Continued from 8 July I've just been listening to your podcast which was responding to a listener's question about the above. If I've got it right, I think your response was along the lines of our actions being beyond conscious control, with our perception of free will etc being an illusion. So how do we avoid slipping into determinism with this outlook? It's an old conundrum I know, but why have a penal system which punishes people for actions over which they had no conscious control? If nobody...
Jul 11, 2022•13 min
Do you see any value in things like somatic exercises that calm the nervous system or is that just nother way of avoiding and not feeling ?
Jul 10, 2022•11 min
The body-mind, the system, the robot, the unit... Wonderful Words
Jul 09, 2022•9 min
I've just been listening to your podcast which was responding to a listener's question about the above. If I've got it right, I think your response was along the lines of our actions being beyond conscious control, with our perception of free will etc being an illusion. So how do we avoid slipping into determinism with this outlook? It's an old conundrum I know, but why have a penal system which punishes people for actions over which they had no conscious control? If nobody's responsible for any...
Jul 08, 2022•9 min
I’ve been pondering the experience you often described of sitting with a feeling and inquiring into what arises as a healing space of awareness, where a shift happens. And while I’m sometimes aware that there is no me to do it or anything, I wonder what actually happens when a shift occurs and how whatever happens takes place? When I think there is a me doer, I wonder how best to inquire into it, to see through it, make it transparent? This may be the result of way overthinking it, and if so it ...
Jul 07, 2022•13 min
I’d love to hear your reflection on these teachings. They assume free will, duality, and mastery are our best intentions. When Seneca was an advisor to Nero, he served alongside an aide named Epaphroditus, the owner of a slave named… Epictetus .Yet between Seneca, who was the richest man in Rome, Epaphroditus, who was one of the most powerful men in Rome, and Epictetus, who as a slave had no power at allit would be the slave who was the most free.How could that possibly be?Seneca himself would s...
Jul 06, 2022•11 min
'If there is no doer does that mean there is no doing?' Listener question
Jul 05, 2022•7 min
If thoughts create our reality what do we do because we do not choose our thoughts and we cannot change our thinking. What do we do to have a better experience. When we are in depression our thoughts are constantly awful negative and dark. They are on a loop and you don’t get a break from them. How do we change them.
Jul 04, 2022•10 min
I have a lot of respect for you, have read all your books, and resonate with how you "teach" about life and how you help people. Honestly, I am at a point where I don't know whether to reach out to someone who I respect, or just try to stop saying and feeling the same things over and over. It has taken me several months feeling this way to decide to finally write to you. As you have said many times, we can't stop the thoughts that go on repeat in our brains/computers. This is a difficult email t...
Jul 03, 2022•15 min
'No-brainer'. Wonderful words of the week
Jul 02, 2022•12 min
I think ever since I discovered your teaching I discovered this knowing that everything is ok, even or especially when I was experiencing very difficult situations and feelings. Even in the middle of a breakdown or panicattack something inside of me remained calm and knew that I was ok. (this might sound like spiritual bypassing but it really didn't feel that way at all). Last week I discovered a whole new level of panic attacks. I felt like I was going to choke (I'm not sure if that's the corre...
Jul 01, 2022•11 min
Thank you for replying to my question about ADHD a while back. I have a few follow up questions. Maybe a bit too many questions for a podcast question but I have finally structured this so am sending. Do you feel that all relative distortion on a mental level is rooted in trauma and that it is important to understand what that that relative tauma was? If we take Gabor Mate understanding of environmental circumstances as the source of the condition do we need to know the seed of the original trau...
Jun 30, 2022•11 min
Hi Clare, This is a follow up to the podcast where a listener asked you to speak about what it's like for you. Can you share more about when this exploration becomes fun and light? thank you,
Jun 29, 2022•10 min
Is there free will? Listener question
Jun 28, 2022•12 min
Please could you talk about a subject that you have probably addressed, directly or indirectly, a thousand times already – control! I am tying myself in knots trying to formulate the question… I get that trying to be in control IS the problem and keeps the illusion alive that we can be safe. Because of this understanding I seem to have dropped the trying to be in control. This appears in many areas of my life, but one in particular is my behaviour around overeating/comforting, where I now feel t...
