...to accept its own form, as dancingshoe, walking shoe, sandal or boot...it has to know in reality it is the total universe...expressing as this particular shoe, expressed by nature to fulfill being itself in this form...then, when it starts walking, it is functioning, not searching, and it finally feels ok, serving its purpose in context of the whole.
the shoe knows it is a shoe, but it imagines to be meant as "Supershoe" that will 1) will save him from the sharp pebbles ( would a REAL shoe feel difficulties???) 2) and will be appropriate in all circumstances ( you can't dance elegantly on walking boots...) this way it does not appreciate its shoe-ness...it stops functioning as shoe, it becomes "walking, searching" as the movement of ego looking for a bigger identity...and the loss of self-esteem coming from that reinforces its believes...
@Fishpigg that's some deep shit genius...but you see, you're wrong - shoes(take notice of the "S" in the end of the word) are at least TWO inanimate objects, possibly more... so, your comment = FAIL
About the "talking" part though - if you eat the wrong type of mushrooms...you never know...
@TukenNuken YES shoes -plural -they usually come in pairs -"hey do ya like my new shoe ?" are at least 2 inanimate objects ,they still cant talk ...........thats not really the point ...and look up Pedantic ,keep taking the shrooms ,and remember to rest as awareness
@Fishpigg Oh dear...I can't believe you made the same mistake twice. Oh, where have all the bright people gone? But if that wasn't the point, then what was? I'm sorry, my simple mind just doesn't understand the deep wisdom of your comment. And why should I look up pedantic for you? If someone called you pedantic and you don't know what it means then you should look it up yourself, not tell some total stranger to do it for you. Not to mention the fact that you told me to take shrooms! Scandalous!
Like Popeye the sailor man says, 'I am that I am and that's ALL that I am.' There's nothing to add or take away from a person's life to make her or him anything other than what she or he already is which is a complete being void of nothing just like any other human being--at the core perfectly created, again void of nothing, lacking nothing, there is nothing to want for only to understand we are all at our core perfect (our invisible self/ the ghost in the machine)..just be in awe and adoration
Ich hab vor kurzem in meinem Joggingschuh einen Riss gefunden, aber Gott bin ich froh - weil dieses Video hat mir nun alle meine Fragen beantwortet - ich meine, es ist ja offensichtlich - der Schuh ist nun innerlich erleuchtet !!!
why is it that when one reaches this oneness, one only perceives the physical, and forget all the beings in other realms who also need the contact of an enlightened being?
Ya but, just stoping and doing nothing isn't gonna do anything. I think when they talk about 'paths' they talk about the method you use to get rid of things blocking you from just realizing who you are. I guess that could be mediation, or therapy, or or kind deeds, ect. i don't know.
@GeorgeGogle OSHO did not teach transcendantal realisation, even though he may have "talked" about it, he taught therapy therapy catharsis,dynamic meditation, so that "one day" you can be "empty enough" to transcend and wake up. IT DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY, i was there i know,...the "ma's " turned into sluts in th name of "sanyass" and OSHO KILLED HIMSELF IN greece, they were carrying guns on the ranch in oregon.enjoy him if you like him but he was asleep and did trmendous damage to thousands !!
@vajraloka1 Hi, thanks for comment. I am not personally a follower or admirer of Osho, just came to mind what he was talking about and it seemed to me there where some parallels. As for Osho killing himself, not sure, as I read reports about how he was set up by state forces and poisoned in jail with some radiology element in his coffee so it did its slow work during following months after he was back in his community and that eventually killed him. But os course this is no the point here.
This argument doesnt work. People are asking the way to the true God, not the true people. Would make more sense to analogy say perhaps a shoe saw people as Gods. And asked the path to the person who was that true God, just as humanity asks the path to the true God when there are many religions to chose from, they are asking which is the right path. Then there is a path. They are not asking the way to themselves the way this video implies.
@Emil89IE You're right in that they are not asking the way to themselves. But that is just because they haven't yet realise that they are the truth. They are the God they are looking for.
The fortunate side of this, it seems to me, is that regardless of whether the "shoe" is attempting to realize itself through following some "path," or whether it is simply sitting where it is, it is still a "shoe."
It seems to me that all paths can't "lead away from the truth;" how can one move away from the truth when one IS the truth?
