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   <media:description>Eric Putkonen talks about the power of the mind to overlook because it does not fit the model or expectations we hold.  Also, how the mind can restrict what is noticed to only what fits the model and the rest is discarded.  Because of these two tendencies of the mind, it is best not to hold expectations regarding what enlightenment is or what it is like.

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   <media:description>Eric Putkonen talks about how and why ignorance arose.  After recently seeing this question posted against recently, Eric decided to revisit this question.  If Self/Brahman is omnipotent, omnipresent, perfect, etc, etc. - then how and why does ignorance arise?

This video is one of 300+ videos about nonduality, enlightenment, and living awake and engaged.  Eric speaks in a down-to-earth and straightforward style while simplifying concepts of Advaita / nonduality.

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#nonduality #advaita  #enlightenment #ignorance #avidya</media:description>
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  <title>The trap of aloofness || #nonduality #advaita #equanimity #suffering #happiness</title>
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   <name>Nonduality &amp; Enlightenment Simplified</name>
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  <published>2025-01-23T18:00:39+00:00</published>
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   <media:description>Eric Putkonen talks about the trap of aloofness.  This is much like the difference between a stone Buddha and a living Buddha - as spoken about in Zen Buddhism.  The goal is not to be stone...unresponsive and untouched by what happens in the world.  A living Buddha is engaged in the world...and can experience joy and awe.  Non-reactivity does not mean becoming a stone Buddha.

This video is one of 300+ videos about nonduality, enlightenment, and living awake and engaged.  Eric speaks in a down-to-earth and straightforward style while simplifying concepts of Advaita / nonduality.

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   <media:description>Eric Putkonen talks about suffering and happiness as well as pain and pleasure.  There are some unfortunate misunderstandings and extrapolations that happen and today Eric explains why happiness can exist without continued experiencing of suffering in life.

This video is one of 300+ videos about nonduality, enlightenment, and living awake and engaged.  Eric speaks in a down-to-earth and straightforward style while simplifying concepts of Advaita / nonduality.

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   <name>Nonduality &amp; Enlightenment Simplified</name>
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  <published>2024-09-30T17:30:12+00:00</published>
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   <media:description>Eric Putkonen talks about open and receptive awareness...this is effortless and requires no muscular tensions.  It requires relaxing into to and receiving.  This is in answer to the occasional question of feeling tension or pain while in meditation, during mindfulness, and being present.

This video is one of 300+ videos about nonduality, enlightenment, and living awake and engaged.  Eric speaks in a down-to-earth and straightforward style while simplifying concepts of Advaita / nonduality.

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  <title>Why meditation won't lead to enlightenment || #nonduality #meditation #advaita #enlightenment</title>
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   <name>Nonduality &amp; Enlightenment Simplified</name>
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  <published>2024-09-04T18:15:03+00:00</published>
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   <media:description>Eric Putkonen talks about why meditation won't lead to enlightenment.  It is a prevalent myth that if you meditate correctly for long enough that you will awake or have self-realization.  But this believe assumes a casual connection and falls into the seeker's trap.  It is best not to do meditation for enlightenment.

This video is one of 300+ videos about nonduality, enlightenment, and living awake and engaged.  Eric speaks in a down-to-earth and straightforward style while simplifying concepts of Advaita / nonduality.

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  <title>No one is reincarnated || #nonduality #reincarnation #reincarnated #advaita #pastlives #pastlife</title>
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   <name>Nonduality &amp; Enlightenment Simplified</name>
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  <published>2024-08-28T18:00:14+00:00</published>
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   <media:description>Eric Putkonen talks about reincarnation and past lives again and tries to clarify a few points based on the questions and conversations he has had since the last video.  In Advaita, Brahman alone exists and there is no other.  So there is no &quot;me&quot; that reincarnates from life to life to have a past life.

This video is one of 300+ videos about nonduality, enlightenment, and living awake and engaged.  Eric speaks in a down-to-earth and straightforward style while simplifying concepts of Advaita / nonduality.

