprise was that i realised that it was the same moment ore should i say the same non-time.A few weeks later i had the sudden realisation that everything was perfect as it was.These are experiences and were seen as such ,but i think that such experiences are doing what they are doing ,but on a very deep level,i don't know .Sorry for my English,i am from Belgium.And from the bottom of my hart,THANKS.

[@evaw551]

What about "nothing ever happened " realization?

[@FredDavisNonduality]

Hi, Eva. Nothing ever did happen. This is precisely what this is pointing to. (Although there area zillion so-called experiences. Whose experiences are they??) There is a three volume biography - roughly 1,500 pages - on the life of Papaji. It's chock full of experiences. But the name of the three volume biography? NOTHING EVER HAPPENED. Those two apparent extremes are the bookends of nonduality. I hope you get that; I won't be writing about it any further. It's my job to cut videos, and your job to translate them. :-) ♥

[@evaw551]

Fred Davis thank you

[@dorabarbeau2753]

Is your truest nature experienced in deep sleep?

[@FredDavisNonduality]

There is no EXPERIENCE of deep sleep.

[@FredDavisNonduality]

It is not "experienced". What experiences do you recall from last night's deep dreamless sleep?

[@zerbel]

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[@FredDavisNonduality]

:-)