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The Unchallengeable Unbreakable That Is Your Self

by John Weddepohl

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Discover the unbreakable SELF in this insightful talk with John Weddepohl. Atma Vidya is the Yoga of Self. The traditional teaching from the Veda/Upanishad. Find your illimitable strength by contemplating these simple rhetorical questions.

SelfAtma VidyaYogaVedasStrengthNon DualityEgoConsciousnessSelf RealizationEgo DissolutionConsciousness ExplorationIllusion Of SeparationIllusionsUpanishads

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Is there anything you can break in creation?

Where?

Thinking you're breaking your body,

Are you breaking anything?

When the pot breaks,

The clay pot breaks,

The pot breaks,

But is the clay breaking?

What's breaking?

The wooden table,

Break the table,

Is the wood breaking?

Nothing breaks,

It's unbreakable,

You can't,

You can't break anything here.

You know,

You can't.

You think as an individual,

I think,

Oh,

I'm breaking my toe,

My body,

My.

.

.

It's nothing,

It's unbreakable.

Consciousness is unbreakable,

The body is just facilitating.

The body actually is not eating,

It facilitates eating.

The body is not speaking,

It facilitates the speaking.

Yeah?

It amplifies our thoughts,

That's what's going on.

The body is not moving,

It's facilitating movement.

Is creation moving anyway?

It's all relative to this I.

Thinking I am moving or I am,

Thinking I am this body,

Then alright,

I think I'm moving when the body is moving,

But is creation moving?

Where is it going?

Is there anywhere to go in creation?

Where?

As an individual,

You go from here to there,

But when you get there,

What?

There becomes here.

You keep going from now,

You're going to leave here now and get there then,

Then becomes where?

Everywhere is now,

Always fresh,

Ever fresh,

There's no such thing as then.

Or there,

In fact.

It's all one and the same.

So it's all just a dream-like kind of thing going on here.

And getting lost in the dream is one little thing I thought me,

And then I think then it comes along and you kind of wake up and think,

I'm awake.

Alright,

Who is this I thinking?

I am suddenly awake.

Were you never awake before?

You've been awake all the time.

You just didn't know that you were awake.

So now this I comes along and wants to take ownership of waking up as well.

Problem comes.

This ahamkara,

This I thought,

Brings nothing.

The I,

The ego,

Does it bring anything with it?

What does it bring to the party?

Zero.

It's rooted in consciousness,

But it brings,

It's based on emptiness.

It brings nothing other than the way of resolving this,

Well,

It helps resolve all our thoughts for us.

So the ahamkara,

The ego,

Doing its job of resolving our thoughts for us,

Eventually has to resolve the thought of itself.

And then,

Finding it can't do it by itself,

We eventually have to go to someone who knows the neighborhood,

Who's a local,

You know.

Meet your Teacher

John WeddepohlSydney NSW, Australia

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