Waking up from Trance (Part 1)

 Disciple and Western translator of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj ("I Am That"),Stephen Wolinsky, Zen scholar/practitioner and founder of Quantum Psychology shares insight on Advaita and the present day human condition, the trance of ego and mental distortion manifesting a social collective of many little bubble worlds in dreamlike isolation.

In this and in other insightful YouTube shorts, Wolinsky presents a kind of postmodern clarity, shattering our illusions ("neti-neti", "not this, not that") especially those of religious dogmas, fixed belief systems and a complacent "nesting in any personal-psychological-spiritual state, ideal or belief", the nature of which is transitory, illusory and ultimately unreal. To negate in total the philosophical psychological trance and cognitive-mental-emotional fog, the self-created distortion of a contrived subjectivity and it's falsely assumed objectivity (my so called 'reality').

A true introspective inquiry process points the receptive seeker of truth inward, back to his/her inmost being or "I Am" state. In Sage Ramana Maharshi's own words "go back the way you came" 

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Portals to the Absolute

Barry Long- Seeing the Fact

Sincere non-pretentious direct and to the point practical spirituality.

Adyashanti - What Is Life Calling Forth in You?

"What is the moment calling forth in you? What kind of response is life calling forth in you? Adyashanti explores the interplay between findingan inner resource of peace within and expecting the world to conform to your ideas of peace. By becoming the manifestation of whatever change you want to see in the world, you are redefining your expectations of the world, taking responsibility for your own life, and engaging with your spirituality in a truly deep and profound way. Adyashanti invites you into the space where this vital question can be a living inquiry in your day-to-day practice.

Video Excerpted From “Being an Expression of Peace” (ID #245):

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Quotes from this Video:

“We are all most powerful and most benevolent when we are actually being whatever we want to see in the world. This is our first responsibility—to be what we want the world  to become, or be the way that we would like human beings to be, interact, and engage with each other.”

“If you haven’t found the inner resource of clarity or peace or love or whatever you want to see in the world, then you’ll feel more on edge. Because you won’t be coming from being the change you want to see in the world. You’ll want the world to change so that you can be at peace, so that you can feel safe, secure, and loving.”

“In many respects, finding the right question is more important than an answer. If we think of answers in the sense of something that we are going to receive, that has some sort of final stamp of authority, that we can hold onto for the rest of our lives—that’s to misunderstand something very important about life, which is that life is a movement.”

“We human beings have the tendency to want to hold onto almost everything. If we get a revelatory experience, we tend to want to hold onto that and concretize it into a new system of thought or description of explanation. And as we are doing that, the flow of our lives is continuing on, and the next moment may call for a slightly different response.”

“To really be present for what life is calling forthin each of us is extremely important. Most people that are engaged in one form of spirituality or another, at least at a deep or inner level,
part of what they’re valuing is peace, love, and clarity—and often thereis a desire to see life as more whole or complete, and to experience your whole being in a clear and more complete way.”

“If we are engaged in a spiritual orientation, that comes with a kind ofresponsibility. The responsibility is: to be able to find withinourselves what we want to find or would desire to find in the worldaround us. Because if we can’t find it in ourselves, then we don’t have a
whole lot of right demanding that the world conform to the way we wantit to be.”

“Part of spirituality is taking that responsibility so that you become the manifestation of whatever change you want tosee—you become it in your attitude, in the way you feel, in the way you
move in the world, in the actions that you decide to take. This isreally the heart of the spiritual life.”

“It’s so important that our spiritual life doesn’t become overly self-centered. It’s one of the
dangers of a lot of inner work—that we can become so involved with our self that we are not really breathing out, we’re not engaged with our own lives and with our own existence, in a way that’s really fulfilling.”

“Our lives are the greatest gift we are ever going to give to the world.”

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My Sweet Lord

Barry Long: How To Stop Thinking

Commentary:

Essence of meditation, silence, being, presence, here and now, and nothing to remember from this video nor anything to "get out of it".. Listen again if you feel so compelled to but DO NOT THINK about, recall or interpret any of what you hear/heard.

Also most importantly, do not think "I have failed" every time that little voice in the head acts up again, then deceive you into feeling ashamed of this, it will continue to do so because It/He ("the thinker" or "ego self") is feeding off of You, it's host. You are not this thinker, nor the thoughts and emotions, but only the Intelligence or Witness who is aware of them. Like the breeze, the clouds, the sounds in one's surroundings, and the inhalation-exhalation of each breath, all thoughts come and go, leaving nothing left to hold onto, harbor, justify or condemn. Silence alone remains.

Joel D. Zenie

Barry Long | The Way to Enlightenment

'Uninterrupted enlightenment of the brain was once the natural state of man and woman. The brain was a perfect instrument. It served the consciousness of man and woman and the will of the earth. Nothing suffered from its activities. Today the instrument has taken over. The servant has usurped the master's role. And the earth and every creature on it are the victims of its mad irresponsible wilfullness. Due to the ignorance of our times, or the sophisticated brain, uninterrupted enlightenment is now one of the earth's great rarities. It is almost an extinct phenomenon, comparable physically to the planet's most endangered (by the brain) species. And so it is said, the earth has few living masters.'

Contents: Knowledge, freedom, happiness in an ordinary man or woman -- No phoney enlightenments -- No beliefs -- Being illumined -- Being with the good -- The love in yourself -- Paying the taxman -- Unburdening yourself -- No morality, no religion, no guilt -- No dishonesty, no unhappiness in natural man and woman -- No conscience -- Paying for the truth -- Invoking the law of life -- Attached to nothing -- Alone and passionate -- Ready for Love and Death.

Published on Nov 26, 2012
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