It always confused me to hear words like this, because my pain was there and i always tried to get rid of that pain through words from spiritual teachers. Once you notice this awareness often enough by listening to teachers, try to feel pain and whats very important ALLOW pain. When you start allowing it, you free yourself from suffering. You will still feel the pain till the end of your time but you develop a completely different attitude towards the pain. Pain will no longer your enemy, pain will become your friend. Love you all, keep going and never give up. You guys are the reason why the world is evolving. ❤

@Axito2

Жыл бұрын

Thank you ❤

@JennyRSTeam

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing. With love, Rupert's team

@carsonpaullee

Жыл бұрын

Wise words.

@drany6707

Жыл бұрын

This is it. Pain becomes worse the more you hate and resist it.

@carsonpaullee

Жыл бұрын

@@drany6707 yes and no, being able to avoid suffering before it becomes suffering in the form of treating pain is good.

" Enlightenment is but a recognition, not a change at all." ~ A Course in Miracles ~

@philmason7860

4 ай бұрын

I love ACIM. I have been a student for 15 years. I am currently reading and studying 'The Course' for the tenth time. To me, the recognition (Enlightenment) is that of being "awake." To be awake in the dream of separation is bliss! Thank you for quoting these words. ✨✨😊😊✨✨

There's something so peaceful and comforting when Rupert speaks and then there's the wisdom on top. I do so enjoy his talks and his humour.

@claresmith9261

Жыл бұрын

And I love the way he engages everyone with so much love and respect equally…

@luismoref

Жыл бұрын

I always feel like I'm in the same room with them. There is so much compassion in the air. ❤

@claresmith9261

Жыл бұрын

@Roberto actually , if you listen to what he’s saying there are no gurus , you’re the only guru , Christ, Allah whatever one you choose that there is , that’s the beauty… it’s all me ❤️

@brigitteh4825

Жыл бұрын

@@Roberto-tv4uy How is he false?

@brigitteh4825

Жыл бұрын

@@Roberto-tv4uy You do not know what you're talking about. I'd tell you to go back to square 1 but, in your case, it's 0. You are completely missing the point of his teachings.

Don’t you just love how simple this is and how well and easily understandable Rupert’s explanation is. I He’s the best. I love you Rupert ❤️

@lysdaljens

Жыл бұрын

Best compared to what ? :- )

@JennyRSTeam

Жыл бұрын

Thank you, Ivi. With love, Rupert's team

@worldclassish

Жыл бұрын

I know how truly simple and fundamental things can be very difficult to achieve so I have great respect for Rupert's abilities.

@Jivanmukta84

Жыл бұрын

That's the trap. There is no "I" and there is no Rupert.

@soleknight3212

11 ай бұрын

@lysdaljens -- I'd put him in the top 10. Not sure how he'd fair against a prime Buddha

Agree with his statement, that there can be by-products of the recognition of one's true nature. Actually, the true nature has many dimensions. What she experienced was the dimension of 'bliss' within the recognition. The next morning, it was no more there, but she is still very near to the 'emptiness' or her 'true nature'. And she can simply 'be' it by what he is telling her.

Realisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage~ Ramana Maharshi

About the woman who shared her experience of being in a higher state of mind, seems like Rupert disgerdaded that as important, but I feel you, I had that once when I was 14 years old and it's to date the most profound experience I've ever had, that blew away anything else this world has to offer, even if mulplied by a thousand times. This is not just like any other state of mind, a good metaphor would be if you imagine yourself in a train going towards the light at the end of this dark tunnel we call life, and during the path, you look to your side and you can see a crack in the tunnel with a little opening, and just by an instant you can see the light, you can feel what it is to be free of your false self, but you know there's still work to do. So it's not that you achieved enlighenment with that, but that is certainly a pointer that can motivate you to continue on your path with even more determination.

It was a very calm talk. Of course it's all subjective......there's a book written in 1902 called "Examples of religious experience". Everybody has the deliverance of realisation come in a way that is perfect to them. For me it felt like my chest was going to crack open with the love that was pouring out of me for all those that I saw at the local shopping centre, then I could "feel/hear" all their worries and fears and the love went even higher if that was possible that they didn't even know how loved they were.......my brain immediately goes, this is what it feels like to be a God/Be God. After all that everything changed, I gave away almost everything of what I owned in material sense. Now I live by grace/abundance/prosperity. "Put no store aside", somehow it's still working even after 2 years. LIke Alan Watts says it's like falling in love, and for me it really was, even though I know there's nobody else here, hi me, it's you - or Hi you, you're me. May they all be one as I and the great mother are one.... Blessings to all beings.

