12 minute video.

[Paul Rezendes]

Everyone,

Diehards, Rene sent me this video. I’m urging as many people as possible to hopefully listen to it. I think it's really important and it reminds me of why Thich Nhat Hanh says, come home, come back into your body. Again, I hope people find a time to listen to this.

Love to everyone,

Paul

[Jeffrey Angelson]

Paul All

Paul,

This resonated deeply with me.

Lately I’ve been wondering whether the issue is not thought itself, but the way thought fragments living when it is unconsciously taken as reality.

Thought seems to have a practical and beautiful place in life. A memory of someone you love while standing on a mountain can deepen the moment rather than obscure it. Yet thought can also create psychological separation, time, fear, and resistance when identification hardens around it.

What struck me in the video was the sense that reality may be an undivided movement, while thought naturally slices and labels experience into parts. Useful practically, perhaps, but easy to mistake for how things actually are.

More and more, I notice thoughts still arising, but with less impulse to fully believe or follow them. They appear more as movements within awareness rather than commands from a separate self.

And even that understanding can become another identity or position to cling to if one isn’t aware of it.

Not a rejection of thought — just less captivity to it.

Thanks for sharing this. It connected with something I’ve been quietly exploring myself.

Jeff

Jeff Angelson

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[Paul Rezendes]

Jeff,

To me, the essence of the video was pointing to how sometimes non-dual people give up their humanity. They are no longer in their bodies. I'm glad you got a chance to take a look at it. Thanks for the input.

Be well,

Paul

On May 18, 2026, at 8:33 AM, Paul Rezendes <pho...@paulrezendes.com> wrote:

Everyone,

Diehards, Rene sent me this video. I’m urging as many people as possible to hopefully listen to it. I think it's really important and it reminds me of why Thich Nhat Hanh says, come home, come back into your body. Again, I hope people find a time to listen to this.

Love to everyone,

Paul

[Jeffrey Angelson]

Point taken Paul 

Thanks 

Jeff Angelson

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[Rani Madhavapeddi]

Paul, et al , 

Ramana Maharishi was a good example of a non dual person. He was a very human person. When a forest officer comes and tells him I need to get rid of these monkeys as they are a source of disease, Ramana tells the monkey he fed everyday that on this day the forest officer will come to take you all away. 

The day dawns the forest officer comes and finds not a single monkey is there! 

Communication, compassion and humanity is expressed through the body as it’s a default of this living organism. We have seen this being expressed even in animals on how they safe and help each other. 

Anyway my 2 cents is that one has to be open to all possibilities as we cannot judge others and what their experiences are! I have known many saints in my life never known one without ‘love compassion kindness and humane behavior. 

Whatever rises within us is what IS ! So I guess each one to his own till some paradigm shift occurs to change ? 

Love Peace and Joy! 

Rani Madhavapeddi Patel

On May 18, 2026, at 8:35 AM, Paul Rezendes <pho...@paulrezendes.com> wrote:

Jeff,

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