Rupert Spira is an international author and speaker of non-duality.
In clips taken from conversations at meetings or retreats, he discuss all aspects of the non-dual understanding - from the initial investigation into our essential nature of pure Awareness, to the deeper exploration of consciousness and the separate 'me-feeling' in the body, to the realignment of the mind, body and world with this new understanding.
This is a contemporary, experiential approach to understanding the nature of reality and the self, involving silent meditation, guided meditation and conversation. It requires no affiliation to any religious or spiritual tradition, only a longing for lasting inner peace and happiness.
Rupert studied the teachings of Advaita Vedanta and the tantric tradition of Kashmir Shaivism through Dr. Francis Roles, Shantananda Saraswati, P.D.Ouspensky, Krishnamurti, Rumi, Ramana Maharshi, Nisargadatta, Robert Adams, Francis Lucille, Atmanada Krishnamenon and Jean Klein.
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Dear people, Rupert has mixed things up at 4:28 Traditionally, there are three types of Samadhis - *Savikalpa, Nirvikalpa and Sahaja* If there's a duality to the Samadhi, it's called Savikalpa. A duality-less Samadhi is Nirvikalpa. Because *Vikalpa* itself means alternative in Sanskrit. If one effortlessly lives in a Samadhi state, it's called Sahaja (Sahaj means effortless in Sanskrit). But Rupert is describing Savikalpa as Sahaja! I can see that he genuinely wants to share his knowledge with everyone. But what ultimately matters is whether he has touched *the 3 states* or not.
There is a big difference between saying that everything is made out of Consciousness and saying that everything is a dream. In the first case, everything is made out of Consciousness but it does exist. In the second case, it doesn't matter if everything is made out of Consciousness or not because the important thing is that It does not exist because It is just a dream. Can anybpdy tell me the right explanation, please? Thank you.
That guy didn’t get it lol. That’s okay. Some people won’t get it. We all have different capacities of coming to the understanding of shared being, some people just can’t.
Sankara says. "Nothing happened except Maya."
If Simon is reading: I’d love one of these dialogues with Byron Katie.
This was wonderful.
So what is the soul?
I disagree with Rupert. The Self already is, but the body and mind limit the viewpoint.
Pure awareness, when experienced, immediately is filtered by our individuality. How do we recognize pure awareness without our filters?
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Materialist misunderstood wakefulness and consciousness as same.
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It depends on how you feed the body, etc. No one needs more than a certain wage in this world to just live simply but if you want more, then you go after more. I'd say all that is egoic. If you're continually increasing comfort, even if that is for your body, is that egoic or not? I'd say once it is past a minimal survival comfort, chances are it's the ego. You can easily tell. If you do it in service of others, unlikely to be ego.
Pov You Took Introduction into the Epistomology of Awareness, Basically Self Referencial Problem
But matter can be measured by instruments, and what about other animals and such? Without humans, there was the cosmos. The appearance of humans didn't create our cosmos. The cosmos creates itself via relationship true. Again, another model that reconciles the materialistic viewpoint with the everything is consciousness viewpoint is to have energy be sentient. Whereas you're asserting that the materialistic view is wrong, if energy were sentient, both views/models would be correct. I also disagree the materialist model consequence is unhappiness and despair. A meaningless materialistic universe is as happy as a universe that is Infinite Consciousness.
They will indeed expand back and rapidly and so that "you" are not there anymore. A near death experience feels like that (seizures also sometimes) and in these "experiences" even though it may seem arbitrarily long, from the perspective of other localisations, it is incredibly short. The localisation is definitely gone and we know the energy dissipates also. It's possible pockets are energy are clumped together but the information content in them is minimal.
Feel it to heal it
It's all got to do with the mind. You are Consciousness living a mind wake.
Good question lady, quote; " what is the purpose of the body" and the teacher couldn't answer the question except for using consciousness and mind both that cannot form a physical body and brain. The physical Brain is the faculty for consciousness and mind not vice versa. What is the purpose for your physical brain and body to experience and then store that experience so that the brain can be aware and conscious of that experience when it confronts that experience again, for what purpose, there would be no purpose unless something wants to UTILIZE that experience. Basically you the intelligent species were initially FORMED not BORN. That which FORMED at its inception at an epoch is your true PRESENCE within. Your Presence FORM is the EXPERIENCER, the PERCEIVER of the action or state of affairs. Why? because the FORM requires the information of it's surrounds experiences to Evolve it's HOST the human Being for both the BORN HOST and the FORM survival. How do you think we have come thus far. You are Duality which means you are Seperate self. ie Your FORM is your true self and your physical body and brain is your BEING. Your Human Molecule is also Duality ie Elements and Biology. Hello! If you dont breed to pass on your FORM within, then you have stopped your Form LINEAGE which is the Faculty for Consciousness. Consciousness cannot store/control/delete/form anything because it's no thing and no form, it's simply a tool implemented by your FORM to relay experiences. The sooner you allow your FORM enlighten your brain of it's PRESENCE, the sooner you will realise you dont require external false teachings.
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I tried this rather mentally focused approach to self-realisation through the negation of the physical body and I love Rupert’s compassionate way of teaching but luckily… I found out that this is only half of the cake 😉 Consciousness itself not only manifests as the physical but also subtle body and us humans have the capacity of self-realisation through our very nervous system. That is why Consciousness designed itself in flesh and bone in the first place. Not only to experience itself as human, but also as a way to remember oneness, to be able to go all the way back ☺️ Through the faculties of the body and for example through emotions. Emotions are a doorway to Pure Awareness. As the light of individual consciousness expands so does it illumine the emotional body and so forth… everything is vibration, everything is the one ultimate reality. And the physical body is a walking universe in itself 😉 - I highly recommend Igor Kufayev‘s work to further dive into the role of the body in relation to the Absolute ✨
LADY- I'm having trouble with enlightenment. RUPERT- Have a drink of what's in the beaker. Or have some punch, it's in that too 😂😂😂 Sorry! Old deadhead here. Just kidding, thank you for this fascinating clip!