This is so apt. I am so tired of all this discussion of enlightenment.....I know who I am and have always been.

@TaxemicFanatic

Жыл бұрын

If you take yourself to be a feeling ("I" am tired) and feelings we know are unreliable because they come and go, how can you be sure that you know who you are?

@Aed-Adlan

Жыл бұрын

My Supernatural-Divine experience that night learned me everything about myself. I am Spirit.

@johnburman966

Жыл бұрын

@@TaxemicFanatic I have feelings which come and go......I don't.

Awareness has always been there and always will. But the mind is fascinated, excited, making sense and labeling everything that happened and experiences. You are not the mind nor the body which only make sense when one realizes that you are pure awareness that sees all and observes all. Namaste.

@Aed-Adlan

Жыл бұрын

What I learned in Non-Dual-God-Consciousness is that God is me, who has becomed this little form and all forms. This is not the egotist's proclamation, " I am God!", the crown of megalomania, but rather the full realization of the absolute truth: God is the only Reality. And Religion too originates from Truth.

@adriano1130

Жыл бұрын

Dont know if you guys have awakened but im gonna ask if you did it in a meditative state.

@neosugarland7682

Жыл бұрын

@@adriano1130 Yes to awaken. No to meditative state. Although I do get blissed out whenever i feel like it. Namaste

@Aed-Adlan

Жыл бұрын

@@adriano1130 I Awoke in my block while walking up the stairs. Total Light, total clarity. I asked, who is this? The answer was, you can call me God. And so God-Consciousness began, which has lasted over 2 years to this very second. It's oneness and union with God. It's God in you. This God-Consciousness will last until my ultimate physical death. On the stairs, how little I knew about how many illusions and other retarded stuff would pop up in the face of the fact that God is Consciousness. But Truth always prevails, falsehood does not.

@adriano1130

Жыл бұрын

@@Aed-Adlan how amazing and fascinating. Im still living under whatever illusions my mind sets up. I wonder why there arent more people who have awakened if you dont necessarily have to meditate? Also i would like to ask for some advice on my journey if you would be so kind.

'The awareness of being is the quietest recognition there is' and that is why it is often the most challenging to recognize :)

Truly realizing that you are one with all that is, is a profound shift in consciousness and would not go unnoticed for the average human. Also the pure joy of beingness is not something you would just fail to notice. In fact quite the opposite.

@rarjungle

Жыл бұрын

Also one of the most intense experiences--when time stops utterly and completely.

@Aed-Adlan

Жыл бұрын

If it goes noticed or unnoticed for the average human means nothing from my perspective. My Spiritual legacy of experiences and direct consciousness and realizations and absolute knowledge is extreme and nice at best. The Lord of all worlds is in me right this very second. And my history and relationship with God... beautiful. The only problem, only I know about it. As it must be.

@JennyRSTeam

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for your comment. With love, Rupert's team

I am no more upset in my relationships, because a new knowledge of setting boundaries come to my mind and I told people they are not allowed to scream at me and throw at me their agresive energy. Also I walked away from people with too much ego. This is what makes me happy.

@1rocknroy

Жыл бұрын

That is remarkable.

@agnieszkag.5170

Жыл бұрын

@@santhoshgopinath816 in my consciousness there was not knowing that when I say no, or stop, then prople stop. I believed people are demonic and I have to accept them screaming at me whenever I go and I have to surrender this pain over and over again. But after 10 years of meditation and having no clue and no spiritual teacher guided me ever, but some psychologist told me I can assert boundaries...spiritual teachers were telling me, I am boundless. Weird that after 10 years of following spirituality, having open heart, no spiritual teacher told me ever I can actually protect my well being and inner subtle body, or I can leave, or change situation. No, they teach surrender, accept what is, love all people. Now I am so intuitive I can see people filled with anger and ituitivly I am avoiding them. I am at peace, because my inner energy is settled.

@samm7166

Жыл бұрын

You literaly creat your own environment Same experience as you 😊

@1rocknroy

Жыл бұрын

In recent years I learned that I can tell someone to STOP or whatever and the compliance is often not immediate. It may take a few minutes but they will comply. Their ego has to save face a little but they do comply. That was a revelation to me.

@1rocknroy

Жыл бұрын

@@PersisP I was referring to a situation where I am the authority and they must comply. Not a personal situation at all. I'm just talking about people needing a little face saving.

96 comments in this video and all of them from enlightened masters. Amazing! If they can’t even have the basic self honesty and humility to admit they are NOT enlightened, how in the world will they find the truth? Is it any mystery why the failure rate is so high in this industry? People, humble yourselves!

