When I was young competing with other free divers holding the breath I lost my “consciousness” and spent more than 4 minutes without breathing. Fortunately after a CPR I recovered, but when I opened my eyes for several seconds I could not recognize any body, and couldn’t even knew what was happening. However if in that condition someone would asked me: Do you exist? My answer would be yes. And if then a second question were: How do you know that you exist? My answer would be; I am just conscious of my own existence. For me that was my direct experience of my naked nature: The knowing “I am” and the recognition that this knowing is unlimited and beyond time and space is perfect freedom. That is called: Sat Chit Ananda. Of course there are safer ways to know our naked nature.
I think a bit of Sanskrit can be helpful here.. Ahamkara is generally understood to be the "ego" which is a sense, belief and thought of "I, me mine." Aham is generally translated as "I am." In this experience of "I am" there is a kind of unchanging presence of simply existing as an awareness of being present, without anything extra. It's simply the "I am" that has always been the "I am" since you were young until now - that has always been. This inner sense of "I am" however still reflects a tiny sense of "I" and "am" which is a sliver of duality still there within experience. This is because there are still 2 syllables.."A" and "ham" or "I" and "am" so there is a kind of grasping instead of pure being. If we go just a bit further into this, you may be able to see that the "ham" (in "Aham") is extra. In other words, the "am" in "I am" is slightly confusing because it's still presents a tiny bit of experience of separateness or "duality" which creates a dynamic tension as "subject" experiencing "object." The first syllable of the Sanskrit language is the original expression "A" (or "Ah") which is pure "I-ness" or non-dual BEING. And so the sense I'm trying to convey here is that "THAT is YOU." "Tat Tvam Asi" (That I am) is a drawn out version of the same principle. This does not have to be grasped, in fact it cannot be. You are already it and this "it" is you - prior to any grasping or any thought. Just relax into this knowing that is the present. Its not something you concentrate on or aim for, its just who you are and have always been, in THIS timeless moment. It is (you are) limitless, never changing, never born never dying, of INFINITE VALUE and as they say in Tantra "all good." 🙏
@davidmick 🙏thank you for this explanation- in a way of making it simple. Which came for me in the right moment- to remember that I know who “ I am “☯️
I can't say that 'I' did; more like 'it appeared through this character I appear to be playing' (but I'll still say thank you and you're welcome LOL)@@kolarz2128
or 'joyful' stillness, or just IS-ness, but then again, what do 'I' know? ...words fail, and I'm not sure I believe I even 'have' 'thoughts' any more LOL Anyone asks me ['lately', whatever that means] how I am, I'm inclined to say that 'I' am cracking up, but in the best possible way@@jimmybolton-ig7zs
I had a very vivid dream once where people were first giving me all kinds of positive attention and the "me" got all inflated. Then it suddenly changed and people were viciously mean and the "me" instantly deflated. Then a voice said "Have no opinions, hold no judgments, therein lies freedom". Instantly it was "I AM", no longer merged with any mind activity. It was like a remembering or waking up. It was just like the sun shining everywhere at once. Total acceptance without judgement. The sun doesn't shine in "good" places and avoid "bad" places, it just shines with no hesitation, no judgement, no divisions. Love, our true nature, what people call "God", is kind of like this. Illumination of ALL.
I once meditated on the meaning of the self in the present moment and experienced the silence in the room. It was peace. And in that moment I realized: the silence is the peace, the peace is the self, because nobody told you that. All these things are an expression of your being. And I heard a bird outside, and I liked the sounds, but these sounds are empty in nature, just frequencies, who makes them so beautiful? The self. The mirror. Look at yourself, apart from the stories that the mind creates.
I think the difficulty for many lies in that when asking "am i aware", then being aware of being aware and then stating "i am aware", that moment of turning away from thought and then directly being aware of being aware is so short. It can be mistaken so easily for just an ordinary thought. I find it helpful to put just a little smile on my face during the seeing of "i am aware".It might be a little forced because i don't always feel happy, but when combined with being aware of being aware, it's easier to joyfully stay aware of being aware. If you let yourself, you can really plunge into awareness this way and turn that somewhat forced little smile into a bright big shining smile. But i really understand the frustration with this, i really do. I've struggled for years to "get" this, but that was always because it was too simple and the mind/thought is never simple enough for it, yet it wants to understand this and it can't. You really have to stop at some point and just stay where you already are. Believing one little thought can keep you completely away from seeing it. It's not hard, it's just that we want there to be at least one step. But there isn't. Not even one.
