Letting go of "I, Me, Mine": Gary Weber

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Gary Weber discusses his techniques and perspectives on meditation, presence, and allowing. He talks about his own awakening, the "default mode network", the collection of "I's" collapsing into the present moment, persistent Nonduality, psychedelics, the evolution of thinking, and has thinking in the modern-day human outlived its purpose?
Gary Weber is an American spiritual teacher and author from Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania who offers talks, online videos, and a blog on non-duality. As a retired scientist, executive and military officer, Weber has become known for combining a scientific approach to non-duality with traditional techniques of meditation, yoga, and chanting. He is a frequent speaker at the Science and Nonduality Conference and has participated in several high-profile studies on neuroscience and meditation. He is the author of three books, has given numerous talks and interviews, and, with Richard Doyle, has produced a series of online video dialogues on questions related to spirituality, science, and non-duality.
Science and Nonduality is a community inspired by timeless wisdom, informed by cutting-edge science, and grounded in direct experience. We come together in an open-hearted exploration while celebrating our humanity.

[@TJ_mx]

For the love of god lower the music in the text sections

[@blackspruceroutes]

WHY DID THEY DO THAT????

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Its to shock your posterior cingulate cortex into inactivity !

[@benhudson4014]

'For the love of God' ? What's that?

[@vinceofyork1757]

Just in case you were lost in thoughts...

[@Queenie-the-genie]

Oh please … it was just badly designed.

[@blackspruceroutes]

The music bw sections makes it hard to appreciate the beautiful simple knowledge dispensed here!! Thank you

[@jossiani84]

I agree... it made me very tense. Why such a contrast?

[@christinaguimond1706]

It’s so great to see this. Gary Weber is an impeccable teacher who has made an extraordinary contribution in simplifying and clarifying the essentials of the awakening process.

[@musicburns]

Agree. He was one of the first I encountered around 6y ago and still find him very valuable. Legit, honest and pragmatic

[@janicestevenson6496]

Thank you for this talk on stillness and presence. Here is an excerpt from the writings of Marshall Vian Summers about a deeper mind that we all can access which he calls Knowledge. "Knowledge is with you completely, but you are not with Knowledge... Your hours and your days and your weeks pass by with your mind somewhere else, preoccupied, overwhelmed, overtaken by your circumstances.. feelings... moods etc. Until the mind can serve a greater purpose, until it can be reeled in and directed according to the Grace and spiritual Wisdom that live within you, then it is a reckless instrument... Yet now you have the opportunity to bring the mind into focus, to arrest its recklessness and to give it direction, purpose and meaning, which it desperately seeks in all things. So return to this fundamental lesson: 'Knowledge is with me, but where am I?'... And if you have the opportunity and the time, ask yourself, 'Is there anything I need to know at this moment?'... And over time, the mind will become much more present, discerning and observant." (MVS, Steps to Knowledge Continuation Training)

[@johnchapman5125]

Thank you for sharing!

[@Alios_World]

Nice. Something new. Good. I got bored.

[@Kalugala]

There are lots of non dual parrots but this guy is the real deal. The important point is your brain needs to change how it operates to experience and live in non-duality. This is very different to the parrots who say there’s nothing to do which is unfortunate.

[@Magik1369]

Nature/Spirit never intended humans to live without an "I" which is the Soul or Self. Non dual is solipsism. It is one realization among infinite realizations. The problem comes when neophytes experience Unity and interpret it as the whole Truth. The integral path is the only true and complete path.

[@nicbarth3838]

@@Magik1369 I would say he is well experienced if not an expert in this path, and we need to clarify what we mean by the "I". I would not hehehe say that you need or that the "I" was intended since we don't know that. Now I will say that in relation to the Frank Self that if you were to get rid of that kind of self as its defined that you would not be worse off in you well being, and your daily functioning, if not even better. This sense can come back in certain situations if it's manner of solving a problem is more efficient, id guess.

[@playertherapper]

There is nothing to do means that you can’t prescribe or meditate or practice your way out of it, a mental shift is no form of doing but rather of inner realization. When the weight of the “I” is directly experienced and recognized by the person, their life begins to naturally shift and the naturally move away from those patterns. It is like when you see a delicious cake in front of you, and just as you prepare to dig in, the chef lets you know that the special ingredient is rat poison. Now you will not eat the cake, not because you have meditated or practiced your way away from consumption, but because you know the truth about the consequences of indulging.

