Interview: Uncovering Happiness Symposium-The Work of Byron Katie ®

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7 жыл бұрын

Elisha Goldstein, author of Uncovering Happiness, The Now Effect, and Mindfulness Meditations for the Anxious Traveler interviews Byron Katie. His primary question is "How do we make the idea of happiness practical?"
Katie explains the process of self-inquiry she calls The Work:
The Four Questions of The Work of Byron Katie
1. Is it true? (Yes or no. If no, move to 3.)
2. Can you absolutely know that it's true? (Yes or no.)
3. How do you react, what happens, when you believe that thought?
4. Who would you be without the thought?
Elisha shares his understanding of questions two and three: "Asking the second question, you've allowed for a little more space between your awareness and the story itself. And question three seems to be more experiential as one meditates on, or brings some mindfulness to, what reaction occurs in the body and mind in response to believing a thought."
Enjoy this rich exploration of The Work.
"I questioned my thoughts and was left with what's already there: my true nature-the immovable." -Byron Katie
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@ash-cz1ze 6 жыл бұрын

Love love you Byron Katie.My search ended with you and your WORK .I love the way you don't confuse the Work for us by adding "more thoughts" .May your message go far and wide.

@dar_jada 6 жыл бұрын

“Every thought is a child, all of our thoughts are children.” Brilliant. So much wisdom.

@skywatcher651 6 жыл бұрын

Her enlightment from a long dark place is amazing. Emerging from such a place must be truly such freedim. Reminds me of the light, his "awakening" the Buddha had found. It is wonderful. Freedom, love and peace

@judithpfeiffer9154 7 жыл бұрын

"Life out of the heart" --- I love Byron Katie and the Work!

@alexismiller8978 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent interview! Katie is a gift from heaven! I adore her mind

@judithpfeiffer9154 7 жыл бұрын

I love this! This one moved right into my heart: "If I question it, I'm doing it for all time. (what I'm thinking and believing) And that collapses time. It ends time." BK

@febaran 7 жыл бұрын

I love this conversation! Thank you Elijah and Katie. It is intellectually very satisfying to understand how The Work works.

@Artiststan 6 жыл бұрын

"The trip in is the way out." Brilliant.

@user-ml3lw5mh4j 2 жыл бұрын

*It’s a life of compassion and gratitude and “how can i help”, it’s really what we are left with, and who cares if it’s a dream or not; it’s life out of the heart.* I loved that

@kellyhoh444 4 жыл бұрын

This is such a exceptional interview! It speaks to my heart. Katie is such a beautiful awakened soul. Thank you very much.

@Carolsw1 5 жыл бұрын

What a lovely understanding interviewer.

@JaniiLaGarbosa 5 жыл бұрын

Carolsw1 yeeees so sweet ☺️

@margaretkennedy5308 7 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your gift to the World what is The Work it is changing my life one thought at a time.Im so happy to share this with my twin daughter's and my girlfriend that's going through a divorce Wow how it's helping us Xo...

@alicecoffey1823 7 жыл бұрын

You are so beautiful, Katie, thank you!

@OurFamilyGutierrez 4 жыл бұрын

Changed my life❤

@Yoganflogan Жыл бұрын

Beautiful interview thank you

@SarbariGhoshDasgupta Жыл бұрын

Awesome. So much wisdom in the words!

@starringchristopher 7 жыл бұрын

wow..... excellent interview....i just keep melting away.....thank you both!......love c

@mssummerrose1 4 жыл бұрын

The Work is the ultimate practice as of now...

@WithHopeMeditation 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Byron Katie

@sumari972 7 жыл бұрын

They could have said it right, what inquiry is really about. It is recreating that moment of the past where someone was suffering. Because travelling in time to that certain moment from now, from a safe, even pleasant moment will certainly change the feeling they have had. That makes anyone to the creator of their story, it is empowering, so they can hardly say any longer they are victims of what ever.

@giantmiller1136 7 жыл бұрын

How does inquiry about negative thoughts effect positive thoughts? If you often succeed in not believing negative thoughts are you still capable of believing (/relying on) positive thoughts? Or is it also the púrpose of not believing positive thoughts as they could also not be true?

@gretchencasey830 7 жыл бұрын

From things I've heard from BK, if a thought is working for you, i.e. not causing suffering, then it doesn't matter if it's true or not, it's working for you!

@lolar6085 7 жыл бұрын

The purpose of inquiring negative thoughts is practising inquiry not as a philosopher would do it, searching for objetive truth but to stop a specific suffering situation. Byron Katie sees the person's mind as a children's mind, which,k in a given situation, interprets the facts rather than to check them so this already is confusion and when suffering begins. To stop this suffering the confused mind has to question the thought which is causing the suffering to discover the facts . This she calls it reality , and reality is always kinder than the confused mind. That's the essential point of practising inquiry , not in a vacuum but when the person feels disstresed, confused or suffering by unquestioned thoughts.

@phoenixrising1675 7 жыл бұрын

doing this work, or any non duality practice, it is realized that no thought could be true. only believed, focused on and even obsessed on. to unwind a believing mind, it must go through inquiry. until we realize no thought is true, but believed thoughts have a huge impact on how we feel and how we move through life.. so, inquiry until you realize the very best most happy, most loving positive thoughts, are what make you feel the most aligned with who you really are, unconditional love... no thought is true, but all thoughts have vibration. The highest vibration is the closest to the truth... The closest to who really are... Does it feel good? Then, IT'S TRUE!

@helloitsme7983 4 жыл бұрын

Love her!

@malcolmnicoll1165 3 жыл бұрын

"The 5th question: "what is it that's bothering me?" When I sit with that question without trying to force an answer, it usually just vanishes on its own.

@corrinaamato8805 3 жыл бұрын

hmmm how she said "the mind matures". ive just recognized how immature ive been, i just was thinking that yesterday and im nee to the work but i just felt at 39byrs old , how immature my beliefs were

@loveofinquiry8067 5 жыл бұрын

❤️BK

@Saraaa2538 7 жыл бұрын

i can't get it, sorry!

@carmenl163 7 жыл бұрын

BK is just not the best at explaining. But her method is very simple and profound and for me the only thing that is truly helpful.

@PlanetMarth 7 жыл бұрын

Susanna is not for undesteand is for live ir 😊 try it it helped me with depression if u need help Im willing to do it ❤

@gretchencasey830 7 жыл бұрын

I read "Loving What Is" and her ideas were very exciting. Then I actually filled-in her "Judge Your Neighbor Worksheet", which is for The Work, and the result was amazing. I had suffered over the relationship with my ex-husband for about 5 years. Once I did the worksheet, I basically saw that I had been judging myself as not good or loveable since I could not seem to get along well with him (but had been blaming him as the "bad guy"). It was the insights that allowed me to forgive us both, relax and the trigger was gone and has never returned, 3 years later.

@lolar6085 7 жыл бұрын

Gretchen Casey Thanks for sharing. That peace is priceless!

@loveofinquiry8067 6 жыл бұрын

Socrates said an unquestioned life is not worth living and he took inquiry as far as it could go, death.