The Mind's Trick That Keeps You Seeking | Nonduality

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[@SamanthaBarnes-tr8wh]

Sending you healing 💫

[@hstx17]

Thanks!

[@jaymysterio4197]

The irony of “enlightenment” is that nothing can be found by seeking but only those who seek find that out. Shams

[@jaymysterio4197]

I would add that there are certain transcendent states of consciousness that come about spontaneously or after having done many spiritual practices and I find that a lot of non-dual teachings are actually just another concept from teachers who haven’t gone through the fire of truly awakening to oneness. Those that have speak of it very differently if at all

[@younusxp]

Shams tabriz? Btw…im one hell of a seeker 😅

[@jaymysterio4197]

@@younusxp yep that’s him.. keep seeking friend!

[@TwoWheels_OO]

You must seek, you just can’t know through the mind. Your own mind is getting in the way through language And enlightenment is knowing that you’re nothing and acting like you’re something. Sadguru

[@oerantia9126]

@@jaymysterio4197 I feel that talking of “states of consciousness” is putting people on the wrong foot. They should better be called “states of mind” o “states of experiences” or “states of insight”. Consciousness should better be associated with the total emptiness or the nameless of the indescribable essence, our true effortless nature. Consciousness should not be equated to thoughts and impressions. Thoughts, impressions, expressions, experiences are all synonyms and are of the nature of the mind. The mind is like an object or an appearance to consciousness. Consciousness, being indescribable doesn’t appear … IN A DESCRIBABLE WAY, whereas all the experiences are describable and which can be equated to the mind or the mind’s tendency to describe (experiences). That offers a better framework for thinking-minds to see beyond the mind’s nature, into the silent nature of ourselves. But it goes even further, this consciousness that we possess during the waking state is NOT yet the (indescribable) Truth, because it is way to much relative (dual) to all that it observes (through the 5 physical senses and thought being “like a sixth sense”). But the consciousness we possess during our wakeful state is a “gateway” towards our true eternal nature, unchanging, non-describable. Our wakeful consciousness does offer a portal to the Absolute, but as long as the consciousness stays involved with everything that it perceives (5 physical senses and thought or mind) it will remain blinded by the observations. Nisargadatta Maharaj said: whatever is observed should be considered illusion. Find out WHAT IS SEEING. And I will add in my own words: the seer can never be described. Just like consciousness truly can’t be described. If one thinks one can describe consciousness in terms of what consciousness perceives (=experiences) one is not seeing the difference between consciousness and observations, one doesn’t yet understand the difference between the seer and the object of seeing. First a framework like this should be established, a separation between what is seen and the seeing/seer. When that is clear enough, one can proceed to becoming totally oblivious and wonderstruck by everything that appears to be so real or an alternative path that destroys all the concepts of the mind, that destroys its entire paradigm. When that process comes to its end, everything is seen to be exactly one and the same thing: All is Reality or Reality permeates all appearances completely invisible. One “sees” (but it is not a seeing like physical eye sight) the invisible Reality “inside and around (everywhere)” all objects that appear. As long as we hold on to concepts about what the relation is between appearances and their mind-made-up meaning, one will remain blinded by the mind. A mind, a description, will never be true. Reality is indescribable, our very own nature is indescribable. All paths will lead to that realization. There is no truth to express. That is Truth. If Truth was expressible, it would have been a victim of the opinionated/narrow-minded mind. It would have been vilified or praised by one and the other group. Truth is beyond all concept, beyond all expressions and definitely beyond all states (of mind). It is Totally Free to EXpress (outwardly pretend/fake) any thing imaginable. But Reality/Truth itself remains unimaginable. Only the unimaginable can be omnipotent. The imagined is a limited expression always of the infinite potential of the unimaginable. See it in every human endeavor to find truth, be it science, religion, philosophy: all these expressed imagined truth are born from a sense of “I do not know”. “I do not know” is also a portal into the unimagined. All expressed (imagined) knowledge springs from no-knowledge. Some imagined individuals are/were on a path that they found out that “there will never a final/original answer to anything investigated”. Science will never find the root cause of the universe. Every Big Bang calls for an earlier cause, which will require an earlier cause, for eternity. A imaginative mind will keep on imagining causes (and their effects). You are right: all non-dual teachings are conceptual. They need to be conceptual, because imagined individuals are entirely conceptual-thinking “living beings”. But if - as in Jesus’ words “the one who has ears, will hear” - truly understand what is being pointed at by me, or by the poster of the video or by the better spiritual teachings, you will see they all point to the nameless indescribable silent essence in yourself. I - nowadays - calls this “empty knowing”. Empty knowing doesn’t require an effort, it is not improved or diminished by a so called “truth” that I consider needs to be expressed. A law of Newton, a spiritual paradox doesn’t improve this spotless/perfect “empty knowing” nature that resides in us all. We are Perfect at immediately “seeing” what appears (through the five senses and the sixth sense, the mind). These are facts of life or of “how THIS ALL appears to function”. How come we are “so knowing”. Language or an arbitrary word or an arbitrary symbol on a piece of paper is NOT the knowing I am speaking of. That is the mind again and its so called layers of knowing. I am talking of pure empty knowing of which you don’t know how you are able to know, but you know.As such “looking at this kind of knowing”, you might see the paradox of it all: you know, but you don’t know how you know. In other words: there is knowing, but at the deepest layers of it all, it remains unknown how one knows. But you might shift back into the conviction “but I do know” and then it might go back. It is at this kind of level that one might need to look and know what is going on. The faintest or slightest expression of the mind is IMMEDIATE experience. And the problem with experiences is, is that I appear to be so real, so convincing, but they aren’t. They are always a limited set of ideas that never reach the insight of the infinite potential of Reality. Realization is a very peculiar thing, for the simple reason it is beyond the mind, forever. It is the most radical you will ever encounter, yet so familiar at the same time. When expressed, it always shows its paradoxical nature, but that is really the wrong kind of phrasing it: its EXPRESSION is always paradoxical because of its omnipotence. We have war and peace because of the omnipotence of Reality. Like said in the video: there is no right or wrong (for Reality). All is well, all expression is merely illusion, but when you get closer to the end of believing in the illusion (of being a person in a world or a universe), one meets with the spiritual frameworks/concepts that point to the nameless essence in your very own being. See the purpose of these frameworks and you will have understood their aim: to free you of your concepts, including the spiritual framework that was offered, before enlightenment “occurred in you”. This enlightenment is - rightly put forward by the KZbinr - the end of your personality: it just vanishes and you “see/know” beyond all expression (knowing and not-knowing) you are the “omnipotent eternal(timeless is a better word) Reality”. What appears is merely dream, entertainment, never improving or diminishing your eternal perfect nature. Enlightenment is a meeting with the indescribable Perfection in your self and in everything around you and you will see that THAT will never leave you, because it is totally effortless. The mind is all effort, that is why it will one day get tired seeking for truth. But be aware, the mind is very cunning, it is the ultimate trickster: saying everything, including spirituality, is merely a concept, is a concept too. It is another belief you are holding on to. Only a Full Release of all your own beliefs offers the Truth. It is very easy for a mind to pretend “it released all its beliefs, calling everting a concept”. Up to very last point, consider all that expression also “just something that appeared to you, the nameless concept-free Reality”. Then you will have done your work. Nisargadatta said: cleaning up one’s own mess [of concepts], seems to be the universal law. Peace

