Send us a text 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
Sep 04, 2022•15 min•Ep. 63
Send us a text 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 the thing. The arising of thoughts is purely happening all by itself with no you that is a thinker or a doer o...
Apr 07, 2022•12 min•Ep. 61
Send us a text 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 mechanics of the dream, and what does duality actually mean. Excerpt from Virtual Event with Terrence Stephens. ...
Mar 28, 2022•14 min•Ep. 60
Send us a text 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 www.terrencestephens.com or to join Terrence for two weekly Virtual Events, book at: https://www.terrences...
Mar 20, 2022•12 min•Ep. 59
Send us a text 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 Virtual Event with Terrence Stephens. For more information www.terrencestephens.com or to join Terrence for two wee...
Mar 13, 2022•13 min•Ep. 58
Send us a text 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 nothing wrong with us, not a single solitary thing is wrong. Zero. Excerpt from Virtual Event with Terrence Stephe...
Mar 07, 2022•2 min
Send us a text 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, and the nows appear to go into the past and get stored as memory. Somehow memory is associated with a conc...
Mar 07, 2022•11 min•Ep. 57
Send us a text 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: https://www.facebook.com/TerrenceStephensNonDuality . Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/terrencestephensn...
Feb 28, 2022•17 min•Ep. 56
Send us a text 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. If you can see the truth of that, the truth will set you free. Excerpt from Virtual Event with Terrence Steph...
Feb 23, 2022•10 min•Ep. 55
Send us a text 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 mind. Go to the direct experience of the subtle sense of me-ness that is here. Excerpt from Virtual Event with...
Feb 20, 2022•13 min•Ep. 54
Send us a text 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 me here and aware. Excerpt from Virtual Event with Terrence Stephens. For more information www.terrencestephens....
Feb 15, 2022•15 min•Ep. 53
Send us a text 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. Are you aware of that? We need to see the truth of what is happening here. Excerpt from Virtual Event with Te...
Feb 09, 2022•14 min•Ep. 52
Send us a text 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 practical when we look at this. Is there two of you? We need to spot what is going on. Excerpt from Virtual Event wit...
Feb 07, 2022•11 min•Ep. 51
Send us a text 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. All we need to do now is dismantle the dream. The more we shine the light of truth on that, it falls apart. Ex...
Feb 02, 2022•10 min•Ep. 50
Send us a text 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 everfresh, evernew. Excerpt from interview with David Richards. For more information www.terrencestephens.co...
Jan 31, 2022•9 min•Ep. 49
Send us a text 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 join Terrence for two weekly Virtual Events, book at: https://www.terrencestephens.com/group-events Faceboo...
Jan 23, 2022•14 min•Ep. 48
Send us a text 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. Excerpt from interview with David Richards. For more information www.terrencestephens.com or to join Terrence...
Jan 19, 2022•8 min•Ep. 47
Send us a text 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 from interview with David Richards. Excerpt from Virtual Event with Terrence Stephens. For more information www.t...
Jan 09, 2022•13 min•Ep. 46
Send us a text 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 thoughts, yes. Is there a me that is aware of thoughts, no. Excerpt from interview with David Richards. For ...
Dec 28, 2021•11 min•Ep. 45
Send us a text 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 conceptual. Excerpt from interview with David Richards. For more information www.terrencestephens.com or to...
Dec 21, 2021•16 min•Ep. 44
Send us a text When thought stops, there is no duality here, mind makes it all up. Why, because it works dualistically. The mind interprets the world dualistically. That is how it creates a me and a you. Thoughts are just happening, and they dictate who I am. Excerpt from interview with David Richards. For more information www.terrencestephens.com or to join Terrence for two weekly Virtual Events, book at: https://www.terrencestephens.com/group-events Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TerrenceS...
