@@brianlittrell797 i think everything is connected. The whole universe is a thing made up of many things which are interdependent and inter linked. For example, a human being in his mind consider himself as an individual who looks at the world through his eyes and says " oh where am i? What is this place, what is the meaning of this life" but you are just a part of this whole universe connected to the trees, the rivers, the land and life is really absurd, meaningless and your mind ( your thoughts and attention/observation) is that thing where all life exists cause we perceive this world only through our senses and then our mind. So according to me, it is so important to renew our mind, keep it empty, keep it vacant from thoughts in each moment, it seems like a mystery to me but isn't each moment instantly a new one ( like we live in the enternal... The present ). Our mind brings the concept of time through memory by imagining something from the past and one might get lost there forgetting the room or the place he is sitting in and gets disconnected from the ongoing buzz and their " lo and behold" moment in this world. Our mind is like an empty box. It really is empty when you are just looking at something, cause when you look or hear and pay attention to a sound, you would realise you are not thinking something at that moment , while you looked you were thoughtless, then only you could look properly. Thoughts can be noisy and distracting. Not if we just meditate and observe in the present what is around us. ( Work is exception , e.g you are doing something on laptop, but you still can be very careful of what is happening around) According to me, the secret of a blissful or peaceful or happy or enlightened or good or right way of life is we always live in the present moment. But it doesn't mean thinking is totally useless. Thinking is useful when it is used for important decision making and we should never be selfish and help others.
@@brianlittrell797 don't get caught up in words. " Everything" and " nothing" can be explained each. But I feel words are limited, we can't really describe our lives or reality accurately through language. If you ask me, we are everything cause it is all in us, in our mind. The tree is there cause your mind perceives it, the same way all the things on this earth is in our mind, thats how everything is inside us. The earth doesn't exist if your mind doesn't exist. Think about it. In sleep you are " nothing" you don't even know you are asleep when you are asleep, only when you wake up or when you lie down or when you are lucid dreaming. When we are not thinking, when we are just awake, observing and there are no thoughts, you are nothing but just the tree you are looking at. We are just afraid of this emptiness inside of us. I haven't gone deeper than this. I think we are supposed to meditate and see, observe this emptiness.
@@pushparahi5681 Why is work an exception? Awareness turns everything into a meditation. If you do anything with awareness, awakeness, then you turn that activity into a meditation. The witnessing presence, the silent observer is watching you do that activity while you do that activity. Whether it be typing on a computer or doing some kind of work, you can still bring awareness to the activity. You can always bring the silent observer, the silent witness into every moment. That witness/observer/watcher is the pure awareness that you are and it is aware of the present moment now. This moment right and now as you are reading these words. It is watching you. It is you. Peace.
Beautiful, I'd even refine this one step further by saying: "When the one seeking god is revealed to be God itself, God's experience of itself returns to harmony."
@@animallover1904 how can God’s experience of Itself ever be disharmonious? Disharmony is a phenomenon of the fictitious separate ego self. With its dissolution, harmony is revealed.
Summarising all of rupert’s teachings: When you ask yourself the question “am i aware”...you refer to an objective-quality less experience of being aware and a thought rises “yes”. If you stay with that experience after the thought (being aware of being aware),awareness gradually ,in time ,loses its limitations and the true nature of awareness will shine as it is .This process is called self abidance.
Very important teaching of Rupert and Krishnamurti. My peace and happiness do not depend of what happen but I do what ever is right to do to improve it.
You can not become you can only be. There is no Knower separate from the Known. after I there is nothing else that is real. Even the am in the I am is a bit redundant. The am is more of just an acknowledgement that there really is only I. The key to understanding the amazing Rupert Spira IMO is to listen carefully, don't try to understand, only accept. There is nothing to understand it is only to let go and be.
"I am nothing" is dull to the mind when the mind is mimicking that realisation. To find it dull, there has to be someone observing something. That is object consciousness. The ego. Useful in everyday life. Not what we are talking about. "I am nothing" is peaceful. Immovable. Intouchable. Grounding at first. Then as you realise that everything is made out if this thing that is not a thing you see that you are everywhere. Don't force that understanding. Nothing will be gained by seeing it or not seeing it.