@fam4449

2 ай бұрын

thank you for shaming and silencing people who want to express themselves

@drygordspellweaver8761

2 ай бұрын

@@fam4449 shame on you. I speak the truth. Humble yourself. It's not my fault you are too weak to handle reality.

@darrenscott1845

Ай бұрын

⁠@@drygordspellweaver8761there’s so much irony in your attitude towards people getting involved and commenting. At least they’re not being judgemental. Humble yourself 🙄

@drygordspellweaver8761

Ай бұрын

@@darrenscott1845 There's nothing wrong with being judgemental. Do you judge if a wild animal is going to tear your head off if you go too close? Don't be ridiculous. You need to humble yourself and break away from these new age cults.

He’s right, it’s unexplainable, I like the close to explanation in one of Joseph Goldstein’s talks when he said you can’t paint space, stand in awareness, and it will reveal itself because it’s is the all..

Thank you for this explanation. When I "saw" that there was noone here, I felt (at that moment) that it was very bad. I was very young (4-6 years old). When I remembered this, I didn't know what to do with it. Now I think that it was a waking up. But I could only relate it to what Ramesh Balsekar said. And now, listening to you, I feel calmer. Thank you

There are steps, states, and stages. • Steps are insights, understandings etc.. • States are "experiences" that are often unusual or extraordinary but do not last. • Stages are pervasive levels of maturation ("spiritual" maturation). Ken Wilber described this similarly btw. Basically it's the natural coarse or unfolding of so called "enlightenment" or awakening - from the initial glimpses of knowing to the full on Liberation of ones limited consciousness into space-like freedom. Steps, then states, then stages... its very helpful to use this metaphor. 🙏

She said sitting on a park bench for hours. Yes I’ve done that. I’ve sat in graveyards for hours. Being still. Being quiet. Just being. Stillness is a way of talking with god. Just watching the trees the sky people walking by. Or just walking in the woods. It’s all a form of meditation awareness. Quiet so still the mind can be.

@davidkim2005

Жыл бұрын

She didn't say for hours. She was referring to Eckhart Tolle who was sitting on park benches for 2 YEARS lol. She was scared she might end up sitting around for 2 years.

@lisahinkofer2085

Жыл бұрын

I’m aware of that but yes it’s ok to sit for hours on a park bench and yes I’ve read most of Elkhart Tolles books and I know the story behind his awaking

@tammylewis9324

Жыл бұрын

Sometimes sitting on a park bench by the river seems like the only place I feel this peace.

@JennyRSTeam

Жыл бұрын

Silence is wonderful. With love, Rupert's team

@nylondaimon

Жыл бұрын

Sufi teaching says 1 hour spent in silent introspection is equal to 70 years of worship

One worth bookmarking

Pranaam❤.... Enlightenment... Means to.... Lighten your self From every day... Burdens... Mother nature accomplishes everything... Effortlessly.... Man is a part of mother nature.. All animals live in harmony with mother nature.... Human beings... Most Outlandish... Human.. Ego... Distortion of nature... Enlightenment... Shedding... All... Ego... Atam and brahman.. Mirror imagine...

Honest and best explanation by Rupert. Soon as one talks about their (any) experience the mind has now entered and that only takes you away from the "transparent" state of awareness. Best to just notice the aware state and remain silent...and not let the mind say " I wonder if this is the enlightenment experience" The slightest deception by the ego to rise up, will make one fall from grace. The transparent awareness free of thoughts is the most sacred and holiest state, why exchange it for mindless chatter about experiences, leave that to Sadgurus and others that want "views" "likes" and "click Subscribe"

@1rocknroy

Жыл бұрын

Sad gurus 😛

@soleknight3212

11 ай бұрын

Fair point. However, as Rupert says here the mind STILL may have a range of profound experiences during the awakening process, including extremely intense ones, which can be used to share with others so that they are aware of what may be involved and what is real and what is not.

@alertstillness592

11 ай бұрын

True, I would have responded sooner, but responding to your comment would have made me woble from my transparent SELF😆

It's a beautiful day here in the UK, take a deep breath and let go of any negativity. Allow the energy of positivity and abundance to flow into your soul! 🦋🦋🦋😊

@JennyRSTeam

Жыл бұрын

Beautiful idea. With love, Rupert's team

@Jivanmukta84

Жыл бұрын

There is no one who can let things go. There just appears what appears without someone in control or being able to let things go. Letting things go is separation, is the dream, is hell.

thanks Rupert !!