It can come that way too. 🙂 Just wanted to share this though, because i think for most people it's not this easy. Look at the many people that keep coming to these satsangs for example, that really know there's something here but have a really hard time feeling it. They keep trying to "get it". This is really frustrating, i can say from experience. Being aware of awareness for too short can give one the next thought (or a variation of this): "yes, i see that i am aware, but so what? There's nothing to see there" And they would be somewhat right, from the minds perspective. There's nothing there for the mind to see/get. In that case, one might just need a little "bridge" from the state of thinking to feeling. Putting a smile on your face, even when a little forced (just a little) can make that transition from thinking to feeling easier. One can recognise: "hey this feels good!" And when enjoying it, one can choose moment to moment, if one wants to stay there or begin thinking again.
My true nature, peace, becomes crystal clear to “me” when I’m in a disturbing life situation, that prior to me abiding in peace, awareness, would have triggered all sorts of negative reactions, but now there is only peace.
All is ONE - there is not two! But to experience this what do you do? For years I’ve given this lots of thought I’ve listened to speakers, to what they’ve taught. Then something hit me, right in the face, It’s all to do with what we call space! The universe is infinite - goes on forever you see. Hubble and James Watt give us pictures for free. Those photos are magic and pull at the heart Gazing at them is where you should start. There’s planets and stars and galaxies and such But that’s only 5 percent - which isn’t that much. The rest we ignore, which is our big mistake, Because we’re missing 95% of the cake! We all want harmony, oneness and love - The secret’s around us, down here not above! Yes the truth is staring us right in the face To experience ONENESS include the space! So make this your mission - your daily goal And with a permanent smile you’ll truly feel WHOLE!
@@adamarmstrong9408 Non-duality speakers often use the term "space-like awareness," I think to describe the qualities of awareness. It seems to be that in INFINITY all is one essence appearing as different things but always truly remaining as the one true essence. This being so the Totality/Absolute can't be divided up. But if all there is is ONENESS, a CONSCIOUS awareness of the whole is what is being sought and that can only come from including space, which is 95% of the whole. When I consciously include space in awareness my whole experience of being changes instantly and a smile appears on my face.
When I remove all the experiences, there's nothing, I can't even say that I am, I don't experience something, not even "myself", at that point I know nothing.
Being aware of being peace comes from the environment to help you connect. Church or spiritual shoppes covey the ambience. Knowing what incense to burn, their qualities, etc. A massage/healing place has ambience etc. Using your senses all six of them as well. Archangel Michael
I think that everyone is "being", but not everyone is capable of perceiving it. To perceive the "I am" is not an easy task and doing it usually requires some training. I think this guy is not able to recognize the presence of being. But it is not possible to use words to "explain" the presence of being. For me that is a rational approach that doesn't work. He will need to meditate enough until he recognizes his own presence. Then there will be no more questions.
The connection between knowing (action) , knower (person)and Knowledge(experience ) is Iam.. (chaitnya in Hidusism Sanskrit there is no equivalent word in English ,maybe Zeal /soul) it is known as the Atman /chaitanya in vedanta of Hinduism Which is State of peace (absence of any experience) It is the King dom where god lives This is what pereached by Jesus it can't be understood easily by every one Every one cannot understand what is stillness position of mind to achieve stillness person should know How to withdrawn from outside world (sense organs) and how to Stop the in side mind chattering And most importantly To stay still Stop experiencing every thing including stillness It is impossible to tell anything which is not experience
Consider that the BE-ingness that you Are is ALREADY [at] ‘Peace’, ALREADY ‘Awake’… ‘appearances’ (including ‘thoughts’, which by their nature are inherently ‘empty’) change/ come and go, ‘beliefs’ and even ‘meaning’ isn’t/aren’t constant. Perhaps the only ‘thing’ one can say is truly ‘happening’ is ‘witnessing’ /BE-ing, ‘your’ AM-ness/ IS-ness… S/HE is always ‘t/here’; ‘melt’ into ‘That’ That said, if you’re looking for a ‘tool’, ‘this character’ found Indiscriminate gratitude unimaginably helpful… i.e. not gratitude ‘for’ anything /any-‘thing’, but gratitude for the [‘sake’?] of gratitude itself… it ‘becomes’ not a tool for ‘manifesting’, but ‘realizing’… because it ‘feels good’, the mind appears to find it an ‘acceptable’ ‘rest’ ‘Tool #2’ lol: if mantras are your ‘thing’, I’ve found ‘blah, blah, blah’ to be Highly ‘effective’. No, really. 'I' do it all the time, even when I 'think' I'm 'talking' actual 'words' 🤣
*"LIFE The Real Self", is an Offspring and Child of "The LIGHT, The LIFE of GOD" ! The body I experienced was pronounced "DEAD On ARRIVAL" at a medical center in 1973. More than half an hour passed, then its heart started again... During that time I, "LIFE The Real Self", ( "AWARENESS" ) entered the WHITE LIGHT, and have remained in the WHITE LIGHT to this day...*
Hi Rupert, Who is that which is experiencing the feeling of "I AM". Is I AM feeling (being) is getting aware of itself. No one can be aware of itself without using Mind. Can a tip of finger touch itself? No. So how can the Awarness be aware of itself. It would need mind to experience itself. Could you please throw some light on it please?