[@AndyLiyanawaduge-tx5ep]

Probably one of the most beautiful humans alive today. I'm one of the blessed ones in Australia to experience the same state as him. And as Garry says it took a lot of practice and experiments. If you want it bad enough you will eventually stumble upon it.

[@jakubkonopa5840]

My god this is exactly what i have been looking for years reaserched anatomy based explanation to states of consciousness and what is described as enlightenment

[@jeanettemoore3662]

He's my favorite teacher. For me the neuro coordinates are a huge hack . I love the book "Evolving Beyond Thought", and I have gotten a lot from watching his dialogues with Dr. Doyle who is also amazing.

[@juanpadilla3203]

I’ve also found Michael A. Singer to be very helpful. Good luck on your path

[@claudelebel49]

Love what he said about relationship at the end .....empty without story or expectation. It really hit home.

[@mnaglik]

Gary Weber & Angelo Dilullo are both great. It's so fresh way of showing that Self Inquiry is easy and just works. Thank you!

[@gives_bad_advice]

It's good to see Gary still at it.

[@timrustow]

Spontaneous asanas, pranayama, and chanting 🌸 Jai Ma 🤍

[@booboobumbum6602]

Can we please make Gary's voice more quiet and the music louder. Thank you

[@nataliehorgan-young5896]

😂

[@brushstroke3733]

I doubt they understand your sarcasm here.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Awesome!

[@NowhereNonduality]

Clear and to the point as always (especially regarding trying to have repeat awakening experiences and subsequent surrender). Thanks, Gary 😊

[@skyfly120]

Thanks for this. I'm enjoying the interview part, however I'm finding the music in the interludes to be grating and disruptive.

[@theonesource]

This was a wonderful interview, thank you Gary and everyone involved.

[@RhiWildeupgrade]

It’s very helpful to hear Gary talk about surrender, sans specifically surrendering his daughters. I needed to hear that.

[@languagefreeassangeteacher5338]

Thank you, Gary!

[@Pam74055]

Beautiful! ❤

[@seancasey98]

This was a fascinating upload. Many thanks for sharing. Will be looking out for more books & videos from Gary

[@Sashas-mom]

Thank you for sharing this talk. I have benefitted from his work so very much. 🙏🏻

[@agathamaia1]

I absolutely love this man! So grateful to his teachings! 💜

[@sonikwro]

You and this man are in a dream do you understand why there is no "I, my, me" There is only one I that dreamed it all up. Love, sensations, emotions, colors ect. exist to fool you that this dream is real. Just like you are in a night dream wierd things happens and you don't thing omg that is imposible.

[@halfacanuck]

@@sonikwro As Gary points out there absolutely must be an "I" when using language, because that's how it's structured. While there might be only one "I" in an ultimate sense, that doesn't mean there aren't things ("individuated units of consciousness", in Tom Campbell's terminology) which can legitimately call themselves an "I", and which _must_ do so when using verbal language to communicate with each other. Even Krishna in the Baghavad Gita uses the word "I" (translated into English, of course). Everything is a dream, and all dreams are real.

[@sonikwro]

@@halfacanuck Yes, The One 'I' dreamed it all up. Just like in night dream all worlds and creatures are the dreamer itself. There is no one in this universe but The I. Yours identification make it harder for The I but that is OK. The I loves you and lets you be as you are and thats why you suffer. Until you let go yourself identification and awake from illusion of yours I. Any questions?

[@halfacanuck]

@@sonikwro Who are you calling "you", if I can't legitimately use the word "I"? How do you know I identify with anything in particular? What do you mean "makes it harder"? Why/how does the "one I" love me if I don't really exist? Why/how would the "one I" let me be myself if there is no "myself" distinct from it? How do you know I suffer? Are you saying Krishna was incorrect and suffering in an illusion because he used the words "I" and "you" when talking to Arjuna?