Really glad I found this channel. Rupert is great!

Beautifully Expressed 🙏🌹

❤ love it! So well explained!

fantastic! This guy is a real teacher

Ok I think I get it. I’ve been waiting for the experience. Thank you, you are the first person I’ve heard that put it quite like that.

This was so beautiful. Loved the naked body analogy 😊

Very lovely woman asking the questions. Made me happy to see 😊

yes, i understand. "you are the happiness you seek"

Best explanation I've ever heard of 'spiritual experiences' and how your true nature is beyond all that

Awareness of being vs awareness of experiencing...👁️ opening ❤

Beautifully explained as always, brother, thank you for sharing with us and God's LAW (love and wisdom) to everyone who is aware of it. RW ❤️

«You can't say anything about it» 🍀

@moondive4ever

Жыл бұрын

Thank you

Oh YES❣️ Yes❣️ yes❣️☮️❤️‍🔥☮️

Yes thank you ! 💕🌷💕

Our True Nature Encompasses all Experience Extraordinary and Ordinary

I experienced awakening and since that moment I became crazy, I wish that moment never happened

Thank you

Thank you very mach.🙏👁💯❤️

Come on this gift is so generous even my shoes are smiling

Love you. ❤😊🎉

I got good clarity in my understanding by listening to him.

Subtlety. Dancing on the edges of perception. No words to describe. Silence - a smile. I move on to nowhere.

Happy for no reason describes the shift from thinking into awareness good.

Rupert is the man with the plan!

The headache analogy is it

"I" or "awerness" or "self" is an everrunnig Stage Play . The rest is Content. "I" is like entrnity pipe... or Channel .. Transcended and transparent to our awarness's contents. it is a Condition enables us to BE.

Be seing you. J xoxo ❤😊

My awakening took decades. As a teenager, I couldn't understand a lot of what was happening in the world. As I questioned things and researched, I realised we are manipulated and lied to constantly. The Kalergi Plan, The Long March Through the Institutions, UN Agenda 2030...the list goes on, but things are very clear now.

To cognize the ever present transparent beigness has been overlooked so so often, yet it is always beign.

i think the first thing she says is the most mature way to evaluate this experience, it might be technology and it might be to keep you docile and happy

Awareness is time-less, without time. Mind is time, past and future.

I truly appreciate this description. Most appealing one I have heard. My stumbling block with the nondual path is the metaphysics that seem to go along with it. The idea that all is one seems unknowable. I think that consciousness is fundamental. But I wouldn't bet against physics being just as fundamental. And if consciousness really is the fundament of all, where does the world of experience come from? Does it emanate from consciousness? If so, what is the mechanic of that? Is it an unconscious process? But that's a paradox.

@cjshenesky4912

Жыл бұрын

Physics could only exist if dimensions exist, but dimensions would require some form of background grid or "identity" that maintains the position and separation of two points. Nothing can be between two things because then they would be touching, but if there's is nothing between everything then everything is truly the same thing just perceived to be separated by a comparison of differences over distance. This relationship is where things are perceive to exist

Enlightenment ist in my opinion an expirience where your heart begin to shine and all of your body fills with unconditional love. This expirience will then continue to the rest of your life. This is what im looking for. To open the heart chakra and manage to keep it open

. Namaste ! A great video, a great reply from RS. Somewhere around age 10 or so, in science class, you learn that everything - table, chair, children, teacher, walls, books, everything - is made up of electrons, protons, neutrons (say EPN). You have a new knowledge, but you won’t start to see EPN all over the place. You will continue to see the table, chair, children, teacher, walls, books, just as they are. And just as well, or you would try to eat your school bus for breakfast and go to school on your books and so on. It is a knowledge of Reality, not a new phenomenal experience. You appreciate that the phenomenal is just changing Appearance, and the Absolute Reality is the unchanging basis for the phenomena. Q - “How would the world look if it was really the sun that goes round the earth ?” Ans - “Exactly the Same !” .

*R* - "Enlightenment is just a recognition of what's always there. Do you see 'I am' is always there?" *Westerners* - "Yes!!" *R* - "That's it. You're Enlightened now. Just like me 😊." Sages of India, Middle East, Far East spent decades or multiple lifetimes to touch it. Wish all of them had Rupert to show them the _"ordinariness"_ of Enlightenment.

