Well, he's without a doubt the most thoughtful of the myriads of interviewees that've been featured and he clearly displays a wealth of wisdom in his presentation
One of my favourite BATGAPS...after the first 20 minutes or so. Robert has an incredible knowledge and lived history of Zen and understanding and passion for quantum physics...Sadly these are rare gifts in the non-dual world...they can help many people to see and live life differently...
Hey Rick. Have to say that I loved the way you conducted this interview. You asked all the burning questions and I don't find you were in interruption mode. We're all glad you do this work, I'm sure. Thankyou. Xx
More accessible than Tony Parsons because he doesn't shoot you on sight! I like that a genuine interest will get you rhere rather than there's nothing you can 'do'. One must be genuine to experience that oneness and it needn't be a 'wow' moment. For me it is an optimistic energy colouring 'my' life for no apparent reason. So long as one realises at the ego is just another 'thought' then it's 'game on'! 😊
Excellent interview, and I like Robert Wolfe. I was surprised at his reaction/response to the question about Satsang - seemed to me to be clearly an egoic/defensive response. Unfortunately I didn't note the time, but I think it was somewhere around 50 minutes in.
Given that our nature is consciousness & that the mind and body are secondary vehicles --- with the subtlest & most powerful being the mind --- clarity is the result of inquiry that dismantles the mind's primary, false assumption of duality. Inquiry cannot be defined as a practice. The culturing of attention (nervous system etc) does not destroy ignorance. If it did, every meditator & monk would be as clear as Shankara, Ramana & Nisargadatta.
I like this viewpoint and it could seem to suggest that the relative self is mostly a burden? When we see that nature creates uniqueness as a matter of course as in snowflakes or fingerprints or DNA ~even this sentence is one of a kind. There is phenomenal creativity emerging and the sense of a relative self is part of this, dissolving into all is perhaps a bit like letting go of the rope that sustains this dynamic creativity?
He's got a good understanding and apparently able to speak lucidly about it. But the real spiritual transformation required for "non-dual" realization is a much greater matter than all the talk about it. He can point people in the right direction so to speak. At least undercut and reveal a lot of conventional bullshit presumptions that bind us.
I've been 'observing' this kind of stuff for over forty years. The only Religious book I ever read which even outlined (to me at any rate) the fundamental issues of life was the Bhagavad-Gita. As for Krishnamurti, after the first few sentences, which were probably okay, he then departed into a spiel, the truth of the first postulates of which he didn't demonstrate, whereupon he appeared to be thereafter taking to himself. The baby-boomer crowd have now come of age, including the Physicists. Perhaps this is why SOME of them are attempting to link up 'this kind of stuff' with some of the contemporary SPECULATIONS of Physics. There again, others are not and are refuting it. To find out for oneself whether such connections have validity is not a five minute job; - in fact it no doubt represents a lifetime of study in Physics. I wonder whether the Gentleman has done that? It's very interesting to note that the Gentleman advises members of his 'discussion groups' who have had an 'Awakening' to 'read what the ancients have said'. I wonder why they would need to do that, anyway. But they apparently discover that what they didn't understand before: they do now! Could this by any chance be related to the possibility that 'what the ancients said' didn't speak to them in any way before and was thus valueless. Now, of course, we have the loony tunes and merry melodies of so-called 'non-Duality'. This is probably too silly to debunk, but it's 'Philosophy' wouldn't appear to have anything about it which relates to life at all. It's about time we got it straight that the 'World' indeed exists and that we, as persons, also exist within it. Yeah; and? It's true that, not unnaturally, we get quite exercised about our personal fate. But the ESSENCE of the answer to that little problem is certainly not that we don't exist. Because we do, you know. Perhaps the first few sentences of Krishnamurti's talks are the only relevant part: We need to START AGAIN! Indeed we are starting again: through Science; that is to say establishing (ultimately for ourselves) whatsoever is the case about whatever we deem to be relevant. And not what someone has told us. Whomsoever they be. Way to go?
For a time is coming when people will no longer listen to sound and wholesome teaching. They will follow their own desires and will look for teachers who will tell them whatever their itching ears want to hear.
The "yogic," experiential view of enlightenment has been off for centuries and is still off. Clarity is not a product of practices. Listen to Huang Po: "Enlightenment springs from Mind, regardless of your practice of the six paramitas and the rest. All such practices are merely expedients for handling ‘concrete’ matters when dealing with the problems of daily life."
not being enlightened means you dont know *exactly* what you are.when there is no person or universe ..being enlightened mean that you know *exaclty* what you really are...when there is no person and no universe..the you, isnt anything that you can imagine..ajata..
only 6600 views!........ gives us a clue as to the non "intelligence" of a part of our non-duality.....and i know....it doesn't matter even though it non-is the matter!.....but we can play doncha know-(or not)......
+donn smith there are sooooo many teachers of nonduality out there with so many followers you would be amazed....i see and experience a huge awakening across the globe. ....I just today discovered this individual and his words resonate with me....however I suspect I would do better to read his books....he does not hold my attention well in the kind of speaker he is. Mooji brings many many people together who are eager to awaken...Gangaji holds gatherings and is an eloquent speaker and deals with the subject matter in a manner that leads people to the experience. Tolle has a huge following..while I would rather read him also...truth recognizes truth...I am greatly encouraged by the number of people awakening...just my experience.
Wolfe is a wonderfully clear teacher/writer, a true modern master.
Well, he's without a doubt the most thoughtful of the myriads of interviewees that've been featured and he clearly displays a wealth of wisdom in his presentation
One of my favourite BATGAPS...after the first 20 minutes or so. Robert has an incredible knowledge and lived history of Zen and understanding and passion for quantum physics...Sadly these are rare gifts in the non-dual world...they can help many people to see and live life differently...
