Been a year since your last video, nice to see you upload again. Great lessons learned & I universally agree with them. You can read, watch, & learn all you want but true knowledge will come from using what you learned, acting on it, and experiencing it.
Thank you to those for voting on the video title for this video in the community feed. Planning to also release a video: Reading 500 Books - Was It Worth It? A few comments: -It's a rainy spring here in South Australia so enjoy the rainy mood background sounds -Books aren't useless per se. I've found they can be a fantastic guide or pointer to direct experience where the real learning happens. They can plant seeds that 'click' later and transform into understanding. -What matters more than reading books is the motive for reading them -I believe in God as Universal Love, Unconditonal Love, Consciousness, Acceptance, The Eternal - pick your word. -This video was made 'off-the-cuff' and I am aware it has some imperfections, currently experimenting without a script -As this channel moves from a focus on self-improvement to self-realization, there will be more ideas communicated that may not initially make sense due to my current level of competence in communicating them, my fallibility as a student, the paradoxical nature of the ideas, and the limitations of language. Books mentioned in the video: The Book of Not Knowing by Peter Ralston: www.amazon.com/Book-Not-Knowing-Exploring-Consciousness-ebook/dp/B003WUYPOW Pursuing Consciousness by Peter Ralston: www.amazon.com/Pursuing-Consciousness-Book-Enlightenment-Transformation-ebook/dp/B00N6PBBOA The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle: www.amazon.com/Power-Now-Guide-Spiritual-Enlightenment-ebook/dp/B002361MLA The most recent 5 books I've read: Awake by Angelo DiLullo (czcams.com/users/SimplyAlwaysAwake) Dirty Enlightenment by Peter Brown God's Mountain by John Scott (czcams.com/video/ofxCbdr0LIw/video.html) Bringers of the Dawn by Barbara Marciniak The Trap by David Icke You may also like watching my buddy Clark Kegley's video on 3 lessons he learned from 300 books: czcams.com/video/dndxT20s_pc/video.html Looking forward to reading your comments 🙏 -Brandon
I agree. I remember I would hear people talk about not putting woman on a pedestal and it's like "DUH I know that" but until I actually went through an awful relationship I saw it and the knowledge was applied
It all sums up to 90% action 10% theory. In Christianity we learn that God is actually very simple you can talk to him with simple words, new age stuff is actually more complicated so to sound more profound which is a trap. God is simple. Great video : )
regarding what you said about science and conepts and thoughts in your head. what are good reads about that? The Science Delusion book you mentioned in the quote?
Howdy Nikhil. I may do a video on this but in short: Osho's personality is unique and compelling. I believe he speaks with conviction from a place of direct experience with the divine. I read around 30 of his books. I've since re-evaluated my stance on Osho. I spend more time learning from Yogananda, Sri Yukteswar, and Baba Neem Karoli as I've found them to be more perfected beings. The rolls royce situation with Osho has stirred up controversy as well as some other things. I understand him to not have been a perfect being. Still grappling with desire/attachment/greed/anger. So I may still draw some inspiration from an Osho quote here and there but as of now, Yogananda speaks to my soul and I continue to look inside myself to keep dissolving anger, attachment etc.
Just found your channel and love the content! One thought that jumped out at me is that you could make a video for every book a few different ways for different demographics. For the demographic like me, it's a perfect fit; the content is organized, quick, informative, efficient, etc. But for other demographics (who may need the information even more), that style won't reach them as effectively. For example, a large demographic might be a little bit more creative and thoughtful (and maybe high), and for that demographic it would be helpful if the content was presented a little bit slower, pauses in between sentences or at least the main points, some nice music, and more engrossing visuals. Another demographic, women, may be more effectively reached if a woman presented the content. Just some ideas for you on how to spin the same videos multiple times to reach more people. Maybe something you haven't thought about.
Hi Tony, thank you for taking the time to provide feedback. I have considered this but for now will stick to the format that comes naturally to me. Catering to many demographics diverts my focus from serving a single demographic well. Thanks for tuning in! I may be experimenting with new formats soon, like a tier list video.
