First time I clearly understand the Mary and Jane metaphor.

One of the verbally brightest and clearest teachers on the planet - now - or ever.

The dream analogy is by far the best thing I’ve ever heard.

What a beautiful concept! 'Each of our minds is a window through which God sees the world.' ❤ This should bring us close to each other and to God without belonging to any religion or irrespective of our religion

Simply put consciousness put virtual reality glasses in order to experience the game. When you go into a virtual reality game you forget yourself and get into character to play when you take your glasses off you realize it was just a game.

@lesmonkmorison2828

3 жыл бұрын

Haha... Yes but u see the problem here is that u are no longer urself when u remove the Glasses so how can u realise that it was a game or that u were wearing glasses in the first place....😅

@juiceer3320

2 жыл бұрын

@@lesmonkmorison2828 we hope we don't remember anything , because if we did it's sad

@dhananzzeal

Жыл бұрын

Look at this verse, it sign or proof that maybe this life is just Virtual Reality.. "Did We fail in the first creation? But they are in confusion over a new creation. And We have already created man and know what his soul whispers to him, and We are closer to him than [his] jugular vein When the two receivers receive, seated on the right and on the left. Man does not utter any word except that with him is an observer prepared [to record]. And the intoxication of death will bring the truth; that is what you were trying to avoid. And the Horn will be blown. That is the Day of [carrying out] the threat. And every soul will come, with it a driver and a witness. [It will be said], "You were certainly in unmindfulness of this, and We have removed from you your cover, so your sight, this Day, is sharp." And his companion, [the angel], will say, "This [record] is what is with me, prepared." (Quran, Qaf 15-23) Your comment precisely similiar as quran say about day of judgement (day of resurrection)... Yes, maybe we are life in some kind of VR Realm... The Veil will be removed from our consciousness one day.. So, we are able to see another Reality and everything... And All Praised for The Lord Of The Worlds.. Allah The Almighty One..

@cacidoo

11 ай бұрын

And spiritual experiences ...are when we step out of the boundary of the game for a moment and glimpse the real.

@fsc172

3 ай бұрын

Do we chose which game to play?

"Mind alone is the Radiant Jewel from which all things borrow their temporal reality." - Lama Anagarika Govinda (Foundations of Tibetan Mysticism)

This guy is a true scientist

Same as the wave, through having a seperate experience, forgets it is the ocean 💜

What else I need more? Nothing... It's absolutely clear. Gratitude

Wow! Thank you ! Much gratitude! So clearly explained! 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

Great (as usual)! Dear @RupertSpira what you said here ( @23:14 ) just reminded me of a poem by Sheikh Baha'i (a Persian 17th century philosopher, poet and wise), I am trying to do my best in translation: "No matter which door I knock on, you are the owner of that house! No matter which room I reside in, you are the light of that room! In the tavern, or in the temple, you are the awakening force... Either I call a place pagoda or a mosque, it is only a valueless label, as you are the mere purpose!"

@DanielColageo

7 жыл бұрын

nice

@luizfbw

7 жыл бұрын

Mooji says this poem like this: "Knocking on the door...it opens... ...i realize now that i was knocking from the inside."

@amayaaum9792

6 жыл бұрын

That's from a Rumi poem. Similar though

@luizfbw

4 жыл бұрын

@Citizen X yeah I discovered that last year, he mask is gone, what a shame

@arijitmukherjee2532

4 жыл бұрын

Excellent. Thank you for sharing this.

Buddhist Zen teachers explain it like this, in reality there is only one consciousness! But consciousness has eight aspects. They are the five senses, eyes, ears, nose, tounge, touch, plus mind consciousness . There is also manas consciouness whose purpose is to identify whatever arises, but then unfortunately mistakenly believes this identification as a seperate identity/self. And there is store consciousness , which stores all expeirence of the material world including the other seven consciousness. In Buddhist psychology there's only one reality one consciousness. But in the taking of form displays 8 characteristics. When manas realises its true purpose/self, manas free's itself from ego identity, this is enlightenment.

We are the universe that we know. The universe has crafted consciousness.

Having had a near death experience, I know our true nature is immensely peaceful, all expanding, timeless and overwhelmingly full of Love (words cannot really convey the experience). In that state it is not possible to experience other human emotions like pain, struggles & suffering. Therefore Ruperts explanation of needing the mind to have other experiences.