The only thing that is appearing to stop you from enlightenment/self-realization/eternal life/knowing yourself to be unconditional love is identification with thoughts, emotions, sensations, perceptions and experiences instead of being aware of being aware and knowing yourself to be that unconditional love pure consciousness in which all thoughts, emotions, sensations, perceptions and experiences appear but are not inherently one with you; they are an expression of unconditional love; you are that infinite that is expressing itself as suffering/pleasure but inherently you are neither; you are that nothing/unconditional love/pure consciousness in which they are appear and by which they are perceived; Suffering/pleasure comes and goes; there is an awareness that is aware of them coming and going; that you are; remember and know what you are; never identify with anything that is appearing within you; since it appears within you; it can't be you; you are that in which it appears. When you abide as that in which it appears instead of identifying; nothing has a grip on you; if anything comes; it quickly goes; like clouds passing; only if you identify as a cloud then it will appear as if the cloud is here for longer than it is originally supposed to; if you simply rest as the awareness and do not identify; it will quickly dissolve; be unconditional love by being aware of being aware; this is the highest; this is what you are seeking in absolutely everything else; you are seeking yourself; you are seeking unconditional love; but you are looking outside of yourself; instead of being aware that you already are unconditional love. Love love
What interprets "someone" "else's" experience...which is merely an attempt to describe a momentary feeling and simply a sometime occurrence, as the questioner reported...is failing to recognize that whatever is arising is Not Other than one's self, in belief. There never is "someone else". The seer is what is being seen. The hearer is what is being heard...and none of it is ever personal or located or owned. Localization is a myth.
From that place of " nothingness" everything emerges...it's like if "nothingness is the central point then everything is the dazzling design that arises from that in a rangoli " ❤
There is no outer or no inner no me or no you no separateness to fight with yo must see that this is true and put an end to all your longing all your feeling of regret the fruitless anticipation of things that has not happened yet the life that flows within you also flows without it has no inherent limit it has no sense of doubt and it will not stop its loving no matter how loud you shout it moves without resistance and fills everything to the brim gives all things their existence and lights your heart from within YOU are that
💖Yes😊 in our Essence There lS no-one that can Be hurt because l has No opposite or Knows opposite of "l AM That"🙏Thank You🌺Rupert for Being As The Transperent Light of Awareness🌠🌠🌠
The final "step" sounds like "surrendering" for my lack of a better word, for the substrait that which is the movement of all things. Flow in every moment of awareness.
@@XxXjuan96carlosXxX written by Lao Tzu. The tao te ching. "Surrendering" is letting things happen the way it ought to be. "Controlling" everything that come our way is something that isnt simply practical, most of our bodily processes are handled by our subconscious, it seems "automatic" tis the "nature" of the body. By just simply experiencing, in a way we follow the natural flow of nature. Following the flow is more pleasant than going against the flow. River
when we say we are nothing, in physical terms, it means our body is a combination of many things, the energy (fire), the water (blood), the body (earth), the breathing (air), and many other ways to break down a body/physical combination, in dimension terms, i am a son, a father, and a friend, a lover, so which one is me? and yesterday me is different from today and will be different for tomorrow, so there is no me. when we say we are everything, it is because of awareness, the universe is created by awareness, and there is awareness within us, it is just like salt(all physical form) and ocean (awareness or consciousness), salt is crystal form from ocean, when it disintegrated, it return back and merge with ocean. so we are nothing and everything.
Your can't truly be everything if you aren't totally nothing. Even if there's a spec of solidity in the center of your field of experience it'll cling on to a ground externally, for 99 percent of the seekers this "something" is "Awareness" or "Godmind", which is just another golden chain, a new Ground the self projects onto. Any time there's a sense of "this" merging with "that" still presupposes a very subtle sense of duality. "Awareness" is just another fabrication, no different than any other sensations such as the body, emotions, the observer, etc. All are rolled into experience experiencing itself. When you truly disappear into the warm blanket of the Universe, there will be Awareness, but you're just not present.
This is 100% my problem; I reidentified with the thought 'there is no thinker' after having some minipeaks of effortlessness and impersonality. And in direct experience it's obvious there are sensations or areas of stuckness around which there is a sense of contraction and clinging/aversion. Like all of these blinking particle-feelings in the head area around which there is a lot of internal dialogue and identification.
They give name to "something" that isn't a thing but is alive , in the sense of Present or all that there is , and "this" "thing" is unknowable but it does exist and manifests as everything
I claim that why you think like krishnamurti that nothing matters..is because you have seen through everything. But as Nisargadatta Maharaj said: wisdom is when I am nothing and love is when I am everything and between these two my life wanders.
I feel as if I am nothing and everything I experience is resting on the nothingness I am. I don’t know how I’m experiencing it but I can interact within this experience in a body that feels so personal. If I am also this body than I am the earth and then the universe. Nothingness is infinite but so is everything that can fill it. If it is all me, then I must be creating this. We are all god.
The questions of the seeker are so real 🙏🏻. Like many, I may be situated exactly in the 'problematic approach of the middle'. It almost feels like being stuck in a tunnel, no movement forwards or back. Or is there one but one doesn't feel it? An Intellectual understanding of 'I am not this' is somewhat there but 'I am everything' nooo... not even in theory. A bit of relief for the disease has been diagnosed but how does one make progress from this middle stage? What does one do? Or not do? Is overthinking an issue? How to move from the mind to the heart? The jelly takes a long while to set it seems.
Overthinking could be an issue. I sometimes find myself in the trap of trying to "solve it", "find IT" through thinking, without realizing that at that moment, I'm completely out for lunch.
