yes :)

You are talking about emptiness, not Nirvana. Nirvana is the cessation of Samsara, the end of suffering. With it comes total fulfillment, peace and love. It has a lot of qualities. Emptiness on the other hand has none. The being is empty, until we embody it, and then it will become full of the appearances of qualities.

yeah ! so damned tricky the Basket !!!! 😀

As long as ones looking abstractly everything going to be tricky because the whole movement is one but somehow thought split that into two as observer and the thing it is observing. That is how it sustain it's continuity.

If you want desirelessness then you never achieve it. You have "not to want" it in order to have no desire. This is the difficulty.

@@pascoalandredeguimaraes7807 You are right. Wanting it does no good yet that is where we are happiest. Realizing this it becomes possible to not engage ... at 3 minutes. "Wherever the mind wanders, restless and diffuse in its search for satisfaction without, lead it within. Train it to rest in the Self." Bhagavad Gita

It is the mind that wants and craves.

I'm wondering how many times you have watched it. It is a very good one, short and sweet.

L V mind body

eclecticwhyzas It, if I may, seems to me, you are saying, we really are not as 'free willed' as we think we are. Some masters even claim, there is no free will. Is that what you meas?

johnnyBgood Yes. It is a grand illusion and quite easy to believe, unless you take a closer look, which either happens or not. You don't think thoughts, you are aware of them, and if amenable, take credit for them after the fact.From the profound (Einstein's epiphanies) to the sublime (your/my decision to write a response) all just show up and either take hold or pass by. No thinker, no chooser--but we (the collective thoughts we take to be who we are) take credit for it just the same. Watch the passing show more closely and it will be as obvious as a Magic Eye stereogram that seems to be a lot of waves on a screen but when the eyes relax, a 3-D picture appears. No harm in believing you have free will unless you suffer because you think others should act differently than they do. Peace.

Correct sir! :)

As, it would seem, I did. Peace.

electicwhyzas As my kid nephew seems to say frequently, but uncle johnny I know and understand what you are saying and even know it IS wrong but it's hard to do. He means it is hard to do right. Wouln't that be 'choice?' Or rather will' ? I'm not trying to nit-pick, just trying to 'see' and let sink in my conscience possibly, not use my ego? One can choose to do right and easily choose to do wrong... The devil and the angel? That may be that, we are spiritual we have a spirit a soul, they help us choose to do right, that is how it feels, the ether, the water the air... Sorry I tend to ramble, it's fun ;) Peace.

amnab : Your true nature is free

amnab there is and isnt proof, dont say without backing up your experience

true so true ... incredible and lucky are we not finding out 😀

AF Ghosting He’s resting in stillness and listening inside. It’s nothing peculiar about him. Every spiritual teacher I know does that. If they are authentic and truly self-realized, they speak from the silent space of no-mind; from presence; from thoughtless awareness. Sometimes they take ages after a question has been asked before they open their mouth and start answering. Or they have these little pauses in between. To me this is proof of their confidence and the fact that they practice what they preach. Every word is a carefully chosen and inspired representative of the eternal wisdom they embody.

Depression Beard. Thank you very much.

@@depressionbeard9882 very eloquently said

As you hold the words come through you and there's no me thinking of the next thing to say That would be clever or knowing or having an agenda or wanting... When we're still living in Ego land and you consciously choose not to turn the head so to speak toward what has you...than the habit falls away of grasping what no longer serves.

AF Ghosting as long as you're alive there will be needs and wants. the real problem is attachment to outcomes.

@@JohnnyCatFitz wise words that a wise friend has told me. Thank you. But I have bipolar and traumatic brain injury, i had a nervous breakdown and walked off my job; I have lived out of a car for a year now; that car is about to be repo'd; my kids wont talk to me (cant blame them.) My outcomes have gone way outside the bands of a normal life. I cant handle it. Logically, suicide is a very rational decision. It is more logical than continuing expecting manna from heaven.

I don't know what to say except that you should not base your actions on the past or on temporary feelings of futility. I wish you the peace you seek, the help you need, the clarity to see the truth of things and an abundance of grace to get you through this.

@@JohnnyCatFitz Thank you. I am sitting at train station now trying to sort this out.

@@afghosting8772 How are you today? November 18, 2020

Desire is the fuel of Life itself. Wanting, grasping, clinging is the root to suffering.