1. Man's Eternal Quest by Paramahansa Yogananda 2. The Almanack of Naval Ravikant 3. I Am That by Nisargadatta Maharaj 4. Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu 5. The First and Last Freedom by J.Krishnamurti 6. The Book of Not Knowing by Peter Ralston 7. The Trap by David Icke
Indeed! Find out for yourself if the past exists if you are inclined to do so. I speak of past experiences as if they happened since it is useful as a tool for communication in this finite form we call human. It may often sound like I contradict myself and this is due to the limitations of human language and the paradoxical nature of duality/non-duality.
Summary: What happens when someone intellectually ungifted tries to become clever by reading book and realize it doesn't work that way? He becomes religious. Why you ask? Because, surely, if he can't understand the universe then the universe must be magical somehow.
Damn you reek of insecurity. Death is coming at an accelerated rate isn’t it? Where has your gifted intellect led you to? Nowhere. Your life is meaningless but instead of accepting it you try to grasp to your façade of being an intellectually gifted man, when the fact of needing to put others down to feel comfortable in your mediocre skin shows that you are lost. You will see soon enough, your bubble of pretentious control will collapse and your ego-built reality will crumble.This man is happier and has helped more people than you will in all your lifetimes. I wish you all the best. Get better.
@@sourdough7818 let me ignore your accurate Sherlock-Holmes-like deductions about me (yes, this is irony) and focus on what I think is an interesting question you raise: "why am I so mad?" Whatever you or him have faith in, I don't really care. But, what I struggle to just let slide is when someone tries to indoctrinate people that have put some trust in him/her (in this case, because of his previous unrelated content) through logical fallacies (in this case, based on his inability to accept his own limitations). For instance, I wouldn't have been mad had he built a different channel to talk about his "spiritual blossom". Granted, I also hate it when I witness wide-spread stupidity. It makes me loose a bit of my faith in humanity every time. But, maybe that's on me.
I've found Osho's teachings to be excellent. Not to confuse the teachings with Osho himself and some of the dodgy stuff he engaged in. It's my understanding that he was not a perfect being, and indeed - the collection of Rolls-royces indicates Greed/desire/attachment even though they are said to be gifted to him by his devotees.
@@OnePercentBetter Don't be fooled. Osho ran a massive scale brainwashment to steal the money of people he had deceived. By all means he should have been jailed. He fed on the pain of people. He is a terrible human being.
So what is the next step? Good emotions is mere chemical reactions in our brains, and we are creatures put together through trial and error to what we are today and the stupid questions we ask ourselves. Can we explain our knowledge to an ant? We cannot even explain the colour red to a blind man. What´s there to say that we have the ability to understand what we are, why we are, when we are and where we are? An ant does not understand any of that, and we are only the smartest life form that we know about, which could be less than than a shrimp in the "bigger picture". I think it is foolish to assume that some people know humankind at a deeper level. Can we assume some ants or rats have a deep conciousness and understanding compared to their peers. This is also why I cannot deal with the concept of God, as we picture god as an image of a human who knows us and have a vested interest in us, this is madness and just shows how narrow minded we are. You cannot think outside of your own personal reality, just like in the allegory of the cave. Imagine an ant understanding the concept of planets and the universe. It is not even close to their reality yet it "exists". So where are we in that concept? I have settled on that I am a stupid monkey and the best use of my time is just to live and do the things that makes my dopamin go boing.
GOD EXISTS, AND A BOOK FROM 1400 YEARS AGO IS THE CLEAR PROOF FOR THOSE WANTS TO UNDERSTAND. IT IS THE QURAN. WORDS OF GOD,NO INACCURACY NOR ANY CROOKEDNESS YOU ARE WELCOMED TO READ IT
Well if a random coment in the internet says god exists, because a 1400 year old book says so... seems legit :) Im really curious what happes to the harry potter believers in 1400 years xD Star wars has a lot of potential too. I started reading it and its pretty boring and just not up to date. If you want to frame your live into 1400 year old man-made rules thats ok, but personaly id rather just live my live and adapt to the present situations instead of advertising old storys to random people.
