Can a concept have experiences? Can a concept become enlightened? If we examine what "me" is we see it is a word, a symbol that represents an idea. In this podcast, we present excerpts from a discussion where Terry encourages us to consider the implications of "me" being a concept.  

This episode presents extracts from Terry's conversations where he discusses how the true self is obscured by our false beliefs and assumptions. Please visit Terry's website at https://www.terrencestephens.com to book a meeting with him, read his blog, and find out more about non-duality.

There are an awful lot of assumptions and beliefs and concepts that we live with and by that seemingly creates this idea of a personal self, a personal me.  Prior to word, what am I?   Does the personal self remain without word?  What remains?  There is still being, life, experience.  A word is a symbol and innately we know that we are not a word. The mind takes the label to be the thing.  The arising of thoughts is purely happening all by itself with no you that is a thinker or a doer of thoughts.  If you were you could stop it. Thoughts operate dualistically.  Right wrong good bad this that me you and all the increments in between.  This seeming personal me that we take ourselves to be is just happening.  And then there is the belief that I am the thinker.  Just stop it and all your problems would be over.  What happens when we discover we cant just stop them?  Perhaps you are not the thinker, perhaps you are not the doer. We slowly start to witness what is actually happening as opposed to what we think is happening.  Excerpt from Virtual Event with Terrence Stephens.For more information www.terrencestephens.com or to join Terrence for two weekly Virtual Events, book at: https://www.terrencestephens.com/group-eventsFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/TerrenceStephensNonDuality.Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/terrencestephensnonduality/.Twitter: https://twitter.com/non_terry.

Most of us would say we are lost. But that, that we are looking for, we do already know. It’s akin to waking from a nightmare, when we awake, we know it wasnt true.  We recover from nightmares very quickly, because we know it wasnt true.  All that is happening, is some dreaming is still happening but you are awakening to the fact that it is a dream. Come to understand the mechanics of the dream, and what does duality actually mean.Excerpt from Virtual Event with Terrence Stephens.For more information www.terrencestephens.com or to join Terrence for two weekly Virtual Events, book at: https://www.terrencestephens.com/group-eventsFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/TerrenceStephensNonDuality.Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/terrencestephensnonduality/.Twitter: https://twitter.com/non_terry.

 Notice How the Me is Perpetuated.  When something happens, presently, then immediately afterwards in thought there is a rerun of what happened with a confirmation of a me in the scenario.  See the mechanics of the mind at work.  Whatever this is, is what it is, without thoughts, without the need for a label.Excerpt from Virtual Event with Terrence Stephens.For more information www.terrencestephens.com or to join Terrence for two weekly Virtual Events, book at: https://www.terrencestephens.com/group-eventsFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/TerrenceStephensNonDuality.Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/terrencestephensnonduality/.Twitter: https://twitter.com/non_terry.

 Is There Free Will?  If you look long enough and hard enough at free will, where you eventually land is, everything is just happening.  When the sense of do-ership finally drops, what is experienced is relaxation and witnessing everything as just happening.  What comes with that is this beautiful sense of loving to be.  There is a sense of traveling lighter.  Excerpt from Virtual Event with Terrence Stephens.For more information www.terrencestephens.com or to join Terrence for two weekly Virtual Events, book at: https://www.terrencestephens.com/group-eventsFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/TerrenceStephensNonDuality.Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/terrencestephensnonduality/.Twitter: https://twitter.com/non_terry.

 Once you realise that that you actually are, is whole, lacks nothing, is completely whole, now you are in love with being in love.  Now you are in love, in it.  Thoughts that say we lack, we are not whole, we are separated, there is something wrong with me, I feel alone, isolated, not good enough.  All absolute lies, all absolutely not true, but we listen to it.  There is nothing wrong with us, not a single solitary thing is wrong.  Zero.Excerpt from Virtual Event with Terrence Stephens.For more information www.terrencestephens.com or to join Terrence for two weekly Virtual Events, book at: https://www.terrencestephens.com/group-eventsFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/TerrenceStephensNonDuality.Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/terrencestephensnonduality/.Twitter: https://twitter.com/non_terry.

 Everything is just bursting Into existence right here, right now, constantly.  That is what is happening, and there is no past and there is no future.  As a seeming person, we take life to be on a horizontal plane where the past is to the left and the future is to the right and the present is here and I am sitting here somewhere in an apparent now.  These nows are in increments, and the nows appear to go into the past and get stored as memory.  Somehow memory is associated with a concept that we have called a past.  An idea also arises as a possible future, its a concept in thoughts.  Thoughts create the future and thoughts create the past.Excerpt from Virtual Event with Terrence Stephens.For more information www.terrencestephens.com or to join Terrence for two weekly Virtual Events, book at: https://www.terrencestephens.com/group-eventsFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/TerrenceStephensNonDuality.Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/terrencestephensnonduality/.Twitter: https://twitter.com/non_terry.

If the me is known as a description, is the description the described?  Is the description the actual?  Without the description, what happens to the me?  Excerpt from interview with Leonard from Nothing Conversations.For more information www.terrencestephens.com or to join Terrence for two weekly Virtual Events, book at: https://www.terrencestephens.com/group-eventsFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/TerrenceStephensNonDuality.Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/terrencestephensnonduality/.Twitter: https://twitter.com/non_terry.

You need to explore right here, what is going on right here?    Dont think about it, come to the source of being, where it feels like the me is present.  It feels like the me is experiencing, where is that, go there.   As soon as you go there, the mind goes quiet.  This is the point of consciousness.  That is where the aliveness is, the consciousness, the beingness, the awareness. If you can see the truth of that, the truth will set you free.Excerpt from Virtual Event with Terrence Stephens.For more information www.terrencestephens.com or to join Terrence for two weekly Virtual Events, book at: https://www.terrencestephens.com/group-eventsFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/TerrenceStephensNonDuality.Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/terrencestephensnonduality/.Twitter: https://twitter.com/non_terry.