Awareness and Discrimination

[greedyhips22]

You kind of remind me of steve-o but with a beard

[massage33316]

Lovely presentation, Gerald! Nothing compares to the inner knowing. Well said.

[acuaman42]

GeraldP, when you say that you experience without identification the question is, WHO IS EXPERIENCING. The answer is of course your EGO.

Also when you say that you are traying to experience all these things, again the question is, WHO IS TRAYING? The answer is the EGO.

If some day is awakening in your apparent life, that will not be AN EXPERIENCE because there will not be an experiencer, there will be just ONENESS, which is what is all the time anyway, like when you had one year or less.

[Being48]

Beautifully said....in my judgment. Thanks for sharing. :-)

[bhaktiheart]

:) thank you

[bhaktiheart]

nice

[GeraldP1983]

Thanks! :)

[TheKabbalah]

Interesting view of the super market.

I feel your frustration.This is keeping you at a level of knowing and teaching But not being.

you are trying is my point. That is the best part and that you are yelling through a think storm.

Look into your self share what you know but do not let others needing to know keep you from getting there.

You can always be more.

keep well (being) and long life.

[zilph82]

Thanks for sharing your experience.. Good messages in many of your videos.. We appreciate your effort, continue sharing the Dharma.

[Happyanand69]

Are there any exercises that help improve this non-dualism? Any special meditation?

[GeraldP1983]

Hi! Sorry for the late response. Yes actually just doing a simple breathing exercise combined with meditation would be perfect, when your mind is completely clear of thoughts you can begin to enter consciousness without any context, which is moving towards non-duality! Hope this helps , please message me if you have any more questions! :)

[Happyanand69]

Thank you!

This is actually what I was already doing ;-) It's still hard for me to clear my mind and concentrating on the breathing is the only thing that I can do to stop the thoughts. It will surely get better in time.

[gothykitten]

Children are naturally selfish. I suppose they accumulate things thinking it gives them some sort of stability. Do we ever really grow out of that? Perhaps the first step is to question why we judge things? Is there a difference between questioning something and judging something ? Where is the line drawn? Discrimination, emotion or intent?

[GeraldP1983]

Yes all very good questions! :) A lot of us don't! Something to think about!

[profoundse]

About the opinion that children are naturally selfish- past week I saw a documentary in which showed how children are very pleased too share things between others, just for make happy someone else...

[gothykitten]

cont... It is helping me to live a more joyful life as I am looking for the positives in a situation. Interesting psychology.

[gothykitten]

Hi Gerald, thank you for sharing your experiences with us all. I find all of your videos very interesting , helpful and peaceful. I origanally came accross your videos when researching more on Buddhism and Physics.

My experience of what you talk about in this video is an ongoing one at the moment. I feel in practising this sort of neutral observation I experience things in a way I might have done as a child. Sort of a return to innocence.

[GeraldP1983]

Hi! Yeah that's a great way of looking at it, as children we seem to judge so much less, although we seem focus a lot of what we do and do like or want a lot also!

[racoonzdinner]

is it ironic that you seem to exhibit a huge ego? a certain smugness exudes all throughout in this video. am i wrong ??

[GeraldP1983]

I certainly hope not! If this is how it appears, know that this is not in my heart!

[racoonzdinner]

word.

[racoonzdinner]

are you partially hispanic? i know someone who looks kind of like you and this person claims to have hispanic ancestry.

[GeraldP1983]

Yes Chilean/Mexican mix! :D

[racoonzdinner]

hmm, i wonder if you two are related. i will ask this person if she is mexican/chilean mix.

[xyzeezy]

did you feel aversion towards my last message?

here is my attempt to satisfy my curiosity

[GeraldP1983]

Ahhhh please forgive me! I forget to get back to people sometimes! I'll get back to you on your last message soon! :)

Thank you for your patience and reminding me!!

[amthekim]

I really enjoy your videos and am glad I found your channel. I'm just beginning the process of expressing openly, myself, all that you share. I'll will be posting videos, several oral journals, and whatever and wherever my creativity directs me. I'm a born Buddhist although I was never exposed to it. The more I learn of Buddhism, the more I see myself and the more complete I feel. I'm blossoming now (I'm a late bloomer -LOL) and want to share it with the world. Blessings and love. Kim

[MaBu888]

Youtube is imperfect for posting comments. I tried twice, no luck.

[MaBu888]

I agree with this video. I experience this. Physically oriented mind takes linear perspectives. Subtley oriented mind takes circular perspectives and therefore consolidates interior and exterior perspectives as the 10,000 handed buddha or something. Causally or emptiness orented mind takes perspectives one-pointedly. The nature of both the circle and the line is the point. Nondually oriented mind takes all perspectives that work, because of will, but even freer. Nondual is point become radial.

[GeraldP1983]

Ahh yes well put!!

[aproditeinatree]

Thank you Gerald. This is a great video. It's good to see you, I agree with 2bsirius.

Be well, Love You Emma

[2bsirius]

Your videos are rare and definitely worth waiting for...

[Renitamac]

Just in time. I've been working on interpreting without judgment for the past few weeks.

[Being48]

Thank You : -)

[madeofflesh]

Great video thanks so much! you're really on point, and completely right about all the religious and mystic parallels.

I really like how the holy trinity is related to the concepts of creator/light, body, and soul/spirit. Yet more parallels related to different aspects of human consciousness.

[observationmode]

its just life - the comedy drama mystery we all get to experience - good video - a timeless message

[mellicho]

such a great video again.love.xx

[patternsinchaos]

I'll add:

Making judgments is important, good judgments, doubly so, therefore the importance of practice.

It's definitely possible to judge in a detached manner and to act and react to impersonal things without personal bias.

Especially when success towards a particular end is the goal, there is an importance to making judgments in stride.

Good to see you again, Gerald.

[yogi21thebear]

So should we have less passion toward the outside world, kind of like stoicism?

[GeraldP1983]

Well its our choice! We increase the chance of suffering if we allow our selfs to become attached and sway towards one side of dualism. Its an aspect of our lives, our experience, which maybe we shouldn't completely deny, but rather learn how to be more in control of our approach and experience of it! :D It all depends what your aim in life is!

[HaleyMary]

interesting. The aversion makes sense. Sometimes I find that if I have a bad experience with food, where you eat something while ill and feel more ill afterwards after eating a particular food, even if the food didn't necessarily cause the illness, we may develop an aversion to what we ate in the past at a certain time. Thanks for sharing. :)