@@Mr000Chris000 you don't get the book I think. The scientific miracles stated in it is enough to prove that it couldn't have been possible to be written by a man that long ago. Google the scientific miracles of it, maybe you'll see too. Expansion of the universe,Big bang, Human embryology are a few to name
And Islam is the only religion existing that can solve the MODERN problems. And faith comes with rationality, if you have questions,you ask, and keep looking for your truth until you find it
@@RaffinSounds Your claim: "Islam is the only religion existing that can solve the MODERN problems" Thats great to hear ! Humanity is saved ! Please tell me how this 1400 year old book will solve these 10 biggest problems of humanity: 1- Climate change: limit global temperature increase to max. 1.5°C 2- extreme weather events (storms, heavy rain, heat waves) 3- Loss of biodiversity 4- Social division of society 5- Loss of livelihoods (global migration) 6- Infectious diseases 7- Environmental destruction 8- Loss of natural resources 9- Debt Crisis 10- Geopolitical tensions (wars) Im really curious to hear some mankind-saving solutions, humanity could really need some right now ;)
Brother, If you would please give me a chance I would suggest you read the Quran am sure that it well be an extraordinary experience since you believe that god exists give it a chance
"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies... The man who never reads lives only one.” ~ George R.R. Martin 💪🏻🚀
Been a year since your last video, nice to see you upload again.
Great lessons learned & I universally agree with them. You can read, watch, & learn all you want but true knowledge will come from using what you learned, acting on it, and experiencing it.
🙏
Action is the key. Books can help you take the right action.
Thank you to those for voting on the video title for this video in the community feed. Planning to also release a video: Reading 500 Books - Was It Worth It?
A few comments:
-It's a rainy spring here in South Australia so enjoy the rainy mood background sounds
-Books aren't useless per se. I've found they can be a fantastic guide or pointer to direct experience where the real learning happens. They can plant seeds that 'click' later and transform into understanding.
-What matters more than reading books is the motive for reading them
-I believe in God as Universal Love, Unconditonal Love, Consciousness, Acceptance, The Eternal - pick your word.
-This video was made 'off-the-cuff' and I am aware it has some imperfections, currently experimenting without a script
-As this channel moves from a focus on self-improvement to self-realization, there will be more ideas communicated that may not initially make sense due to my current level of competence in communicating them, my fallibility as a student, the paradoxical nature of the ideas, and the limitations of language.
Books mentioned in the video:
The Book of Not Knowing by Peter Ralston: www.amazon.com/Book-Not-Knowing-Exploring-Consciousness-ebook/dp/B003WUYPOW
Pursuing Consciousness by Peter Ralston: www.amazon.com/Pursuing-Consciousness-Book-Enlightenment-Transformation-ebook/dp/B00N6PBBOA
The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle: www.amazon.com/Power-Now-Guide-Spiritual-Enlightenment-ebook/dp/B002361MLA
The most recent 5 books I've read:
Awake by Angelo DiLullo (czcams.com/users/SimplyAlwaysAwake)
Dirty Enlightenment by Peter Brown
God's Mountain by John Scott (czcams.com/video/ofxCbdr0LIw/video.html)
Bringers of the Dawn by Barbara Marciniak
The Trap by David Icke
You may also like watching my buddy Clark Kegley's video on 3 lessons he learned from 300 books: czcams.com/video/dndxT20s_pc/video.html
Looking forward to reading your comments 🙏
-Brandon
This channel suddenly evolved a lot after a year long break! Great to see the direction it is going in!
:)
I agree. I remember I would hear people talk about not putting woman on a pedestal and it's like "DUH I know that" but until I actually went through an awful relationship I saw it and the knowledge was applied
Great monolog, cool thing seeing someone express their inner thoughts like this and recognize some of them as omes own.
After a long time mate, glad you are back 😊
Hey buddy, thank you for watching, great to be here.
All the best on your spiritual journey 🙏🏽
To you too 🕉️🌌
It's been so long! Thanks for coming back.
Hey, great to be here 🙏
It all sums up to 90% action 10% theory. In Christianity we learn that God is actually very simple you can talk to him with simple words, new age stuff is actually more complicated so to sound more profound which is a trap. God is simple. Great video : )
Thanks for sharing your experience :) and may God guide you on your spiritual journey.
Great to see you back
Cheers
Great to have you here 🙏
regarding what you said about science and conepts and thoughts in your head. what are good reads about that? The Science Delusion book you mentioned in the quote?