I have the same concerns. Awareness being aware of itself is dual in nature, therefore of the mind. You cannot experience awareness. You can only be aware of an experience
The realization of BEING is far profound, peaceful and fulfilling than Million dollar in your bank, Sex with lot of different opposite sex, or any other object consciousness..........its like the taste of a sweet tea will be bland after you have eaten a cake right before........
the 'character' that I perceive mySelf to be was inclined to/sat in ‘the God Throne’ to meditate this morning [a white recliner chair I’d purchased for the ‘purpose’ of watching movies, or at least, so my ego had assumed lol]. I started to question, WHAT is the/this [inside] ‘voice’ that ‘says’ [for example] ‘this is what I’m seeing’, and ‘it/this’ means ‘that’, or I’m ‘seeing’ a ‘person’ [‘out there’] and they are ‘such’ and ‘such’, ‘I find [this] attractive/repulsive or [this] unattractive/unrepulsive’ lol, or ‘other people seem to hear the voice of God, but why do I only hear [‘this’]’, or I’ve ‘woken’ and it’s ‘morning’, etc, etc, etc, blah, blah, blah ad infinitum. There was fear [around that], as in, ‘OMG, what might appear ‘next’?!’ …or something just really vague as a ‘reason’ for it /fear. In any case, the ‘words’ in my mind and a ‘feeling’ associated with were, ‘I want to go home’! […whatever the f(ire tr)uck that meant lol]. The ‘thought’ came to mind: thoughts (if there are such a thing) at least seem to exist in ‘mind’, so what does 'mind' exist in? ...'Whatever' it is, it must be something ‘other’ than ‘mind’/ something [/some-‘thing’] ‘not-mind’… then the immediate ‘Knowing’, ‘I Am ‘Home’ [I've always 'BEEN' 'home']… and simultaneously an ‘experience’ of [‘that’].
Just sit and know that you are the 'I AM' without words. That is all that is needed. Soon you will arrive at your natural absolute state. Look up "Samaneri Jayasara"
The cognitive functions of the mind are inactive in deep sleep. Awareness or I'am is never really aware of itself; it simply is, and that isness lends subjectivity and existence to the minds processes. It is only through the reflecting medium of the mind that awareness can experience being aware of itself, and this only happens during waking when the cognitive functions are active. However, in deep sleep, the mind is not active. In Deep sleep, Awareness or I am, is in it's Pure state, and that is described as Being. Being is Absence, the absence of all things but absence itself, this is why when you wake, you recall Deep sleep as a kind of absence of yourself, but that absence is reflected in the Mind as I was not aware, or present during deep sleep, because the Mind wasn't active or present during deep sleep. This may be hard to grasp if we have only understood our essential nature through the reflecting medium of the Mind, and this is why it is also important that the mind is made still and silent, as it helps create the conditions that are similar to deep sleep where mind is inactive, when the mind is still and silent then what is always there and true is felt, which is similar to the absence of deep sleep, it is empty, or No-self.
How do you know that you are not present in deep sleep? Something must be there to "know" the absence of you? And only you "impersonal awareness" can be aweare of presence and absence.
