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Chapters:
00:00:00 - Introduction and Support
00:06:25 - Teenage Interest in Spirituality
00:11:25 - The Relationship between Spirituality and Science
00:17:06 - Awakening and Freedom
00:21:58 - The Fourth State: Turiya
00:26:10 - The Fourth State
00:29:57 - The Continuum of Awareness and the Notion of Doership
00:33:48 - Transformation in His Presence
00:38:05 - Skepticism vs Cynicism in Spiritual Teachings
00:43:27 - Subjective Experience and Suffering in Spirituality
00:48:36 - The Nature of Hypotheses and Possibilities
00:51:46 - The Blurred Lines of Different Functionalities
00:56:09 - The Illusion of Duality and Non-Duality
01:02:39 - The Illusion of Individual Self or Doer
01:08:12 - The Interpretation of Life's Experiences
01:11:32 - Difficulty of Expressing Experiences in Words
01:15:25 - The Complexity of Spiritual Teachings
01:19:07 - The Progression of Enlightenment
01:22:35 - The Potential of Each Individual
01:25:28 - The Concept of the Universal Doer
01:29:18 - The Concept of Self in Eastern Traditions
01:32:46 - Different Ways of Transmitting Knowledge
01:39:15 - The Importance of Developing Clarity
01:43:52 - Understanding the Vasanas
01:47:48 - Devotion and Appreciation
01:51:48 - The World is Brahman
01:56:18 - Realizing Brahman
01:59:27 - The Value of Teaching
02:02:36 - The Key to Experience
02:05:44 - The Balance of Knowledge and Experience
02:10:11 - Music
“The point of this teaching is the realization of total and complete freedom, in which we are free from suffering.”
I had my first conscious spiritual awakening aged 18.
Everything was seen to be one, the sense of personal self fell away and I had a deep sense that I truly was not the limited being that I commonly took myself to be. This experience was short-lived and further fueled my seeking. I wanted to try to re-experience it. I think because this experience happened in the context of reading a book, I subsequently developed a voracious appetite for reading spiritual texts. I read books on everything such as on Buddhism, Zen, Taoism, Mystic Christianity, Vedanta, Dzogchen, and the core texts of each, as well as many self-help and new-age type books.
I also had a keen interest in science and mathematics and my studies took me along this route in school, eventually leading me to study medicine and become a doctor. I later got married and now have two amazing and lovely children. Alongside my studies, career and home life, the spiritual seeking continued for 15-20 years.
Now the sense of a ‘me’ living a life and the dissatisfaction that fueled my spiritual seeking have both disappeared, leaving behind an ordinary life ‘being lived’ or living itself. I call it Freedom.
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Tom is a medical doctor who lives in London UK with his wife and 2 children. He holds regular meetings in London and on Skype to share this wonderful teaching with anyone who is interested.
To learn more about him and his teachings see [ Ссылка ].