No way I just randomly clicked on your channel and bam you made a video yesterday! Welcome back
🙏 Cool channel name by the way!
Thank you! The goal is to learn a new skill every month 😁
what informations sources other than books did you found more valuable? (you mentioned it in the video but didn't say anything about it.)
Great to have you back mate. I can see a book by Osho in the pile. What are your reviews about his teachings ?
Howdy Nikhil. I may do a video on this but in short: Osho's personality is unique and compelling. I believe he speaks with conviction from a place of direct experience with the divine. I read around 30 of his books. I've since re-evaluated my stance on Osho. I spend more time learning from Yogananda, Sri Yukteswar, and Baba Neem Karoli as I've found them to be more perfected beings. The rolls royce situation with Osho has stirred up controversy as well as some other things. I understand him to not have been a perfect being. Still grappling with desire/attachment/greed/anger. So I may still draw some inspiration from an Osho quote here and there but as of now, Yogananda speaks to my soul and I continue to look inside myself to keep dissolving anger, attachment etc.
I’ve missed your videos brother much love from Perth
Much love back to you from little ol' Adelaide 💙
Just found your channel and love the content! One thought that jumped out at me is that you could make a video for every book a few different ways for different demographics. For the demographic like me, it's a perfect fit; the content is organized, quick, informative, efficient, etc. But for other demographics (who may need the information even more), that style won't reach them as effectively. For example, a large demographic might be a little bit more creative and thoughtful (and maybe high), and for that demographic it would be helpful if the content was presented a little bit slower, pauses in between sentences or at least the main points, some nice music, and more engrossing visuals. Another demographic, women, may be more effectively reached if a woman presented the content. Just some ideas for you on how to spin the same videos multiple times to reach more people. Maybe something you haven't thought about.
Hi Tony, thank you for taking the time to provide feedback. I have considered this but for now will stick to the format that comes naturally to me. Catering to many demographics diverts my focus from serving a single demographic well. Thanks for tuning in! I may be experimenting with new formats soon, like a tier list video.
@@OnePercentBetter Okay, but ... are you preaching to the choir?
This video is so underrated
Great video
The next breadcrumb, Jesus did not exaggerate. He really rose from the dead. Lots of false about him but that is real.
so, do you wake up and go to sleep with kensho?
Something like that 🙃
Can you please list your top 5 books?
1. Man's Eternal Quest by Paramahansa Yogananda
2. The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
3. I Am That by Nisargadatta Maharaj
4. Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
5. The First and Last Freedom by J.Krishnamurti
6. The Book of Not Knowing by Peter Ralston
7. The Trap by David Icke
14:57 but wait. you've just told us the past doesn't exist...
Indeed! Find out for yourself if the past exists if you are inclined to do so. I speak of past experiences as if they happened since it is useful as a tool for communication in this finite form we call human. It may often sound like I contradict myself and this is due to the limitations of human language and the paradoxical nature of duality/non-duality.
@@OnePercentBetter bro, stop reading books, please 🤣
Summary:
What happens when someone intellectually ungifted tries to become clever by reading book and realize it doesn't work that way? He becomes religious. Why you ask? Because, surely, if he can't understand the universe then the universe must be magical somehow.
Damn you reek of insecurity. Death is coming at an accelerated rate isn’t it? Where has your gifted intellect led you to? Nowhere. Your life is meaningless but instead of accepting it you try to grasp to your façade of being an intellectually gifted man, when the fact of needing to put others down to feel comfortable in your mediocre skin shows that you are lost. You will see soon enough, your bubble of pretentious control will collapse and your ego-built reality will crumble.This man is happier and has helped more people than you will in all your lifetimes. I wish you all the best. Get better.
@@sourdough7818 let me ignore your accurate Sherlock-Holmes-like deductions about me (yes, this is irony) and focus on what I think is an interesting question you raise: "why am I so mad?"
Whatever you or him have faith in, I don't really care. But, what I struggle to just let slide is when someone tries to indoctrinate people that have put some trust in him/her (in this case, because of his previous unrelated content) through logical fallacies (in this case, based on his inability to accept his own limitations). For instance, I wouldn't have been mad had he built a different channel to talk about his "spiritual blossom".