[@halfacanuck]

@@sonikwro To put it another way: you seem to be implying that it's possible for a relationship (of love and tolerance) to exist between me and the "one I"; but a relationship requires three things: the two which are related, and the relation. You can't in one breath insist there's only one thing, then in the next breath tell me it can have a relationship with other things. Even to say "the one" with any meaning requires that there be another which isn't the one against which to contrast it, otherwise it cannot be delineated and identified; and to say there is the-one and not-the-one is to say there are _three_ things, those being the-one, not-the-one, and both together. Three, in fact, is the smallest possible natural number. Not one, not two, but three. Perhaps you're one of those people who've missed the point entirely and mangle their language in order to avoid using the word "I", which is a mere word game because it's impossible to remove the subject from a subject-verb-object language, just as it's impossible to remove the ball from a basketball game. It's there by definition. The point is to eliminate the automatic "I thoughts" from one's experience, and thinking in terms of a "one I" (even though, as I said above, that can't really exist concretely but is just a concept) can help achieve that. But it shouldn't be mistaken for reality itself. It's a conceptual tool which can be abandoned once the mind settles into what Gary calls the "sweet stillness". I suggest it might be worth asking yourself whether your unsolicited lecturing of people on KZbin might be a distraction from that goal. The point is to silence your own mind, not "fix" other people's ideas.

[@jamesadams7929]

The audio could be a little louder, thank you for spreading this super important message

[@ravenwild5184]

This is so valuable...please lower the music volume and/or raise volume on Gary.

[@brushstroke3733]

And please remove the music altogether. It adds nothing.

[@ordinaryguy815]

Gary is the best

[@christonewmanful]

Great interview. Thanks!

[@lioninvesting4676]

Listen to this every morning. Practice... practice.... practice.....

[@PeterMastropasqua-rk7tp]

Thanks Gary 😀

[@talithabutterfield1194]

Totally agree if you're listening to this on headphones the music in the text is way too loud and the speaking too low.

[@danielu1763]

Good questions. Maybe a little more dramatic music?

[@kentshultz6157]

I wasn't aware of the Virginia Woolf quote that Gary references. William James said the same thing in his chapter on 'The Self' in the Principles of Psychology (1890): "A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him." Gary is wonderful to listen to. The deafening and comically dramatic musical interludes are not. 🤫

[@jeanettemoore3662]

In one video Gary said that the default network and the task mode network do not run simultaneously. It is binary. You can switch between modes but at any given time the brain is is one or the other. I find this useful in shutting of the blah, blah from the default network (which is a huge liar via natural selection). It is interesting that Jesus said "You can't serve two masters". He didn't have the neural coordinates, but I think he was describing the how the brain works in an intuitive context.

[@honorahs.3262]

The more I look into the teachings of Jesus with mindfulness I see the teachings so much more meaningful.

[@Queenie-the-genie]

There is more to Buddism - the 8 fold noble path is the way out of suffering. That’s the study and practice of ethics - at least that’s what I was taught. In some Buddhist monastaries or schools you are onlyballowed to meditate after you have been able to show a full understanding of ethics. At least that is what I was taught. Meditation is such a powerful tool according to this that in the hands of those who do mot have ethics it can be dangerous.

[@Misslotusification]

"You know, sir, unless we keep our house in order, meditation and other things have no value. Right? If my house, which is me, is not in complete order, without any conflict, what is the point of meditation? It is another escape, another illusion. But when my house is in order, completely, without any shadow in my house, then meditation is something entirely different. But we think by meditating, god knows what, then your house will be in order. See how deceptive we are." Jiddu Krishnamurti

[@Mandy-rl9vc]

In essence, he’s speaking on the experience of full loss of the ‘I’ that can suffer, or at least make a story out of suffering. Suffering can arise then, but in a full now-moment, as is any moment.

[@himalayangirl1129]

I am an Indian and the source of this all conversation is Indian vedant and upnishad..

[@michaeldevlin6147]

Correct! Pure Advaita Vedanta à la Ramana Maharshi

[@brushstroke3733]

And what was the source of the Upanishad? It all comes from no-self, the infinite being, Atman. How is your tribal national identity relevant to a discussion of beimg that is prior to identity?

[@AzimuthAviation]

As a Western practitioner of Theravada for decades with meditation this is a key point to take away that being awake indeed is a matter of being in the now while turning off one's "autopilot " or as described here at 04:45, the DMN...

[@vimalkapur1]

There is nothing higher than personal experience. Spiritual experience is subjective experience.

[@NondualityChannel]

No thought...no "I/me/my/mine". The vast majority of thought is self-reflective/self-referential.

[@notshirley32]

We need to change all frequencies back to healing frequencies for a start .will go a long way to quietening commentary and healing our DNA

[@JK-eh2jp]

Lower the music volume please. In fact, music is not necessary at all. Why jolt your listeners when they are quietly listening to such a fine concept.