Dec 16, 2021•11 min•Ep. 43
Send us a text We go looking for our true nature, but what does that say about current nature? It doesn't dawn on us to think that if there is a true self to be had, current self cant be true. This work unravels the idea of a personal self and we come to see that the back story never actually happened. This is a radical fact finding mission. Excerpt from interview with David Richards. For more information www.terrencestephens.com or to join Terrence for three weekly Virtual Events, book at: http...
Dec 12, 2021•17 min•Ep. 42
Send us a text There is one electricity and it animates every electrical gadget on the planet and in the same way, there is one life, animating everything. The evidence is everywhere and we are blind to it. This process is about becoming more conscious, more awake, more aware and that is just happening. Relax, this gets you, you don't get it. Excerpt from Virtual Event with Terrence Stephens. For more information www.terrencestephens.com or to join Terrence for three weekly Virtual Events, book ...
Dec 05, 2021•10 min•Ep. 41
Send us a text What is essence, what is beingness, the presence that is being actually pointed to, which cannot be experienced dualistically is prior to senses, prior to seeing hearing tasking touching smelling. That is one of many things that cannot be understood dualistically, it is something that you come to know. It is prior to. It cannot be understood with mind. Excerpt from Virtual Event with Terrence Stephens. For more information www.terrencestephens.com or to join Terrence for three wee...
Dec 03, 2021•9 min•Ep. 40
Send us a text Where are you in relation to speaking, hearing, seeing, tasting, touching, sensations of the body, where are you? George investigates the sense of I am the body. Excerpt from Virtual Event with Terrence Stephens. For more information www.terrencestephens.com.au or to join Terrence for three weekly Virtual Events, book at: https://www.terrencestephens.com.au/start-your-journey/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TerrenceStephensNonDuality . Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/terr...
Oct 28, 2021•19 min•Ep. 39
Send us a text What you are is not dependent on thoughts. We spend most of our time in this group talking about what we are not, what an absurd thing to be talking about. So why? Because we believe we are something, and that needs to be unravelled. Why talk about what you are not? Because its not possible to talk about what you are! As soon as words are employed, you move away from what you are. Excerpt from Virtual Event with Terrence Stephens. For more information www.terrencestephens.com.au o...
Oct 06, 2021•13 min•Ep. 38
Send us a text This that is here, that is aware of the story, gives the story no meaning. If there is seeming meaning being given, understand its just thoughts giving meaning. Just stay here and the story drops. Try and find a word that stands alone. One word by itself means nothing. There is nothing to do, nothing to know, nothing to learn, nothing to become, nowhere to go, nothing needs modifying, zero, zip, nada. The mind is a brilliant instrument, but its limited. Excerpt from Virtual Event ...
Oct 03, 2021•13 min•Ep. 37
Send us a text This has opened up. The quieter it gets, the further the thoughts seem when they come, its as if they are not even there. The being is quiet, a Me only seems to step in when the mind is active. In the absence of thoughts there is no me, there is just this, and its still and beautiful. The Me has never been here so its not like there is one there to be removed, There ends up being no identification. When it finally dawns, it is realised there are just stories going on everywhere an...
Sep 29, 2021•10 min•Ep. 36
Send us a text The mind, because it is dualistic, divides everything up. I have a life, you have a life, the dog has a life, the bird has a life, the tree has a life. Animals don’t know they are animals. They are just expressions of life. There is only ONE life. There is just ONE, and the gateway to the realisation of that, is the silence of awareness, the silence of consciousness. We are being lived, get out of the way, stop resisting. Resistance to what is, causes suffering. Everything is what...
Sep 26, 2021•11 min•Ep. 35
Send us a text Can you find the thinker, the creator of thinking? If so, where is the me residing if its the thought creator? We are convinced I am the thinker, I am the hearer. Can you choose not to think, not to hear? The personal me is fictitious, its a phantom character that gets seemingly experienced as words, thoughts, language. If that completely stopped, its not like you are going to die , there would just be dead silence. No dualistic processes happening anymore. Excerpt from Virtual Ev...
Sep 22, 2021•11 min•Ep. 34