What the Guru is actually doing in an occasion of transmission which is called Darshan is Transmitting his Enlightened State to the student, A True Guru is constantly doing this, after all it is all that he now IS. A true Guru is UTTERLY egoless, and until you have been in the presence of such a one it is hard to describe what it is like, every cell in your body "knows" you are in the Presence of the Divine, and it is a very familiar feeling. It is not imagination, it is tangible, like a drug.
The way to discriminate a false guru from an Enlightened one is down to the artful discernment of the would-be student, you will gravitate to the teacher you are ready for. There is an ancient saying "When the student is ready the teacher will appear" This literally happened in my case. It may be too much for some who read this to comprehend that a Guru can actually gift you revelations through the transmission of Divine energy.
There are many people who are posing as gurus, who I think are genuinely self-deluded regarding their own idea of their spiritual stature, rather than scam-artists, although in saying that, I know some are purely scam-artists. But luckily for us all (understatement) their are also Genuine Spiritual Gurus/Masters who can actually radiate/transmit the Divine Shakti Energy which when fully received by a prepared and open recipient, has a purifying and radically transformational effect.
somehow it still feels conceptual, (and cute at times) like it might be in the end congratulating the audience for their awareness. I don't hear realization so much as ideas. "I don't mean to insult your intelligence" is speaking to egos still.
us inside must change, no doubt about it. the only time ANYTHING changes is when ONE person has ONE idea and then becomes the living word.. Every change begins from One lonely thought.
My only criticism is this mans blatant plagiarism of this spiritual wisdom. The originators of such advanced wisdom are living examples of there revelations, they ARE the embodiment of the spiritual Truth of which they speak, they are not merely a "talking head" it is obvious to me that this is all this man is. Find the True Masters (dead and alive) who this guy got his information from, this guy is just playing the guru game.
However it must be said that, this man with the spiritual sounding name is merely talking about a borrowed wisdom, by this I mean only Truly Enlightened Gurus of the highest degree have discovered the paradox of the pathless path as an Enlightened revelation not merely a conceptual idea. He is claiming this revelation as his own when I know for a fact it is not. For a lot of people this will be the first time they will have heard this concept which is fine, it is great to spread this wisdom...
The concept of what he is talking about is true, God, Truth, Reality are all present now, God, Truth and Reality are Acausal, they are not the result of anything. God is Self-Existing, so there is no "thing" thats needs to be done to make this the case. As a result of this absolute Truth, any action performed by the presumed-to-be-separate individual ego"I" TOWARDS God is like chasing a rainbow, you can not become what you already ARE.
@lessdone - Im glad you liked what I said and got so much from it.
To answer your question, my Guru would not make 6 postings on youtube to criticize this kind of teaching, He would instead write around 50 books on the subject and spend every moment of His life dedicated to clarifying and expanding all the partial revelations of Reality, God, Truth that have until now remained obscured.
@lessdone - To enquire whether wisdom needs a copyright is to miss the point and the relevance of what I said in my earlier comments. If you dont yet understand the important distinction of finding a teacher who doesnt merely talk about wisdom and someone who is the embodiment of wisdom Itself, then its understandable why you may be confused by my comments.
@lessdone - Look! Im replying again! This must blow your mind! Happy to have revealed my small "self" to you. I also reveal myself inappropriately in public from time to time : )
Aceptance of one self completely, and slow but surely self realisation, the mist (smoke, distraction etc) which creates confusion fades and only you remain. there your enlighten
It's not the enlightened shoe, nor is it the shoes on the same path... it is the lone shoe that thinks 'that path is too crowded I will find my own way' that is the one with the answer. For that is the shoe that will spend enough time walking alone, not listening to outside influence and not going along with 'the norm' to actually realize who and what he really is and can therefore harness his own true power and be the greatest damn shoe he can be unrestricted by anything other than himself.
It's good if a teacher tells a student to have no expectations because.... of course truth can't be what you expect. If it was what you expected, you would have realized it already, lol.