[@manuelaisabel2237]

why this loud music between the sections? this is just annoying and even the cat reacts to it.

[@youarewhatyourelookingfor4496]

Right?! Freaked my bird out

[@somedude1566]

Good summary of the essence of Gary's work. BTW, does he age at all??

[@gretanavarauskaite2904]

❤❤❤

[@benhudson4014]

Observation without intent to classifie.

[@navaneetjeevan2554]

🙏🏽

[@earthpearl3790]

Traumatic experiences affect people's neurology, as well as their sense of self. I think it's important to have a an integrated sense of self before doing this kind of work. Mind states like depersonalization / derealization would not, in my opinion, benefit from these kinds of transcendent experiences. Looking at Thicht Nhat Hahn's teachings about inter-being, you might say that one must *be* before they can *inter-be.*

[@cosmicgliderBruce]

🌞

[@MarcelRGuimond]

hmmm... thanks.

[@jeffreygalket5883]

I had a profound awakening, experiencing the wonder of the universe…and then the billionaire showed up. And then my wife had her awakening.

[@mattmackane]

"Zen & the Brain" by James Austin

[@Kari-8xtqm]

The woody Allen comment making great movies should make anyone question him.

[@sukran96]

We owe a lot to our anxiety, depression, traumas and cptsd :)

[@lioninvesting4676]

Can you please re-post this without that annoying music?

[@yourbrain8700]

Is this recent footage of Gary? I though his disappeared from the internet.

[@stewartthomas4193]

Leonardo da Vinci said "The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions " Plato shared with. us wisdom he learnt from Egypt, wisdom that was a death sentence in Greece, Rome (Christianity) ..Pythagoras, Socrates and later Hypatia of Alexandria. Plato in his dialogue "The Republic " tells the parable of "The Cave " Plato starts by telling us of prisoners being held in a underground den, let us examine this den via the geometry of Bernhard Riemann and Felix Klein..Klein bottle..3rd and 4th dimensions. Plato tells us that the prisoners are bound up unable to move their heads, let us examine this bondage via the psychology of Erich Fromm..socialisation of consciousness.. aware-unaware. Plato tells us that the prisoners mistake shadows for substance, let us examine this mistake via the philosophy of Thales, Hume and Kant..synthetic a priori judgement..not thing in itself. Plato tells us that one of the prisoners is released, let us examine this release via the wisdom of T Lobsang Rampa..stilling the mind and conscious astral travel..leaving the cave/body. Plato tells us that the prisoners will reject this release, let us examine this rejection via the psychology of Stockholm Syndrome..Plato quotes Homer..forgive them for they know not what they say. Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds. Mathew 23 13 31.

[@Stephenospreywachter]

"Comments" the market place for the I-me-my's.

[@wrenchescagesfeathersbones6503]

29:39-What was "the posture" in question ?

[@neil6477]

Was he trying to think of James Austin?

[@acetaminophetus]

Just a bit of editorial criticism. The track used for questions is much louder than the mic feed and the video would be much easier to listen to without it.

[@hannzen9215]

Such a great video! I "personally" would love to have no music on every question, or at least, not so loud ^^ Cheers

[@dianegordon5366]

Agreed! Gary Weber has such important information to impart - the loud and cheesy segue music sounds so amateurish.

[@hammergallegos2421]

What was the posture?

[@somedude1566]

Yeah in previous discussions/interviews he would never share which posture it was, afraid that people would obsess over it.

[@benhudson4014]

Is equanimity of mind enlightenment? Is equanimity not the brains natural state? As homeostasis is to the body? Is the very notion not a product of the mind? I64 levels ? Only upon my death will I merge into timeless eternity, leaving the illusion of self behind

[@Mandy-rl9vc]

Indeed at the death of ‘I’ ‘you’ wll merge into timeless eternity. Luckily I’ve had that ‘experience’ happen naturally several times while being ‘alive’ as well. It could therefore help to drop the context of what is being meant by death exactly.

[@mattblackband3773]

There is no separate 'you' inside your body to let go of anything. There is no 'I'. Thoughts come and go automatically, just like your heart is beating and your breathing happens. You aren't doing anything. This complete realisation happens or doesn't happen. Once this is realised, you give yourself a break and everyone else. People need to stop looking for teachings and teachers. It's a rat wheel. Everything is energy and spontaneously happening. These words were typed by no separate individual. They are just a spontaneous happening! Everything is perfect as it is. The horror and the beauty! The confusion and the understanding!

