Taoism and Hinduism's Ego Dissolving Teaching - Is this Really Your Life?

[@JasonGregoryAuthor]

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[@colingoode8794]

As Alan Watts said that which appears to divide in fact joins. Take a holistic perspective even in a physical sense and no thing is inherent but all things are interdependent. That's some big onion we're working on here! The smaller it gets the sweeter it is.

[@JasonGregoryAuthor]

Right on brother. Love it.

[@welwins2161]

hi Jason, namaste, I`m from India. i appreciate ur knowledge about eastern spirituality. But i have one question. do u really believe in big bang and gravity forming all visible world and darwin theory of evolution.

[@indiawisdom5256]

The deepest content on KZbin bar none. If you are here, you are very fortunate to have discovered Jason's channel.

[@alanhehe4508]

If you enjoy these types of teachings, you might wanna check out the YT channel Plum Village.

[@indiawisdom5256]

@@alanhehe4508 Yes I know Plum village. I prefer Jason's channel personally. He covers nondual teachings form all traditions. Followed his work for over 10 years.

[@Mike-jx2gm]

You are not a drop in the ocean, you are the ocean in a drop - Rumi

[@JasonGregoryAuthor]

BOOM! Spot on Mike.

[@DibyenduDe]

Thanks

[@JasonGregoryAuthor]

Thank you for your kind support, my friend.

[@ShraddaNiche]

Good Morning sweet seekers.

[@JasonGregoryAuthor]

Morning dear friend.

[@suemoseley4707]

Profound wisdom and truth delivered in 10 minutes! I know these truths intellectually, and more and more on an experiential basis. The unraveling of conditioning feels frustratingly slow to me, and I wish I could hold the joy of knowing I’m a fractal of the universe more often! The ego is sneaky, and does not fade willingly! So grateful for this series! ☯️🙏💕

[@JasonGregoryAuthor]

Thank you for your appreciation and wonderful comment, Sue.

[@nikkifrye7599]

The Ego is sneaky! But, I have become humble, says the ego! And, don’t forget all of the hard work that I do for you like watching Jason’s videos!!! 🤣🥺😇😉🥸😤🤬😨😰

[@suemoseley4707]

@Nikki Frye 😂😂😂

[@josesantana27]

Nameste Jason the layers of the EGO is so entangling. I can understand why the process to liberation and self realization is a life long commitment. Thank you Jason for sharing your experiences and insights. I really appreciate you sharing this information. It helps a person like myself to gain some tools to help me navigate through my Spiritual journey.

[@JasonGregoryAuthor]

Namaste Jose. That is wonderful to hear my friend. I love sharing this knowledge with you my friend.

[@bubsyoutube]

I read your book man. Definitely one of the top Taoist books out there. You explain it so perfectly

[@JasonGregoryAuthor]

Wow, thank you my friend. I'm so happy you enjoyed it. Which book of mine did you read?

[@bubsyoutube]

@@JasonGregoryAuthor Effortless Living. It was so detailed for a modern person learning Taoism. I vaguely remember you talking about actually physically letting go. Do you think physically moving slower and consciously letting go of muscles/nerves enhances the Tao in yourself? I find Taoism hard to follow with concepts. I need a concrete measure to be one with the Tao. After doing this I find that my day is more fluid and emotions center out and I become content. Didn’t mean to write this much, but I’m so curious to hear what an expert has to say on this subject. Thanks again for what you do!

[@AnnHelle]

Thank you so much for these videos, they're an enormous help and blessing. I've been a Buddhist practitioner for a decade (from East Asia, to boot lol), an online content creator the past few years. I was in the "flow state", having somewhat tapped into my "original face" after years of spiritual practice. Ironically this placed me in a position where my egoic identity has not only been hardening from "praise and "recognition", but also continuously "challenged" by consumers claiming possession over myself (the "machine") and the content I create (the "product"), on top of having faced the painful loss of beloved ones. It's taken me 2 years to untangle everything, and your videos have come at just the right moment, especially this series. Very grateful to have found your channel. Through my experience, what you've said rings loud and true to me, and provided clarity and insight to my situation, now that I'm finally in a position to observe the irony (and hilarity) of this cosmic laundry wringer my bruised, battered ego has been put through, lol.