It is the person, who is feeling stuck. But obviously there is someone watching the one "stuck in the tunnel". Who or what is this oberver? Do not think about it, try to stay in the experience. Thoughts can only reformulate what you have already learned, they can never reveal something new. Such knowledge or intuition comes from a deeper place. Feelings, like thoughts, belong to a person, therefore the experience of dullness in the beginning is not a bad sign. We are so used to being in the grip of our personal drama with feelings and emotions, that the lack of ist could be boring at first. There is nothing for the mind to do. So it will try to distract you again and again. Observe your thoughts to slow them down. They are arising on behalf of a person, not your true self. In the small gaps, when thinking ceases, our true nature shines through, maybe as boring, sterile or empty in the beginning, but is it not also peaceful? Don't let your mind tell you: "There's nothing there, so you better try some new practise, read some more, or give it up alltogether." It's the person trying to reinforce itself. What would indicate for you that you have reached the end of the tunnel? Consider the answer to this question carefully. Do you expect some special experience or wonderful feelings? Then you are back to the person. Your true nature is not a state you (as a person) can perceive. It is from there that all perception takes place. - If this is an issue, I would recommend Spira's RUclips-clip "Why am I not enlightened yet?"
You already have a lot of experience with 'I am everything' but you don't realize it yet. Let me try to change your perspective because that is all it takes. I quote Rupert after a minute or two : "I am not just that WITH which all experience is known, I am not just that IN which all experience appears, but I am that OUT of which all experience is made or OF which all experience is the activity." Isn't that exactly what you could say of any dream, once you wake up? Consciousness experiencing itself? While dreaming you thought you were a person, completely identified with the 'I' in the dream, therefore you felt separate. But when you wake up you can realize that the I-perspective was wrong because you were the whole dream, ALL of it. You were everything in your dream. What if that what we call 'real life' is also a dream, a collective dream? Wouldn't you want to be awake in that dream, living lucidly, realizing you are ALL of it, rather than identifying with the 'I' only, the person only?
The one asking questions is not in the observer awareness. You can be aware of feelings as the observer but observation is not the body for anything to "feel dull".
Cuando observo algo y lo juzgo "erróneamente", me digo a mi misma: Yo no soy el cuerpo, yo no soy la mente, yo no soy los pensamientos.....sin embargo, todo surge de mi y esta hecho de mi propia sustancia, así que el o ella....soy yo misma ahí.... porque no hay dos....no hay nadie mas que yo misma. Y cuando he hecho esto....inmediatamente mis sentimientos o ideas preconcebidas cambian.
If a human is the, "I am everything", then he/she is the, "I am nothing". For to be everything, one is then nothing: and to be nothing, one is then everything.
How do you separate awareness from thought? We are aware of our thoughts, but thoughts are also aware of our awareness. The two are so closely linked, so where do we stand?
Clouds arise in the sky. Never the other way around. Thoughts arise in awareness. Never the other way around. Awareness can be without a thought but a thought requires awareness to appear.
@@FirstPersonHood but take the thought “I am aware”; how does that thought arise? It feels like thoughts recognise they’re inside awareness, or are tainted by awareness somehow. Kind of like clouds in the sky, but the sky is windy.
You cannot put a label on it because when you do it's no longer it. This is like saying : "THIS" is God. So if "THIS" is God then it implies that there's something outside of God, something that IS NOT God. God is ONE. There's nothing else so no label is required.
Rupert - can you do a 1 day or 3 day online retreat on the 3rd position? I feel a huge number of us are feeling to break through, but need some hand holding. I would be happy to volunteer to help in any way. Thank you!
You already have a lot of experience with his 3rd position, Gigi, you just don't realize it yet. Let me try to change your perspective because that is all it takes, a 1-3 day retreat won't be necessary. An open mind will do. I quote Rupert after a minute or two : "I am not just that WITH which all experience is known, I am not just that IN which all experience appears, but I am that OUT of which all experience is made or OF which all experience is the activity." Isn't that exactly what you could say of any dream, once you wake up? Consciousness experiencing itself? While dreaming you thought you were a person, completely identified with the 'I' in the dream, therefore you felt separate and experienced a world outside. But when you wake up you can realize that the I-perspective was wrong because you were the whole dream, ALL of it. What if that what we call 'real life' is also a dream, a collective dream? Wouldn't you want to be awake in that dream, living lucidly, realizing you are ALL of it, rather than identifying with the 'I' only, the person only?
God is the eternal now unfolding creation,all creation ,so are you,you are simply a point of ficus of conscious awareness,the game of life is to surrender self mind thought reality false self false reality to being no self nothing empty space empty vessel for God to create through his will you are the conscious witness to his glory his divine presence .if you are seeking searching needing wanting lacking your serving false self there is no self no separation from God the eternal now,you experience God,now,for eternity,your only absent to God,the now focused in thought all false realities you experience in mind instead of being fully present to God,the now,get out of your mind and get back to god
"Consciousness does not shine by itself, it shines by a light beyond it." (Nisargadatta Maharaj) You are not this or that, you are yourself..and that is neither an object nor a concept. Rupert, please stop confusing people...why are you doing that ?
