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@Westcoastrocksduh6 сағат бұрын
Happiness doesn’t exist. You’re a fool if you search for it.
@sajafendel5 сағат бұрын
Well said brother. I have a video titled “how to make sure you suffer for the rest of your life” you might like it
@Westcoastrocksduh5 сағат бұрын
@@sajafendel I’ll check it out thanks
@matheusmjb415212 сағат бұрын
that second half of the videos audio was like the matrix finally breaking lol
@sajafendel4 сағат бұрын
I know man that’s the wind I tried to block it with the audio enhancer and it made me sound like digital 👾
@STOiZYКүн бұрын
BLESSINGZ ON DA WONDERFUL INSIGHTZ FELLA FENDEL.
@sajafendelКүн бұрын
Hahaha 🤣 pleasure!
@noemibartley66482 күн бұрын
What if awareness is also regenerating with the body and the mind? I’m not in any way trying to negate your perspective. I also try to align with the same perspective because nothing else makes sense, but I do still have questions. Thank you for sharing. ❤
@sajafendel2 күн бұрын
Yeah you’re right, what if awareness is generated by the body and mind? If it was, awareness would have to be an illusion. In other words, awareness would have to be false, unreal, and therefore awareness would not exist at all. But actually, contrary to that, we know for absolutely certainty that awareness does exist, because it is self evident. If something exists, it has to be real. Awareness can not be proven nonexistent, because it would take something aware of that non existent reality to render it nonexistent, and that would be awareness itself. Therefore awareness is real, existent, and true. So, for it to be dependent on the body and mind, the body and mind would have to have its own ultimate existence that is somehow greater than awareness. But when we check in our experience, the body and mind are completely fleeting. They arise as a sensation and perception. Consciousness however, is ever present, and never stops, starts, or ends. The body and mind consistently start or end. So the question that plagued my mind was, how on earth could it be possible for something that I know is always present, infinitely consistent, be created by something that I know is completely limited and intermittent? That which starts and end is non existent and has to be contained within a greater, truer, ultimate reality. Put these things side by side and ask yourself how something fundamentally non existent (meaning that it doesn’t have its own existence, such as last nights dream, or a passing thought) Create that which we know is absolutely and fundamentally real? It’s not possible. At all. Consciousness is fundamental, and the substratum for all experience to take place, that includes the entire experience of the body and the world. For more, be sure to join my free community, this is what it’s there for 💚 Thanks for the honest and polite comment, I’m glad to help in anyway I can in your exploration 🙏
@sajafendel2 күн бұрын
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@aapchaap2 күн бұрын
Can you elaborate on the assumption that consciousness is not situated in the body/brain/material? Obviously with damaging brain material a decrease in understood consciousness can occur. I'd guess that you would counter this and say that the individual consciousness that we experience is already a reduction of the 'expanded consciousness' which humans can experience under certain spiritual experiences; though it does not really provide an explaination for the further reduction of an individual consciousness experience in the event of brain damage - which ofcourse can be measured and is therefor a proven fact.
@sajafendel2 күн бұрын
Yes absolutely, but what will make it easier for you to understand is if you can elaborate on why it’s an assumption? We have to first see how I define consciousness. Consciousness is simply the knowing or aware aspect of experience. The mind is that which consciousness perceives. Therefore the brain is also that which consciousness perceives and is what we could call a localisation of the mind. When the brain gets damaged, that says nothing about the knowing aspect of experience. So I agree it’s proven that the brain being damaged can effect our state of mind, but it does not change the pure knowing aspect of experience. Pure knowing is not a function or appearance or object of the mind. It stands outside the mind. We know this experientially by checking if there is any thought, image or perception required in order to know that I am aware? We find there is one. So with that being said, what is the question you’d like to ask? I see no problem here with what you’ve said really. I would add, There’s no “degree” of understood consciousness. There is simply knowing. Awareness. Even if we don’t know what we are aware of because of brain damage, we are, and can never not be aware. Even if we were to be knocked out by anestesia, we don’t actually experience the cessation of awareness. We experience the cessation of the mind. Because the mind disappears it doesn’t mean consciousness disappears. We assume we are aware “because I experience a world” on the contrary this is an assumption. We are aware because we are awareness and awareness, by nature, knows itself without the need of any objective knowledge or mind. This is a huge recognition. It’s the first signal that maybe consciousness is not located in the brain. Then when we go deeper in that direction, we find that it’s not. I can’t convince, nor do I care to convince, anyone in the comments, but I do like this question. I’ve build a community to help answer this question. There’s a great book on this called “the nature of consciousness” by Rupert Spira. He talks of his direct experience of pure awareness. I’ll make a video on this specifically on my own experience in future because I get asked this question a lot (and rightly so) it is the core and fundamental question for true and ultimate happiness. So I’m glad you asked.
