Such absolutely incredible synchronicity. Yesterday and this morning I was feeling rejected by someone, and all the pain associated with feeling unloved. This vid reestablished me in the truth that I know behind the whole attachment-rejection dynamic. That I am whole, complete, loved ....and that my feelings of rejection are a habitual story I have told myself my entire life around looking to others to fulfill me. 🙏🏽 💕
Same, I came to a realization myself after a heart break, that what I was doing was interpreting a sensation my body was making in my solar plexus into thoughts that said "I am unworthy of love." Then, I decided to meditate, and simply be with the sensation, the same way I applied it to my cold showers ritual, be with the sensation, do not allow the ego to run with it.
Miketar2424 Love what you wrote! Rupert talks about that a lot, how we feel a sensation, and it’s really just an experiencing of that particular sensation. The suffering comes in when we interpret the sensation in whatever our particular ingrained habit is, I’m unloved, I’m unworthy, I’m a loser, I’m neurotic, I’m overly-sensitive .... and on and on. On my bulletin board I have this very simple question: “What am I adding to direct experience right now?” Anyway, appreciated your response to my comment and felt it was right on :)
baguar01 anna sent new here!!! Hey Yahn!!! This was the very first idea that really started my awakening 9 years ago... happiness lies within! I wrote it with permanent marker on my wall haha. 😁💜
Deep down I always felt that deep intimate relationships, just simple connections with total strangers brought me so much joy because it was not wanting something from those connections but for the sake of sharing our Being, which is one and the same. After my own awakening experience I especially saw that some aspects of myself was more intensified than before - I didn't have anymore fear of connecting with anyone or fearing rejection, like my innate talents and aspects of my soul were able to shine more vividly than before.
I took a nap after work today, and I had a dream a vision of sort seeing the world as a series of events and I was the witness. No matter what image, event, sound, smell or touch occurred, I was impartial and unaffected by it. Perfect timing for this message today, a true synchronicity.
@kevin tarver , this is fully gettable. I get that 99.9% of self help / spiritual lads are out there building dependence for income but I went to see Rupert, had the insight I craved and it only cost me 10 quid! I’ve been part of Buddhist sects that wanted £100 spend on books up front.
Thank u Rupert within 1 year now I see only god by watching your videos your Direct teaching is so potent I am 23 year old now and was searching god from childhood if I ever came to England I will meet you love from india.
Happiness comes from within. Don’t y’all know that..? I’ve been married 43 years to the mate of my dreams.. but he’s not responsible 4 my happiness.. I am. My happiness comes from within. I’m happy now. I was b4 & even now during a worldwide pandemic. My sympathy to everyone but it doesn’t make me unhappy. I’m responsible for creating my world & I’m just glad I know it.
For me, as long as I keep King Lear and John Smith in mind, the whole spiritual quest gets very clear and simple. It always comes back to that metaphor. Thanks Rupert!
I sensed this sometime ago when every experience I had I still tell myself or felt within me that I still lack the "deep satisfaction of the soul". This went on for a long time and the phrase "deep satisfaction of the soul" became a common term for me to seek and 30, 35, 40 years along that deep satisfaction of the soul is still a distance away in every experience of mine. As if it's unachievable just as it truly is.
Rupert Spira is a great teacher than most of the contemperory enlightened teachers who are just interested in selling spirituality.. pardon my separate self 😌
The realization that no external experience was a devastating thing, but it guided me to exactly what Rupert is talking about. When the world disappoints, what other direction is there to go but inward, in seeking happiness?
I have been a seeker all my life. I went from looking up at the stars as a child, to very randomly have one of Platos book just appear in my life as a teenager, too a form of atheism than a realization I was actually an agnostic theist as whilst at the time I never believed in organized religion I have always believed in God, I moved on to theology suspecting that there is something profound in religion, onto western philosophy, then meditation, yoga, eastern philosophy, Theosophy, finally Gurdjieff & Ouspensky who I believe Rupert also studied and most recently I stumbled on Rupert, instantly I was filled with Joy, a new toy to play with. He expresses ideas which such simplicity yet I find myself listening to people who have pursued these ideas for years really struggle to grasp his so clearly expressed concepts. Its like there are a lot of people who like the idea of the idea that they are into this stuff and fail to see the inherent irony in that situation. Whilst not really pursing these teachings one would hear bumper sticker enlightenment statements about attachment and really it never landed within my being but once you start to pull a the tread of reality you see, clearly its all attachment, attachment within attachments that soul purpose is to hide its nature so it can remain attached. For me the first step down the road of being is the suspension of expectation and the trust in you. Once these two simple inner handshakes occur, fruit starts to drop into your lap Hash tag .... my I thinks ; ) Have a wonderful day, and thank you Rupert
Even if we get what we want, every pleasant experience must change and end in order to get the system moved again off to the next promising opportunity. Experiences are thus incapable of being completely satisfying. They are an unreliable basis for true happiness. - Rick Hanson (Buddha's Brain)
What’s left in this world after comprehending this truth? I’m still 32 years old and everything in this world sounds and feels so pointless, even traveling and meeting new people. Everything becomes meaningless when I come back home and all the experiences become past memories and body remembrances of biological ups and downs. For me, existence is showing that I my happiness relies on living in nature, connecting to the universe as part of a whole, to find the whole within me.
happiness comes when u go within and connect with the truth of who u are, the outer world is only an illusion, that is y we die to it. so who leaves the body? that is your true self, and your true love when in the body. then it becomes your true self.for we are the God that exist. it is all a play of consciousness.