[@daysofgrace2934]

what do you mean let go of attachment?

[@vintagepearlguitars]

Has anyone checked the audio level of the music compared to the level of the speaking before uploading this video? The music is much too loud. It's annoying and distracting.

[@msimp0108]

Weber is sincere and he has certainly shined a light on the DMN and it’s role in the sense of separate self. That said, I have never heard him address the nature of the whole. He confines himself to brain mechanisms that are subject to scientific investigation. In so doing he seems to avoid, or never bother to posit an explanation of the fundamental substrate of reality. He seems to be a physicalist who believes that consciousness is a product of the brain rather than that fundamental substrate. He avoids the hard problem, as far as I know.

[@BogattiDontSleep]

Each individual (what’s left after the personality has been dissolved) has a different role to play in the grand scheme of things. He may not be meant to present wholeness/totality/oneness/tantrum. Each individual is a unique teacher who teaches something to the student that is ready to hear what the teacher has to say. (And the message comes from the higher self/ over soul/) The all is mind, everything is mental 🙏

[@ordinaryguy815]

Then you simply havent studied his work enough.

[@msimp0108]

@@ordinaryguy815 That’s entirely possible. I’m not drawn to Gary Weber.

[@jorgefelino]

The I is still there,

[@markartist8646]

Dissociation, depersonalization. Not always a good place to be. I wonder what his personal relationships look like. Boudaries are good. Recognizing your separateness is important.

[@dawynn9362]

Misleading title.

[@mysticjoe295]

From the way Gary talks about it, it would appear that what he’s referring to is what Franklin Merrill Wolff called the “overlay” an ongoing mental process that sits on top of pure being and consciousness. And is wholly unnecessary.

[@ArthurKlisiewicz]

voice to low, music to loud, poor quality

[@michaeldeforbes2401]

How does this process of stopping of those “me” referential thoughts affected by neurologically inherited emotional dis regulation conditions like Aspergers, ADHD, and PRSD, bipolar. It has been shown these brains physically different compared to the average, and have a different neuro chemistry (I.e. lower dopamine and serotonin). So even if that brain was trained to shut the “me” part down, that body will still have these brain conditions and behave accordingly, possibly now more free to be forgetful distracted, get emotionally intense when triggered. The difference is there’s no “me” to interpret this as a problem anymore. There’s no bliss or good vibe here to make the brain stay interested in present moment though. The sense of the person controll ing things is still here, but it’s seen as an overseer of a neurologically diseegulated body

[@chrisclassical7]

this is not a negative comment but how does someone who is rearing a young family engage in this.

[@halfacanuck]

Love Gary but he's making a mistake in assuming that the area of the brain _correlated_ with the experience of e.g. self-and-other _causes_ the experience. This is not necessarily true, and in the opinion of a rapidly growing number of people who have rejected materialism (as well as countless sages throughout the ages--including, funnily enough, Ramana Maharshi) probably isn't true: matter manifests in consciousness, not the other way around; a brain is a view on (part of) a mind, not the generator of it.

[@domostroy33]

It is not known. Nobody knows, so nothing wrong with models. And there is no "conciousness" as something existing apart from everything else. It is teaching model as well. Go and try experiencing conciousness without something for it to be concious of. Not possible. Awareness and the object of awareness are the same "thing".

[@halfacanuck]

@@domostroy33 What's immediately known by everyone is the existence of awareness. What's not known by anyone is whether so-called "matter" exists independent of awareness (let alone that it _generates_ awareness!). Of course, one can't use an epistemological argument to make ontological claims, but imo it's rather odd for a nonduality teacher (i.e., Gary) to be a materialist. It's a model I (and many teachers) consider spiritually limiting.

[@domostroy33]

@@halfacanuck I don't find awareness to be prior in my experience. It's a good sounding model, but do you actually experience such a thing as "awareness prior" to anything? It is always without exception aware of SOMETHING. Again, awareness and what awareness is aware of, are one. You cannot split them apart. There is "awaring" going on continuously. Anything else is going one step too far, a model, a theory, not found in actual experience.

[@halfacanuck]

@@domostroy33 I didn't say awareness is "prior". I have no opinion on whether awareness can exist without an object of awareness because the fact that two things only occur together doesn't mean they're the same thing (i.e., simultaneity doesn't necessarily mean identity); and nor am I inclined to suppose that I've experienced everything that can be experienced, nor every "mode of existence", so to speak.