[@HemPat56]

Thanks!

[@JasonGregoryAuthor]

Thank you dearly for your your support, Hemant.

[@ironhead108]

Great video, brother! Our bodies are just loaners, and the power of concealment (Tatpurusha, maya shakti) of the supreme reality, Shiva, is necessary for the play of the universe. Attempting to remind oneself of this truth at all times is a very difficult practice to master! Har Har Mahadev 🧡🕉🧡

[@JasonGregoryAuthor]

Very well said, Nick. Har Har Mahadev!

[@galaxymetta5974]

We created a self then fight, hate and grab things for the self, not realising self is an illusion.

[@jamiekahn5778]

I love the 10 minute segments. Great pick-me-up 🍃

[@ericf.7669]

Always beautiful knowledge from you! Thank you so much! We are the universes life not our own! We are everything in the universe. Thank you for showing me this light that flows thur the dao that is the universe that expresses it self thru the life we live in Accord with nature. 🙏🏽☯️❤️ I love the dao the universe. And you Jason my friend. Shanti Shanti Shanti

[@JasonGregoryAuthor]

Thank you for your beautiful comment, Eric. I love you my friend.

[@alanhehe4508]

This is an important lesson, illustrating one of the main(if not the fundamental) obstacles to a higher consciousness.

[@Amanda-yo2cd]

Hi Jason. Always superb 👏🏼. This was super useful for my doctoral thesis in Catholic theology ;) Your insights always help me see with greater clarity - straight to the heart of the matter. With immense gratitude and best wishes 🙏🏼

[@JasonGregoryAuthor]

What a lovely comment. I am truly grateful to be connected with you on here. Best to you, Amanda.

[@Plaincitizenjane]

Thank you! I always appreciate your insights but especially look forward to hearing you say Shanti Shanti Shanti.

[@michelebusselen5446]

Jason, brilliantly explained! I will listen to this over and over again until it totally sinks in. Your voice is so nice to listen to. Again thanks a lot.

[@diesel8869]

Your Li is very evident by the talent you have in expressing these truths. Thank you for sharing.

[@JasonGregoryAuthor]

Thank you for your kind support, Dimitri. Best to you my friend.

[@bernardofitzpatrick5403]

Man this talk was so dope. We belong to universe not small identity ego. Gives such a big picture of place of life in universe and not tied down to small ego. Talks always come at very best time and with real badass advice on living properly as belonging to universe. Oh wow ! Lots of love from Bernardo.

[@JasonGregoryAuthor]

Thank you for the wonderful comment brother. Only love for you Bernardo.

[@lightmystic3792]

I love your teaching as to the point and very simple way you explain and yet very deep.

[@tobinharris8107]

Thumbs Up!

[@zenmasterjay1]

All know that the partial samsara drop merges into the complete nirvana ocean... but few know that the complete nirvana ocean merges into the partial samaara drop.

[@purplelotusoasis]

Radhe Krishna 💜

[@benjamindsouza6736]

Beautifully explained! 🙏🤍🙏

[@IshmanDebba]

Thank you Jason ⭐😊

[@bubsyoutube]

Do you think physically moving slower and consciously letting go of muscles/nerves enhances the Tao in yourself? I find Taoism hard to follow with concepts. I need a concrete measure to be one with the Tao. After doing this I find that my day is more fluid and emotions center out and I become content

[@thelegendofmara9594]

You need a baseline level of qi to understand the tao. Its like you need it in you to be able to know it outside of you. The tao cannot be understood intellectually- it is an undeniable observation of the way things are that is possible from increased awareness that stems from sufficient energy

[@bubsyoutube]

@@thelegendofmara9594 what exactly is qi? And what does it entail physically? How do you harness it? Thanks for the reply

[@bubsyoutube]

@@thelegendofmara9594 what exactly is qi? And what does it entail physically? How do you harness it? Thanks for the reply

[@thelegendofmara9594]

@@bubsyoutube you would harness it through breathing a specific way. Qigong and tai chi combine this breathing with slow movements as you described to enhance the physical sensation of 'awareness'. There are methods to gather, generate, and accumulate- all of which are different in its effects. Is this a topic that is important for you? I am releasing a video for how to start these basic practices this friday- i invite you to review them and if they resonate im happy to open this conversation further. Since it seems important i may address this as well in future production.

