Yes, the idea that we have control in the first place is indeed illusory. Thank you for sharing about your career path, that was really interesting. I’m a mental health counsellor too.

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Beautiful insight thank you for expressing your essence

Thank you. It’s such an important topic, right action and moral integrity, including compassion and love in impersonal awareness. It comes naturally when it is seen that there is no separation.

"Pointing at the heart centre is like pointing at the electricity meter" ( Anamali Swami) - Anamali 3xplaining the fallacy of pointing to the alleged area of the body through which awareness/ consciousness enters the body, staring at the meter will reveal nothing about electricity. Similarly, focusing on the brain is like focusing solely on the circuitry of the TV set.

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The sufi tradition has the saying: "These are the eyes through which God sees." This remains only as the divine possibility until we realize what this KZfaq channel describes as the nature of "the I before I am". This is what he here in the video he describes from 8:07 to the end at 9:38.

The word "illusion" is one way to say; it but we need to clearly see what this word is pointing to. As Einstein said it is a "stubborn illusion" and we don't know to what extent even he could clearly see what this meant such that his life fully reflected this seeing of the false that can be seen to be illusory. In other words we need to see the false clearly such that this seeing and the actions corresponding to this clear seeing will dispelled the illusion as it arises again and again in our daily life until nothing is left. And we can say with Hafiz "I am a hole in a flute through which the redemptive spirit of God flows. Listen to this music." If we do listen and begin to hear this music, it allows the dance of reality rather than the dance of illusion.

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We all make the same mistake in each and every dream: we identify with the person and regard the rest as other(s). Each time it takes awakening to (be able to) realize our mistake: the personal perspective was wrong, we were consciousness in which the dream, the whole dream, all of it, appeared. Suppose you could dream a dream again but with one difference only: this time you KNOW you are dreaming and thus you have left the personal perspective. Could any nightmare still be frightening? Would you still have ego-related thoughts? Try living 'real life' having left the erroneous personal perspective: it is really fascinating.

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The personal perspective is always erroneous (look back on any dream to verify) and each time it takes awakening to (be able to) realize our mistake. Only while we are dreaming 'others' appear.

There is peace because we don't take our character so seriously? This is where the smile comes from? Because otherwise we are clinging to all our expectations of our relationships, everything, which are illusions, wildly full of gutfelt projections of what we imagine constitutes our happiness. But it is not lasting, it is finally elusive, and will cause us suffering until we look at it from the side enough to drop it all from our prime focus? Focussing finally instead on the nonduality that seeks nothing because it is and flows... And the present without our interference is always perfect? I like the theory, but half the time I'm in it, half I'm not...

I am glad that there are so many people on KZfaq now teaching the illusion of the self. Each person’s perspective is slightly different and each adds to my understanding.

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Nice! This is quite different from the translation I have. As you know, I’m getting married tomorrow, and it’s been quite interesting to see my mind playing in regards to changing my name. Should I, shouldn’t I. Particularly since my dad passed. The sentimentality and attachment to the label is quite amusing to witness.

It all comes down to know whether you are dreaming or not. While dreaming you are always identifying with the person/ego/mind, thereby creating other(s) and consequently you will suffer in order to wake up. Once awakened and realizing you are consciousness (in which all dreams appear) suffering has become impossible.

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Useful indeed. Thank you.

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We have to hold away the dominant brain waves cause all what dominant is , is out of balance , out of intelligence self realized

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Yes, our body is amazingly complex but as you mention it appears in the real mystery: consciousness. The body is as real as we perceive the dream (of life) to be, because ultimately consciousness is all there is. We cannot describe consciousness, we can only say what it is not: invisible, boundless, invulnerable (I could go on). Only consciousness doesn't change during our entire life (as you mentioned). It really is out of this world yet required for any (dream)world to appear. Where we seem to disagree is on the silent mind. Once the ego is seen through as an illusion it should (gradually?) become inactive resulting in a massive drop of unnecessary, mainly negative and repetitive thoughts. Whereas you seem to be OK with any number of thoughts, if I understand you correctly, because you watch them from what you call Silent Mind (consciousness or aware consciousness).