@truth7921

2 жыл бұрын

Why would it need other experiences? And how could a limitless mind be limited to only peace?

@truth7921

Жыл бұрын

@@leeparry8779 Limited to love, you mean?

Immense gratitude!

What extraordinary patience, care and love Rupert shows in his answers.

This is the most clear and profound message from Rupert. Thank you so very much Rupert

@guidedmeditation2396

3 жыл бұрын

The countless teachings I have come across remind me of how a computer works. But it is computers that are like God and the universe and not the other way around. God exists in the eternal sacred now of "knowing" while our experience is dynamic and pliable and variable. Think of God as a hard drive while our experience is like the CPU and activities played out on our LED monitors. Imagine how your hard drive surface is still, silent and all knowing of everything that can possibly take place on your computer's environment. But when you place your awareness and consciousness at the computer screen of a game like Sim City you see people walking round, cars crashing, buildings getting built etc. But all the while if you place your consciousness and awareness at the hard drive it is tomb quiet and still on the surface even though there is correspondence back and forth from the hard drive. There is nothing that can happen in the Sim City Environment that is not really information on the hard drive brought to life via the CPU. God's CPU is massive layers of mathematics and geometry that simulate time and allow the eternal now to change and grow in a series of infinite nows. If you want to change what happens on the screen in your Sim City you don't get a screw driver and disassemble your computer monitor and move things around. You must take actions to change them on your hard drive for them to manifest as changes on your computer screen. This is why you must always make manifestations in the now, and why you must make changes in the unseen first for them to come about in the seen. Imagine focusing your consciousness and awareness as you contemplate a huge oak tree. If you contemplate and focus on the roots underground it is a solemn and still, quiet place. But if you place your awareness up at the leaves blowing and waving in the wind in the beautiful sunlight you have a completely different dynamic experience.

@bredacarr7461

3 жыл бұрын

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@bredacarr7461

3 жыл бұрын

That was an error course.

Without a believed in word, God does not exist, there is just what’s happening without a label. If you view the qualities of God as that which is omnipresent, omnipresent, and omniscient, God is all there is and there is only God. God is everything. How can everything need anything?

The infinite cannot know itself as infinite unless it looks back from the perspective of the finite. The relative world provides the context the absolute needs to know itself. ""We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time." - T. S. Eliot"

@imspring3033

Жыл бұрын

Why does the infinite has to know itself?

I just arrived to Amsterdam three months ago, I came from an Islamic background. and I got the see here so far all the things you talked about Rupert spira. You just made me realize that it is beautiful. and it felt so

His words here are a gift. A gift for those of us seeking. But especially for a newer aged like seeker. Not down the Indian spectacle that now surrounds waking up. Call him a gem for "Western" seekers. By Western I mean having Zero prior experience to consciousness... prior to starting their search. You are a gift from grace Rupert. You are the reason I was able to start Settling into my spiritual maturity. Mooji got me to maybe Stage 2 or 2.5. Rupert is helping me understand what Mooji helped me to experience. Shout out to Sam Harris and Exkhart Tolle too... for giving us a Non "Indian like" traditional route to Freedom.

At first this made me sad, but now I think I understand. Because my path was saying that I am not the mind. But I think that I understand that the mind is the imagination of awareness and it’s made out of awareness. So no it’s us in the ABSOLUTE but us in the relative.

Mind blown. Thank you.

Sam Harris brought me here. This is absolutely one of the best talks I’ve heard. I have moments of pure enlightenment when listening to Rupert. He takes me home. Peace, love & unity, friends xx

@angelinasamba620

3 жыл бұрын

Hi Tiki. Could you please tell me where Sam Harris brought you here? Thank you 🙏

3 жыл бұрын

@@angelinasamba620 hello Angelina. Yes, sure. On Sam Harris’ waking up app he has a talk with Rupert which is very informative and interesting. I don’t think it is posted anywhere else online. Let me know if you’d like a free month of the waking up app and I will send you a link.

@CamouflageMaster

Ай бұрын

Wow, i thought Sam harris was atheist? How come he would bring you to Rupert??

