Loving your videos Collette! ✨ Just under 2 years ago for me, so lots of resonance. I’ve kept a daily journal and reading it is so funny, seeing how I blundered about but somehow came to this, yes, as you say, bliss! So evident in the actual video that you blissed out! I think of it like getting wonderful news - always unexpected and uncaused - can’t be clung on to, comes and goes, always so welcome!! Yes, it’s whatever resonates, we’re so blessed with all the videos, often it’s just one sentence that rings the bell… Thankyou! 👏✨
at the end of the day daily life is the test , as my teacher used to say : theory without practice is useless , practice without theory can be harmful .
Its like the stock market going up and down between seeking presence and not . The true presence is that which happens when both of these lovers are together . Even if the word hooks with an imagination you know its not it :) . Sometimes there is an apparent integration between conditionings , that's also a conditioning but a good one since it aligns the other ones on emptiness . So the play goes on between conditioning and deconditioning , form and emptiness holding hands in a chain dance :)
@@plamen_doichinov I did occasionally experience tunnels and everything rushing past me, so fast I couldn’t make anything out. With any experience, for me it seems best to just allow them to play out, without any fear or conceptualisation, as they are transient and pay much re attention to what always here, the ever present moment of awareness. 😊
Hi, looking back I had the realisation that I wasn’t looking for presence, I was presence. A few weeks before contacting David Bingham. During a conversation David pointed out that from a young age we are invited to play the role of a daughter etc in the world and that is how the identity is formed. Once he said this to me, I had the realisation that my every day awareness had been identified as a person in the world. I hope this helps 😊
wonder..Scott Kiloby talks a lot of repressed stuff that only showed years later even after realization...and still suffered...you seem to not be able to suffer anymore?
Hi Life, 😊 at this point there are opportunities to suffer but they are mostly seen. Occasionally I can feel a pull into the game of duality. Emotions do dance in awareness. Habitual thoughts can arise, the truth is preferred over old programmes. It can be helpful to find the truth in what is happening for it to be dropped. Eventually you’ve just had enough of the minds games.
Hello Collette. I seem to be going through this process, but I'm struggling with defensiveness and the fear of being walked over and taken advantage of. Do you have any ideas on creating boundaries that can be worked into all of this
Hi Anton, I feel the idea of creating a boundary will make you feel more separate and apart from the situation ( more of a reason to be defensive ) I’m not saying let people do what ever they want. I would recommend clear seeing, what is actually happening, what is the truth of the situation? Examine your thoughts about what is happening. We often see other people behaviour and make it about us. If the are angry, we feel they are angry with us, but perhaps they are just angry. I know this is simplistic and obvious but often we see life through a lens of the what has happened to us in the past. I don’t know the situation you are referring to but I would be happy to have a free 1-1 call with you to see if resting in awareness can reveal a way forward. I’m not a counsellor or therapist but I am happy to investigate the situation with you. collette@collettewhiteman.com I also have videos on looking at limiting beliefs.
@Collette Barnes Whiteman thanks Collette. Yes I think it is in interpretation, obviously a deeply held belief that is blocking progress. I'll check through your previous posts
@@collettewhiteman Is' that not just another identification ? Is there a self at all ? Recently there was the insight here that there was no thinker of thoughts and that is so liberating .It's like beyond thoughts there's a nothingness so every time a thought arises i fall back into this nothingness but it's a falling without landing .
@@hermansohier7643 Yes fantastic, beautiful 😍Oneness. The falling back from thoughts is the habit of the imagined attention, the mind made identity being pulled towards and back from thoughts. Brilliant that you can observe the mechanism of the mind. In order to speak in the world, Dualistic language is used. The self is a concept but helps points people to who they truly are. 😊