I am one with you. Where do i meet these other people ? Sincerely, where are these people living consciously from effortless awareness? 🕉

Hi Colin. This one was so relaxing and peaceful to view. And your eyes or gaze seems to transmit This Unknowing beyond words. The beautiful setting and your friend in the background was awesome. At the risk of exposing my people pleasing tendency I have to say you and the content on your channel is superb. I was scrolling through your videos again and reading the titles. Every one of them has grabbed my attention. Another tendency I have exhibited is to rush through a speakers channel if I feel a resonance...then say hi in the comments...and inevitably move on to someone else. Not right or wrong of course. But your channel and the fact that we are getting to know each other feels different. To use a food analogy your channel has so much meat to it that I wish to take time and slowly digest it. Thanks 🙏 Colin.

Really enjoyed this chapter Colin. By the way I took a good up close look at your lion logo and it's really cool. I like the waves at the beginning of your videos too. Real nice job putting your channel together! Would you believe I've only had a smartphone about 2 years. I was a simple flip phone guy for so many years. Didn't even own a computer. You can imagine the fieldday I had when I really got into KZfaq a couple years ago. I was binge watching Non-duality speakers and anything spiritual. When I began seriously spiritually seeking I was 19 and came across Autobiography Of A Yogi by Yoganannda which touched me deeply. I remember spending hours in the library combing the spiritual, philosophical, psychological and self-help shelves. I remember finding 2 or 3 books by teachers of Sufism that had a real impact on my exploration. Hazrat Iniyat khan and Pir Vilient Khan. I'm sure the spelling is wrong though. They were father and son and I am so grateful for their teachings because my heart really opened at that time. I'll have to confess that part of my self-image at that time was this spiritual guy who liked to drink and party. The hangovers were tremendous. So I would read for a couple days and really get inspired...maybe even swear off the alcohol only to party and get drunk again. I was at the VA for long term treatment for substance abuse. I remember being in the hospital for an appointment at that time and I looked up at the TV and saw an airplane hitting one of the towers. I stayed in a domiciliary at the VA for about a year and a half and went to a ton of 12 step meetings. Some therapy at that time but not to deep. And when I got out, got a job and was all set up in a new apartment I used again. If I decide to enter therapy surely this would be something to look at. Thanks to you recently I'm seeing that there is no magic bullet when it comes to addiction. I get the intuition that a silent mind along with some good talk therapy could be the key to ending the suffering of substance abuse. I'm currently using alcohol and other substances and see that it is affecting my health. Thanks for listening Colin and bye for now. 💜

Wonderful Colin! On to #2. Peace 💛

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It becomes quite bizarre when you are able to shift perspective towards the non dual at will. One moment you are angry, 30 seconds later everything is fine. 10 seconds later you are boiling with anger again. And so on. 😂

I'm getting better at separating myself by being more of an observer opposed to the battles of the egos. I have ptsd so I've analyzed myself and found loopholes towards getting back to that state of flow or combining it into the chaotic event.

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Thank you, this is truly beautiful 🙏🏻❤️

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Wonderful, thank you

Excellent, Colin! In is the only way out (of the dream). There is nothing to get or gain in the 'outside' world, it simply is our projection. As in any dream.

I understand you and I fully agree. I have discovered that the fastest way to end any conversation is to merely suggest that life is but a dream. So I won't do that here. Although the analogy is useful: we all make the same mistake in every dream, we identify with the person. Each and every time it takes awakening to (be able to) realize we were wrong. We were not just the person but the whole dream. While dreaming we live life from the personal perspective (which can be very frightening). Once you realize you are dreaming you leave the personal perspective, you realize you are consciousness, just because consciousness is all there is. As in any dream. I hope you don't mind I keep coming back to the number of thoughts. You told me you ignored the majority of your thoughts. It still puzzles me, I don't know how you do that. Do you split in two, one part having thoughts, the other part ignoring them? If we leave the personal perspective, there should be a massive drop in the number of thoughts because most of our thoughts are about us and the ones close to us (ego). If the ego begins to fade away, your thoughts therefore must decrease in number. Illustration: suppose you could dream a dream again with ONE difference only: this time you KNOW you are dreaming although you still don't know what will happen or how the dream will end. Wouldn't all the ego-thoughts (over 95%) evaporate? Wouldn't you experience everything from what you call The Silent Mind?