YOU'RE DEAD WRONG! ha ha ha :D You could say that if you're refering to the phenomenal experience, when something stops - it dies. But when you refer to that which is, but it is neither of those phenomenal things - that's pure life! Pure potentiality! Awareness. Fulness of life, before it will assume a specific form :)
No sir every being/ non living is a form of energy Energy exists in two forms Static energy and dynamic energy Energy cannot be created nor destroyed It can change from one from to other This fundamental of ph ysics And the fundamentals of Hidusism
The emotions of being pissed off were present - but that's not you. It came and it will go, but you are. The peace is hidden, within that capacity of yours, to have those emotions within you, experience them and let them pass, without your Being - being agitated, or changed by them in any way at all. "I" is always the same, no matter what you experience. :)) There is nothing to be worried about, nothing to fix, nothing to change, or to get rid off. All is well as it is, already and always. Only sometimes we are not recognising that, because whenever we don't, again we start to believe to be the temporary content of our experience - example - "I am pissed off". (No, you're not! xD) Just see that it all is changing and not always present and ask yourself - does this also apply to you too? - because if not, then what does it matter if anger (or any kind of other emotion) is temporarily present, or not? :D Is there not enough space within you to contain it and let it be? Well, surely there must be, because if you compare feelings to the entire Universe they are much smaller, and the whole Universe has it's place within you! What can't you fit in awareness? Where are the borders? If you can find them - then they are within you too, but not you within them! xD Wake up! Love you
If you take away “hearing” from “I am hearing” only “I am” remains. Yes, that s right, but “I am”does not mean “being”. “I am” is the self itself. You cant get away from the self, whatever you say is what your self is saying.
Experience of I am is easy, everyone can realize and get the fact that they are, that they exist, is this trying to offend me ? Lol God. Soul. Spirit. Demons. God-Consciousness. God. God. Vision of God. God. God. No, I will offend you ;) I am your god.
When I was young competing with other free divers holding the breath I lost my “consciousness” and spent more than 4 minutes without breathing. Fortunately after a CPR I recovered, but when I opened my eyes for several seconds I could not recognize any body, and couldn’t even knew what was happening. However if in that condition someone would asked me: Do you exist? My answer would be yes. And if then a second question were: How do you know that you exist? My answer would be; I am just conscious of my own existence. For me that was my direct experience of my naked nature: The knowing “I am” and the recognition that this knowing is unlimited and beyond time and space is perfect freedom. That is called: Sat Chit Ananda. Of course there are safer ways to know our naked nature.
This I never understand, is there possibility to not be conscious of own existence ? (for human)
I think a bit of Sanskrit can be helpful here..
Ahamkara is generally understood to be the "ego" which is a sense, belief and thought of "I, me mine."
Aham is generally translated as "I am."
In this experience of "I am" there is a kind of unchanging presence of simply existing as an awareness of being present, without anything extra. It's simply the "I am" that has always been the "I am" since you were young until now - that has always been.
This inner sense of "I am" however still reflects a tiny sense of "I" and "am" which is a sliver of duality still there within experience.
This is because there are still 2 syllables.."A" and "ham" or "I" and "am" so there is a kind of grasping instead of pure being.
If we go just a bit further into this, you may be able to see that the "ham" (in "Aham") is extra. In other words, the "am" in "I am" is slightly confusing because it's still presents a tiny bit of experience of separateness or "duality" which creates a dynamic tension as "subject" experiencing "object."
The first syllable of the Sanskrit language is the original expression "A" (or "Ah") which is pure "I-ness" or non-dual BEING.
And so the sense I'm trying to convey here is that "THAT is YOU."
"Tat Tvam Asi" (That I am) is a drawn out version of the same principle.
This does not have to be grasped, in fact it cannot be. You are already it and this "it" is you - prior to any grasping or any thought.
Just relax into this knowing that is the present. Its not something you concentrate on or aim for, its just who you are and have always been, in THIS timeless moment.
It is (you are) limitless, never changing, never born never dying, of INFINITE VALUE and as they say in Tantra "all good."
🙏
@davidmick 🙏thank you for this explanation- in a way of making it simple. Which came for me in the right moment- to remember that I know who “ I am “☯️
@@davidmickles5012Thank you Sir. You must start channel/lectures on non dual understanding.. Advaita.. Will help lots of seekers.
Thanks a lot Sir for Sharing experience. Keep helping seekers like us Sir.. Thank you so much.