[@ThoughtsBecomeThingsChannel]

I know of friends and stuff, and I really feel for them because they also believe that enlightenment is the egos to be had. No. It's freedom from identification with forms. Freedom from identity is also a blessing in disguise, because it frees us from the mental blockages that keep us in the fear mind!

[@minhacontaize]

so true

[@Beingnessing]

Yes,who is growing...

[@RudyRotor]

That endlessly seeking trickster, the mind, now has an accomplice: the KZbin algorithm. But I am grateful that these tricksters brought your video to my attention. Thank you for the reminder/refresher 🙏

[@DanielShai]

Lol. Too true!

[@KARIS1961]

❤❤❤

[@tonyanavarro1523]

Thank you, this helps and is encouraging because I feel so overly saturated in trying to find all the answers and an ultimate knowledge of truth and it dawned on me, for me, it doesn't exist. There is too many situations and experiences for us to have an ultimate truth. Theories and experiences seem to be what life is.🤯🧐🤔

[@DanielShai]

No doubt it all gets VERY confusing. I hope to help people EXPERIENCE freedom, not merely have a mental idea of it. Bless you 😇☀️

[@Pipun081]

This video helped me a lot, the way you spoke slowly with calming tone, thank you. I'm 27, experienced all kinds of things(supernatural, human things..) all of the damn thinking led me to one thing and that is the ultimate surrender to our creator, for me God. When you stop thinking, wanting and act like you have everything, materialistic wise and spiritually, in other words be grateful, you will get everything, you can feel the ease in your chest. BUT, you must not lie to yourself. Do not condition your ideal life, it will hurt. Same as doing good, not doing it for God, not doing it for reward, simply for the cause, and you'll be free. Surrender yourself to life, accept it and you will be free.

[@Steerpikey]

Non-duality is eye-opening (and very powerful), but does it make you a better human? Blavatsky says that growth and self-improvement is void when you don't connect it to the heart. This is the secret heart doctrine. I believe growth can make us better people, can make us more connected to the people around us. This is also the core of Gurdjieff's teachings. You self-remember, you get hold of your 'machine' in order to be a better person. It is only when seeking becomes intellectualized (a mind game) that it becomes really dangerous.

[@JulieBoerst]

🌱

[@deerlow1851]

10/10

[@jimrich4192]

It's indescribable...just this...Life, lifeing...indivisiblity...Wholeness...just Life....

[@debbielunsford3116]

Best talk ever so far. I’m just started awakening this year! Thanks you!

[@eliza4569]

Daniel-ness is such a wonderful teacher of no-thing. Thank you.

[@atommachine]

To trump the Mind i go , Object , Eye , Brain , scrambles lables . Soul lithium powers all so remove battery and rest in that . Repeat every 3 minutes or so then rest in the space that is the Divine power source.

[@adriansosialuk276]

Wow Daniel - that was excellent! So down to earth yet so uplifting and true. Thank you!

[@gentlemanx7987]

My brother, I thank you. The last few months have been full of beautiful insights and wonderfull new ways of looking at things. Yet, in the last days specifically, I felt a strong, strong feeling of incompleteness, of - for the lack of better words - imperfection. I seem to seek and seek and look for something and the more answers, opinions and perspectives I get, the more confusing and the more unclear things seem to get. I was just yesterday thinking about if I might get crazy, little by little. Thank you for your words which are music to my heart, brother. Love and light. 🍀🙏

[@leopemberton5439]

🎉surrender self acceptance will create the change that is being sought .the spiritual search can leed to ego inflation Self acceptance self awareness happy daze

[@ninaz2120]

The absolute truth is real and is happening in the presence, however it doesn't require seeking, it just requires being fully here to see it and hear it. Seeking is anxiety running away from the truth.

