For those of you who feel a bit lost, check this out: josepheverettwil.substack.com/p/is-enlightenment-real-part-1 (There's 8 parts, they're all free)

Daniel ingram is one of my favorite person on the planet. His book helped me reach the same state he described as “final enlightenment”, but there’s still integration to do after that

As someone not informed on the subject I definitely need an introductory video before I can take advantage of this conversation.

I’m suprised there are so many people in the comments claiming that they think in this way naturally. I suspect this is dunning Kruger syndrome.

At 1:20:30 Daniel mentions a fuller podcast he's done on psychedelics with Amir Giles. The channel is "Adventures in Awareness" and title is "Daniel Ingram: Psychedelics, Meditation & Enlightenment"

He ate eggs for 30 days and transformed his Head to egg permanently

When you don't feel like meditating and then you get this notification

Joseph you might want to consider adding some timestamps to make the video easier to digest, some people will want to focus only on key parts of the interview and might get discouraged when the only option they have to get to those bits is to sit through an hour and a half long video

This is the only channel I watch IMMEDIATELY a new video drops

I'm dying reading these comments 🤣

Dude, you have to make a video summarizing what this guy is trying to convey bc it is quite confusing, at least for me.

Bruh, where's the EGG video?

I appreciate Daniel Ingram's perspective on awakening and his personal experiences, as it offers a different lens through which we can openly explore the spiritual journey. However, it's important to note that the concept of an Arahant in Theravada Buddhism differs from the interpretation presented by Daniel Ingram. While Daniel Ingram's description of Arahantship may align with certain aspects of the Buddha's path, it is worth noting that the Buddha's teachings as recorded in the Pali Canon gives a more profound and deeper meaning to what it means to attain Arahantship and that clear discrepancies exist between Ingram's and the Buddha's teachings as found in the Pali Canon and Early Buddhist Texts (EBT's). I encourage anyone who is seriously interested in pursuing this path, to firstly read the historical Buddha's teachings as found in the Pali Canon and Early Buddhist Text's, before moving onto reading the teachings and interpretations of the Buddha's teachings by others, especially lay-teachers as opposed to highly-experienced monastics. Just my two cents on this topic.

"Think the loudest thought you can. How does it compare to my voice?" They both said it's way quieter, but when I did it I heard the thought much more loudly. He then said to picture something in your head, how does it compare to what you actually see? I pictured a green dragon and it was very vivid and colorful and detailed...Maybe I misunderstood, but I felt like my experience was not at all like what they were saying. I feel like the things I feel just inside my head can feel extremely vivid. Isn't that just imagination? In conclusion, I don't really understand the point here.

I love Ingram. His book is also amazing. However I will say, as someone who's studied this stuff a long time and have a number of friends going through the awakening process, I just want to say that people awaken in different ways. Different approaches will work for different people, so if you're serious about this it's worth exploring more perspectives from others who have also awakened.

Thanks so much for posting this. I knew you had a depth of insight for the truth, and am glad to see it going in a "spiritual realm" in the podcast too. Keep up all the wonderful work man. I have followed you for years and you are great.

The enlightenment stuff is pretty wild but is no one gonna talk about him perfectly singing the major scale?

All this made sense to me years ago but led me to first liberation from the illusion of being an actor who was failing and succeeding temporarily before finally failing harder then liberation from the illusion but now incredible boredom after a few years. Imagine being stuck in a video game you beat 7 or 8 years ago.

This man is a true life hacker.

I'm a fan of reductionism. It's basically the practice of taking complex ideas, and making them universally simple and understandable. I've watched DOZENS of videos featuring meditation gurus, and not one has done this. This begs the question, "Why does this process require such a high level of difficulty?"

Your interviewing attitude is so wholesome, so pleasant to listen to :)

Looking forward to delving into Daniel's work. Thank you Joseph.

My journey with this whole "field", let's say, took an interesting turn on the day a particular thing happened to me: we all know that we uncounssciouly move during sleep, to repostion our bodies, scratch an itch and whatnot. One day I was woken up by my own hand scratching my nose. The thing is, at that moment of semi-counsciousness, all the sensations that usually come when you intentionally move your body came to me separately, so as to allow me to discern them. First I felt surprised by my hand being where it wasn't before, but them the distinct feeling of "having moved it intentionaly" tried to impose itself on me, then came the itch my hand was scratching. Then the reasoning "my nose was itching, so I moved my hand to scratch it, that's why it's there" arised in my mind, dissipating my surprise, at this moment the experience started to feel like a coherent "whole". But still my memory was clear that the events didn't happen in that order so I couldn't be convinced of what my thought was saying, despite it feeling right. I realized how that process was a mere fabrication, or consciousness isn't necessary for that process. From that day, I have an ease of stopping to feel like "I'm moving my hands" and instead feeling like "my hands are moving". That ease somewhat applies to other sensations as well, but I haven't been cultivating that ability. Although it helps sometimes...

Most intelligent title imo won out. This guy actually listens like he wants to listen. Most people just talk AT not TO each other. Great video

Can you add timestamps, please?