Some terminology may seem momentarily confusing but what he means by yourself is your Self, which is the same as my Self, Ruperts Self and the same Self of a gnat.
Tell me Moonglow, were you this or were you that in any of your dreams? Or was it your self? If so, is that self an object? Or do you experience that self as a concept?
When I go online to look at the wonderful pictures of space from The Hubble telescope there is often some commentary about the billions of stars and planets up there. The mind is of course drawn to these wonderful objects - but nobody ever talks about the INFINITE SPACE in which they are situated! Yet it’s in his infinite dark space that I see the REAL wonder of it all! Over 95% of the universe is SPACE - yet it is totally ignored! We are told that all is ONE without a second. But if everything is ONE then we can’t ignore what makes up 95% of that ONE! - SPACE! Because if it’s infinite then space doesn’t stop where you start. If it did it wouldn’t be infinite! The same thing applies to the planets and stars - space doesn’t stop where they start either! Which means that everything is space appearing as an object, but never being anything other than space. The amazing thing is that the space right now between me and my computer screen is the same space that’s a billion light years away in another galaxy! IT’S THE SAME SPACE! There is no place where one space joins another space - IT’S ALL ONE. EVERYTHING IS ALL ONE! But of course, we miss it all the time. When our mother sat us down, pointed at things and gave them a name she never once pointed at space. I notice that mind cannot think about space for any length of time because it’s not an object. But awareness can stay aware of it. In doing so the un-caused joy or bliss is experienced - pretty much immediately. Also, when I am aware of space and am looking at it I see its incredible beauty and the no-thingness of it all. Being aware of space - even the space surrounding my body seems to break the idea that I am the body and bring my home to being the infinite no-thing/intelligence energy of all that is.
These ideas can produce interesting experiences, but in the end, we need to conclusions based on facts, not ideas. And the fact is that you are something, not nothing and not everything.
The only "something" there is, is awareness or consciousness. There is no matter. The atom is empty space. Full stop. Period. Indivisible consciousness was never carved up into "individualities". That is simply the "product" of the belief in objectivity.
@@sandycarter5300 I think nonduality gives the benefit of interesting states of consciousness, but then it's ruined by people clinging to its ideology. So it is one step forward, one step backward.
“Love says 'I am everything.' Wisdom says 'I am nothing.' Between the two, my life flows.”
― Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am That
The balance of both creates something Here you are being something
How can you be everything and nothing at the same time? Or between the two?
@@brianlittrell797 i think everything is connected. The whole universe is a thing made up of many things which are interdependent and inter linked.
For example, a human being in his mind consider himself as an individual who looks at the world through his eyes and says " oh where am i? What is this place, what is the meaning of this life" but you are just a part of this whole universe connected to the trees, the rivers, the land and life is really absurd, meaningless and your mind ( your thoughts and attention/observation) is that thing where all life exists cause we perceive this world only through our senses and then our mind.
So according to me, it is so important to renew our mind, keep it empty, keep it vacant from thoughts in each moment, it seems like a mystery to me but isn't each moment instantly a new one ( like we live in the enternal... The present ). Our mind brings the concept of time through memory by imagining something from the past and one might get lost there forgetting the room or the place he is sitting in and gets disconnected from the ongoing buzz and their " lo and behold" moment in this world.
Our mind is like an empty box. It really is empty when you are just looking at something, cause when you look or hear and pay attention to a sound, you would realise you are not thinking something at that moment , while you looked you were thoughtless, then only you could look properly. Thoughts can be noisy and distracting. Not if we just meditate and observe in the present what is around us.
( Work is exception , e.g you are doing something on laptop, but you still can be very careful of what is happening around)
According to me, the secret of a blissful or peaceful or happy or enlightened or good or right way of life is we always live in the present moment. But it doesn't mean thinking is totally useless. Thinking is useful when it is used for important decision making and we should never be selfish and help others.
@@brianlittrell797 don't get caught up in words.
" Everything" and " nothing" can be explained each. But I feel words are limited, we can't really describe our lives or reality accurately through language.
If you ask me, we are everything cause it is all in us, in our mind. The tree is there cause your mind perceives it, the same way all the things on this earth is in our mind, thats how everything is inside us. The earth doesn't exist if your mind doesn't exist. Think about it. In sleep you are " nothing" you don't even know you are asleep when you are asleep, only when you wake up or when you lie down or when you are lucid dreaming.
When we are not thinking, when we are just awake, observing and there are no thoughts, you are nothing but just the tree you are looking at. We are just afraid of this emptiness inside of us.
I haven't gone deeper than this. I think we are supposed to meditate and see, observe this emptiness.
