The Non-Critical Spirit by Vernon Howard

[@XOXO-mb2vh]

Wherever you go there you are

[@understandingyourself]

no way out

[@markv7458]

Really good. The exercise he gives on being non-critical is great. Thanks for the post.

[@LWest-fm8ws]

do you know about where that exercise is? I listen to these at bedtime but I want to make sure I do that exercise.

[@nobodyreally]

If I fall asleep at all while listening to any of these talks I start them over, or if my attention starts to drifts I do the same. Listen to these talks as if Vernon is talking directly to you because he is. Try to stay alert while listening to the full talk so you will have more of a chance to comprehend what is being said, then listen to it again because its more than likely we still missed something. It's amazing how much we miss. Let us know how you do with the exercise.

[@lifeasvocation1557]

Vernon sums up these powerful facts and teachings when he talks about “seeing ourselves as we actually are, not as we THINK we are.” This is one of my favorite talks I have heard him give. I’ve listened to this one 4 or 5 times now. Thank you so much for this channel🙏

[@Zesvo-c1t]

A friend of mine, my songwriting partner wrote, " Too many lies in life won't let me live on, I pretend to know the way, it's just an ordinary day. And when I see who I am, not who I thought I might be, it seems I've just been making up life in my mind." He killed himself two years later.

[@servantprince]

why don't i stay where I am and suffer until I shatter the illusion that going somewhere on my own can save me

[@shamaniccolonic777]

Really we must destroy our minds as described in jnana yoga to completely transcend good and bad, pleasure and pain. When we reside as awareness(atman, our true being) with no mind everything is supposedly beyond blissful. It is also by definition Self-Realization; dissolution of the ego, the reason we are here.

[@basireddy4678]

Vernon Howard - The Non Critical Spirit 1:55 5:45 THERE ARE 2 PEOPLE INSIDE OF YOU 9:20 a marvelous exercise "not criticise from all your body" 16:15 why we criticise at all? 25:15 if i don't get what i want, you're evil 36:35 i have perfected my cowardice, now i'll start to criticise anything above my ability to understand 37:30 pretense tell you that you have to fight for your positon 39:40 if i yearn to be accepted by society, what does that tell me about myself? 42:10 a happiness which is lost is not happiness at all. 43:00 societal question: what acts of mine will please the maximum number of people and offend the least number of people? 43:55 a lost person is lost because he permits other people to tell him what is important and necessary in life. 50:25 self hate - you are hating ideas about yourself, which is delusion 51:30 constructive criticism what false reward am i getting out of correcting you? 54:34 everytime, we criticise myself, we harden our illusion - saint/sinner is an illusion 1:01:51 "who will i be" is a trap 1:14:30 watch yourself looking at the watch/ object, instead of being one with the watch/ object, then everything will become perfectly clear.

[@servantprince]

3:50 to challenge my wrong answers I'm going to have to do this ..

[@jessicaleonard-sandino5414]

Sounds very Gurdjieff inspired in terms of the approach to “self remembering”… interesting

[@nobodyreally]

Vernon mentions Gurdjieff a few times throughout a couple of his books. It’s what brought me to explore G’s work which then brought to the work of his pupils. Under the description there is a link with material thereof.

[@loner__000-0]

31:25 We try to use the world to confirm our false identity then get mad and desperate when it doesn’t.

[@spquental]

Not directly related to the content, but I would highly recommend to anyone interested in these matters Howdie Mickoski's latest interview with Bart Marshall - ""What is the Spiritual Ark?". We are to build that ark.

[@understandingyourself]

38:25 I need no one's approval. 38:50 Get off your knees and stand up like a man. Just do it. You need no one's permission. 50:40 Despising yourself is a delusion. You are hating ideas about yourself which are not you at all. 53:43 There is no superiority or inferiority in right seeing.