From an Eastern tradition, I say "Pranaam" to a very important person who is alive right now. I really hope that people will learn as much as they can from Ven. Daniel to improve their own mind. 🙏

Time to spend my time productively by watching this :D

Should test someone who's has 40,000 hours in CS.

Daniel's book is just amazing. If this resonates with you, read it Highly reccomended

I can see some people wanting an egg video but they got a guy with an egg head instead.

My question about meditation always been "Will it affect creativity" because ( am a writer) i always find great valeu on mind wandering when it comes to creativity. I do meditation but am afraid of going deeper because i fear losing my ability to generate those weird ideas that come from nowhere.

Personally, my meditation journey kicked in when i got sick to the point i was fearing for my life mainly due to lack of diagnosis. It was in my chest area so when i got panic attack due to the pain, it was even worse. I listened to medidation music 24h/7. Specifically high frequency music. Damn I had dreams out of this world telling me my life mission etc, tingles across my body. Incredible stuff. Now i can focus like a pro, and get the tingling sensation very quickly when meditate

Hua t'ou is a method whereby we focus on "word head" rather than "tail". Basically, what is the observation prior to thought? This is an effective koan in the Zen tradition. In the meditation hall you hear the bell signalling the end of the session. It is JUST the sound, clearly heard in an open field of space. This purity, simplicity, allows for increased mental relaxation which in turn allows for increased observational clarity. It is not necessary to enter the meditational hall. In every event, every activity simply say "I am not worried". The natural processes all take place, flow on, each on their own. As Collective Soul sings "it's simple".

I noticed Daniel talking about looking for connections between genetic makeup and the ability to reach enlightenment - I would suggest also looking into currently expressed genes and current mental and physical condition. My experience from studying Taoism, Buddhism, physical therapy and having a change in consciousness myself is that making your body limber with the right exercise, clean air and a cleaner diet, will help in making your mind limber through meditation etc, resulting in a reduced need to cling to a sense of self. To me this makes sense because our bodies, digestion, minds, the environment etc are essentially all one system, so affecting one subsystem affects the rest.

Amazing!!!! Speechless. Thank you for sharing this. He explains everything that nobody could explain.

Anyone who thinks he is enlighten, isn't. Simple as that.

One of the best YT creators for sure!

Thank you so much. I love you for interviewing this man.

Zen and Zen Buddhism are very different things. Chan is named after jhana, and if you check out some of the old Chinese source texts, you find a very different Zen than the one you find in Japan. The gateless gate is a great entry point.

This was a very messy and unexplained conversation... it deserved a better introduction.

I drive a truck all over the North America. I had zero interest in spirituality or religions. On February 11, 2005, while driving a truck, I was hit with the cosmic 2x4. it was clearly seen “I” does not exist and never did exist and never will exist.

This was an absolutely amazing conversation thank you so much for sharing it with us thank you

The real enlightenment is using the lowest resolution possible on youtube.

So cool that you got into pragmatic dharma. Not for the feint of heart!

Awesome! I got into the hardcore dharma community that formed around his book about 13 years ago. Interested to see how his practice and ideas have evolved.

What framerate this video should be watched so we understand it?

This is awesome.

Great conversation. Watched the whole thing on the treadmill looool

Wow, Daniel! Great stuff.

Great title choice!

Who came first the 🐓 or the 🥚 ? Meditation and the nature of reality has never been more timely The topic of enlightenment used to sit in a small pocket of the universe that most people write off as “WOO-woo”. Now we have a rising king like What I’ve Learned and Enlightened Daniel Ingram in the same f**king screen. The universe or at least my experience has been an eternal mindf**k. The arising and passing away has been a rollercoaster of the most simplest/obvious and the most complex/trivial happenings to date. Oh what a world 🌎

Is it just me or is there on sound at all?

I have been practising meditation for more than 20 years and I am familiar with many of the things he is describing. I started with breathing techniques based on Theravada Buddhist teachings but I did not make much progress until I also started practising Yoga. Many asanas are specifically designed to promote a meditative state. Unfortunately many people practise Yoga without attempting to practise meditation as well. Without meditation, I don't know how I would have gotten over the most difficult moments in my life... However, nutrition also has a huge impact on our brains. I have experienced amazing mental clarity and mood stability since I started a Ketogenic way of life three and a half years ago. This is reported by many other people as well. Ketones are extremely beneficial for the brain, whereas carbs virtually destroy it. Unfortunately many people who practise meditation for religious purposes are also into some form of vegetarianism or veganism, which are hugely detrimental for both physical and mental health.

This topic and discussion is very interesting... I really want to cultivate healthy emotional intelligence and regulation. Whereby it's beneficial to my mental state, as well as helps to have better relationships with people in my life. I am hoping that mediation can facilitate this desire.

Bruh I'm still waiting for the egg upload, but I love your channel. Thank for the timestamps.

OMG thank you 🙏 It makes sense!! Thank you 🙏

Whenever someone claims to be enlightened: Beware!

