I started my journey towards enlightenment over 20 years ago. So true it is not an exotic experience. It occurred recently for me, not on a mountain, by the ocean, sunset, or sunrise. Not while meditating, or practicing yoga. I was in my car and someone cut me off in traffic, I responded by going to my breath and saying let go. It was so complete a release that I will never forget it, and in that instant I was forever changed. The understanding of where my journey had been leading in a moment that I was not searching and seeking, simply revealed. Truly astonishing !
I would not say that I am enlightened but I would say that I merely exist as consciousness now which is aware of itself, mind, thoughts, body and everything else.. I said something to the love of my life and ended up hurting her which was the last thing that I wanted to happen which led me question by beliefs and concepts.. I guess this happened cuz she is my twin flame and it's been 2 years in this journey already, even though I don't want to label it like that but it is what it is.. My love for her led me to question everything that my mind has been going on about since childhood..
It will come as a "thief in the night" as once said some time back. Applies to all philosophies worldwide throughout time and no personage, nation or religious institution has any kind of monopoly on it.
Saw a blurb I wrote to myself some time ago that resurfaced today which I hope helps “The mind connects the within and without. Within is presence, without perception” Bless all on your journeys ❣️☯️
Nothing feels closer for me to that “I am” then the moments of letting go and improvising on the piano. It’s not recorded, it’s not structured, there are no rules… there’s only a smile in my heart the entire time- feeling connected to that “being” state and completely letting go and loving all of it and just going with the process no matter what comes out.
For me the basic understanding in non-dual approach is, that we are all aspects or manifestations of a single indivisible whole or reality.Our belief of separation,of individuality ,is due to ignorance. Deep understanding of the above weaken considerably the two major beliefs which constitute the self-illusion state. 1 .There is me (individualization)2. I am so and so (identification). It is the first step towards equanimity. And equanimity for me is bliss.
Enlightenment Is Not an Exotic Experience. yes it is. one of the most amazing experiences. that "aha moment", that "waking up" and every answer that comes with it, makes it exotic. it's like falling in love for the first time but with a dose of maturity and conscious actions.
I would say he means that it must be the most normal thing for us to know that we "are". If an animal could speak, it would know, in it's own way, that it "is".
@@stelladonnelly2832 "knowing" is the realm of the mind. the conceptual realm. the abstract realm. also called imagination. who am I is beyond this conceptual realm. it can only be experienced, but can't be named. the moment you try to name anything, that is mind. to find out who you truly are, you need to go beyond thinking, beyond mind. and that is a truly amazing experience.
You feel as though you are watching yourself as a 3rd party. You watch Emotions come and go but you are not attached to them. You are physically playing out a role but YOU are actually not doing anything. There is no duality. There are no wants or desires left. There is no resistance left. You will start seeing the illusion. You will become one with everything. If you are able to quiet the mind you will slowly return to your natural state Brahman 🙏🏼
Desire is the key, you’re always searching for something to make you happy which means you think you’re missing something and not whole. That means you can never be happy until you find it but there is nothing to be found… To realise the oneness and your perfect already and don’t lack anything. The paradox of this is desire is what makes you seek enlightenment. All this talk however should not understate how profound and peaceful this state is, it’s beyond comprehension… Any psychedelic trip can give you a glimpse of this perfect state of being.
if I let go , and no longer desire , what is there to be lived for ? what would make me wake up in the morning ? if I let go , it means I have the desire to let go , the desire to not desire , what ?!!! I am always in desire
@ That makes your entire life conditional and a prisoner of desires that will never be ultimately fulfilled. “Having no attachments or desires doesn’t mean you don’t own anything, it means nothing owns you”
There are some useful pointers here towards an important truth. However, after watching the video all of the problems of my life go on as before because I don't understand how my mind and samsara work, and I forget that I am awareness for 23 hours and 59 minutes every day. Enlightenment is not just about understanding briefly, having a brief flash of recognition and then forgetting again. This is a pretty low bar, and the knowledge that you are awareness will not do more than temporarily relieve your suffering or may lead to enlightenment sickness or ego inflation. While the ultimate realisation may be as simple as this, the real question is 'How can I stabilize my life in this knowledge?' In almost every case a lot of spiritual practice and study is required to really prepare the mind to be able to understand what "I am awareness" means and to make the understanding ongoing. When the knowledge is stablized during walking, sitting, working, sleeping etc, etc. and the person acts equanimously in every situation, then the person may be enlightened or whatever you want to call it. If they are not reacting equanimously, then of course they are perpetuating suffering for themselves and others and perpetuating samsara. There's a reason why the Buddha started with suffering and the Advaitans talk about suffering, Maya, the Causal Body etc. Suffering is an important of the teaching and a fundamental aspect of our lives and the process of understanding them. I hope you were inspired by this video, but in my view his type of teaching should be seen as the start of a long - and mostly joyous - path and not the end of one. Good luck!
Great points ,I suppose like how obvious is e=זmc( squared ) but the skill is as you say what to do with the knowledge,and of course getting to that understanding in the first place !!! You make me think of snakes and laders ,you just hope not to many snakes and enough different sized ladders !!!!
i equate enlightenment with connection to source and the bliss that comes with that. so i see it as something special. as most people do not live in bliss and joy as a regular thing.
Got better towards the end, the barrier is the identification with the form. The hamster wheel has a ton of momentum to it, and this can even be seen in the brain via fmri. So it takes a bit more than simple recognition as rupert says, meditation is a scientific process of disidentification, which happens slowly and arduously for most.
Part of the problem is that we have to continue using language the way everyone does, which makes it so easy to fall into identification with our experiences and bodily feelings. Imagine filling in a form requiring your details and writing - I Am. !!
@@julien1 i think it is a generalization error you make. Yes some people may not be happy while describing their happiness, but imagine an extremely happy person, he would not for sure become unhappy when describing it. Memories are still in the now too, one cant access a memory which doesnt exist, so accessing a happy memory is still real happiness. So what is your point btw?
@@frv6610 NO im highlighting that BEING happy is different from thinking about happiness. Its the thinking that stops the being. This is the difference between BELIEF and KNOWLEDGE. One is BEING knowledgeable but cannot be BEING believing.
I think just by deconstructing our language we can see this issue clearly. Our language always implies a subject and object. We say things like “it is raining” when there is no “it” to be raining, there is just raining. in the exact same way, we say “i am experiencing”, when there is just experience. It’s so clear when one just steps away from the language or looks at it beyond its structure and it proves non duality without having any “mystical” experience.
Agree. Language is so psychoactive we often can't experience past its conceptual boundaries. And the shared concepts of language are very powerful and very connecting so it's only natural that such social concepts and meanings would become our default mode, but we can train to rest the mind in whatever is, right now, in immediate sensate reality.
That’s easy for you to say. Speaking from the level of Being and speaking about Being are not the same thing - the mind likes to dwell on concepts but Being is the absence of concepts.
Enlightenment is the simplest thing, but people expect it to be some ecstatic experience, and so they miss it. The trouble is that there are altered states of consciousness which can feel the way that people hope that enlightenment will feel. If they stumble into these states they can then believe themselves to be enlightened and spend the rest of their lives chasing these experiences like spiritual crack addicts. Instead, notice what it is that is doing the experiencing.
I am is a mystery to those who have never truly experienced ego death. The experience is mind blowing and the understanding then is very simple. We are not who our egos tell us we are. The I is not the I. The me is not me. Only through surrender, putting down the sword of status and protection and understanding that that which we have fought all our lives to protect holds us in fear. Love and enlightenment awaits the on the other side. But every fibre of the ego will insist on the separate self identity- we need to realise we are nothing before we understand that we are the everything.