When reading "No Experience can bring us happiness" I got disturbed for I meant Rupert to say "Even the Highest Experience cannot bring happiness". But yes, Rupert's talking is clearly about OBJECTIVE-experience. But the Last Experience/Understanding will finally absolutely satisfy.
as I watch this video what arises in me is how fucking unhappy I am! I truly loathe my life. I hate it. I've lived pretty much my entire life with debilitating crippling paralyzing: suicidal depression. the only moments of happiness in my life come to me in fleeting windows of relief, that never ever last long enough. my life is agony. I am full of: - loneliness - rage - regret - remorse - hopelessness - guilt - terror - anxiety - aloneness
His premise is that because no object is permanent, no happiness can be permanent. But what if there is an object or person that is permanent and represents the greatest expression of joy and love? Because I know a man that it is that. Joy and love is only complete when it marries with someone else, not merely to oneself. This man of course is Jesus.
"This is as good as it gets" can be a misleading statement to hear if we're in a state of suffering at the time. It doesn't mean a particular feeling state is fixed and will never ease.
"This is as good as it gets." For me, the key to understanding this statement is the definition of 'this'. Does 'this' refer to my human life on Earth? Or, does 'this' refer to my true essence, which is the observer or experiencer of my human life on Earth? Of course, it's the latter, or this statement would be a very cruel joke.
If consciousness is evolving, why does our essential being remain the same? if the "purpose" of our interactions, co-operation with and love for each other is to evolve & grow with the aim to lower entropy of the larger consciousness system (in Tom Campbell model)- or is there no "purpose"?
We just stop the mechanism of un-happiness, the endless dis-satisfied mind,, We are already happy in our consious-awareness,.keeping attention in happiness is the spirtual practice,. Not the attention on search and our misery,.
does anyone know which video is this?: someone asks Rupert is it safe to give up all thinking? and then Rupert says yes and its only 3 situations where thinking is needed/required, the first is practical situations, and then he talks about the second and the third, would be of a great help if someone told me the name of the video, thanks alot in advance.
Is it possible that certain illnesses can cause our body to feel a sense of unwellness at a deep cellular level, which generates brain states that project messages of unwellness? In this case, there might be an inherent biological "desire" to return to a state of wellness, in which the body experiences suffering that is beyond the capacity of the mind to correct, or do anything about? In such states, it might be possible that there is no way for us to "turn of" this felt desire, because it is a biological impulse, programmed into us through millions of years of evolution. Thus, we might end up stuck feeling a deep sense of unwellness regardless of what we do, or don't do. It might be objectively true that we aren't actually unhappy during these cicrumstances, but that doesn't mean that we have always have a path available to us to feel as such. It might be that our body screams "unhappiness" at us when we reach certain levels of severe illness, and no spiritual teaching is going to have the slightest impact on that fact. I say might, because I do not know this for sure, but I have had experiences in life which suggest it.
Yes, that would be evident when the mind's limbic system is overreacting from something perceived as threatening in which case the release of certain neurochemicals(cortisol, adrenaline, other neurotransmitters), results in the fight/flight/freeze response and meditation so as to attain a peaceful state won't work and you'd need the right kind of medication to stop it.
I've tried for two years with rupert, he is, i'm sure a wonderful teacher and a great person ( his human part ) . But there is the thing, we're all human, and teachings that try and make us realise we're not are fraught with potential pitfalls. The " separate self" is a lifetime ( maybe more) of conditioning. Non duality, even though it sometimes includes body and sensation meditations such as rupert employs, seems a very cerebral , almost intellectual approach. And there are alot of non duality teachers ( not rupert) who encourage the whole " i do'nt really exist" thing, which gives a lot of people what they think is a " get out of humanity" free card. I think i am defecting to the 3 principles camp. Too much sophistry here. I would love to know how many of ruperts students have achieved happiness as a result of his advaita teachings . Maybe there are dozens ?? I do'nt know. But, if not, one is bound to question point of it all. I mean, its obviously worked for rupert. Francis lucille ? Not getting it either.
I totally agree with you, Dom. In my experience, the DP teachings only give a context for my own self discovery but self realization, I find, in my own experience is actually very dissatisfying. Trying to 'embody the Understanding' is just more of the same perpetual self centredness. Apologies for sounding like a cynic but life is not exactly patterned. Life has the freedom to run this show however it wants. We are creatures of habit, instinct and sentiment. That is never changing anytime soon.
As a piano player with a great love for the Steinway D(but also the B, A and L models) I can relate though whatever enjoyment I get in playing them is an ephemeral experience so the joy's great while it lasts.
I really like Rupert and his channel; however, making a statement during meditation that "this is as good as it gets" is dubious at best. It is entirely true that real happiness comes from within, but to make that statement during meditation implies that the meditative state is as good as it gets, and that isn't remotely true. I learned meditation over 40 years ago. Yet, outside of meditation I have had several brief experiences that were fantastically beautiful and more real than anything I've experience outwardly. These experiences were drug free and entirely inward, having nothing to do with the outer world, and they were far and away more beautiful than a typical experience during meditation.
