ORDINARY PEOPLE. ORDINARY AWAKENINGS: a conversation with DAVID BINGHAM

I am thrilled to share this conversation with David Bingham, a teacher of non-conceptual awareness, featured in Ronda Byrne's latest book #thegreatestsecret.
In the first part of this video, David talks about his journey to self-realization/awakening. In the second part which starts at about 50:00, we talk about topics such as:
- the confusion around terms used to describe the moment we realize our true nature
- the difference between spiritual experiences and self-realization/awakening
- the importance of rebellion and intuition/resonance not just in life in general but also along our spiritual journey
- why self-realization/awakening is simple
- intellectual understanding
- why concepts and practices can stand in the way of self-realization/awakening
- koshas as a navigating system
- living a controlled life vs effortless living
- the life after self-realization/awakening
- a little bit of guidance for those interested in self-realization/awakening
David's website: www.nonconceptualawareness.com/
The Greatest Secret is available here: amzn.to/3lJj8DZ
Thank you for watching! :)
My book is available here: amzn.to/3CsoVUk
My website: www.drmaggieg.com
#awakening #davidbingham #thegreatestsecret

[@Sashas-mom]

I couldn’t have known what I didn’t know till I heard this interview. I’m not quite halfway and it’s already so good. Thank you both 😊♥️🙏🏻

[@annemieke711]

Unbelievable ..open...simple explained . From the full range ..true nature and the human experience ! Pure gold !!!!

[@m.shankar7232]

Thank you David sir

[@_._Daniela._._._..4]

Thank you for translating this interview in spanish!❤

[@jimrich4192]

John Wheeler was & still is one of my most influential and important spokespersons for nonduality & realization. I'm so glad his writings and videos are still available on line. Thank you for mentioning John.

[@natalieyip1049]

Thank you for inviting David here and asking him from different question from other interviewers. Excellent teaching from this.

[@serafimsousa5383]

Many, many thanks. "I" came acroos David Bingham just recently and "he" is "responsible" for "my" last layers peeling off. This talk is more important than the whole school system. Muito obrigado Maggie. Best regards.

[@awakeningtobehuman]

I'm glad to hear that! De nada! :)

[@awakeningtobehuman]

@@hotdonna27 Absolutely not :) I honestly haven't met anyone who does. It may be that some people experience more of it, for sure. I certainly do but I genuinely don't think that it is possible to experience peace all the time for as long as we are humans! :) What does change and makes a huge difference is being at peace with what is, even if that "IS" means a temporary turmoil, sadness, anxiety, fear etc.

[@awakeningtobehuman]

@@hotdonna27 I'd reply the same way. Yes, it still happens (however I never feared death), but it is experienced differently and it is not resisted. The best way I can describe it is a healthy distance to any kind of feeling/emotion. It still sucks when it happens but, as I said, the way it is being experienced is making all the difference.

[@roses123ize]

Great interview & interviewer 😊

[@Satori100]

David is pure gold. Thank you for the video. So grateful for knowing this Persona Grata. 🌹🙏💕

[@amanitamuscaria7500]

He totally is! He's spot on. And Maggie is delightful.

[@susancremin2757]

Maggie is mesmerising, I'm in love with her beauty, clarity, delivery of understanding. I tuned in to listen to David but Maggie had me glued to their riveting conversation

[@awakeningtobehuman]

Thank you, on behalf of both David and myself.

[@effortlessbeing5162]

Effortless Being Is Our True Nature Effortlessly. Brilliant interview. Very Clear. Thank You 🙏

[@suzieqsolutions6153]

I really enjoyed this interview. Great questions Maggie and as always, David delivers!

[@yolababelia]

This was one of the most entertaining and insightful interviews I have ever seen. Both David and Maggie are flowing so beautifully. Cannot believe it was more than 2 hours, time just flew by! 🤩👏

[@awakeningtobehuman]

Thank you :)

[@consideredwhisper]

Thank you so much David and Maggie for this insightful chat about all things bright and beautiful.

[@beyondiam1634]

Absolutely brilliant conversation. David has a great way of clarifying the subtleties. Also grateful for Maggie's deep insight. Could have listened for a few more hours! Thank you both!