Enlightenment is not Just a recognition. It is the full illumination of the mind at all levels and the complete dissolution of the ego and becoming the mind as luminous as Consciousness itself. That's it ❤
Rupert (and other teachers) need to start talking more about the different levels of Samadhi or Enlightenment. Many in the West seem to be mistaking lower levels of Samadhi for full Enlightenment. When Rupert says that Enlightenment is not an exotic experience, he clearly hasn't attained the highest level of Samadhi yet.
I understand that you refers to the different levels of consciousness (Dr. David Hawkins) that range from 200 (world average) to the maximum calibrated in a human being 1,000 (Jesus or Buddha) and other known spiritual leaders, such as: Huang Po 960 , Master Eckhart 705, Balsekar 760, Ramana Maharsi 720, Santa Teresa de Avila 715, Nisargadatta Maharaj 720, Lao Tse 610, etc. I don't know how much Rupert would calibrate ...
When I was 5, I experienced I am, and was thrilled. Now, at 70, I consider how ‘I am’ came into existence and am thrilled. ‘I am’ has emerged from infinite time and space, it’s particles and processes, evolution of life, transmission of genes from ancestors who survived ( reproductive processes), human time and socio cultural context, personal factors that shaped my life and perspective etc. F’n amazing 💫 the extraordinary ordinary
Everyone is looking to experience being connected. But in truth you cant ever be disconnected. You are a spirit having a human experience not the other way around. Know it. Believe it. And it will catch up. Meditate often.
Close, I would say we are not a spirit as a spirit is a thing an object. We are being. We are closer to a verb than a noun. Nouns, objects and things are what the physical plane is all about. That is not our true nature. Also in order to progress during the awakening process, one must shed each and every one of our conditioned beliefs and see them for the falseness that they are.
Never been disconnected from what or who? Connection with God is something to be had, not something which has been the case since your birth. You can be disconnected, like Atheists are right now. Enlightenment is the Absolute Awakening and Realization of God. Anything else is cute 🐱🐣 🐱
@@aed1605 God, awareness, consciousness, life whatever label you choose it's all the same and everything is a byproduct of that. In other words God is all that exists and all is God, therefore you are all that exists and you are God that is why there can be no separation.
There is a difference between the intellectual understanding that "I Am" refers to our true nature, and the "knowing" from personal experience that "I Am" is an awareness of being aware and that "I Am" exists without a body and without a mind. We are truly spiritual beings (beings of light, so to speak) temporarily inhabiting a mortal shell. And if you wonder "why" or "how," then you haven't experienced yourself in this state. Being "enlightened" doesn't *give* you any special powers or privileges, but it does eradicate fear, and with it comes a realization that all things are possible and that everything happens for a reason.
....................Rupert Spira is an international author, speaker and teacher of non-duality...............maybe knowledge but no concret experiences ...............
Unattainable is what people are seeking when Extra-Ordinary is what enlightenment actually is. To the EGO this is greatly disappointing but to the true original spirit, this is exceptional, liberating!!!❤❤❤❤
What a simple, yet powerful explanation. Thank you Rupert. Thank you for these wonderful short videos that are packed with light. Your words light up in the "center of being," and not just my head as simply more words! Thank you!
So close, so simple, so intimate.. As you are with yourself not expecting anything at all, drawing your attention deeper within your own self, resting in this choiceless awareness, the mind then sinks back into its source, which is this deep, silence found in the heart. This could be, what Ramana Maharshi calls, the Self. You are that. Don't move from that place, no matter what the outer or inner circumstances are or how they change and realize there is neither inner nor outer nor anything at all. Nothing is happening really. When this ultimate experience happens, you laugh yourself silly for you see the devine Lila and the purposelessness of all existence. There is no mind, only the light of awareness. Rejoice & enjoy. Freedom at last. That simple, really.
Experience is the trip. This is the wild ride. The space within which experience occurs is unchanging and timelessly present. Soak up this brief invaluable ever-changing illusory ride while it lasts! It’ll evaporate as quickly and subtly as it came on.
So beautifully and eloquently put within a conversational setting. Thank you for bringing these insights out into the world for all of us to experience.
I am…. That itself is coloured through life experiences and hence we forget our true self.. I am… who … by dropping all worldly perceptions that we gather through life experiences, we understand our true self… that’s enlightenment !! And living life with that knowledge frees us from all worldly sorrows !!
Rupert is absolutely correct, truth doesn't come and go, it always stays, so therefis no experience of truth, but the deep understanding of truth (sthit pragya), not light understanding as we thought but deep understanding that will remove our ignorance. And we know truth nature subjectively we can't know truth objectively
He is such a beautiful expression. Of what? Of what we all are, if we will forgive that we didn't know before but now we do. So simple. I am. And so the same with you...I am.. and then the next step...we are both the I Am. And then the law, "treat your neighbor as yourself" becomes clear. And what do we do with this? We realize we are both infinite, eternal beings having this experience together.
If you sit in a room alone and experience the life force within your body.....that is enlightenment. The awareness occurs when we have let go of every selfish desire and just experience existence without exterior attachments.
the joy of being is quite exotic to me, is something we usually don't notice until we do, then it's a WOW moment, and returning to it is kind of exotic, I guess if you could live in that state all the time (being enlightened) then it would become more subtle (less exotic until it just is the normal), but for someone who never experienced it I would say you will notice a big shift.
Another wonderful presentation, Rupert. Thank you for your tremendous efforts. I no longer "need" to watch your videos (as awakening has occurred), but I still love feeling the energy that you bring to your meetings. Blessings. 🙏🏻
Enlightenment is not achieved through an intellectual exercise but a vibrational alignment. The mind is for thinking; resonance in frequency is Knowing. I enjoy your effort, not an easy feat. All the best. 🕊🌎🌈
Bonjour. OK but this is just the first step ( important step but the first ). you have much more to discover / rediscover. The journey is far from over. I love you all. jean-luc. 🙏🙏🙏🕉🕉🕉
It's as though we're looking outside of what we feel which is impossible. Incidentally what we feel is bound to the idea of independent self, but in reality every thing in consciousness feels on some level I Am in the same way everyone (you, me) do. It cannot be any other way, I Am is everyone and everything.
@@stelladonnelly2832 Sorry - but I don't understand your interpretation. The saying I used was in relation to the title of this video. I had an awakening experience years ago. It was not exotic - but it was delicious. Everything was just as it was before - except I experienced it differently. The weights/burdens were absent. Everything was easier. I was still in the same difficult circumstances - but my suffering ceased. Inner Peace is The Dog's Bollocks, the bee's knees, and the cat's whiskers. Peace first - all else follows.
Bruce Lee who was also was a college graduate of Eastern Philosophy used a similar metaphor when describing the martial arts journey. When you start out as a beginner a punch is just a punch and a kick is just a kick. Then during your training you learn all the intricates in how to properly punch using many different hand shapes and techniques, kicking is the same and you learn how to kick while maintaining your center of balance and rooting skills, etc. Over many years you learn so many variations to punch and kick for so many circumstances that when you reach a level of mastery a punch returns to just being a punch and a kick returns to just being a kick because there is newfound skill that the body has digested fully and there is no thought in the way to hinder you. You then operate from a place of trust and surrender that your body will know what to do when the time comes without any thoughts, panic, or concern.
You are a being that is having an experience. Step back from the experience and focus only on the being. You achieve this through meditation. The closing of the eyes, the absences of noise, of movement. Silent, sightless, stillness. All that remains is being, lacking experience.