These experiences you describe come and go. The purpose of meditation is to reach permanent bliss, or enlightenment. At that point bliss is your continual state of being, you do not need to sit and close your eyes and “do” meditation as an activity.
I, too, have had such experiences (also, like you, NOT while meditating; and I can only describe them as Beautiful/Freedom/Love/infinite possibility/the realest thing I’ve ever experienced), and for a long time I thought they were the goal, like that was living transcendence; but then I realized that those experiences, while beautiful, were temporary. I saw them come and go, yet I remained the same, unchanged. What I am, that unchangingness, can never be “better” or improved, nor can I be hurt or diminished. So, I have to agree with Rupert, this IS as good as it gets, because there’s never actually any change (no matter what experiences may appear-“beautiful” or “mundane”). Having those experiences didn’t improve Awareness in any way, they just helped to dissolve the illusion of personal-ness by expressing the truth of Being without the mask/superimposition of “the world.” (Or, to put it more simply, knowing knew itself as itself, not as anything limited.) If you had been changed in any way by those experiences, how would you know you’d had them? What you are has to remain unchanged for the appearance of change to be known. (Just like if the screen was affected/changed by the movie, the movie would never be known; it’d just be an ever-shifting mess.) It’s a mistake to think that happiness is an experience you can point to and say, “There it is.” Anything you can point to is not happiness (even if what you’re pointing toward is a beautiful experience that defies words). If it has a beginning and end, it’s not happiness. Happiness is the absence of want or desire. It isn’t a feeling (although it’s free to express itself as a feeling). Knowing/Awareness isn’t a feeling; it’s unchanging happiness (or peace). As what could Awareness possibly want? (I hope this doesn’t come off as preachy or anything. I spent a long time spinning my wheels on this subject, thinking there was something I was aiming for, some special feeling that would mark the end of my search (which I’m beginning to see has never been real, as what I’ve been searching for is the Beingness that KNOWS the searching, and I’m never not that). If can I say something that short-circuits someone else’s misunderstanding, I want to give it my best shot, because it’s been the most random comments that have helped me see what I’m not, and I appreciate all the people who took the time to help.)
@Unknowing It is very true,there is one aspect i want to mention ,my search began a few years ago,when i first came across The law of attraction(that was the best choice at that time,Abraham Hicks),i had fun with it for a little while, but it was so tiring and i was even scared at that moment because as i was trying to focus on positives all the negatives came along. I started praying for clarity and E Tolle came on and was so soothing and helpful, but for some reason i continued and get to Rupert which is like the final piece.Is a journey, definately, but what i want to point to is that practising LOA was not an option for me and seems extremely hard and tiring. I am sure we all have out unique was to come back home, there is no choice or free will just guidance from grace. But LOA is working definetely, i can observe in millions of ways.
Lots of great replies! Thank you. I deeply understand what Rupert teaches, and in general agree with what he teaches. As with any individual, I can only speak my own truth. I have had "feel good" chemical experiences. The sacred experiences I have had were FAR more than that, and they DID change me, and they also sustain me. Also, though I understand the concepts involved, the "Law of Attraction" system has no appeal for me.
To think you need "to do" is the problem. I could see how this is confusing, but essentially. When one drops the need "to do" something to experience what he's saying, then one is closer to it. I suppose one practical activity might be sitting in stillness, or seeing how things in your life that produce happiness equally hold the potential for unhappiness through the loss of them.
JPxKillz it’s true but what if the goal is to smoothly go from one thing that makes you happy to another right when the first thing starts to not make you happy anymore, without being attached to anything. I hope you know what I mean. I know life has its heavy limitations but i just can’t befriend the thought that unhappiness is not avoidable. That would imply that we are doomed to suffering at some point by our human existence
mars Stuttgart it appears as suffering due to an outdated mode of seeing, one in which an illusory ego experiences lack. When one form of existence is complete, there seems to be pain in the transformation, a fear of death, which always precedes a new birth. A caterpillar becoming a butterfly, a baby born into the world. What seems to be pain from one end comes to be known as growth from the other.
Spira speaks of natural happiness or happiness of being, it is apart from the mind and sensations in duality. But it lacks to engage the mind in its exercise of happiness because the moment the mind tries to capture it, happiness is diminished. Thus, the happiness that is, is weak in that it does not engage the mind and sensation to their full activity or expression of it. This happiness is as it were always in the background and as soon as the mind and sensation want to catch it, consciousness and its happiness is suffocated by them. But in the Gospel of Christ, the Spirit brings not the happiness of being, but of the special love of God into duality as the image of His Son on the cross dying for us. In Him non duality and duality are perfectly connected. We don't need to move from duality or non duality, we live im both fully by receiving His unique love rationally. The mind is actively engaged in reflecting on His love shown to us by dying for our sake, for us who lived against His beauty. Spira uses images or sounds to meditate, but to meditate rationally on Jesus is the true and only path to God. For there is no love higher than this, that He should give himself up for us who rejected him. Love that has a form, and infinite form is complete unlike a love that lacks it. The fact is that God has a perfect form of himself, His Son, and it is He who by His Love, the Spirit is given to us in duality blinded by deception. In this the deception is that I am God and the source of love. When one is found by a greater love then I start loving my self in subordination to this greater love unknown to me.
