In this lecture‑style video Aaron Doughty explains how to manifest desires by adopting the Buddha’s approach of detachment rather than the typical Law‑of‑Attraction emphasis on intense focus and willpower. He begins with a brief retelling of the Buddha’s life—born a prince, sheltered from suffering, who left his luxury after witnessing poverty and discovered that attachment and desire are the root of suffering. Aaron then contrasts this insight with mainstream manifestation teachings, introducing his own "scale of consciousness" (0‑1000) where desire sits at 125, willingness at 400, love at 500, and enlightenment at 1000, arguing that higher levels enable effortless manifestation. He shares his personal evolution from a hard‑working YouTuber who chased metrics to a breakthrough in Costa Rica where he became aware of his own resistance, let go of outcome‑driven discipline, and began to enjoy the process. This shift raised his vibration, brought greater abundance, and taught him that all desired emotions already exist inside; the key is to feel them now by visualizing and granting permission, acting as if the state is already true. Aaron outlines practical steps: release attachment, have fun, use the "being as if" mindset, and tune into emotions like love, freedom, and joy as internal vibrational frequencies. He illustrates the principle with examples of Osho and Sadhguru’s non‑attachment, discusses the paradox of money (external wealth does not create lasting happiness), and encourages viewers to take a vibrational quiz and meditation to assess and raise their consciousness. The video ends with a light‑hearted call to subscribe and like, emphasizing that the teachings are about inner freedom rather than external validation.
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Now the one thing that Buddha knew is that everything on the outside is a reflection of the inside. So by wanting anything on the outside, it's going about it the reverse way. And when you switch the script, which is exactly what I'm going to show you how to do in this video, you begin to manifest in a completely new way. You are using the power of letting go, the power of detachment, so that these things come into your experience easier than ever. And I'm going to show you exactly how to do that. Welcome back to another video. My name is Aaron and I help people expand their consciousness and raise their vibration by making spirituality practical and relatable, mixed. So in this video I'm going to share with you that of understanding how Buddha manifests. So maybe you've heard, you know, of Buddha before and, uh, he had a life where he was with his dad in a kingdom. He had all the women he could want. He had all of the food he could want. He had all of the status he could possibly want. He was like a prince. And then what happened is his dad was shielding him from that of all of the bad things happening in the world. So he was grown up believing that this is the way reality is, seeing a certain level of things, Then one day he got out of the palace and he saw somebody that was suffering, somebody that was homeless on the street. And from that moment he knew that he wasn't told the truth about the way reality is. He was sheltered. And that's when he left everything. He left his dad, all the, uh, all the food, all of the comfort, all of the luxury. And then he went on his own sense of self-discovery because he realized he didn't know everything. And then he goes into a forest, he meditates, and what eventually happens is he realizes that the root of all suffering is attachment and desire as well. So desire and attachment. And when he realizes this, he then goes through an experience where he has what is called enlightenment experience, and he is completely transformed from that moment going onwards. Now, when we talk about manifesting like Buddha, this sounds counterintuitive. Intuitive to a lot of what we are told with the law of attraction because we're told that you need to really think about it. You need to have a lot of willpower. You need to really work at it. And the key to this is understanding that there's different levels of consciousness when we talk about this. Even early on in my YouTube career, for example, if you look at the scale of consciousness right here, you'll see shame, fear, desire at 125. This is a scale from 0 to 1000. 1000 is enlightenment. When people get to an enlightenment stage, they do literally magical things. I'm not enlightened. I'm just saying that if I did somehow get to that state, then I'd be doing magic everywhere. Okay? However, the— what happens is when we go from desire, then anger, willingness, reason is 400. It's the mind. Beliefs create reality. Love is the level of the heart. It's the level of 500. That's where magic also begins to happen. Now the thing is, when we talk about desire, so the desire's at 125. A desire is like a longing for something. Now, in the beginning of my YouTube career, when I first started developing a powerful self-image of myself, I started taking a lot of action with making daily videos. I was working that 9-to-5 job selling women's shoes. What happened is I was more in the willingness stage. I went from like almost anger with the present moment to willingness and having a very strong willpower. So I preached on YouTube for a long time, take a lot of action, do a lot of things, because I realized that a lot of— I think it was where I was at the time, and I think a lot of people maybe that were into law of attraction content were hearing and like think about it and they were thinking about it, but they weren't getting results. I got such great results from taking action. I was like, hey everyone, you gotta take action. You gotta take action. You gotta take action, which was appropriate for where I was at the time. Then what happened is I began making daily videos and I did that. I've done that almost since then. Now I've gone down to like 6 videos a week instead of 7. But then eventually what happened is I had a huge epiphany when I was in Costa Rica and I was at a life transformation