Even before this heart has beat,
before these eyes have opened,
before these flowers bloom,
There You Are,
There I Am
Beautiful. Did you create that?
I can't say that 'I' did; more like 'it appeared through this character I appear to be playing' (but I'll still say thank you and you're welcome LOL)@@kolarz2128
Somber stillness
or 'joyful' stillness, or just IS-ness, but then again, what do 'I' know? ...words fail, and I'm not sure I believe I even 'have' 'thoughts' any more LOL Anyone asks me ['lately', whatever that means] how I am, I'm inclined to say that 'I' am cracking up, but in the best possible way@@jimmybolton-ig7zs
The sincerity of the young man asking the questions is beautiful.
I had a very vivid dream once where people were first giving me all kinds of positive attention and the "me" got all inflated. Then it suddenly changed and people were viciously mean and the "me" instantly deflated. Then a voice said "Have no opinions, hold no judgments, therein lies freedom". Instantly it was "I AM", no longer merged with any mind activity. It was like a remembering or waking up. It was just like the sun shining everywhere at once. Total acceptance without judgement. The sun doesn't shine in "good" places and avoid "bad" places, it just shines with no hesitation, no judgement, no divisions. Love, our true nature, what people call "God", is kind of like this. Illumination of ALL.
I once meditated on the meaning of the self in the present moment and experienced the silence in the room. It was peace. And in that moment I realized: the silence is the peace, the peace is the self, because nobody told you that. All these things are an expression of your being. And I heard a bird outside, and I liked the sounds, but these sounds are empty in nature, just frequencies, who makes them so beautiful? The self. The mirror. Look at yourself, apart from the stories that the mind creates.
I think the difficulty for many lies in that when asking "am i aware", then being aware of being aware and then stating "i am aware", that moment of turning away from thought and then directly being aware of being aware is so short. It can be mistaken so easily for just an ordinary thought.
I find it helpful to put just a little smile on my face during the seeing of "i am aware".It might be a little forced because i don't always feel happy, but when combined with being aware of being aware, it's easier to joyfully stay aware of being aware. If you let yourself, you can really plunge into awareness this way and turn that somewhat forced little smile into a bright big shining smile.
But i really understand the frustration with this, i really do. I've struggled for years to "get" this, but that was always because it was too simple and the mind/thought is never simple enough for it, yet it wants to understand this and it can't. You really have to stop at some point and just stay where you already are. Believing one little thought can keep you completely away from seeing it.
It's not hard, it's just that we want there to be at least one step. But there isn't. Not even one.
The moment I am aware of being aware, a smile instantly appears on my face. I don't force it. It just comes. And I wonder why! :)
Same 😊@@FabSia
Brilliant thanks for that
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It can come that way too. 🙂
Just wanted to share this though, because i think for most people it's not this easy. Look at the many people that keep coming to these satsangs for example, that really know there's something here but have a really hard time feeling it. They keep trying to "get it". This is really frustrating, i can say from experience.
Being aware of awareness for too short can give one the next thought (or a variation of this): "yes, i see that i am aware, but so what? There's nothing to see there"
And they would be somewhat right, from the minds perspective. There's nothing there for the mind to see/get.
In that case, one might just need a little "bridge" from the state of thinking to feeling. Putting a smile on your face, even when a little forced (just a little) can make that transition from thinking to feeling easier. One can recognise: "hey this feels good!"
And when enjoying it, one can choose moment to moment, if one wants to stay there or begin thinking again.
It's all totally clear for me. Thank You Rupert. Merry Christmas to everyone!!! Merry Christmas to Myself, the only Self there is... :D
Merry Christmas and much love to you!
This self here is feeling like a very bad gardener. Yearning for happier Christmases and struggling to appreciate how good this one really is.
@@skylerasbridge3507 Well, it all is as it is. Just leave it like that, let them be :)
@@Jacobes95Lukasik-dl9oo Your wise words did their part. Best Christmas I've had in ages. Thank you 🎄
@@skylerasbridge3507 Thank you, it's really nice to read that :)
Rupert's patience level is beyond of this world
My true nature, peace, becomes crystal clear to “me” when I’m in a disturbing life situation, that prior to me abiding in peace, awareness, would have triggered all sorts of negative reactions, but now there is only peace.
You are consciousness straying within itself.
All is ONE - there is not two!
But to experience this what do you do?
For years I’ve given this lots of thought
I’ve listened to speakers, to what they’ve taught.
