How to Accept this Moment? - Jeff Foster
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- Jeff Foster (www.lifewithoutacentre.com) talks about Acceptance in the deepest sense. Is it possible to accept present experience, no matter what is happening, no matter what the circumstances? WHO accepts? Is there an impersonal acceptance that goes beyond our ideas of acceptance? A cosmic peace that goes beyond all our ideas of peace? Jeff points you back to who you really are in THIS moment... and to the place where all suffering begins and ends.
Your teachings are increasingly simple, clear and powerful and have been very helpful.
Thank you Jeff!
How to Accept this Moment?
who you really are before the story of who you really are
Acceptance=you are not the story of you
-not about believing, *but discovering you are acceptance*
-examples: feelings/thoughts are waves in the ocean, but the ocean remains whole and at peace
-every waves is the ocean, they are inseparable
-if these feelings/thoughts(pain,fear,disappointment) happen, "what you are" already accepted it so that it is manifested(the deepest acceptance)
-we don't recognise who we really are, that's why we start to seek for acceptance and reach seek.
-"Everything in present experience is an invitation to discover that deepest acceptance."
-what you are had already said "YES" to these thoughts, feelings and sensations, even the pain and fear
-if it is appeared at this moment, it was already accepted
-acceptance with a motive is not a true acceptance
-the ocean doesn't need to get rid of its waves to be at peace
-silence(peace) is not the opposite of noise, silence is everything including the noise
-pain,sadness,fear doesn't always seems like peace, but it is an invitation to discover who you really are in this moment.
-Suffering comes when we try to escape this moment,we want to control what is allowed/accepted (waves managers)
-we have no choice over what is allowed in, all are accepted in what you really are(what you are doesn't suffer, but you dont realise who you really are)
we spend so much time trying to our questions answered,but really whats there prior to the question.thats the answer.
After going through so much of hell, suffering of consciousness awareness. Tq jeff for patching the missing pieces that just shifted in me with your simplicity
Now I understand why I am going through these shit.I am rejecting it as not my creation but now I can except this moment as my allowing and thank it for the lesson and move on.No looking for peace but flow with it.💜
Terrific as always, Jeff. Pleasure to see the expression happening. Cheers and Much Love, Charlie
accept the fact that you don´t know how to relax in a moment and that your mind does not want to believe that it´s not in control of things :)
blessings
The seeking energy wants to escape the present moment, looking for solutions and satisfactions that only exist in the illusion we call future. The seeking energy won’t bring you peace or enlightenment , it is the cause of having no peace in the here and now. What are we looking for? Escape. But why should there be peace if you want to escape yourself and what is appearing in the here and now. There is nothing else than this 😊
Thanks for your clear words Jeff.
This is too simple and too great (not too simple to be great). Thanks Jeff, I am putting a big smile on my face listening to you. Yeah, I'm not a wave manager. ^^ Everything's just heppening in me. I am already here in my experience. There's no separate victim nor any separate (wave) controller !!!
The moment is already accepted, once we try to accept we are running away from it, the teaching is to accept everything that comes and goes, dont wait or stir a thought, its the total embrace as jeff! puts it, Terrific man!
Deep Acceptance - The silent, grateful allowing for anything to pass by me.
This video helped me awaken. Thanks
Your words point in the healing direction. Mind becomes entangled by its boundless expressions, many of which no longer offer reflection of true nature. Freedom is rediscovered in our sight beyond the tangles.
Thank you Jeff! It's so liberating! You are great.
I appreciate what Jeff is clarifying here. Like he's saying, these are teachings and ideas we have heard spoken of for a long time and continue to struggle with. I feel he's making some very subtle and important distinctions here, FOR ME, at least. Just the truth that whatever is here has already been allowed. So, then, it's here and the choice to accept it or not becomes less of an argument. Although that won't stop the mind from trying to do so and that is to be expected. Since we are not the mind, thoughts, emotions… it opens one to a greater sense of the vastness of who we are. "It's already been allowed." So now what are you going to do with the such-ness of this present moment? The one that your "biggest" self has allowed in? You want to argue with that and say no as if you know better? I'm always blown away by what the Oracle says to Neo in The Matrix Reloaded when they are having a conversation about choice and she says to him, "… because you didn't come here to make the choice, you've already made it. You're here to try to understand why you made it." No, I wouldn't encourage the pursuit of a philosophical inquiry into the nature of choice… just saying… it lead to Neo's acceptance and transcendence of obstacles. To the surrendering of his ego/identity completely and in doing so saving not only all of human life but the consciousness of the machine world as well. We are asked to accept all that "appears" in our awareness, not make a choice to be positive or negative, right or wrong, good or bad from that moment forward. It's already accepted on the level or "reality" and instead of an experience of feeling victimized by what has been allowed we can radically accept it. This expands our awareness beyond our smaller selves, this is evolution, this points to that cosmic peace we feel cut off from when we don't accept this moment as it appears. Ok, some thoughts is all. I haven't arrived, just wanted to share a few words. May auspicious consciousness be yours.