Self is a construct that develops based on societal needs (e.g. family needs when we are babies). The body and its perception exists before the self. You use yourself to meditate (self = our separate entity), but your body has experience before you create a self and it's affected in relation to the self (same environment, same experiences). I write this as a person who meditated for more than a decade and a psychologist and psychotherapist.

EGG EGG EGG!

Regardless of what you think, he’s done a lot of work and has achieved something amazing no doubt

Very interesting idea of (phenomenological) proportionality at around 57 min

I find something off putting about him. There is a bookshelf with a bunch of books but not one with a bent spine. I feel like we will find out one day that this guy is at some level a fraud.

There is no Santa Claus, presents are an addictive illusion, Christmas come and pass away. There is no essence (in self or other stuff), attachment leads to suffering, everything shows up ephemeral. Anatta, dukkha, anicca

Curious to know what was secret truths were edited out from the public here 50:50 😄

Doing a lot of stuff in this area, but I have difficulty to understand what he tries to explain in first 7 min. My English is ok, but I have hard time to follow his thoughts.

12 minutes in and only gibberish was spoken. Can someone point me to the point where he proves that he can do something relevant better than other people? So far he just says that he is superior to everyone else for some reason.

His brain is different prolly because he's different from all other people, as evidenced by his obsession with meditation. That's all correlation not causation 'n all I need before and after data;

What I've Learned always makes the best videos!!!

Self is true ego is false don't identify ego with self

@whativelearned Please tell us how your 30 eggs a day experiment went.

It would be interesting to know what Daniel thinks about free will.

The fact videos are going 1h Shows our improvement into long term action. If not, go to the first videos.

I really really need subtittles on this

I love your channel man. All your videos are interesting to me.

Great interview. Could you please turn on transcript and subtitle on this video. Blessings ❤️🙏

You should interview Frank Yang

You should get a massage twice a week for 5 weeks to see the affects. Then make a video of the affects

Did he literally just correct himself from saying sportsmanship to sports-personship???

What Ingram described sounds at most like an altered sense of perception, not ‘enlightenment’ Read a few reviews of his book, found this comment quite insightful: “Daniel seems like a person who is way too obsessed with maps and mind-states and chasing the perfect state and to me the whole point of meditation is to be with this as it is right now”

Been a meditator for two decades now, and have attained the described state twice, very briefly, and my gosh was it disturbing. Ppl think this nirvana thing is some awesome bliss... for me it was deeply disturbing as it felt like I do and do not exist, all at the same time. "I'm there... but I am not", "I do exist... but I'm an illusion". An utter brainfck.

The eradication of the self/ego suicide almost seems like a fetish to people at this point, also seems entirely unnecessary, like cutting off your hand because you absentmindedly scratch yourself.

Interesting, will read the book

I dont get it

WE NEED THE EGG VIDEO EGG-MAN!!

After 8 minutes of watching I feels stupider. This is well above my current league.

I have a feeling a majority of ppl listening to this will have absolutely zero clue what these two are talking about lol

Its ALMOST ~ can be perceived as ~ Fucked up, to realize how much more is Available to us: the more you learn more you realize there is more to learn

I am interested why Daniel makes so much interest in Vipasanna insight meditation, while his comments seem more in line with Mahamudra descriptions to me.

This is extraordinary.

What I've Learned, in 1:32:58 video on meditation from the enlightened one: nothing.

Wait a sec.. I've read this guy book way back.. it wasn't that practical and his chapters on psychic abilities was a really turn off for me..

1:23:47 That's very interesting because anyone who has meditated for a long time knows that it isn't all relaxation and sunsets on the oceon in the mind. It can be like that, but Meditation can bring up some very dark stuff in the mind. Past traumas, grievances, hatred, anger, guilt and all kinds of things that perhaps you're not dealing with/coping with. It is very unpleasant at times and can put one off Meditation entirely.

Excellent, Indeed, meditation is beneficial to our brains. Meditation makes us relax our minds against what is happening in the world. So informative, and every person needs to hear it. By the way, I love your videos and am looking forward to more.

great interview

Glad Daniel is getting featured on some bigger channels.

You look like jordan petersons son more than his actual son :D

thank you for uploading this interview :)

It sounds like what he is describing is being able to activate and maintain the brain's flow state whenever he wants. Is there anything else I'm missing here?

Coicidentally, I just started getting "deeper" into meditation and experienced the desintegration of the illusion of self for the first time in my life a couple days ago. When this video was suggested to me, I was not aware of Dr. Ingram and from this interview I can see that his book will be an extremly valuable ressource for me in going forward into my meditation practice. Thanks a lot!

It was an incredible interview, but one question remains unanswered for me. What's the actual benefit from meditation and chasing enlightenment. I understand the basic benefit from meditation - learning to see your emotions and feelings as separate from you and quieting down the monkey brain, but I got that from like a month or two of meditation and it seems to be sticking at 80% without need of additional practices. But that's step one and two of the whole process. Is there a qualitative improvement from higher levels of meditation or is is just a grater sense of presence?