[@bubsyoutube]

@@thelegendofmara9594 Yes, this stuff fascinates me. I’ll definitely check out your content. Slow mindful movements seem to be the key for me to finding that “natural flow” to life. It’s truly beautiful, but hard to maintain

[@neildmedia]

Very useful series. Jason clear and succinct as ever. Would be useful in the playlist to have the episodes numbered as they are not in the right order. Just in case it puts someone off.

[@sonupihlman7031]

Beautiful explanation

[@lindachristinelee]

excellent! Thanks SO much ❤

[@TheGaluMoD]

I'm so glad I've discovered your channel :)

[@MissRomanticKitty]

Beautiful video. Thank you Jason. 🙏

[@JasonGregoryAuthor]

Thank you kindly my friend.

[@Shruthirajendrakumar]

Thank you so much.

[@roquevera9831]

When I realice that Individual conciousness (the Son) and universal conciousness (the Father) are one and the same, then, as an implication of this truth, my life is the universe's life. The virtue (Te) is then to live according to this truth. This is the genuine love to life: follow the dictates of the heart with fidelity, joy and honesty. This is a love commitment. Thanks for sharing this.

[@trykind21]

Thanks 🙏

[@really7528]

🙏This can not be more better explained, it is intellectually so clear but.. All other species are what they are suppose to be, why is human not naturally ’natural’?

[@JasonGregoryAuthor]

Thank you my friend. Humans are naturally natural, but once we endured a socialization process, then that disconnects us from our nature because we believe we are the product of the socialization process, the ego.

[@ItachiUchiha-xk1fr]

🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼

[@TheModernDating]

Remember that the ego cannot be properly dissolved, unless ripe.

[@colingoode8794]

People who boost their egos can have the hardest fall. Some insight is better than none. Look at Hitler, one of the most egoic people in history. How did that end up?

[@TheModernDating]

@@colingoode8794 Do you have problems reading? I said Ripe, not toxic.

[@colingoode8794]

@@TheModernDating Ego is not like a fruit that ripens but more like a cancer that becomes more toxic as it grows. Without humility there is little chance of checking this development.

[@TheModernDating]

@@colingoode8794 Ego is exactly like a fruit. Tell a baby, or a child to transcend/ drop their ego. What is there to drop?

[@colingoode8794]

@@TheModernDating I don't know if you have had the opportunity to parent a child. I had the privilege to raise five. I have never observed a baby with an ego. Children inevitably develop egos and we try not to overdo this as parents. Adults are best advised to pare back their egos. An overdeveloped ego is toxic and an impediment to awakening. A less developed ego could better be described as one that more readily enables flowering of the Tao in consciousnes. It is not the ego that bears fruit, it is the Tao.

[@markcallaghan8389]

thankyou for teachings, i wonder if you might provide links to the other 4 teachings in dissolving the ego kind regards

[@beingswayed7575]

much appreciated, brother in meditation my attention was brought to a metaphor for what we 'are' that employed fibre optics, it being light seemingly 'transmitting' information. In a conventional sense, we might assume that we're the 'hardware' that reinterprets said information [into all possible 'appearances', like sound, thought, and other 'perceivables'], except that there Is no hardware - we're the 'medium' - the light - itself [having never left its source]

[@kursk124]

THANK YOU

[@deepshikajawahar7969]

Oh that was beautiful! Unconsciously, I started witnessing my mind and my body. I cannot put my heart and soul into any work because I am completely engaged with myself-thoughts that arise for no purpose( i see my mind taking over that control), and my body. I feel extremely depressed about this. Also, I don't feel like living with this world. I look at people and constantly think, "Have you ever realised, the least, thought of what is the truth?" I am completely turning inward and also feeling depressed, sir. Are there any ways to lift myself up without losing this engagement with myself? Also, what is the purpose?

