Shadowing-Übung: What you are seeking is seeking you - Englisch Sprechen Lernen mit Video

it occurred to me that hundreds of thousands maybe millions of people every single day

learn language without any prior knowledge of language

and as as if this isn't wonderful enough like a wonder miraculous the same is also true for wisdom

everyone who we see as wise from whom we're trying to learn

and who we see has it all figured out at at least it seems,

whatever wisdom they have, they acquired it with no wisdom at all.

And so truly everything that we're looking for is already looking for us in that sense.

This is a very scientific thing to say, just like language.

We are looking for language, we have no idea how to speak, otherwise we would already be able to speak.

And so there is a way in nature that makes us yearn

for something that we do not have and that very yearning itself is also met by something.

Because the yearning isn't enough.

There is something in nature that also provides that which we are looking for in the physical sense, language, as a baby, as a child.

But then we go up to say, I also want to know things.

I also want to understand myself.

I also want to see what this life really is.

And that yearning too, we did not invent.

And so that yearning too will be met.

And it is being met.

But we go around thinking that we are responsible for our own peace, for our own love, for our own wisdom.

and we try to create something out of nothing.

And we're stressed out that if we fail in this, we fail as a human being.

And so we're busy trying to figure out how to do something that we do not have, that we do not know how to do.

We're constantly trying to create the means for our ends.

We're constantly trying to create the means that will take us to the goal, the goal being peace, wisdom,

understanding, happiness, whatever it is that we have set as our goal.

We are constantly trying to create the means to those ends.

But those means are actually blocking us because the ends are already there.

We are constantly trying to say, oh, maybe my career can be a means to an end.

Maybe my career can make me happy.

Maybe if I surround myself with enough people,

maybe if I become popular Maybe if I am desired I become desirable to myself

Maybe if I do a lot of charity A lot of good things I can become good

Everything is a means to an end

but this life is not really like the first job that demands three years of experience

but we're trying to get the job to get experience this is not like that

in life everything is provided and all we need to do is to permit it

to say I am open I am ready to receive this.

But our means are blocking this perception, or rather our activities so busy,

so concerned, so involved, and everything is so important and so dangerous and so perilous. and

so we're constantly looking out for our means trying to hold

them together trying to put them together trying to protect them

so that they can reach their end

and this is our concern this is our work

and this is what we're busy with

and we are too busy to receive the very things for which we are doing all of this for

and this will never end

because the means are constantly changing trying to procure something that is changeless because peace is not something that's changing

peace is the stillness, the everlasting condition how can that be achieved with a constantly changing plan this planning,

this scheming this doing and achieving

and trying all of it is not only unnecessary it is counter to the very thing

that we're trying to achieve

and the obvious question is well how can I stop this this seems like the right thing if I do nothing

am I supposed to just sit on my hands all day nothing is going to get done

that way I need to pay rent I need to go do things

but all we need to do is to finally discern the

important from the unimportant we can know exactly what to do by knowing what not to do is cheating

and deceiving and lying going to get me ahead is this going to get me towards peace

and happiness and fulfillment and meaning in life because every time I cheat every time I deceive,

every time I even look at that which is not mine,

I feel the pangs, the limitations,

the heat of jealousy, of resentment.

Why didn't I get this?

Or I deserve it and others are getting it.

This is like a burning.

This is like a fire.

Every time I engage in this, I burn like this.

And so is this maybe an indication from life that this is not the way?

And here we can see how life shows us what is not the way.

And inevitably what will remain will be the way, although by that time we will have the very thing.

There will be no way to peace.

We will say, I have let go of so much.

Now I realize the letting go is the peace itself.

And we say, I want wisdom.

I want knowledge.

I want to be secure in this world.

I want to understand this world.

I want to be one with it, whatever our ideas about it are.