[@sharonslack7666]

Thank you 🙏 Daniel 🙏

[@tellmethetruth3393]

I feel that I won't be able to stop seeking until I get a satisfactory answer to the question, " Is there anything important happening here?" , "Am I being taught, purged or being made ready for something?"

[@julietteSoul]

I was told we are in earth school to learn. Never found out what we are learning, must be god's secret . NDE'er

[@norinabramke362]

Only if you have a direct experience you can know. But the act of putting it in words is the mind distorting it and squeezing it into concepts. Everything that’s beyond the mind, the mind will hijack and make it to its own. ‘Maybe’ is really the wisest answer, yes. I admire how you can put truth in words. I can’t. I always feel the distortion. But maybe I see the truth because of my direct experience and someone without would distort everything you say. Maybe.

[@DanielShai]

Oh how true your words are. We use the mind to speak about what’s beyond mind, and my experience is of being regularly massively misunderstood. Oh well. This bird is just chirping its song. No outcome needed.

[@ovilee4618]

@@DanielShai "Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." ~ Henry Van Dyke

[@Mimi-xs7gi]

💥💫💥

[@laurentolbert7]

Literally I was like oook one more video … and I’m so lost! I’m n middle of that ! How o get out tho like step by step

[@DanielShai]

Nonduality is empty. Listen to what fills you with light and love. That’s what you’re seeking anyway…

[@oerantia9126]

