To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be actualized by myriad things. When actualized by myriad things, your body and mind as well as the bodies and minds of others drop away. No trace of enlightenment remains, and this no-trace continues endlessly.” Dogen
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Almost the same words I yesterday told to my friend who is feeling deeply depressed. Almost the same words that a buddhist monk wrote long time ago. Maybe I should have been saying those words to me. Thanks for remaining!
Hey David. Excellent vids. I work for a radio station which focuses on mental health. Any chance of you doing some inspirational audio clips that we can put out in between the tunes.
I’m learning that my life is not what happens to me but how I react to it. It’s just that simple. I’m learning to not judge what is happening with x or y, just stay in the moment and do necessary things but don’t live in the past or future WHILE you are doing the necessary things.
This video healed something in me. As I cast my consciousness from my mind and into my chest, I felt a swell of sorrow. The little boy in me wanted to be held, and told that he belonged in the world.
I grew up with a father who never connected with me and a mother who never wanted to face anything difficult. When I began to struggle with depression, severe loneliness, and self harm, she pushed me away, ignored me, got angry with me, told me it didn't matter how I felt. Now my default is emotional disregulation. Most of the time I feel very little. I'm disconnected from myself, what used to be important to me, and other people I could potentially love. Sometimes I get so overwhelmed by emotions I get seizures. It's so important to be given space to grieve and cry. To love, you must mourn at some point, when what you love is violated. To not be allowed to mourn kills your ability to love. I wish this hadn't happened to me. I would be such a better person.
In recovery they give you the tools to live in the now..Looking back and over thinking will only damage your inner peace..We have anger and anxiety for a reason, it’s ok to have emotions it’s learning to deal with them and accepting them that counts..Tell yourself they will pass and it’s only temporary..We are human and we are up and down but it’s ok to feel these emotions ❤
1:45 I feel that exact way when I'm having an existential crisis. Existence feels so crushing at times I feel like it's rather go insane or be in a coma
Surrender with a Sigh of Relief. Two half breaths in through the nose followed by a long slow Sigh of Relief out through the mouth. Physical surrender. The mind will learn from the body. Surrender with a Sigh of Relief. In breath surrender to the out breath, out breath surrender to the in breath. There is no life without surrender. There is no change without surrender. Surrender is humanity's greatest achievement. Pain surrender to pain. Suffering surrender to suffering. I am.
Joined the marine corps, my hip joint is messed up from training, they are keeping me in the barracks with other people being held too and going to release me in an unnecessary amount of time a few months, we do nothing all day everyday and I just bought a new laptop to try to make money on, next day I found it smashed up, $1500 down the drain, I'm broke to $2 bucks in my bank, it's so miserable now with just my phone and I'm not getting paid either. We only get fed for free at the cafeteria chow. I have no idea what I'm going to do, I'm 21 and my dreams to try and make money on my laptop are broken....
This is the hardest part, to feel your emotions and reconnect with the parts of yourself that you are not in connection with. You leave this for so long that you don't even know how to feel or what parts of you are not here with you...
Thank you David for this video. Very enlightening video. That part that requires attention, validation from others, that often needs re assurance from the others I can totally relate. Fortunately it gets better with the continuous work on myself . Thanks again, always interested by your videos. Marion from France
Very brave, i can see the pain and compassion in your eyes. And great advice. Accept, experience, and study whatever it is, become it's friend not enemy. And always always ask for help if you feel you can't carry it, please do. Love you all, love yourself.
I’m glad this video randomly popped up. I’m feeling significant pain and loss today, and I told myself I’ve been here before embrace the pain. It’s part of life.
Ambula ab intra, at the raven’s cry, glimpse the abyss that birthed your hidden light, and in the heart of the night, the first glow of dawn ignites. In the depths, in silent witness, the flame of the inner eye burns beyond the shadow, and the leaden weight of sorrow transmutes into invisible gold. The Great Work unfolds in silence, and what was divided returns to unity. In the furnace of your being, the phoenix rises, carried by the winds of stillness, free from the burden of form, unbound by the chains of light and shadow. Farewell to you, young alchemist.
it's the seeing the teacher as godly that's the problem. not the teacher. one of the most important things in this work is to stop clinging, and this means to teachers, guides, concepts, beliefs, ideas - anything outside oneself that I think is going to save me or have "the answer". I'm thankful to these teachers for helping point me back to myself. they all do. whether it is because they believe they are god, or I do.... or a multitude of other reasons. disappointment in the teacher is the absolute best learning of all.
I drifted here to check out what David's criticism on the non-dual movement was about... I have been stuck with my practice for months with worsening depression and anxiety... My therapist even recommended that I start antidepressants because I haven't made any progress with my mood regulation in the last few months... This one clip was exactly what I needed... I cannot believe how much this moved me... I finally started to learn how to work with emotions... Incredible 🎉 I held the exact same view on self compassion... David you got me to find the connection to it A huge weight fell immediately from my shoulders... while sitting in a crowded afternoon train on the way home. And this is just a start... Now the practice can really begin... With therapy and meditation. HUGE THANKS 🙏🏼
Loved your last video. Everything needs to be done with balance, that includes religions, meditation, exercise, and whatever believe sistem you have. If it doesn't feel right its your instinct warning you. Dogmas are terrible, be free my friend ❤.
Bad things happen but it doesn’t mean emotions are bad and something to run from. Our perception of the emotions are what kill us if we can sit with them and befriend them they turn from fear and pain to joy and love
I know this is true deep down and I’ve been struggling with it lately. I think why can’t I just sit and be? Relax alone with myself? I used to be able to, used to be very mindful of this. Thanks for the reminder :)
I struggle with a lot of intrusive thoughts, addictive and compulsive behaviors, depression and anxiety, suicidal ideation, etc. I've recovered from agoraphobia, I've made progress in weight loss, I survived a terrible heartbreak and have found a good relationship that might be the best thing for me right now. What once was a mercy rule is now neck and neck, and right now I'm winning, but I still feel this inherent need to self sabotage. To fight the positive change. To resist what I've worked so hard for. To fail. And I ask myself the same question: "Why do I need to move?" or rather "Why can't I enjoy the present?" I'm tired of fighting myself, because no matter what, the only one who loses is me. I'm done with that. I don't even want to win either, I want to live. I'm not perfect. I'm not the best at anything. But I am capable of being loved and being enough, no matter what the voice in my head says. The only person who has ever said "I hate you" to me was myself and I'm tired of feeling that way. I'm tired of slowly dying rather than living at a steady pace. I just want to be happy.
I too have always been anxious, since childhood. I've held similar beliefs about creating anxiety and suffering to cushion bad things happening to me. We were forced to attend church as children and it created an anxiety of my mortality. Even as a child. Also the authoritarian figure of God as a judge. I'm 61 now and I still grapple with an "inner child" that wrestles with fear and anxiety. I've started and stopped several therapy sessions in my life. I've come to realize that life is simply an ebb and flow of the universal law of opposites: there is no pleasure without pain, love without hate, light without dark, life without death. Learning to appreciate and savour all aspects of life, good and bad, is helpful I believe.