@@pushparahi5681 Why is work an exception? Awareness turns everything into a meditation. If you do anything with awareness, awakeness, then you turn that activity into a meditation. The witnessing presence, the silent observer is watching you do that activity while you do that activity. Whether it be typing on a computer or doing some kind of work, you can still bring awareness to the activity. You can always bring the silent observer, the silent witness into every moment. That witness/observer/watcher is the pure awareness that you are and it is aware of the present moment now. This moment right and now as you are reading these words. It is watching you. It is you. Peace.
Rupert's super chill voice in itself is enough to put me into a meditative state lol
When the journey to God comes to an end a journey in God begins.
Beautiful, I'd even refine this one step further by saying: "When the one seeking god is revealed to be God itself, God's experience of itself returns to harmony."
Beautiful message ❤
@@animallover1904 I've made a note of that one thank you x
@@animallover1904 how can God’s experience of Itself ever be disharmonious? Disharmony is a phenomenon of the fictitious separate ego self. With its dissolution, harmony is revealed.
End in G
Begin in G
Summarising all of rupert’s teachings:
When you ask yourself the question “am i aware”...you refer to an objective-quality less experience of being aware and a thought rises “yes”. If you stay with that experience after the thought (being aware of being aware),awareness gradually ,in time ,loses its limitations and the true nature of awareness will shine as it is .This process is called self abidance.
1:28. Knower> Awareness > Knowing alone 2:45
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7:13. 👌 RXXXXX.Immanence
9:38. Mother. Witness
10:40. Loving indifference
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Such an amazing teacher of being!! Being in the outward path now, your words are invaluable! 🙏🏿👌🏿🙏🏿
Rupert in my opinion is the best teacher of true " knowingness" he speaks with such radiance peace and calmness
which is the nature of consciousness
Beautiful :) See everything with the loving gaze of a mother as she sees her children play
"My peace is not dependent on what does or does not happen"!
Thank you Rupert you are changing the world so much gratitude for you ❤️
My name is Shady, im Palestinian
@@MostConscious You are divine human, does not matter from where
all the spiritual masters always look so humble!
Yes the witness stage is so important to detach from the illusion before you can see you are in truth everything as it truly is 🙏🏼♥️
Thanks Rupert for clarifying these stages, it's very helpful..to experience.
What incredible understanding. Thank you, Rupert. 🙏🧡
7:38 "You dont lose yourself in that, the experiences loses itself in you"
2 process of non dualism
Know ur seperateness
N know ur knowingness n no more separateness WHICH was only pedagogical step ❤️❤️❤️
Very important teaching of Rupert and Krishnamurti. My peace and happiness do not depend of what happen but I do what ever is right to do to improve it.
" Benevolent indifference" how beautiful💗🙏💗
I always refresh my RUclips feed just to see his videos. And its worth waiting to see him
Very nice! This comes just at the time I'm ready to hear it. Much thanks for uploading.
You can not become you can only be. There is no Knower separate from the Known. after I there is nothing else that is real. Even the am in the I am is a bit redundant. The am is more of just an acknowledgement that there really is only I. The key to understanding the amazing Rupert Spira IMO is to listen carefully, don't try to understand, only accept. There is nothing to understand it is only to let go and be.
Thank you Rupert 🙏🕉
"I am nothing" is dull to the mind when the mind is mimicking that realisation.
To find it dull, there has to be someone observing something. That is object consciousness. The ego.
Useful in everyday life. Not what we are talking about.
"I am nothing" is peaceful. Immovable. Intouchable.
Grounding at first.
Then as you realise that everything is made out if this thing that is not a thing you see that you are everywhere.
Don't force that understanding.
Nothing will be gained by seeing it or not seeing it.
The only thing that is appearing to stop you from enlightenment/self-realization/eternal life/knowing yourself to be unconditional love is identification with thoughts, emotions, sensations, perceptions and experiences instead of being aware of being aware and knowing yourself to be that unconditional love pure consciousness in which all thoughts, emotions, sensations, perceptions and experiences appear but are not inherently one with you; they are an expression of unconditional love; you are that infinite that is expressing itself as suffering/pleasure but inherently you are neither; you are that nothing/unconditional love/pure consciousness in which they are appear and by which they are perceived;
Suffering/pleasure comes and goes; there is an awareness that is aware of them coming and going; that you are; remember and know what you are; never identify with anything that is appearing within you; since it appears within you; it can't be you; you are that in which it appears. When you abide as that in which it appears instead of identifying; nothing has a grip on you; if anything comes; it quickly goes; like clouds passing; only if you identify as a cloud then it will appear as if the cloud is here for longer than it is originally supposed to; if you simply rest as the awareness and do not identify; it will quickly dissolve; be unconditional love by being aware of being aware; this is the highest; this is what you are seeking in absolutely everything else; you are seeking yourself; you are seeking unconditional love; but you are looking outside of yourself; instead of being aware that you already are unconditional love. Love love
What interprets "someone" "else's" experience...which is merely an attempt to describe a momentary feeling and simply a sometime occurrence, as the questioner reported...is failing to recognize that whatever is arising is Not Other than one's self, in belief. There never is "someone else". The seer is what is being seen. The hearer is what is being heard...and none of it is ever personal or located or owned. Localization is a myth.