Nice overview. I can relate quite a lot to what you are saying. In 2017, having done a lot of thinking in my entire life, I had come to two conclusions: 1) no one (not even the most clever human in the farthest distant future) will ever know how this universe came into being. I understood the complete impossibility of reasoning with causes and effects, will keep science on an eternal search for earlier causes. My blood boiled, I was quite angry and frustrated about it. 2) I also - based on my own life experiences (just a story, like point 1 is merely a story!) - couldn’t look past the fact that I will never be happy in what life has to offer. I looked at from all possible angles: relationships, work, hobbies, travel, stop working, other goals (altruistic, non-altruistic). I just couldn’t see how anything could ever make me “Lastingly Happy”. This infuriated me even more about life. Put the two together and I thought to myself “what are all these other people fooling themselves with!?!?”. How come that I (never brilliant at anything in life, be it in science or relationships) stand to diametrically opposed to what everyone seems to believe in? This was also accompanied with the sense of “I have completely failed at life. I had never found out one iota of FUNDAMENTAL truth about science or with HAPPINESS”. It wasn’t that I became depressed by it. No, I was angry and frustrated, including at times at science for being so stupid. Science has been an important part of my life, as you can probably tell. I don’t want to make this story too long, but so much has “happened” in my life, that I have come to see their apparent relationship. A story that lead all the way to Realization has happened. By the end of 2019 and the beginning of 2020, I had two short but massive insights into Reality. All this - by the way - happened in my life, with hardly any spiritual knowledge. I consider myself so little influenced at all y spiritual teachings that to this (imagined) me, this (imagined) story that is my life, it fits so perfectly for the imagined person that I think I am. It is as if I found out the Truth on my own. So fast forward a little bit: I had two experiences in that 3-4 month period in 2019-2020. They were temporary, I have to agree on that, but the un-influenced way that I would describe my experiences turned out to be (sometimes) “word for word” how Ramana Maharshi and Nisargadatta Maharaj had expressed their insight. If I have to put in one short sentence my deepest expression of Truth is/was: “I/We are Reality”. Since this is probably a very vague expression for a lot of people, I could write a whole book about what I DON’T MEAN by that word “Reality” Or I could write down an unbelievable amount of words what kind of TEMPORARY but RADICALLY DIFFERENT EXPERIENCES I had “during my re-membering what I/We Truly Am/Are”. But if I were to do that, people might start to desire for these kinds of experiences, just like I did. All desire is of the mind, for a particular experience and which is never eternal. Only the eternal/timeless nameless indescribable essence in ourselves - that I call “empty knowing” - is the UNCHANGING. Only that which doesn’t change can ever be called Truth. A lot of people might THINK that the laws of nature are eternal and be on so many other wrong paths of belief. Once you have a “meeting” with your very own nature, one knows beyond all comprehension/beyond all not-knowing what is TRUTH. The TRUTH doesn’t allow itself to correctly expressed. That is why it will remain forever out of reach of the tiranny of science, religion and philosophy. Or if I have to express it in less “negative terms”. Religion, science, philosophy (and all the other stuff that we deem worthy of our time doing) is all just Play. By investigating the Play, one will never reveal the Play-maker. As long as the human seeker is convinced that truth can be found in the visible or experiential domain, or through him imagining a Deity, one will be in the bondage of the idea. And the real Truth will not come. BUT! I have to contradict what I just said ALSO: because all the seeking (in the wrong direction) will come to an end one day and then the Truth will reveal itself. I have the insight beyond a shadow a doubt, that the entire display (the universe) is entirely scripted. Free will is part of the imagination. But this doesn’t mean that the enlightened person KNOWS what is going to happen. He is unimaginably at peace or at ease, he cares not for what happens and what will happen, yet he might know at certain points in time what will happen or he may not. It is all of no concern to the enlightened one. The peace of enlightenment turns everything that is APPARENTLY happening into “I don’t care but I am amused by it, I am interested by it” experience. It is really paradoxical. But do you see what this really shows? We can talk and we will talk for an eternity of what appears to be happening in words and in experiences. At best, when enlightenment (or some other very deep insight has ripened) one sees the paradoxical nature of everything that APPARENTLY happens. But has ANYONE ever told or explained HOW this all APPARENTLY HAPPENS. WHAT THE TRUE MECHANISM is? We can only talk and experience what APPEARS to HAPPEN. We can never talk of the WHO to which it HAPPENS. We are like the perfectly invisible subject: the eye that sees everything except itself. I know … The subject is also inside all apparent objects. The subject or the i(impersonal) intelligence permeates everything, living and non-living (according to the minds division). I had an experience/apparent insight that I could have been “born as food”. It would have made no difference whatsoever. Now I appear to live as “an eater of food”. But “being food”, having no apparent/imagined free will would have been equally fine. I also saw no difference between food and human-eater, because is my body not exactly the same thing as food? Of course it is. I just happen to APPEAR as a more MOBILE part of food. I have been giving legs and the power of imaginative thought in this life, that makes me appear to do things, work at things, destroy things. BUT IT IS ALL JUST APPEARANCE. All appearances will keep on changing, shifting, interreacting with eachother. BUT NONE OF THAT IS TRUTH, NONE OF THAT IS THE REALITY THAT I SAW I AM. Knowing one is the Absolute Reality puts one in a state of knowing that is beyond the entire manifestation. It even put me beyond the concept of space. I simply didn’t care for here or the other side of the universe. It even went further: I didn’t care whether space was filled with apparent things or that it was infinite or just the size of my kitchen (or even less). At one point I completely lost all my physical senses. I didn’t mention that I was in a blissful sense of silence, everything was so pleasantly silent around me. Only my physical vision still worked. My entire body was not felt one bit. But at one point, even my eye sight vanished completely and I TEMPORARILY experienced what Nisargadatta has expressed in a very good way: “where Love becomes the Lover and the Beloved”. It was an ECSTASY, ORGASMIC beyond description. The best feeling ever. But … temporary. I can no longer accept any of my experiences as Truth, because the mechanism by which we experience or by which we know these experiences or by which we trigger/create these experiences, these expressions is all unknown. For ever. THAT is WHAT I AM. Totally Unknown and beyond all experience. Even that Ecstatic Love. Reality doesn’t require an experience, not even that unfathomable Love. Reality is desireless, because IT knows that everything worthwhile has been achieved (timeless ago). Nothing needed or could have been done to improve its Perfect Nature. So what else could it do? The short and simple answer that I got was: All that could have been done after perfection is eternally achieved, is to play and pretend all the stuff that is untrue, that is NOT perfect. The universe, the manifestation, the Total Expression will forever be in an IMAGINED state of IMperfection. The Manifestation is the Eternal Play of “Let’s pretend to achieve of become something”, against the background of “Reality is Perfect and Unimagined”. So many opposite words or paradoxes can be spent on trying to present a full picture of the Truth, but as you said “the Expression (happening) is going on, as we speak, now and forever”. But let’s stop pretending that the expression is real. THAT IS THE ENTIRELY CLUE TO ENLIGHTENMENT. If I would have read my own words a few years ago, being very scientific minded, I would have said, this is utter non-sense. What a floating non-sense of words of airy concepts. I would have said: “well that is pretty easy: you only say stuff that can’t be tested. Hell, you even say it isn’t possible to know it in the physical manifestation of the universe”. But this just shows “that the mind is a prison of beliefs”. One doesn’t know what freedom (from the mind) is, until it happens to one directly. Only that can truly enlighten or offer insight. Until then - and I will use Ramana Maharshi’s (RM) words - one can only “Play the Hero(ine)”. Play oh Hero, is a quote from RM. Play is pretend it is all real. One day, you will get sick (enough) of the play and there are an infinite number of paths that all lead to a sense of “I am fed up with all this nonsense of life”. That is when Truth has a chance of coming to You. The wall of the mind’s beliefs has to be weakened enough before Truth can penetrate it.

[@niloc1414]

I have never bothered ever to read long comments, this is the first time. An excellent vid and an excellent comment. I will be back to reflect again.

[@oerantia9126]

Thanks. If I reread that whole message again, I could have said certain things still better or with less syntax mistakes, but I hardly do any spelling- or other checks when I write something down. Peace and I somehow like to say: enjoy the seeking. See it as a truly worthwhile endeavor in life, no matter how much you meet with frustration or any other negative state. When the search is over, you know. As long as one thinks one is able to express the Truth, it probably means the mind is still fooling oneself. Truth is truly indescribable. It has no attribute by which is can be explained or expressed. Peace

[@oerantia9126]