Watching this i remembered a lot about what i knew like 13 or 14 years ago, but forgot after i had a mild brain-inflamation... the last 13 years i was in constant lack of this understanding and my life went basicly nowhere ..."nevermind" ... a lot of this "knowing" comes back, throu meditation and watching this video increased this "knowing" ...i really feel you awakened that "knowing" for a lack of a better word... basicly you reminded me that i am more than i understand i am ..and this more is experiencing itself throu "me" ... wow, i should listen to more of your videos !

WE MUST ALL REALIZE THE KRISHNA CONSCIOUSNESS WITHIN

THANK GOD FOR RUPERT, RUPERT SPIRA, THANK YOU GOD

Depression is the way to come closer to the experience of death. For the same reason mentioned by Rupert. Thanks for your Light, Rupert🌞 I realized that my deasese was more blessing for me than curse. In being depressed I strived to find happiness. And this indicator (that I desperately needed to be happy and at peace) just proved how significant it was for me. That's why I was doing it😁

@victoria.xseven7913

Жыл бұрын

Very beautiful...you put into words what I was trying to grasp. Nothing is totally bad or wrong, but can be useful and beautiful.

@Alix777.

11 ай бұрын

I had depression before and it was a blessing. But now I have chronic ocular pain. It has no cure. My depression of 2015 was about existence, now it's just because my disease is debilitating and painful. No one can find peac with this awful disease. I'm lost and hopeless. I want to experience death every morning.

@victoria.xseven7913

11 ай бұрын

@@Alix777. I don't know if you'd like a suggestion? It's hard that nobody can understand our deepest pains except our own selves but I think our own selves can also provide an answer.

Aniis Nin-- we see the world not as it is, but as we are.

God needs our minds to evolve. They are "his" minds and our minds, simultaneously.

@andrewstrakele7567

6 жыл бұрын

Open-minded Skeptic - Hi! I notice and appreciate the thought behind your comments in many of the videos I've watched on KZread. I'd like to know YOUR current hypothesis or ideas on the nature of consciousness and reality. Which author(s) do you believe provide the model that best fits the evidence? Whose videos, blogs, or websites would you recommend that best capture your own ideas? OR - If you have your own site or videos on this subject, even better! I'd like to have a look!

@andrewstrakele6815

6 жыл бұрын

Hi OMS! I just wanted to send you a Spoiler Alert. Do you know that “pins” is actually another account for Luke Johnson/Lisa Stone/COF etc.? 🙀 Just thought you’d like to know.

@thailandamulets

6 жыл бұрын

considering the limitations of written and spoken human language, that is quite a neutral and accurate way of saying it. 'God' can mean different things to different people, for example to me, the universe is conscious in a way we cannot imagine, and knows what it is doing more than we do, and the universe self created or not, is that which is consider God, and that we are 'the eyes of the world (God/Nature/Universe). we are that with which God sees itself through, and Vice Versa.. the views of one, the other, both, neither, are all false views. The Enlightened One did not have a View, Except that all personal views are limited, conditioned, one sided, and false. He called them 'Dhitti' (views or attitudes), and there are different kinds. Sakaya Dhitti means belief in a separate self... Sammaa Dhitti means right view (no particular view, except that all things are impermanent, hence dis-satisfactory, and not self in nature).. Mijchaa Dhitti means 'Wrong View, or Distorted Views', and so on. Thinking Oneself has become enlightened and declaring it publicly is a sign of vipallasa (distorted understanding despite hard and meritorious practice), or vipassanupakilesa (the ten defilements of mind which arise from attaining insights into the nature of existence, and then mistakenly thinking these attainments are 'self attained' and bring the imaginary self back into the story)

Thank you Rupert! At the end of listening to A Course in Miracles,a statement was given to help me awaken to the infinite intelligence within me, which i repeated daily, it says ‘i do not know the thing I am,where i am or how to look upon the world or on myself’ at first I didn’t even understand it to know how God could answer the question but watching your videos have helped me understand and is daily awakening me.....I will meet you soon.❤️

12:46 - Consciousness looks through each of our finite minds and sees itself as the world. This is what the Sufis mean when they say "There is only God's face." and (25:45) "I knew my Lord through my Lord."

enjoy the show...

