How to Drop Personal Thoughts in the Most Efficient Way | Francis Lucille on Nonduality & Ego

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"A personal thought is a thought that wouldn't exist if we wouldn't believe to be a separate entity.
It is by walking the walk of universal consciousness in this way, conducting these experiments, that you will liberate yourself from personal thoughts. There is a moment when you notice personal thoughts arise out of some kind of mechanical habit, and you can just drop them because you have investigated, because you know. So you just drop them out of understanding. That's different. It's not that you drop them through an effort."

Topics Covered:
• What defines a "personal thought"
• The illusion of the separate self
• Why repression doesn’t work
• Practical self-inquiry
• Inner experiments with universal consciousness
• Letting go through true understanding

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Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction: Persistent personal thoughts
00:32 - What is a personal thought?
01:26 - Why trying to eliminate them doesn't work
02:23 - The efficient path: investigating the separate self
03:12 - The power of not knowing and openness
03:51 - Experimenting with universal consciousness
04:56 - Liberation through conscious action
05:45 - The salesman metaphor and understanding
07:00 - How to stop "buying" lemon thoughts
07:48 - Recognizing suffering as a signal of ego

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(From Temecula dialogue with Francis Lucille 2014-03-01)

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[annasun_art]

We don’t have to open the door to everyone who knocks on it!😊❤

[kurdogalali]

Dear Francis, if I have one second left with this body, I will come across the Oceans to play a game with you because you are my friend. From the Kurdistan Region, North Iraq

[margaretmichael]

I love this and have tried the investigation and found a lot of lemons.

[adolforosado]

The vacuum cleaner analogy had me in tears laughing. Such truth! This was for me as well. Thank you!

[AdeSteHar]

I cannot thank you enough, Francis. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[freddystaelens]

Thoughts being cosmic events seem to flow towards a target that buys them, since they seem persistent. So us not choosing them, they must choose us. Like they prey on attention. I have a singboard in my head wich reads : Welcome, but not interrested!

[bcskon]

succinct & direct with humor...merci beaucoup

[roxisone]

Thank you Francis, for making it clear and simple.

[ptanji]

Wow! This video is a gift that keeps on giving!

[manoramadivakar]

While following the above directions and pointers regularly on one hand, in the meantime, before we reach the abiliity of personal thought dropping state, treat thoughts as persistence of crying babies. Ignoring with love, or deviating them from obstinacy with other activity, will work.

[HemPat]

Gratitude for a wonderful teaching :-)

[hemamalini-symj]

Totally Agree, Thank you Francis, ❤Lots of Love

[johnburman]

Thanks Francis, I seem to be in that bland stage, nothing grabs me but old stale thoughts show up and move on....very helpful.

[mohdshahnawaz.australia]

Absolutely loved this video. Thank you so much for this valuable information Francis. Lots of love from an Australian property investor 🇦🇺❤

🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation:

00:03 - *Persistent Personal Thoughts*
00:15 - *Dropping Personal Thoughts*
00:27 - *Strong Emotional Reactions*
00:39 - *Defining Personal Thoughts*
00:51 - *Belief-Dependent Existence*
01:03 - *Identity-Based Thoughts*
01:14 - *Understanding Thought Nature*
01:27 - *Investigating Beliefs*
01:37 - *Uprooting Personal Beliefs*
01:47 - *Continuous Thought Generation*
01:59 - *Inefficacy of Suppression*
02:17 - *Investigating Self Beliefs*
02:27 - *Exploring Identity*
02:42 - *Embracing Uncertainty*
02:56 - *Consciousness Inquiry*
03:10 - *Openness to Alternatives*
03:24 - *Doubt-Based Thoughts*
03:33 - *Reduced Attachment*
03:47 - *Thought Experimentation*
03:57 - *Testing Beliefs*
04:10 - *Universal Consciousness*
04:27 - *Liberating Thoughts*
04:40 - *Consciousness Experiments*
04:55 - *Freedom from Thoughts*
05:09 - *Dropping Habitual Thoughts*
05:22 - *Understanding-Based Release*
05:31 - *Effortless Disappearance*
05:43 - *Thought Rejection Analogy*
05:56 - *Learning from Experience*
06:10 - *Rejecting False Offers*
06:23 - *Acting from Understanding*
06:37 - *Recognizing Unnecessary Thoughts*
06:46 - *Overcoming Thought Obligation*
06:59 - *Insightful Thought Rejection*
07:14 - *Dismissing Free Thoughts*
07:28 - *Body's Delayed Reactions*
07:42 - *Concept of Separation*
07:51 - *Suffering from Separation*

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[garymorgan]

This is my point of being now I must investigate

[dariodrz]

Great metaphore the one of the salesman

[kirstinstrand]

I can assure you that Personal, persistent, thoughts have nothing to do with salesmanship, unless you have a malicious Narcissist in your life. In which case, you Must have a Separate Identity in order to free one's self from the persistent thoughts. Edit: most Narcissists in our lives are not Malicious. Infact, there are many types of Narcissists. Everyone must go No Contact because Narcissists will only result in much unhappiness. Narcissists are lemons.

[helioschan]

Likewise if a lemon salesman sold me some excellent lemons which turns out to be vacuum cleaners