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  <title>Bound by knowledge || #nonduality #advaita #enlightenment</title>
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   <name>Nonduality &amp; Enlightenment Simplified</name>
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  <published>2024-08-08T19:30:01+00:00</published>
  <updated>2026-04-29T07:37:44+00:00</updated>
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   <media:title>Bound by knowledge || #nonduality #advaita #enlightenment</media:title>
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   <media:description>Eric Putkonen talks about how knowledge is an obstacle and how one can be bound by knowledge.  Realization the Self does not happy by finding the right knowledge.  Knowledge is just concepts and concepts can not touch the past.  Knowledge is the past and the Self is only here and now.

This video is one of 300+ videos about nonduality, enlightenment, and living awake and engaged.  Eric speaks in a down-to-earth and straightforward style while simplifying concepts of Advaita / nonduality.

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   <name>Nonduality &amp; Enlightenment Simplified</name>
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  <published>2024-06-25T16:00:53+00:00</published>
  <updated>2026-04-24T22:07:25+00:00</updated>
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   <media:description>Eric Putkonen is often asked about how to meditate on I am, nonduality, or even pure consciousness.  Today, he gives the meditation tip to not meditate on anything.  Meditation is not about concentration.  Meditation is not about being aware OF something, but being awareness itself that is aware of what is going on.  This is a subtle change of focus.  Just like the eye can not see itself, the point is not to look at something but abide as that which sees.

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  <title>30 minute silent satsang &amp; silent meditation || #nonduality #advaita #satsang #meditation #darshan</title>
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   <media:title>30 minute silent satsang &amp; silent meditation || #nonduality #advaita #satsang #meditation #darshan</media:title>
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   <media:description>Eric Putkonen doesn't talk in this video.  Fulfilling a request by a viewer that made a comment on another video, he is sitting for 30 minutes in silence with the viewer.

This video is one of 300+ videos about nonduality, enlightenment, and living awake and engaged.  Eric speaks in a down-to-earth and straightforward style while simplifying concepts of Advaita / nonduality.

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  <title>Delving into why things are boring || #boredom #boring #bored  #enlightenment</title>
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   <name>Nonduality &amp; Enlightenment Simplified</name>
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  <published>2024-05-16T19:00:30+00:00</published>
  <updated>2026-04-24T22:06:54+00:00</updated>
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   <media:title>Delving into why things are boring || #boredom #boring #bored  #enlightenment</media:title>
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   <media:description>Eric Putkonen talks about how boredom stems from living in the past and perceiving things as the same. Awakening eliminates boredom by allowing a deeper perception of uniqueness and newness in every experience.

This video is one of 300+ videos about nonduality, enlightenment, and living awake and engaged.  Eric speaks in a down-to-earth and straightforward style while simplifying concepts of Advaita / nonduality.

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  <title>The Way is to lose, not to win || #enlightenment #awakening #liberation #nirvana #moksha #mukti</title>
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   <name>Nonduality &amp; Enlightenment Simplified</name>
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  <published>2024-04-29T20:00:15+00:00</published>
  <updated>2026-04-24T22:06:45+00:00</updated>
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   <media:title>The Way is to lose, not to win || #enlightenment #awakening #liberation #nirvana #moksha #mukti</media:title>
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   <media:description>Eric Putkonen turns the normal convention and idea of spiritual growth for ultimate gain or a win upside down and says the way is to lose, not to win.  We lose ignorance, lose illusion, lose attachment, lose fear, lose anxiety, lose stress, lose loneliness, lose boredom, lose regret, lose self-pity, and basically lose suffering.

