"WHO AM I?" - Self Identification, Self Inquiry and Self Realization

Who are we really? Are we really who we think we are? Are we who others say we are? Is it enough to believe we are something other than who we have believed ourselves to be? What is the way to know oneself as one truly is?
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[@Diana-gt1rv]

Good lecture which brings it to the point: The ego is a ghost afraid of dying!

[@betterapproachtolife.motiv3265]

Eliminate the ego and you will be happy

[@HotaruTomoe0106]

Some people are content with the identity others have imposed upon them. Some aren't content with this and spend their whole lives questioning and seeking. What if the answer is that there is no answer? Or rather, that the answer is everything and nothing all at once... I am no thing. I am no one. I am I. I am.

[@thecrimsonfucker8467]

No fam when u say I u are actually becomin more attached to this physical body Practice saying oneself and one One is nothing One is no one One is one with all Oneself is Love You fam😌❤

[@betterapproachtolife.motiv3265]

Or you simply be you .. with no pretence .. and no ego

[@vivekamar99]

I am that - Nisargdatta Maharaj

[@Dman9fp]

Exactly. Life needs death, death needs life. Everything is intertwined and intelligent in their own way in the present. Even who's to say what is full of more life essence-- the decaying tree on the ground or the hawk soaring overhead? It's all a cycle loop

[@mattstocks4749]

And in the end - not even I am. Just This.

[@sampl20]

Words like these are truly important for our society. This should be broadcasted in tvs all over the world.

[@koolkat6755]

💜😇

[@THEghost-ux1xz]

No capppp

[@siryoucantdothat9743]

Let societies burn in seas of hell culture is not your friend its the enemy and it always going to be

[@Bofore13]

Like sculpting from stone, it's about what you can remove that makes you who you are.

[@radicalhonesty3628]

what arises in me as I watch this video is just how much pain I'm in... suicidal grief and homicidal rage. nothing to live for. it all seems devastatingly hopeless. the past rapes and haunts me... the future paralyzes me with fear. and I only feel overwhelming shame in the present.

[@gingerchew9468]

The Joke of Awakening... Me: “Knock, knock” You: “Who’s there”? Me: “Me” You: “Me, Who”? Me: “Exactly”

[@redbull9554]

I love the surround sound used on this video, goes great with headphones on

[@julianryan7060]

I've spent the last week going through a lot of your videos and learning so much. I think I will be watching them all over and over again. They really challenge and stretch your thinking. I was once told only 5% of the population are self aware. And I thought I was one of them. You've taught me I am, but I still have a very long journey ahead of me to reach some sort of enlightenment. Thank you for sharing your knowledge, its really appreciated.

[@MosELtheSufi]

Self...such an illusive/elusive thang to the Sufi.Lord

[@kennelskybar]

At the very last moments of this quest for knowledge I was in so much emotional pain, in doubt of every step I made prior. The pace of this quest drumming faster. I could not find anyway out. I felt as I was getting to this end point where there were no more options to explore. Sitting in my bed. Reading a text I wrote two days prior. Crying. Again. No meditation could calm, no breathing pattern lowered the anxiety. I remember the words I spoke/sent. A call in total distress. And then. I gained the knowledge I searched for not the answer to my question. Stillness. And a silent giggle.

[@betterapproachtolife.motiv3265]

Stillness and solitude are greta healers

[@Miss-Placed.1]

Yeah, I'm going to have to watch this one a few times...

[@nanetteaddesso7560]

I am sobbing thru this. The most eloquently stated discourse I have watched of you so far. No one has walked me through these final steps are clearly as you have. Eternally grateful to you and your divine spirit.

[@TheVeganTravelShow]

This was so good, thank you for articulating in the way that you do ♥️ It's been life-changing.

[@allahhernandez3546]

Namaste bro , Oneness with your self love and respect yourself and you’ll be like a God.

[@Ali-ki3pk]

Wow. I just love this channel.

[@aimeebradley2364]

Another great video! ♥️

[@MarvinMonroe]

Way I did it was ask myself "who observes my mind?" Obviously the answer is "me" Then be like "well what is that me then"?