Then something hit me, right in the face,
It’s all to do with what we call space!
The universe is infinite - goes on forever you see.
Hubble and James Watt give us pictures for free.
Those photos are magic and pull at the heart
Gazing at them is where you should start.
There’s planets and stars and galaxies and such
But that’s only 5 percent - which isn’t that much.
The rest we ignore, which is our big mistake,
Because we’re missing 95% of the cake!
We all want harmony, oneness and love -
The secret’s around us, down here not above!
Yes the truth is staring us right in the face
To experience ONENESS include the space!
So make this your mission - your daily goal
And with a permanent smile you’ll truly feel WHOLE!
Would you say consciousness is like space or are we truly space
@@adamarmstrong9408 Non-duality speakers often use the term "space-like awareness," I think to describe the qualities of awareness. It seems to be that in INFINITY all is one essence appearing as different things but always truly remaining as the one true essence. This being so the Totality/Absolute can't be divided up. But if all there is is ONENESS, a CONSCIOUS awareness of the whole is what is being sought and that can only come from including space, which is 95% of the whole. When I consciously include space in awareness my whole experience of being changes instantly and a smile appears on my face.
Rupert has some really good older clips related to space/time. The way he describes distances and 'a past' goes unmatched.
"The mind and alzheimers" is a good clip to see/hear this.
Right there..."I am aware that i am aware!". Whew!
Peace is where I am at least most of the time. Its all a great movie playing out for consciousness Great video Thanx Rupert.
These pointers are so direct and helpful, thank you!
Peace is contentment.
Like sound. A series of impulses.
Not possible to be constant
Excellent way to experience I am. Brilliant !
That is so helpful! So glad he asked that question :)
From emptiness arises the luminosity of suchness…awareness, mindfulness, discernment, all accomplishing, equanimity. Totally empty and free..
Thank you Rupert for being so clear and concise.
Gratidão infinita 🌟.
✨❤️ ✨Brilliant!✨❤️✨
clear light, Mahamudra, big fan Rupert, great job, Zen master meets NLP master, awesome!
outfeeling your thinking , and outhinkng your feelings seems to be hella hard , level of patience.............pheeeew
'I DON'T KNOW' 1/0 is the perfect answer 😁
Thankyou dear Rupert ❤
Without Awareness there is No experience. 🙏🏽
When I remove all the experiences, there's nothing, I can't even say that I am, I don't experience something, not even "myself", at that point I know nothing.
Who knows nothing
Brilliant. Love Rupert. ❤️ ❤
Wah wah Aha wonderful Vishmaypurn thanks gretitude thanks ❤❤😅😅😅
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Being aware of being peace comes from the environment to help you connect. Church or spiritual shoppes covey the ambience. Knowing what incense to burn, their qualities, etc. A massage/healing place has ambience etc. Using your senses all six of them as well.
Archangel Michael
Being or I am... I am everything and I am nothing...
thing is you need to : 1. believe it is possible. 2. actually want it .
Belief is #1 powerful.
❤
I think that everyone is "being", but not everyone is capable of perceiving it. To perceive the "I am" is not an easy task and doing it usually requires some training. I think this guy is not able to recognize the presence of being. But it is not possible to use words to "explain" the presence of being. For me that is a rational approach that doesn't work. He will need to meditate enough until he recognizes his own presence. Then there will be no more questions.
The young man seems to be expecting something other than what is. He's looking for the Path that is not necessary.
