What’s actually in the way of liberation? According to Tobias, it’s the one looking for it. We get into why no speaker can hand you a path, why pain turns into “my pain,” and why “this is it already” is the last thing a seeker wants to hear. 😉
Check out his YouTube channel, The Unknowable This!
Timecodes and topics:
0:00 Welcome back, Tobias
0:44 The belief that one day “me” won’t be here
4:09 When the speakers stopped talking about a destination
6:03 What to say to someone who feels so much like a me
10:02 Hitting the brick wall and the end-stage seeker’s last tricks
12:14 Terror at the bedroom window
14:32 Awareness teachings, asymptotes and celebrity seekers
18:11 Was the seeking a necessary preparatory step?
23:17 Why no speaker can give you a path to liberation
27:44 An energetic dance, not an explanation
30:23 Pain vs suffering: when people own their story
35:29 Unworthiness and the energetic death
36:36 You can’t explain an illusion: mirages and the Uber me
40:54 Fifteen years as a monk and the regrets that never happened
42:12 “Nothing is happening” and the bathtub plug
46:13 Iron filings and the magnet of personal energy
49:01 The death of the questioner (pneumonia, Neptune and just this)
52:38 Parenting without ownership, and how fighting creates the opponent
55:47 Nobody wants “this is it already”: game over, everything continues
57:44 Wrapping up and how to find Tobias