Thank you very much Rupert!
Is so liberating...
Thank you from my heart!
I love the quote of Krishnamurti. "I don't mind what happens." 😊❤
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How timely ! Thanks rupert!
The ultimate stage of Sarvatma bhava explained beautifully in simple terms. To experience oneself as the Sarvatma, yet remain Asparsha!
Thank you Rupert for your wonderful work. Namasté 🙏
From that place of " nothingness" everything emerges...it's like if "nothingness is the central point then everything is the dazzling design that arises from that in a rangoli " ❤
There is no outer
or no inner
no me or no you
no separateness to fight with
yo must see that this is true
and put an end to all your longing
all your feeling of regret
the fruitless anticipation
of things that has not happened yet
the life that flows within you
also flows without
it has no inherent limit
it has no sense of doubt
and it will not stop its loving
no matter how loud you shout
it moves without resistance
and fills everything to the brim
gives all things their existence
and lights your heart from within
YOU are that
💖Yes😊 in our Essence There lS no-one that can Be hurt because l has No opposite or Knows opposite of "l AM That"🙏Thank You🌺Rupert for Being As The Transperent Light of Awareness🌠🌠🌠
Truth is path less land, it is in day to day living!! - J. Krishnamurti.. Awareness without any judgment
Amazing! True wisdom indeed...
🙏Timeless Gratitude Rupert Spira🙏
The final "step" sounds like "surrendering" for my lack of a better word, for the substrait that which is the movement of all things. Flow in every moment of awareness.
Felt like that in my experience, i just had to let go or let something in kinda feeling.
@@XxXjuan96carlosXxX have you read the tao te ching?
Yes, surrendering is s good word for it. Or giving in, letting go
@@kristoffdawn8407 no my friend, care to explain what that is?!
@@XxXjuan96carlosXxX written by Lao Tzu. The tao te ching. "Surrendering" is letting things happen the way it ought to be. "Controlling" everything that come our way is something that isnt simply practical, most of our bodily processes are handled by our subconscious, it seems "automatic" tis the "nature" of the body. By just simply experiencing, in a way we follow the natural flow of nature. Following the flow is more pleasant than going against the flow. River
Muchísimas gracias!!! Espléndido
Totally engaging oneself to the experience starts with totally accepting oneself without judgement.
when we say we are nothing, in physical terms, it means our body is a combination of many things, the energy (fire), the water (blood), the body (earth), the breathing (air), and many other ways to break down a body/physical combination, in dimension terms, i am a son, a father, and a friend, a lover, so which one is me? and yesterday me is different from today and will be different for tomorrow, so there is no me. when we say we are everything, it is because of awareness, the universe is created by awareness, and there is awareness within us, it is just like salt(all physical form) and ocean (awareness or consciousness), salt is crystal form from ocean, when it disintegrated, it return back and merge with ocean. so we are nothing and everything.
I Just can say THANK YOU
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" Wherever you go, go there with all your Heart" ...Confucius..💗🙏💗
You're in the wrong place with that.
Your can't truly be everything if you aren't totally nothing. Even if there's a spec of solidity in the center of your field of experience it'll cling on to a ground externally, for 99 percent of the seekers this "something" is "Awareness" or "Godmind", which is just another golden chain, a new Ground the self projects onto. Any time there's a sense of "this" merging with "that" still presupposes a very subtle sense of duality. "Awareness" is just another fabrication, no different than any other sensations such as the body, emotions, the observer, etc. All are rolled into experience experiencing itself. When you truly disappear into the warm blanket of the Universe, there will be Awareness, but you're just not present.
This is 100% my problem; I reidentified with the thought 'there is no thinker' after having some minipeaks of effortlessness and impersonality. And in direct experience it's obvious there are sensations or areas of stuckness around which there is a sense of contraction and clinging/aversion. Like all of these blinking particle-feelings in the head area around which there is a lot of internal dialogue and identification.
This warm blanket of the universe is what we would say in India be absorbed in Bhakthi . Am I right?
They give name to "something" that isn't a thing but is alive , in the sense of Present or all that there is , and "this" "thing" is unknowable but it does exist and manifests as everything
I claim that why you think like krishnamurti that nothing matters..is because you have seen through everything. But as Nisargadatta Maharaj said: wisdom is when I am nothing and love is when I am everything and between these two my life wanders.
You remind me that my nothing is Your all
and Your all my truest deepest call
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~ Meister Eckhart
Thank you 🙏
Exclusively a consciousness' activity.
I feel as if I am nothing and everything I experience is resting on the nothingness I am. I don’t know how I’m experiencing it but I can interact within this experience in a body that feels so personal. If I am also this body than I am the earth and then the universe. Nothingness is infinite but so is everything that can fill it. If it is all me, then I must be creating this. We are all god.