[@awakeningtobehuman]

Thank you :)

[@tlotus3032]

Excellent interview questions..great synergy. Easy to feel the one soul we are while listening to two great, wise and fun expressions of our shared effortless being. Thank you!!!

[@awakeningtobehuman]

How very kind. Thank YOU! :)

[@yesplease6399]

Thankyou so much for all those amazing questions maggie & insights from both you and david!

[@amanitamuscaria7500]

In my experience, you have to get the space between thoughts first.....then there is a chance for the aha moment. And it IS different from the "knowledge" in the mind. It is a different kind of knowing. Definitely agree about folk sitting there for 30 years and still nothing. Been there. But happily, I moved on.

[@moreinnerpeace]

Thank you for this video. I paused it, went down the John Wheeler rabbit hole and just like that the search is over. Such perfect clarity and simplicity. The rest of this interview with David really clarified things as well.

[@michellecorbesier]

I absolutely loved this wonderful conversation and I enjoyed hearing David's story. Thank you for bringing up the topic of detachment, that was very insightful!

[@awakeningtobehuman]

Thank you, Michelle! :)

[@simpelman]

I understood all of this. As in finishing the next sentence, lol. Anyway: I am so glad that things like intuition, good vibes/bad vibes or as you call them: frequencies, even telepathy, synchonicity all are taken seriously. The mind is very enclosed with its logica. This will never give happiness or freedom. That's why the laws of nature like Newton and Maxwell etc. discovered can not describe the universe. Because they close off a lot. it is like you are trying to describe nature by looking at your garden, forgetting the influence of the sun, moon, wind, insects, unseen microbes etc. If we give less importance to the logical mind, then one can feel the expansion and freedom of it all. Bliss is happiness just to be alive in this world. Well, consciousness feels itself in the joy of being. Something like that. We are all one soul, so nothing dies. And nothing can me contamineted or be sinfull. Nothing sticks on consciousness. Of course not, then it would not be free and alive. Life is a wheel, and the mind is the Axel, sometimes grinding against it, sometimes there is sand in the axel. But there is no axel at all! So life can spin freely without resistance. I was thinking about this paradox: Let's say, I can see the future. Now I do a deed, which will change the future, namely, I now win the lottery because of seeing the future. Now I changed the future. In the end I concluded and realised: all is one, and there is n free will, and it is all connected. What a game life is. Creativity is just intelligence playing with itself. Or consciousness. So, that's all for today, chew on that . Lol.

[@harrietgallery4080]

Lovely to hear David again, and thankyou :)

[@utubehandle]

Thankyou. This is one of my favourite discussions/interviews and I have watched it several times (not everything sinks in at first).

[@awakeningtobehuman]

That's great :) Thank you!

[@yesplease6399]

I have definitely come to realize that at some point you just have to trust your own instincts. I've gone through many different paths and always put my entire belief into every single one i tried, disregarding everything else, and at some point i'd eventually 'fall off the wagon' and return to life as before. I think it was all perfect, when i look at it now because it's all lead me to looking deeper. The previous paths i took felt very exclusive, you must do this or that, you are wrong if you think this or that, and those things just didn't feel right to me. And this is the thing that feels the most right. a joy thats unconditional, and no judgement, no fighting, no solving problems until another one comes and another and another, no 'this is the way and there is no other', and no you must meditate for hours, or you must do this, you must do that, you can't have this, you cant have that. just pure freedom.

[@susanamos6237]

Re bell i us, ringing the church bells 🔔

[@amanitamuscaria7500]

this is really profound. Only 60 odd likes....and 3 dislikes! What is there to dislike? Thank you both, so much.

[@awakeningtobehuman]

A matter of an individual perspective, I guess :)

[@yesplease6399]

suppose some didn't resonate with it 🤣

[@elizabethgasparim3810]

I loved this video because your arguments provide so many reasons to have more freedom! Thanks!