I have one last challenge for this idea. What about the alteration of various sources of pleasure ? Can they make you happy ? First Pizza, then Sex, then a Great Movie, then Chocolate cake. The next day another type of Pizza, another woman, a Concert, then skiing. The third day a massage .... The fourth day the Pizza, Sex, and Chocolate from 3 days ago are satisfying again.. Enough time has relapsed.. How about this Plan ? I think there was an article once in PSychology Today that said something along those lines.. The importance of various sources of pleasure.. to create happiness basically. I think Science equates Happiness with Pleasure. Or Homeostasis.
still its not everlasting happiness. a person can feel empty even after doing all those end of the day. after having a glass of wine you will feel satisfied for a while but then it looses its effect then the person turns to the next object.
This seems like a viewpoint from a place of privilege. Would you say this to someone living in severe poverty whom is starving, no home and sick? I think that it is a good ideal for those who are having their basic needs met perhaps but one cannot say that nothing is missing in this moment when you are in that place.
I don't think I could even mildly do Ruperts words justice or explain why I feel your statement is wrong. Your statement from your current viewpoint is correct, but I am willing to wager you will not feel that way say in 10 years time. Perhaps put that statement to one side and revisit it and see if you still believe it. Happiness is not a balance sheet of needs met or material things, happiness is a state of being. I comes always from within, by that the meaning I believe is you give happiness to yourself, you do not need to seek it from people or things, they dont give you happiness, your feelings about them give you happiness. It has been widely shown that soom of the poorest people in the world are the happiest, living in poverty, not having their basic needs met, yet very happy. The modern concept of happiness I feel is not correct. Happiness is not a destination, it is not a check list of things or numbers gained, happiness is not a lack of sadness or problems but it is a way to process this expereince called being, it lies within and it is available to us all once you become aware of it. Hash tag I think ....Hash that keyboard guru alert .... Namaste..... and I do know and hear what you are saying, it is a valid point
@@MrNiceHk thank you for the honest response. It's nice to see some people can still disagree civilly:) I will take time to really think on your words and try to view. I myself have been homeless in the past and without anything. I will revisit those times and think about what you said. I don't know anyone in extreme poverty who are happy personally. I've heard the same thing as you said before about some of them being the most happy but I've never witnessed this. Have you? Do you have sources for that? Love to talk to those people or hear from them on their take on happiness. Thank you for the conversation without confrontation:) much love
@@AtypicalPaul likewise, Johann Hari has written a great book on the subject called Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression. In it he speaks extensively about people in what some people would consider poor conditions. He notices that depression seems to be very much a developed world issue. A lack of purpose and that how people living what some people would consider poorer or more simpler conditions have little or no mental health issues, He and the wise people within these cultures put that down to doing, like farming, a sense of purpose each day. When people are out of sorts within these communities the wise ones prescribe work, in the fields etc. When you have less you are also attached to less and you focus on more what is important, like shelter, food, care. Sure this is a simplification and obviously does not apply universally but the boarder concept I feel holds true.
Such absolutely incredible synchronicity. Yesterday and this morning I was feeling rejected by someone, and all the pain associated with feeling unloved. This vid reestablished me in the truth that I know behind the whole attachment-rejection dynamic. That I am whole, complete, loved ....and that my feelings of rejection are a habitual story I have told myself my entire life around looking to others to fulfill me. 🙏🏽 💕
Same, I came to a realization myself after a heart break, that what I was doing was interpreting a sensation my body was making in my solar plexus into thoughts that said "I am unworthy of love." Then, I decided to meditate, and simply be with the sensation, the same way I applied it to my cold showers ritual, be with the sensation, do not allow the ego to run with it.
Miketar2424 Love what you wrote! Rupert talks about that a lot, how we feel a sensation, and it’s really just an experiencing of that particular sensation. The suffering comes in when we interpret the sensation in whatever our particular ingrained habit is, I’m unloved, I’m unworthy, I’m a loser, I’m neurotic, I’m overly-sensitive .... and on and on. On my bulletin board I have this very simple question:
“What am I adding to direct experience right now?”
Anyway, appreciated your response to my comment and felt it was right on :)
baguar01 anna sent new here!!! Hey Yahn!!! This was the very first idea that really started my awakening 9 years ago... happiness lies within! I wrote it with permanent marker on my wall haha. 😁💜
Hi Monica :D
Glad you didn’t tattoo it on your forehead hehe .... So true though, we search, search, search for something we already have.
@@lostwarriorwandering have you guys looked into internal family systems? its working wonders in my awakening journey
You may not know where you're going, but you know that so long as you spread your wings, the winds will carry you.
Deep down I always felt that deep intimate relationships, just simple connections with total strangers brought me so much joy because it was not wanting something from those connections but for the sake of sharing our Being, which is one and the same. After my own awakening experience I especially saw that some aspects of myself was more intensified than before - I didn't have anymore fear of connecting with anyone or fearing rejection, like my innate talents and aspects of my soul were able to shine more vividly than before.
Happiness lies within!!! This was the first idea that started my awakening process 9 years ago
So are you awakened?