I feel so fortunate to have found a teacher who could explain this in a way that I understand. It’s a miracle.

Thanks

great message

Fantastic, amazing, wonderful, and...terrifying, horrible, formidable...all at the same time. This insight is all of the above and more.

@VannessaVA

5 жыл бұрын

Well, fancy seeing you here. (I promise I'm not stalking you lol)

this teaching is the very definition of duality

For such an enlightened guy Rupert interrupts people quite often. Even with his discussion with Deepak Chopra, he was constantly interrupting and trying to one-up him with some even greater truth.

Let me leave this little; Jesus Christ and His Spirit is the True and Permanent solution to any unclearity.

I love listening to him. He is so thoughtful and genuine.

One can get enlightened just by watching and understanding These videos....great and simple explanations.....🙏🙏🙏

@adunnou2075

5 жыл бұрын

Robin Tamang not really

@lancejones4636

2 жыл бұрын

You are already enlightened. You just aren't aware of that.

It explains consumerism: we want want want and when we get the object all desires stop and there is peace. Which of course will start again unless the source itself is recognized

Sensations are activities of the Mind because in order for there to be a sensation your Mind has to be on it. Sensations. Experiencings. Presences.

Questions that arise from this video: 1) Why would Mary want to know a world? That it doesnt want or desire? Isnt it complete, as is? Non dual teachings state awareness doesnt want, or doesnt mind. So why create beings or mind to know a world? 2)Why would consciousness freely give up knowing itself, to know the world it created? To then seek activities ( extreme sports/ meditation) from the perspective of Jane/mark, to want to experience relaxing back to being as it is? Confusion? Wouldnt it just create a way to experience whatever it wants and be able to be as it? Its the infinite! Why go through such complexities? 3) Who or what is trying to elicit the sensation of returning to peace? Surely Mary (infinite consciousness) wouldnt need to try to elicit this through extreme sports or meditation or satsang etc. because it always knows it is? 4) sleeping with prostitutes, taking drugs Does the infinite, that freely gives up itself really require such things to know itself?

@aparnadurvasula2933

11 ай бұрын

Adding to these questions which I also have, an additional would be is God not aware of two people and their minds and their interactions with each other - if so that can explain why there are so many atrocities! For example in the example of the prostitutes while the person paying for the prostitute gains peace the prostitute what is there to gain other than money? I feel God does not have to shrink to a limited mind to be aware of the objective experience he is aware but seems to let the objective minds do whatever they want to and suffer until they choose to stop suffering and return. Seems a bit sadistical to me and that has often been a source of my confusion with such explanations and why the Ishwara concept over a Brahman is more readily palatable

Spectacular!!

Ore pwoli.

Infinite thanks Rupert 🙏🏻

"muridan", 'He' don't exhibit any needs. Believe so.. I❤️my God, Allh The One.

I’ve only heard that it needs the mind to experience itself so this is a little tough to digest 😮‍💨

Mind is our spirit, a lot simpler!

Rupert is one of the dopest dudes I've ever known. He is one decent dude. 👌🏼

thank you very much for this precious teatching ! you are truly right; continue in sufi knowledge . i am your deciple. my name is mehdi

Freakin genius!

i've heard countless hours of rupert spira and other teachers and i don't think i've come to any realization at all about anything significant lol but still his voice is soothing

Great stuff. I am taken by where you said. The knowing that the mind with a small m is just a forum for consciousness to see itself...the knowing of this truth allows us to see the face of god in everything we see in the world including ourselves. Such vital knowledge this. Thank you

Rupert you are the the the best. All possible gratitude to you

Thank you, Rupert. The mists are parting… 💕

My name really is Jane and I actually live in London 🙏🏽

Thanks Rupert! It was really where I am now.

Thank You!!!

the importance of humility and silence

I find it difficult to follow the Mary/John metaphor because I’ve never experienced a dream in which I am not myself but someone else. But I do see that the “I” in my dreams in another place exists within the mind of the “I” that’s asleep at home.

Extremely powerful video!

Rupert... you are echoing my thoughts exactly but I have so many more

Beautiful...

Wonderful explanation ! as always !

This is just fantastic

beautifully said

Thank You💚

Beautifuly answered❤

Wonderful

I love you Rupert! Thanks a lot.