[@universalbeing1289]

Observe completely. Accept completely. Do not react or attach to thoughts, feelings, situations, other people etc. Let the Universe/Tao/Brahman/God etc act as it may. Let it all happen by itself. Wu-Wei. Actionless-Action. Whatever is in this moment is the purpose. To look for a deeper meaning, means to lose this moment.

[@tejsingh1546]

🤗🙏😇from Munich .🍺

[@Ozoal]

Let us all remember that dissolving our Ego's should not be done to improve ourselves or the world. Otherwise it becomes yet another Ego trip.

[@dilpreetkaur6]

Dissolving ego means to dissolve the barrier of 'good' and 'not good' and merge in this cosmos. We have found Jason or Jason found us, that's how cosmos catches us...It is just we have to tune our frequency 🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@ciaran6309]

Lots of need their ego or a sense of self.

[@ciaran6309]

@@dilpreetkaur6 be a schizophrenic🤔🙄

[@dilpreetkaur6]

@@ciaran6309 ha ha ha

[@Amila108]

❤️🕉️☮️☮️☮️❤️

[@JonathanAllen0379]

It would be so much easier to identify with the universe and not this subjective physical body if we weren't stuck inside of it for each lifecycle. If we could quantum leap at-will, telepathically, and be in somebody else's body or experience their viewpoint directly, instead of being stuck in this one body, whether we're actually "here" on a deeper level or not, it would help greatly.

[@Rohit-ez7ph]

Hey Jason, but is it good to lose our ego completely, isn’t it our vessel that keeps us sane in this lifetime ?

[@wheretonext1158]

Recently my soul has been allowing me to experience things in my sleep. For example it (the invisible energetic tube of omnipotence) will allow me to hold hands with it as a seperate awareness and I can feel the omnipotent eternal love that it is. I also went to my Absolute Reality on earth it was like re born but not just re born re in carnated just me and him in an empty street like wow amazing memory. There's always a message in these trips , it shows me that the self willed ego is just crumbs. Q: if I enter moksha, where will I go after death?

[@universalbeing1289]

If you enter Moksha you realize, death is an illusion of the ego. The fear of not existing. Birth, sustain and death all happen simultaneously in this moment. This moment is all there is. It is eternal. Only its composition changes. The true essence of you (atma/soul/consciousness etc) is eternal. You are this moment.

[@Eric-Wolfman]

Can you post links to videos you mentioned in your videos?

[@Lone_Star86]

So remember. The only changes we can make in "our life" is deep awakening (knowing you are a universe, inside a universe(Brahman) then protect that knowledge and yourself(a universe) by stopping all intoxication of the mind( drugs/alcohol/meat/indecent thoughts) practice yoga and meditation to connect to the divine. This is the path I will now walk forever 🙏💙☯️🕉️☮️⚛️

[@oss8537]

🙏🙏❤️ Thank you so much Jason!! Can you make a video on the difference between Brahman ( Ultimate Reality ) and Buddhism's Shunyawaad. I want to know is it really different or it is at the end same concept??

[@FromPlanetZX]

For Hindus it is the same thing. But buddhist will fight till death to differentiate.

[@davidr6418]

Jason Gregory, do you practice qigong?

[@Aldarinn]

Revered Master Gregory. Would you say Taoism is more relativistic than Hinduism in terms of morality? Thank you Sir

[@SD_0617yrs.]

Is Toasim the same path that Hinduism is leading to?

[@thelegendofmara9594]

Are you interested in a conversation and collaboration?

[@indicphilosopher8772]

I would love to talk about Non Duality

[@universalbeing1289]

Thank you!