Saurabh Gupta still in the process of course
@@StayAtHomeMonica wow! Are you regular
Within where ?
I took a nap after work today, and I had a dream a vision of sort seeing the world as a series of events and I was the witness. No matter what image, event, sound, smell or touch occurred, I was impartial and unaffected by it. Perfect timing for this message today, a true synchronicity.
So it goes
I have been listening to you Rupert for almost two years .... And today I finally got what you are saying more than ever before 🙏
Same, it's a hard pill to swallow but can be so relieving when it's understood deeper.
@kevin tarver , this is fully gettable. I get that 99.9% of self help / spiritual lads are out there building dependence for income but I went to see Rupert, had the insight I craved and it only cost me 10 quid! I’ve been part of Buddhist sects that wanted £100 spend on books up front.
@@tf4927 can you please elaborate even if it's studip for me to ask for it after so long.
Thank u Rupert within 1 year now I see only god by watching your videos your Direct teaching is so potent I am 23 year old now and was searching god from childhood if I ever came to England I will meet you love from india.
Jerry Thomas love you man
I see you in comments of atmanda krisha menons videos now here. woo
💗💗💗
How’s your journey going Jerry? Are you free yet?
@@Xwisit it's going good thanks for asking
It just came to me loud and clear.
Contentment is in the Beingness.
Nothing needed, no conditions whatsoever!!
Happiness comes from within. Don’t y’all know that..? I’ve been married 43 years to the mate of my dreams.. but he’s not responsible 4 my happiness.. I am. My happiness comes from within. I’m happy now. I was b4 & even now during a worldwide pandemic. My sympathy to everyone but it doesn’t make me unhappy. I’m responsible for creating my world & I’m just glad I know it.
"during a worldwide pandemic"
Pandemic? Where?
For me, as long as I keep King Lear and John Smith in mind, the whole spiritual quest gets very clear and simple. It always comes back to that metaphor. Thanks Rupert!
My awakening had started with this man’teachings.Thank you Rupert
I sensed this sometime ago when every experience I had I still tell myself or felt within me that I still lack the "deep satisfaction of the soul". This went on for a long time and the phrase "deep satisfaction of the soul" became a common term for me to seek and 30, 35, 40 years along that deep satisfaction of the soul is still a distance away in every experience of mine. As if it's unachievable just as it truly is.
Rupert Spira is a great teacher than most of the contemperory enlightened teachers who are just interested in selling spirituality.. pardon my separate self 😌
What he is talking about is the most important teaching i think.🙏thank you so much.❤✌🌈🌈
The realization that no external experience was a devastating thing, but it guided me to exactly what Rupert is talking about. When the world disappoints, what other direction is there to go but inward, in seeking happiness?
I have been a seeker all my life. I went from looking up at the stars as a child, to very randomly have one of Platos book just appear in my life as a teenager, too a form of atheism than a realization I was actually an agnostic theist as whilst at the time I never believed in organized religion I have always believed in God, I moved on to theology suspecting that there is something profound in religion, onto western philosophy, then meditation, yoga, eastern philosophy, Theosophy, finally Gurdjieff & Ouspensky who I believe Rupert also studied and most recently I stumbled on Rupert, instantly I was filled with Joy, a new toy to play with. He expresses ideas which such simplicity yet I find myself listening to people who have pursued these ideas for years really struggle to grasp his so clearly expressed concepts. Its like there are a lot of people who like the idea of the idea that they are into this stuff and fail to see the inherent irony in that situation. Whilst not really pursing these teachings one would hear bumper sticker enlightenment statements about attachment and really it never landed within my being but once you start to pull a the tread of reality you see, clearly its all attachment, attachment within attachments that soul purpose is to hide its nature so it can remain attached. For me the first step down the road of being is the suspension of expectation and the trust in you. Once these two simple inner handshakes occur, fruit starts to drop into your lap Hash tag .... my I thinks ; ) Have a wonderful day, and thank you Rupert
Thanks Rupert. I love it everytime I get notified of a new upload. Should be more often:)
Even if we get what we want, every pleasant experience must change and end in order to get the system moved again off to the next promising opportunity. Experiences are thus incapable of being completely satisfying. They are an unreliable basis for true happiness. - Rick Hanson (Buddha's Brain)
First time listening to this guy, he has IT, like all my other spiritual teachers/friends online (Eckhart Tolle, Mooji, Ram Dass, etc.). Namaste.
If nothing out there can make us happy, then nothing out there can make us unhappy either.
Brilliant as always
Timely and gentle reminder
This is the best and most important video I've seen in my life. So true, thank you.
So powerful. The deepest learning, returning to this place of resolution that ultimately has nothing to do with all the searching, seeking.
Wonderful stuff. Wonderful!
That’s the most beautiful explanation of Happiness and being happy I’ve ever heard! 🙏🏻 thank you Rupert 🙏🏻💗💓
Thank you, yet again, Rupert.
Absolutely loved this video. Thank you so much for this valuable information. Lots of love from an Australian 🇦🇺❤
What’s left in this world after comprehending this truth? I’m still 32 years old and everything in this world sounds and feels so pointless, even traveling and meeting new people. Everything becomes meaningless when I come back home and all the experiences become past memories and body remembrances of biological ups and downs. For me, existence is showing that I my happiness relies on living in nature, connecting to the universe as part of a whole, to find the whole within me.