@Alex I am from Belgium, to answer your question. We all experience something unique, even when reading the same words, like e.g. the words from Nisargadatta. The sense I got when reading and listening to Nisargadatta’s words (NM = Nisargadatta Maharaj) was “this guy just tells its like it is, no sugarcoating, spilling the beans, no holding back on any question, being brutally literal about his state and where e.g. Sat Chit Ananda “sits” compared to the Absolute State. Sat Chit Ananda. This is also kind of how I experience myself. I have never been a spiritual seeker, I was all in on science, had a broad interest in it, I also had an interest in what science shows no interest in, you can call it fringe science. I always had a love or a strong desire to know the Truth. And this reached a bit of boiling point in 2017 where I just couldn’t believe in the scientific approach to finding truth. But I wrote that already. It was then that I more or less got on the spiritual path, through psychedelics if you count psychedelics in the spiritual domain. But irrespective of what progress I made in insights, I just kept on remaining unpleased. Too much questions remained open or unanswered. That is when - being pushed by a psychedelic buddy - I gave 5-MEO DMT a try. This experience was a bomb. That experience can be expressed quite short by merely saying that I learned that “my I Am” and “God is’ or “God Must Exist” were equals. So I and God is exactly the same. It was stupendous, that insight. But that 5 MEO experience was just nothing - although it did have its “purpose” in the story of my individuality. Because it made me quit psychedelics. I saw no need whatsoever anymore to continue with psychedelics. But then one particular day in 2019 and another one - 3 months later is my guess - in 2020 and “IT (the truth) came to me”. Read all this as just an (interesting or interesting) story, because I can never express to anybody what Reality truly is. One has to discover it for oneself, in direct “contact” with it. The experiences (also temporary and therefore part of the show or the Play) in such immediate contact with Reality can be really very different from personal experiences and even very paradoxical or completely opposed to each other. I can give one particular example: experiencing all-knowing and experiencing no-knowing-anything happened to me. Both are equally true. Both are so “logical” or so “reasonable” when one abides as Reality or as one truly is. There is a Total Acceptance of what may happen/may one experience. Even the death of the physical body is totally fine/acceptable in that state of knowing [what one truly is]. And so on. Although my experience didn’t last long, only a couple of minutes, a direct account of what ideas/experiences occurred to me in that state and their implications require a lot of (writing) space. I have done this below other videos :-). My comments and additions are spread across (many?) YT videos. And I - for now - don’t feel an urge to present them again. You may ask me questions that might trigger an answer whereby a past “non-dual” insight is of use to mention, but a list of direct insights that I got may probably not fulfill their purpose and be of not much use to you. Remember: no one (no saint, no Ramana, no Nisargadatta, no any single-one) has ever expressed our True Nature. What has been expressed are (temporary) experiences that happen in a (dis)Play. The (dis)Play is made of something that is indescribable and which I can only term Reality. Reality is that essence that is “kind of” hidden in plain sight. The forms e.g. we see around us are made of that indescribable essence of Reality. We and everything else, no matter if it is living or non-living matter, is all made of that essence [of Reality]. I cannot be more literal and precise tan that. How to truly know this, is just to follow your own path of inquiry, whatever the path may be. Like NM used to say: “you may choose whatever practice you like, it is your earnestness that determines your success”. Stories of enlightenment or realization can of course be useful fuel to continue the path, but the Truth will also remain hidden in all these enlightened stories. The mind will never penetrate that which is the essence of everything, including the mind. Or said differently: no experience will ever explain you who the true experiencer is. Mind is merely thoughts, who or what knows thoughts? True intelligence lies beyond the mind. The mind is merely a part of the expression, just like matter is part of the expression of that One True Intelligence. I use different words for the same non-describable thing, not to confuse you, but to use sometimes a hyperbolic word to assist in going into the unknown or a too large concept for your mind. To make you feel the impossibility of the minds search for ultimate truth. The mind is like a 6-th sense. Like our 5 physical senses we can have experiences in this unreal display, the mind is a (VERY) big portion of our experiential repertoire. We are very mental beings, in this dis(Play). Peace

[@oerantia9126]

@Alex And if you would read a particular spiritual book again and again, you will see that with each read, you will discover new accents again and again. Until you are no longer bothered with any such findings. Something’s resonate with the personal I, until one gets tired of this process of “learning new stuff”. But as I said, try to enjoy the process of so-called discovery, see it as a Play, see there is no free will to it, it just happens, just like thoughts happen to you also involuntarily. A quote from NM comes back to mind that resemble a part of what I posted in this message. NM said upon his realization that “all disappeared, my guru, the world, the life I lived … and there was unfathomable silence.” He might have even said in this context “My silence sings”. I experienced that silence as well. It is so pleasing, it is Pure Rest or Pure Peace, a Total Loss of Fear, Totally Desirelessness. That is when the Bliss (ananda) happened to me. An unimaginable trust in what One Is (or All Is). All is Myself, occurred to me. There are truly no others, there is not even a table or a chair that isn’t me. There is no separation between food and the eater of the food. Another experience/insight was that e.g. It just one after the other experience of amazement but also obviousness, so very paradoxical. We are truly uncaused Reality. There is nothing to fear of what happens “in the (illusory, playful) dis-Play.

[@Listen2BAware]

Thank you, this is the clearest pointing I've encountered. Many thanks.

[@gopikaoberoi5334]

Going beyond the mind letting go conditioning leads u to Just awareness and that is REaL u no frills just u as awareness 😊

[@crash936]

Therefore another trap is thinking that not thinking is what is.

[@johnluke37]

Yes, the temple metaphor is perfect!

[@vmc.7326]

I think the word enlightenment or non-duality is actually the dumbest thing that ever happened and led to a fundamental misunderstanding. It is just a change of perspective but nothing really changes. People see it as some end goal that you have to go look for when all it means is that the attachments you have vanish. You are still a human, an ego, an identity but you're not only this but much more. You become an "eco" instead of an ego, if you will. The illusion was only the separateness.

[@getnetalemu4427]

Thank you.