Jun 27, 2022•13 min
That was a fantastic webinar just now. It's one of those concepts that I feel I really understand as a whole and I think I followed along with you pretty well but now that I've had time to ruminate on it all I have so many questions!!! The main bit that is sticking with me and making me feel confused is around strong emotions and feelings. I understand how this concept could seriously help people suffering from depression, anxiety etc but what about the good stuff!? What about the amazing love I...
Jun 26, 2022•10 min
Our greatest contribution to humanity is our awakening. It is to literally leave the state of consciousness that the mass of humanity is in and discover the truth of our being, which is the truth of all beings. Adyashanti
Jun 25, 2022•6 min
If thoughts create our reality what do we do because we do not choose our thoughts and we cannot change our thinking. What do we do to have a better experience. When in depression our thoughts are constantly awful, negative and dark.
Jun 24, 2022•9 min
When I was growing up my father was absent and my mother had mental health issues and problems with alcohol. We never had anyone over to the house and at school I was bullied and found it very hard to even talk to others let alone make friends. Now that I am an adult I am on good terms with people I work with but I don’t have a partner or any friends. I am lonely but I don’t know how to go about creating good relationships.
Jun 23, 2022•10 min
Thank you so much for all your wonderful courses. I know I'm not active in your groups but I listen to you every day and I'm loving the content. Life is better but without really being able to pinpoint why or what's changed. I feel lighter, relationships are more content, and generally life seems to flow better. So thank you. I'm wondering if you can speak more about 'no separation'. At first I totally didn't get this concept because to the eye everything looks separate- and I assume we can all ...
Jun 22, 2022•10 min
If you can speak to why experience shifts so radically from day to day in this exploration as ....it's perplexing. Yesterday was nearly a full day of in and out of suicide ideation, intense heat/pain/anguish and a deep desire to die. Then today somehow all of that was gone. I read an email a student sent that yesterday felt super attacking and led to a spiral of shame... to today it seeming more like information about what I could have done differently as an instructor to provide clarity. What's...
Jun 21, 2022•9 min
Can you talk about how when it is reputation that is at stake this isn't physical harm? For example if someone posts complaints about you on multiple sites in an attempt to attack your character, is this only identity when it is also has effects in the apparent form?
Jun 20, 2022•21 min
The Power of Us by Jay Van Bavel and Dominic J Packer
Jun 19, 2022•8 min
Being is totally whole just being. And it is alive and fleshy and sexy and juicy and immediately this; it’s not some concept about ‘there’s no-one here’. It’s not some concept about ‘there’s nowhere to go’. It’s the Aliveness that’s in that body right now. There is pure beingness, pure aliveness. Tony Parsons
Jun 18, 2022•6 min
You say all words, actions and perceptions are results of the programme. Then you speak about intelligence meeting everything that arises. Is the programme playing when we only see the separate self and the intelligence when that dissolves or is it the same thing. Is the intelligence always meeting what arises but is veiled/limited by the program running? I would love to hear your thoughts on this.
Jun 17, 2022•8 min
I'm rewatching another video of the two of us speaking and my 'mind body system' is just talking and talking and talking how do you listen so intently, is that you're focusing on the aliveness expressing and not the content?
Jun 16, 2022•9 min
I notice that much thoughts have some layers. The first layer is a negative self image. On top of that are thoughts that want to do something about this. To top it of there are thoughts like “I’ll never get over this etc”. This morning I just sat with it. The first two layers dissolved until the negatieve self image. I continued to sit with it. Listened to it. There came thoughts like “I just feel so sad”. And then I felt all the sensations in the body (and cried). There was no urge to manage so...
Jun 15, 2022•12 min
I have been listening to your podcast lately. I worked with a coach hoping for change around habits of overeating. And I have seen so many changes in many areas of my life but not in the area I was hoping for. I read on your website that you make subliminal recordings. It sounds so interesting. Is this something that could help me with this habit? I can see that there are so many layers to this habit. Using food to numb feelings I do not like, and the vicious circle of thought that repeats day a...
Jun 14, 2022•13 min
Hi Clare.I would really like to talk about meaning and why this planet exists at all. We come with nothing and we leave with nothing and in between it is our “purpose” to know who/what we are and then what? Madeleine Albright (just an example) died not long ago - what was her purpose? Did anything she accomplished matter at all? Creating a new world, but what should that look like then and does it even matter? Is this world simply to unveil us?
Jun 13, 2022•13 min
Act like a leader, think like a leader by Herminia Ibarra. Sunday Book
Jun 12, 2022•7 min