Agree thanks
❤thank you ❤❤❤❤
:) beautiful, what remain just ' me/being ' - all kind exp I feel that I know etc even I don't know is also I know
The connection between knowing (action) , knower (person)and Knowledge(experience ) is Iam.. (chaitnya in Hidusism Sanskrit there is no equivalent word in English ,maybe Zeal /soul) it is known as the Atman /chaitanya in vedanta of Hinduism
Which is State of peace (absence of any experience)
It is the King dom where god lives
This is what pereached by Jesus
it can't be understood easily by every one
Every one cannot understand what is stillness position of mind
to achieve stillness person should know
How to withdrawn from outside world (sense organs)
and how to Stop the in side mind chattering
And most importantly To stay still
Stop experiencing every
thing including stillness
It is impossible to tell anything which is not experience
Consider that the BE-ingness that you Are is ALREADY [at] ‘Peace’, ALREADY ‘Awake’… ‘appearances’ (including ‘thoughts’, which by their nature are inherently ‘empty’) change/ come and go, ‘beliefs’ and even ‘meaning’ isn’t/aren’t constant. Perhaps the only ‘thing’ one can say is truly ‘happening’ is ‘witnessing’ /BE-ing, ‘your’ AM-ness/ IS-ness… S/HE is always ‘t/here’; ‘melt’ into ‘That’
That said, if you’re looking for a ‘tool’, ‘this character’ found Indiscriminate gratitude unimaginably helpful… i.e. not gratitude ‘for’ anything /any-‘thing’, but gratitude for the [‘sake’?] of gratitude itself… it ‘becomes’ not a tool for ‘manifesting’, but ‘realizing’… because it ‘feels good’, the mind appears to find it an ‘acceptable’ ‘rest’
‘Tool #2’ lol: if mantras are your ‘thing’, I’ve found ‘blah, blah, blah’ to be Highly ‘effective’. No, really. 'I' do it all the time, even when I 'think' I'm 'talking' actual 'words'
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The indescribable " just is ". Have fun. 🤔
It's a shame mind jumps in to discredit and question the reality of this being. Mind does not want to believe it's that simple
All our " l Am's" are the same I am " How can IT be different ? How can you be anything without it ?
*"LIFE The Real Self", is an Offspring and Child of "The LIGHT, The LIFE of GOD" ! The body I experienced was pronounced "DEAD On ARRIVAL" at a medical center in 1973. More than half an hour passed, then its heart started again... During that time I, "LIFE The Real Self", ( "AWARENESS" ) entered the WHITE LIGHT, and have remained in the WHITE LIGHT to this day...*
Hi Rupert, Who is that which is experiencing the feeling of "I AM". Is I AM feeling (being) is getting aware of itself. No one can be aware of itself without using Mind.
Can a tip of finger touch itself? No. So how can the Awarness be aware of itself. It would need mind to experience itself. Could you please throw some light on it please?
I have the same concerns. Awareness being aware of itself is dual in nature, therefore of the mind. You cannot experience awareness. You can only be aware of an experience
@@awakenotwoke7949it’s a provisional statement
@@awakenotwoke7949it’s Just Being Aware, not of anything
You are, just by being always. You can't really say anything else
@@kinbolluck476 look at us trying to use language to describe the indescribable🤣we’re doing a good job💛
The questioners energy is blocking his realization: anxious, seeking...
What is the purpose or uselfullness of just being? What does the practice of this serve?
The realization of BEING is far profound, peaceful and fulfilling than Million dollar in your bank, Sex with lot of different opposite sex, or any other object consciousness..........its like the taste of a sweet tea will be bland after you have eaten a cake right before........
*"LIFE The Real Self" i.e. "AWARENESS" is always Peaceful... It is just the human entity that is NOT Peaceful...*
the 'character' that I perceive mySelf to be was inclined to/sat in ‘the God Throne’ to meditate this morning [a white recliner chair I’d purchased for the ‘purpose’ of watching movies, or at least, so my ego had assumed lol]. I started to question, WHAT is the/this [inside] ‘voice’ that ‘says’ [for example] ‘this is what I’m seeing’, and ‘it/this’ means ‘that’, or I’m ‘seeing’ a ‘person’ [‘out there’] and they are ‘such’ and ‘such’, ‘I find [this] attractive/repulsive or [this] unattractive/unrepulsive’ lol, or ‘other people seem to hear the voice of God, but why do I only hear [‘this’]’, or I’ve ‘woken’ and it’s ‘morning’, etc, etc, etc, blah, blah, blah ad infinitum. There was fear [around that], as in, ‘OMG, what might appear ‘next’?!’ …or something just really vague as a ‘reason’ for it /fear. In any case, the ‘words’ in my mind and a ‘feeling’ associated with were, ‘I want to go home’! […whatever the f(ire tr)uck that meant lol]. The ‘thought’ came to mind: thoughts (if there are such a thing) at least seem to exist in ‘mind’, so what does 'mind' exist in? ...'Whatever' it is, it must be something ‘other’ than ‘mind’/ something [/some-‘thing’] ‘not-mind’… then the immediate ‘Knowing’, ‘I Am ‘Home’ [I've always 'BEEN' 'home']… and simultaneously an ‘experience’ of [‘that’].
i am beyond space/time .