[@thesoulmateconnection]

What grounds us is the other a reflection. And that's what keeps our wheel turning. It's always between the self and the world. It has always been about masculine and feminine energy and be coming balance. And that is our truth.

[@shibubasheer]

The mind will always think what it wants. No point in fighting it. Its intellectual entertainment :)

[@DanielShai]

Only the mind wants to fight the mind… 😉

[@leemeredith1027]

Such beautiful words thank you so much ☺️

[@THE_HOLY_TRINITY]

Thank you for this message Daniel

[@momentmal5248]

Thanks for the video, Daniel. Like you, I spent many years searching and working toward something. It started 10 years ago with a spontaneous falling away of all ego boundaries, then a kundalini awakening….I thought I was going crazy. It went from 0 to 100 in a split second. That’s when the search for answers began. Years later I experienced some of the most beautiful ecstatic states imaginable, also spontaneously and unexpectedly. Now I seem to have settled….into my body, into my life, watching what arises, allowing everything to just be. It’s very freeing but I do wonder, what were all those incredible, beautiful, loving, ecstatic experiences? I know they must come from our source but they seem so different compared to the peace I feel now. Would love to hear your thoughts on that.

[@DanielShai]

I don't really have any thoughts about it, other than that they're experiences. Just like this, now. But the mind can't let it all be THIS, it has to divide it all up and categorize stuff, seeing one thing as more true or valid than another. What if THIS can appear as some heavenly experience or even a life review like in NDEs? What if THIS is infinite? Always the same yet always weaving different patterns from itself? I know a woman who had a profound NDE. She wrote a book about it and when she finished, her sense of 'me' just vanished, poof. Since that moment she doesn't really seem to care or give any meaning to the incredible light and perfect love she experienced in her NDE. If before it seemed to her like physical earth life was a dream and the spirit realm was real, now she says it's all within the dream. What have we but the dream? Some people speak of 'awakening' as awakening to the dream. THIS is dreaming, you could say. A real dream. Anything can happen in a dream, including heavenly experiences and hellish ones and this and that and the other. The only difference, perhaps, is that now it's seen as mere experiences. That is, there's nothing being sought in these experiences. They're enjoyed or suffered and immediately let go of. Before, the character gave them so much meaning, because the character believed there was a point, a destination. But this is it. And if and when some marvelous ecstatic experience comes around, then that will be this then. And what that translates to, you could say, is simply an absence of attachment to any experience. Part of the pain NDErs experience after the NDE is that they are attached to the experience they had - they want that, not this. It's very very painful, and life feels empty. I lived in that for some time, as I had an experience similar to an NDE (but I wasn't dying or dead). It's only the person or personality that makes something of all these experiences. I can't take any of it personally 🤷‍♂

[@sharonslack7666]

This is probably the best teaching I have ever listened too! The message I got from within “Have Fun”! Daniel you are so Authentic, Kind , and Honest, Most of all your message is always compassionate ❤Thank you❤️

[@coenterhaar9183]

Recognising and being your natural state.. What can be simpler, or harder! 😉 Thank you. Great talk!

[@robertmcgrath7970]

what if you seek for pure entertainement

[@SylwiaDaniluk]

Jesus is the Truth.

[@braebeen6502]

Excellent presentation

[@benzysmommy]

I am going insane with the teachings of non duality. I’ve been depressed and confused.

[@DanielShai]

Cuz they suck. Come speak with me and see if you don't get quite a bit of clarity. I was in your shoes, suffering tremendously with the non-dual teachings....

[@Msminimumdose]

For me, a belief that there are separate questions and answers, holds up the illusion of duality. Seeing wholeness is recognising the question and answer are the same thing, and ‘you’ don’t need to be the questioner or the answerer.

[@daliborstriskovic5051]

it is nice that your consciousness can transcend your mind and see it as your activity. the mind with all its material and spiritual longings is just a set of concepts and knots that happen in consciousness. Greetings to all seekers.

[@__julisboa]

love the video!!! thank you so much for this

[@hermansohier7643]

If you want to know about ' Enlightment ' ask a new born baby .

[@Leahwyn1]

Fabulous!!!

[@a.n1511]

True but I feel like Seeking is a necessary step to get to the "I don't care" ie leaving the matrix= mind control games = just what we were coming to experience in this life = enlightenment = cosmic joke/ last laugh 🙏

[@stevebrown6215]

This is the end of seeking for me! Thank you for sharing

[@DanielShai]

💜

[@warricksoto3766]

Badassness to no one comes to town! Unrecognizable freedom.

[@jamescharpentier2291]

Yeah, BUT...there’s something to be said for growth,improvement, etc. on the relative level. ‘Improving’ ones life situation can be well worth it. Being a happy, healthy, functional adult in this society takes effort. This yin/yang aspect is often ignored in ‘nondualility’ circles.

[@eisvogel8099]

Watch the mind telling you to seek. Observe it. And the seeker vanishes.

[@leon5248]

The happening is perfect ❤️💫

[@laurentolbert7]

How can u know exactly be as u are? Not right just me? Like idk I’m so confused

[@vonderklaas]

Thanks!

[@davidalbro2009]

Those are two different parts of thr bible. Jesus seeing the money changers in the temple and overturning their tables and Jesus saying "I will destroy the temple and in three days rebuild it."