Thank u
happiness comes when u go within and connect with the truth of who u are, the outer world is only an illusion, that is y we die to it. so who leaves the body? that is your true self, and your true love when in the body. then it becomes your true self.for we are the God that exist. it is all a play of consciousness.
When reading "No Experience can bring us happiness" I got disturbed for I meant Rupert to say "Even the Highest Experience cannot bring happiness". But yes, Rupert's talking is clearly about OBJECTIVE-experience. But the Last Experience/Understanding will finally absolutely satisfy.
as I watch this video
what arises in me
is how fucking unhappy I am!
I truly loathe my life.
I hate it.
I've lived pretty much my entire life
with debilitating crippling paralyzing:
suicidal depression.
the only moments of happiness in my life
come to me in fleeting windows of relief,
that never ever last long enough.
my life is agony.
I am full of:
- loneliness
- rage
- regret
- remorse
- hopelessness
- guilt
- terror
- anxiety
- aloneness
Thank you
Yes, yes , yes 😇
So hilarious in light of what we see in the mainstream today.
Experiences can bring you happiness but that happiness is not sustained, no states are sustained
Thank you 🙌
Amazing video, Thanks!
I needed to see this today, I really did. ❤
It’s also true that every objective experience is a gift that absolutely enriches us.
An objective experience? Isnt that an oxymoron?
Bhuyakasha I’m not sure. What’s the point of all these limited words anyway! :)
No experience or situation can take away or add to what we already are. Only the false self can inflate and delate as it is an object.
Thank You 😇😁
Lovely!
That was a killer (superb) message.
Funny how this video popped up after complaining to a friend how I’m tired of this town and everything around me.
Neti Neti 🙏
His premise is that because no object is permanent, no happiness can be permanent. But what if there is an object or person that is permanent and represents the greatest expression of joy and love? Because I know a man that it is that. Joy and love is only complete when it marries with someone else, not merely to oneself. This man of course is Jesus.
"This is as good as it gets" can be a misleading statement to hear if we're in a state of suffering at the time. It doesn't mean a particular feeling state is fixed and will never ease.
"This is as good as it gets." For me, the key to understanding this statement is the definition of 'this'. Does 'this' refer to my human life on Earth? Or, does 'this' refer to my true essence, which is the observer or experiencer of my human life on Earth? Of course, it's the latter, or this statement would be a very cruel joke.
Both, my dear friend. Bless.
This refers to your actual experience in this moment right now. Human life or true essence are both concepts which point to this now experience.
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If consciousness is evolving, why does our essential being remain the same? if the "purpose" of our interactions, co-operation with and love for each other is to evolve & grow with the aim to lower entropy of the larger consciousness system (in Tom Campbell model)- or is there no "purpose"?
well, then where can i buy this "no experience"?
In meditation :)
Hahaha but it's no experience
@@popitzikaliou7 Exactly, it's "no experience"
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But then why do I seek to avoid people. I feel much more at ease alone.
We just stop the mechanism of un-happiness, the endless dis-satisfied mind,, We are already happy in our consious-awareness,.keeping attention in happiness is the spirtual practice,. Not the attention on search and our misery,.
does anyone know which video is this?:
someone asks Rupert is it safe to give up all thinking? and then Rupert says yes and its only 3 situations where thinking is needed/required, the first is practical situations, and then he talks about the second and the third, would be of a great help if someone told me the name of the video, thanks alot in advance.
The link is in the description.
@@wandamackenzie144 what do you mean? which description?
@@ghassankhanfar2750 Under the video .. click "show more"
Is it possible that certain illnesses can cause our body to feel a sense of unwellness at a deep cellular level, which generates brain states that project messages of unwellness? In this case, there might be an inherent biological "desire" to return to a state of wellness, in which the body experiences suffering that is beyond the capacity of the mind to correct, or do anything about? In such states, it might be possible that there is no way for us to "turn of" this felt desire, because it is a biological impulse, programmed into us through millions of years of evolution. Thus, we might end up stuck feeling a deep sense of unwellness regardless of what we do, or don't do. It might be objectively true that we aren't actually unhappy during these cicrumstances, but that doesn't mean that we have always have a path available to us to feel as such. It might be that our body screams "unhappiness" at us when we reach certain levels of severe illness, and no spiritual teaching is going to have the slightest impact on that fact. I say might, because I do not know this for sure, but I have had experiences in life which suggest it.
Yes, that would be evident when the mind's limbic system is overreacting from something perceived as threatening in which case the release of certain neurochemicals(cortisol, adrenaline, other neurotransmitters), results in the fight/flight/freeze response and meditation so as to attain a peaceful state won't work and you'd need the right kind of medication to stop it.
I've tried for two years with rupert, he is, i'm sure a wonderful teacher and a great person ( his human part ) . But there is the thing, we're all human, and teachings that try and make us realise we're not are fraught with potential pitfalls. The " separate self" is a lifetime ( maybe more) of conditioning. Non duality, even though it sometimes includes body and sensation meditations such as rupert employs, seems a very cerebral , almost intellectual approach. And there are alot of non duality teachers ( not rupert) who encourage the whole " i do'nt really exist" thing, which gives a lot of people what they think is a " get out of humanity" free card. I think i am defecting to the 3 principles camp. Too much sophistry here. I would love to know how many of ruperts students have achieved happiness as a result of his advaita teachings . Maybe there are dozens ?? I do'nt know. But, if not, one is bound to question point of it all. I mean, its obviously worked for rupert. Francis lucille ? Not getting it either.