[@zain4019]

That is exactly the same method and line of questioning Ramana Maharishi recommend, wow:) His version went like this: To whom does this thought occur? To I. Who am I?

[@oztinato4099]

A wonderful symphony of words that leads us deeper into ourselves

[@AbandonedVoid]

You are the blood flowing through my fingers, all through the soil and up in those trees.

[@kofwsi]

Hello! You are great! Your video is perfect! Thank you very much!!!!!

[@supriyasahu2202]

Thanks for the video❤!!

[@sissymarie2912]

As you were listing off the things we come to identify ourselves with over the course of our lives it occurred to me that the reason we dehumanize others is because we fail to see our own humanity. If we stop thinking of ourselves as collections of traits then we can so doing this to others and start to develop genuine empathy.

[@wannaemore4818]

These are words that resonates deeply

[@seankelly4509]

Very well said,,peace,x

[@ahasanaruny8726]

❤️❤️❤️

[@kdkhaliq7441]

Awesome

[@shellyrahme8065]

Thanks I love it. Gently chipping away. One day free, another an ego slave.

[@betterapproachtolife.motiv3265]

Our egos bind us .. we need to be free

[@markandersonwhitefox]

I am left speechless after having had the privilege of hearing such profound wisdom. Thank you and I am certainly on my way. I will always carry these insights as tools for which to maintain a traversable path to that of my awakening. ✌🏻

[@betterapproachtolife.motiv3265]

Self realisation is a wonderful journey .. it removes the inner conflicts

[@betterapproachtolife.motiv3265]

The trouble is we like to project how we think people will want to see us.. rather than simply be our real selves .. this causes huge inner conflicts

[@imran-gf4mz]

I cried

[@edmccart]

thanks for the videos

[@sillico5856]

thank you!

[@CaptainSanchez]

Beautiful

[@RawKnee1111]

Thank you.

[@alexander_ganz5636]

Thank you 🙏

[@anabell7737]

💜

[@kittypage333]

Thank you

[@drsdm23]

🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@archerten]

Very good

[@Vaninahypnotherapy]

Neither the Body nor thoughts indeed... which are projections. The Ego indeed is greedy for illusions to survive.

[@epsilonsilver7860]

30 seconds or a minute of that fountain and chanting after the talk would be a delightful opportunity to integrate the wisdom. Your voice sent me deep into trance. Had to keep rewinding the video. Do you do a podcast? Will you be my Guru? Who was your Guru!

[@koolkat6755]

He is a Guru

[@deborahmeyers7839]

I am awareness

[@RavenMadd9]

yes

[@KS-ne5mq]

You’re on point. I’m past the time in my life most people give up, but I’m just getting started getting to know myself even when others say I should just be content with ... Also, can you dial down the background music in your videos, please?

[@Spreadingwingsmine]

No wtf, it’s perfect.

[@sunnybein1]

@@Spreadingwingsmine it may be for you..but others can’t screen out music from language.

[@Spreadingwingsmine]

@@sunnybein1 there is no others

[@sunnybein1]

@@Spreadingwingsmine nice avoidant response..please don’t pertain to be spiritual when you previously dismissed another persons need.

[@Spreadingwingsmine]

@@sunnybein1 Stop being racist I have needs too. You are just taking sides here. The character does not “need” anything; on the contrary I AM god and I do.

[@shrirangdhawale7831]

I am the greed I am the envy I am the lust I am the desire I am the fear I am the jealousy I am the what is I am and I am the awareness

[@d1ks4u]

Also, does it even matter who I really am?

[@gutchiespencer2714]

Well! Can I Just “BE?” 🤔

[@betterapproachtolife.motiv3265]

Yes .. be you .. be authentic .. no false projections

[@rubynrose9119]

[@princess48073]

What type of meditation music is this?

[@sathya999]

St Francis of Assisi: What you are looking for, is what is looking...

[@benhartart9487]

yes he cannot tell you know you are because the real you is not words, the real you is the very ground of being the infinite universes at play :)

[@koolkat6755]

Everything is nothing and NOTHING is everything x

[@sathya999]

Then, the concepts of everything and nothing can drop...