Just sit and know that you are the 'I AM' without words. That is all that is needed. Soon you will arrive at your natural absolute state.
Look up "Samaneri Jayasara"
If there is nothing in it, then isnt the BEING a VOID ? Isnt it same as death state ?
you can only experience the here and now
But in deep sleep that isn't there...I don't know myself in deep sleep...Like a sense of being isn't there in deep sleep
Or we forget that state when we wake up? I'm not sure.
The cognitive functions of the mind are inactive in deep sleep. Awareness or I'am is never really aware of itself; it simply is, and that isness lends subjectivity and existence to the minds processes. It is only through the reflecting medium of the mind that awareness can experience being aware of itself, and this only happens during waking when the cognitive functions are active.
However, in deep sleep, the mind is not active. In Deep sleep, Awareness or I am, is in it's Pure state, and that is described as Being. Being is Absence, the absence of all things but absence itself, this is why when you wake, you recall Deep sleep as a kind of absence of yourself, but that absence is reflected in the Mind as I was not aware, or present during deep sleep, because the Mind wasn't active or present during deep sleep. This may be hard to grasp if we have only understood our essential nature through the reflecting medium of the Mind, and this is why it is also important that the mind is made still and silent, as it helps create the conditions that are similar to deep sleep where mind is inactive, when the mind is still and silent then what is always there and true is felt, which is similar to the absence of deep sleep, it is empty, or No-self.
How do you know that you are not present in deep sleep? Something must be there to "know" the absence of you? And only you "impersonal awareness" can be aweare of presence and absence.
@@moonglow6639when I wake up I remember that state and the dreams I had that night 😊
You don’t know yourself objectively in deep sleep, in the same way you know yourself in the waking state (subject/object).
Not thinking, not seeing not feeling not moving not hearing is to be dead.
YOU'RE DEAD WRONG! ha ha ha :D You could say that if you're refering to the phenomenal experience, when something stops - it dies. But when you refer to that which is, but it is neither of those phenomenal things - that's pure life! Pure potentiality! Awareness. Fulness of life, before it will assume a specific form :)
But "awareness of awareness" is still awareness of, not awareness or isness.
So our true nature is static?
No sir
every being/ non living is a form of energy
Energy exists in two forms
Static energy and dynamic energy
Energy cannot be created nor destroyed
It can change from one from to other
This fundamental of ph ysics
And the fundamentals of Hidusism
At the moment Iam pissed off. Better then being pissed on. However, at least, Iam. Rupert might say, Iam not at peace. Iam working on it brother.😅
The emotions of being pissed off were present - but that's not you. It came and it will go, but you are. The peace is hidden, within that capacity of yours, to have those emotions within you, experience them and let them pass, without your Being - being agitated, or changed by them in any way at all. "I" is always the same, no matter what you experience. :)) There is nothing to be worried about, nothing to fix, nothing to change, or to get rid off. All is well as it is, already and always. Only sometimes we are not recognising that, because whenever we don't, again we start to believe to be the temporary content of our experience - example - "I am pissed off". (No, you're not! xD)
Just see that it all is changing and not always present and ask yourself - does this also apply to you too? - because if not, then what does it matter if anger (or any kind of other emotion) is temporarily present, or not? :D Is there not enough space within you to contain it and let it be? Well, surely there must be, because if you compare feelings to the entire Universe they are much smaller, and the whole Universe has it's place within you! What can't you fit in awareness? Where are the borders? If you can find them - then they are within you too, but not you within them! xD
Wake up! Love you
So confusing
😶🙏🎯🎯☮🛑
If you take away “hearing” from “I am hearing” only “I am” remains. Yes, that s right, but “I am”does not mean “being”. “I am” is the self itself. You cant get away from the self, whatever you say is what your self is saying.
What is the self?
Over my head, wish I could get it.
Experience of I am is easy, everyone can realize and get the fact that they are, that they exist, is this trying to offend me ? Lol
God.
Soul.
Spirit.
Demons.
God-Consciousness.
God.
God.
Vision of God.
God.
God.
No, I will offend you ;)
I am your god.
Hello god, can you make my life better? xD
@@moonglow6639Yea through You😂I AM
Just a simple dog whistle illustrates limited perception. Look around there is much un-perceived and completely problem free.
It seems to be intellectusl bit not experiential?
He is teaching vedanta
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