+Eldon Moore I agree so much with your point, thank you for sharing, it's beautiful
Thank you, Ally! You're beautiful. :)
All life comes to me with ease joy and glory.
+Jenny Chambers Be careful, perpetual change is the essence of the perceptual universe.
Jenny Chambers Lol access consciousness love it ! 2
LOOKING for the ANSWER is the PROBLEM.
Thank you Jeff, brilliantly put
Hi Pollyg1980
recognise that the ocd repetitve thoughts are exactly what they are, repetitive thoughts.
Observe them rather than dislike them. All the time to try to stop them , like any other thought they will continue , however if you observe them rather than trying to control them they loose their power.Don't like or dislike them, stop judging them and see them for what they are, it's yet another invitation. They are all happening in the moment, don't give them more credit than they deserve.
That was really great Jeff! To see that all is already accepted makes it seem silly to try to be the gatekeeper. The Ocean analogy is soothing and direct. Thanks!
So helpful! Thank you Jeff.
Thank you, Jeff...
Thanks makes such sense Jeff. 🙏
"You can't choose not to choose."
Jean Paul Sartre
Awesome explanation. Thanks.
Really clearing and very helpfull. Thank you!
First create an extensive list of your childhood traumas, daily stressors and the thoughts in your head that cause you discomfort. Then look over your three lists until patterns emerge, resulting in clarity.
From listening to you, it comes up to me that accepting (or not accepting) present experience is really a damn illusion, which, actually, is the very cause of all suffering and uneasiness.
It seems that we have the choice to accept what life is bringing in this moment as a miracle or detest it as not what we want to happen at all...or we could be anywhere in between. I chose Love~Thanks Jeff
watching your interview on Lilou's Juicy Living Tour has completely shifted my awareness. Everything you said resinated with me deeply. Thank you
Thank you!
ok jeff ..je vous ai rencontre en france..un grand moment d acceptation.
4:27 Very helpful, thank you!
Truth embraced 🙏🌿💚🍃
thanks Jeff very well articulated, thank you thankyou. xx
I think you'd like the lectures and teachings of Anthony de Mello if you haven't already heard of him Jeff. They are available on CZcams. I enjoyed the video a lot. Thanks for being so thorough in your explanation.
Thanks for sharing! Can "I" really accept anything? When This is already "Acceptedness"? Is not everything we could seemingly do to realize This, to focus on those paradoxes hidden behind these pointers. To be utterly confused by them and hopefully lose focus on anything... or in other words stop searching and clinging...
Brilliant
wonderful
Totally accepted moment remembering just that a mind of a child .
10 minutes and i started to feel very hot and and an urge to cry
Thanks Peter! Sorry 6 m0nths too late.. Much appreciated. xx
This is it....
"For it is conflict that makes choice possible. The truth is simple; it is one, without an opposite." - "A Course In Miracles"
"There is no choice in what appears" at 13:35
supreme teaching. But at some point we have to discard the teaching because it's just another concept. Just directly look at your own present awareness, only your awareness, nothing but your own awareness.
So
What we are is indeed consciousness, which is simply the allowing presence of being a conscious entity
Namaste
We already exist, it's all okay, it's all good, don't you worry, peace
Amen
i would say yes. I have had a schizophrenia diagnosis and i still feel i have had some shifts of consciousness. Small ones but it follows that if i can have small shifts i could have bigger shifts and the biggest shift of a full awakening.
why am i constantly trying to escape this moment??????
and, why are you?
oh! that was 2 years ago! I think possibly things have changed now! haha
Living in Deepest Acceptance makes life blissful. I am what I am and that's all that I am, I'm Popeye the sailor-man-she writes with a smile cause life is such fun-when you let it be. Even the near-death experiences and what brought me to them have been most enjoyable. I got up breathing this morning and I know the only thing I can control is my mood and I choose to live my life of Deepest Acceptance with a smile on my face;)
Dear Jeff, thank you so much for opening and sharing this! Amazing! I get that I'm consciousness and that everything is consciousness and there's nothing that isn't consciousness... but I still have a body and thoughts... Awareness hasn't awoken in me (if that's the right terminology). I keep watching and reading and slowly getting more and more into meditation. I'm not frustrated but I"m also not miserable like I used to be. Is being quite unhappy essential to "realisation?" If it's beyond ego then answers to all these questions are irrelevant or, these thoughts are the seeking energy that are keeping my blind from seeing what is and has always been? Thanks ;)
Psychosis can feel like the ultimate connection to the collective but due to it's dissasociation to the emotional body it is not within the wholeness of being.
Nice video Jeff...I especially liked when you spoke about acceptance and choice. But I've encountered some other teachings that say we do have a choice to accept and also that we create our reality. What do you think about this? If we can't choose whether or not to allow certain emotions and thoughts and waves in, than why do so many teachings say that we are completely in control of our reality? Also, I was wondering you think about self love and self acceptance? Is it even possible for us to
thank you. But How would you deal with ocd intrusive repetitive thoughts that are alien to you?..
thank you. But How would you deal with ocd intrusive repetitive thoughts that are alien to you and you really dont like?