I was meditating, in which I was overflowing with love, when suddenly, I experienced a part of my consciousness leaving my body, I saw myself moving away from the earth and then becoming one with the whole. Then a sigh of relief came out of what I experienced and I returned to my body
When one can remove all the add-ons imposed by the ego, then one is left with I Am. I have, I was, I Am and I Will be and do as Mother Nature intended in order to see Thyself beyond the physical eyes.
Rupert's 'I am' teaching is brilliant in English. However, in some other languages it's harder to understand - just because in some other languages there sometimes isn't an 'I am' preceding one's age, gender, feelings, actions etc.
@@sheradski What about "Ben"? I know that this issue exists in Farsi as well, but this lack of pronoun usage is unique to colloquial Turkish. In written Turkish (though I am not an expert), the pronoun is still valid, I believe.
@@shadr8994 Thank you very much for your reply 🙏🏿 I don't know much about Farsi, but regarding Turkish, it's a suffix language; therefore much of the grammar is expressed by suffixes added to nouns and verbs. Even in written Turkish 'ben' often would not exist. There are other languages too, like Indonesian, Finnish, Hungarian and Mandarin where, I believe, there's also no use of pronouns.
This approach, without the preparation of the mind and body through silent meditation, will always be fleeting/obscure/partial/separate. That is why people keep going back to these events, buying books, etc. You can have it, do it, be it utterly under your own steam (and yes, I know, there is no 'you', etc etc etc). You don't need anything or anyone. You have your body, your mind, your breath, the privilege of choosing - you have everything you need. You already have it all.
Our favorite thing to forget is "being" is a present participle, which is used in forming continuous tenses. And this one is for the Verb to be. As Buddhism teaches, "Things are not as they appear. Deeds are done, but no doer can be found." This is why the goal of meditation is the non-thinking, ecstatic center. Not just simply the observation of thoughts, the separation of observer from the thoughts.. but that it's all simply the act OF observing. The observer is another thought form, 'albeit a persistent one'.
Enlightenment is the recognition of the nature of your being. Firstly, we have to understand nothing is permanent, all things exist dependent on others, nothing dominants. Everything appear and disappear when conditions is right. This is the nature of your being.
When breathing, KNOW you're breathing. When sitting, KNOW you're sitting. When standing, KNOW you're standing. When thinking, KNOW you're thinking. When urinating, KNOW you're urinating. When pooping, KNOW you're pooping etc etc. From the Satipatthana Sutta (the foundations of mindfulness)🙏🧡
To me enlightenment is knowing the I Am essence, but without our ego. This is where I feel ppl get tripped up bc they haven’t fully integrated all of their mind. Just knowing the I Am is the beginning of the process. Just my experience. ☮️ 🕊️
Yeah, to me Enlightenment is ego-death which means that you have realized you are actually infinite and not finite. Maybe this state of being will become normal and then I guess Enlightenment can be considered mundane? I haven't reached Enlightenment yet but I'm closing in and I know how amazingly wonderful it is to realize that I am infinite and eternal and that nothing real can be threathened. The awe that comes with this realization sometimes makes me want to fall to my knees. It's that powerful.
It is indeed ordinary but extraordinarily so. Rupert you have an exquisitely artful way of expressing this ineffable message only equalled , I would suggest by the likes of Miranda Warren.
Perhaps the key is to undo the notion that we are our own projects. And the journey is indeed letting go that idea and embrace of the fact we AREN’T and never was a project.
Sacrificing personality is very biggest hurdle here for one. but without giving up personality(filters) we can't see ourselves, this much i understood.
here is somebody who is talking about enlightenment without being enlightened and who never met such a being. so it is all theoretical. simple? yes. easy - no. why is it not easy? because of an I in the "I am". it is not easy to let go of this "I". you have invested so much in this "I", so letting go - is not easy. the "I" is constantly in a state of dreaming, therefore another name - awakening. Liberation - another name, what are you liberated from? you are free from the notion of "I". you are liberated from yourself. it is the last and the only liberation. qualities of experience - Vritty in Sanskrit. getting them out of the way is not enough. you need to get out of the experience itself out of the way. as long as there is "I" that experience anything, there is no liberation, no unity. subject - object - process of experience - does that look like unity to you?. if you are there in the moment of enlightenment, it is not enlightenment, it is just another dream.
Enlightenment is to do Self-Inquiry as told by Ramana Maharshi. To dissolve the “I”-thought which generates all other thoughts and remain as the Self - pure consciousness which is “I-less”. Even I Am doesn’t exist in the supreme state. The Self is pure silence. The Self is God. To remain as the Self….that is enlightenment. 🙏
True, the Self is God. God is consciousness. But we’re talking about God here, the actual, G.O.D. I’m tired of this non duality shit. Just Realize that GOD exists, my and your God, our Creator. Stopping trying to understand and know reality… Just… Realize God. That’s all you need to know, to do.
Good News! i discovered that the brain/body is capable of setting itself Totally Free of fear, anxiety, sorrow, despair, loneliness, shame, guilt, confusion, contradictions, addictions, irritations, triggers, vanity, envy, greed, jealousy, attachment, possessiveness, ill-will, hatred, cruelty, bias, prejudice, and all other mental/emotional disturbances, in each and every moment of daily life, 24/7.
This gives birth to True Love, Peace, Happiness, Creativity, & Clarity, for the very first time. Not the love, peace, happiness, that the I, the me, the self, the thinker, the mind, imagines it to be, which is a limitation, imitation, and distortion. For the very first time, Soul is happening, Spirit is happening, Heart is happening. It is not temporary. It is happening in each & every moment of daily life, 24/7. It does not take time. It has nothing whatsoever to do with time, effort, or choice. It occurs faster than the speed of light. The children are ready to be set Totally Free at the earliest age so they don't waste their whole life with any mental/emotional disturbances.
I wouldn't call any of the mystical experiences I have personally had (completely sober, and before I had any spiritual awareness whatsoever) mundane at all. They were the most profound thing I have ever experienced, though I agree that this experience was internal, and I was never "lacking it" or never had to "attain it", it was always there. But definitely profound, indescribable, NOT mundane. Enlightenment is obviously a loaded term, and I don't claim to be "enlightened" or even to know what the term means, but the suggestion of mundaneness I strongly disagree with. Mystical experience, enlightenment experience, these are peak experiences and that's why they can have such a massive impact on the individual. I found the best accounts of these experiences in Plato and Plotinus. The lady is right to ask the question. The spiritual path leads (or should lead) to spiritual richness, intense experience, yet wholesome and fulfilling because it comes from within the individual themselves. If it doesn't, then what are you choosing it for? "Enlightenment" is often seen as the end stage of the spiritual path, and to suggest it is mundane is, in my opinion, misleading.
in response to rupert..enlightenment comes in degrees..when you finally (metaphorically) go beyond the body/mind space/time/causation complexs, beyond the waking dreaming and deep sleep states you will realize youSelf as Supreme Energy, sometimes called the Paramatman or Atman sometimes called the Pure I Consciousness Pure becaseu there is nothing, absolutely nothing but yourSelf..one of rupert spiras teachers sri atmananda, in his discourse *notes on spiritual discources* he explains that in order to know what the Atman/I principle is you have to remove all objects from the screen that is You..thats final enlightenment.
I think this is the danger's of stating it outright, is the mind latches onto these ideas and chases them, never arriving. When it's much better to strip away the qualities and point to the door which spira as a teacher shows.
@@randylayhey yes, well, now we have a bizillion wanna be gurus who think that noticing that they are awareness now think they are completely awake..id rather tell the truth and remind people that complete enlightenment is rare and most people wont get it..its something to work on with spiritual practices...