The questions of the seeker are so real 🙏🏻. Like many, I may be situated exactly in the 'problematic approach of the middle'. It almost feels like being stuck in a tunnel, no movement forwards or back. Or is there one but one doesn't feel it? An Intellectual understanding of 'I am not this' is somewhat there but 'I am everything' nooo... not even in theory.
A bit of relief for the disease has been diagnosed but how does one make progress from this middle stage? What does one do? Or not do? Is overthinking an issue? How to move from the mind to the heart?
The jelly takes a long while to set it seems.
Overthinking could be an issue. I sometimes find myself in the trap of trying to "solve it", "find IT" through thinking, without realizing that at that moment, I'm completely out for lunch.
It is the person, who is feeling stuck. But obviously there is someone watching the one "stuck in the tunnel". Who or what is this oberver? Do not think about it, try to stay in the experience. Thoughts can only reformulate what you have already learned, they can never reveal something new. Such knowledge or intuition comes from a deeper place.
Feelings, like thoughts, belong to a person, therefore the experience of dullness in the beginning is not a bad sign. We are so used to being in the grip of our personal drama with feelings and emotions, that the lack of ist could be boring at first. There is nothing for the mind to do. So it will try to distract you again and again. Observe your thoughts to slow them down. They are arising on behalf of a person, not your true self. In the small gaps, when thinking ceases, our true nature shines through, maybe as boring, sterile or empty in the beginning, but is it not also peaceful? Don't let your mind tell you: "There's nothing there, so you better try some new practise, read some more, or give it up alltogether." It's the person trying to reinforce itself.
What would indicate for you that you have reached the end of the tunnel? Consider the answer to this question carefully. Do you expect some special experience or wonderful feelings? Then you are back to the person. Your true nature is not a state you (as a person) can perceive. It is from there that all perception takes place. - If this is an issue, I would recommend Spira's RUclips-clip "Why am I not enlightened yet?"
You already have a lot of experience with 'I am everything' but you don't realize it yet.
Let me try to change your perspective because that is all it takes.
I quote Rupert after a minute or two :
"I am not just that WITH which all experience is known, I am not just that IN which all experience appears, but I am that OUT of which all experience is made or OF which all experience is the activity."
Isn't that exactly what you could say of any dream, once you wake up?
Consciousness experiencing itself?
While dreaming you thought you were a person, completely identified with the 'I' in the dream, therefore you felt separate.
But when you wake up you can realize that the I-perspective was wrong because you were the whole dream, ALL of it.
You were everything in your dream.
What if that what we call 'real life' is also a dream, a collective dream?
Wouldn't you want to be awake in that dream, living lucidly, realizing you are ALL of it, rather than identifying with the 'I' only, the person only?
Does anyone know of any other videos on this topic of returning to the world?
How attainable is this understanding? Do many of Ruperts followers realise it?
States the Void is not aloof. Perfectly describes the Void as aloof.
Fully embracing manifestation entails taking a stand against those forces which would enhance division.
We are the observer and the observed !
The one asking questions is not in the observer awareness. You can be aware of feelings as the observer but observation is not the body for anything to "feel dull".
I ...turned to we ..you 💌
Cuando observo algo y lo juzgo "erróneamente", me digo a mi
misma: Yo no soy el cuerpo, yo no soy la mente, yo no soy los
pensamientos.....sin embargo, todo surge de mi y esta hecho de
mi propia sustancia, así que el o ella....soy yo misma ahí....
porque no hay dos....no hay nadie mas que yo misma.
Y cuando he hecho esto....inmediatamente mis sentimientos o
ideas preconcebidas cambian.
There are moments in my life where I can literally feel myself "shrink". What would Rupert recommend to do in these instances?
Two becomes one. Flow
Is it possible to alternate between the two positions?
If a human is the, "I am everything", then he/she is the, "I am nothing". For to be everything, one is then nothing: and to be nothing, one is then everything.
How do you separate awareness from thought? We are aware of our thoughts, but thoughts are also aware of our awareness. The two are so closely linked, so where do we stand?
Clouds arise in the sky. Never the other way around.
Thoughts arise in awareness. Never the other way around.
Awareness can be without a thought but a thought requires awareness to appear.
To live as if thoughts were more than sensation is insanity.
@@FirstPersonHood but take the thought “I am aware”; how does that thought arise? It feels like thoughts recognise they’re inside awareness, or are tainted by awareness somehow. Kind of like clouds in the sky, but the sky is windy.
@@colkadome I have sensed what you describe. The Wonder!
@@GeertMeertens thank you so much
You cannot put a label on it because when you do it's no longer it. This is like saying : "THIS" is God. So if "THIS" is God then it implies that there's something outside of God, something that IS NOT God. God is ONE. There's nothing else so no label is required.
"I don`t mind what happens." Jiddu Krishnamurti. I also recommend you his books, interviews and videos on YT :)
Rupert - can you do a 1 day or 3 day online retreat on the 3rd position? I feel a huge number of us are feeling to break through, but need some hand holding. I would be happy to volunteer to help in any way. Thank you!