@nesobre2 күн бұрын
the present moment is the only thing we have, the past and future is all an illusion
@sajafendel2 күн бұрын
So many people comment before actually watching at least half the video.
@nesobre2 күн бұрын
@@sajafendel what u mean the guy pretty much said there is no present there is only now.. its the same thing
@sajafendel2 күн бұрын
@@nesobre the present moment is a concession to those who do not understand the significance of the now. This is why no one’s ever woke up from being told to “be in the moment”
@nesobre2 күн бұрын
@@sajafendel be in the moment, be in the present, be in the now all means the same thing to me and I bet to alot of other people.
@sajafendelКүн бұрын
@@nesobre I explain this all vividly in the video :)
@God0fTime2 күн бұрын
present moment is the now..
@God0fTime2 күн бұрын
the present is a gift
@sajafendel2 күн бұрын
The present moment is a concession to those who do not understand the significance of the now
@AtTheStillPoint2 күн бұрын
Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future, and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable. What might have been is an abstraction remaining a perpetual possibility only in a world of speculation. What might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present. T.S. Eliot
@JoeDoig2 күн бұрын
..there is no in, within, and without. Form is the formless aspect of that which can be labelled as the conscious present moment. The formless aspect. Bubbles in a bath sponge, the hole that pushes humans to the world of the senses. Null. Void. Blank. This is why everything comes from a hole, because it is not. There is no gap between objects because there are no objects. Spacetime is not there. It is I that is not. There is also no empty space. That would imply a within and a without. There is only I am. All appears to I, because it be the formless aspect of I am, which itself is I am. I that is aware. I am that I am. I am. Now, here is the interesting fiction - Consciousness is a language. As form is a language. The Language of Consciousness is the true language of I. The artifact is the language of form. Form exists so I can appear to grow. But in truth, I am complete because I am (now). The Language of Consciousness is now, as is the language of form. Why am I aware of THIS? Because THIS is. Why is THIS? Because I am. There is no cause and effect - causation. All be now. So why do "we" not experience the manifestation of form in this way? Because that is how we experience we. It is I that experiences I as now and it is also I that experiences we! It is not a two way street. That would imply dualism. So how does time appear to unfold in one way? Why am I aware of THIS... The illusion appears to flow/move in every way. But in truth, there is no position nor is there any opposition of I am. I am neither beginning nor am I ending. I am neither more than, nor am I less than. I am neither knowing nor am I unknowing. I am that I am. I am.
@myrtoaskt40934 күн бұрын
If you are in Greece , it would be a big synchronisity for me...
@sajafendel4 күн бұрын
I’m in Mexico 🇲🇽
@richardsnyder64133 күн бұрын
Thank you 🙏 ❤
@sajafendel3 күн бұрын
@@richardsnyder6413 and thank you for the comment my friend 🙏🌅
@tabletop92585 күн бұрын
Very solid explanation! Thank you!!!👏👏👏
@sajafendel4 күн бұрын
I appreciate the comment thank you my friend 🙏
@Disappearance2875 күн бұрын
U are missing something boody!!! Fulfilments is for people who already succeeded in life and they are longing for something beyond human achievement. But some of us are battling every day to survive another 24 hour Fulfilments didn't and won't exist for this Poor tired souls and minds.
@sajafendel5 күн бұрын
Battling internally? Then check out 90% of my other videos.