Yes. Beautiful.

Wonderful clarification that dovetails nicely with the explanation of mind from the Tibetan book of the dead

Thank you Rupert. I am so grateful.

Beautiful Thankyou

Excellent explanation! It is true as far as it goes. But the word "God" in English means a number of different things, which the Hindus have individual words for. What Rupert is calling "God" is "Brahman" in Sanskrit - the Absolute non-dual reality. Once one goes into the World via the finite mind, then there is also a "God" who is the administrator of the world, called "Iswara". When asked about Iswara, Ramana Maharshi said: "Q: Is there a separate being Iswara [personal God] ? Ramana Maharshi: Yes. Q: What is he like? Ramana Maharshi: Iswara has individuality in mind and body, which are perishable, but at the same time he has also the transcendental consciousness and liberation inwardly. Iswara, the personal God, the supreme creator of the universe really does exist. But this is true only from the relative standpoint of those who have not realized the truth, those people who believe in the reality of individual souls. From the absolute standpoint the sage cannot accept any other existence than the impersonal Self [Atman or Brahman], one and formless. Iswara has a physical body, a form and a name, but it is not so gross as this material body. It can be seen in visions in the form created by the devotee. The forms and names of God are many and various and differ with each religion. His essence is the same as ours, the real Self being only one and without form. Hence forms he assumes are only creations or appearances. Iswara is immanent in every person and every object throughout the universe. The totality of all things and beings constitutes God. There is a power out of which a small fraction has become all this universe, and the remainder is in reserve. Both this reserve power plus the manifested power as material world together constitute Iswara."

@doriesse824

3 жыл бұрын

The last two sentences sound like the description of Panentheism.

@anne-marievandenbercken7334

3 жыл бұрын

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@pinkifloyd7867

Жыл бұрын

Those 3 letters are the most confusing time waisting 3 letters. I just say trust your life and stop thinking about it , thank you 😘

Beautiful explanation of advita well articulated

Excellent

Rupert the great ! You explained M in simple language with anecdotes.

Muchísimas gracias!!!!

Thank you for your wise lecture for people!!! What do you think that people tend to be obsessed with sensual desire because of that activities like drinking, shopping, extreme sports and so on?

This video clears all my veils. Thank you Rupert! This understanding has totally changed my perception about mind and Mind.

Brilliant

This is the best explanation I’ve ever heard so far!! And I’ve heard many! Thanks so much!!

This is beautiful. Im sure I would be in tears watching live as in private.

Being aware of neutrality is the same energy in my experience. It's just reached from a different point of awareness. TY Rupy

A hearty gratitude Rupert for showering grace of ultimate knowledge through such simple Metaphor.

🫠💚🩷🩵🙏thank you

o rupert é absurdo, um gênio.

We too need a mind to know the world.

@lancejones4636

2 жыл бұрын

There is no "we". :-) Only "I".

wow awesome, I love the jane metaphor, truly powerful

...sometimes it is difficult to explain something, what is not able to use words for :-) Thank you very much Rupert :-)

Hautep!!...Rupert...

As a young philosopher and artist your clips had a greatly positive impact on my perspective of reality. To see infinity beyond the senses applies not only in "matter". Grateful for these clips. They send me into lovely meditations. almost like you have bet me to my own realizations. i also rock climb, body build and hike for days on end haha

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome comment! I feel the same way

I get the idea/concept/truth that God Needs Our Mind to Know the World. Makes perfect sense. Definitely. However (yes the ‘however’ was coming)…if God Needs to KNOW what’s up, then why? Why does God “need” to know the horrors, sufferings, etc of this or that? If the nature of realization is bliss, what happens to all of the horrors?

Three in One and One in Three constitute one's being: Free Luminosity, matter, and mind: Seer, seen, and seeing. One in Three and Three in One emerge from only this: The Knower, the known, and knowing: Being, consciousness, bliss.

For the space to be aware of itself it would need a physical form to house that awareness. Something must first exist to be aware. Space is not matter it is the lack of it.

Beautiful! "...in him, we live; and move; and have our being...." so says the Bible. And, so does the Gita confirm the same in “…..There is nothing, O Ajurna, moving or motionless, that can abide without me....I am the Self in the heart of all creatures”.