[@Misslotusification]

@@domostroy33 Don't you exist without thoughts and perceptions?

[@MS-zm8ry]

Was it Sam Harris who predicted the pose?

[@AlexMonas]

why are you down here in the comments of "blah,blah"-land? scroll back up. really, consider it.

[@Shmyrk]

The fact that he doesn’t name the asana 😅

[@fosferus]

is gary still speaking publicly, or rather, is this interveiew from this year? i haven't been able to find any public appearances after 2018. i did the whole spiritual cafeteria for over a decade, and ramana's teachings, specifically filtered through gary, got me over a huge slump in my practice. its funny how i feel gratitude for him, while at the same have an intuitive understanding we're all a continuum of awareness happening, so there isn't any'one' to thank or be thanked.

[@sanekabc]

It's not permanent. That is a misnomer. And it is irrelevant.

[@squamoza]

Why psychedelics are illegal? Is there a conspiracy?

[@somedude1566]

Yes.

[@squamoza]

@some dude They don't want us to be enlightened and empathetic?

[@somedude1566]

@@squamoza "They" are just afraid of change, methinks

[@brushstroke3733]

They want us to remain slaves to consumerism because they are yet slaves to their "egoic" minds as well. They believe their happiness (peace of mind) is dependent upon maintaining and gaining ever more status, power, and material wealth, and thus, they believe they need us to continue running in the "hamster wheel" to feed their "needs". That is why the consumtption of alcohol, sugar, caffeine, technology, and anti-depressants is so highly encouraged. People in power want us to remain cogs on the gears of the society that churns out what they think they need for well-being. In short, they are sleepwalking zombies who think enlightenment is a religious fantasy and thus another tool of deception and subjugation. P.S. The girl in your avatar is beautiful.

[@Mandy-rl9vc]

Not everywhere 😎

[@donnacabot3550]

Wouldn’t God have a problem with that? He is “I Am” after all.

[@brushstroke3733]

What God are you speaking of? Aren't "you" anthropomorphizing "I Am" into something like an egoic identity?

[@Mandy-rl9vc]

Curious on your perspective here: are we humans outside of God or inside? Is God above / seperate from us humans or are we a part of God? Your wording just made me think that you believe we are seperate.

[@brushstroke3733]

@@Mandy-rl9vc 👍💯

[@debrawilliams1693]

He had me until “ we broke off from chimpanzees” we didn’t evolve from monkeys

[@petermartin5030]

Chimpanzees aren't monkeys, they are primates

[@priyakulkarni9583]

You don’t have to let go of I me and mine in daily life of people who cannot afford 3 meals a day. For Philosophers it is ok 😅😅😅😅😅

[@brushstroke3733]

Why not? Why should they suffer both physical hunger and the mind's worrying and anxiety about it? Worry and anxiety depletes the energy and capacity for creative thought. The more hungry people worry about their hunger, the less likely they are to come up with a solution that can help them solve their lack of food.

[@Mandy-rl9vc]

Interesting! In my experience the dropping of my I for a few months was what ended me up in a situation with money. That no self-referential thought meant no confidence issues, no fear, no shame, etc, so It got damn easy to function more healthily, which resulted in help, job and food

[@DonTrump-sv1si]

I find it a little funny that he knows nothing of what is in front of him (i.e matter/the body/everyday earthly things) but he knows we came from monkeys 1000's and 1000's of years ago.

[@-a-l-t-]

thought has never stopped. ever. if thought stops it is because the body has stopped.

[@brushstroke3733]

Thought stops frequently when you are in the flow of an activity. However, when thought returns, it claims to have been there, experiencing the activity. Thought is just a narrator, and is often late to the party.

[@Mandy-rl9vc]

in your experience*

[@-a-l-t-]

@@brushstroke3733 thought is what maintains the brain. where the water is, where the sustenance is, where the safety is, etc. ego is the narrator. ego comes and goes. the ego is thought. so is blue sky and solid ground and bright light. thought is identification. thought is always present however sometimes the ego is late to the party.

[@brushstroke3733]

@@-a-l-t- Thought maintains the brain? Huh? Does an ant need thought to drink water and eat food? Yes, there are useful, non-egoic (non-identifying/claiming) thoughts, like how many minutes should I cook this burger, but there is certainly space between thoughts. You may have a different definition of thinking, but for me, simply experiencing sensations (visual, auditory, etc.) does not always involve thinking. Often, there is no thought, just seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, feeling, without any conceptualizing occurring about that.