I love this guy :D
Truthwillsetyoufree4 1 month ago
beautifully put, wonderful metaphor. I love this man & the flowering of consciousness.
dingleberrys09 2 months ago
...to accept its own form, as dancingshoe, walking shoe, sandal or boot...it has to know in reality it is the total universe...expressing as this particular shoe, expressed by nature to fulfill being itself in this form...then, when it starts walking, it is functioning, not searching, and it finally feels ok, serving its purpose in context of the whole.
trueqestion 3 months ago
the shoe knows it is a shoe, but it imagines to be meant as "Supershoe" that will 1) will save him from the sharp pebbles ( would a REAL shoe feel difficulties???) 2) and will be appropriate in all circumstances ( you can't dance elegantly on walking boots...) this way it does not appreciate its shoe-ness...it stops functioning as shoe, it becomes "walking, searching" as the movement of ego looking for a bigger identity...and the loss of self-esteem coming from that reinforces its believes...
trueqestion 3 months ago
This is one of the simplest ways you can put it :) a gem video
NondualAwareness 5 months ago
Er....shoes are an inanimate object ......they can't Talk
Fishpigg 5 months ago
@Fishpigg that's some deep shit genius...but you see, you're wrong - shoes(take notice of the "S" in the end of the word) are at least TWO inanimate objects, possibly more... so, your comment = FAIL
About the "talking" part though - if you eat the wrong type of mushrooms...you never know...
TukenNuken 4 months ago
@TukenNuken YES shoes -plural -they usually come in pairs -"hey do ya like my new shoe ?" are at least 2 inanimate objects ,they still cant talk ...........thats not really the point ...and look up Pedantic ,keep taking the shrooms ,and remember to rest as awareness
Fishpigg 4 months ago
@Fishpigg Oh dear...I can't believe you made the same mistake twice. Oh, where have all the bright people gone? But if that wasn't the point, then what was? I'm sorry, my simple mind just doesn't understand the deep wisdom of your comment. And why should I look up pedantic for you? If someone called you pedantic and you don't know what it means then you should look it up yourself, not tell some total stranger to do it for you. Not to mention the fact that you told me to take shrooms! Scandalous!
TukenNuken 4 months ago
Nice one Steve
kareemdemon 5 months ago
...the journey is the destination...wopg.org
FeeelingAlive 6 months ago
Like Popeye the sailor man says, 'I am that I am and that's ALL that I am.' There's nothing to add or take away from a person's life to make her or him anything other than what she or he already is which is a complete being void of nothing just like any other human being--at the core perfectly created, again void of nothing, lacking nothing, there is nothing to want for only to understand we are all at our core perfect (our invisible self/ the ghost in the machine)..just be in awe and adoration
Vvrroommm 6 months ago
@timeshhift No I don't think that was his point either, I was just being childish.
hopaloop 7 months ago
if you find yourself in conversation with your shoe, your not enlightened...your mad.
hopaloop 7 months ago
Ich hab vor kurzem in meinem Joggingschuh einen Riss gefunden, aber Gott bin ich froh - weil dieses Video hat mir nun alle meine Fragen beantwortet - ich meine, es ist ja offensichtlich - der Schuh ist nun innerlich erleuchtet !!!
spirituelleOOinfo 8 months ago
why is it that when one reaches this oneness, one only perceives the physical, and forget all the beings in other realms who also need the contact of an enlightened being?
mrcuteblackie 9 months ago
go google living waters and take the good test!
marykh59 1 year ago
Ya but, just stoping and doing nothing isn't gonna do anything. I think when they talk about 'paths' they talk about the method you use to get rid of things blocking you from just realizing who you are. I guess that could be mediation, or therapy, or or kind deeds, ect. i don't know.
jmeff25 1 year ago
His teaching is reinforcing the dream state...
Oh *wise* shoe guru... I would say, "enlightenment for a shoe is the realization that it *is* the path."
glovertv 1 year ago
all I can say is wtf
ghostspider01 1 year ago
the shoes may need "sole work"...ha ha get it? sole work, not soul work
vajraloka1 1 year ago 2
Osho was saying the same - that there is no path and no way.