I totally agree with you, Dom. In my experience, the DP teachings only give a context for my own self discovery but self realization, I find, in my own experience is actually very dissatisfying.
Trying to 'embody the Understanding' is just more of the same perpetual self centredness.
Apologies for sounding like a cynic but life is not exactly patterned. Life has the freedom to run this show however it wants. We are creatures of habit, instinct and sentiment. That is never changing anytime soon.
@@rahulkulkarni536 that's my experience of it rahul, thank you for your response and best wishes
@Bob Dickson i'm sure you are right bob
Yeah, it’s very intellectual. I think I know the teacher you’d like more. It’s anti-intellectual, it’s very simple. Check out Salvadore Poe.
@@pumpkini586 thank you cooper , i appreciate your response. I will definitely check that out. Best wishes
A new Bentley or a new Steinway D (or both) could satisfy one for a lifetime if they were well maintained. Apart from that Rupert is right.
As a piano player with a great love for the Steinway D(but also the B, A and L models) I can relate though whatever enjoyment I get in playing them is an ephemeral experience so the joy's great while it lasts.
I really like Rupert and his channel; however, making a statement during meditation that "this is as good as it gets" is dubious at best. It is entirely true that real happiness comes from within, but to make that statement during meditation implies that the meditative state is as good as it gets, and that isn't remotely true. I learned meditation over 40 years ago. Yet, outside of meditation I have had several brief experiences that were fantastically beautiful and more real than anything I've experience outwardly. These experiences were drug free and entirely inward, having nothing to do with the outer world, and they were far and away more beautiful than a typical experience during meditation.
I don't know from your comment what he has meant at that moment with "this".
Maybe you get a change to share this with Rupert. It is interesting.
These experiences you describe come and go. The purpose of meditation is to reach permanent bliss, or enlightenment. At that point bliss is your continual state of being, you do not need to sit and close your eyes and “do” meditation as an activity.
I, too, have had such experiences (also, like you, NOT while meditating; and I can only describe them as Beautiful/Freedom/Love/infinite possibility/the realest thing I’ve ever experienced), and for a long time I thought they were the goal, like that was living transcendence; but then I realized that those experiences, while beautiful, were temporary. I saw them come and go, yet I remained the same, unchanged. What I am, that unchangingness, can never be “better” or improved, nor can I be hurt or diminished. So, I have to agree with Rupert, this IS as good as it gets, because there’s never actually any change (no matter what experiences may appear-“beautiful” or “mundane”). Having those experiences didn’t improve Awareness in any way, they just helped to dissolve the illusion of personal-ness by expressing the truth of Being without the mask/superimposition of “the world.” (Or, to put it more simply, knowing knew itself as itself, not as anything limited.) If you had been changed in any way by those experiences, how would you know you’d had them? What you are has to remain unchanged for the appearance of change to be known. (Just like if the screen was affected/changed by the movie, the movie would never be known; it’d just be an ever-shifting mess.) It’s a mistake to think that happiness is an experience you can point to and say, “There it is.” Anything you can point to is not happiness (even if what you’re pointing toward is a beautiful experience that defies words). If it has a beginning and end, it’s not happiness. Happiness is the absence of want or desire. It isn’t a feeling (although it’s free to express itself as a feeling). Knowing/Awareness isn’t a feeling; it’s unchanging happiness (or peace). As what could Awareness possibly want? (I hope this doesn’t come off as preachy or anything. I spent a long time spinning my wheels on this subject, thinking there was something I was aiming for, some special feeling that would mark the end of my search (which I’m beginning to see has never been real, as what I’ve been searching for is the Beingness that KNOWS the searching, and I’m never not that). If can I say something that short-circuits someone else’s misunderstanding, I want to give it my best shot, because it’s been the most random comments that have helped me see what I’m not, and I appreciate all the people who took the time to help.)
@Unknowing It is very true,there is one aspect i want to mention ,my search began a few years ago,when i first came across The law of attraction(that was the best choice at that time,Abraham Hicks),i had fun with it for a little while, but it was so tiring and i was even scared at that moment because as i was trying to focus on positives all the negatives came along. I started praying for clarity and E Tolle came on and was so soothing and helpful, but for some reason i continued and get to Rupert which is like the final piece.Is a journey, definately, but what i want to point to is that practising LOA was not an option for me and seems extremely hard and tiring. I am sure we all have out unique was to come back home, there is no choice or free will just guidance from grace. But LOA is working definetely, i can observe in millions of ways.
Lots of great replies! Thank you. I deeply understand what Rupert teaches, and in general agree with what he teaches. As with any individual, I can only speak my own truth. I have had "feel good" chemical experiences. The sacred experiences I have had were FAR more than that, and they DID change me, and they also sustain me. Also, though I understand the concepts involved, the "Law of Attraction" system has no appeal for me.