[@koolkat6755]

@@sathya999 yep pretty much

[@bornuponawave]

@@sathya999 words are a tool. It’s a concession to attempt to point to truth. It’s a beautiful concept.

[@Sunshine74444]

❤❤❤✌🏽👏🏽🎊🙏🌅

[@junkemail2645]

WHAT IS THE MUSIC HE'S PLAYING????

[@siryoucantdothat9743]

The ego dissolve every time we shed light on hidden parts of the personality, what you resist persist and what you look at disappear. than your ego malleably change into something totally new like a mirage , there no end in that process so it doesn’t matter who we are as long as we accept ourselves

[@zain4019]

I would somewhat disagree. The ego will create endless problem upon problem. Examining the ego is a never-ending task. There is no time when one can be “finished” healing the ego. It cannot be. Turning away from the ego and into self-inquiry, and then to self-abidance is the only way. To turn our attention away from all but the perceiver is the only path to peace. Illusions and delusions, ego tendencies and karma fall away in the fire of self-abidance. There is wonderful work that can be done with dissolving ego identification through removing resistance by conscious awareness of ones behaviours and thoughts, and it may be necessary for many with particularly strong egos, but eventually one must turn inward. The never-ending quest to understand or make sense of the ego is the reason Ramana Maharishi said to turn inwards, whatever one might be doing. In that is peace.

[@RRijesh]

Watched couple of your videos. Liked your content and your experiences. It seems you are influenced by the Dharmic traditions of Asia. Is this true?

[@user-di4hn3ok1e]

No need religion or ideology or spiritual culture to feel and think like that , all believe is ego illustion

[@bornuponawave]

Non duality, Advaita

[@d1ks4u]

Could you explain the process of ego death? Thanks

[@edzardpiltz6348]

Ego death is the realization that it does not exist but as an idea in your mind. And that the mind too is nothing but a bundle of merely repetitive thoughts that come and go without your doing. To realise that just look for the "I" you think you are. Try to locate it, try to find out what it is made of. Not with more concepts or catchphrases your have picked up on the way, but with direct feeling experience. And no, is not necessary to know who you really are. 99.999% of all people don't give a s**t about that, as long as they can get what they think they need or want. It's only for those who are fed up with suffering from this absurd existence! 😘

[@d1ks4u]

@@edzardpiltz6348 Thanks for explaining

[@AbandonedVoid]

Ego death refers to three different things. The first is the experience of what's called "ego loss" where your brain stops identifying yourself as a subject, and the subject/object distinction disintegrates. "You" stop existing, and everything else just is. It also often destroys essentialism, so you no longer see a car as much as the shape and material of the car. It's a type of mystical experience that can be brought about through meditation, but also psychedelics. The second is in dharmic religion, where you can supposedly experience the above perpetually (or something close to it) when you're skilled at meditation, although many sects believe it's more of an ideal to strive for rather than something genuinely achievable in this life. Here it often corresponds to selflessness, compassion, and acceptance. The third is in psychedelic culture, where it can refer to a variety of surreal experiences where you feel severe thanatophobia and feel like your entire being is unravelling. This one is more horrific. An example of this is Terrence McKenna's last trip, where his friendly mushroom guide ripped off its face and revealed a black hole of total, overwhelming nothingness. There's some debate over whether this horror is just caused by struggling against ego loss by somebody that isn't sufficiently prepared to let go of their identity, or whether it's a complete misnomer to compare this to dharmic ego death.

[@betterapproachtolife.motiv3265]

Eliminating your ego will lead you to peace .. and remove inner conflicts .. it requires work .. meditation

[@briancoyne6700]

What would you write on your on-line dating profile if you were fully aware that you have no self?

[@sathya999]

If you were fully aware you would write Truth

[@bornuponawave]

The ego is a necessary tool, but the identification with it is delusion.

[@k14michael]

So you didn’t answer as to why we identified ourselves into different thing?