[@tedpunt6146]

What is the origin of your joy and passion? Isn't sharing videos also a form of seeking (attention, validation)? Can you dethrone the relevance of stories and concepts with ....uhm... new stories and explanations? And if everything is just happening what's there to explain and make videos about? Do you ever feel you're still in the act of of seeking, spiritual bypassing? Thanks, just interested ;)

[@DanielShai]

How happy it makes me see a brother who thinks for himself and doesn't just gobble "true-sounding things" up. You'll resonate more with more recent videos, for sure. Different videos for different folks or levels, if you will. Until the process of integration occurs, bringing the divine into a way of living, a lifestyle - seeking will continue. It has to come down to the level of doing - not just thought and emotion. Spirit becomes the Identity you operate from, and there's very little mind involved. Everything is what's happening and there's just not so much resistance (no idea that it's wrong or shouldn't be happening). But stopping seeking TOTALLT does NOT cut it. It's just the beginning of stopping come at it at all from the head. Hopefully, it the beginning of letting Spirit come in to one's life - not just conceptually, but really.

[@graceface420]

Fantastic video 💗

[@Nadine_Franke]

Really beautiful❤️

[@DanielShai]

💜

[@leopemberton5439]

Self awareness is enough as life happens one moment at a time be kind to the mind

[@leopemberton5439]

I am growing .no the ego is growing🤣🤣🤣🤣💚✌️🙏🏼

[@DREAMER-uq4gh]

I AGREE BEYOND THE MIND/DREAM IS INDESCRIBABLE BUT THE '.IT.' NATURALLY SLEEPS ,DREAMS & CREATES WONDERFUL REALITIES ,NOTABLY, ,AN ETERNAL ONE WE ALL WAKE UP TO., B EFORE SLEEP [THE LOWER CONSCIOUSNESS] DREAMS AGAIN..

[@swhite8381]

“Thank the Lord and praise him just in case .” 🤣

[@being-Lisa]

NIIICE Daniel ❤️

[@timelessdreams5281]

Great talk. Nice to meet you at the Teja "satsang". ❤🙏

[@tala1802]

thank you so much !!!! 💗 this trick is being seen here more and more every day and it's sooooo funny and at the same time so disturbing ha ha depends how attachment to mind is there at that moment... thanks for this message... just resting... ideas keep coming up... this is so relaxing... where is there to be other than right here ?

[@r.a9876]

I think there people who desire to control so much around them and they constantly chase after that or there’s people who just give up the chasing of their desires and replace it with becoming enlightened. I’m still in between at the moment. I want my desires so bad but I struggle to reach them which I know it’s counterproductive so I sometimes just want to give all up and go for the life in the woods but then life doesn’t leave me alone with its problems. I also hate that life doesn’t care about us and yet we are here forced to participate

[@versoturner5777]

you are life... it isn't seperate from you

[@swhite8381]

What Verso Turner said. YOU are life. Well, there’s no separate you , there’s just life and it’s all that is here.

[@nightdruid540]

:), thank you so much for this video! You’re doing awesome things, or life is doing awesome things 😉. I’ve explored a lot into thought, what we call spirituality, and materialistic science, and it’s a challenging but fun and rather beautiful world of experience. I completely resonate with a lot of the beautiful things you said to describe these experiences and thoughts. Not that I could say I experience no-mind, nor is it very important to me, so much of the beauty and joy of life’s process is actually there in thought too :). I think that thought gets a bad wrap in spiritual communities, as does the ego, but I find them both to be amazing, miraculous artifacts of the expression of life. They’re notes in life’s song. The problem with trying to transcend the ego that I’ve found for my own is that it becomes an act of violence in itself. Because it would be to deny that one’s ego is not also holy and valid and of life. That to me is an amazing and beautiful thing, again and is maybe one of the more profound lessons I’ve learned! On that note too. “Learning is not the accumulation of knowledge; it is a movement from movement.” I really love that quote because it describes the feeling very well. Learning is not a means to an end, but it’s an experience just as valid as any other. It’s lovely because it’s connecting and mind-opening, and it allows thoughts to sprawl and roam new territory. Why wouldn’t one love that? Getting lost in transcending the ego, enlightenment, avoiding the usage of ‘I’ or ‘You’, and all of these other things a person does when taking this spiritual line of thought to heart - are things that might not do what you really want them to. But obvs, do them if they make you happy :). These are just random thoughts from your thoughts, I appreciate you again, and love you!

[@DanielShai]

I enjoyed reading your thoughts ☺️ It’s allll valid. I’m not suggesting a particular way to be, such as thoughtless. There is no prescription here, or ideas of better or worse. Just what is. As it is. And learning is fantastic as is enjoying the miracle of thought. It’s just the attachment that creates tension/suffering, the need to gain an outcome or reach a place called “better.” The feeling that you’re not enough as you are and must add on to yourself to be complete… Then the joy of life eludes us, as THIS doe’s seem to quite cut it 💜 Thought, thinking, learning, expanding are all the more enjoyed when not taken too seriously, as if they are about to pop the mystery of Being. Letting it just be a mystery is itself pretty awesome 😌

[@nightdruid540]

@@DanielShai :), you couldn't have said it better! The mystery is such a beautiful thing. That is, if anything, what makes the present such a gift. The feeling of eternity in all that is, and all that is just outside of that, just on the boundary of your awareness. No need to be anywhere, it's all right here. Life is right here. That is awesomeness incarnate :D. Have a great day or night, my friend! I don't know where you live but xD, whichever.

[@ramoretrac]

After the experience...you must go mad first...in order to go forward and be happy...

[@bognalinder3444]

Life happens....I am not a doer....yet...I create my own reality....? please explain, Daniel. Many thanks to you.