First time I heard something marwellous from this teacher!😊 Actually, I have also been expecting something that will change everything by one step. But still, the final transformation probably can be identified as a stronger experience because then the brain cells themselves undergoes a change, as described by J.K.

accept the moment

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Come on! this is to clear even emotion has lost motion

That's why the Masters can only point to the Moon and say nothing because words cannot express being

I guess that that's why it's a mystical 'experience'. I found myself 'in love', all by myself, for two weeks until it faded. Perhaps, as a consequence of finding myself free, from a lifetime's pain, all of a sudden. I ain't complaining.

🙏💜

❤

The John le Mesurier of Non-Duality is on form with this one. People are so desperate for a resolution to their problems that they're ripe for the picking.

What about the well documented states of higher consciousness or samadhi?

"Whatever it is that knows our thoughts is obviously not itself a thought" is not a statement someone who has recognised the true nature of mind would make. This implies that for them there is a duality of 1) a separate entity that knows thoughts and 2) a thought that is an external object, and hence a multiplicity of mind. The terminology "recognise the true nature (of mind)" is specific to Tibetan Buddhism, in particular Mahamudra or Dzokchen, and expresses the view of the 3rd turning of the wheel of dharma. This is the view of the Middle Way and refutes the notion of "self aware intelligence" that is posited by the Mind Only school of (Chinese) Buddhism. The recognition of the true nature is cultivated in a process known as "Mind Instructions" by which the students preconceptions of thoughts and mind are questioned by a lama who has experience. There is really no other way to come to recognition.

(true) emotion -> e - motion > ex - motion = without motion = silence :)

🙏🙏

I imagine for most people, there isn't a whole lot that can be said.

This happened to me.

Gurdjieff said, it is not our business to judge another mans being; this is difficult because we tend to want to judge and be quick to judge. What comes to my mind is that Rupert's description varies substantially from those i have encountered in eastern and western literature and contains none of the hallmarks described in that literature. Ouspensky gives a vivid description of his own experience in his book "In search of the miraculous" where he had a taste of higher consciousness, which is well worth reading. Sometimes, from my own experience, we can accidentally experience this for a short time, it happened to me when i was about 13 or 14 and lasted a few minutes. The experience (and it is an experience) lasted only a few minutes and it was thoroughly unique....very very different; much more like the difference between being asleep in bed and being awake during the day. I wanted to keep it and wanted to test if i could keep it, so i went to my friends house 50 metres away and as soon as i began talking with him my self awareness vanished. I didn't notice it at the time, but only afterwards when i reflected on what had happened. The experience was so astonishing that i asked my father about it.........and true to his nature he dismissed it immediately. Rupert's seems a kind, gentle, sincere and well intentioned person, but his description varies substantially from my own and others i have read which were quite similar to my own taste of this. Worth mentioning that i never re experienced this "state of being" again to that extent and that i only understood what it was after reading Ouspensky's account. Rupert's take seems much more reminiscent of a meditative state rather than subjective self awareness; the one asking the question/speaking of her own experience describes events much more in line with those who have briefly experienced something quite different.

@NanYar108

Жыл бұрын

You’re describing an astonishing experience just as the questioning lady did. But as RS explained, you are not this astonishing experience. You (your true nature) are the awareness which is aware of this experience, you’re the screen on which this experience is played upon but is never “touched” by it. Otherwise you would still be in the realm of duality of the experiencer and the experienced. Your true nature lies beyond duality and non-duality. Does this make sense?

@dnimon936

Жыл бұрын

@@NanYar108 "true nature" is a thoroughly ambiguous term, a different subject altogether and i daresay relative. Besides your description includes duality; your true nature as separate and untouched by the experiencing self. This amorphous kind of language rings alarm bells as it often characterizes the rhetoric of sophists in this sphere. The subject of this woman's question/observation was the experience of enlightenment, self awareness, self or subjective consciousness about which much has been written observed and passed on through the millennia in the east and west. Rupert seems dismissive or abnegates this incredible transformative phenomena, while at the same time claiming some sort of solubilizing his self into a oneness with everything akin to a gnostic pleroma as the ultimate aim/destination.........again deeply suspicious rhetoric, at odds with literature on the subject of the state of self awareness and.... all that comes with it........which suspiciously Rupert also doesn't speak of as we would have cause to expect, should he be enlightened in the esoteric religious sense of the word. Thanks for your thoughts but two quite different things are being conflated in this discussion. Rupert's idea of dissolution of self in a meditative state (which has been described any times in literature) and higher conscious state/s as an earned possession which is described in eastern and western literature and the teachings of Gurdjieff in contemporary times, are quite different things.