Hey Rick. Have to say that I loved the way you conducted this interview. You asked all the burning questions and I don't find you were in interruption mode. We're all glad you do this work, I'm sure. Thankyou. Xx
Thank you, Rick, for uploading.. It is a great interview with a beautiful, genuine, guy. Just bought his books on Amazon.
Very refreshing and simple, modest and coherent.
Very grateful for this interview. Thank you both. I particularly appreciated the view of dismissing the practice.
More accessible than Tony Parsons because he doesn't shoot you on sight! I like that a genuine interest will get you rhere rather than there's nothing you can 'do'. One must be genuine to experience that oneness and it needn't be a 'wow' moment. For me it is an optimistic energy colouring 'my' life for no apparent reason. So long as one realises at the ego is just another 'thought' then it's 'game on'! 😊
Well said.
Great interview. Thanks Rick
Great Interview! Thanks.
Many (many) thanks!
Excellent interview, and I like Robert Wolfe. I was surprised at his reaction/response to the question about Satsang - seemed to me to be clearly an egoic/defensive response. Unfortunately I didn't note the time, but I think it was somewhere around 50 minutes in.
A very good interview.
We are god's hand puppeets.
Lovely lovely lovely.
what a polite gentleman!
Given that our nature is consciousness & that the mind and body are secondary vehicles --- with the subtlest & most powerful being the mind --- clarity is the result of inquiry that dismantles the mind's primary, false assumption of duality. Inquiry cannot be defined as a practice. The culturing of attention (nervous system etc) does not destroy ignorance. If it did, every meditator & monk would be as clear as Shankara, Ramana & Nisargadatta.
I like this viewpoint and it could seem to suggest that the relative self is mostly a burden? When we see that nature creates uniqueness as a matter of course as in snowflakes or fingerprints or DNA ~even this sentence is one of a kind. There is phenomenal creativity emerging and the sense of a relative self is part of this, dissolving into all is perhaps a bit like letting go of the rope that sustains this dynamic creativity?
He's got a good understanding and apparently able to speak lucidly about it. But the real spiritual transformation required for "non-dual" realization is a much greater matter than all the talk about it. He can point people in the right direction so to speak. At least undercut and reveal a lot of conventional bullshit presumptions that bind us.
I've been 'observing' this kind of stuff for over forty years. The only Religious book I ever read which even outlined (to me at any rate) the fundamental issues of life was the Bhagavad-Gita.
As for Krishnamurti, after the first few sentences, which were probably okay, he then departed into a spiel, the truth of the first postulates of which he didn't demonstrate, whereupon he appeared to be thereafter taking to himself.
The baby-boomer crowd have now come of age, including the Physicists. Perhaps this is why SOME of them are attempting to link up 'this kind of stuff' with some of the contemporary SPECULATIONS of Physics. There again, others are not and are refuting it.
To find out for oneself whether such connections have validity is not a five minute job; - in fact it no doubt represents a lifetime of study in Physics. I wonder whether the Gentleman has done that?
It's very interesting to note that the Gentleman advises members of his 'discussion groups' who have had an 'Awakening' to 'read what the ancients have said'. I wonder why they would need to do that, anyway. But they apparently discover that what they didn't understand before: they do now!
Could this by any chance be related to the possibility that 'what the ancients said' didn't speak to them in any way before and was thus valueless.
Now, of course, we have the loony tunes and merry melodies of so-called 'non-Duality'. This is probably too silly to debunk, but it's 'Philosophy' wouldn't appear to have anything about it which relates to life at all. It's about time we got it straight that the 'World' indeed exists and that we, as persons, also exist within it.
Yeah; and? It's true that, not unnaturally, we get quite exercised about our personal fate. But the ESSENCE of the answer to that little problem is certainly not that we don't exist. Because we do, you know.
Perhaps the first few sentences of Krishnamurti's talks are the only relevant part: We need to START AGAIN!
Indeed we are starting again: through Science; that is to say establishing (ultimately for ourselves) whatsoever is the case about whatever we deem to be relevant. And not what someone has told us. Whomsoever they be.
Way to go?
For a time is coming when people will no longer listen to sound and wholesome teaching. They will follow their own desires and will look for teachers who will tell them whatever their itching ears want to hear.
Oskarr Sanchez That time already came around thousands of years ago, and we're still in it.
The "yogic," experiential view of enlightenment has been off for centuries and is still off. Clarity is not a product of practices. Listen to Huang Po: "Enlightenment springs from Mind, regardless of your practice of the six paramitas and the rest. All such practices are merely expedients for handling ‘concrete’ matters when
dealing with the problems of daily life."
not being enlightened means you dont know *exactly* what you are.when there is no person or universe ..being enlightened mean that you know *exaclty* what you really are...when there is no person and no universe..the you, isnt anything that you can imagine..ajata..
only 6600 views!........ gives us a clue as to the non "intelligence" of a part of our non-duality.....and i know....it doesn't matter even though it non-is the matter!.....but we can play doncha know-(or not)......
+donn smith there are sooooo many teachers of nonduality out there with so many followers you would be amazed....i see and experience a huge awakening across the globe. ....I just today discovered this individual and his words resonate with me....however I suspect I would do better to read his books....he does not hold my attention well in the kind of speaker he is. Mooji brings many many people together who are eager to awaken...Gangaji holds gatherings and is an eloquent speaker and deals with the subject matter in a manner that leads people to the experience. Tolle has a huge following..while I would rather read him also...truth recognizes truth...I am greatly encouraged by the number of people awakening...just my experience.