spa. And what happened is I became aware of my own thoughts. I became aware of my own energy and how hard I was trying and how strict I was with my discipline, and it seemed so resistant. I was also really caring what other people thought, so I wasn't making certain YouTube videos because they were a little bit more esoteric. And then I just had this realization. I almost just became aware of myself, and from that moment forward, I felt this release of energy. I said, you know what, I'm going to let go. I had to let go of that belief system of you gotta always work hard. And then what I did I did is I let that go and I said, I don't care what people think about my— I need it. My— I came here to share these ideas and I'm going to share things that are more esoteric. Now on YouTube, that meant making like— I made some starseed videos and some things that were kind of out there. The channel exploded. The, the amount of ease in my life was to a completely new level. I was able to enjoy life more than ever before and all I did was let go. To detach from outcome. And what happened though as well is I raised my vibration out of the reason, the willingness. I started to raise my vibration to loving the present moment. And once I did that, life became so much more magical, so much easier. And the reason I'm saying manifest like Buddha is realize that desire and attachment is at a lower level paradigm. It's on the lower level of the chart of consciousness. If we desire, we're longing and we're saying, I don't currently have that. You see, from a higher level paradigm, we realize that everything we want is already inside of us. You see, all the outer reality is, is a reflection. So if we want to change something on the outside, we got to be like little chemists in a way, go inside of ourselves and then feel that emotion so that we can vibrationally tune to that reality. So that's something that I began to learn how to do once I learned how to let go and once I learned how to have more fun. Once I learned to let go and have more fun, things started to happen in my life much easier. Not without trying really hard, without feeling a lot of resistance. Because realize that anytime we say, I really, really want, we're saying, I don't currently have. Think of yourself like a vibrational tuning fork, and if you want something, what you must first do is feel like you already have it on the inside. How do you feel like you already have it on the inside? By knowing the truth. The truth is that everything you want to experience in your life that you think will make you feel a certain way is only going to make you feel a certain way because you've given a rule inside your mind to feel that. I figured that out once I started to make a lot of money. Prior, I was working that 9 to 5 job. I was making, you know, not bad money by any means. But I was working 40 hours a week and I didn't have my own time. And then what I did is I started doing what I love and I started to make, and I started to become much more abundant than ever before. And what happened is as I started to become more and more abundant, I realized that the money, there was always, even with YouTube, for example, I was like, I want to have this many number of subscribers, then I'll feel a certain way. And I was prolonging my own sense of happiness and I was trying to control the outcome. I was like, well, how's this video gonna do? I was then making videos that I thought would like blow up instead of making videos I was actually passionate about. I was doing things and responding to the outside versus doing what I wanted to do for my authentic core. Once I did that, I was feeling like I was jumbling, I was feeling like this resistance. Then once again, I let go, I become aware of it, I let go. And I trust the universe. I allow whatever's come through to come through. Guess what happened when I let go of trying so hard and I realized that I just needed to have more fun and I need to enjoy the process more? Amazing results came. The channel grows quicker than ever. There's more abundance than ever. But one thing I've also realized from with money is you think at first that money's going to make you way, way happier. And I have it now to where I live in a beautiful house. I live in a really nice neighborhood. I can travel whenever I want. I can, I live a very abundant life, but it doesn't really change how you feel as much as you think it does. Those feelings are already inside of you. I look back to myself like 2, 3 years ago and I'm like, I could have felt that then because it's already inside. And guess what? By the more I would have enjoyed the experience, the more I would have had fun with it, the easier things would have manifested. So we talk about manifesting like Buddha, realize it's about letting go of the outcome letting go of attachment and having fun now, knowing that every single emotion you want to feel when you get somewhere else and when you accomplish something, you can give yourself permission to feel it right now. Okay? Right now, as I move to the side of the screen in a very dramatic way and I take my speech down to a little whisper. Okay? The key to this process. Everything already exists inside of you. So what emotions do you want to feel? Realize anything you want is because you believe it'll make you feel a certain way, okay? So if you're like, you know, I want it, I want love in my life, I want to experience more love, well, I guarantee you, you already have some form of love in your life. You may got some, you may got some dogs or cats, okay? You might got family members, might got a best friend, Well, I mean romantic partner, Aaron. I meant romantic. Well, here's the thing. Love is love. Instead of making the rule it has to be this way, what if you started to love yourself so much and enjoy the love that you have with everyone else that you started to feel it more and more? Then you're like a vibrational tuning fork. Then you let go of wanting the love because you realize it already exists inside of you, and then you find it just comes into your