@@chitraisenlightened yes everyone wants to dress up as one (guru) lol. or "be" enlightened as a new ego. there is no ego. the whole teaching is that. That's the absolute truth, see theres almost something fraudulent if that's realized to then call yourself something else. complete freedom from identity
These days a lot of people run around with a deregulated nervoussystem. Fight,flight or freeze response. In these states they want to use a spiritual bypass, to not feel. Breathwork, cold exposure, the bottom up approach, working with the body instead of top down are at least in my own experience very helpful. To force yourself mentally into „transcendence“ creates a split and can take you further away from experiencing a natural joy and peace. I established a routine of breathwork, than cold exposure and after that sitting of 30 minutes, watching the breath ( Anapanasati) All these techniques are operating in the realm of „being“, beyond concepts. Conceptualizing is left behind.
The reason we sometimes feel like as the lady has said " I never ate the fruit"-- it's because our minds try to make the simple obvious "being" into some kind of super human experience to again build a tag of ego around it so that we can make an identity of enlightened person but ego seems not to do that..and it confuses the heck of the mind...mind can't take the very simplicity of it❤
The question that Self-enquiry addresses is: • "what is That which is experiencing experience?". This translates into: • "What is It that experiences and is immediately experiencing concepts/thoughts, memories, emotions, sensations and the immediate sense of being/existing?
I believe that the purpose of our earthly life is simply to re-learn, recognize, and remind ourselves and others, that we are one, we are part of God, and one with God. Creation and Creator at the same time…
“I’m sad. I’m lonely. I’m tired. I’m a mother.” 😂 I’m sorry. I absolutely love this video, but watching it a second time… that bit just hit me and made me LOL!
I am. Just this. Just now. We can train the mind so that this is our default mode, instead of continual mental chatter, judgment, worry, and commentary. The mind will rest in a default mode of equanimity. When thinking or consideration is necessary, it will arise as necessary in an instant to meet the need, then pass away.
Say I am is generally your ego-mind saying it, it is a function of thought, not of being, the "I" is not being (even though I understand the point being made that it's about the *experience* behind that statement). The moment you put it into words "I am", your ego/mind has entered the picture and displaced being. Being is something even simpler and doesn't involve thought or the ego. You can just be, but if you say you are, then I don't know how you can do it without words and concepts. Being is pure awareness and it is indeed omnipresent. Almost all people are at least to some degree, at certain times. When you are aware of something without judgement, without words, without concepts, without thought, without emotion, then you are just being. Don't try to stop judgements, words, thoughts, concepts, etc. from arising because they will, but become aware of them also. In my experience, it's almost universal that people have these being experiences in nature.
Always nice to see a video of Rupert. Though I don't do that often. The time for searching is over. ( I wish it was my neighbour, he makes pots, I take pictures of the rising sun and then philosophize for example about universal awareness together, (difficult, because my english is not very good, more in silence). In another fine video (from someone else I tapped in these words: The same story has been told thousands of times, in different words and with different angles: religion, philosophy, science and experience. Plato sketches this story in beautiful dialogues, the more esoteric side of religion, words and experience of 'masters' like jesus, Ramana, Gurdjieff etc, etc. In the end it comes down to "Know Thyself", That art Thou, I am that I am, only in a still mind do I abide in choiceless awareness In short, I am not the body, not the mind, and certainly not all identifications with anything and everything. I am. All in all, I don't worry so much about universal consciousness anymore. Socrates replied to the question of what is after death: "We do not know. And to the question of whether there is a heaven: "The wise do not care about that."
Enlightenment is like if someone taste for example Salt that person can't explain it to another that taste it has to be experienced by individuals enlightenment is too is something like that. To understand this you need to eradicate mainly the craving of oneself and understand how me concept is caused. If you address of being permanently existing there is no enlightenment. The life is a flow which can be called anichha dukka anattha
Remove even the AM, as, the AM is our QUALIFICATION in to OBJECT reality as that which FOLLOWS the AM, we ARE. So enquire EXCLUSIVELY as to who the I is? that's the one present ALWAYS and MUST BE to even KNOW the experience of the qualification. Ohm 🙏
Someone once thought. If we are all “preprogrammed” to react, think feel, like or dislike, in a certain way then are we really in control? Scary thought to some people. I know it used to scare me. Using the word preprogrammed loosely. But if we are what we are (keeping in mind that we can change) but that change is also apart of who we are, and we truly do have free will as along as we are being ourselves. Because we are always interacting with the world around us, we may feel that we are being push in direction by forces out of our control. but that freewill (us being our true self) makes us just beings that are interacting with a force outside our true self. So be yourself to truly be free you are in control even when things around are out of your control. Be your true self no one knows what that is but you. Think about it.
Check out Bankei’s unborn. The unborn is the spontaneous energy: the seeing, hearing; thinking, etc that is happening all the time without any “I” controller. You recognize the caw of a crow without any effort; when your eyes are open, you just see, no controlling effort is required.
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I started my journey towards enlightenment over 20 years ago. So true it is not an exotic experience. It occurred recently for me, not on a mountain, by the ocean, sunset, or sunrise. Not while meditating, or practicing yoga. I was in my car and someone cut me off in traffic, I responded by going to my breath and saying let go. It was so complete a release that I will never forget it, and in that instant I was forever changed. The understanding of where my journey had been leading in a moment that I was not searching and seeking, simply revealed. Truly astonishing !
Bro leveled up big W
@kenjones102 Instructions unclear, made myself into a model. Not sure this'll help with enlightenment...
I would not say that I am enlightened but I would say that I merely exist as consciousness now which is aware of itself, mind, thoughts, body and everything else.. I said something to the love of my life and ended up hurting her which was the last thing that I wanted to happen which led me question by beliefs and concepts.. I guess this happened cuz she is my twin flame and it's been 2 years in this journey already, even though I don't want to label it like that but it is what it is.. My love for her led me to question everything that my mind has been going on about since childhood..
I was in line at Walmart at 11:43 pm. Funny how things go sometimes. It was astonishing to say the least.
It will come as a "thief in the night" as once said some time back. Applies to all philosophies worldwide throughout time and no personage, nation or religious institution has any kind of monopoly on it.
Saw a blurb I wrote to myself some time ago that resurfaced today which I hope helps
“The mind connects the within and without. Within is presence, without perception”
Bless all on your journeys ❣️☯️
It's a blurp, no doubt. Question is, did it come out of your mouth or rectum?
I think, the word mind can be replaced with a word which is awareness.
✨Well stated, q-j-p!✨
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YES!
Nothing feels closer for me to that “I am” then the moments of letting go and improvising on the piano. It’s not recorded, it’s not structured, there are no rules… there’s only a smile in my heart the entire time- feeling connected to that “being” state and completely letting go and loving all of it and just going with the process no matter what comes out.
For me the basic understanding in non-dual approach is, that we are all aspects or manifestations of a single indivisible whole or reality.Our belief of separation,of individuality ,is due to ignorance.
Deep understanding of the above weaken considerably the two major beliefs which constitute the self-illusion state.
1 .There is me (individualization)2. I am so and so (identification).
It is the first step towards equanimity.
And equanimity for me is bliss.
Enlightenment Is Not an Exotic Experience. yes it is. one of the most amazing experiences. that "aha moment", that "waking up" and every answer that comes with it, makes it exotic. it's like falling in love for the first time but with a dose of maturity and conscious actions.
I would say he means that it must be the most normal thing for us to know that we "are". If an animal could speak, it would know, in it's own way, that it "is".
Anlonn: I lt is not exotic to me.
I'm inlighted right now as we speak.
@@stelladonnelly2832 "knowing" is the realm of the mind. the conceptual realm. the abstract realm. also called imagination. who am I is beyond this conceptual realm. it can only be experienced, but can't be named. the moment you try to name anything, that is mind. to find out who you truly are, you need to go beyond thinking, beyond mind. and that is a truly amazing experience.