Key Insights
🎵🎵 The emphasis on losing, rather than winning, in spirituality challenges the common belief that spiritual growth is about gaining or achieving something.
📖 Buddha’s response highlights the transformative power of meditation, not in terms of gaining, but in terms of losing negative emotions and attachments.
❗ The video emphasizes the importance of losing attachments, ignorance, and negative emotions.
🧠 Losing ignorance allows one to see reality as it truly is, dispelling misconceptions and leading to a deeper understanding of oneself and the world.
⚖️ Focusing on losing, rather than gaining, in spiritual practice helps in letting go of the mindset of lacking and opens up the possibility of realizing what one already has.
😌 The video discusses the potential loss of negative emotions and thoughts, such as anger, sadness, stress, and self-centered thinking, through spiritual growth and awakening.
🔍 Recognizing the self and realizing what has always been the case is not a win or gain, but a loss of ignorance and the false belief of lacking. It is a realization of one’s true nature.

This video is one of 295+ videos about nonduality, enlightenment, and living awake and engaged.  Eric speaks in a down-to-earth and straightforward style while simplifying concepts of Advaita / nonduality.

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#nonduality #advaita  #enlightenment #awakening #nirvana #moksha #mukti</media:description>
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  <title>The end of sorrow || #enlightenment #awakening #sorrow #sadness #grief #nonduality #advaita</title>
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   <name>Nonduality &amp; Enlightenment Simplified</name>
   <uri>https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrzLR4GxxsnUfnMVZnEfz5Q</uri>
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  <published>2024-04-19T15:00:23+00:00</published>
  <updated>2026-04-24T22:06:25+00:00</updated>
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   <media:title>The end of sorrow || #enlightenment #awakening #sorrow #sadness #grief #nonduality #advaita</media:title>
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   <media:description>Eric Putkonen talks about his experience that since enlightenment happened in 2005 he has not experienced sorrow, sadness, or grief.  He talks about why this is the case and suggestions for those who want to overcome sorrow, sadness, or grief. 

This video is one of 295+ videos about nonduality, enlightenment, and living awake and engaged.  Eric speaks in a down-to-earth and straightforward style while simplifying concepts of Advaita / nonduality.

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#nonduality #advaita  #enlightenment</media:description>
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  <title>Stop believing in being someone - and the need to be someone || #identity #advaita #nonduality</title>
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  <author>
   <name>Nonduality &amp; Enlightenment Simplified</name>
   <uri>https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrzLR4GxxsnUfnMVZnEfz5Q</uri>
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  <published>2024-04-12T20:00:18+00:00</published>
  <updated>2026-04-24T22:06:21+00:00</updated>
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   <media:title>Stop believing in being someone - and the need to be someone || #identity #advaita #nonduality</media:title>
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   <media:description>Eric Putkonen talks about the early childhood conditioning to be someone.  Being an entity is a given and not enough, we also need to be someone &quot;special&quot;.  This is a double-layered conditioning which if left unseen tends to resist the shattering of the illusion of &quot;me&quot; and realizing you are no one.

This video is one of 295+ videos about nonduality, enlightenment, and living awake and engaged.  Eric speaks in a down-to-earth and straightforward style while simplifying concepts of Advaita / nonduality.

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  <title>Nonduality and the soul || #nonduality #advaita #soul #reincarnation #souls #oneness  #unity</title>
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  <author>
   <name>Nonduality &amp; Enlightenment Simplified</name>
   <uri>https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrzLR4GxxsnUfnMVZnEfz5Q</uri>
  </author>
  <published>2024-03-31T15:00:41+00:00</published>
  <updated>2026-04-24T22:07:15+00:00</updated>
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   <media:title>Nonduality and the soul || #nonduality #advaita #soul #reincarnation #souls #oneness  #unity</media:title>
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   <media:description>Eric Putkonen recently saw a question online about nonduality and the soul and the question talked about NDE (near-death experiences) and such for proof of a soul.  Today he talks about what the soul is in terms of nonduality and how such separation does not exist and that it is a distraction from the inherently undivided Brahman.

This video is one of 275+ videos about nonduality, enlightenment, and living awake and engaged.  Eric speaks in a down-to-earth and straightforward style while simplifying concepts of Advaita / nonduality.

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