[@yellowwoodlearningcommunit8227]

Superb interview! BIG David Bingham fan :-)

[@rainbowseason3449]

Your words at the end really encourage me kind of. I’ve been really frustrated and upset because I really don’t know what it is anymore 😂

[@overthinkersguide]

brilliant conversation. thanks

[@awakeningtobehuman]

Thank you :)

[@clairep244]

Thank you Maggie and David for giving us this video and all your insights x

[@joyabia682]

He said while painting the mind went quiet n time passed. I remember walking as a kid n that I wudnt be aware of walking anymore but I wud appear atu destination and not remember how n when I walked.

[@JulieGeigle]

Awesome thank you! 🙏

[@shushumna6]

Liberating!

[@victoriacooksey1574]

Great information!

[@anna_64]

Grazie infinite per i sottotitoli in italiano!! Adoro David e volevo sapere di più su di lui, grazie! 🤩🙏

[@awakeningtobehuman]

Ci sono sottolini in Italiano? :) Fantastico! Grazie a te :)

[@timelessdreams5281]

Amazing interview! So good to hear how others found their true nature. I never had a teacher so this is very insightful. Also you have such a cool accent Dr Maggie! 🤩 where are you from?

[@sooparticular]

what a Beautiful woman!! the guys not bad either....

[@amanitamuscaria7500]

both lovely

[@gabyinoz3868]

Wonderful clarity and joyful resonance from both of you. Maggie, I'm curious as to who your teacher that you refer to is/was? Thank you for a fantastic interview!

[@awakeningtobehuman]

Thank you :) This was a long time ago so I can't say with certainty but I guess it may have been Michael Neill. I worked on on one with him 11 years ago and this is when I experienced what I refer to as my first awakening.

[@gabyinoz3868]

@@awakeningtobehuman I keep thinking that someone needs to interview YOU! I'd love to hear about your journey and I'm sure I'm not alone in that! Thanks again.

[@awakeningtobehuman]

@@gabyinoz3868 I was interviewed quite recently, actually :) Please, search Angelo Dilullo or Simply Awake (his channel is brilliant and he is brilliant too :))and you will find two conversations with me there.

[@Mimi-xs7gi]

❤

[@n-xsta]

1:25:53 🔥 2:01:01

[@bridamc3493]

I like being ordinary.. (-:

[@brownsuitcase]

Thanks guys. I get it. Effortless being. But it feels like effort to stop the effort and therefore it is not working for me. I still have to "do" something which is to stop the effort. Yes it has been clarified really well but..... help!

[@awakeningtobehuman]

I can feel the frustration :) To me, and I may be wrong of course, effortless being is something that naturally emerges the more we see/experience the truth of our true nature and it's really annoying, I know...because we want to do something to be in that state, to manufacture it i.e. by trying to stop the effort. But it's the very trying and the very resistance to whatever we're experiencing at any moment that creates the frustration and not what is actually happening. Even that thought that "we have to stop the effort" is what creates resistance, followed by tension and frustration. So our best shot is to fully accept whatever we're feeling, meet that feeling fully, allow ourselves to feel it. I know, easier said than done.

[@anthonym3351]

Lol I totally understand Andrew I've certainly been there! But it is just a thought and the mind that tells us there's a thing to do. We try to stop the mind with the mind which will never work. Just being happy and joyful will help better than anything

[@TheDanoshaw]

hey magdelene. Did we work at Richmond Adult College back in 91 ? Fellow fan of David and the ND gang. Do love the magic, will send you message on website unless you are spookily not mag'. Damon

[@jesuisravi]

it has been said that there are a lot of realized people around who have no idea they are realized because the idea they have that corresponds to that word just doesn't fit.

[@awakeningtobehuman]

Absolutely. When I experienced my awakening 11 years ago, I did not call it an awakening because it was not part of my vocabulary. I did not consider myself a "spiritual" person or strived to be one. What I understood as "spiritual' or a "spiritual; lifestyle" was putting me off and still does. I recognise those people by the presence they have and how they go about and respond to life.

[@jesuisravi]

@@awakeningtobehuman I hear you.

[@TheDanoshaw]

actually sorry was 94/5

[@balajib785]

God never think noun or sunnishi even famt man or woman attained God only thing selflessness actually ❤

[@ordinaryguy815]

I thought you were Maggie Gyllenhaal for a moment.

[@awakeningtobehuman]

I happen to love her so I'll take it as a big compliment! :-D