What is what?

full interview here

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find anything that agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.

Speaking Hands

In the same way that our hands, in all their actions, display the intention of a mind moving them, it´s in the awareness of the inner Self when and where the thinking becomes truly inspired.



Recognizing this is an invitation for your real being to witness body and mind; setting pure consciousness free to know itself, even while notices or leads any fleeting thought.

Suffering

A truth that many people never understand is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.
__Thomas Merton



There is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it’s better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams, than to be defeated without ever knowing what you’re fighting for.
__Paulo Coelho



Ignorance about who we really are, is the origin of all human suffering.
__Buddha

Masters

__Mooji____________________________________________
The Bottom Line
Pure arrogance of I
Who Decides? 1 and 2
Don't Try to Love Everybody
Forget About Enlightment
Nothing Traps You

__Eckhart Tolle_____________________________________
The Pain Body
The Flowering Of Human Consciousness 1and 2
The Deepest Truth In Human Existance
Reaching Eternity 1 and 2
At Unity Village 1, 2 and 3
Uncut Intervew 1, 2 and 3

__Osho____________________________________________
I'm Only Myself
Sensitive
Waking Up The World
Watching Without Judgment
What's The Need For Nations?
Don't Use This Planet Like A Waiting Room
God Is Not A Solution But A Problem
More Beautiful Videos

__Wei Wu Wei______________________________________
Are you anything but a rumor?
The Man who found where God lives
The Finger Pointing To The Moon
Dao Wu Wei
Wu Wei

__Krishnamurti_____________________________________
Who Am I?
Nature Of Mind
The Real Revolution 1 and 2
At United Nations 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8
Life Story & Teachings 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10
The Role Of A Flower 1, 2 and 3

__Sri Ramana Maharshi______________________________
Sage of Arunachala
Abide As The Self
Bhagavan's Life Story
Look Into No-Thing
Arunachala Dhyanam

__Buddha__________________________________________
Life Of Buddha
Buddhism 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5
The Buddha Way
Quotes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7
Three Marks of Existence
Walking With Buddha 1 and 2
Thubten

__Alan Watts_______________________________________
Chasing Ones Self
Web Of Life
The Middle Way
Time And the More It Changes
Conversation With Myself
Work As Play
Camping 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6
Ego

__Ram Dass________________________________________
On Experience
Awareness
Fierce Grace
Theosophical Society
Using every moment
Talking About

__Adyashanti_______________________________________
Surrender or Suffer
A Shift of Perception
Beyond the Veils
Falling Away
Being Alone
Global Oneness Interview

__Papaji___________________________________________
Call Of The Search
Who Are You?
Refuse Mind Guidance
Deatachment Of The Events
What's Going On Here?
Happiness

__Ramesh Balsekar__________________________________
What is a Spiritual Seeker Seeking?
The Rule of Life
One Word Teaching
Surrender
The Final Understanding

__Socrates_________________________________________
On The Soul
Self Confidence
Encyclopedia
Trial And Death
Socrate
Aristophanes
Wisdom of Ages

__Seung Sahn______________________________________
Who Are You
Zen Master Memorial
Wake up!
A Guide to Sitting
The Zen Mind

__Rumí____________________________________________
Who Says Words With My Mouth
Say I Am You
Who Am I
Looking For Your Face
Come, Come, Come
Only Breath
Like This
The Poet Of The Heart

__Lao Tzu__________________________________________
Tao Te Ching. Verses 1-2
Tao Te Ching. Verse 14
Tao Te Ching. Verse 76
Quotes

__George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff________________________
Gurdjieff's Mission
Mr. Gurdjieff
Meetings With Remarkable Men
In Search Of The Miraculous

Beyond Words

Alan Watts says; if we think is because we're manipulating with symbols... then the ghosts in our languages are in fact the limit of our reason.



Also aims that fortunately we might not be completely lost after that, because as the Dutch philosopher Aart van der Leeuw wisely said; the mystery of life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.


More from Alan Watts - Samsara, Dharma, Moksha.

Wisdom & Process

A Barry Schwartz´s 20 min. speech on wisdom as an antidote to a society gone mad with bureaucracy.

He ties in together ethics and wisdom, quoting Aristoteles who once upon a time defined practical wisdom as the combination between moral will and moral skill.

Schwartz brilliantly relates how today´s extended practice of just over ruling and giving incentives, when trying to solve several issues, keeps people away from thinking, away from the real development of their potential.

As the professor says, it might be very confortable, even often brings a kind of short term safety, but at the end of the day... also assures our long term mediocracy.

Message of Hope

Here is the story of man going down the wrong path, with one day the possibility of finding the way of peace and love. A short video shaped around the knowledge and ideas of Willy Whitefeather, a man of Cherokee ancestry.

Using traditions and stories from Native American and world cultures, the film combines dreams, images and reminiscences from our collective memory to send a message of hope for the future.


Directed by Catherine Margerin, produced by Luna Media.

What Would It Look Like?

Another video from the Global Oneness Project, a retrospective asking us to reflect on the state of the world and ourselves, and to listen more closely to what is being asked of us at this time of unprecedented global transformation.


25min.

Subtitles in several languages available here.

Unlearning Creativity

An entertaining yet profound case for creating an education system that nurtures, rather than undermines, creativity.

Sir Ken Robinson recalling some of Picasso's words tells here that if we are not prepared to be wrong, we will never come up with anything original. Today, by the time to be adults, most of the kids have lost this capacity... All the kids are born artists, the problem is to make an artist as we grow up.

21st Century

A contemporaneous vision of spirituality throughout the words of three men with a profound understanding of today and the challenges humanity will have yet to face.

