Seeing and Being: Causality.description

Why does the mind seem to work against us when we’re seeking awakening? In this satsang, Helen explores why the mind, with its tendency to think, compare, divide and analyze, cannot recognize our true nature as indivisible oneness. Rather than fighting or resisting our thoughts, we can begin to understand the mind with compassion and see that it is simply trying to do a job it was never designed to do. Paradoxically, when we stop minding the mind, it begins to fall silent.

Satsang is a place where people gather to recognise who we are, and to directly experience and live from knowing what we really are. The recognition of who we are is an endpoint: an end to seeking, searching, and suffering from thoughts of separation.In this transformative Satsang, Helen gently invites us to live as the awareness that is aware of the body, thoughts, emotions, and all phenomena, yet is not limited by any of them.Helen also answers live audience questions, offering practical insight and deep clarity for anyone on the path of self-discovery and awakening.

Many seekers reach a point where they've genuinely seen they are not a separate self — and yet they still don't feel boundless. The vastness the teachings describe keeps slipping away. Something is still holding the sense of limitation in place.In this excerpt, Helen points to what that something is. The illusion of being a separate "me" is kept alive long after it's seen through — by the quiet, unexamined assumption that other people are still separate beings. The moment we treat someone else as a separate self "out there," we silently reconstruct a separate self "in here" to be opposite to them. Two things in the universe again. Finite again.Yes, there are other bodies. But are there other beings? Helen points to the direct test: you cannot find an edge to your own being — only to your body. And if you can't find an edge to yourself, you can't honestly place one around anyone else either. This is what the Buddha meant: "When I reached liberation, so did everyone else."In this excerpt you'll explore:• Why seeing through the separate self once isn't always enough• How treating others as separate beings reconstructs your own ego• The direct test: find where your beingness ends (you can't)• Why the fastest, only permanent way out of suffering runs through this seeing• The difference between other bodies and other beings• What the Buddha really meant about liberating all beings at onceA clear pointing to the second half of awakening — where peace finally becomes effortless and stable.

Awakening is often described as a single moment of seeing — and then everything changes. But most seekers discover something unsettling after their first glimpses of the Self: the old thought structure is still there. The karmic patterns return, sometimes stronger than before.In this satsang, Helen points to the hidden mechanism keeping that structure in place: cause-and-effect thinking. The pervasive, unquestioned assumption that one thing causes another — that money causes security, that someone's words cause shame, that lack of time causes frustration. The cause is "out there." The effect is "in here." And as long as this division is believed, oneness cannot be lived — only glimpsed.Helen shows that every karmic pattern is really one thing appearing three ways: a subtle unseen belief, an emotion that reflects it, and an outer-world situation that mirrors both. The fear and the money are not two things. The shame and the person who triggered it are not two things. Trying to fix the cause to change the effect is the loop that keeps suffering alive — because the cause and the effect were never separate.

Satsang is a place where people gather to recognise who we are, and to directly experience and live from knowing what we really are. The recognition of who we are is an endpoint: an end to seeking, searching, and suffering from thoughts of separation.In this transformative Satsang, Helen gently invites us to embrace moments that may look ordinary but are anything but ordinary. She gently reminds us that awakening is possible while living an ordinary life.Helen also answers live audience questions, offering practical insight and deep clarity for anyone on the path of self-discovery and awakening.

Join Helen in this powerful guided meditation as she leads you through the doorway of recognising the Knower , one of the 14 transformative gateways featured in her book Dissolving the Ego. This meditation supports spiritual awakening, presence, and inner peace.

Join Helen in this powerful guided meditation as she leads you through the doorway of stateless state of now, one of the 14 transformative gateways featured in her book Dissolving the Ego. This meditation supports spiritual awakening, presence, and inner peace.

Satsang is a place where people gather to recognise who we are, and to directly experience and live from knowing what we really are. The recognition of who we are is an endpoint: an end to seeking, searching, and suffering from thoughts of separation.In this transformative Satsang, Helen gently invites us to stop approaching satsang and awakening as something we need to "get. Instead, she encourages us to simply be present and remain open without trying to understand or accomplish. Helen also answers live audience questions, offering practical insight and deep clarity for anyone on the path of self-discovery and awakening.

In this Satsang Helen guides us through an understanding of why our mind thinks in dualistic terms and how to undo its noisy thinking. Helen discusses causality and how to transcend it. Find out more about Helen's teachings and events at www.helenhamilton.org

How do we react as the Self when something arises in us or when we are triggered? Whatever arises we can view it from a place of loving acceptance and not be in argument with ourselves and this moment. This Satsang ends with a short guided meditation "Loving Acceptance Of This Moment"