GeorgeGogle 1 year ago
@GeorgeGogle OSHO did not teach transcendantal realisation, even though he may have "talked" about it, he taught therapy therapy catharsis,dynamic meditation, so that "one day" you can be "empty enough" to transcend and wake up. IT DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY, i was there i know,...the "ma's " turned into sluts in th name of "sanyass" and OSHO KILLED HIMSELF IN greece, they were carrying guns on the ranch in oregon.enjoy him if you like him but he was asleep and did trmendous damage to thousands !!
vajraloka1 1 year ago
@vajraloka1 Hi, thanks for comment. I am not personally a follower or admirer of Osho, just came to mind what he was talking about and it seemed to me there where some parallels. As for Osho killing himself, not sure, as I read reports about how he was set up by state forces and poisoned in jail with some radiology element in his coffee so it did its slow work during following months after he was back in his community and that eventually killed him. But os course this is no the point here.
GeorgeGogle 1 year ago
you can't step forward, you can't stay where you are! - what do you do??!!!.....
GeorgeGogle 1 year ago
this is a great one. so the next step is ''No step''.
genroku7 1 year ago
He's so funny!!! so great!!!
VenusAsABoyFilms 1 year ago
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007ekant 1 year ago
they should get over it and work hard and do physical jobs and realise its all a loads of bollocks in your head and if you ignore it goes away
goldenfilly 1 year ago
This argument doesnt work. People are asking the way to the true God, not the true people. Would make more sense to analogy say perhaps a shoe saw people as Gods. And asked the path to the person who was that true God, just as humanity asks the path to the true God when there are many religions to chose from, they are asking which is the right path. Then there is a path. They are not asking the way to themselves the way this video implies.
Emil89IE 1 year ago
@Emil89IE You're right in that they are not asking the way to themselves. But that is just because they haven't yet realise that they are the truth. They are the God they are looking for.
jmalmari 1 year ago
The fortunate side of this, it seems to me, is that regardless of whether the "shoe" is attempting to realize itself through following some "path," or whether it is simply sitting where it is, it is still a "shoe."
It seems to me that all paths can't "lead away from the truth;" how can one move away from the truth when one IS the truth?
That said. I love this video--
keepin' the paradox alive. :-)
Mjgosvig 1 year ago
@Mjgosvig I guess one can move away from the truth by following a path and thinking the path leads to the truth. :) Not realizing one is the truth.
Nacluw 1 year ago
cool
sandwich451 1 year ago
a shoe can't be a shoe because it is already a shoe.
blueghost03 2 years ago
What the Guru is actually doing in an occasion of transmission which is called Darshan is Transmitting his Enlightened State to the student, A True Guru is constantly doing this, after all it is all that he now IS. A true Guru is UTTERLY egoless, and until you have been in the presence of such a one it is hard to describe what it is like, every cell in your body "knows" you are in the Presence of the Divine, and it is a very familiar feeling. It is not imagination, it is tangible, like a drug.
AvionDream 2 years ago
The way to discriminate a false guru from an Enlightened one is down to the artful discernment of the would-be student, you will gravitate to the teacher you are ready for. There is an ancient saying "When the student is ready the teacher will appear" This literally happened in my case. It may be too much for some who read this to comprehend that a Guru can actually gift you revelations through the transmission of Divine energy.
AvionDream 2 years ago
There are many people who are posing as gurus, who I think are genuinely self-deluded regarding their own idea of their spiritual stature, rather than scam-artists, although in saying that, I know some are purely scam-artists. But luckily for us all (understatement) their are also Genuine Spiritual Gurus/Masters who can actually radiate/transmit the Divine Shakti Energy which when fully received by a prepared and open recipient, has a purifying and radically transformational effect.
AvionDream 2 years ago
fairly common 'spiritual friend' stuff...
somehow it still feels conceptual, (and cute at times) like it might be in the end congratulating the audience for their awareness. I don't hear realization so much as ideas. "I don't mean to insult your intelligence" is speaking to egos still.
Olhamo 2 years ago
us inside must change, no doubt about it. the only time ANYTHING changes is when ONE person has ONE idea and then becomes the living word.. Every change begins from One lonely thought.
cojobo34 2 years ago
My only criticism is this mans blatant plagiarism of this spiritual wisdom. The originators of such advanced wisdom are living examples of there revelations, they ARE the embodiment of the spiritual Truth of which they speak, they are not merely a "talking head" it is obvious to me that this is all this man is. Find the True Masters (dead and alive) who this guy got his information from, this guy is just playing the guru game.