@@terefefeyssa877 ok.
@@Anlonn thank you
You feel as though you are watching yourself as a 3rd party. You watch Emotions come and go but you are not attached to them. You are physically playing out a role but YOU are actually not doing anything. There is no duality. There are no wants or desires left. There is no resistance left. You will start seeing the illusion. You will become one with everything. If you are able to quiet the mind you will slowly return to your natural state Brahman 🙏🏼
Omg! Yes! So on point!! Bingo! Wahoo! Yes! Yes! Yes!
The " i am " ugh! I have a tattoo of that! Ugh !!! Man love it!
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Desire is the key, you’re always searching for something to make you happy which means you think you’re missing something and not whole. That means you can never be happy until you find it but there is nothing to be found… To realise the oneness and your perfect already and don’t lack anything. The paradox of this is desire is what makes you seek enlightenment. All this talk however should not understate how profound and peaceful this state is, it’s beyond comprehension… Any psychedelic trip can give you a glimpse of this perfect state of being.
if I let go , and no longer desire , what is there to be lived for ? what would make me wake up in the morning ? if I let go , it means I have the desire to let go , the desire to not desire , what ?!!! I am always in desire
@ That makes your entire life conditional and a prisoner of desires that will never be ultimately fulfilled. “Having no attachments or desires doesn’t mean you don’t own anything, it means nothing owns you”
There are some useful pointers here towards an important truth. However, after watching the video all of the problems of my life go on as before because I don't understand how my mind and samsara work, and I forget that I am awareness for 23 hours and 59 minutes every day. Enlightenment is not just about understanding briefly, having a brief flash of recognition and then forgetting again. This is a pretty low bar, and the knowledge that you are awareness will not do more than temporarily relieve your suffering or may lead to enlightenment sickness or ego inflation.
While the ultimate realisation may be as simple as this, the real question is 'How can I stabilize my life in this knowledge?' In almost every case a lot of spiritual practice and study is required to really prepare the mind to be able to understand what "I am awareness" means and to make the understanding ongoing. When the knowledge is stablized during walking, sitting, working, sleeping etc, etc. and the person acts equanimously in every situation, then the person may be enlightened or whatever you want to call it. If they are not reacting equanimously, then of course they are perpetuating suffering for themselves and others and perpetuating samsara. There's a reason why the Buddha started with suffering and the Advaitans talk about suffering, Maya, the Causal Body etc. Suffering is an important of the teaching and a fundamental aspect of our lives and the process of understanding them. I hope you were inspired by this video, but in my view his type of teaching should be seen as the start of a long - and mostly joyous - path and not the end of one. Good luck!
You don't need to try and stabilise your life, simply be aware of the rollercoaster ride
If you turn it into a path, you will never get there though.
Great points ,I suppose like how obvious is e=זmc( squared ) but the skill is as you say what to do with the knowledge,and of course getting to that understanding in the first place !!!
You make me think of snakes and laders ,you just hope not to many snakes and enough different sized ladders !!!!
i equate enlightenment with connection to source and the bliss that comes with that. so i see it as something special. as most people do not live in bliss and joy as a regular thing.
Got better towards the end, the barrier is the identification with the form. The hamster wheel has a ton of momentum to it, and this can even be seen in the brain via fmri. So it takes a bit more than simple recognition as rupert says, meditation is a scientific process of disidentification, which happens slowly and arduously for most.
Hamsters wheel has no impact on hamster once he gets off of it even if it still spinning 😂
@@ms7HD good luck tryin to get off it while its still spinning 😉
Absolutely agree
Part of the problem is that we have to continue using language the way everyone does, which makes it so easy to fall into identification with our experiences and bodily feelings. Imagine filling in a form requiring your details and writing - I Am. !!
@SIMPLY HUMAN why is believing someone is communicating a problem?
@@frv6610 Describe being happy - at that point you are no longer BEING happy but thinking
@@julien1 i think it is a generalization error you make. Yes some people may not be happy while describing their happiness, but imagine an extremely happy person, he would not for sure become unhappy when describing it. Memories are still in the now too, one cant access a memory which doesnt exist, so accessing a happy memory is still real happiness. So what is your point btw?
@@frv6610 NO im highlighting that BEING happy is different from thinking about happiness. Its the thinking that stops the being. This is the difference between BELIEF and KNOWLEDGE. One is BEING knowledgeable but cannot be BEING believing.
I think just by deconstructing our language we can see this issue clearly. Our language always implies a subject and object. We say things like “it is raining” when there is no “it” to be raining, there is just raining. in the exact same way, we say “i am experiencing”, when there is just experience. It’s so clear when one just steps away from the language or looks at it beyond its structure and it proves non duality without having any “mystical” experience.
"It" refers to the weather - the state of the weather.
Agree. Language is so psychoactive we often can't experience past its conceptual boundaries. And the shared concepts of language are very powerful and very connecting so it's only natural that such social concepts and meanings would become our default mode, but we can train to rest the mind in whatever is, right now, in immediate sensate reality.
That’s easy for you to say.
Speaking from the level of Being and speaking about Being are not the same thing - the mind likes to dwell on concepts but Being is the absence of concepts.
Yes!! Paradigms!! These concepts keep resurfacing!! Aka!!! The " secret " law of attraction lol such illusion!!
This beingness Rupert refers to is immediately available to everybody 💜
There is no teacher who explains this teaching better. Thank you Rupert with lots of gratitude. Thank you for coming into my life
Enlightenment is the simplest thing, but people expect it to be some ecstatic experience, and so they miss it. The trouble is that there are altered states of consciousness which can feel the way that people hope that enlightenment will feel. If they stumble into these states they can then believe themselves to be enlightened and spend the rest of their lives chasing these experiences like spiritual crack addicts. Instead, notice what it is that is doing the experiencing.
Or spend their lives making money from their hippie experience like Rupert.
If you didnt experience it how can you talk about it?
@@yoya4766 exactly😂
I am is a mystery to those who have never truly experienced ego death.
The experience is mind blowing and the understanding then is very simple.
We are not who our egos tell us we are. The I is not the I. The me is not me.
Only through surrender, putting down the sword of status and protection and understanding that that which we have fought all our lives to protect holds us in fear.
Love and enlightenment awaits the on the other side. But every fibre of the ego will insist on the separate self identity- we need to realise we are nothing before we understand that we are the everything.
Enlightenment is not Just a recognition.
It is the full illumination of the mind at all levels and the complete dissolution of the ego and becoming the mind as luminous as Consciousness itself. That's it ❤
"I am" without a story attached to it.
Rupert (and other teachers) need to start talking more about the different levels of Samadhi or Enlightenment. Many in the West seem to be mistaking lower levels of Samadhi for full Enlightenment.
When Rupert says that Enlightenment is not an exotic experience, he clearly hasn't attained the highest level of Samadhi yet.
I understand that you refers to the different levels of consciousness (Dr. David Hawkins) that range from 200 (world average) to the maximum calibrated in a human being 1,000 (Jesus or Buddha) and other known spiritual leaders, such as: Huang Po 960 , Master Eckhart 705, Balsekar 760, Ramana Maharsi 720, Santa Teresa de Avila 715, Nisargadatta Maharaj 720, Lao Tse 610, etc. I don't know how much Rupert would calibrate ...
When I was 5, I experienced I am, and was thrilled. Now, at 70, I consider how ‘I am’ came into existence and am thrilled. ‘I am’ has emerged from infinite time and space, it’s particles and processes, evolution of life, transmission of genes from ancestors who survived ( reproductive processes), human time and socio cultural context, personal factors that shaped my life and perspective etc. F’n amazing 💫 the extraordinary ordinary
I am … feeling the presence of love upon hearing this teaching and grateful for it .