[@DanielShai]

The script is written. But Who wrote it?

[@warricksoto3766]

Unstoppable activity downsizes itself to a Daniel. Incalculable simplicity.

[@norinabramke362]

Yes! ❤

[@MadMax-gc2vj]

We are the actor and Director of our movie that we call life.

[@laurentolbert7]

But isn’t that kk da sad? Like how can anyone want to be nothing?

[@DanielShai]

You’re right, Lauren. That is a an odd thing to aspire too. I think it’s no-thing, not nothing. That I Am That I Am that is sheer oneness, everythingness. It’s pretty sublime.…

[@AmandaMG6]

I hear you telling me to replace it with.... wonder I think. Awe

[@patriciadeakin9367]

So is there no evil

[@versoturner5777]

another concept

[@davidalbro2009]

It depends on how you look at it. It's pretty easy to see on one level how evil is real. We label something evil that is further from pure being than something else. On another level God is in everything and is everything. Can anything evil happen in God? No. Nothing can change pure being in any way therefore no harm, no foul. So ultimately there is no evil, but it can sure feel that way from a limited perspective. Luckily humanity is quickly moving from being able to real experience evil as we once did. When we realize we are all one, even under the illusion of separate selves acting as one organism, the idea of the whole organism hurting itself becomes more and more absurd. Not only does the 'individual' feel less attacked personally, but the likelihood of being attacked at all becomes less likely at this higher level of understanding.

[@rikmoncur]

I watched for 10 minutes and didn't hear the word love or peace or bliss or contentment... but especially love. Love will take you beyond thought and ego. If you have no love, you are doing nothing but spouting empty words, deluding yourself.

[@dhuhaal243]

How about self realization, as long as i seek the more i dissolve my ingrained beliefs that are no more is serving me ? Shall I stop searching and letting go what life’s bring ? Not doing the work of healing that leads to an understanding ?

[@DanielShai]

You don’t need to seek in order to dissolve those limiting beliefs that don’t serve you. In fact, after seeking you know you’re power and you begin a powerful process of letting go and living empowered and awake. See my video/s on non-duality& empowerment. The end if seeking is not the end of growing. You grow more, faster (accelerated) simply by living from/as WHO you REALLY are. You’re just in the joy and fulfillment side of it (even in challenges) rather than the (false) belief that something is lacking. Great question btw! 🙏🏼

[@dhuhaal243]

Thank you for your reply , and i would like to add : what is the difference between knowing the self , healing oneself , and experiencing a spiritual awakening ? The experience manifest in me through a Kundalini awakening, I felt bliss and happy for a couple of months , i lost my best friend and then i suffered a lot until i knew i was experiencing a dark night of a soul , most of the spiritual teachers saying we have to work on our trauma’s , so we won’t bypass it through spirituality, I know that am asking a lot of questions from my Mind as you said it’s a mind game that tricks us into this to find answers 🤷🏻‍♀️🙏🏼

🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@BackroadBender]

Do you think that the Buddha just one day figured, "there's no truth" and "there's just what's happening"? No, he actually did get enlightened. There is such a thing. And you actually can do practices to become free from ego/mind. The mind can vanish. In this lifetime. Do not give up and sell yourself short.

[@DanielShai]

I think you didn’t really hear. The whole video is about freedom from mind tyranny and the end of seeking. But for no one. No ‘self’. It’s all one happening, no real separate entities. ‘You’ and ‘I’ are just life happening. Nothing’s personal.

[@BackroadBender]

@@DanielShai until you have a doubtless awareness of the Self, the Absolute substratum, keep practicing. Your freedom from mind is only compliance with mind. Freedom from mind means no-mind. If a mind is hearing this, this mind has tricked itself. I am not enlightened but i promise you still can become awake

[@DanielShai]

@@BackroadBender It’s not ‘my’ freedom. The ‘you’ that wants to have and to hold is not really there. That sense of ‘me’ is the sense of separation from what is. There is nothing to ‘get’. You mention Buddha… Didn’t he speak of the end of aversion and attachment? The idea of “enlightenment” for a person is but an attachment to another mind-thought. Enlightenment is what is. It’s not a personal state. There is no oerson, no separate self.

[@BackroadBender]

@@DanielShai are you enlightened?

[@DanielShai]

@@BackroadBender Are you really ’unenlightened’? It’s a joke, my dear friend, there is no one to be either.

[@davidholm645]

Gee, maybe I have let go ( or letting go is happening) more than that other thingy claiming to be would have said! Lol ! Thanks for being!

[@dotsoflovelight8409]

❤

[@SilentWordsOfWisdom]

🙏

[@rupalim8565]

🙏❤️

[@TwoWheels_OO]

Very well put video, but what do you know about this being all there is and if you come back you come back here? You don’t know. You can’t find it through your mind you have to be told, and it’s through Krishna. Everything you need to know is in the book science of self realisation. And don’t tell me this is heaven, it’s not possible to be truly happy in the material world 🌎

[@heartsablazeyo]

🙏♥️♥️

[@allenmorgan4309]

All actions are like a dog chasing it's tail.

[@patrickgerard2016]

i've noticed that autistic bodies tend to be drawn to nonduality. it's a clear, obvious trend i've noticed. also people who used psychedelics/weed in the past. which also happens to be something many autistic people are drawn to.

[@ckelley623]

When will i stop talking out loud to myself?...lol

[@DanielShai]

Probably never lol It's all Self-talk! 😉

[@PeteNaess]

🙏