If we act like we are the judges of this, that we know better than life, every single time we say this should not have been like this

or i approve this this is exactly what i would have done

and that's what's happening so naturally this is the right thing that's going on

every single time we say this we necessarily admit that we know better

but isn't this whole seeking because we don't know better

so this ignorance this illusion that we know better is blocking our reception of wisdom

that the whole world is trying to impart into us just like it is trying to impart language

and the baby is open it doesn't have the ignorance it doesn't have those ideas

that are falsely blocking the receptors of everything it needs It's empty.

There are no ideas.

There are no understandings of anything, which can be misunderstandings.

It's just open.

And so it's watching the mothers,

the fathers, everyone else's mouths and actions and how they act in the world and how they react to things.

And from that, it is learning associations and saying, this sound that is coming out of the mouth, it has something to do with this situation,

with this emotion, with what is currently happening.

And so that is how it is picking up one word,

two words, three words, and then associating them with each other and seeing the differences also.

Just like in that way we are shown by life,

every single time you think you know better and you act out of that

you get into misery you get into confusion you get into suffering you get into anger into resentment into hopelessness

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and so when people say surrender this is what it means Surrender does not mean to give up,

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to lose hope, and to, I might as well die.

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No, not surrender like that.

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Surrender, I recognize.

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I recognize there is something that knows.

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And that is not me.

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Because I am seeking for wisdom.

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If I am seeking wisdom, if I am seeking peace, then it means I don't have it.

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So why not let the one who does have it, in fact, the one that is the source of it, why not let that one take over?

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and also not take over in a passive sense but again the openness of the child the curiosity,

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the attention the non-judgmental observation of every single thing that is going on I see this, I wonder about this

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and I'm just going to put my attention on it without

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any of my preconceived notions without any making up any ideas without imagining anything just by perception,

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by observation, by witnessing.

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That's when everything unfolds in the thing that we're looking at.

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That's how the child looks at language

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and language unfolds into it and all of a sudden it starts speaking

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and becomes even more eloquent than the ones whom it learned language from.

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Just like that wisdom can unfold in us now that we have the language

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and it can come into this mind and it can take over and it can finally be accepted, be permitted.

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And it's the same with peace.

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By being open, by surrendering in this way,

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by letting go of every notion of every idea of I know better or things should be like this instead of this,

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and by condemning all those things we think are wrong and by praising and admiring and almost worshipping

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the things that we think are right, if we let go of both of those,

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both of those, and if we don't permit anyone else's ideas,

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if we say, if this makes sense to me, it will unfold anyway.

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If we stay empty like this and open and surrendered,

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then every single thing which we are rightfully seeking will come and we will need it

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and so truly every single thing that you are looking for is looking for you

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Phrase Bank: Wiederverwendbare Ausdrücke

"it occurred to me that" – "Mir kam der Gedanke, dass..." (perfekt für reflexive Einleitungen)
"acquired it with no wisdom at all" – "erlangte es ohne jegliche Weisheit" (zeigt die Ironie von Lernen)
"the means are blocking the perception" – "die Mittel blockieren die Wahrnehmung" (scharfe Formulierung für Zweck-Mittel-Problematik)
"permit it to say I am open" – "erlaube es, zu sagen: Ich bin offen" (ruhige, einladende Haltung ausdrücken)
"constantly changing trying to procure something that is changeless" – "ständig wechselnd, um etwas Unveränderliches zu erlangen" (kontrastiert Bewegung und Ruhe)

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Grammatik in diesem Video

Die Strukturen, die der Sprecher am häufigsten verwendet, mit den genauen Worten aus dem Video:

Struktur	Im Video
Passiv be + Partizip Perfekt – wichtig ist, was geschieht, nicht wer es tut	is also met · will be met · being met
Relativsätze who / which + Satz – eine Zusatzinformation über eine Person oder Sache	everyone who we · that which is · anything, which can
Present Perfect have/has + Partizip Perfekt – eine vergangene Handlung, die jetzt noch wichtig ist	have set · have let

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