Nooo 😂😂😂 just "I am" man
Rupert is doing a great job, explaining to ppl what enlightenment is
Everyone is looking to experience being connected. But in truth you cant ever be disconnected. You are a spirit having a human experience not the other way around. Know it. Believe it. And it will catch up. Meditate often.
Close, I would say we are not a spirit as a spirit is a thing an object. We are being. We are closer to a verb than a noun. Nouns, objects and things are what the physical plane is all about. That is not our true nature. Also in order to progress during the awakening process, one must shed each and every one of our conditioned beliefs and see them for the falseness that they are.
Never been disconnected from what or who? Connection with God is something to be had, not something which has been the case since your birth. You can be disconnected, like Atheists are right now.
Enlightenment is the Absolute Awakening and Realization of God.
Anything else is cute 🐱🐣
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@@aed1605 you are wrong.
@@genocanabicea5779 You’re far behind kid
@@aed1605 God, awareness, consciousness, life whatever label you choose it's all the same and everything is a byproduct of that. In other words God is all that exists and all is God, therefore you are all that exists and you are God that is why there can be no separation.
Rupert’s smile at the end is precious. Now she’s enlightened!
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enlightenment is more about acceptance than searching or acquisition
There is a difference between the intellectual understanding that "I Am" refers to our true nature, and the "knowing" from personal experience that "I Am" is an awareness of being aware and that "I Am" exists without a body and without a mind. We are truly spiritual beings (beings of light, so to speak) temporarily inhabiting a mortal shell. And if you wonder "why" or "how," then you haven't experienced yourself in this state. Being "enlightened" doesn't *give* you any special powers or privileges, but it does eradicate fear, and with it comes a realization that all things are possible and that everything happens for a reason.
....................Rupert Spira is an international author, speaker and teacher of non-duality...............maybe knowledge but no concret experiences ...............
Unattainable is what people are seeking when Extra-Ordinary is what enlightenment actually is. To the EGO this is greatly disappointing but to the true original spirit, this is exceptional, liberating!!!❤❤❤❤
This is the best 6 minutes I've ever seen with Rupert.
What a simple, yet powerful explanation. Thank you Rupert. Thank you for these wonderful short videos that are packed with light. Your words light up in the "center of being," and not just my head as simply more words! Thank you!
So close, so simple, so intimate..
As you are with yourself not expecting anything at all, drawing your attention deeper within your own self, resting in this choiceless awareness, the mind then sinks back into its source, which is this deep, silence found in the heart. This could be, what Ramana Maharshi calls, the Self. You are that. Don't move from that place, no matter what the outer or inner circumstances are or how they change and realize there is neither inner nor outer nor anything at all. Nothing is happening really. When this ultimate experience happens, you laugh yourself silly for you see the devine Lila and the purposelessness of all existence. There is no mind, only the light of awareness.
Rejoice & enjoy. Freedom at last. That simple, really.
Realising Rigpa is easy, Living Rigpa is hard.
So you are enlightened?
Then you have to go to work to pay the bills and eat and feed your kids 🤷♂️ it seems super simple
Experience is the trip. This is the wild ride. The space within which experience occurs is unchanging and timelessly present. Soak up this brief invaluable ever-changing illusory ride while it lasts! It’ll evaporate as quickly and subtly as it came on.
So beautifully and eloquently put within a conversational setting. Thank you for bringing these insights out into the world for all of us to experience.
I am…. That itself is coloured through life experiences and hence we forget our true self.. I am… who … by dropping all worldly perceptions that we gather through life experiences, we understand our true self… that’s enlightenment !!
And living life with that knowledge frees us from all worldly sorrows !!
Rupert is absolutely correct, truth doesn't come and go, it always stays, so therefis no experience of truth, but the deep understanding of truth (sthit pragya), not light understanding as we thought but deep understanding that will remove our ignorance. And we know truth nature subjectively we can't know truth objectively
Thank you so much for this. At last someone who has not profited from mystifying this even further and instead shows it for what it is.
He is such a beautiful expression. Of what? Of what we all are, if we will forgive that we didn't know before but now we do. So simple. I am. And so the same with you...I am.. and then the next step...we are both the I Am. And then the law, "treat your neighbor as yourself" becomes clear. And what do we do with this? We realize we are both infinite, eternal beings having this experience together.
If you sit in a room alone and experience the life force within your body.....that is enlightenment. The awareness occurs when we have let go of every selfish desire and just experience existence without exterior attachments.
the joy of being is quite exotic to me, is something we usually don't notice until we do, then it's a WOW moment, and returning to it is kind of exotic, I guess if you could live in that state all the time (being enlightened) then it would become more subtle (less exotic until it just is the normal), but for someone who never experienced it I would say you will notice a big shift.
Another wonderful presentation, Rupert. Thank you for your tremendous efforts. I no longer "need" to watch your videos (as awakening has occurred), but I still love feeling the energy that you bring to your meetings. Blessings. 🙏🏻
Enlightenment is not achieved through an intellectual exercise but a vibrational alignment. The mind is for thinking; resonance in frequency is Knowing.
I enjoy your effort, not an easy feat. All the best.
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He is so great, such a talented teacher, I like him a lot! 🥰👏✌️
Totally true!!!
Don't you Love Him?
What does it take for This Love to blossom from Within?
Bonjour. OK but this is just the first step ( important step but the first ). you have much more to discover / rediscover. The journey is far from over. I love you all. jean-luc. 🙏🙏🙏🕉🕉🕉
It's as though we're looking outside of what we feel which is impossible. Incidentally what we feel is bound to the idea of independent self, but in reality every thing in consciousness feels on some level I Am in the same way everyone (you, me) do. It cannot be any other way, I Am is everyone and everything.
Before enlightenment - chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment - chop wood, carry water.
Exactly ! The mind doesn't want to let go of it's identity.
@@stelladonnelly2832 Sorry - but I don't understand your interpretation. The saying I used was in relation to the title of this video. I had an awakening experience years ago. It was not exotic - but it was delicious. Everything was just as it was before - except I experienced it differently. The weights/burdens were absent. Everything was easier. I was still in the same difficult circumstances - but my suffering ceased. Inner Peace is The Dog's Bollocks, the bee's knees, and the cat's whiskers. Peace first - all else follows.
Chop water, carry wood
Bruce Lee who was also was a college graduate of Eastern Philosophy used a similar metaphor when describing the martial arts journey. When you start out as a beginner a punch is just a punch and a kick is just a kick. Then during your training you learn all the intricates in how to properly punch using many different hand shapes and techniques, kicking is the same and you learn how to kick while maintaining your center of balance and rooting skills, etc. Over many years you learn so many variations to punch and kick for so many circumstances that when you reach a level of mastery a punch returns to just being a punch and a kick returns to just being a kick because there is newfound skill that the body has digested fully and there is no thought in the way to hinder you. You then operate from a place of trust and surrender that your body will know what to do when the time comes without any thoughts, panic, or concern.
@@anitam7547 That experience could be just a trick of mind. Truth is in present. All the knowledge is in memories.
You are a being that is having an experience. Step back from the experience and focus only on the being.
You achieve this through meditation. The closing of the eyes, the absences of noise, of movement. Silent, sightless, stillness. All that remains is being, lacking experience.
I was meditating, in which I was overflowing with love, when suddenly, I experienced a part of my consciousness leaving my body, I saw myself moving away from the earth and then becoming one with the whole. Then a sigh of relief came out of what I experienced and I returned to my body
When one can remove all the add-ons imposed by the ego, then one is left with I Am.