@EmmanDesh5 күн бұрын
😂😂😂 "what am i sitting on", great words as always 🙌🏿
@sajafendel5 күн бұрын
😂😂 appreciated brother, I’ll see you soon when I set a new schedule for the meditations so you and others can make them 🙏
@EmmanDesh5 күн бұрын
@@sajafendel can't wait 😁
@lobnaomar35 күн бұрын
Change and growth are always mistaken for suffering I really needed this
@sajafendel5 күн бұрын
In glad you found it, thanks for sharing my friend 🙏🌅
@lobnaomar35 күн бұрын
@@sajafendel I'm glad too. you're most welcome
@Iloveuniverse2226 күн бұрын
Trouble means Transportion to Better things. ❤❤
@sajafendel6 күн бұрын
Yes I guess the point I’m trying to make is to move away from this sense of “trouble” in the first place 💚
@Heaveniswithinyou6 күн бұрын
Just what I needed to hear! Thank you 🤗
@sajafendel6 күн бұрын
Very welcome 🙏 thanks for the comment 🌅
@joshtjclark7 күн бұрын
Ironically, this is one I’ll come back to haha
@sajafendel7 күн бұрын
Hahahaha damn it. 🤣🙏
@joshtjclark7 күн бұрын
Go live your life NOW 👊
@sajafendel7 күн бұрын
Exactly brother 🌅
@richardsnyder64137 күн бұрын
Gratitude 🙏 ❤
@sajafendel7 күн бұрын
Likewise brother 🙏
@brycek20338 күн бұрын
I have had the fear of infinite non-existence for around 20 years. I spent a lot of time focused on Existential OCD therapy which was mildly helpful. This was very helpful.
@sajafendel8 күн бұрын
If you want further help feel free to join the free community I can help you personally :) thanks for the comment in glad the video has brought you at some peace 🙏
@anacatarina81578 күн бұрын
Wow. I love it. Thank you 🙏🏼🩵
@sajafendel8 күн бұрын
@@anacatarina8157 glad you resonate my friend 🙏🌅
@nursdigitaldiary9 күн бұрын
this video came up at the right time. thank you so much ❤
@sajafendel8 күн бұрын
You’re so welcome thanks for the comment 🙏💚
@toyin23769 күн бұрын
You ask yourself... 'what's the truth here .
@sajafendel5 күн бұрын
Huh?
@2012BeyondtheWorld9 күн бұрын
He won the lottery
@OBVictor9 күн бұрын
I think I know what you're TRYING to say here. I think it stems from Buddhist philosophy and whatnot. I've heard it explained well before, but you're honestly just not explaining it very well. Try to use examples and maybe quote the people you're referencing so you can convey your message better. Because right now, it comes off as "the secret to ending your suffering is to suck it up, don't worry about it, do nothing, etc." Which i assume isn't you're intention. I would normally troll in the comments section, but it looks like you're just trying to get this channel off the ground, so good luck. Just some honest feedback.
@sajafendel9 күн бұрын
Thanks man. This isn’t what I’m referring too though. Infact it’s not even close. Thanks for the feedback though. I understand how it could easily be misunderstood. This message is for a particular audience. This is only in reference to those who have recognised their true nature. Who know they are the inherent freedom they seek. Only then does this make sense. I’ll make that more clear in future videos. I know that 90% of people that see this though will understand the level in which it is spoken.
@OBVictor8 күн бұрын
@@sajafendel Fair enough. I still think it's a good idea to try to use an example (or some kind of metaphor) whenever speaking about things so abstractly. Otherwise, the message could get lost. Keep it up, dude.
@tas78229 күн бұрын
glad i found your channel
@sajafendel9 күн бұрын
Im glad my channel found you! 🙏
@f4llenstarr9 күн бұрын
so we should embrace all these negative emotions/suffering? just observe it?
@sajafendel9 күн бұрын
It’s not about observing it, just fully let it happen. Observing it for what cause? Observing emotions doesn’t free them. Freeing them frees them. I believe we all have the ability to give ourselves this freedom without effort. Give it a try. And whatever you do, don’t do this in attempt to get rid of your suffering. Make it genuine. Do it out of love. Do it out of compassion. Do it for no reason at all. See what’s leftover when you try.
@f4llenstarr9 күн бұрын
@@sajafendel so just accept whatever bad thing/suffering comes our way like it’s part of our journey of life? Like the good is also? Just accept it instead of trying to change it?