Stephen Jourdain, Arnaud Desjardins and Lee Lozowick.

Design Responsibility

Buckminster Fuller was who said that you never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing one obsolete.

Seventy-five years later, the Buckminster Fuller Institute keeps promoting this idea, organizing a design challenge and awarding comprehensive solutions that radically advance human well-being and ecosystem health.

Green Communities

This video explores the viability and necessity of a green economy and methods to kick-start one through "green community-centers" in every major city.

Kevin Danaher is an anti-globalization activist, and the co-founder of Global Exchange, and the executive producer of Green Festivals, that happen annually to promote several environmentally friendly ideas and products.

Spotlight & Floodlight

You are not an stranger on earth; your environment is also part of you, you're in fact all that is too.

Each one of us is at once an universal self which has the capacity to focus in so many different ‘here’ and ‘now’. When you use the word ‘I’, is really an idea about position, like ‘this’ or ‘here’, you are referring to.

Our behaviour cannot be separated of the behaviour of the rest of world, we are something that the whole realm of being is doing.

It was 1964 when Alan Watts wrote these words:
One of our general failures over the past three thousand years of human history has been not to notice the inseparability of things.
We have seen our own basic unity with the external world as the result of specializing in a particular kind of consciousness.
For we have very largely based culture and civilization on concentrated attention, on using the mind as a spotlight rather than a floodlight, and by this means analyzing the world into separate bits.

Myth of Myself 1/2


Myth of Myself 2/2 - 9min.

Creativity

Our fundamental challenge is to give birth to a new society, a new way of being a human and a new planet. That's something never done in our entire history. Earth for sure has manifested this level of creativity, but humans have never been called upon to produce such alternative ideas.

The critical first step is to understand our primary community. That's something beyond our nation state, beyond any culture, any corporation. World does not end up in the industrial society or in our actual economic system.

We fail to appreciate that we are one economy more amongst many, birds have an economy, plants, rivers, oceans have an economy. There are a lot of different ways of making a living.

To step into this new era, we have to re-invent economic activity in a way that is an enhancement to all other economies too. This requires considering humankind as a whole, to consider us a self-aware part of the cosmos, together with the entire earth.

Brian Swimme

Scarcity

Is it possible to have, within our actual monetary system, a world free of wars and famine? A globe inhabited with citizens behaving in ethical and decent ways, focussed on global evolution and the full development of our personal capabilities?

We should realize that efficiency, sustainability and abundance are the real enemies of the profit system. Money is the actual barrier to our society growth. Within the monetary system scarcity is what really keeps the products valuable, profits high and people enslaved.

Do we have, at this moment in time, both the resources and technical understanding necessary to build up a new self-sustainable society? What are the real barriers keeping us into the miserable global reality?

Zeitgeist Addendum fragment

Dream

Just a dream.

Brain Duality

Check out an interesting presentation from Jill Bolte Taylor about brain duality, including Spanish subtitles as well as texts in several other languages.

LEFT BRAIN FUNCTIONS:
Uses logic, analytical, detail oriented, facts rule, words and language, present and past, math and science, can comprehend, knowing, organized, acknowledges, order/pattern perception, knows object name, reality based, scientific, deatached, sequential, forms strategies, practical, repetitive, precise, literal, safe…

RIGHT BRAIN FUNCTIONS:
Uses feeling, “big picture” oriented, imagination rules, symbols and images, present and future, philosophy & religion, can “get it” (i.e. meaning), conceptual, believes, imaginative, intuitive, appreciates, spatial perception, knows object function, irregular, fantasy based, heuristic, empathetic, figurative, presents possibilities, impetuous, creative, risk taking…

Mind and Matter

Recent advances in cellular science are announcing an important evolutionary turning point. For almost fifty years we have held the illusion that our health and fate were pre-programmed in our genes, a concept referred to as genetic determinacy.

Here you’ll see how a radically new understanding is unfolding at the leading edge of science. Cellular biologists now realize that the external universe, our internal physiology, and our perception of the environment: directly controls the activity of our genes.

Short illustrated talk:

7min.

Approaching this from a broad open view, the wisdom to be reached is related to both environment and inner awareness, and how perception is effectively shaped by our understanding.

On Bruce Lipton's book: The Biology Of Belief, describes how a thought can trigger changes in body functioning, and become physical. Moreover, how uncertainly and quantum theories support this approach, and help to explain that our knowledge in science must be upgraded from the rigid view of Newton mechanics, to a broader perception in the awareness of a world made of energy.

Clicking on this presentation1 & 2, you may enjoy a detailed development of the New Biology theories, by Professor Lipton. Great things shall come from the seed of this work.

And here is a brief introduction:

Part 1 - 2min.
Part 2 - 2min.

We

'We' visualizes the words of Arundhati Roy, specifically her famous 'Come September' speech, where she spoke on such things as the war on terror, corporate globalization, justice and the growing civil unrest.


1h.

An amazing document, a lesson in modern history, given free by an anonymous producer. An unparalleled benchmark in documentary filmmaking. A wicked soundtrack. Powerful imagery. Arundhati Roy's speech strikes to the heart, every word poiniently and poetically weaving an intricate tapestry of our modern global ache.

Geoff, the webmaster of resist.com.au, says he received the film anonymously in the mail one day with a simple note that read:
"Feel free to pass this on to others who you know will be interested in its relatively unique content and perspectives (either by copying this DVD, dubbing to VHS, by dissemination through internet download, holding private screenings etc). Using the technology of this information age you have the freedom to be as imaginative as you like in the different ways which you can choose to make this accessible to others."