I have, I was, I Am and I Will be and do as Mother Nature intended in order to see Thyself beyond the physical eyes.
Rupert's 'I am' teaching is brilliant in English. However, in some other languages it's harder to understand - just because in some other languages there sometimes isn't an 'I am' preceding one's age, gender, feelings, actions etc.
Many other languages have pronouns for "I am" that are simply "I" or "me," but they all point to the same "I am."
@@shadr8994 Thank you 🙏🏿
Do you have an idea how it would work in Turkish, when there's often no pronoun - ie no 'I' or 'Me' etc
@@sheradski What about "Ben"? I know that this issue exists in Farsi as well, but this lack of pronoun usage is unique to colloquial Turkish. In written Turkish (though I am not an expert), the pronoun is still valid, I believe.
@@shadr8994 Thank you very much for your reply 🙏🏿
I don't know much about Farsi, but regarding Turkish, it's a suffix language; therefore much of the grammar is expressed by suffixes added to nouns and verbs. Even in written Turkish 'ben' often would not exist.
There are other languages too, like Indonesian, Finnish, Hungarian and Mandarin where, I believe, there's also no use of pronouns.
@@sheradski Well, in that case, they're all in trouble (:
You all are ahhhhmazing! I got so much wisdom from this comment thread. Thank you. Thank YOU.
This approach, without the preparation of the mind and body through silent meditation, will always be fleeting/obscure/partial/separate. That is why people keep going back to these events, buying books, etc. You can have it, do it, be it utterly under your own steam (and yes, I know, there is no 'you', etc etc etc). You don't need anything or anyone. You have your body, your mind, your breath, the privilege of choosing - you have everything you need. You already have it all.
Our favorite thing to forget is "being" is a present participle, which is used in forming continuous tenses. And this one is for the Verb to be. As Buddhism teaches, "Things are not as they appear. Deeds are done, but no doer can be found." This is why the goal of meditation is the non-thinking, ecstatic center. Not just simply the observation of thoughts, the separation of observer from the thoughts.. but that it's all simply the act OF observing. The observer is another thought form, 'albeit a persistent one'.
Enlightenment is the recognition of the nature of your being. Firstly, we have to understand nothing is permanent, all things exist dependent on others, nothing dominants. Everything appear and disappear when conditions is right. This is the nature of your being.
"The I am, when it is relieved of the qualities that it borrows from experience." This is it.
When breathing, KNOW you're breathing. When sitting, KNOW you're sitting. When standing, KNOW you're standing. When thinking, KNOW you're thinking. When urinating, KNOW you're urinating. When pooping, KNOW you're pooping etc etc. From the Satipatthana Sutta (the foundations of mindfulness)🙏🧡
Once we realize it’s not something we can search for. It’s as simple as deciding to be here rather than there.
To me enlightenment is knowing the I Am essence, but without our ego. This is where I feel ppl get tripped up bc they haven’t fully integrated all of their mind. Just knowing the I Am is the beginning of the process. Just my experience. ☮️ 🕊️
Hi Rupert big hello and thank u for helping humans grow spiritually!!! In peace and love Ellen
Spot on. He recognises the source of not being . No difference between east and west cultures, clearly in both there exist great men. He is one
What a lovely calm voice to listen to 🙏🏼💚
Enlighment is the recognition of the nature of your being
Well said, that's it
Yeah, to me Enlightenment is ego-death which means that you have realized you are actually infinite and not finite. Maybe this state of being will become normal and then I guess Enlightenment can be considered mundane?
I haven't reached Enlightenment yet but I'm closing in and I know how amazingly wonderful it is to realize that I am infinite and eternal and that nothing real can be threathened. The awe that comes with this realization sometimes makes me want to fall to my knees. It's that powerful.
this is only the first step................ the journey is far from over..............( by my own experience )....................,
It is indeed ordinary but extraordinarily so. Rupert you have an exquisitely artful way of expressing this ineffable message only equalled , I would suggest by the likes of Miranda Warren.
Perhaps the key is to undo the notion that we are our own projects. And the journey is indeed letting go that idea and embrace of the fact we AREN’T and never was a project.
Sacrificing personality is very biggest hurdle here for one. but without giving up personality(filters) we can't see ourselves, this much i understood.
When ' the person ' falls away and you ' see' directly it is a very very mindblowing experience that let me 3ctears flabbercasted
here is somebody who is talking about enlightenment without being enlightened and who never met such a being. so it is all theoretical. simple? yes. easy - no. why is it not easy? because of an I in the "I am". it is not easy to let go of this "I". you have invested so much in this "I", so letting go - is not easy. the "I" is constantly in a state of dreaming, therefore another name - awakening. Liberation - another name, what are you liberated from? you are free from the notion of "I". you are liberated from yourself. it is the last and the only liberation.
qualities of experience - Vritty in Sanskrit. getting them out of the way is not enough. you need to get out of the experience itself out of the way. as long as there is "I" that experience anything, there is no liberation, no unity. subject - object - process of experience - does that look like unity to you?. if you are there in the moment of enlightenment, it is not enlightenment, it is just another dream.
Wow, simple, clear, but so great. Thanks
Enlightenment is to do Self-Inquiry as told by Ramana Maharshi. To dissolve the “I”-thought which generates all other thoughts and remain as the Self - pure consciousness which is “I-less”. Even I Am doesn’t exist in the supreme state. The Self is pure silence. The Self is God. To remain as the Self….that is enlightenment. 🙏
Self implies an “I” therefore Self/Pure awareness/Brahman is the “I”.
“I am I” - Ramana Maharshi
Of course here he isn’t referring to the imaginary ego, he’s referring to True Self/Brahman/Pure Awareness.
@@timeless4369 sure sure!!! But when one is in the state Ramana was….pure consciousness doesn’t say I Am… there is absolute silence…
True, the Self is God. God is consciousness.
But we’re talking about God here, the actual, G.O.D.
I’m tired of this non duality shit.
Just Realize that GOD exists, my and your God, our Creator.
Stopping trying to understand and know reality…
Just…
Realize God. That’s all you need to know, to do.
@Phoenix maybe you are wrong?
This was so informative, I feel enlightened!
Good News! i discovered that the brain/body is capable of setting itself Totally Free of fear, anxiety, sorrow, despair, loneliness, shame, guilt, confusion, contradictions, addictions, irritations, triggers, vanity, envy, greed, jealousy, attachment, possessiveness, ill-will, hatred, cruelty, bias, prejudice, and all other mental/emotional disturbances, in each and every moment of daily life, 24/7.
This gives birth to True Love, Peace, Happiness, Creativity, & Clarity, for the very first time. Not the love, peace, happiness, that the I, the me, the self, the thinker, the mind, imagines it to be, which is a limitation, imitation, and distortion.
For the very first time, Soul is happening, Spirit is happening, Heart is happening.
It is not temporary. It is happening in each & every moment of daily life, 24/7.
It does not take time. It has nothing whatsoever to do with time, effort, or choice. It occurs faster than the speed of light.
The children are ready to be set Totally Free at the earliest age so they don't waste their whole life with any mental/emotional disturbances.
I wouldn't call any of the mystical experiences I have personally had (completely sober, and before I had any spiritual awareness whatsoever) mundane at all.
They were the most profound thing I have ever experienced, though I agree that this experience was internal, and I was never "lacking it" or never had to "attain it", it was always there. But definitely profound, indescribable, NOT mundane.
Enlightenment is obviously a loaded term, and I don't claim to be "enlightened" or even to know what the term means, but the suggestion of mundaneness I strongly disagree with. Mystical experience, enlightenment experience, these are peak experiences and that's why they can have such a massive impact on the individual.
I found the best accounts of these experiences in Plato and Plotinus.
