I AM THAT excerpts pages 103 to 117

[@koanforty]

I cannot even express my depth of gratitude. I can only thank God for KZbin and for the divine work that has brought this message to me.

[@pierrenelson4618]

Thank you so much for these wonderful videos. Still listening after a few years discover these.

[@rafesp7019]

Thanks Phil Always an inspiring message. An espiritual boost that helps awaken in the midst of a daily walking-sleep.🎉

[@PhilPhilms]

Welcome 🤗

[@vreddy8231]

Thank you sir! It is a great service. I am immensely benefitted. You have brought this great scripture close and convenient to many that suited the present times. Thank you for your compassionate effort.

[@anjupasricha3863]

Truly grateful ....

[@1paulwalsh]

x 2.... thank you deeply Phil

[@paulstoran7183]

Namaste, thankyou god bless all

[@janny474]

Thank you so much for making this video.

[@AuntyHoney]

🙏💜🙏 Thank you 🙏💜🙏

[@garypuckettmuse]

Phil, I am so repetitive and there is nothing to even say about the experience you are providing with this sublime reading because words fail but I must do what I can do now and then -- your sensitivity and deep understanding of this material is sublime. Your care for the listener with your loving, clear tone, and the pacing and the pauses to allow us to sit with the words and the glorious background bells and bowls. The whole thing is just truly sublime. For me this jhani is the perfect teacher. It's almost hard for me to read his books because the words bloom like bouquets and the phrases explode like stars and the cave of my heart opens up when I turn the pages. Yes, this sounds ridiculous but it's true. I won't even get into the highlighting and marginalia. Listening to you keeps the thoughts and ideas flowing instead of letting me grab and trap them like poor little birds in a cage. The truth washes over me and through me. I have never in my life been able to tolerate listening to a book read allowed because books are meant to be seen on the page. But these are talks so hearing them spoken is the way they were intended to be consumed. Like poetry or songs through a human voice. It's just all so so so much that you have given. And, I do apologize for waxing on like this. I do promise not to do it again but then I weaken . . .. I hope you are very well and thriving and somehow buoyed by all the people who love and appreciate this gift to us all. Namaskar.

[@PhilPhilms]

I’ve literally just finished watching an interview with Sir Ian McKellen where he finishes with a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More. Your words felt similar to me as I read them on my phone while sitting under a hot sun next to my pool about to go for a swim. Thank you for sharing your love ❤️ with me.

[@PhilPhilms]

In case you’d like to watch it: kzbin.info/www/bejne/g3XYkGZrZ62Kp5Y

[@garypuckettmuse]

@@PhilPhilms Shocking to see a great actor transform himself right in front of our eyes, eh? I'm thinking he's got to have superhighway access to that still place and know how to drop everything on a dime and come back all in the time it took him to tug on the hem of his hoodie. Actually I thought he was taking a beat to let the audience get ready but when I felt Thomas More (and Sir William?!) rise up through the soles of his feet and inhabit him so fully, no, he had to empty everything to take all that on. So, wow, look at that huge space he created in himself. And how fearlessly receptive it is. And then he just lets it pass through him like a breeze and he's back to his cheery elfin little self. What, say?! Mind blown. Cheerio.

[@raylight3838]

The Supremes speaks through Phil

[@blacgat2341]

Well done Sir!

[@yangtc24]

A blessed Sunday morning to you, Mr. Philms! I love to listen to you reading the excerpts of Nisiji's I AM THAT! Thank you for this spiritually devoted endeavor of yours! I'd very much like to translate the book into German. I am an experienced translator since the 70ties, so I really have trust in my abilities. And I follow Nisagardatta's advice to meditate on the I AM. Could you please help me with my wish? Sincerely, Joseph

[@gksikaria]

The world itself is contact.The totality of all contacts actualize in consciousness. The spirit touches matter and consciousness results. Such consciousness when tainted with memory and expectations becomes bondage.

[@maicolx777]

music has been deleted!?

[@markf2720]

25:25

[@jimbosavage]

He uses words "bogi" and "boga". Anyone know what that means?

[@PhilPhilms]

Jeremy Standiford One who enjoys pleasure, as opposed to a yogi who seeks Truth ❤️

[@jimbosavage]

Thanks for the clarification.

[@El_Trinquete]

The book I Am That has a glossary on all the terms. Well worth getting this book.

[@kevinjoseph517]

@@jimbosavage yogi vs bogi

[@mahendrashukla1895]

it is bhogi and bhog .( bhogi means enjoyer)

[@spiritlove3351]

The only thing that can help is to wake up from the dream

[@Doriesep6622]

How do you enjoy others' suffering? "Would you say a flower is trying to be beautiful?" Why do gurus always use beautiful images? Would you say the holocaust was trying to be beautiful?"

[@PhilPhilms]

Barefoot Prof I think you’re mixing two points. One of my favorite quotes of his is this: Life is a river which flows between the banks of pain and pleasure. He said all spirituality was about suffering and the ending of suffering ❤️ He knew suffering well, and all of his teachings are about reducing suffering and seeing where we’ve “gone wrong” in terms of our madness and mindlessness. May all beings be free of suffering, my friend 💜 May we all wake up to the Truth of our interconnected and peaceful nature 😊

[@Doriesep6622]

@@PhilPhilms :)

[@kzrolf]

Important question! Gurus speak of beauty because Divinity/Truth IS Beauty, its non-dual, and that's the goal. Pure perception (I-am-ness)views from the position of non-duality (adviata), so does not see duality (i.e. the world) and its myriad variety. It just does not see through the lens that divides (the subtle arising of form) into a good versus a bad, a right vs. a wrong, a happy vs. a sad, a kind vs. a heinous. The job of the lens is to perceive difference and is what makes the dream the dream-but the dream is not the Truth. All suffering is in the dream. Maybe that helps....:l

[@robertpacheco8474]

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