@NanYar108

Жыл бұрын

@@dnimon936 Please allow me to cite from “Be as you are - The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi” by David Godman, Chapter 1 - The nature of the Self: Q: What is this awareness and how can one obtain and cultivate it? A: You are awareness. Awareness is another name for you. Since you are awareness there is no need to attain or cultivate it. All that you have to do is to give up being aware of other things, that is of the not-Self. If one gives up being aware of them then pure awareness alone remains, and that is the Self. Q: If the Self is itself aware, why am I not aware of it even now? A: There is no duality. Your present knowledge is due to the ego and is only relative. Relative knowledge requires a subject and an object, whereas the awareness of the Self is absolute and requires no object. Remembrance also is similarly relative, requiring an object to be remembered and a subject to remember. When there is no duality, who is to remember whom? The Self is ever-present. Each one wants to know the Self. What kind of help does one require to know oneself? People want to see the Self as something new. But it is eternal and remains the same all along. They desire to see it as a blazing light etc. How can it be so? It is not light, not darkness. It is only as it is. It cannot be defined. The best definition is ‘I am that I am’. The srutis [scriptures] speak of the Self as being the size of one's thumb, the tip of the hair, an electric spark, vast, subtler than the subtlest, etc. They have no foundation in fact. It is only being, but different from the real and the unreal; it is knowledge, but different from knowledge and ignorance. How can it be defined at all? It is simply being. Q: When a man realises the Self, what will he see? A: There is no seeing. Seeing is only being. The state of Self-realisation, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been. All that is needed is that you give up your realisation of the not-true as true. All of us are regarding as real that which is not real. We have only to give up this practice on our part. Then we shall realise the Self as the Self; in other words, ‘Be the Self’. At one stage you will laugh at yourself for trying to discover the Self which is so self-evident. So, what can we say to this question? That stage transcends the seer and the seen. There is no seer there to see anything. The seer who is seeing all this now ceases to exist and the Self alone remains. Q: How to know this by direct experience? A: If We talk of knowing the Self, there must be two selves, one a knowing self, another the self which is known, and the process of knowing. The state we call realisation is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything. If one has realised, one is that which alone is and which alone has always been. One cannot describe that state. One can only be that. Of course, we loosely talk of Self-realisation, for want of a better term. How to ‘real-ise’ or make real that which alone is real? Nothing else describes Rupert in his own emphatic and humorous way. 🙏🏻

@dnimon936

Жыл бұрын

@@NanYar108 Yes; I am very familiar with this genre of discourse; in fact i spent a decade immersed in them, so i full well understand why they are so attractive, so very attractive. This style of exposition is classically indian and varies little between one pundit or guru , of which there are literally hundreds of thousands in India. Those like Osho, in spite of his often confrontational remarks are altogether beautiful, poetic, alluring and evoke warm, positive, comforting and beautiful feelings and ideas. I'm glad you cited this because it reminds me of my time immersed in this sphere. Yes i've read, heard and understood Rupert hundreds of times , through hundreds of different people. "There is nothing to do, only something to be; just drop those things that are not true nature and only authentic pure consciousness remains. It's all so simple, effortless; there is nothing to become you already are.....etc etc etc"........very attractive. But entirely at odda with Buddhism,, esoteric Christianity and even orthodox Christian literature, like the hymn of the pearl, for instance, mystery schools of antiquity, the ancient Greek esoteric religious philosophical teachings and the earlier sources of their knowledge, jung, gurdjieff and so on. In contrast these teachings underline the necessity of enormous efforts along certain lines under the direction of someone who has attained a higher conscious state, which inevitably involve unavoidable suffering, beginning with the destruction of our idealised self image, the attainment of a more realistic (and much less flattering picture of ourselves and as a result the possibility of working on ourselves. So from one point of view you have a path that involves hard work, great suffering, sacrifice (beginning with the sacrifice of the imaginary heavily idealised self image), struggling against powerful inner conflicts, mastery of self, will control, self understand, reconciling disparate fragmented aspects of self and so on.......from Rupert and his Indian guru cohort, a warm fuzzy feel good effortless path, simple, enchanting and dreamily beautiful..... *pick one. The whole of Buddhism and Christianity as it existed in the time of Jesus were towards attaining self awareness, subjective self consciousness or enlightenment, however you choose to name it, a ridiculously and necessarily difficult undertaking, The whole thing, without a shadow of a doubt from my point of view hinges on consciousness....are we awake or are we asleep?....it always comes back to this...and this is underlined everywhere in Buddhism and everywhere in Christian literature, sleep/wake is mentioned hundreds of times in the bible. It is said that the difference between actual sleep at night in our beds and our waking state during the day are equivalent to our waking state during the day contrasted with the state of self awareness, so it is no trifling thing. I have had little transient moments of this at first spontaneously and later through my own work and efforts........enough to know without mistake that i spend 99.99% of my life asleep and even that recognition alone gives me impetus to try and awaken. What this woman experienced and her question is of tremendous importance and has been described in teachings designed to cultivate/work towards attaining self awareness many times in the identical fashion, an accidental transient moment of awakening. Rupert trivialized and dissipated her experience, perhaps because he doesn't understand it, or what it is connected to. I'm annoyed at him for this. Probably because i was annoyed at myself after immersing myself in Rupert's teaching (given by people other than Rupert for a decade) and realized, after quite a shock, that i had wasted my time in dreaming beautiful, poetic, attractive feel good dreams, imagination and sophistry that actually fueled the ego and put me in a deeper sleep. People can dream beautiful dreams, or work towards becoming more mindful, more self aware, more conscious (and it takes hard, onerous work, from the get go).......but its useful i think, to know what the choices are.