Granted, I also hate it when I witness wide-spread stupidity. It makes me loose a bit of my faith in humanity every time. But, maybe that's on me.
06:59am wed 16/11/22
500 books isn't even that much over the course of a decade
Osho who stole people money and had 90+ rolls-royce? WTF
I've found Osho's teachings to be excellent. Not to confuse the teachings with Osho himself and some of the dodgy stuff he engaged in. It's my understanding that he was not a perfect being, and indeed - the collection of Rolls-royces indicates Greed/desire/attachment even though they are said to be gifted to him by his devotees.
@@OnePercentBetter Don't be fooled. Osho ran a massive scale brainwashment to steal the money of people he had deceived. By all means he should have been jailed. He fed on the pain of people. He is a terrible human being.
So what is the next step? Good emotions is mere chemical reactions in our brains, and we are creatures put together through trial and error to what we are today and the stupid questions we ask ourselves. Can we explain our knowledge to an ant? We cannot even explain the colour red to a blind man. What´s there to say that we have the ability to understand what we are, why we are, when we are and where we are? An ant does not understand any of that, and we are only the smartest life form that we know about, which could be less than than a shrimp in the "bigger picture". I think it is foolish to assume that some people know humankind at a deeper level. Can we assume some ants or rats have a deep conciousness and understanding compared to their peers. This is also why I cannot deal with the concept of God, as we picture god as an image of a human who knows us and have a vested interest in us, this is madness and just shows how narrow minded we are. You cannot think outside of your own personal reality, just like in the allegory of the cave. Imagine an ant understanding the concept of planets and the universe. It is not even close to their reality yet it "exists". So where are we in that concept? I have settled on that I am a stupid monkey and the best use of my time is just to live and do the things that makes my dopamin go boing.
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i think you should have lived in your 20s instead of reading books about life
should is an interesting word
I'm suggesting you to read about our beloved prophet Mohamed صلواة ربي وسلامه عليه
Pedophilia was interesting
I Read 5000 Books😃
Cool! Lookin like Dan Lok in that profile picture
Great insights
I would suggest reading quran the islam holly book and try to investigate it
GOD EXISTS, AND A BOOK FROM 1400 YEARS AGO IS THE CLEAR PROOF FOR THOSE WANTS TO UNDERSTAND. IT IS THE QURAN. WORDS OF GOD,NO INACCURACY NOR ANY CROOKEDNESS YOU ARE WELCOMED TO READ IT
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Well if a random coment in the internet says god exists, because a 1400 year old book says so... seems legit :)
Im really curious what happes to the harry potter believers in 1400 years xD
Star wars has a lot of potential too.
I started reading it and its pretty boring and just not up to date.
If you want to frame your live into 1400 year old man-made rules thats ok, but personaly id rather just live my live and adapt to the present situations instead of advertising old storys to random people.
@@Mr000Chris000 you don't get the book I think. The scientific miracles stated in it is enough to prove that it couldn't have been possible to be written by a man that long ago.
Google the scientific miracles of it, maybe you'll see too. Expansion of the universe,Big bang, Human embryology are a few to name
And Islam is the only religion existing that can solve the MODERN problems.
And faith comes with rationality, if you have questions,you ask, and keep looking for your truth until you find it
@@RaffinSounds Your claim:
"Islam is the only religion existing that can solve the MODERN problems"
Thats great to hear ! Humanity is saved !
Please tell me how this 1400 year old book will solve these 10 biggest problems of humanity:
1- Climate change: limit global temperature increase to max. 1.5°C
2- extreme weather events (storms, heavy rain, heat waves)
3- Loss of biodiversity
4- Social division of society
5- Loss of livelihoods (global migration)
6- Infectious diseases
7- Environmental destruction
8- Loss of natural resources
9- Debt Crisis
10- Geopolitical tensions (wars)
Im really curious to hear some mankind-saving solutions, humanity could really need some right now ;)
yh lol; nice. Islam - it is in the religion, to apply the knowledge you learn. and live and apply it.
Mate, huge recommendation: READ THE QURAN , and the biography of Prophet Mohammed 😊 I swear you will be so grateful you did !!
Brother, If you would please give me a chance
I would suggest you read the Quran am sure that it well be an extraordinary experience
since you believe that god exists give it a chance