The message is good but it relativizes everything in life, it makes one confused about what to do next
To think you need "to do" is the problem. I could see how this is confusing, but essentially. When one drops the need "to do" something to experience what he's saying, then one is closer to it. I suppose one practical activity might be sitting in stillness, or seeing how things in your life that produce happiness equally hold the potential for unhappiness through the loss of them.
JPxKillz it’s true but what if the goal is to smoothly go from one thing that makes you happy to another right when the first thing starts to not make you happy anymore, without being attached to anything. I hope you know what I mean. I know life has its heavy limitations but i just can’t befriend the thought that unhappiness is not avoidable. That would imply that we are doomed to suffering at some point by our human existence
mars Stuttgart it appears as suffering due to an outdated mode of seeing, one in which an illusory ego experiences lack. When one form of existence is complete, there seems to be pain in the transformation, a fear of death, which always precedes a new birth. A caterpillar becoming a butterfly, a baby born into the world. What seems to be pain from one end comes to be known as growth from the other.
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Spira speaks of natural happiness or happiness of being, it is apart from the mind and sensations in duality. But it lacks to engage the mind in its exercise of happiness because the moment the mind tries to capture it, happiness is diminished. Thus, the happiness that is, is weak in that it does not engage the mind and sensation to their full activity or expression of it. This happiness is as it were always in the background and as soon as the mind and sensation want to catch it, consciousness and its happiness is suffocated by them. But in the Gospel of Christ, the Spirit brings not the happiness of being, but of the special love of God into duality as the image of His Son on the cross dying for us. In Him non duality and duality are perfectly connected. We don't need to move from duality or non duality, we live im both fully by receiving His unique love rationally. The mind is actively engaged in reflecting on His love shown to us by dying for our sake, for us who lived against His beauty. Spira uses images or sounds to meditate, but to meditate rationally on Jesus is the true and only path to God. For there is no love higher than this, that He should give himself up for us who rejected him. Love that has a form, and infinite form is complete unlike a love that lacks it. The fact is that God has a perfect form of himself, His Son, and it is He who by His Love, the Spirit is given to us in duality blinded by deception. In this the deception is that I am God and the source of love. When one is found by a greater love then I start loving my self in subordination to this greater love unknown to me.
I have one last challenge for this idea. What about the alteration of various sources of pleasure ? Can they make you happy ? First Pizza, then Sex, then a Great Movie, then Chocolate cake. The next day another type of Pizza, another woman, a Concert, then skiing. The third day a massage .... The fourth day the Pizza, Sex, and Chocolate from 3 days ago are satisfying again.. Enough time has relapsed.. How about this Plan ? I think there was an article once in PSychology Today that said something along those lines.. The importance of various sources of pleasure.. to create happiness basically. I think Science equates Happiness with Pleasure. Or Homeostasis.
still its not everlasting happiness. a person can feel empty even after doing all those end of the day. after having a glass of wine you will feel satisfied for a while but then it looses its effect then the person turns to the next object.
Yeah but u still wanna do them not becouse they bring happiness ...
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This seems like a viewpoint from a place of privilege. Would you say this to someone living in severe poverty whom is starving, no home and sick? I think that it is a good ideal for those who are having their basic needs met perhaps but one cannot say that nothing is missing in this moment when you are in that place.
I don't think I could even mildly do Ruperts words justice or explain why I feel your statement is wrong. Your statement from your current viewpoint is correct, but I am willing to wager you will not feel that way say in 10 years time. Perhaps put that statement to one side and revisit it and see if you still believe it. Happiness is not a balance sheet of needs met or material things, happiness is a state of being. I comes always from within, by that the meaning I believe is you give happiness to yourself, you do not need to seek it from people or things, they dont give you happiness, your feelings about them give you happiness. It has been widely shown that soom of the poorest people in the world are the happiest, living in poverty, not having their basic needs met, yet very happy. The modern concept of happiness I feel is not correct. Happiness is not a destination, it is not a check list of things or numbers gained, happiness is not a lack of sadness or problems but it is a way to process this expereince called being, it lies within and it is available to us all once you become aware of it. Hash tag I think ....Hash that keyboard guru alert .... Namaste..... and I do know and hear what you are saying, it is a valid point
@@MrNiceHk thank you for the honest response. It's nice to see some people can still disagree civilly:) I will take time to really think on your words and try to view. I myself have been homeless in the past and without anything. I will revisit those times and think about what you said. I don't know anyone in extreme poverty who are happy personally. I've heard the same thing as you said before about some of them being the most happy but I've never witnessed this. Have you? Do you have sources for that? Love to talk to those people or hear from them on their take on happiness. Thank you for the conversation without confrontation:) much love
@@AtypicalPaul likewise, Johann Hari has written a great book on the subject called Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression. In it he speaks extensively about people in what some people would consider poor conditions. He notices that depression seems to be very much a developed world issue. A lack of purpose and that how people living what some people would consider poorer or more simpler conditions have little or no mental health issues, He and the wise people within these cultures put that down to doing, like farming, a sense of purpose each day. When people are out of sorts within these communities the wise ones prescribe work, in the fields etc. When you have less you are also attached to less and you focus on more what is important, like shelter, food, care. Sure this is a simplification and obviously does not apply universally but the boarder concept I feel holds true.