AvionDream 2 years ago
However it must be said that, this man with the spiritual sounding name is merely talking about a borrowed wisdom, by this I mean only Truly Enlightened Gurus of the highest degree have discovered the paradox of the pathless path as an Enlightened revelation not merely a conceptual idea. He is claiming this revelation as his own when I know for a fact it is not. For a lot of people this will be the first time they will have heard this concept which is fine, it is great to spread this wisdom...
AvionDream 2 years ago
The concept of what he is talking about is true, God, Truth, Reality are all present now, God, Truth and Reality are Acausal, they are not the result of anything. God is Self-Existing, so there is no "thing" thats needs to be done to make this the case. As a result of this absolute Truth, any action performed by the presumed-to-be-separate individual ego"I" TOWARDS God is like chasing a rainbow, you can not become what you already ARE.
AvionDream 2 years ago
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lessdone 1 year ago
@lessdone - Im glad you liked what I said and got so much from it.
To answer your question, my Guru would not make 6 postings on youtube to criticize this kind of teaching, He would instead write around 50 books on the subject and spend every moment of His life dedicated to clarifying and expanding all the partial revelations of Reality, God, Truth that have until now remained obscured.
AvionDream 1 year ago
@lessdone - To enquire whether wisdom needs a copyright is to miss the point and the relevance of what I said in my earlier comments. If you dont yet understand the important distinction of finding a teacher who doesnt merely talk about wisdom and someone who is the embodiment of wisdom Itself, then its understandable why you may be confused by my comments.
AvionDream 1 year ago
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lessdone 1 year ago
@lessdone - Look! Im replying again! This must blow your mind! Happy to have revealed my small "self" to you. I also reveal myself inappropriately in public from time to time : )
AvionDream 1 year ago
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lessdone 1 year ago
everyone is moving from lower truth to higher truth. All Paths lead to the Truth. Vedanta says that.
anroyus 2 years ago
"check out a course in miracles. it'll take you where you need to go. ('=')-@ "
That's just another way of telling the shoe which path to take.
19justme51 2 years ago
^that too is just another way of of telling the shoe which path to take. wait, what?
vibrohm 2 years ago
BOSS!!
princessskb 2 years ago
One of the best clips I´ve found on YouTube so far. My absolute favorite! :-)
Hupellan 2 years ago 2
This guy is GOOD!
kdimm 2 years ago 2
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Hupellan 2 years ago
Aceptance of one self completely, and slow but surely self realisation, the mist (smoke, distraction etc) which creates confusion fades and only you remain. there your enlighten
paulcjj 3 years ago
cool this gets really powerful in the last 3 minutes.
Simon0 3 years ago
check out a course in miracles. it'll take you where you need to go. ('=')-@
nezhanaohai 3 years ago
Wow. Very good talk!
j67123 3 years ago
I think the Eight Fold Path Does lead to the truth.
kirk7524875248 3 years ago
It's not the enlightened shoe, nor is it the shoes on the same path... it is the lone shoe that thinks 'that path is too crowded I will find my own way' that is the one with the answer. For that is the shoe that will spend enough time walking alone, not listening to outside influence and not going along with 'the norm' to actually realize who and what he really is and can therefore harness his own true power and be the greatest damn shoe he can be unrestricted by anything other than himself.
1loydster 3 years ago
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the best teaching ever!! if you really think about it, it will blow your mind off! thanks Aday
jinji15 3 years ago
y do ppl at advaita events laugh like they r stupid? its weird. good message though.
oldnewbieraver 3 years ago
well i guess thats why its called awakening..
kikikilly 3 years ago
I sometimes struggle, and then stop and realize there is nothing to struggle over.
I allow myself to be impatient, because I know I'm not the false self, but also know I'm still dreaming. Aware that I'm not yet consciously aware.
dpmduran 3 years ago
Can't disagree with that, as I've learned! The Truth is the unknown!
dpmduran 3 years ago
yep its intuition..how can you know?..in that sense you really cant know that your enlightened you just are. you cannot be something you already are
kikikilly 3 years ago
Truth never seems to be what I've expected! It makes sense once you hear it, since it triggers what I seem to know already!
dpmduran 3 years ago
It's good if a teacher tells a student to have no expectations because.... of course truth can't be what you expect. If it was what you expected, you would have realized it already, lol.
fnog9 3 years ago