[@-a-l-t-]

@@brushstroke3733 all knowledge is conceptual. all. all sensories are thought. they have been and continue to have identification with values. the symbols are interpreted. this is all thought. the ego claims thought.

[@user-yo2ki7vu7d]

Then you let go out your username family and all you own and perhaps you'd deny you have none for the sake as you are online. Hey wake up.. I is there in every human and you can't get rid of I by avoid using I. That's so silly spiritual way. Pfft new age gurus

[@deepakchaudhary8560]

Worst thing on the path of Realisation is the perceivers, believers and even observer's..shut up the one talking..in you..turiya is ur house in it is ur state .. I can state but I won't..let me reach the world stage ..and in one shift and one act all done ..

[@michaelsteinrotter2016]

Why do you continue confusing mind with brain?

[@Mandy-rl9vc]

The you here is the Science & Non-duality channel. Just like confusing mind and brain hehe

[@eluraedae]

All I saw was someone telling me I can't own shit in a system that already doesn't want me to own shit.🤣😂🤣 It's funny cuz I used the word shit.

[@MasterSophiaChrist]

Um, the brain does NOT create any reality. It is a READER of vibrations or coordinates on the Universal map. The brain/body is etheric technology. And it is one with the Soul. The map is infinity. The soul is the map, is infinity. The body is the soul is the map is infinity. So with all these mystical blah, how come you guys are still aging. Being in the now is having access to all that is, which is immortality or infinity... Hm

[@Mandy-rl9vc]

Yes yes. More concepts please. MOOOORE

[@MasterSophiaChrist]

@@Mandy-rl9vc Cosmic Agency chanel. we are talking with the 7D Pleiadians aka Archangels. And I am one too

[@SolaceEasy]

Evolution working too fast is a fallacy. Evolution can work incredibly fast in opportune circumstances.

[@amandmx]

Why you people spreading lies Shame on you And om= mc² wtf is logic 🤡😂🤣

[@Mandy-rl9vc]

Who exactly? This youtube channel (/company), Gary Weber, all people who studied the functioning of the default network & published papers on it, fMRI technology, all people with or without I’s, humans in general?

[@ItApproaches]

The first question is not a great question. Enlightenment or waking up, has NOTHING to do with spirituality lol. That's just a connection that fakes use, those self proclaimed "Guru's" who sell books saying what people want to hear and crystals and push meditation and such. Enlightenment is just Truth realized, nothing more, nothing less. The realization that there is no you, never was, never will be. You are nothingness, everything is nothingness.

[@anti506]

who is that communist

[@ashokpandey8748]

Everything Stolen from Upanishads India,Stolen from Hinduism. Not even giving credit. Actually this is against this philosphy lol. tendency of I or Ego is this video. This is Duality.

[@michaeldevlin6147]

You're wrong. If you watch the video he gives credit to Ramana Maharshi, quotes the Bhagavad Gita, and claims this is ancient knowledge.

[@ashokpandey8748]

@@michaeldevlin6147 Upanishads and bhagwat geeta is actually the same thing. Thanks for giving the credits. Ramana Mahrasi is the genious

[@michaeldevlin6147]

@@ashokpandey8748 Om Namo Bhagavate Sri Arunachala Ramanaya! 🙏

[@brushstroke3733]

Is India separate from the rest of the cosmos, or is that just duality? Who cares what you think the source is? Isn't the source Atman, and isn't Atman all things, everywhere? Does your Indian identity really mean that much to you?

[@ashokpandey8748]

@@brushstroke3733 I'm not from India but we should give credit to those scientists/scholars who discovered these truths. Atman is only for the people whose ego has completely dissolved. For others atman is just a myth. For others Duality is reality. as long as we live in duality, there will be identication. as long as we have body we have to live in duality, there is no any other option. so country exists as long as we are alive, we cannot avoid that reality.

[@thegenie1111]

Hi channel, could you please read the question out loud so we don’t have to listen with our eyes as well please thanks, great channel, thank you, ML. Stay blessed. ❤️🙏🏽🧞‍♂️

[@violinbuff3782]

Very interesting, I would cut the music in between very distracting!

[@JohnBrown722so]

Nah im on me only me