“Recognition of the ever-present background” IS an experience. Recognition is a perception, and Rupert considers perceptions to be experiences.

I was so lost I used to blank out for hours, staring at walls. This would even happen when taking a bath and I would return freezing cold. Than one day as I stepped out of the bath tub the past lit up like holograms on my left, the future was the same but on my right and all stepped out together. I whispered all at once, that’s when I thought it’s all okay because time is not an issue. We are born, we live, and die all at once. I know this was not enlightenment but something else. Do you know?

Every time I watch a Rupert Spira video (which I do quite frequently) the truth becomes more obvious. Is he getting better at pointing the way or am I changing?

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There are many different vibrational layers to our same creator being. But the weird deranged mind that we know when we sleep in darkness, is who we truly are fundamentally. That mind has no control of itself either. Control is another aspect that is created through other disciplines. Just as pleasurable love and joy/happiness, are extra aspects of that mental dream like state we are fundamentally. Our lives are like an ongoing movie reel of randomness, with some overall effect of a 'theme'. No one really has complete control of it all. Eg. There are only energy forms acting as influential beings in our life, that aid in guiding our life experiences, which there are certain agreed birth contracts we have to fulfill. Often referred to as 'a contact with the devil', having 'sold one's soul' to the devil, esp in the celebrity world. But they are really just the agreements we made in the higher astral, to experience these unique individual life experiences. Often with very harsh and painful consequences. Depending on how thrilling and luxurious that life experience is. Eg. A Buddhist monk would experience far less suffering, due to less ripples in the ocean caused, that is pain and suffering for others to make their experience happen.

Is that Dr Eric Pearl (Reconnection Healing) and wife in the audience? 😮

I agree with his description, but IMHO, this is Cessation, it is death, 9th jhana, but i do not agree that it is enlightenment. It is a glimpse of Nibbana, but not arahantship. Imho, it is stream entry in Buddhism. It is the initial supramundane attainnent, but not the end of rebirth. In the next 7 lives, Rupert will attain enlightenment 😊

Due to ongoing health issues I'm increasingly drawn back into ego-states of mind, excessive thinking and even anxiety. I can't practice sitting meditation and go much into nature anymore as I live in the city and can't go very far. What can I do to stay aware during this low energy and vibration time? Even being alone and still makes me nervous, itchy and anxious.

@ambrosia108

Жыл бұрын

Do self inquiry Who am I?

@foragabber

Жыл бұрын

Take a look of douglas harding teaching 😊

Do you hear Narada Muni talking about his enlightenment exerience?

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❤.. at the end... I thought "The awareness of being... as gentle as a butterfly landing on my hand." As children in Africa, in the 1970s, we learnt not to catch butterflies but stand inside the swarm and let them land on us. I don't see swarms of butterflies anymore but I remember the experience.

There are teachers who can help one navigate these experiences and give pointers and guidance through the fetters once abiding awareness is realized. That is the first awakening. Angelo Dillulo at Simply Always Awake could better help Caitlyn understand her experience. I hope she keeps looking for such a teacher. Yes, it was an experience in the relative; and it was a peek into the perceptual field of a liberated mind. Not insignificant.

@moontage9871

Жыл бұрын

Just came here after listening to Angelo! He has a great ability to transmission. Does the embodiment of non-dual perception ever happens? Like constantly being in that state?

@Nowalwaysthis

Жыл бұрын

@@moontage9871 yes. It appears the relative (including mystical experience) is experienced (sensed, thought, imaged) from a not separate or not two (subject/ object) point of view (or identity). And within that non-dual experience everything comes alive in a way which is not experienced from the limited self believing it is a body-mind point of view. Anywhere from glimpses to constant abiding. It’s like the difference between a dream world and a Real World. Quite a stark (undeniable) difference actually.

