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Send us Fan Mail Can a concept have experiences? Can a concept become enlightened? If we examine what "me" is we see it is a word, a symbol that represents an idea. In this podcast, we present excerpts from a discussion where Terry encourages us to consider the implications of "me" being a concept.   Support the show

Send us Fan Mail This episode presents extracts from Terry's conversations where he discusses how the true self is obscured by our false beliefs and assumptions. Please visit Terry's website at https://www.terrencestephens.com to book a meeting with him, read his blog, and find out more about non-duality. Support the show

Send us Fan Mail There are an awful lot of assumptions and beliefs and concepts that we live with and by that seemingly creates this idea of a personal self, a personal me.  Prior to word, what am I?   Does the personal self remain without word?  What remains?  There is still being, life, experience.  A word is a symbol and innately we know that we are not a word. The mind takes the label to be th...

Send us Fan Mail Most of us would say we are lost. But that, that we are looking for, we do already know. It’s akin to waking from a nightmare, when we awake, we know it wasnt true.  We recover from nightmares very quickly, because we know it wasnt true.  All that is happening, is some dreaming is still happening but you are awakening to the fact that it is a dream. Come to understand the mechanic...

Send us Fan Mail  Notice How the Me is Perpetuated.  When something happens, presently, then immediately afterwards in thought there is a rerun of what happened with a confirmation of a me in the scenario.  See the mechanics of the mind at work.  Whatever this is, is what it is, without thoughts, without the need for a label. Excerpt from Virtual Event with Terrence Stephens. For more information...

Send us Fan Mail  Is There Free Will?  If you look long enough and hard enough at free will, where you eventually land is, everything is just happening.  When the sense of do-ership finally drops, what is experienced is relaxation and witnessing everything as just happening.  What comes with that is this beautiful sense of loving to be.  There is a sense of traveling lighter.   Excerpt from Virtua...

Send us Fan Mail  Once you realise that that you actually are, is whole, lacks nothing, is completely whole, now you are in love with being in love.  Now you are in love, in it.   Thoughts that say we lack, we are not whole, we are separated, there is something wrong with me, I feel alone, isolated, not good enough.  All absolute lies, all absolutely not true, but we listen to it.  There is nothin...

Send us Fan Mail  Everything is just bursting Into existence right here, right now, constantly.  That is what is happening, and there is no past and there is no future.  As a seeming person, we take life to be on a horizontal plane where the past is to the left and the future is to the right and the present is here and I am sitting here somewhere in an apparent now.  These nows are in increments,...

Send us Fan Mail If the me is known as a description, is the description the described?  Is the description the actual?  Without the description, what happens to the me?  Excerpt from interview with Leonard from Nothing Conversations. For more information www.terrencestephens.com or to join Terrence for two weekly Virtual Events, book at: https://www.terrencestephens.com/group-events Facebook: htt...

Send us Fan Mail You need to explore right here, what is going on right here?    Dont think about it, come to the source of being, where it feels like the me is present.  It feels like the me is experiencing, where is that, go there.   As soon as you go there, the mind goes quiet.  This is the point of consciousness.  That is where the aliveness is, the consciousness, the beingness, the awareness....

Send us Fan Mail Are you aware of the subtle sense of me?  Go to the feeling of the subtle me. There is experiencing of the feeling but is there awareness of that feeling?  Dont get the awareness mixed up with the experiencing.  The difference is the experiencing is direct, being aware of creates two. There is no language there, it doesnt speak.  Why?  Because direct experiencing is outside of min...

Send us Fan Mail The mind splits reality up and creates me scenarios.  Can you see that you are aware of this?  The mind quickly claims that it is me that is here and aware.  What is here is not a mental construct, it does not have an image that can capture it.  It is only this that sees the truth, it's  only this that sees all the me’s going on in the mind.  Its just a belief that there is a...

Send us Fan Mail Are the two me’s that are arguing, are they conscious?  If the me’s seem to have power, who or what do they have power over?  They seem to have power over this conscious being trying to live this life.  Which one of the two is being identified as the me?  Are you aware of the two, one seeming to take the superior standing and the other ones seems to take the inferior standing.  Ar...

Send us Fan Mail The mind seems to speak to a seeming person that the mind has created and then the experience feels like there is two.  If there are two, which one are you?  Are you both?  Who is the speaker of the mind?  Does it make sense that there are two?  No. So what is going on there, what is happening?  Who is the mind talking to and who is listening?  Let's be really logical and pra...

Send us Fan Mail This is basic, so obvious, and yet it gets missed.  There is awareness of the game being played, not by the person, just by the absolute itself.  The person is not conscious, not aware, not being,  The person is purely conceptual.   This is all a dream, this is a seeming waking dream.  There is no where to go, there is nothing to get, you lack nothing, its just here, just this.  A...

Send us Fan Mail THERE IS NOTHING GOOD NOR BAD, BUT THINKING SEEMS TO MAKES IT SO which is the duality.  Outside of the seeming duality, there is a beautiful sense of ON.  Mind goes into complete obeyance, that is why this experience is called peace  because there is no mind creating duality.  This now, the whole universe is constantly bursting forth, no past, no future, everything is brand new ev...

Send us Fan Mail Every word is a concept, trying to describe something.  The word apple is not the apple, could it be the word me is not the me.  What I am pointing to is non conceptual awareness.  As soon as one thought arises, that is conceptual. So we live in a conceptual, dreamed seeming reality.  Excerpt from interview with David Richards. For more information www.terrencestephens.com or to j...

Send us Fan Mail There is seeing, hearing, tasting, touching, smelling, but there is just no see-er, hear-er, tast-er, smell-er, touch-er, that is all created by mind. If mind collapses, duality collapses and there is just this.  Then mind tries to get a hold of that.  Im trying to separate you out from the mind, to witness what the mind says about everything.  It's not you doing any of that....

Send us Fan Mail Everything we believe is happening, and is real, is just as much a dream as the sleeping dream.  What is the realisation when waking from a sleeping dream, we realise none of it was real.   It is only when we wake we realise that non of it was real.  Lets assume that this too is a dream, we are convinced its real.  We know the sleeping dream isn't real, but this is.  Excerpt...

Send us Fan Mail Is the beingness that you experienced as a 10 year old any different to the beingness that you experience now?  Notice that it has not changed one little bit.  It is the only constant.  Now lets look at the me from the age of 10 to now, has that changed.  It constantly changes.  The only thing that has shifted is the inner dialogue, the pattern of thoughts.  Is there awareness of...

Send us Fan Mail That thought just happens.  Its not only about becoming aware that thoughts just happen, that is the first thing in we watch in meditation, watch thoughts coming and going.  It never dawns on us to meditate on the meditator.  Lets also talk about your actual experience of time.  What can you compare now with, if its always now?  Anything you have to say about time, is going to be...