Byron Katie

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[phwins]

All so-called methodologies, practices, programs, -isms, etc, are spurious at best. The only real help is the kind that eliminates the need for help by precluding there being anyone, anything, anywhere, in need of help. There is no "getting free" starting under the assumption that "you" are not free NOW.

[Nquietness]

I hear ya on that one. Luckily you can always knock on your own door. True paradox.

[yvonko]

What an amazing woman doing an amazing work. I thank you from the heart.

[zazezalo]

it gets us back to who we are. Thoughts arent who we are. You wanna test it out? Whos the one thinking them? We question the thoughts because thoughts are imagination--purely illuisonary. The entire human world is constructed upon thoughts. Not a bad thing? Look at the world as it is today, do you like what you see? Yes, it could be much worse, but the fact is...someone will point blank KILL you because they believe a thought in their head ("you wronged me. its time for payback"). Is that sane?

[ashtavakra51]

I once read a dialogue by Katie with a woman suffering from C.F.I.D.S.who ,due to her insomnia,had become dependent on sleeping pills.Katie said:"No one gets less sleep than they need".I recommend that Katie goes into solitary retreat to investigate her own numerous assumptions ( she should know the method by now).To me,she's just an example of the epidemic of petty teachers.

[Doriesep6622]

Well, I certainly don't feel free. Try being the mom of a drug addict.

[anatureperson]

@phwins I would say that using language precludes all from freedom. Language is bondage because it is duality. Open your mouth and you're in the world of two. Keep it closed and the world is disappears.

[derekgornall]

IM DEREK GORNALL AND IM GETTING EXTRA CREDIT POINTS!

[TheMagicEast]

@presentlightoftruth ur a complete idiot, not even your own supposed god can save you, wow

[TheMagicEast]

just turn it around

[exwaan]

Please you all run away from this woman as hard as you can.

[miloserdie100]

@phwins Really. There is one clip where the poor woman cries, opening her heart. I was once on her place. It is disgusting, other person feeds on your weakness and pain (as all doctors), but it is false authority (medicine). The place of priests was borrowed by psychologists who superficially understand a problem. Thanks, that psychologists dig these depths. But.... freedom - in other direction.

[30millionwinner]

sooooo Happy this is easy to remember.

[alltherereallyis]

If I can't be sure a certain thought about reality is true, then by definition I can't be sure the converse of that thought is true, which means the only thing I can be sure of is that I have a thought. But for Katie, the thought itself IS reality - the external world does not exist independent of thought which means that she may only be a projection of your mind and she doesn't really exist.  If by her own philosophy we can't be sure she exists, why should we take what she says seriously?