Maybe what she is seeking is an experience like what NDEers have, without the near death part. That's what I figured is required to really 'see'. Or as some people say an experience of severe suffering and then I thought well why should it require that if we are all born with the ability to 'see'. And then I wonder why the veil at birth, why all the seeking on earth, when we go back to pure consciousness upon physical death anyway. ie I guess wondering say monks who spend years meditating - have fun while on earth, surely the big guy doesn't require us doing that here when we can do that after. Oh wow, what a ramble. Sorry :)
he looks like Roger Penrose
That’s sooo beautiful……thank you
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And who believes that belief?
just classic but with compassion... seems like mostly the the women are ... well, anyway this was 4 years ago and only 117 comments... 8billon people on the planet yes? we're fucked... Perhaps that's why Buddah was always laughing!🤣
Since when is Nirvikalpa Samadhi just Awareness ? At least not to the true rare Sages like Ramakrishna..... Rupert clearly can NOT answer these questions simply because he hasn't experienced them ever.... No doubt that he therefore can NOT at all demonstrate the true state..... WHY not admitting that honestly at least ?? Simply intellectualizing/talking about it is NOT at all true own transformative realization.... Ten thousand talkers from the mental/astral circus but not one REAL experiencer.... Don't be fooled....🙏
Krishnamurty said : the observer is the observed , you , consciousness, are not different from it's content . Is this contradictory with what Rupert explains ?
no, not at all. Consciousness experiences itself through the finite mind
The no path of “be” is backwards. It is the relaxation between the pulses. It is the no-thing. The beginning of death to life.
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If the soul outlives the body, why have a body at all? What was the point in all the body related life if we just let it go, it rots and we are going on in the, I am, but in soul form? Why does there need to be a one-body to one-soul relationship? Why not 10 souls to each body? Why aren't there bodies wandering around with no person or soul, inside? If the body doesn't matter then why aren't we in animal, or plant bodies? Does this mean animals and plant, have an 'I am' or soul too? If the 'I am', is what matters then what is the true purpose of an ephemeral body? To experience, fleetingly, consciousness? If so, what is the point? Would it not make more sense that we are all just sacks of meat wandering around with an organ which has evolved to keep our bodies alive by sending life-preserving self-talk to influence our judgement.God being the consequence of not listening and our bodies the consequence of warm water, light, carbon and electricity and nothing else.
I think the problem here is that you think of the body as a physical thing whereas Rupert would say that there is no physical stuff, there is only Consciousness.
The point is that we as souls wish to experience this physical world. Experience is the key point. That brings about the evolution of consciousness. In the ultimate reality, which is the the spirit world, everything is just blissful, but it does not bring evolution of consciousness. Here it does, because there is seeming duality and contrast. Light against dark, joy against suffering. Love and fear. Why does the Creator create anything? Because it can. Animals and plants are on the lower level of consciousness, they don't have the sense of self in the same way we do which means that they are free from the ego. We have it and we are beings aware of being aware.
@@BlondeManNoName Thank you. I’m having a tough time trying to reconcile souls wishing to experience the physical world and Auschwitz. I can only make sense of it if I think of the dimension of consciousness being constructed of the objects which make up the dimension below it (the physical). The physical dimension being made of the objects which make up the dimension below that (which I would suppose to be good and evil, love and hate and so on). If that were true, we are standing on the shoulders of the building blocks of being, good or bad. Terrifying thought, no?
@@_indrid_cold_Yes, the problem of good and evil is difficult for many to fathom. Many even abandon their faith in God when they ask how could God allow such things to happen? It's all a great opera, but the suffering surely feels real. In the Bhagavad Gita Arjuna asks Krishna to reveal his true form which he does. As he is really Brahman, he is All-that-Is and this vision was amazing bewildering, terrifying and overhelming to Arjuna. The light was too much. We as humans, at least until self-realization possibly can't comprehend the "why" of it all or the God-head which is all that there ever is, including you and me. We aren't really separate beings, but we experience ourselves as such due to our localized ego-mind consciousness. Yet deep down we are That. Duality, good and evil are just a play of forms. All evil stems from ignorance of our true nature. If you truly knew that the other being close to you is essentially yourself, not on the surface level, you could never ever harm him or it as you would only be harming yourself. No sane being would ever do that. They would only love the "other" as themselves. Behind the eyes of everything and every being lies Brahman, The Creator. _"Who is it that loves and who that suffers? He alone stages a play with Himself; who exists save Him? The individual suffers because he perceives duality. It is duality which causes all sorrow and grief. Find the One everywhere and in everything and there will be an end to pain and suffering."_ ~ *Anandamayi Ma*
Wonderfull , Thank you 💖 Supreme 🤗
infinite densities , all densities are illusory .. a beautiful Tone poem.
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Sorry, but I know of several quite advanced teachers, who say that there’s sometimes needs to be some conscious attention on very deep beliefs that continue to affect them even when the identification is quite profound. It’s a nice comforting story to think that it’s all going to happen unconsciously. at the same time, it’s probably all unfolding in the best possible way.