[@luismarcello2461]

Can't wait to smoke a blunt witchu man! ... lol... jk... nice vid

[@kalosevillinas]

The questionn is how do u experience it....wait pet me.guess, meditating. Going off in the wilderess and heing by yourself....eh, been there and done that and none of it helped..i.e UG KRINSNAMITRI was right

[@MarvinMonroe]

You are always experiencing it. You have been experiencing your whole life 100% of the time 24 hours a day. You just have to realize that. It's just hard because you're so used to it that its difficult to notice at first. But when you do you'll laugh and be like "oh shit, that? It's been right here all along" Best example I've thought of is this thought experiment. Imagine you are fish and you're trying to tell another fish about water. (Fish you're talking to has never been up to the surface before, always been deep in the ocean). So you keep telling him stuff like "it's all around us" Ok then say eventually he gets it. He'll be like "oh of course it's so obvious now!" That "oh shit of course!" feeling is the same one you'll have when you realize that you are pure awareness. That's my main point, that feeling you can imagine the fish having when he realizes what water is and how it's literally been with him forever. Some people might think im comparing water to Awareness and that we are "swimming in awareness". I'm not talking about any of that, only goal is to get you put yourself in the fish's situation the moment he realizes. (Not sure if I'm being clear about all that) Edit:one last thing. Now of course an easy way to get your fish friend to realize would be to take him up to the surface and throw him in the air and have him splash back down into the water. Now he has something to compare with, air. Spiritual practices like meditation and whatever else pretty much serve the same purpose as throwing the fish up into the air. They help you separate and narrow things down so that you can point to the Self (awareness) easier.

[@kalosevillinas]

@@MarvinMonroe Thank You for taking the time to explain..I will go back an meditate...

[@MarvinMonroe]

@@kalosevillinas no problem, hope it made some sense. And meditation is so difficult. I can't sit and do it. There have been a few times while I was running where my mind quieted down. Also it used to happen when I'd take LSD and dance at Phish shows lol but that was back in the 90s

[@suque1164]

I really wanted to listen to this video, but the music playing in the background is so distracting

[@dalepress1581]

I am self identifying as an 8 year old. That way, I can get 10 years of free school lunches.

[@GratefulZen]

How do you perceive “disorders” like Alzheimer’s where in a sense the false self seemingly is dissolving? How do you see such brain disorders we call “mental illness”? Just curious.

[@devlevine2782]

Richard Gerson thats a great question have you ever found out the answer?

[@MFMc2]

Amazing stuff and expressed with such eloquence..the way we deal with issues concerning ego is to really listen to what we are feeling, to go wiithin and feel into our emotions if we are on track we will feel we made the right choices and confusion will become less as we no longer are lead by our egos and over time this will lead to dissolution of the ego as we slowly emerge into our higher selves.☀️

[@ladydianepoet]

Eckhart Tolle discusses this. Another great voice of stillness, another great light in the dark.

[@MarvinMonroe]

All those things affect the mind/body. The Self (awareness) stays exactly the same

[@zain4019]

ladydianepoet Eckhart!

[@medizaboli2597]

Voice is fogged up with background music

[@gabrielszohner6243]

through meditation I discovered who I am not......there is no I this body cannot be me.....these thoughts of awareness fade with the body....so I am nothing ? Could what I want to claim , since i no longer claim anything else , be claimable if I'm not there to claim it ? Would there be spiritual progress at all then ? Dude.....you'll start to see through the tricks in the darkness........Read about the miracles in the Bible....give it a chance at least .

[@betterapproachtolife.motiv3265]

The important thing is to be on your path .. and become who you really are .. rather than what others want you to be

[@marvintalbot6536]

The .music takes away from the conversation

[@kellydittus4772]

The music must be added to annoy us. I

[@KJ-pu8dw]

I’m not sure I am anything

[@betterapproachtolife.motiv3265]

You are .. your very unique ..we all are .. be you

[@sabrinabarila6110]

I discovered your channel and love listening to you. But I have to say you quoting muji really threw me off. Are you not aware of the allegations against him? He is a manipulator and a charlatan.