The lady is right to ask the question. The spiritual path leads (or should lead) to spiritual richness, intense experience, yet wholesome and fulfilling because it comes from within the individual themselves. If it doesn't, then what are you choosing it for?
"Enlightenment" is often seen as the end stage of the spiritual path, and to suggest it is mundane is, in my opinion, misleading.
Notice the Energy that is spontaneously happening. I AM is the basic energy, the Tao, the force, vibration , etc
in response to rupert..enlightenment comes in degrees..when you finally (metaphorically) go beyond the body/mind space/time/causation complexs, beyond the waking dreaming and deep sleep states you will realize youSelf as Supreme Energy, sometimes called the Paramatman or Atman sometimes called the Pure I Consciousness Pure becaseu there is nothing, absolutely nothing but yourSelf..one of rupert spiras teachers sri atmananda, in his discourse *notes on spiritual discources* he explains that in order to know what the Atman/I principle is you have to remove all objects from the screen that is You..thats final enlightenment.
its quite extraordinary to realize exactly what you are.
I think this is the danger's of stating it outright, is the mind latches onto these ideas and chases them, never arriving. When it's much better to strip away the qualities and point to the door which spira as a teacher shows.
@@randylayhey yes, well, now we have a bizillion wanna be gurus who think that noticing that they are awareness now think they are completely awake..id rather tell the truth and remind people that complete enlightenment is rare and most people wont get it..its something to work on with spiritual practices...
@@chitraisenlightened yes everyone wants to dress up as one (guru) lol. or "be" enlightened as a new ego. there is no ego. the whole teaching is that. That's the absolute truth, see theres almost something fraudulent if that's realized to then call yourself something else. complete freedom from identity
@@randylayheyi think freedom is identity with the Supreme Energy that we all are..the Supreme Self...thats realized in the beyond!
Thank you for bringing me back to here
Lovely, as usual ❤ Thank you, Rupert.
Enlightenment is great! The enlightenment of the Law.
Patience of a saint
😊 Just say "I AM IS"⚡ And Call it GOD ❤️🎇🌈🪶💕 Grace Victoria 🦋
These days a lot of people run around with a deregulated nervoussystem. Fight,flight or freeze response. In these states they want to use a spiritual bypass, to not feel. Breathwork, cold exposure, the bottom up approach, working with the body instead of top down are at least in my own experience very helpful. To force yourself mentally into „transcendence“ creates a split and can take you further away from experiencing a natural joy and peace. I established a routine of breathwork, than cold exposure and after that sitting of 30 minutes, watching the breath ( Anapanasati) All these techniques are operating in the realm of „being“, beyond concepts. Conceptualizing is left behind.
Unglaublich hilfreich - vielen Dank.💙🙏💙
So Direct, So incredible ❤️, Blessings, Thank you (it Can take a while/it's ongoing)!!
Like ordinary life, but two inches off the ground.
Gathering wood, drawing water, building fire.
Washing dishes can be a blissful sensory experience.
Thanks Alan….
@@sirtom3011 yes, Alan watts amazing
what can be only felt, can not be described exactly in words.
The reason we sometimes feel like as the lady has said " I never ate the fruit"-- it's because our minds try to make the simple obvious "being" into some kind of super human experience to again build a tag of ego around it so that we can make an identity of enlightened person but ego seems not to do that..and it confuses the heck of the mind...mind can't take the very simplicity of it❤
This cracks me up I love it so much!!! Rupert I love you! 🌻💐💕
You are the thing your looking for!
The question that Self-enquiry addresses is:
• "what is That which is experiencing experience?".
This translates into:
• "What is It that experiences and is immediately experiencing concepts/thoughts, memories, emotions, sensations and the immediate sense of being/existing?
I believe that the purpose of our earthly life is simply to re-learn, recognize, and remind ourselves and others, that we are one, we are part of God, and one with God. Creation and Creator at the same time…
“I’m sad. I’m lonely. I’m tired. I’m a mother.” 😂
I’m sorry. I absolutely love this video, but watching it a second time… that bit just hit me and made me LOL!
I am.
Just this.
Just now.
We can train the mind so that this is our default mode, instead of continual mental chatter, judgment, worry, and commentary. The mind will rest in a default mode of equanimity. When thinking or consideration is necessary, it will arise as necessary in an instant to meet the need, then pass away.
Say I am is generally your ego-mind saying it, it is a function of thought, not of being, the "I" is not being (even though I understand the point being made that it's about the *experience* behind that statement). The moment you put it into words "I am", your ego/mind has entered the picture and displaced being. Being is something even simpler and doesn't involve thought or the ego. You can just be, but if you say you are, then I don't know how you can do it without words and concepts. Being is pure awareness and it is indeed omnipresent. Almost all people are at least to some degree, at certain times. When you are aware of something without judgement, without words, without concepts, without thought, without emotion, then you are just being. Don't try to stop judgements, words, thoughts, concepts, etc. from arising because they will, but become aware of them also. In my experience, it's almost universal that people have these being experiences in nature.
Always nice to see a video of Rupert. Though I don't do that often. The time for searching is over. ( I wish it was my neighbour, he makes pots, I take pictures of the rising sun and then philosophize for example about universal awareness together, (difficult, because my english is not very good, more in silence).
In another fine video (from someone else I tapped in these words: The same story has been told thousands of times, in different words and with different angles: religion, philosophy, science and experience. Plato sketches this story in beautiful dialogues, the more esoteric side of religion, words and experience of 'masters' like jesus, Ramana, Gurdjieff etc, etc. In the end it comes down to "Know Thyself", That art Thou, I am that I am, only in a still mind do I abide in choiceless awareness In short, I am not the body, not the mind, and certainly not all identifications with anything and everything. I am.
All in all, I don't worry so much about universal consciousness anymore. Socrates replied to the question of what is after death: "We do not know. And to the question of whether there is a heaven: "The wise do not care about that."
The searcher is what is searched
Awareness is a subtle thing, it's not that easy to find. It is like a formless void within you but it is not truly empty either
I am CONSCIOUSNESS
I'm ENLIGHTENMENT ❤🙏
“ You is what you is and that’s all what you am.”
The type of talk that allows many to feel they understand but few know. Not to be too critical though.
I AM...............that's all.............🤣🤣🤣
Enlightenment is like if someone taste for example Salt that person can't explain it to another that taste it has to be experienced by individuals enlightenment is too is something like that. To understand this you need to eradicate mainly the craving of oneself and understand how me concept is caused. If you address of being permanently existing there is no enlightenment. The life is a flow which can be called anichha dukka anattha
Remove even the AM, as, the AM is our QUALIFICATION in to OBJECT reality as that which FOLLOWS the AM, we ARE. So enquire EXCLUSIVELY as to who the I is? that's the one present ALWAYS and MUST BE to even KNOW the experience of the qualification. Ohm 🙏
Someone once thought. If we are all “preprogrammed” to react, think feel, like or dislike, in a certain way then are we really in control? Scary thought to some people. I know it used to scare me. Using the word preprogrammed loosely. But if we are what we are (keeping in mind that we can change) but that change is also apart of who we are, and we truly do have free will as along as we are being ourselves. Because we are always interacting with the world around us, we may feel that we are being push in direction by forces out of our control. but that freewill (us being our true self) makes us just beings that are interacting with a force outside our true self.
So be yourself to truly be free you are in control even when things around are out of your control. Be your true self no one knows what that is but you. Think about it.
Check out Bankei’s unborn. The unborn is the spontaneous energy: the seeing, hearing; thinking, etc that is happening all the time without any “I” controller. You recognize the caw of a crow without any effort; when your eyes are open, you just see, no controlling effort is required.