@sajafendel9 күн бұрын
@@f4llenstarr first it’s necessary to recognise the nature of your mind. If you don’t, you will suffer for the rest of your life and happiness will always be conditional. What I’m sharing here is really the final final cigar after you know and feel yourself to be absolutely consciousness and the source of happiness itself
@PyromaniacShrub9 күн бұрын
❤❤🤘🤘
@sajafendel9 күн бұрын
🙏🙏🌅
@taurusbabytarot9 күн бұрын
Gratitude🙏
@sajafendel9 күн бұрын
Thanks for the comment ny friend 💚
9 күн бұрын
Thank you so much for this, it helped tremendously. I think im about to end a relationship thats hurting me and dealing with suffering from this standpoint is much more effortless. Thank you.
@sajafendel9 күн бұрын
Nothing means more to me than reading a comment like this. It nearly brought a tear to my eye because I know exactly how you feel. Sending you love and forgiveness my friend. This “giving ourselves the freedom to suffer” is what I call the ultimate forgiveness. Giving ourselves the freedom for all experience to take place as it is. Have a beautiful day 🙏🌅
9 күн бұрын
@@sajafendel Thank you so much my friend, keep doing God's work. 🫂
@sajafendel9 күн бұрын
Haha thanks so much for the support my friend greatly appreciated 🙏🌅
@blurrysaika9 күн бұрын
Ok
@sajafendel9 күн бұрын
Anything you want clarity on?
@blurrysaika9 күн бұрын
@@sajafendel no
@Iloveuniverse2229 күн бұрын
❤❤🙏 How do we come to the conclusion that no desire fullfillment can lead to happiness in this existence ? What do you think we are doing here on Planet between birth to death process ?
@sajafendel9 күн бұрын
You have to recognise that the experience of happiness is not a quality inherent in any experience at all. Therefore no experience can bring about happiness. Therefore true happiness can not be found in the fulfillment of any desire because a desire fulfilled is an experience, therefore is conditional, has limitation, and will perpetuate resistance and suffering in the belief that we need to strive towards another experience to achieve the same feeling of happiness. And honestly I think we’re here to have fun. I don’t believe there is a reason for anything other than existence is beautiful and it just is. Anything else is an add on. A concept made of limitation. Like a termite asking why it eats wood. The question is redundant. There is only pure infinite beingness. It stands outside the realm of time and space. Therefore it stands behind and is greater than any reason or cause because all reason and cause exist in time and space. Time and space do not exist. Therefore any question as to why or how or what we’re doing will always be only relative to the limited effect that can not speak of a cause because it did not create it.
@Iloveuniverse2228 күн бұрын
@sajafendel I agree. Osho has reiterated the same. We are just here to have fun and life is inherently purposeless/meaningless. Thank you 🥰🙏 Time to put it into action again and again.
@imperialstepper9 күн бұрын
Truth spoken
@sajafendel9 күн бұрын
Glad you resonate my friend 🙏
@Uhm-.10 күн бұрын
One of the best and simplest thing I heard in a long time
@sajafendel10 күн бұрын
I appreciate the comment and feedback my friend thank you 🙏
@Gramplex10 күн бұрын
Man said the truth
@sajafendel10 күн бұрын
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@shalinimitra670412 күн бұрын
<3
@sajafendel12 күн бұрын
💚🌅📈
@erosamuk12 күн бұрын
👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻😊💛
@sajafendel12 күн бұрын
🙏🌅
@twistedbydsign9912 күн бұрын
I found that I was afraid of suffering which was not fear of death which would actually be a relief. So I had to ask what is suffering and why is there suffering. As they say there are many ways to the mountain top.
@sajafendel12 күн бұрын
Same same but different
@SK-id9tt12 күн бұрын
Someone had a psychedelic experience
@sajafendel12 күн бұрын
Yeah that’s what caused the severe anxiety, panic attacks and psychosis 🤣
@AishwaryaR-b4j13 күн бұрын
Brilliant
@sajafendel12 күн бұрын
In glad you like this, thank you for the comment!! 🙏 anything that resonate in particular? :)
@AishwaryaR-b4j12 күн бұрын
@@sajafendel It hit home when you talked about how happiness is our inherent nature and directionality. All this while I used to think that it's one of the activities, part of the duality of life... But this, hit home differently... Thank you 🙏
@sajafendel12 күн бұрын
@@AishwaryaR-b4j ah wow. That’s a breakthrough indeed! My pleasure my friend. Thanks for the comment 🙏👌
@kidub314513 күн бұрын
I like what you said. I am looking forward to go with you 👍
@sajafendel12 күн бұрын
In glad you resonated my friend. Likewise 🙏🌅
@Chichikn13 күн бұрын
Good old Rupert :)
@sajafendel13 күн бұрын
Yep! haha
@Ethanbull3514 күн бұрын
Really good brother! Thankyou for sharing 🙏
@sajafendel13 күн бұрын
Thank you brother glad you liked it 🙏
@MrCas-fq3kt15 күн бұрын
Great explanation! I agree.