@moontage9871

Жыл бұрын

@@Nowalwaysthis thank you! Does it feel like the whole experience field becomes silent? Like it still happens and moves but also with silence? I just remember Angelo saying that once the subject object duality collapses it becomes an everyday norm. And my current situation is that I have “remembered” the thing that I was searching for, to me I was searching for the truth, but I had no idea what it might be, turns out it’s a thing that I became aware of in my childhood; I asked my mother as a kid “Do you also have _this_ ? Can you also see this?” And now I recognize that moment was me noticing the existence itself. I can tune myself effortlessly to this field, but I don’t understand the non-duality part. I meditated and experienced objects as “me” but it was only for a moment. Now by looking at something, objects feel alive, and silent. But I need to tune myself, I need to purposefully notice the aliveness, so I don’t understand what “non duality becomes a moment to moment experience” is. Thank you for responding to me, I wondered if you can share your experience

After the recognition of my self what thoughts arise is it same as before ..what do i think?

@cosmicfield

Жыл бұрын

Meera Sai Any kind of thoughts may arise..., but there's no 'I' to think them; thoughts are just happening in 'I' - the vast empty space, and allowed to freely appear and disappear. Even the thought "what do I think" - is one of the many in the flow...🙏

@ananda224

Жыл бұрын

Enlightenment isn't merely about self-recognition. It's quite possible to acknowledge that one's essence is Awareness, yet still operate from a point of ego, a sensation of a contracted self. This sense of a centered self is intrinsically linked to thought; as long as this center persists, so do thoughts. Conversely, as long as thoughts persist, this sense of a centered self continues. True Enlightenment involves a silence in the mind, with self-referential thinking subsiding to a remarkable degree, becoming almost entirely absent. This silence should permeate your state of being, occupying around 98% of your mental space, unless engaged in task-oriented thinking or problem-solving. In moments of quietude, the mind should be silent. This doesn't indicate a lack of awareness or alertness, but rather, it suggests the absence of incessant, unnecessary thoughts

@Da_Xman

Жыл бұрын

​@@ananda224 It's never occured to me that Enlightenment and Self Realization are the same thing. Somehow I've had it that Enlightenment (Awakening) is an initial "phase" in the process of "knowing knowing", clarification that one is "more" than the mind-body organism, but with egoic identification, orientation and motivation yet still "intact". And, in contrast, Self Realization is when egoic identification, orientation and motivation finally (at last) subsides.

@Aed-Adlan

Жыл бұрын

Right thinking is King. God-Logic.

Her ego was trying to claim credit for an experience and RS shot it down.

Conscience paroxistique. État de grâce.

I was wondering if the word "I" has any meaning?

@carlavela7106

5 ай бұрын

Eye-I-👁.

" Your true nature is not a state that comes and goes. It's the transparent screen on which your emails, your documents, and your images and your KZread clips come and go."

There are some words attributed to Jesus, the kingdom of heaven is like a woman carrying a jar of meal on her head and the jar is leaking unknown to her, and when she gets home, the jar is empty. Then again, he says - the kingdom of heaven is like a man coming in the night and breaking down the door.

*Awakening is when "The Real Self" ( NOT the human entity nor the human body ) becomes "SELF-AWARE", which is "LIFE The Real Self" !* *"LIFE The Real Self" ( AWARENESS ) is an Offspring, and Child of "The LIGHT", "The LIFE of GOD" !*

Did you ever hear Hanumanji talking about his Siddhis or Shakti?

He often likes to mention undressing and experiencing the 'naked' Being. LOL

Advaita is the only school of vedanta that doesn't except a plurality of conscious selves (just a wee 'FYI' there!)

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I'm not sure I completely agree with Rupert here, even though the talk was hugely inspiring. He says not to measure progress by a marvellous experience. However, connecting with nature and realising that the ever present infinite awareness of your own being is the same as that of a tree, or the open sky, can be an indicator that you are becoming much more aware of and abiding in your own silent awareness. Even though we should not get attached to any phenomena, it can be be a helpful reminder that we are coming into ourselves.

This lady clearly had a Sartori, she'd have been better asking Tony Parsons for an explanation.

I feel like Rupert should take about his experience. Leaving it a mystery makes chronic doubters like me stuck wondering whether he really has the authority to talk about these matters or not. I think he's wrong on this one.

@vincentasks

7 ай бұрын

Why? I have learned when a message resonates with me, that the messenger is immaterial. Did you understand this message?