experience. If you let go of wanting any of these emotions as well, you'll find that you can free them. Freedom. I read freedom and I was like, you find that you could freedom. You find that you can feel it. So if I'm like, I want to feel freedom, I want to feel freedom, I'm saying I don't feel freedom. If I let go of wanting to feel freedom, I can just have freedom. I'm saying I want to feel joy, I want to feel joy, and I'm saying I don't feel joy. If I let go of wanting to feel joy, I'll just feel joy. The want means lack. Understand all these emotions are already inside of you. You just got to give yourself permission to do it. The moment you start is the moment it's there. The moment you start being that, that's why I also say being as if, not acting as if, because act implies that you're going to do it for a period of time and then go back to your old identity, like an actor goes to the job and then goes home for the day and he's back to his original character. Being as if it's like, no, this is who I am. I mean, I'm having more fun. I'm enjoying life more. So all of these emotions already exist inside of you. So what do you want? And then what emotion does that break down to? You say, I want more love. Okay, I want more security. How can you already be aware that you have like a roof over your head? How can you already feel secure with the ability to do what you want when you want to do it? To have your dog there protecting you, whatever. Pay attention to ways you already have security, feel it, and then realize that as you feel it, you're tuning yourself to it. But let go of wanting to feel it. It's so paradoxical, but it really works. You see, the bottom level paradigm is looking to the outside. It said, I want and lack and try to escape the present moment. It's trying to say that over there is going to be better. I promise you, no matter— I've experienced this so many times in my life, like, over there is going to be— the first time I remember, I was like, I had this big goal of hitting 100,000 on YouTube. I said, once I hit it, I'm going to feel a certain way. I went to bed one night, had a video that went viral. It was 5 Things You Must Give Up to Raise Your Vibration Instantly. I filmed it in Sedona, woke up one day, it went viral, and I went from like 96,000 to 100,000 in like a day, overnight. And I was like, oh, I'm gonna have like a week or two until I hit it, and then I'll do something special for all the YouTube subscribers. But overnight, and I was like, oh my goodness, it's there. I went to the gym that day and it was just about the same as I always felt. It subsides very quickly because the emotions already exist inside of you. But the paradox is that you will feel it quicker if you just decide to feel it but you feel it by letting go and by trusting as well. Realize that you can let go of that resistance. You can trust, you can allow, you can realize that all the outer reality is, is a reflection on the inside, but you don't have to wait until the outer changes for you to change on the inside. In fact, it works the exact opposite, but at the higher levels of once, you know, enlightenment or even to higher levels in general, you realize as well that you are everything. Everything is a reflection. So how can you want it when you are it? And that's when things become very magical. There's like stories of Osho, who was like the, the playboy guru guy. He would like have people give him Rolls-Royces. He just loved Rolls-Royces. People would just give it to him. He wasn't attached to them. He just liked Rolls-Royces. And people like rich people just, hey, just take my Rolls-Royce. He's like, okay. So that's like an idea that from a higher level paradigm, you're just let go. You're not attached to anything because you are everything. When Sadhguru has enlightenment experience, he said he couldn't figure out where he began and where he ended. He just couldn't. It was like everything blended. Everything is connected. We just, when we believe in the 3D and the lower paradigms that we are this physical body, then we think that everything on the outside is the outside. But when you realize that everything's a reflection, then you then say, well, how can I already feel it? Visualization. The mind doesn't know the difference between what it, what it is thinking, what is experiencing. So if you could visualize it and feel as if you already have these emotions and know that they already exist inside of you, and then you give yourself permission to feel them, you'll find that you'll create more magic than ever. But if there's one thing I want to share with you today is to let go and have more fun, to enjoy the process. The more you're in the present moment, The more you do things 100% as well. I'm making this video right now. I ain't thinking about anything else. Now I am a little bit because I'm like, wait, what am I gonna do after this? But I didn't think about anything else. So that's the key. Let go and allow. Manifest like Buddha by letting go of attachment, desire, and realizing you already have everything. Picture what it is. Imagine what it is. Feel it now. Give yourself permission to feel it now. And you were like a vibrational tuning fork. Begin to tune to that reality. It becomes very, very magical. And if you haven't yet, what I have, something, a vibrational quiz you can take, it's called whatsmyvibration.com. I'll go ahead and link it below. You can calibrate your vibration to see how you can then get to that of the hero or the wizard. And these are very powerful states of consciousness where reality becomes magical. You get a meditation for helping you do that. It's just a quick survey questions. To find out where your current level of consciousness is so that you know how to get to the next level. So with that being said, subscribe if you haven't already. I got a lot more cool videos coming. Smash the like button. I'm not attached if you smash it or not, but if you feel like smashing it, you can smash it. Okay? Other than that, I hope you enjoyed this video and as always, peace, much love, and namaste.