@sajafendel15 күн бұрын
I appreciate the comment 🙏
@shriram245515 күн бұрын
Wonderfully explained! What you have said in this video is exactly what Advaita Vendanta says-Consciousness alone is, world is an appearance in it and we are that one consciousness.
@sajafendel15 күн бұрын
Thank you my friend. You got it man. Thanks for the comment 🙏
@Vgallo16 күн бұрын
how do you know
@sajafendel16 күн бұрын
Know what?
@Vgallo15 күн бұрын
@@sajafendel how do you know we are an infinite consciousness experiencing individualism and that we are eternally safe? Or any of the other quite monumental claims your making, how do you know these claims are actually the truth?
@sajafendel15 күн бұрын
@@Vgallo hard to explain in a KZfaq comment. If you’re truly interested, I have a community to help people recognise this truth for themselves for free. But if you’re here just to debate in the comments for the sake of it, then yeah I don’t have time for that brother.
@Vgallo15 күн бұрын
@@sajafendel Well that’s potentially an evasive response, I’m not hear to debate, just asking a very genuine and extremely legitimate question, because I’m trying to decide how much stock to put into your words and the fact that you’ve had 2 very good opportunities to provide at least an inclination as to how you know the greatest secrets of life and havent offered anything, thankfully im not a cynical person and if you have any other videos with an explanation, I’d definitely listen, not sure I’d join a community until there was at least some rationale for me to do so.
@sajafendel15 күн бұрын
@@Vgallo gotcha. sorry man. I get a lot of people commenting BS who wants mindless debates. It’s hard to distinguish serious enquiry vs trolls. In regards to your question, firstly: 1. I realised that I am the leading authority on anything true for my experience. 2. That in order to know the truth about anything I must first understand the tool with which I explore it (my mind) 3. That in order to know if something is true, it can’t just be true for me, I has ti be true from all potential points of view regardless of who or what is observing. 4. I then explored my own direct experience to see what is true. I found two things. 1. That there is existence, even if I don’t know what it is, I know that it is. 2. I know that I exist. I don’t know what I am but I know that I am. 5. I made it very clear to establish what consists and sustains all experience. Short answer, consciousness. 6. I realised that I am fundamentally consciousness. Above all else, consciousness is the fundamental quality to which I can not be reduced. 7. I sought to recognise if this consciousness was limited. Does it really exist inside the body and mind? Or does it create the body and mind? 8. I stayed open to the possibility that either could be true. I didn’t know. 9. I realised that after vigorously exploring, there consciousness does not have a limit or an edge or a boarder and can not be contained. I realised it was unlimited. 10. I tested that against the facts if my experience and tried to find the “existenceness” of objects. I found that all objects can be reduced to qualities only inherent in the mind. In other words, that all objects are merely made of the perception of them. That all objects that seem to be separate and outside of ourselves are actually made of mind, and mind is made of consciousness. This confirmed everything. Not doubt in my mind. 11. This experience was pure happiness. Pure unconditional knowing of the absolute. Nothing else to search for. Nothing to gain. Just full acceptance for reality to take place as it is. So the last and final step is realising that pure consciousness is happiness itself. (Check “I found unconditional happiness so you can just copy me” on my main page for more) This was more or less the investigation on an intellectual level. I’m not religious. I’m not spiritual even though I’ve had a spiritual path. I like to be skeptical. Rational. Based on logic. If anything I’m scientific. I base it on the facts of experience and make no assumptions. And I expect nothing less from anyone who listens to me. This is the point I’m trying to make. That we should be the authority of our own direct experience on not fuss around with ethereal ideas or philosophical theory. I care none for mind tricks and practices or a mindset. The approach for me is simple. Recognise the absolute source of happiness itself and everything falls into place effortlessly. Hope this answers your question brother. I have few videos on this because I typically make videos that are targeting those who are already on this path or who have to some degree already recognised this and help them integrate it. I will look to make more videos on this soon :)