Nice :)
if you have high levels of cortisol, and cells damadge in the brain, you can't be in the peace, it's not just a story that we talk to ourselfs, it's real thing, so if you are sufering i hope you will find a help, and then play the game of the momemnt, and this stuff. Peace to all.
Oh, you are talking about real problem in our brain or body. Yeah, those are definately something that sould be dealt by professional doctors. But, other than that, it is also true that most of our mental or even much of physical problem caused by mental problem comes from our illusory response to the reality. So, in some aspect, we can say that what Jeff is dealing with is also real problem. Very serious and imminent issues to be dealt by mental (or spiritual?) professionals like Jeff.
Don't you ever get tired of speaking about this? =) I mean I used to speak about "it" but realized it was actually not helping, not for me or anyone else. People get confused by words and concepts, and think they are getting wiser (infact they're getting dumber) and that something can actually happen, that they can understand, accept or whatever nonsense is believed. So not saying anything and just letting everything unfold is the only thing. Anyway, thats how I feel. Have a nice day.
If I understand correctly we become lost the moment we become seekers?
Makes me want to turn back to Krishnamurti.
Nice video. I wonder why so Many teachings talk about a choice to accept this moment or accept ones self. Also I've encountered many teachings which say that we have the power to choose our thoughts and feelings and create our reality....is this different from what you're saying?:)
I cannot reach Jeff, but i'd like to discuss at least with someone, as i cannot go on anymore, i left my husband, i am with my baby son, i want to leave my job, but i do not know what i am gonna do afterwards. I have no clue about anything, i have such a pains in my back when i am emotionally unstable, my sleep is awful. What should i do? I listen to Jeff, but i still do not know how to relax in a moment and my mind does not want to believe that i am not in control of things
you speak of the same as moojiji. I understand you now ... whoever you is haha ... thank you ;)
I, Awareness, make choices all the time but, I, jim (a self-entity) cannot make choices. Only Awareness (me) has free will. Imaginary individuals do not have free will although they might "think" that they have.
What about hope?
Jeff is it possible for someone who has psychosis or schizophrenia to awaken?
Nice video. But why do so many teachings say that we create our reality and can choose our thoughts and feelings? This sounds different from what you're saying...also, is it possible to love ourselves and accept ourselves (in addition to this moment), or do we not have a choice to do that either? Thanks so much!:)
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But mind creates a doubt here that the already lazy people who make themselves & their families suffer a lot because of their laziness & indecisions will use this beautiful understanding as a Tool to continue their Patterns /Tendencies of laziness n hence continue to suffer a lot. Also the cunning anti social elements will as if get a licence to continue their wrong actions for their own greed's (referring to this Understanding)
Jeff can You please put some light on the above Query of mine??
Or is it so that laziness & other wrong things happening around can be seen in context of the waves of the ocean?
I'm sure this will be the question of many more people throughout the world. So kindly clarify this.
if it has already been allowed and accepted why doesn't wealth get accepted for the mass population. Why does extreme suffering get in so much and not the opposite?
;)
sorry-totally confusing.
Right. He hits a lot of topics.
acceptance with a motive isn't true acceptance 040217
It would seem to be two divergent forms of existence.
Very vague
Human beings are eternal beings with a soul. The kingdom of heaven and hell are real places in eternity. After our body dies on earth, a human's soul goes either to the kingdom of heaven or to hell for eternity. The Word of God, The Holy Bible, is the Word of Truth.
The kingdom of heaven is a place where “...God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away” (Rev. 21:4), “...there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light:...” (Rev. 22:5)
Hell is a place where one is eternally separated from God, where “there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth” (Matthew 24:51), where “…the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night…” (Rev. 14:11), “Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched” (Mark 9:48).
The only way to God and to the kingdom of heaven is Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is the Lord. Humans carry their sins and cannot take themselves their sins away. Only and only Jesus can take away our sins. Jesus paid for our sins on the cross by becoming the ultimate sacrifice and by dying for us. He conquered death when He was resurrected.
"Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." (John 14:6), "Many will come in my name, claiming, 'I am he,' and will deceive many" (Mark 13:6). Satan, our soul enemy does not want you to know the truth. Satan wants us to worship him, believe his lies, stay in sin and be like him. Satan fell from heaven because of pride, he wanted and wants to be like the Most High. But Only God is God. The Lord God Almighty does Not share Glory. "I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another...". (Isaiah 42:8)
Jesus Christ came to free us so that our sins would be washed away through his blood, we would receive the Holy Spirit and we would have eternal life with God. No one comes to the Heavenly Father but by Jesus Christ.
Believe God's Word to humanity; The Holy Bible, believe that Jesus died for your sins, confess your sins to God, turn away from all sin, accept Jesus as your Lord and Saviour and give your life to Him.
We here in this the desperate voice of Frederick March as Matthew Harrison Brady reciting credo while on the stand in Inherit the Wind.
Good luck with your religion
Thank you!