You already have a lot of experience with his 3rd position, Gigi, you just don't realize it yet.
Let me try to change your perspective because that is all it takes, a 1-3 day retreat won't be necessary.
An open mind will do.
I quote Rupert after a minute or two :
"I am not just that WITH which all experience is known, I am not just that IN which all experience appears, but I am that OUT of which all experience is made or OF which all experience is the activity."
Isn't that exactly what you could say of any dream, once you wake up?
Consciousness experiencing itself?
While dreaming you thought you were a person, completely identified with the 'I' in the dream, therefore you felt separate and experienced a world outside.
But when you wake up you can realize that the I-perspective was wrong because you were the whole dream, ALL of it.
What if that what we call 'real life' is also a dream, a collective dream?
Wouldn't you want to be awake in that dream, living lucidly, realizing you are ALL of it, rather than identifying with the 'I' only, the person only?
@@GeertMeertens Wonderful analogy with the dream state, so clear and insightful, gratitude for your expression of Source as the substance of all.
@@GeertMeertens thank you! Wonderful analogy ❤️
God is the eternal now unfolding creation,all creation ,so are you,you are simply a point of ficus of conscious awareness,the game of life is to surrender self mind thought reality false self false reality to being no self nothing empty space empty vessel for God to create through his will you are the conscious witness to his glory his divine presence .if you are seeking searching needing wanting lacking your serving false self there is no self no separation from God the eternal now,you experience God,now,for eternity,your only absent to God,the now focused in thought all false realities you experience in mind instead of being fully present to God,the now,get out of your mind and get back to god
I am NO thing
I am EVERY thing
I am FREE
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Ho'oponopono
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I may have been a bit quick to judge Rupert. I've never liked the idea that nothing matters
But I now realise that's not what Rupert is in fact saying to us
@@randybackgammon890 faith restored xd
"Consciousness does not shine by itself, it shines by a light beyond it." (Nisargadatta Maharaj)
You are not this or that, you are yourself..and that is neither an object nor a concept. Rupert, please stop confusing people...why are you doing that ?
Some terminology may seem momentarily confusing but what he means by yourself is your Self, which is the same as my Self, Ruperts Self and the same Self of a gnat.
Confusing people? It's not Rupert who confuses people. It's the people who are confused to begin with.
Tell me Moonglow, were you this or were you that in any of your dreams? Or was it your self? If so, is that self an object? Or do you experience that self as a concept?
When I go online to look at the wonderful pictures of space from The Hubble telescope there is often some commentary about the billions of stars and planets up there. The mind is of course drawn to these wonderful objects - but nobody ever talks about the INFINITE SPACE in which they are situated! Yet it’s in his infinite dark space that I see the REAL wonder of it all! Over 95% of the universe is SPACE - yet it is totally ignored!
We are told that all is ONE without a second. But if everything is ONE then we can’t ignore what makes up 95% of that ONE! - SPACE!
Because if it’s infinite then space doesn’t stop where you start. If it did it wouldn’t be infinite! The same thing applies to the planets and stars - space doesn’t stop where they start either! Which means that everything is space appearing as an object, but never being anything other than space.
The amazing thing is that the space right now between me and my computer screen is the same space that’s a billion light years away in another galaxy! IT’S THE SAME SPACE! There is no place where one space joins another space - IT’S ALL ONE. EVERYTHING IS ALL ONE! But of course, we miss it all the time. When our mother sat us down, pointed at things and gave them a name she never once pointed at space.
I notice that mind cannot think about space for any length of time because it’s not an object. But awareness can stay aware of it. In doing so the un-caused joy or bliss is experienced - pretty much immediately. Also, when I am aware of space and am looking at it I see its incredible beauty and the no-thingness of it all. Being aware of space - even the space surrounding my body seems to break the idea that I am the body and bring my home to being the infinite no-thing/intelligence energy of all that is.
These ideas can produce interesting experiences, but in the end, we need to conclusions based on facts, not ideas. And the fact is that you are something, not nothing and not everything.
The only "something" there is, is awareness or consciousness. There is no matter. The atom is empty space. Full stop. Period.
Indivisible consciousness was never carved up into "individualities". That is simply the "product" of the belief in objectivity.
@@sandycarter5300 I think nonduality gives the benefit of interesting states of consciousness, but then it's ruined by people clinging to its ideology. So it is one step forward, one step backward.
@@worldwidehappiness nonduality isnt about states of consciousness like altered states. Has nothing to do with it in fact
@@robin-vt1qj If it's not about states of consciousness and not about matter, then it's not about anything.
@@worldwidehappiness the point is to not live inside opposition. Yes ok your state changes then but thats not the point
There's no steps
I didn’t understand anything from this video lol
Dullness? Aloofness? You are just just expecting something to happen and t will not happen. Go figure
i can BYPPASS ORWELLIAN DOUBLETHINK .. just give me a little time to ponder
That is the trap, looking for the satisfaction.
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